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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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 May 3, 2024.
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A Passionate Letter to Reproach a Scornfull Mistriss.
Madam,
WHat more can be expected from the most obse∣quious Slave than I have performed; how have I marked your Eyes, and taken the least motion for a command to do you service; how have I neglected my own affairs, and with all the diligence expressible, la∣boured to let you see by my service how much I was yours, and how truly I loved you: but what is my
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reward; nothing but scorn and disdain, when others reap the harvest of your smiles, and are highly ca∣ressed: O the ingratitude of Woman! into what a Monster can it form it self, had it been once sounded with an Angel-Trumpet in my Ears, that the seeming virtuous, fair, charming Bellamira could have been false and inconstant as the Winds to the Man she promised so fair, and at so light a rate, broke all her vows and promises of an unalterable fidelity: I durst not believe it; but now too plain I find that they were uses; yet, false one, I will not curse nor repine, but bear my suffer∣ings with patience; and though the grief sits heavy on my soul', yet with a manly courage I'll suppress my woe; and having once shook off these chains, be free for ever from the fatal mischief that attends on Love, and befalls,
Fair One, still my own and C. D.
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