ABSTRACT
At the end of the Arcadia’s pastoral “singing contest” between Nico and Pas (OA 29: “And are you there old Pas?”), Sir Philip Sidney propounds, in accordance with the “singing contest” tradition, two riddles: Nico
Tell me (and be my Pan) the monster’s name
That hath foure legs, and with two onely goes,
That hath foure eyes, and onely two can frame.
PasTell this (and Phoebus be) what monster growes
With so strong lives, that bodie cannot rest
In ease, untill that bodie life forgoes.
