CHARADES AND RIDDLES.
I.
If Nature and Fortune had plac’d me with you,
On my first, we my second might hope to obtain;
I might marry you, were I my third, it is true;
But that marriage would only embitter my pain.
II.
My first is the lot that is destin’d by fate,
For my second to meet with in every state:
My third is by many philosophers reckoned,