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
Subtitle: 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
Edition: 3d edition with many new additions
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 683:19; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2477:14
Publisher: printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic]
Published: 1671
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Courtship -- Early works to 1800; Letter writing -- Early works to 1800; Riddles -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Games -- Early works to 1800; Gentry -- England -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Witts interpreter or the new Parnassus; Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus; Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing
Notes: J.C. = John Cotgrave

Partly in verse

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

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351

Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C6372

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1997. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:19; 2477:14).