81
On a church close to an old ruined priory, near Lewes, there is a weathercock in the shape of a fish, probably an emblem of the faith. What moral lesson does this relic of early days convey to us?
82
Take five from half of ten,
Set fifty in the middle,
Add twice five hundred then
To finish up the riddle,
And make it with your pen
As fit as any fiddle.
83. A PARADOX
“For the want of water we drank water, and if we had had water we should have drank wine.”
Who can have said this, and what did they mean?