John Shirley, The Triumph of Wit (1688)

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