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Irish Jesuit Province Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". Part XI Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 26, No. 295 (Jan., 1898), pp. 42-43 Published by: Irish Jesuit Province Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499235 . Accessed: 12/06/2014 18:18 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Irish Jesuit Province is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Irish Monthly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.2.32.21 on Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:18:12 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". Part XISource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 26, No. 295 (Jan., 1898), pp. 42-43Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499235 .

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CLAVIS ACROSTICA.

A KEY TO " DUBLIN AcRosTics."

PART XI

rT HE answer to No. 19 is " Brown Study"; and the lights are

1 ie, regret, ormolu, wound, neologyg With what ingenious laconism Mr. Kirby made these all rhyme together! The first line of his quatrain of course refers to the Ancient Mariner and to Brown, Jones, and Robinson. As usual, he has recourse to Shakespeare to shadow forth the second " upright."

No. 20 pairs together Blondin and Leotard. This Magazine will be read by some antiquarian, poking in the British Museum towards the end of the Twentieth Century, who will need to be told that Blondin crossed the Falls of Niagara on a tight rope, and that Leotard, I think, wheeled a man in a barrow across a rope near the ceiling of a lofty building. But, looking again at the lines in which a learned Lord Justice has enshrined the

marvellous acrobats, I doubt the accuracy of my note. The " lights," very delicately shaded, are bill, base, Orinoco, night, duenna, incisor, anld Ned. A lease falls in when the people named in it die off; yet who but a poet-lawyer would call a lease " the silent record of a man's demise? ' In the sixth line, why is the carping cynic credited with having an incisor, rather than the genial optimist ? Any reference to " incisive " remarks ?

C. T. W. guessed these last acrostic words, but the lights were for him only darkness. Beside our ordinary competitors, the Rev. Dr. McCartan of Wallsall kindly sent us the true solution of No. 19.

Before we hand over the next two Acrostics to the ingenious reader, we may mention that two friends enlightened us as to the " bookish theoric " that Judge O'llagan contrasted in No. 18 with the simpler "rule of thumb." One writes from Plymouth: "Look at Othello, Act I, Scene I (I think). The words are Jago's, used to depreciate Michael Caseio's knowledge or experience in military

matters."

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Clavi Acrostica. 43

No. 21.

To have me robbed a jovial roub cried,

Who deeply drank, and just as deeply lied.

To keep me full-a task found ofttimes vain

The rival party-chieftains fiercely strain.

By big-wigged Doctors scorned, and overthrown, By cotton Lords I'm fostered as their own.

I'm quick to calculate, I'm apt to speak

I think in figures, and I dream in Greek.

1. Brightest of jewels, most resplendent, From blackest negro I am pendent.

2. If Ali Baba had a Roman been,

This number on his corps you would have seen.

3. Ills I foretold; but men withheld belief, And for their scorning often came to grief.

4. Two armies inet, and charged in mortal strife,

They changed a dynasty, I lost my life.

5. Where sunny Isles lie scattered on the Sea,

Each maid's heart fluttered as she thought of me.

6. "I bet five pounds upon it! " " Done! you wiu,"

Again. " Now, sir, you lose; I save my tin."

7. A grim old castle, ghosts, a rattling chain,

Mysterious sounds, with awfutl shrieks of pain.

8. Free me, Ye Powers, from FenLan plots I pray,

Anld Yankee filibusters keep away !

9. In this fierce contest, and at Epsom too,

Was well avenged the fight of Waterloo.

H.

No. 22.

A lawless, robbing, wandering life hath led

My second-but I quote a daft Divine.

Like Omphale with Hercules, light thread

Lead:s my strong first-I crown the custard fine.

1. I follow on the frolics of the knight.

2. The bar can ne'er forget my noble light.

3. Poetasters me both last, and least indite.

K.

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