The muse in good humour [ESTC T41629]

DMI number:

793

Publication Date:

1745

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T41629

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116577586

Shelfmark:

BOD Vet. A4 f.171

Full Title:

(1) THE | Muse in Good Humour: | OR, A | COLLECTION | OF THE | Best POEMS, COMIC TALES, | CHOICE FABLES, ENIGMAS, &[i]c.[/i] | From the most Eminent Poets. | With some ORIGINALS. | In TWO PARTS. | VOL. II. | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for M. COOPER, at the [i]Globe[/i] in [i]Pater- | Noster-Row[/i], 1745. | [Price bound Three Shillings.] (2) THE | Muse in Good Humour: | OR, A COLLECTION | OF THE | Best POEMS, COMIC TALES, CHOICE | FABLES, ENIGMAS, &[i]c.[/i] | From the most Eminent POETS. | With some ORIGINALS. | PART I. | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1] Bashful Ben. | The Ladies Looking Glass. | The Merchant's Tale. | Desire and Possession. | The Enchantment. | The Wife of Bath. | Truth and Falsehood. | Simple Simon. | The imperfect Enjoyment. | The English Padlock. | The Vision. | Middle aged Man and his two | Mistresses. | Sauntering Jack and idle Joan. | Baucis and Philemon. | The Original of Matrimony. | Susannah and the two Elders. | Female Virtue. | Love Disarmed. [/column 1] | [column 2] Delia's Wedding-Night. | Vertumnus and Pomona. | The Conscientious Keeper. | The Fox and Dragon. | The Button-Hole. | The Elbow Chair. | Love attones for little Crimes. | Saying and Doing are two | Things. | Woman's Logick. | The Substitute Father. | To Cloe. | A Fragment. | The Exorcism. | The Widow's Excuse. | Falling in Love. | Balaam's Pedigree. | The Happy Night. | A Game at Put. [/column 2] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for M. COOPER, at the [i]Globe[/i] in [i]Pater- | Noster-Row[/i]. | [rule] | MDCCXLV. (3) THE | Muse in Good Humour: | Or, A COLLECTION of | ENIGMA'S, | SERIOUS and COMIC. | With a Compleat KEY to the Whole. | PART II. VOL. II. | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for M. COOPER, at the [i]Globe[/i] in [i]Pater- | Noster-Row[/i], 1745.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of comic verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

3 s

Pagination:

[8pp] [1]-78 [79]-100 [101]-120 [121]-144 [145]-174 [2pp.] 1-148

Bibliographic details:

Consists of two parts that appear to have been sold together: the price of 3 shillings is the "price bound", and there is a title page for the whole volume. This title page is printed in red and black. Each part has its own title page as well. Each part was also sold separately [see T86635 and T86636]

Other matter:

A key to the riddles [pp. 7-viii]; Preface to part II [pp.i-ii]

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The muse in good humour [T130695]

Publication Date:

1746

ESTC No:

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Volume:

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Title:

The muse in good humour [T41632 vol. 1]

Publication Date:

1766

ESTC No:

T41632

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

The muse in good humour [T41632 vol. II]

Publication Date:

1766

ESTC No:

T41632

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Title:

The muse in good humour [T86635]

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC No:

T86635

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Title:

The muse in good humour part II vol II [T86636]

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC No:

T86636

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Title:

The Muse in Masquerade [ESTC T83724] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC No:

T83724

Volume:

None of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Mary Cooper

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

BBTI

Content/Publication

First Line:

The story every Christian knows

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pp.1-13

Poem Title:

Bashful Ben.

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Celia and I the other day

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pp.13-15

Poem Title:

Tale II. The Lady's Looking-Glass.

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There lived in Lombardy as authors write

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pp.15-46

Poem Title:

Tale III. The Merchant's Tale.

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Tis strange what different thoughts inspire

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pp.46-48

Poem Title:

Tale IV. Desire and Possession.

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Mix mix the philters quick she flies she flies

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pp.48-55

Poem Title:

Tale V. The Enchantment.

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In lonely walks distracted by despair

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pp.55-59

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Tale VI. The Vision.

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Behold the woes of matrimonial life

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pp.60-76

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Tale VII. The Wife of Bath.

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Job cursed the day that gave him birth

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p.76

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Tale VIII. Delia's Wedding-Night.

