02349nam 2200469 n 450 99639525930331620221108034604.0(CKB)4330000000321819(EEBO)2240860852(UnM)99829809(UnM)9928059100971(EXLCZ)99433000000032181919950628d1682 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters[electronic resource] 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, &cThe seventeenth edition.London printed by J.R. for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell1682[6], 42, 41-229 [i.e, 243], [1] pOften 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.eebo-0014Epigrams17th centuryAnecdotesEarly works to 1800CookeryEarly works to 1800EpigramsAnecdotesCookeryBasse Williamd. ca. 1653,Phillips Edward1630-1696?,Pond Edwardd. 1629,Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996395259303316A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters2311303UNISA