Thesaurus aenigmaticus [T118685]

DMI number:

607

Publication Date:

1727

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T118685

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW102102013

Shelfmark:

BL - 1607/782

Full Title:

[i]Thesaurus AEnigmaticus[/i]: | OR, A | COLLECTION | Of the most | [i]Ingenious[/i] and [i]Diverting[/i] | AENIGMA'S | OR | RIDDLES: | [rule] | In FOUR PARTS. | [rule] | The whole being design'd for Universal Enter- | tainment; And in particular for the Exercise | of the Fancies of the CURIOUS. | To which is prefix'd | A [i]Preface[/i], and a [i]Discourse[/i] of AENIGMAS'S in | General. With an Explication of all the | [i]AENIGMA[/i]'s. | [rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed by S. POWELL, for GEORGE RISK, | GEORGE EWING, and WILLIAM SMITH, | Booksellers, in [i]Dame's-street[/i], 1727.

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[8], [1]-74, [2]pp.

Bibliographic details:

FORMAT: Octavo in fours.

Comments:

MISCELLANY CONTENTS: Prose riddle on p.33 (Aenigma LXVI.) Latin riddles on p.73 (Aenigmas CXXXVII and CXXXVIII.) MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of riddles.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Preface (1p.); 'Of Aenigmas' (5pp.) BACK MATTER: 'An Explication of all the AENIGMA'S contain'd in the Four PARTS' (2pp).

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Thesaurus aenigmaticus [T55149] [PARTIALLY ENTERED FROM ECCO British Library See comments]

Publication Date:

1726

ESTC No:

T55149

Volume:

None

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Part of a Series

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Related People

Printer:

S. Powell

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Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

G. Ewing

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Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

G. Risk

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Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

W. Smith

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Content/Publication

First Line:

We are a people of no certain station

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p.[1]

Poem Title:

Aenigma I.

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My birth is mean my bulk is small

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pp.2-3

Poem Title:

Aenigma III.

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First Line:

Who's he that's born of heavenly race

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p.2

Poem Title:

Aenigma II.

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First Line:

A lady gave me a gift which she had not

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p.3

Poem Title:

Aenigma V.

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Call'd the Earl of Surry's Riddle.

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From the retirement of the dead

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p.3

Poem Title:

Aenigma IV.

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From teeming Vesta's fertile breast

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p.4

Poem Title:

Aenigma VI.

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First Line:

Of fellows neither good nor bad

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pp.4-5

Poem Title:

Aenigma VIII.

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First Line:

Strange mixture I goddess and punk

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p.4

Poem Title:

Aenigma VII.

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A flying camp is formed each year

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p.5

Poem Title:

Aenigma IX.

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An unborn queen of sweets and beauties I

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Aenigma X.

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First Line:

By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown

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p.6

Poem Title:

Aenigma XI.

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First Line:

I never had wings but often take my flight

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

Aenigma XIII.

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First Line:

The fond recourse of infancy and age

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p.6

Poem Title:

Aenigma XII.

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First Line:

I am at liberty yet never come out of prison

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pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Aenigma XIV.

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I serve the greatest kings on earth

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pp.8-9

Poem Title:

Aenigma XVI.

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First Line:

Tell me sagacious men of wit

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p.8

Poem Title:

Aenigma XV.

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First Line:

Strephon who in the fields with anguish

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pp.9-10

Poem Title:

Aenigma XVIII.

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First Line:

There is a thing which could it speak

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p.9

Poem Title:

Aenigma XVII.

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First Line:

Great is my power as great my fame

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p.10

Poem Title:

Aenigma XIX.

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First Line:

Out of the deep and from the earth

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p.11

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXI.

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Unseen extended over the sight

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p.11

Poem Title:

Aenigma XX.

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Begot by parents dull and thick

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p.12

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXII.

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I often die and live again

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXIII.

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From the womb of my mother with violence torn

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pp.13-14

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXVI.

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I never did eat yet am still at a feast

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p.13

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXV.

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Though in silence I reign I the sceptre never swayed

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p.13

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXIV.

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First Line:

In a small cell I live that's arched overhead

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p.14

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXVII.

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Though by noble achievements I've purchased renown

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pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXVIII.

