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 ... / by I.C.

Author/creator Cotgrave, John
Format Electronic
EditionThe 2d edition, with many new additions.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for N. Brook ..., 1662.
Description[15], 496, [15] p.
Supplemental Contenthttps://search.proquest.com/docview/2248570437
Subjects
Courtship--Early works to 1800.

SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteAttributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).
General noteAdded t.p., engraved: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.
General noteAdvertisement: p. 496-[15] at end.
General noteReproduction of original in Huntington Library.
References Wing C6371
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:18)
Other titleWits interpreter.
Other titleWitts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.
Other titleEnglish Parnassus.
Other titleSure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry.
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