Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Lorick #49, to confound and confusticate!

I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey;

Femme fatale? Yes, I curse and betray...

Stole the scabbard and sword

From my half-brother lord...

With enchantments I l…

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #48:

I am ceaselessly plagued with temptation

I've no peace, I'm enraged by frustration

There's a hunger and thirst

Wage of hubris: accursed

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Does Lorick #48 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I am ceaselessly plagued with temptation

I've no peace, I'm enraged by frustration

There's a hunger and thirst

Wage of hubris: accursed

No surce…

Lorick #47:

I am ceaselessly plagued with temptation

I've no peace, I'm enraged by frustration

There's a hunger and thirst

Wage of hubris: accursed

No surcease to this agelong privation

But first…

Does Lorick #47 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm Hebrew, I'm Greek, and I'm Latin

I'm used every morning at matins

I'm old and I'm new and

I'm Gutenberg's ruin

I'm cradled in boxes of satin

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Lorick #46:

I'm Hebrew, I'm Greek, and I'm Latin

I'm used every morning at matins

I'm old and I'm new and

I'm Gutenberg's ruin

I'm cradled in boxes of satin

But first, we solve #47 - here it is…

Does Lorick #46 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

For a hero, I'm sort of a clever man

Not divine - I'm more of an everyman

My return was not fast -

I was tied to a mast!

As to suitors, I'm egal…

Lorick #46, to confound and confusticate!

For a hero, I'm sort of a clever man

Not divine - I'm more of an everyman

My return was not fast -

I was tied to a mast!

As to suitors, I'm egalitarian.

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #45:

Ill - but embedding a token -

stealthy message unspoken -

speaking in this wise

to initiate's eyes

kings in shadow control the unwoken

Does Lorick #45 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

Ill - but embedding a token -

stealthy message unspoken -

speaking in this wise

to initiate's eyes

kings in shadow control the unwoken

Hint:

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Lorick #44:

Ill - but embedding a token -

stealthy message unspoken -

speaking in this wise

to initiate's eyes

kings in shadow control the unwoken

But first, we solve #45 - here it is one last ti…

Does Lorick #44 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm a king who is killed and divided

I'm a riverine god, I'm revived!

My son of great worth

by posthumous birth

wrought avuncular vengeance, then th…

Lorick #43:

I'm a king who is killed and divided

I'm a riverine god, I'm revived!

My son of great worth

by posthumous birth

wrought avuncular vengeance, then thrived!

But first, we solve #44 -…

Does Lorick #43 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

twenty-one score years agone

yet my grin taunts still -- anon

remember remember

through lack of an ember

parliament's doom was withdrawn

Hint:

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Lorick #43, to confound and confusticate!

twenty-one score years agone

yet my grin taunts still -- anon

remember remember

through lack of an ember

parliament's doom was withdrawn

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #42:

I'm a lover of heat and of fire

I have died and been born on a pyre

I'm unique, and eternal

I look slightly infernal

my own child I am a…

Does Lorick #42 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm a lover of heat and of fire

I have died and been born on a pyre

I'm unique, and eternal

I look slightly infernal

my own child I am and, my o…

Lorick #41:

I'm a lover of heat and of fire

I have died and been born on a pyre

I'm unique, and eternal

I look slightly infernal

my own child I am and, my own sire!

But first, we solve #42 - he…

Does Lorick #41 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

In treachery was I conceived

my mother, by father, deceived

once anointed by stone --

king of kings: overthrown!

Still, for this I am known -- c…

Lorick #40:

In treachery was I conceived

my mother, by father, deceived

once anointed by stone --

king of kings: overthrown!

Still, for this I am known -- chivalry!

But first, we solve #41 - he…