To half-a-dozen add six, and to the result add five hundred. The whole will represent a word signifying clear, lucid, bright, or glowing.
Answer: (Half-a-dozen), VI; (six), VI; (five hundred), D; or, VIVID; or, Vivid.
| Puzzle. | Answer. | ||
| A poet who in blindness wrote |  | Milton. | |
| His work of greatest fame; | |||
| Another who, in Charles's reign, | | Dryden. | |
| Did make himself a name; | |||
| Then he who's often Father called | | Chaucer. | |
| Of our English poetry; | |||
| The far West claims this modern bard, | | Longfellow. | |
| So rich in symphony; | |||
| The scolding wife of Socrates, | | Xantippe. | |
| Her name you surely know; | |||
| The Prince of Latin poets last, | | Virgil. | |
| We call on you to show. | |||
The initials of these names you'll find
In order written down,
Will give the date in which the Plague
Did rage in London town.
Answer: MDCLXV; or, 1665.
If from five you take five, you may leave a word denoting contempt or dislike.