Pop'd into Place

I please the Fair and Young,
But ftay not in my Station very long ;
The more I'm toft, the more I am carefs'd,
So often fhook, I feldom can find Reft:
My Brains beat out, Iftill the more endear;
And Eunucb-like, I captivate the Ear.

IX. Enigma 359. by Miranda Tell-truth.
I am a Biter fharp, which foon you'll feel,
But beauteous Forms can many Faults conceal;
Like Those I'm garnish'd with alluring Glofs,
Attra& Admirers, who neglect my Lofs.

I cloth the Naked, and the Hungry feed,
Yet perish Thofe, that ftood before in need:
Kill and deftroy the Blooming and the Young,
Make hafte to blast! for foon my Reign is done!
A potent FRIEND unfetter, and fet free
Those I've in hold, that were feduc'd by me!
A Birth Night's Luftre in my Form you'll fee.
His Pow'r foon conquers my relenting Frame,
With Tears I ceafe, and weeping lose my Name
Before this CHIEF, my whole Inchantment flies,
Who looks -and all my treach’rous Beauty dies.

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X. Ænigma 360. by Belinda Amoretta.

I'm handed forth, each Day, throughout the Year, To fome give Plea fure, others bring Despair;

My Name's of mighty vogue, in Town, you'll find,
His Lordship I can please before he's din'd.

I'm afk'd for cloth'd; but in my naked State,
Thofe Charms attend me, that on Fair Ones wait.
The Secret of all Secrets I explore,

When you behold what ne'er was feen before.

A Friend to Quacks I am, improve their Trade,
Who by my Service often are well paid.
I'm feldom call'd for by the rural Swain,
Not unaware that I may give him Pain.

Doom'd to attend on Fools fuch my hard Fate,
Sometimes carefs'd, fometimes I bear their Hate!
My Pleasure is but short one Hour, or less,

Will ferve to cloy you of my Shape and Dress.
Yet, Ladies, if you'll let me choose my Man,
I'll do the best to please him, all I can.

XI. Ænigma 361. by Mr. Oliver Rowland.

I'm the Scraps of the Trade, but to Few I am known, And to hide my Difgrace, all my Friends I difown. In Tricks I am vers'd, near St, Paul's I refide, To fair Dealing a Foe, to the Dunciad ally'd; An impudent Piece, without Morals or Shame, That the Truth can belie, and can Merit defame: Suffer Ill to escape-thew no Mercy to Good, As Int'reft, each Month, is the Caufe understood. Like the foul Newgate-Bird, I can take a far Flight; And the Day-light brings forth what I act by the Nights

XII. Ænigma 362. by Timothy Nabs, Esquires
1. Dear Ladies, offenfive to fome I may be,

Tho' I'm neither fo odd, or uncommon;

'Tis Whim more than Cause of Averfion you'll fee,
To a Thing that is hurtful to no Man.
2. Tho' harmiefs my Nature, yet terrific's my Call!
When conducted with critical Skill;

I affrighten great Kings, ftouteft Heroes appall,
And the Victor with Panics can fill.

3. But, for fofter Endearments, fome Merit I plead,
Send my Aid to the mufical Throng;
At the Op'ra affift, and the Concert I lead,
Tho' I never knew Note of a Song.

4. Some there are who interpret my innocent Play,
As tho' it a Storm did forebode;

But let happen what will, when I'm frolic and gay
My Pranks neither Harm do, nor Good.

5. If, by Chance, any Mifchief I do to your Coft,
And I may, tho' I lock fo demure;

In return for that Harm, I great Services boaft!
And from Robbers your Houses fecure,

6. But should Thofe, who leaft like me, declare for their Part, That of Merit I have but fmall Share;

Be it known that loud Fame has enrol'd my Defert,
And that thrice I have made a Lord May'r.

Whoever fends an Answer before Candlemas next, will have a Chance for 9, 8, and 7 Diaries.

PRIZE ENIGMA, by Χρονονμονονπύβλικα.

Oppos'd and menac'd by a POTENT FEW,
And, for a while, detain'd from public View ;
All Ways I ftrove to break the galling Chain,
But ftruggled for my Liberty in vain!

