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Cotgrave, John. 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. : 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; all which are collected with industry and care, ... The 2d edition, with many new additions, by I.C

Creator
Cotgrave, John, active 1655
Date
1662
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
C6371
Caption
London : Printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1662
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Cotgrave, John. 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. : 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

Creator
Cotgrave, John, active 1655
Date
MDCLXXI. [1671]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
C6372
Caption
London : Printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]
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