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The Muse in Masquerade [ESTC T83724] [ECCO]

DMI number:
818
Publication Date:
1745
Volume Number:
None of 1
ESTC number:
T83724
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW124582205
Shelfmark:
ECCO - Bod
Full Title:
THE | Muse in Masquerade:| Or, A COLLECTION of| RIDDLES,| SERIOUS and COMIC. | With a Compleat KEY to the Whole.|[engraving] | [i]LONDON:[i] | Printed for J. NOBLE, at [i]Dryden's Head,[i], in [i]St Martin's Court[i] near [i]Leicester-fields[i]. 1745. | [Price 1s. 6 d.]
Place of Publication:
London
Format:
Duodecimo
Price:
1s. 6d.
Pagination:
iii-vi, 7, viii, 1-148
Bibliographic details:
Errata at bottom of p.vi.
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: 'To the Reader' signed 'The Publishers' pp.iii-vi; A Key to the Riddles, pp.7-viii.
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Title:
The muse in good humour [ESTC T41629]
Publication Date:
1745
ESTC No:
T41629
Volume:
2 of 2
Relationship:
Another Edition of
Comments:
Title:
The muse in good humour part II vol II [T86636]
Publication Date:
1745
ESTC No:
T86636
Volume:
None
Relationship:
Another Edition of
Comments:
Related People
Publisher:
John Noble
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
First Line:
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
Poem Title:
Riddle III.
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They who first formed me were within my womb
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pp.5-6
Poem Title:
Riddle V.
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From the retirements of the dead
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p.6
Poem Title:
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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pp.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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First Line:
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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pp.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:
Ridlle [sic] 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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pp.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 LXXV.
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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:
Riddle 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.105-6
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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pp.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 smocking
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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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