02251nam 2200385Ia 450 99638536100331620200824132126.0(CKB)4940000000078520(EEBO)2248570437(OCoLC)ocm12690310e(OCoLC)12690310(EXLCZ)99494000000007852019851018d1662 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|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[electronic resource] 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.CThe 2d edition, with many new additions.London Printed for N. Brook ...1662[15], 496, [15] pAttributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).Added t.p., engraved: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.Advertisement: p. 496-[15] at end.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.eebo-0113CourtshipEarly works to 1800CourtshipCotgrave Johnfl. 1655.1010117EAAEAAm/cWaOLNBOOK996385361003316Wits 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 writing2423534UNISA