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[Key Page 79.] SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 1.

Five hundred begins it; five hundred ends it; And five in the middle is seen; The first of all letters, the first of all numbers, Have taken their stations between; And if you correctly this medley can spell, The name of an ancient king then it will tell.

SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 2.

I end as I began, The weal and woe of man; Yet do not harshly blame, I bear my mother's name.

SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 3.

My centre is nothing; My first is my last; And when the long ages Are over and past, Then vengeance divine Shall devour me and mine.

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