Mercvry, or, The secret and svvift messenger shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance.
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Title
Mercvry, or, The secret and svvift messenger shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance.
Author
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.
Publication
London :: Printed by I. Norton, for Iohn Maynard and Timothy Wilkins ...,
1641.
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Subject terms
Cryptography -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mercvry, or, The secret and svvift messenger shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66051.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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To my friend the Author.
TO praise thy work, were to anticipateThy Readers iudgment, and to iniure fate;Iniustice to thy selfe, for reall worthNeeds not Arts flattery to set it forth.Some choose selected wits to write, as friends,Whose Verses, when the work fails, make amends.So as the buyer has his penny-worth,Though what the Author write prove spumy froth.Thou, of a humour crosse to that, hast choseA friend or two, whose Verse hops like rough prose,From whose inexpert vain thou canst not lookFor lines that may enhaunce the price o' th' book.Let it commend it self, all wee intendIs but to shew the World, thou art our friend.
Richard Hatton Esquire.
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