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My friends expected me at seven

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pp.77-78

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Tale IX. On the same Occasion.

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Folks that are wickedly inclined

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pp.[79]-82

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Tale X. The Elbow-Chair:

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Miss Danae when fair and young

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pp.83-86

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Tale XI. The English-Padlock.

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Quoth Simon to Thomas and showed him his wife

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pp.86-87

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Tale XII. Simple Simon.

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A batchelor more gay than sage

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pp.87-89

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Tale XIII. The Middle-aged Man and his Two Mistresses.

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Interred beneath this marble stone

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pp.89-91

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Tale XIV. Sauntering Jack and Idle Joan.

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Once on a time in sunshine weather

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pp.92-94

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Tale XV. Truth and Falsehood.

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In ancient times as story tells

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pp.94-100

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Tale XVI. Baucis and Philemon.

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When men have honest wives at home

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pp.[101]-110

Poem Title:

Tale XVII. The Conscientious Keeper.

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When first procreation began

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pp.110-112

Poem Title:

Tale XVIII. The Original of Matrimony.

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Who ever met with in his life

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pp.112-113

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Tale XIX. Female Virtue.

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When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

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p.113

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Tale XX. Susannah and the two Elders.

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Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade

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pp.114-115

Poem Title:

Tale XXI. Love Disarm'd.

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The fair Pomona flourished in his reign

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pp.116-120

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Tale XXII. Vertumnus and Pomona.

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A pleasant tale in serious works

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pp.[121]-128

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Tale XXIII. Saying and Doing are Two Things.

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A fox would unmolested sleep

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pp.128-130

Poem Title:

Tale XXIV. The Fox and the Dragon.

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As through the street a Quaker chanced to pass

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pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Tale XXV. The Button-Hole.

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Tis true I said in amorous rhymes

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pp.132-137

Poem Title:

Tale XXVI. Love atones for Little Crimes.

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Tis strange that sex should most obey

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pp.138-140

Poem Title:

Tale XXVI. Women's Logick.

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Avaro lived a private life

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pp.140-143

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Tale XXVIII. The Substitute Father.

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In Chloe's chamber she and I

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pp.143-144

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Tale XXIX. A Fragment.

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In days of yore when Roman rules

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pp.[145]-152

Poem Title:

Tale XXIII. The Exorcism.

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Chloe this comes to let you know

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pp.152-154

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Tale XXXI. To Cloe.

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When inclination strongly teases

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pp.154-158

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Tale XXXII. The Widow's Excuse.

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Who can describe in numbers fit

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pp.158-160

Poem Title:

Tale XXXIII. Falling in Love.

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If thou can laugh when nature guides

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pp.160-166

Poem Title:

Tale XXXIV. Balaam's Pedigree.

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Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair

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pp.167-172

Poem Title:

Tale XXXV. The Happy Night.

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Dick served a widow of no mean esteem

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pp.172-174

Poem Title:

Tale XXXVI. The Game of Put.

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As Pallas was the offspring of Jove's head

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pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Riddle I.

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I am an implement that's common

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pp.2-3

Poem Title:

Riddle II.

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I'm blacker than a winter's night

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pp.4-5

Poem Title:

Riddle IV.

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In shaping me both sexes join

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p.4

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Riddle III.

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They who first formed me were within my womb

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pp.5-6

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Riddle V.

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From the retirements of the dead

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p.6

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Riddle VI.

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Coeval with the world I lay concealed

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p.7

Poem Title:

Riddle VII.

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Think not fair ladies I'm a cheat

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pp.8-10

Poem Title:

Riddle VIII.

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Though a good soul I have yet I can't hope to be saved

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p.10

Poem Title:

Riddle IX.

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Twas art that completed the form that I wear

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p.11

Poem Title:

Riddle X.

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Sublime erect I cut the yielding air

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p.12

Poem Title:

Riddle XI.

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Before creating nature willed

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pp.13-14

Poem Title:

Riddle XIII.

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I am a mute yet full of eloquence

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p.13

Poem Title:

Riddle XII.

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In youth exalted high in air

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pp.14-16

Poem Title:

Riddle XIV

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Ere time or place or forms were ushered in

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Riddle XV.

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I came of the Cyclopean race

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p.17

Poem Title:

Riddle XVI.

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In times of yore when things in common were

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p.18

Poem Title:

Riddle XVII.

