Answer:
Which word contains 26 letters but only three syllables?
You seek it out, when your hunger is ripe. It sits on four legs, and smokes a pipe.
It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done.
I fly to any 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.