Single Anacrosticks, &c.
Prepare to Rise, the Day dawns from the East,
Aurora ope's her Gates and to the West
Rays Tip't with Gold, as swift as Love shafts fly,
The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes.
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- Title
- The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes.
- Author
- J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.
- Publication
- [n.p.] :: Printed for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane,
- 1688.
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- Subject terms
- Epigrams, English -- 17th century.
- Anagrams -- Early works to 1800.
- English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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"The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60018.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Page 67
To Light you to the Temple, all the Sky
Honour's the Day that must your Marriage see:
Each Bird sings Spousals—hast my Bride then hast,
No drousiness shou'd these dear Minutes wast:
In Joydet's wrapour thoughts that transports breed,
And everlasting Pleasures shall sucdeed.