The Academy of pleasure
Subtitle: furnished with all kinds of complementall letters, discourses and dialogues : with variety of new songs, sonets and witty inventions : teaching all sorts of men, maids, widows, &c. to speak and write wittily and to bear themselves gracefully for the attaining of their desired ends : how to discourse and demean themselves at feasts and marry-meetings at home and abroad in the company of friends or strangers : how to retort, quibble, jest or joke and to return an ingenious answer upon any occision whatsoever : also a dictionary of all the hard English words expounded : with a poeticall dictionary : with other concests very pleaiant and delightfull, never before extant
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 444:1
Publisher: Printed for John Stafford ... and VVill. Gilbertson ...
Published: 1656
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: English Songs; Early works to 1800; Social life and customs
Notes: Added engr. t.p.

Imperfect: frontispiece and engr. t.p. lacking on film.

Wing A159

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