THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
only stroke a picture of our late sovereign lord King Edward the
Third, who hath been dead these ten years. 'Tis a riddle to find
where the stroke doth begin and where it doth also end. To him
who first shall show it unto me will I give the portraiture."
I am able to present a facsimile of the original drawing, which
was won by the Man of Law. It may be here remarked that the
pilgrimage set out from Southwark on 17th April, 1387, and Edward
the Third died in 1377.
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The Friars Puzzle.
The Friar was a merry fellow, with a sweet tongue and twinkling
eyes. " Courteous he was and lowly of service. There was a man
nowhere so virtuous." Yet he was " the best beggar in all his house,"
and gave reasons why "Therefore instead of weeping and much
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