Great kings had Egypt long ago, but yet I reigned before their day;

To epicures my reign I owe more than to any other thing—

Though guillotine I undergo, it keeps me not from being king.

With head cut off, I am a king; with neck cut off and head left on,

I will be king: yes! I’ll be king though head and neck should both be gone.

If head and foot I both should lose, a blood relation you’d espy;

For, then, a kin I would disclose: now tell, I pray, what king am I?

[Answer]

183.

My FIRST is in the cornfield seen;