Which cost so little, and so much bestow.
RIDDLE.
Tho’ so light is my weight that no strength is required,
They who take me about are oftentimes tired;
Short, long, narrow, broad, of materials not strong,
The forms I assume to rude fingers belong;
Under thousands of names I am every day seen,
And of very great use to dull people have been;
Nay! often the vulgarest creatures on earth
Take me from the hands of the noblest in birth;