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Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/4662 (Lt 40 )
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Attribution: Ph Wdhs
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/104522
Description
Notes: (This forest of)
First lines: This forrest of gentyle philosophy
Fetcht from a gentil moralist you see
Last lines: For profitt not for pleasure tis design'd
Not to delight the fancy but the mynd
Length: 12
Verse form: Couplets
Contents: Introductory verse to a series of translations from many sources, explaining that they are designed to improve the mind rather than give pleasure. With the general heading: 'The title of the first part. Sylva di sylvio, or congenes gnomologica'.