Rare Books

The academy of pleasure. : Furnished with all kindes of complemental letters, discourses, and dialogues; with variety of new songs, sonets, and witty inventions. Teaching all sorts of men, maids, widows, &c. to speak and write wittily, and to bear themselves gracefully, for the attaining of their desired ends: how to discourse and demean themselves at feasts and merry-meetings at home and abroad, in the company of friends or strangers: how to retort, quibble, jeast or joke, and to return an ingenious answer upon any occasion whatsoever. Also, a dictionary of all the hard English words expounded. With a poetical dictionary. With other conceits very pleasant and delightful, never before extant