Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus, or, The sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing: in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects, viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements, 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions, 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drolleries and other verses, 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty, 5. The muses elizium, several poetical fictions, 6. The perfect inditer, letters ala mode, 7. Cardinal Richelieu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers, 8. Games and sports now used at this day among the gentry of England, &c.
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Main Author: Cotgrave, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Printed for N. Brook 1662
Edition:The 2d edition, with many new additions
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Item Description:Added t.p., engraved: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus. - Advertisement: p. 496-[15] at end. - Attributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.). - Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. - Wing, C6371
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