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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 : 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.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- Books
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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. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall 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. By I.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: 1655