Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Lorick #148, to confound and confusticate!

By Hera! Ensorcelled by Eros!

Gave up all in exchange for a promise!

_I_, the cause of their strife?!

_I_, who should be his wife??!?

Beware, fool, this wrongéd enchantress!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #147:

a hero with national favour

a sailor, circumnavigator

a scourge of the spaniards

and knight of the lanyard

a killer, a robber, a slaver

Does Lorick #147 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

a hero with national favour

a sailor, circumnavigator

a scourge of the spaniards

and knight of the lanyard

a killer, a robber, a slaver

Hint:

a tool of the state... with a queenly mandate

Lorick #146:

a hero with national favour

a sailor, circumnavigator

a scourge of the spaniards

and knight of the lanyard

a killer, a robber, a slaver

But first, we solve #147 - here it is one last time:

I had gall, and charisma, ambition

crossed a river, an act of sedition

have my month, it's not march

my right hand grabs the torch

when I'm killed by a cruel coalition

Does Lorick #146 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I had gall, and charisma, ambition

crossed a river, an act of sedition

have my month, it's not march

my right hand grabs the torch

when I'm killed by a cruel coalition

Hint:

I visited, I observed, and I vanquished

Lorick #145:

I had gall, and charisma, ambition

crossed a river, an act of sedition

have my month, it's not march

my right hand grabs the torch

when I'm killed by a cruel coalition

But first, we solve #146 - here it is one last time:

who's my rival? a terrible child

and that means, win or lose, I'm reviled

I'm haunted by time

with shipmates in crime

in a land full of boys he beguiled

Does Lorick #145 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

who's my rival? a terrible child

and that means, win or lose, I'm reviled

I'm haunted by time

with shipmates in crime

in a land full of boys he beguiled

Hint:

I'm a crook with a hook

Lorick #145, to confound and confusticate!

who's my rival? a terrible child

and that means, win or lose, I'm reviled

I'm haunted by time

with shipmates in crime

in a land full of boys he beguiled

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #144:

I'm ecstatic, I'm manic, a child

I make love into music -- I'm wild!

I'm not too discreet

and have devilish feet

with libido and fear, I beguile!

Does Lorick #144 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm ecstatic, I'm manic, a child

I make love into music -- I'm wild!

I'm not too discreet

and have devilish feet

with libido and fear, I beguile!

Hint:

I spark contagious fears; I'm by shepherds, revered.