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A <a href="#Errata">list</a> of unresolved printer +errors can be found at the end of the book.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenterpage"> +<img src="images/i_f_cover.jpg" width="500" height="636" alt="illustration" /> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenterpage"> +<img src="images/001.jpg" width="400" height="664" alt="illustration" /> + +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="frontpage"> +<h1> +<em>CLASSICAL ENIGMAS</em>,<br /><br /> +<small>ADAPTED TO</small><br /><br /> +EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR,</h1> +<p class="center p2"> +<small>COMPOSED FROM</small></p> +<p class="center"> +THE ENGLISH AND ROMAN HISTORIES,<br /> +HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY, AND NAMES OF<br /> +FAMOUS WRITERS:</p> +<p class="center p2"> +Meant to amuse Youths of all Ages, and at the same<br /> +Time exert their Memories, by calling to mind<br /> +what they have read at different Times.</p> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="author">BY A LADY.</p> + +</div> +<p class="center p4"> + +LONDON:<br /> +PRINTED BY W. DARTON, 58, HOLBORN-HILL.</p> +<p class="center p2"> +1811. +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="page"> +<h2>CLASSICAL ENIGMAS, <em>&c.</em></h2> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/aries.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="aries" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Aries">♈</a></big><span class="hidden">Aries</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">Name the <em>Queen</em> of Old England, whose bigotted zeal,</div> +<div class="i0">Made her subjects the terrors of Popery feel,</div> +<div class="i0">Then that glorious example of goodness and grace,</div> +<div class="i0">The last <em>Sovereign</em>, who reign'd, of the true Stuart race.</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>King</em>, who unjustly the sceptre to gain,</div> +<div class="i0">Had his friends, and his kindred most cruelly slain.</div> +<div class="i0">Next <em>him</em>, whom the puritan party dethron'd,</div> +<div class="i0">And whose faults, by the loss of his head was atton'd.</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</a></span> +<div class="i0">Now name that bold <em>King</em>, who threw off the yoke</div> +<div class="i0">Treating the Pope, and his Bulls as a joke:</div> +<div class="i0">Who not from religion, but whimsey of passion,</div> +<div class="i0">Declar'd, that the Bible should come into fashion.</div> +<div class="i0">Place these Monarchs together, the first letters take,</div> +<div class="i0">When a Month in the year, they'll certainly make.</div> +</div></div> +</div> +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/05.jpg" width="400" height="374" alt="illustration" /> + +</div> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">7</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/sagittarius.jpg" width="20" height="32" alt="sagittarius" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Sagittarius">♐</a></big><span class="hidden">Sagittarius</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">That <em>Monster of Rome</em>, who no equal can claim,</div> +<div class="i0">For the crimes that for ever, have blacken'd his name.</div> +<div class="i0"><em>Augustus's sister</em>, great Anthony's wife,</div> +<div class="i0">Whom he left for that beauty, who cost him his life.</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Emperor</em>, who thought it improper to lay,</div> +<div class="i0">When death call'd his soul from his body away,</div> +<div class="i0">Determin'd the summons undaunted to meet,</div> +<div class="i0">And was plac'd by his courtiers erect on his feet.</div> +<div class="i0">That <em>Prince</em> whom the Romans delighted to name,</div> +<div class="i0">As first of their race, tho' from Venus he came.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">8</a></span> +<div class="i0">That <em>Emperor</em> gigantic, who for his ring chose</div> +<div class="i0">A bracelet, the wrist of his wife could enclose.</div> +<div class="i0">The harsh <em>Roman Father</em>, who sternly sat by</div> +<div class="i0">To condemn, and behold, his own children die.</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>conquer'd</em>, whom first Cincinnatus did doom</div> +<div class="i0">To pass through the yoke, for contending with Rome.</div> +<div class="i0">Last one of the <em>Twins</em>, who was nurs'd by a goat,</div> +<div class="i0">Yet founded old Rome, that great city of note.