Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/Ship

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Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles (c. 1820)
Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
Ship
4528355Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles — Shipc/1820Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick


SHIP.

 I fly to many foreign parts,
Assisted by my spreading wings;
 My body holds an hundred hearts.
Nay, I will tell you stranger things:
 When I am not in haste I ride,
And then I mend my pace anon;
 I issue fire out from my side;
Ye British youths this riddle con.