Eight cities lying all directly straight

DMI number:

7729

First Line:

Eight cities lying all directly straight

Last Line:

And you'll oblige your most indulgent mother

Poem Genre / Form:

Question and Couplet

Themes:

Science[mathematical question]

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The two first cities twenty miles asunder

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And thus exactly all things do agree

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First Line:

Twenty miles is the distance from the second to th' first

Last Line:

The rest in question you find four miles just

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Content/Publication

Title:

Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [June 1711]

Page No(s):

p.231

Poem Title:

Qu. 4.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Martha Jonson

Attributed To:

Martha Jonson