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There's an old fellow walks at such a rate

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pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXX.

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First Line:

Though always I travel I'm always at home

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p.15

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXIX.

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First Line:

I had a being ere the world was made

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXIII.

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First Line:

I please the court the city camp and town

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p.16

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXI.

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First Line:

What's that each hour grows old and young

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p.16

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXII.

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First Line:

No treasure can with me compare

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p.17

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXV.

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First Line:

Untaught unskilled we paint each nobler sound

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p.17

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXIV.

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First Line:

My usual dwelling's never low

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p.18

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXVII.

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First Line:

I'm neither man or woman maid or boy

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p.18

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXVI.

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First Line:

To all around me mirth I make though seldom spend my pelf

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXVIII.

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First Line:

My complexion's smooth and white

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Aenigma XL.

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I'm thick I'm thin I'm short and long

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p.19

Poem Title:

Aenigma XXXIX.

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First Line:

I am the best I am the worst

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p.20

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLI.

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First Line:

Like a long snake my slender body moves

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLII.

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Nothing I am yet to all things belong

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p.21

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLIV.

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First Line:

Rome and Geneva I have joined

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p.21

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLIII.

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First Line:

A strange amphibious creature I

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pp.22-23

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLVI.

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First Line:

Ere Adam was my early days began

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p.22

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLV.

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First Line:

My shape nor I nor any can reveal

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p.23

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLVIII.

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First Line:

They who first formed me were within my womb

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p.23

Poem Title:

Aenigma XLVII.

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First Line:

Digged out of precious mines in sunshine days

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

Aenigma LI.

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First Line:

I by a gentle breathing first begun

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p.24

Poem Title:

Aenigma L.

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First Line:

Silent I speak untaught instruction give

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p.24

Poem Title:

Aeingma XLIX.

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First Line:

I with a sharp though cloven dart

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p.25

Poem Title:

Aenigma LII.

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First Line:

Like two sage sisters close we dwell

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

Aenigma LIII.

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First Line:

I'm followed both by fools and wise

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p.26

Poem Title:

Aenigma LIV.

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First Line:

We neither are Christians Turks Pagans nor Jews

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

Aenigma LV.

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First Line:

Gay son of fancy thee all powers obey

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Aenigma LVII.

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First Line:

I'm neither bird nor beast nor sprite

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p.27

Poem Title:

Aenigma LVI.

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First Line:

Kings reign over nations I over kings bear rule

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Aenigma LVIII.

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First Line:

Ladies throw by the curtain view the scene

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p.29

Poem Title:

Aenigma LIX.

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First Line:

The brightest beauty I yet most obscured

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Aenigma LX.

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First Line:

I humble and subdue the brave

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXI.

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First Line:

Involved in night I lie like a golden mine

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p.31

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXII.

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First Line:

Where my first threads of being dwell

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pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXIII

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First Line:

Begot by the folly and pride of mankind

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p.32

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXV.

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First Line:

There's nothing so common or various than I

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p.32

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXIV.

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First Line:

What is my name or where I had my birth

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pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXVII.

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First Line:

Bold as a champion I my force maintain

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p.34

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXVIII.

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First Line:

I came of the Cyclopean race

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pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXIX.

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First Line:

Once as I did the flowery meadows trace

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pp.35-36

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXX.

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First Line:

Whilst in an adamantine rock secure I lie

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p.36

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXI.

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First Line:

A negro I though born in northern climes

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pp.37-38

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXIII.

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First Line:

In ancient times when that the world was young

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p.37

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXII.

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First Line:

In the dark mansions of the briny deep

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p.38

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXIV.

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First Line:

In the terraqueous globe I claim a share

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pp.39-40

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXVII.

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First Line:

Room for a mighty tyrant clear the way

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p.39

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXVI.

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First Line:

The strongest thing on earth I be

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p.39

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXV.

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First Line:

Before I was exposed to sight of day

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p.40

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXVIII.

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First Line:

Circled with fire and undissolving snow

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pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXIX.

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First Line:

An almanac came forth of late

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p.41

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXI.

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First Line:

I stride upon a thing that wants no saddling

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p.41

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXX.

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First Line:

Some senses I have if me you'll believe

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pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXIII.