</div> +<div class="i0">Now take the <em>initials</em>, and put them together,</div> +<div class="i0">They'll tell you a month, that has often wet weather.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">9</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/libra.jpg" width="20" height="14" alt="libra" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Libra">♎</a></big><span class="hidden">Libra</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The <em>Grecian</em> fam'd for strength of lungs,</div> +<div class="i0">And voice as loud, as fifty tongues;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Nymph</em>, who answers every tone,</div> +<div class="i0">And sigh for sigh, when <span class="err" title="read: you're">your're</span> alone;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Man</em> who boldly did aspire,</div> +<div class="i0">To steal the sun's etherial fire;</div> +<div class="i0">Those <em>regions dark</em>, you now may tell,</div> +<div class="i0">Where wicked spirits ever dwell;</div> +<div class="i0">Then name the <em>fields of bliss</em> below,</div> +<div class="i0">Where we are told the happy go;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> +<div class="i0">That <em>King</em>, whose vanity appears</div> +<div class="i0">Rewarded, with enormous ears;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Wind</em>, whose blustering looks inform,</div> +<div class="i0">He rides upon the raging storm;</div> +<div class="i0">And the <em>lov'd wife</em>, whom stories tell,</div> +<div class="i0">Her husband went to seek in hell!</div> +<div class="i0">Last name one of the <em>Judges</em> three,</div> +<div class="i0">Who bliss, or punishment decree;</div> +<div class="i0">On all who pass the Stygian wave,</div> +<div class="i0">By Charon ferry'd, king or slave.</div> +<div class="i0">Unite all the first letters well,</div> +<div class="i0">A month within the year they'll tell.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">11</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/capricorn.jpg" width="20" height="16" alt="capricorn" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Capricorn">♑</a></big><span class="hidden">Capricorn</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">First name me the <em>Cinque Port</em> that's nearest to France,</div> +<div class="i0">Where the Despot of Paris, would like to advance;</div> +<div class="i0">But he fears with the billows of Neptune to strive,</div> +<div class="i0">Well-knowing, he never shall get back alive.</div> +<div class="i0">Now an <em>Island</em>, where in the same shire you will find</div> +<div class="i0">An <em>University</em> large, for great learning design'd;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>island</em> the prayers of a Bishop can claim,</div> +<div class="i0">And the <em>College</em> boasts proudly of William Pitt's name.</div> +<div class="i0">Then a <em>College</em> in Bucks, founded long time ago,</div> +<div class="i0">By Edward the Sixth, as the records will show.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</a></span> +<div class="i0">Now the <em>birth-place</em> of Henry the Fifth you may tell,</div> +<div class="i0">Who tho' wild as a Prince, as a King govern'd well;</div> +<div class="i0">Then name where the crooked backed Richard the Third</div> +<div class="i0">Was <em>conquer'd</em>, and where they his relics interr'd;</div> +<div class="i0">Then <em>where</em> in these modern times it is known,</div> +<div class="i0">To view the horse-racing, that Royaltys shown;</div> +<div class="i0">Last tell me that <em>lovely unfortunate fair</em>,</div> +<div class="i0">Whom Henry the Second, protected with care;</div> +<div class="i0">Put these names together, perhaps you will find,</div> +<div class="i0">They'll tell you a month that to mirth is inclin'd.</div> +</div></div> +</div> +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">13</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/leo.jpg" width="20" height="22" alt="leo" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Leo">♌</a></big><span class="hidden">Leo</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">Take the <em>writer</em>, whose size both of body and mind,</div> +<div class="i0">Were much more gigantic, than common you'll find,</div> +<div class="i0">Whose brains were employ'd for the good of the age,</div> +<div class="i0">And perfect the language, you find in each page,</div> +<div class="i0">Whether out with his Rambler, you venture to roam,</div> +<div class="i0">Or stay with his Rasselas, shut up at home.