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Add. MS a/738/ff. 1–3
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‘Riddle’ (by Jenny Havelock)
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(1767–1790)
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First line: ‘With Youth, & perfect beauty blest’.
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Printed, with several verbal differences, as Enigma VII, ‘By Miss Jenny Havelock, of Birtley, in the County of Durham’, in The Ladies’ Own Memorandum-Book … for the Year 1769 (London, probably 1768). Reprinted, with further variations, in The Trial of Wit, or, A New Riddle Book (Glasgow, 1782). The manuscript text is closer to the first of these printed versions.
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2025.