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Item genre: Riddle |
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Folger
Library: MS X.d.177 Jests and poems, compiled c.1595, with later additions (c. 1595-c. 1660) Elizabeth Clarke (scribe) Item 2.5 (Riddle), fol. 3r One line about a drake or duck Once alive twice dead thrice happy drake Folger Library: MS V.a.511 Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, 1606 (1606-c.1750 ) Elizabeth Richardson ( Author, main scribe) Item 8 (Riddle), fol.4r Riddle [Twelve lines of advice arranged in a pattern so that each line follows logically from the next, but also so that every second line can be linked together to form a complete sentence; i.e. "none | good | of men | as thy self | knoweth | that readeth it."] Use time well, for it tarieth ... that readeth it [ Pointing hand beside title ] |