John Shirley, The Triumph of Wit (1688)

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Date
1688
Author
Lexicon title
The New Canting Academy: Or, The Mystery of Wheedling and Canting displayed to the Life. Illustrated with Poems, Songs, and an Explanation of Canting Words
Book title
The Triumph of Wit, Or, Ingenuity display'd in its Perfection. Being the newest and most usefull Academy, In Three Parts. Part I. Containing Variety of excellent Poems, Pastorals, Satyrs, Dialogues, Epigrams, Anagrams, Acrosticks, choice Letters with their Answers, Epitaphs, Poesies, Titles of Honour and Directions, Complemental Expressions and Addresses: also Directions relating to Love and Business, and the newest, best, and exactest Collection of Choice Songs. Part II. Containing the whole Art and Mystery of Love in all its nicest Intreagues and curious Particulars, promising wonderfull success as well in a happy Choice as in the great Affair of Courtship to either Sex: 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
Publisher
Nicholas Bodington
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Summary
English terms followed by cant equivalents, pp. 212-18
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Cant
explanations: Cant
Extent
199-229
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A Break-house Betty (p. 212)
Wing
S3520A
Other editions
1692
Criticisms
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 65-69. view record