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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that co...

Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that co...

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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing [electronic resource] : 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, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.

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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing [electronic resource] : 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, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.

Publisher

London : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]

Alternative title

Witts interpreter or the new Parnassus.
Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus.
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing.

Date

MDCLXXI. [1671]

Record Identifier

74VvmjW3gLoX

MMS ID

991006651579702626

Language

English

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Physical content

[14], 520 p.

Publication information

Publisher

London : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]

Edition

3d edition with many new additions.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCLXXI. [1671]

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing [electronic resource] : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1....

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Notes

General note

J.C. = John Cotgrave.

Partly in verse.

The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... of beauty." are gathered by a right brace on title page; the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... by cyphers." are gathered by a left brace.

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351.

Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library....

Citation / References Note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C6372.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:19; 2477:14)

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74VvmjW3gLoX

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MMS ID

991006651579702626