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  Wise & good civil rulers, to be duely acknowledged by God's people as a great favour. A sermon preached before the Honourable the lieutenant governour, the Council & representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 25. 1726. Being the anniversary, for the election of His Majesty's Council there. / By Peter Thacher, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston.
  Date of publication:
  1726
  

  Author(s):

  Thacher, Peter, 1677-1739. and Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Thacher's election-sermon, May 25. 1726. "Errata."--p. 28.
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  Wish upon wish, or Dangerfields lamentation. Being a true relation, of a discovery of all the rogueries of Captain Dangerfield, who now is a close prisoner in his Majestys gaol of Newgate, for acting the D. of M. in several countries in England. To the tune of, The old mans wish.
  Date of publication:
  1680-1689
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Bound and filmed with: Doctor Titus Oates good wish. Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.
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  Wit and drollery joviall poems / corrected and much amended, with new additions, by Sir J.M. ... Sir W.D. ... and the most refined wits of the age.
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  Phillips, John, 1631-1706. ; E. M. and J. M.
  Description:
  Preface signed (prelim. p. [6]): E.M. This work is based on a 1656 edition which was edited by John Phillips. Cf. BM. Error in paging: p. 97-104 repeated in numbering only. Advertisements: [24] p. at end. Reproduction of ...
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  Wit and folly in a-maze. or Come try your wits here; I'le lay a pot in half an hour you read it not in its true sence, as' t'ought to be, then lay a wager, stake, and see.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  The letter and the reply are signed N.N. and B.B. respectively. The first half of the sheet poses a riddle; the second half is entitled 'Hereunto is added the coppy of a letter written from a young man in the country, to ...
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  Wit and loyalty reviv'd in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times / by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Berkenhead, and the ingenious author of Hudibras, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. ; Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679. and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
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  First two parts have special title-pages. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. The puritan and papist, a satyr / by Mr. Abraham Cowley -- The assembly-man / written by ...
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  Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet.
  Date of publication:
  1628
  

  Author(s):

  Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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  Signatures: A-C⁸. Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library.
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  Wit at a venture, or, Clio's privy-garden containing songs and poems on several occasions never before in print.
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  C. F.
  Description:
  Epistle dedicatory signed: C.F. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  Wit for money, or, Poet Stutter a dialogue between Smith, Johnson, and Poet Stutter : containing reflections on some late plays and particularly, on Love for money, or, The boarding school.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. and Fidge, George.
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  Attributed by DNB to Thomas Brown, and by Wing to Thomas D'Urfey and George Fidge. Dedication signed: Critick Catcall. Items at reels 182:7 (Wing D2793, cancelled in Wing 2nd ed.), and 1112:3 (Wing CD-ROM W3136A) are ...
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  Wit in a constable A comedy written 1639. The author Henry Glapthorne. And now printed as it was lately acted at the Cock-pit in Drury lane, by their Majesties Servants, with good allowance.
  Date of publication:
  1640
  

  Author(s):

  Glapthorne, Henry.
  Description:
  In verse. Publisher's name from STC. Signatures: A-H⁴ I² . The first leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in the New York Public Library.
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  Wit in a wildernesse of promiscuous poesie by the author Tho. Jordan.
  Date of publication:
  1665
  

  Author(s):

  Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
  Description:
  In verse. Imperfect: pages stained with loss of print; pages 21-22 lacking. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  Wit without money A comedie, at it hath beene presented with good applause at the private house in Drurie Lane, by her Majesties Servants. Written by Francis Beaumount, and Iohn Flecher. Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1640
  

  Author(s):

  Fletcher, John, 1679-1625. and Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.
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  Generally regarded as being Fletcher's work alone. The authors' names are bracketed together on title page. Probably printed in early 1640; see "Studies in Bibliography" 1 (1948-9, p. 151-82). Signatures: [A]¹ (=I⁴) B-I⁴ ...
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  Wit withovt money a comedie, as it hath been presented with good applause at the private house in Drury Lane, by Her Majesties servants / written by [brace] Francis Beamount [sic] and John Flecher ...
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616. and Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  Wit's last stake. A farce: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
  Date of publication:
  1769
  

