A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toys, &c. are added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
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- 1682
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Helpe to discourse.
More merriment mixt with serious matters.
Country-man's councellor.
Sphinx and Oedipus.
Publication/Creation
London : printed by J.R. for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1682.
Physical description
6 unnumbered pages, 42, 41-229 [i.e, 243], 1 unnumbered page
Edition
The seventeenth edition.
Notes
Often attributed to William Basse or Edward Pond; this attribution, however, is doubtful. Also attributed to Edward Phillips; this attribution is impossible as Phillips born after the first edition.
"The country-man's counsellor" has caption title on p. 127, and "Sphinx and Oedipus" has caption title on p. 174; register and pagination are continuous.
Page 243 is misnumbered 229; text is continuous despite pagination.
Pages stained, torn and faded, with some loss of print.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
References note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) E25B.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2026:11) s1999 miun s