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8 Yet if you love me, as you say,

Pray give it me, I'm sure you may.

57. The beginning of eternity,

The end of time and space,

The beginning of every end,

And the end of every place.

58. I'm found in loss, but not in gain,

If there you search, 'twill be in vain;

I'm found in hour, but not in day-

My name, I'm sure, you now can say.

59. If there was a bird on a peach, and you wanted the peach, how would you get it without disturbing the bird?

60. What is that which the living and the dead do at the same time?

61. What piece of coin is double its value by deducting its half?

62. What is the difference between war and love ?

63. What did Adam first set in the garden of Eden?

64. What is that which, by diminishing the cause, increases the effect?

65. A certain wit declared of late,

That every act of magistrate

Was water in a freezing state.

66. In ancient times there lived one,

As Scripture will declare,

Who spoke, and ever spoke the truth,

Which plainly did appear.

He liv'd on earth, and did not sin,

Guiltless he liv'd and died;

And all his actions were most just,

And to be justified.

Yet, for ail this, 'tis sure in heaven

He ne'er shall find a place,

Nor any of his ancestors,

Nor yet his future race,