What number of pears the fair maid had to sell
- DMI number:
- 7656
- First Line:
- What number of pears the fair maid had to sell
- Last Line:
- Will answer the question that there you propound
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Answer/reply and Couplet
- Themes:
- Commerce, Food and drink, Money / wealth, and Science[mathematical solution]
- First Line:
- Once as I was riding one morning abroad
- Last Line:
- Now guess at the number and tell me the sum
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [May 1711]
- Page No(s):
- pp.182-183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Amos Fish
- Attributed To:
- Amos Fish
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