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A Riddle.

[Tell me what Master he may be]

Tell me what Master he may be,
Whose Master is his man?
Bound like a sencelesse foole is he,

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Wittie, it nothing can.
Vnlearned, yet he doth abound
In learning graue and most profound:
When that I take him by the hand,
Although I heare him not,
His meaning yet I vnderstand,
Though him I haue forgot.
So wise is he, though wordes nor motions showing,
Yet thousand things he tels me woorth the knowing.