PUZZLING TIMES AT SOLVAMHALL
CASTLE
SIR HUGH EXPLAINS HIS PROBLEMS
The friends of Sir Hugh de Fortibus were so perplexed over
many of his strange puzzles that at a gathering of his kinsmen and
retainers he undertook to explain his posers.
" Of a truth," said he, " some of the riddles that I have put forth
would greatly tax the wit of the unlettered knave to rede ; yet will
I try to show the manner thereof in such way that all may have
understanding. For many there be who cannot of themselves do all
these things, but will yet study them to their gain when they be
given the answers, and will take pleasure therein/'
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