LEADER 02883nam 2200469 n 450 001 996385090003316 005 20200824121021.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000067476 035 $a(EEBO)2248515555 035 $a(UnM)99872744e 035 $a(UnM)99872744 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000067476 100 $a19850405d1655 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 10$aWits interpreter, the English Parnassus$b[electronic resource] $eor, 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. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall 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. By I.C 210 $aLondon $cPrinted for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill$d1655 215 $a[16], 175, [1], 345, [3], 128 p. $cill., ports 300 $aI.C. = John Cotgrave. 300 $aWith an engraved undated title page on verso of leaf before title page, with imprint "Brookes" that reads: Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus. 300 $aWith a vertical half-title on the leaf following p. 345. Variant: this leaf is blank. 300 $aThe words "The art of reasoning .. and other verses" are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "Cyprian goddess .. letters by cyphers". 300 $aAnnotation on Thomason copy: "May 7". 300 $aReproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and in the Bodleian Library (Early English books, 1641-1700). 330 $aeebo-0158 606 $aLetter writing$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aRiddles$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aMedicine$xFormulae, receipts, prescriptions$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aGentry$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aLetter writing 615 0$aRiddles 615 0$aMedicine$xFormulae, receipts, prescriptions 615 0$aGentry 700 $aCotgrave$b John$ffl. 1655.$01010117 801 0$bCu-RivES 801 1$bCu-RivES 801 2$bCStRLIN 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996385090003316 996 $aWits interpreter, the English Parnassus$92347758 997 $aUNISA