Question

Riddles on English authors​

Answer 1

My first doth affliction denote

Which my second is destin'd to feel.

And my whole is the best antidote

That affliction to soften and heal.

The answer to this riddle is woe-man (woman). She wrote a lot of riddles of this sort, charades as they were called, in which two separate words (or syllables) are described that come together to create a single answer. For more riddles from her visit Riddles of Jane Austen