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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics"Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 309 (Mar., 1899), p. 155Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499409 .

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CLAVIS ACROSTICA.

A KEY TO " DUBLIN Acaosncs."

C OULD better poetry or more ingenious puns be drawn out of the words scrip and #kck than Judge O'Hagan drew out of

them in No. 42 of " Dublin Acrostics?" The lights are " S.S.,"

court, Romeo, Isaac, and Pack. The first of these is the S.S. collar

worn by the Lord Mayor of London and the Lord Chief Justice

of England, consisting of the letter S in gold on a blue and white

ribbon. The letter S is sai;d to stand for souvenianee, " remem

brance." fsaae who "bends for his captive daughter," is the father of Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Romeo is inldicated darkly by an allusion to the strife between the

Montagues and Capulets. 'The stanzas relating to stock begin with a reference perhaps to Marullus's speech to the mob:

"You stocks, you stones, you wor-se than senseless things!"

What ingenious punning in the last stanza! J. F. U. (London), P. D. (Dublin), and J. W. A. (Wales)

have solved all difficulties, except that the last, with well grounded misgiving, suggested swpurs for the first light. M. G. W. (Isle of W ight) solved this and all the rest quite correctly, very much to her credit.

No. 43

II.

Within the compass of each madman's head,

I too go mad, when winter snows are fled.

Sweet, sad, and merry, harsh, and loud, ancd low,

Instinct with feeling to the heart I go.

"IF.

With head low bowed while howls the blast in vain,

I wait in hope till sunshine come again.

1. The best place in winter to cower,,

2. A quadrisyllabic flower.

-3. The-certain result of a shower.

4. What defies even time's fatal power.

MID.

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