DOUBLE ACROSTICS

BY

VARIOUS AUTHORS

UNIFORM WITH "DOUBLE ACROSTICS."

In cloth extra, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d.

RIDDLES IN RHYME:

A Book of Enigmas, Charades, Conundrums.

SELECTED FROM THOSE CONTRIBUTED

DURING THE LAST THIRTY YEARS TO FULCHER'S
"LADIES' POETICAL MISCELLANY."

EDITED BY EDMUND SYER FULCHER.

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

EDITED BY

K. L.

"Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command
Some peaceful province in Acrostick land:
There thou may'st wings display and altars raise,
And torture one poor word a thousand ways

DRYDEN

LONDON: JAMES HOGG AND SONS

MDCCCLXII

[The Right of Translation is reserved]

LONDON

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

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PREFACE.

For those who have not yet studied the art of Double Acrostics, a few words of explanation are prefixed to this little book.

In former times an Acrostic was simply a poem, each verse or each line of which began with the letter of a name, arranged in order, which might be read at a glance. This, of course, tried the ingenuity of the writer of the Acrostic only, not of the reader. Thus, if Tom sent the following lines (which may have taken him some minutes to compose) to his lady love, she could have no difficulty in making it out to be her own name, Ann

Ask you what my secret care?
None but thou canst heal it, fair!
None other save me from despair.