  Author(s):

  King, Thomas, 1730-1805.
  Description:
  Dedication signed: Thomas King. Based on Jean François Regnard's 'Le légataire universel'. Reproduction of original from the British Library. English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT52618. Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. ...
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  Witch-craft proven, arreign'd, and condemn'd in its professors, professions and marks by diverse pungent, and convincing arguments, excerpted forth of the most authentick authors, divine and humane, ancient and modern. By a Lover of the truth.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Bell, John, 1676-1707.
  Description:
  A lover of the truth = John Bell, Cf. Wing. Reproduction of original in the Glasgow University Library.
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  Witchcraft discovered and punished. Or, The tryals and condemnation of three notorious witches, who were tryed [at] the last assizes, holden at the castle of Exeter, in the county of Devon: where they received sentance for death, for bewitching several persons, destroying ships at sea, and cattel by land, &c. To the tune of, Doctor Faustus: or, Fortune my foe.
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint suggested by Wing. Verse: "Now listen to my song good people all ..." Trimmed. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft..
  Date of publication:
  1635
  

  Author(s):

  Flower, Margaret, d. 1618.
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  Title page has wood-cut illustration. Attributed by STC (2nd ed.) to Margaret Flower. Reproduction of original in: University of Glasgow. Library.
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  With the light is fifteen priests, (of the Isle of Wight reproved, who have joyned and subscribed their names together, (and printed) in publike view, declaring themselves to be ministers of Christ; yet confessing and largely demonstrating that they are dark sinful sinners of the Gentiles, living in obscurity, chained up in a cave of darkness, their light eclipsed, their eyes dim, their sloath great, their hearts begin to gather blackness, and are seised on with fear, and that their authority in preaching is marred by unholy living, and that the greatest misteries of their religion have been squeesed out of the writings of heathens. ... Ro. Tuchin. Robert Dingley. Vincent Spark. Thomas Clark. William Bignel. John Barnes, James Craswick. Joshua Tomkins. William Harby. Ric. Beminster. Edward Bucklar. John Martin. Simon Pole. Martin Wells. Mathew Hearn. / Given forth as a true testimony from the hand of one of the meanest servants of the eternal living truth, against a rebellious seed of evil and deceitful workers, that cannot cease from sin, whose mouthes are to be stopt, under whom this body in vvhich I am, suffers bonds, tryals, and tribulations, for the testimony of Jesus, and of a pure conscience, though in a filthy noysome prison, the common jaile, and stinking dungeon and house of correction, (vvith other of the friends of Christ at Winchester: I ha[v]e suffered a close and cruel imprisonment well nigh seven months, but Father forgive them that hate me without cause, and know me by no other name then Daniel Baker.
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.
  Description:
  The letter "v" of "have" on t.p. was printed upside-down. Reproduction of original in the Friends' Library, London.
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  Wither's motto nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo.
  Date of publication:
  1621
  

  Author(s):

  Wither, George, 1588-1667.
  Description:
  In verse. "The explanation of the Embleme" facing t.p. Title page engraved, illustrated, signed "R.E. Sculpsit". Signatures: A-E⁸, F⁴. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
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  Withers redivivus, in a small New-Years-gift, pro rege & grege, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange wherein is a most strange and wonderful plot, lately found out and discovered, and recommended to all the imposing members of the Church of England, to be by them acted, as part of their last Lent confession : viz. to all Roman Catholick priests and jesuits of persecuting principles and profession : with the arraignment and tryal of Innocent the XIth, present Pope of Rome, refused last Lent to be licensed by reason of the matter therein contained / by T.P.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  T. P. (Theophilus Philalethes) and Wither, George, 1588-1667.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. In verse.
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