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Within the bowels of the earth immured

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Riddle XVIII.

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My form is beauteous to allure the sight

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Riddle XIX.

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Silence ye Tories lofty Whigs attend

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

Riddle XX.

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When the warm sun withdraws its genial rays

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pp.22-23

Poem Title:

Riddle XXI.

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Most lovely situate on a rising ground

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pp.23-25

Poem Title:

Riddle XXII.

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Say who I am bright nymphs for surely you

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

Riddle XXIII.

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In vain we stretch our thoughts to find

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

Riddle XXIV.

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Let Mandeville and Gulliver no more

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Riddle XXVI.

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My head is well furnished without you will own

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p.28

Poem Title:

Ridlle [sic] XXV.

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Though an odd kind of fowl when you hit on my name

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

Riddle XXVII.

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Offspring of an illustrious sire

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pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Riddle XXVIII.

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Twin born into the world I come

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pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Riddle XXIX.

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Because I am by nature blind

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pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Riddle XXX.

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In foreign countries from the fruitful earth

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pp.35-37

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXI.

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In vain have men their utmost art employed

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p,37

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXII.

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Reader it is my fate to be

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXIII.

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To be dressed in the fashion our tailor must join

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p.39-41

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXIV.

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Hear whilst you can the poor man's orator

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pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXV.

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Ye females polite who in riddles delight

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXVI.

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My head and tail are of one size and form

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pp.44-45

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXVII.

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While I try to conceal what is so much in sight

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pp.45-47

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXVIII.

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In May the pleasantest month in all the year

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Riddle XXXIX.

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From me a single birth my race begins

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Riddle XL.

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From what first artist I my being claim

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Riddle XLI.

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To aid your conception in every degree

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pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Riddle XLII.

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When the whole universe lay self confined

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pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Riddle XLIII.

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Revere the sage whose genius far renowned

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pp.54-56

Poem Title:

Riddle XLIV.

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I've an head pretty large but to tell you the truth

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pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Riddle XLV.

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I'm of all kinds of vice both of age and of youth

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Riddle XLVI.

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I had a being ere the world was made

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p.59

Poem Title:

Riddle XLVII.

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Since many strive in these ingenious days

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Riddle XLVIII.

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Kings reign over nations I over kings bear rule

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pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Riddle XLIX.

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Obvious to all I sport on every plain

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Riddle LI.

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What is that siren whose enchanting song

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p.62

Poem Title:

Riddle L.

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All ruling tyrant of the earth

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Riddle LII.

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Draw up the curtain let the ladies see

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Riddle LIII.

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With so much art my tender parts are wrought

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pp.65-66

Poem Title:

Riddle LIV.

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Though I alas a prisoner be

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pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Riddle LV.

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Nothing was ever so wretched sure as me

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p.68

Poem Title:

Riddle LVI.

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When from prolific nature's bosom rose

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pp.69-70

Poem Title:

Riddle LVII.

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Walking alone and near the approach of night

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pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Riddle LVIII.

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Long time I laboured tis well known to all

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pp.71-72

Poem Title:

Riddle LIX.

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My stature though of monstrous size

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Riddle LX.

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Before the eternal mind who dwells on high

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pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Riddle LXI.

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Come hither and behold the fruits

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p.75-79

Poem Title:

Riddle LXII. The Gulph of all human Possessions.

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Search all the chronicles of bearded time

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pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Riddle LXIII.

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Ladies | Say by what charmful turn of mind

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pp.80-81

Poem Title:

Riddle LXIV.

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Ah Strephon how can you despise

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pp.81-83

Poem Title:

Riddle LXV. Louisa to Strephon.

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Nor form nor substance does my being share

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Riddle LXVI.

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Worked into shape by skillful art

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pp.85-86

Poem Title:

Riddle LXVII.

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Ye furies cursed inhabitants of hell

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pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Riddle LXVIII.

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Ladies | As by the unerring laws of nature

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pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Riddle LXIX.

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Unseen by mortal eyes I roll

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p.89

Poem Title:

Riddle LXX.

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Let arbitrary princes boast no more

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pp.90-91

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXI.

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So capricious am I that if monarchs should offer

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p.91

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXII.

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When first created Sol's reviving light

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pp.91-93

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXIII.

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Ladies I'm often under hedges seen

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pp.93-95

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXIV.

