An edition of 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 (1662)

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. : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities ...

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An edition of 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 (1662)

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. : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities ...

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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. : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities ...
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Attributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).

Added t.p., engraved: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.

Advertisement: p. 496-[15] at end.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Wing C6371

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1977. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:18)

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Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 683:18.
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Early works to 1800.
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Wits interpreter, Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus, English Parnassus, Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, Wits interpreter., Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus., English Parnassus., Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry.

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