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Puzzle of Authorship Clues From Poetic Name Games
A long OCR fragment presents a list of literary clues pairing numbers with authors and puns. It shows partial lines from Boarth and Home and includes references to Chaucer Dryden Pope Holmes etc with misread spellings. The passage resembles a 19th century author puzzle using names and wordplay to hint at each entry.
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Puzele
Boarth
Pusale
Chaucer
Geoffrey
Dryden
John
Pope
Alexander
Taylor
Bayard
Holmes
Oliver Wendell
Holland
J G
Hood
Thomez
Burns
Robert
Prior
Matthew
Southey
Robart
Bhelley
Percy Byrshe
Coleridge
Samuel Taylor
Howard
Lowell
James Rumell
Campbell
Thomas
Akenside
Mark
Wordsworth
William
Longfellow
Henry W
Whittier
John G
Preottun
Oliver
Harte Bret
Isdy
Meet
Edmund
Chatterton
Dinesee de Quincay
Bunyan
Churchall
Charla
Curtin
Iren We
Proetor Adelaide Anna
Walter Bevage
Meta
Steeleyard
Tennyson
Alfred
Tupper Willis
N F
Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
Swift
Jonathan
Cornwall
Barry
Shakespeare