The _Bard_, tho' wanting sight inspir'd, Was with poetic rapture fir'd; His noble strains, and verse to raise, Singing of heaven, his tuneful lays, In numbers born to lasting fame, I beg you'll tell this writer's name. Next him, another _Author_ tell, Who wrote in numbers soft and well; Whose lines were tutor'd to convey, To every heart the moral lay, Whose Cato and Spectators shine, With many beauties of the nine; Now _he_, whose gloomy thoughts appear, For ever damp'd with sorrows tear, Whose discontented numbers show, The cause, from which his murmurs flow, And disappointment marks the name, Of him, who grumbling sought for fame. These writers, when their names yon know, Will tell a month when flowrets blow. A. R. [Virgo] The _goddess_ of the rosy morn, Whose smiles with health, our cheeks adorn; Then tell as quickly as you can, The Poets _much enduring man_; The _Youth_ who gave the cup on high, When fair Hebe left the sky; The _Muses name_, I'd have you find, Most to astronomy inclin'd; Then take the _River_, at whose sound, The gods, eternally are bound; The _Muse_, before whose comic eye, Despair and melancholy fly; The initials join'd, will surely find, Amusement for your active mind, And rightly plac'd, will soon appear A month, within the circling year. A. R. [Illustration] KEY TO THE ENIGMAS. [Aries] Mary, Anne, Richard the Third, Charles the First, Henry the Eighth. [Sagittarius] Nero, Octavia, Vespasian, Eneas, Maximum, Brutus, Equi, Romulus. [Libra] Stentor, Echo, Prometheus, Tartarus, Elysian, Midas, Boreas, Eurydice, Rhadamanthus. [Capricorn] Dover, Ely, Cambridge, Eton, Monmouth, Bosworth, Epsom, Rosamond. [Leo] Johnson, Usher, Littleton, Young. [Aquarius] Janus, Ambrosia, Nectar, Ulysses, Achilles, Rhodes, Youth. [Cancer] John, Union, Nelson, Elizabeth. [Taurus] Augustus, Pompey, Regulus, Incitatus, Lucretia. [Pisces] Fortune, Endymion, Briseis, Rhea, Ulysses, Alcmena, Rhesus, Youth. [Scorpio] Oxford, Caen in Normandy, Thames, Ormskirk, Buxton, Earthquake, Reading. [Gemini] Milton, Addison, Young. [Virgo] Aurora, Ulysses, Ganymedes, Urania, Styx, Thalia. Darton, Printer, Holborn Hill. [Illustration] [Illustration] Errata. The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read: p. 9: And sigh for sigh, when your're alone; And sigh for sigh, when you're alone; p. 23: Whose opulent stream wild meandring flows, Whose opulent stream wild meandering flows, p. 24: A month, when its pleasant a ramble to take. A month, when it's pleasant a ramble to take. p. 26: