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920: Sorrowful

A first prize of £20 and 'Lm further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary -- ring the word `DictionarY') for the first three correct......

No. 1588: Whenas...

You all know Herrick's six-liner beginning Whenas in silks my Julia goes . . .' Fol- lowing Herrick's metre and rhyme-scheme, but allowing yourself nine lines and the......

Competition

Odious comparisons Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1585 you were in- vited to supply a piece of prose beginning `Byzantium was the Milton Keynes of the Roman world' or with a......

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