</div> +<div class="i0">When tired of his numbers, I'd have you to name,</div> +<div class="i0">A <em>Bishop</em> of Ireland, recorded by fame,</div> +<div class="i0">Whose writings will ever be held in esteem,</div> +<div class="i0">By those who make sacred religion their theme.</div> +<div class="i0">Next remember the <em>writer</em>, whose delicate lay,</div> +<div class="i0">Deserv'd from Apollo, a chaplet of Bay;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">14</a></span> +<div class="i0">Who in Hagley's sweet groves, for his Lucy did mourn,</div> +<div class="i0">And wept with true sorrow long over his urn.</div> +<div class="i0">There is none but poor Shaw, with his numbers can vie,</div> +<div class="i0">Who so sweetly laments that his Emma should die.</div> +<div class="i0">Then last name the <em>Poet</em>, whose anguish and grief,</div> +<div class="i0">Seeks in sorrowful verses some little relief,</div> +<div class="i0">Who o'er his Narcissa, so young, and so fair,</div> +<div class="i0">Laments in a language, uncommon, and rare.</div> +<div class="i0">Place these sons of Parnassus, in proper array,</div> +<div class="i0">And they'll tell you a month that is cheerful and gay.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">15</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">15</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/aquarius.jpg" width="20" height="18" alt="aquarius" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Aquarius">♒</a></big><span class="hidden">Aquarius</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The <em>God</em> whom Artists always grace,</div> +<div class="i0">By giving him a double face:</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>food</em> divine, that's eat on high,</div> +<div class="i0">By all the inmates of the sky;</div> +<div class="i0">Also the <em>Liquor</em>, drank above,</div> +<div class="i0">Which Hebe hands, to mighty Jove;</div> +<div class="i0"><em>He</em>, who for fair Calypso's smile,</div> +<div class="i0">Forgot his wife, and native isle:</div> +<div class="i0">Now Thetis' <em>son</em>, who chose the strife,</div> +<div class="i0">Of warlike fame, instead of life:</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">16</a></span> +<div class="i0">That <em>island</em>, where we're always told,</div> +<div class="i0">The brass Colossus stood of old:</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>time</em>, no efforts can regain,</div> +<div class="i0">Tho' oft we spend its hours in vain.</div> +<div class="i0">Take the first letters and they'll tell</div> +<div class="i0">A month, when firing pleases well.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/015.jpg" width="400" height="383" alt="illustration" /> +</div> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">17</a></span></p> + +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">17</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/cancer.jpg" width="20" height="15" alt="cancer" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Cancer">♋</a></big><span class="hidden">Cancer</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The <em>King</em>, who was forc'd Magna Charta to sign,</div> +<div class="i0">Or his crown and kingdom, for ever resign.</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>term</em> which fair Scotland, with England did join,</div> +<div class="i0">And the Roses and Thistles, agree to entwine.</div> +<div class="i0">No king can I find, who will give my next letter,</div> +<div class="i0">So think of an <em>Admiral</em>, can you do better?</div> +<div class="i0">Then speak of the Trafalgar Hero whose name,</div> +<div class="i0">Stands high in the records, of glory and fame.</div> +<div class="i0">Then the pride of Old England, that <em>Queen</em> who alone,</div> +<div class="i0">Well guarded her rights, and protected her throne.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">18</a></span> +<div class="i0">If you join the initials, perhaps you will find,</div> +<div class="i0">A Month in the year, when bright Phœbus is kind.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/017.jpg" width="400" height="346" alt="illustration" /> + +</div> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span></p> + +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">19</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/taurus.jpg" width="20" height="23" alt="taurus" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Taurus">♉</a></big><span class="hidden">Taurus</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The <em>first Roman Emperor</em>, whose forty years sway,</div> +<div class="i0">His people with pleasure, could always obey.</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>General</em>, whom Cæsar contrived to annoy.