Item genre: Riddle

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

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Pointing hand beside title

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