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First Line:

Tis you bright nymphs who in full lustre shine

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p.42

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXII.

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First Line:

By curious industry and artful care

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p.43

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXIV.

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First Line:

Drawn from the womb a useless mass I for a while remain

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXV.

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I am a lady of transcendent fame

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p.44

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXVI.

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First Line:

Vulcan begat me Minerva me taught

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p.44

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXVII.

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First Line:

Sure I'm the veriest Proteus ever was seen

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pp.45-46

Poem Title:

Aenigma XC.

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First Line:

Tell me sweet English ladies tell me pray

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p.45

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXIX.

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First Line:

Tell me what genius did the art invent

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p.45

Poem Title:

Aenigma LXXXVIII.

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First Line:

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

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p.46

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCI.

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First Line:

My mother's pregnant womb me long enclosed

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p.47

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCII.

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First Line:

I conquer all that's mortal here below

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCIV.

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We come from place unknown from mortal eye

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p.47

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCIII.

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First Line:

My friend that laid me in my peaceful grave

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCVI.

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First Line:

Although I am of little worth

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p.48

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCV.

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Bred in the womb of mother earth unseen by mortal eyes

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pp.49-50

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCVII.

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From heaven at first with Lucifer I fell

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p.50

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCIX.

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I live in all things nothing lives in me

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p.50

Poem Title:

Aenigma XCVIII.

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Sure I'm the strongest monster ever was seen

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Aenigma C.

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Come gentlemen you I address myself to

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p.51

Poem Title:

Aenigma CII.

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First Line:

I have a good servant deserves a good name

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p.51

Poem Title:

Aenigma CI.

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Nature produced me white and guiltless too

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p.52

Poem Title:

Aenigma CIII.

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He who begot me did conceive me too

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p.52

Poem Title:

Aenigma CIV.

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I with a vizard-mask am born

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p.53-54

Poem Title:

Aenigma CVI.

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The master I attend upon

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p.53

Poem Title:

Aenigma CV.

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Fetched with much labour from my native home

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p.54

Poem Title:

Aenigma CVII.

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I am a true attendant on the fair

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pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Aenigma CVIII.

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I have no eyes and yet my nose is long

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pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Aenigma CX.

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When the creator all things made amongst the rest were we

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p.55

Poem Title:

Aenigma CIX.

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No prince could ever like mine a palace boast

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p.56

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXI.

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First Line:

I am no soldier but a friend to peace

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p.57

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXII.

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In England once a gracious prince did reign

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXIII.

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Nothing I am nor real being have

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p.58

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXIV.

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There is a thing much swifter than the wind

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXV.

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A wondrous thing in Southwark did appear

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p.59

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXVI.

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When silent night with sable did invest

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXVII.

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First Line:

My lady's lap-dog pretty Chlo

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p.61

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXIX.

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I challenge nature from her store or magazine to show

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p.61

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXVIII

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Let it be so even the creator spoke

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXX.

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Known and so obvious to the literal race

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXI.

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Of the winged race I far the brightest shine

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXII.

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I have no tongue yet elegantly speak

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXIII.

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My dame she said sirs call in Kate

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pp.65-66

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXV.

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I am the parent which to time give birth

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p.65

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXIV.

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First Line:

As I lay in a heat

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pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXVII.

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First Line:

When pale Lucina governess of night

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p.66

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXVI.

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First Line:

Although I was conceived of old

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pp.67-68

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXIX.

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First Line:

It is well known last winter that

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p.67

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXIX.

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My birth is mean but old my pedigree

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p.68

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXX.

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First Line:

Say who I am bright nymphs for surely you

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pp.69-70

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXII.

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First Line:

Silence ye tories lofty whigs attend

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p.69

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXI.

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First Line:

Doomed to the horrors of a gloomy cell

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pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXIII.

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Most lovely situate on a rising ground

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pp.71-72

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXV.

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When the warm sun withdraws its genial rays

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p.71

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXIV.

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First Line:

In all rich minerals I'm found

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pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXVI.

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First Line:

My form is beauteous to allure the sight

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXXXIX.

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First Line:

I was born dead and one whole month I lay

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

Aenigma CXL.

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