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Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle

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This IS r.PUZZLES and the dedication just presented is full of puzzles.

James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
> The dedication page of that book is shown as
> an image at https://james.fabpedigree.com/pics/tto1.jpg
> and here it is as text:
> 
> 
> TO.THE.ONLIE.BEGETTER.OF.
>  THESE.INSVING.SONNETS.
>  Mr.W.H.ALL.HAPPINESSE.
>   AND.THAT.ETERNITIE.
>        PROMISED.
>           BY.
>  OVR.EVER-LIVING.POET.
>        WISHETH.
>   THE.WELL-WISHING.
>     ADVENTVRER.IN.
>        SETTING.
>         FORTH.
>                  T.T.
> 
> (As I view this in the newsgrouper  editor, the 12 lines of the dedication
> appear center-aligned.  Let me know how it renders in your environments.)

Googling "Dedication of the Sonnets" or such might give you the text without
the spacing, and perhaps with the spelling of Onlie/Only "corrected."
But look at the actual spacing.  The vertical spacing is NOT done to
separate clauses -- (why does the 'BY' in 'BY ... POET' stand alone?).

PUZZLE:
WHAT explanation can you offer for the weird formatting?

(It is not sufficient to say T.T. (Thomas Thorpe) wrote weird dedications.
Yes, his dedications were flowery and sometimes cryptic:
            https://james.fabpedigree.com/pics/tto2.jpg
            https://james.fabpedigree.com/pics/tto3.jpg
but they were NOT like this one.)

Cheers,
James

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Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-02 06:20 +0000
  Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-03 07:52 +0000
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-03 12:28 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-03 18:45 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-05 04:02 +0000
        Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-05 06:03 +0000
  Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> - 2026-03-03 15:16 -0500
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-04 05:15 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> - 2026-03-04 17:48 -0500
        Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-05 03:54 +0000
  Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-12 19:22 +0000
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-13 05:35 +0000
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-25 11:19 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2026-05-19 18:23 +0300
        Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-19 17:56 +0000
        "Instigate to poison"  (Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle) James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-08-30 08:35 +0000

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