At length, Old Time flew down, to footh my Care,
And bid me for the Tour of France prepare:

Then, then, my Son, faid he, you'll find Regard,
"And Royal Favour fhall your Toil reward;
"For public Good's preferr'd to private Ends,
"And fo you'll meet with Advocates and Friends:
"Go-learn their Language, Manners, and Addrefs,
"Effential to your future Happiness:

"Then I'll conduct you fafe from Pole to Pole,
"And where the Planets round their Orbits roll;
"And each new Year fhall multiply your Store,
Till NEWTON is forgot -
and I'm no more."

The Sage's Voice I inftantly obey'd,
And to the Gallic Shore myfelf convey'd ;
Nor did my Hopes from his Advice miscarry,
I foon return'd drefs'd à la Mode de Paris;
My Chemisette is Scarlet trimm'd with Black,
And a White Juftaucorps adorns my Back:
Now, I at will, o'er Town and Country roam,
Or to receive my Levee wait at Home:

Visit

Vifit the Great, the Learned, and Polite,
Who feek my Company both Day and Night.

My Freedom fafe and blefs'd with their Alliance,
I boldly bid my former Foes Defiance,

Who, fill'd with Rage, at my Success repine,
And what they cannot ftifle, undermine;
Corrupt my Servants, and my Skill disgrace,
And backbite me almoft before my Face.
But I fuch Taunts and Subtilties defpife!
For, Palm Tree like, deprefs'd the more I rife.
Ye Smarts and Belles, who patronize Invention,
And give to useful Novelty Attention,

Say how your Traveller arriv'd to Fame,

And tell to PRINCE POSTERITY his Name.

N. B. The Latin Enigmas, by feveral Gentlemen, we referve; alfo fuch English Enigmas as are fit for our Purpose.

The LADIES ORACLE, or QUERIST.

I. Quare 31. by Mr. John Fish of Dartford, in Kent.

W

WHAT is the Reason the Fair Sex prefer the Beaux to the Men of Senfe and Merit: feeing it has been a common Obfervation, in all Ages, that the whole Care and Study of the Beaux hath been to adorn their Out-fides, while they have totally neglected the Improvement of their Minds?

Which way and bow might all Controverfies about Property, or Of fence, between Party and Party, be duly adjusted to the Satisfaction of both Sides, better than by going to Law?

V. Quare 35. by Boots.

What is the great Use and Benefit of walking out of the Way thro' a Thicket of Thorns and Brambles, when a smooth plain Road lies before you, or at hand?

VI. Quare 36. by Amicus.

How might the Creditor be better satisfied than by taking away the Liberty of the Debtor?

VII. Quære 37. by Lucinda.

Whether Beauty is an Advantage, or Disadvantage, to the Fair Sex ?

Whoever fends Answer before Candlemas next, will have a Chance, by Lot, for 6 Diaries.

PRIZE QUERE, by Upnorenfis.

What Reasons can be affigned for the particular Models of the different Species of Animals? and alfo for particular Vegetable Forms, that we obferve exifting fo infinitely various, in Nature; yet limited in refpect of each particular Species, and Mode of Being? why they should exist under fuch particular Forms of Solidity and Surface, and no other?

NEW QUESTIONS (for the Exercife and Improvement of the Invention, Reason, and Judgment) to be answer'd in next Year's Diary.

A

I. Queftion 361. by a Perfon of Honour.

Water Mill is to be built where there is a Fall of Water of Twenty four Feet-It is required to determine whether a Wheel of Eighteen Feet, with Six Feet Fall, or a Wheel of Sixteen Feet with Eight Feet Fall, wili grind the moft Corn with least Water?

II. Queftion 362. by Mr. John Fish of Dartford.

A Ball weighing 4 Pounds upon the Surface of the Earth, to what Height, in the Air, muft it be carried to weigh but 3 Pounds, and how long would it be falling to the Ground?

III. Question 363. by Nichol Dixon, of Blackwel.

In Craven as I walk'd alone *,
Three Objects once appear'd in ftone,
I do proteft I ne'er faw bigger,
And flood in right triang'lar Figure.
Thefe Stones (as being told to me)
Go by the Names of A, B, C ;
From C to A.I meafur'd, then,
In Engi Miles exactly Ten.
From A, for B, due North I ftride,
"Till I the rifing Sun efpy'd
Appearing in a Line with C,
Directly, as I ftopt at D:
And there Old Bob (who came in
Told me the Angle C was Right;
"That 3 Miles further on flood B,"
And faid that courfe was true for me,

* Lat. 54°.

[fight

The Time this happen'd, I may say,
Was on the 28th of May.
Now,without meas'ring, I don't doubt
But you'll the Miles to C find out.

B

Ye, who to Cards or Dice pretend!
This Problem folv'd,the
Game will end :
Tho. Simpfon fent it firft
for Fun,
Now, folve it You, fome
Son of a Gun!
For Cards nor Dice can
Simpfon charm,

Like old Sir John, that
keeps him warm.

D

A

IV. Queft. 364. by Mr. T. Cowper, Teacher of Mathematics, at Wellingborough.

On the 14th of laft March, at half an Hour after 11 in the Forenoon, being in Latitude of 52° 22′, I obferv'd 10 Beats of my Pulfe between the Time of a small Cloud fhading me, and that when the Shadow thereof reach'd a Tree, at the Distance of 88 Yards, eafterly from me; immediately before, I likewise observed that the Angle formed by the Shadow of a Stick perpendicular to the Horizon, and a Line drawn from the Tree to the Place of Obfervation was 120°. Now, admitting 70 Pulfations in

a Minute

a Minute, the hourly Velocity of the Cloud, its Direction, and what Point of the Compass the Wind blew, are thence required?

V. Question 365. by Mr. John Williams.

What Pounds Principal, being put out at its equal Value per Cent. at Simple Intereft, for an equal Number of Years, will raife an Intereft equal to Half the Principal ?

VI. Quest. 366. by the Rev. Mr. Baker, of Stickney, Lincolnsh.

If the Thickness of two Microscopic Glaffes be Three Eighths of their refpective Radii of Convexity, and thefe be in the Ratio of 10 to 3, how must thofe Glaffes be difpofed, in a Compound Microfcope, fo that an Object, eight Inches diftant from the Eye, fhall be thereby magnified a Thousand Times?

VII. Quest. 367. answer'd by Mr Th. Cooper of Wellingborough.

On the 19th of September 1751, at Night, the Vertical Angle between Jupiter and the Star Caftor was obferv'd to be 35° 48', and that between Jupiter and the bright Star in the Whale's Tail, 78° 29'; it is required to determine the Latitude of the Place and Hour of the Night, where and when thofe Obfervations were made?

VIII. Question 368. by Mr. Chriftopher Mason, of Eastbourn, near Petworth, in Suffex.

A conftant Quantity being put for a Factor, in Monf. Ozanam's Ma- › thematical Recreations, to be multiplied by variable Factors, in order to produce 3 Ones, 3 Twos, 3 Threes, &c. thro' all the Digits, I defire to know both the conftant and variable Factors, that will produce 6 Ones, 6 Twos, 6 Threes, &c. alfo 9 Ones, 9 Twos, 9 Threes, thro' all the Digits?

IX. Queft. 369. by Mr. Terey, of Portsmouth.

Required the fuperficial Content of a scalenous Cone, whofe longeft Side is 12 Inches, fhorteft 9, and Base Diameter 6 Inches.

X. Quest. 370, by Mr. Jof. Hilditch, at Handal nearShrewsbury.

The three Diftances from an Oak, growing in an open Plain, to the three vifible Corners of a Square Field, lying at fome Diftance, are known to be 78; 59, 161, &c. and 78 Poles, in fucceffive Order, Quare the Field's Dimenfions, and the Acres it contains?

XI. Question 371. by Mr. Terey, of Portsmouth.

What is the Content of a Cafk, in Ale Gallons, whofe Staves are exactly circular, and Dimenfions of the Head and Bung-Diameters, and alfo Length 24, 36, and 48 Inches ?

XII. Quest. 372. by Mr. W. Bevil, of Harpfwell, Lincolnfh. Suppofe the Moon's Diameter to be 2170, the Earth's Diameter 7970, and the Distance of each other's Surface 240000 Miles, where must I view them on a Line drawn betwixt their Centres, to see the greatest Quantity of Surface of both Bodies paffible?

XIII. Queft.