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.
| Author/creator | Cotgrave, John |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 3d edition with many new additions. |
| Publication Info | London : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671] |
| Description | [14], 520 p. |
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| Variant title | Witts interpreter or the new Parnassus |
| Variant title | Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus |
| Variant title | Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | J.C. = John Cotgrave. |
| General note | Partly in verse. |
| General note | The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... of beauty." are gathered by a right brace on title page; the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... by cyphers." are gathered by a left brace. |
| General note | Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library. |
| References | Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C6372 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:19; 2477:14) |
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