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I challenge nature's treasure to produce

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pp.95-96

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXVI.

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Though kings and princes my acquaintance be

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pp.96-97

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXVI.

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To all your fair females who sometimes partake

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pp.97-100

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXVII.

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Fetched with much labour from my native home

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p.100

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXVIII.

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I challenge nature from her store or magazine to show

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pp.100-101

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXIX.

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He who begot me did conceive me too

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pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXX.

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A thing more strange all men will say

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p.102

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXI.

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I'm doomed to lie till certain times

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pp.103-104

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXIII.

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When first I in this stage of life appear

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p.103

Poem Title:

Ridlle [sic] LXXXII.

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Nothing I am nor real being have

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pp.104-105

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXIV.

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I'm an odd kind of monster and of a strange shape

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p.105

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXV.

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Sure I'm the veriest Proteus ever was seen

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXVI.

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Bold as a champion I my force maintain

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pp.106-107

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXVII.

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In ancient times when that the world was young

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pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXVIII.

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Some senses I have if me you'll believe

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pp.108-109

Poem Title:

Riddle LXXXIX.

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Tis doubted whence I sprung yet most agree

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p.109-110

Poem Title:

Riddle XC.

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If any under the almighty be

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pp.110-111

Poem Title:

Riddle XCI.

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When Sol through Aries drives his brilliant car

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pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Riddle XCII.

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When silent night with sable did invest

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pp.113-115

Poem Title:

Riddle XCIII.

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I have not to boast of much humour or wit

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pp.115-116

Poem Title:

Riddle XCIV.

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Ladies to you I must address my tale

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pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Riddle XCV.

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A noble creature when created I

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pp.117-118

Poem Title:

Riddle XCVI.

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From dirty form and filthy dress set free

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pp.118-120

Poem Title:

Riddle XCVII.

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Ye doughty physicians attend to my lure

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pp.120-121

Poem Title:

Riddle XCVIII.

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We have long been employed and rich favours enjoyed

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pp.121-122

Poem Title:

Riddle XCIX.

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I owe my being like to worms that breed

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p.123

Poem Title:

Riddle C.

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When good old Saturn swayed the realms of day

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pp.124-125

Poem Title:

Riddle CI.

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Before great nature spread the seas

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pp.125-126

Poem Title:

Riddle CII.

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Ye learned fair whose prying fancies see

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pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Riddle CIII.

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Though I never was born yet came I by smockings

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pp.127-128

Poem Title:

Riddle CIV.

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From a well manured earth I challenge my birth

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pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Riddle CV.

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What's that in which good housewives take delight

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pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Riddle CVI.

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From heaven at first with Lucifer I fell

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p.130

Poem Title:

Riddle CVII.

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Known and so obvious to the literal race

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pp.131-132

Poem Title:

Riddle CVIII.

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Bred in the womb of mother earth

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pp.132-133

Poem Title:

Riddle CIX.

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While nature formed me one whole month I lay

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pp.133-134

Poem Title:

Riddle CX.

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I lived before the flood yet still am young

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pp.134-135

Poem Title:

Riddle CXI.

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Let it be so even the creator spoke

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pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Riddle CXII.

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We come from place unknown to mortal eye

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pp.136-137

Poem Title:

Riddle CXIII.

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Of the winged race I far the brightest shine

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pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Riddle CXIV.

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I have no tongue yet elegantly speak

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pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Riddle CXV.

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Britons in me you may behold of late

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p.140

Poem Title:

Riddle CXVI.

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Dark in a cell remote from vulgar eye

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pp.140-141

Poem Title:

Riddle CXVII.

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To every realm a welcome guest I come

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pp.141-142

Poem Title:

Riddle CXVIII.

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Great pains in vain the Greeks and Romans took

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pp.142-143

Poem Title:

Riddle CXIX.

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From seed or egg the tender faetus springs

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pp.143-144

Poem Title:

Riddle CXX.

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Ye riddling wits ingenious to reveal

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pp.144-145

Poem Title:

Riddle CXXI.

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Without my aid no mortal can survive

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pp.145-146

Poem Title:

Riddle CXXII.

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My dame she said sirs call in Kate

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pp.146-147

Poem Title:

Riddle CXXIII.

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As ancient bards long since of Venus sung

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pp.147-148

Poem Title:

Riddle CXXIV.

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