</div> +<div class="i0">And occasion his army in terror to fly,</div> +<div class="i0">By desiring his soldiers, their faces to wound,</div> +<div class="i0">Which soon made the combatants vacate the ground.</div> +<div class="i0">That <em>Roman</em>, whose firmness no sufferings could move,</div> +<div class="i0">Tho' destin'd the cruellest torments to prove.</div> +<div class="i0">The name of that <em>Horse</em>, whose vile master did say,</div> +<div class="i0">He wish'd he all Romans, could kill in a day.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">20</a></span> +<div class="i0">The fair Roman <em>Matron</em>, whose cause to espouse,</div> +<div class="i0">The long smother'd spirit of Brutus did rouse.</div> +<div class="i0">These names plac'd aright, the first letters will tell,</div> +<div class="i0">A month in the year, most people love well.</div> +</div></div> +</div> +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/i_019.jpg" width="400" height="390" alt="illustration" /> + +</div> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">21</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/pisces.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="pisces" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Pisces">♓</a></big><span class="hidden">Pisces</span> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span> +</p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The fickle <em>Goddess</em>, false and blind,</div> +<div class="i0">To some profuse, to more unkind:</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Shepherd</em>, who on Latmos height,</div> +<div class="i0">Was courted by the Queen of night;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Maid</em>, for whom Achilles swore,</div> +<div class="i0">He'd aid the Grecian cause no more:</div> +<div class="i0"><em>Jove's mother</em> name, and <em>Saturn's wife</em>,</div> +<div class="i0">Who fled to save her infant life:</div> +<div class="i0"><em>He</em>, who when feigning madness try'd,</div> +<div class="i0">With care to turn the plough aside,</div> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span> +<div class="i0">Nor o'er that furrow bend its way,</div> +<div class="i0">Where he beheld his infant lay.</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Queen</em>, whom Jove with love assail'd,</div> +<div class="i0">And in the husband's form prevail'd;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>King</em>, whose horses Diomed,</div> +<div class="i0">And grave Ulysses captive led;</div> +<div class="i0">And now conclude with that <em>blest time</em>,</div> +<div class="i0">We should enjoy, while in its prime.</div> +<div class="i0">So place the initials, and they'll say,</div> +<div class="i0">A month, not quite so warm as May.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">23</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/scorpio.jpg" width="20" height="17" alt="Scorpio" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Scorpio">♏</a></big><span class="hidden">Scorpio</span> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">I would have you that great <em>University</em> name,</div> +<div class="i0">From whence many good scholars, have risen to fame;</div> +<div class="i0">Then <em>where William the Conqueror</em>, rested in peace,</div> +<div class="i0">And all his vexations in this world, did cease;</div> +<div class="i0">Then tell me the <em>River</em>, on whose verdant sides,</div> +<div class="i0">The noble, the merchant, the trader resides,</div> +<div class="i0">Whose opulent stream wild <span class="err" title="read: meandering">meandring</span> flows,</div> +<div class="i0">Well laden with riches, to proud London goes:</div> +<div class="i0">Then <em>where</em>, the best medicine is to be had,</div> +<div class="i0">For those who are bitten, by dogs raving mad.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">24</a></span> +<div class="i0">The fam'd <em>Wells</em> in Derbyshire, which we are told,</div> +<div class="i0">Tho' close by each other, are one hot, t'other cold:</div> +<div class="i0">That <em>commotion</em>, which troubles the bowels of earth</div> +<div class="i0">And causes confusion, when 'ere it bursts forth;</div> +<div class="i0">Then a <em>place</em> name in Berkshire, where Henry the first</div> +<div class="i0">Lays quietly resting, that Fates done her worst.</div> +<div class="i0">Join the first letters together, and soon they will make</div> +<div class="i0">A month, when <span class="err" title="read: it's">its</span> pleasant a ramble to take.