Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division.

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Title
Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division.
Author
Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
Publication
London :: Printed by M. Simmons ...,
1654.
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Subject terms
English wit and humor.
Epigrams.
Epitaphs.
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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50616.0001.001
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"Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50616.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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The Stationer to the Reader.

IF new, or old wit, please the Reader best, I've hope, each man of wit, will be our Guest The new, was fram'd to humour some mens tast▪ Which if they like not, they may carve the last▪ Each dish hath sawce belongs to't; and you wil By your dislike, censure the Authors skill; Yet if you cannot speake well of it, spare To utter your dislike, that the like snare May entrap ohers; so the Booke may be Sold, though not lik'd▪ by a neat fallacie: That's all I aske, yet 'twill your goodness raise, If as I gaine your coyne, he may your praise.
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