Homepage

Record

Browse this collectionThis entry describes an individual archive record or file. Click here to browse the full catalogue for this collection
Archive Reference / Library Class No.D517/BOX/A/10/12
Title"A riddle"
Date[18th cent]
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorMiller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor
FormatDocument
CopiesA digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
TermRiddles
Poetry
Food
Transcript or IndexNot to hinder Dear Whist, Star, Patience or Jessey
That this my fair Ladys I mean to address you
But when Palpable Sower or needles are broke
Stop and guess what I am and unriddle the Joak
Like a thousand more things I can’t say my birth
But my origin sprang from ye fruits of the Earth
That I’m modelld by art and [?]reduced to a fitness
For pleasure or proffitt all nations can witness
And few in this Isle from the King to the Clown
But the truth of this fact by experience have known
As for simetry shape & proportion can boast
That I fairly excell the most Delicate toast
For betwixt breech and mouth no Lady can say
But that I am [?]taper every inch of the way
And to keep me quite straight because I am thin
My stays are fixed on with many a pin
The finer I’m cloathed both for shew and Expence
The more I’m dispis’d by all mortalls of sense
Yet coxcombs oft times (to their shame be it told)
Will have me embellish’d with silver and gold
The Gluttons example with one of such force is
That whenever I’m fed I have Allways two courses
The first is prepar'd with a great deal of pother
But Saram’s fam'd Bishop can furnish the other
And no sooner I’m cram’d and that trouble is o’er
But I’m ready to Vomit and make room for more
So Beastly Domitian as old Poets sing
[?]Scare e’er made a meal but he did the same thing
And when I’m so nasty my friends can’t endure me
San[?]grodes specific will presently cure me
But what is most odd no Lady is able
Without I feed often to make out a table
For what I squirt out oft affords a good Dish
And prefer’d by Most palates to all kinds of fish
AcknowledgementsD517/Box/A/10/1-23 have been described by Cataloguing Volunteer, Roger Jennens in October 2022.
Add to My Items
    Harpur Crewe family of Calke

    Harpur Crewe family of Calke

    Useful Links

    See more Collection highlights

    Florence Nightingale
    Florence Nightingale
    Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer
    Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer
    Harpur Crewe family of Calke
    Harpur Crewe family of Calke
    Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier
    Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier
    Collection Highlights