</div> +</div></div> +</div> +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">25</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">25</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/gemini.jpg" width="20" height="22" alt="gemini" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Gemini">♊</a></big><span class="hidden">Gemini</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The <em>Bard</em>, tho' wanting sight inspir'd,</div> +<div class="i0">Was with poetic rapture fir'd;</div> +<div class="i0">His noble strains, and verse to raise,</div> +<div class="i0">Singing of heaven, his tuneful lays,</div> +<div class="i0">In numbers born to lasting fame,</div> +<div class="i0">I beg you'll tell this writer's name.</div> +<div class="i0">Next him, another <em>Author</em> tell,</div> +<div class="i0">Who wrote in numbers soft and well;</div> +<div class="i0">Whose lines were tutor'd to convey,</div> +<div class="i0">To every heart the moral lay,</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">26</a></span> +<div class="i0">Whose Cato and Spectators shine,</div> +<div class="i0">With many beauties of the nine;</div> +<div class="i0">Now <em>he</em>, whose gloomy thoughts appear,</div> +<div class="i0">For ever damp'd with sorrows tear,</div> +<div class="i0">Whose discontented numbers show,</div> +<div class="i0">The cause, from which his murmurs flow,</div> +<div class="i0">And disappointment marks the name,</div> +<div class="i0">Of him, who grumbling sought for fame.</div> +<div class="i0">These writers, when their names <span class="err" title="read: you">yon</span> know,</div> +<div class="i0">Will tell a month when flowrets blow.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +</div> +<div class="page"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span></p> +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">27</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/virgo.jpg" width="20" height="19" alt="Virgo" /> +</div> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a href="#Virgo">♍</a></big><span class="hidden">Virgo</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">The <em>goddess</em> of the rosy morn,</div> +<div class="i0">Whose smiles with health, our cheeks adorn;</div> +<div class="i0">Then tell as quickly as you can,</div> +<div class="i0">The Poets <em>much enduring man</em>;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Youth</em> who gave the cup on high,</div> +<div class="i0">When fair Hebe left the sky;</div> +<div class="i0">The <em>Muses name</em>, I'd have you find,</div> +<div class="i0">Most to astronomy inclin'd;</div> +<div class="i0">Then take the <em>River</em>, at whose sound,</div> + +<div class="i0">The gods, eternally are bound;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">28</a></span> + +<div class="i0">The <em>Muse</em>, before whose comic eye,</div> +<div class="i0">Despair and melancholy fly;</div> +<div class="i0">The initials join'd, will surely find,</div> +<div class="i0">Amusement for your active mind,</div> +<div class="i0">And rightly plac'd, will soon appear</div> +<div class="i0">A month, within the circling year.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right"> +A. R. +</p> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/i_027.jpg" width="400" height="342" alt="illustration" /> + +</div> +</div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<div class="chaphead"> +<p class="number">29</p> +<p class="thinline"> </p> +</div> + +<h2>KEY TO THE ENIGMAS.</h2> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/decoration.jpg" width="200" height="20" alt="decoration" /> + +</div> + +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Aries"></a>♈</big><span class="hidden">Aries</span> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">29</a></span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/aries.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="aries" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Mary,</li> +<li>Anne,</li> +<li>Richard the Third,</li> +<li>Charles the First,</li> +<li>Henry the Eighth.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Sagittarius"></a>♐</big><span class="hidden">Sagittarius</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/sagittarius.jpg" width="20" height="32" alt="sagittarius" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Nero,</li> +<li>Octavia,</li> +<li>Vespasian,</li> +<li>Eneas,</li> +<li>Maximum,</li> +<li>Brutus,</li> +<li>Equi,</li> +<li>Romulus.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Libra"></a>♎</big><span class="hidden">Libra</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/libra.jpg" width="20" height="14" alt="libra" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Stentor,</li> +<li>Echo,</li> +<li>Prometheus,</li> +<li>Tartarus,</li> +<li>Elysian,</li> +<li>Midas,</li> +<li>Boreas,</li> +<li>Eurydice,</li> +<li>Rhadamanthus.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Capricorn"></a>♑</big><span class="hidden">Capricorn</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/capricorn.jpg" width="20" height="16" alt="capricorn" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Dover,</li> +<li>Ely,</li> +<li>Cambridge,</li> +<li>Eton,</li> +<li>Monmouth,</li> +<li>Bosworth,</li> +<li>Epsom,</li> +<li>Rosamond.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Leo"></a>♌</big> +<span class="hidden">Leo</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/leo.jpg" width="20" height="22" alt="leo" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Johnson,</li> +<li>Usher,</li> +<li>Littleton,</li> +<li>Young.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Aquarius"></a>♒</big> +<span class="hidden">Aquarius</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/aquarius.jpg" width="20" height="18" alt="aquarius" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Janus,</li> +<li>Ambrosia,</li> +<li>Nectar,</li> +<li>Ulysses,</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">30</a></span>Achilles,</li> +<li>Rhodes,</li> +<li>Youth.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Cancer"></a>♋</big><span class="hidden">Cancer</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/cancer.jpg" width="20" height="15" alt="cancer" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>John,</li> +<li>Union,</li> +<li>Nelson,</li> +<li>Elizabeth.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Taurus"></a>♉</big><span class="hidden">Taurus</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/taurus.jpg" width="20" height="23" alt="taurus" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Augustus,</li> +<li>Pompey,</li> +<li>Regulus,</li> +<li>Incitatus,</li> +<li>Lucretia.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"> +<big><a id="Pisces"></a>♓</big><span class="hidden">Pisces</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/pisces.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="pisces" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Fortune,</li> +<li>Endymion,</li> +<li>Briseis,</li> +<li>Rhea,</li> +<li>Ulysses,</li> +<li>Alcmena,</li> +<li>Rhesus,</li> +<li>Youth.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"> +<big><a id="Scorpio"></a>♏</big><span class="hidden">Scorpio</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/scorpio.jpg" width="20" height="17" alt="Scorpio" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Oxford,</li> +<li>Caen in Normandy,</li> +<li>Thames,</li> +<li>Ormskirk,</li> +<li>Buxton,</li> +<li>Earthquake,</li> +<li>Reading.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Gemini"></a>♊</big> +<span class="hidden">Gemini</span></p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/gemini.jpg" width="20" height="22" alt="Gemini" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Milton,</li> +<li>Addison,</li> +<li>Young.</li> +</ul> +<p class="p2"> </p> +<p class="center firstline"><big><a id="Virgo"></a>♍</big> +<span class="hidden">Virgo</span> +</p> +<div class="sign"> +<img src="images/virgo.jpg" width="20" height="19" alt="Virgo" /> +</div> +<ul class="key"> +<li>Aurora,</li> +<li>Ulysses,</li> +<li>Ganymedes,</li> +<li>Urania,</li> +<li>Styx,</li> +<li>Thalia.</li> +</ul> + +<p class="center p2">Darton, Printer, Holborn Hill.</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenterpage"> +<img src="images/30.jpg" width="400" height="667" alt="illustration" /> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenterpage"> +<img src="images/backcover.jpg" width="500" height="680" alt="illustration" /> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="transnote"> +<h2><a id="Errata"></a>Errata.</h2> + +<p>The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read:</p> + +<p>p. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>:</p> + +<ul><li>And sigh for sigh, when your're alone;</li> + +<li>And sigh for sigh, when <span class="u">you're</span> alone;</li> +</ul> +<p>p. <a href="#Page_23">23</a>:</p> +<ul> +<li>Whose opulent stream wild meandring flows,</li> + +<li>Whose opulent stream wild <span class="u">meandering</span> flows,</li> +</ul> +<p>p. <a href="#Page_24">24</a>:</p> +<ul> +<li>A month, when its pleasant a ramble to take.</li> + +<li>A month, when <span class="u">it's</span> pleasant a ramble to take.</li> +</ul> +<p>p. <a href="#Page_26">26</a>:</p> +<ul> 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