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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39728	A treatise of the sports of wit	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1675 (1675)	Wing F1237; ESTC R20266	20,309	62

Christal Branches and bordered about with Silver Sconzaes in which were inchac'd Concave Mirrors of Oval Form for better reflection of the Light When the Dutchess seated in her Fautvil under a Canopy upon an half pace higher than the rest with the Princesses Her Daughter and Sister under Taborets on either side of Her the sports began as followeth The First Nights Sport Of ORACLES THis sport 〈◊〉 when one amongst the rest stands for Oracle and others in order ask Questions of it the Dutchess first and the rest following which the Oracle answers briefly in the Laconick stile As for example Quest. How should one do to be beloved Answ. Love Quest. Who is the fairest Lady Answ. Every one's Mistress And these Questions are easily answered but the Oracle sometimes is hard put to 't when they ask it any captious insiduous ones as was his who asked the Oracle whither what he had in his hand were alive or no to which it answered As you please he grasping a little Sparrow in his hand meaning if the Oracle said it was dead to produce it alive if alive to crush it and produce it dead Which ambiguous answers and words of double sence in such expedience required great wit and dexterity in the Oracle and at this our Oracle Madamoiseille de Beauvais was excellent The Second Nights Sport Of DREAMS THe sport of this is when every one tells their Dreams and some one Interprets them who is not only to know the General Notions as how to dream of Pearl signifies Tears and Gold Ill luck c. But perfectly to understand the Art of Divination and to have well read Artemedorus and Apamasar Such as he to whom a Lady coming once in great anxiety for her Lord who was then actually in the Wars saying She dreamed the General was wounded in his right hand he answered The ill presage of that dream nothing concerned her Lord who had a command of Horse for the right hand of a General was his Foot and the left his Horse and the event proved this prediction true for shortly after the news was brought against the expectation of all that Don Francisco de Melo had lost the Battle of Rocroy most of his Infantry remaining either slain or taken prisoners whilst all the Cavalry escaped by flight This made the Dutchess think him fittest to be president of that nights sport which though far more difficult then that of the Oracle he performed to the general satisfaction of all where note they may shew as much wit who ingenuously feign a Dream as he who interprets it The third Nights Sport Of LOTTERIES ALL the Wit and Art of this Sport is so to contrive the Lots in the Urn as best may fit the qualities of every one As to the Dutchess all Happiness and Felicity to the Princess nothing but Crowns and Scepters then proposed as a match for Crowned-heads and to Madamoseille De Beauvais her choice of Princely-Husbands married not long after to the Marquess of Varanbon who dying without Heirs left Her Inheritrix of his Marquisate and since married to the Noble Prince of Aremberge Nor were the rest of the Ladies less fitted with their Lots the Contriver of the Lottery to please them hazarding the reputation of a Lyer twenty times for that of a Prophet once But all the Sport was to hear the inferior servants handsomely rallied for pastime of the Ladies For example Two waiting Women amongst the rest one who would needs lead Apes to Hell and another who would not go to Heaven without a Husband The Dutchess prohibiting all picquant Rallery which if any offered she declared a dislike of it in a blush a greater reprehension then could be expressed by words to those who understand the Language of the Face The Fourth Nights Sport Of WONDERS THe Sport of this is when every one tells what they most wonder at or the greatest wonder they have seen not such as Lying Travellers report or such as they father upon our Countrey-Man Sir John Mandevile muchless such foul-mouthed slanderous ones as his who said The greatest wonder he had seen was a Woman honest when she was young and handsome when she was old but such witty ingenuous ones as that Ladies and Cavaliers who saying The greatest wonder he had seen was a constant Lady she answered again That the greatest she had seen was a discreet Cavalier All in the way of Gentile Rallery without stumbling or falling foul on the Picquant and at that Gentile Rallery these Ladies were excellent who went on inoffensively without ever making a false pace on their way nay they went farther yet and converting their Sports and Pastimes into Devotion one said what she most wondered at was That any Noble Woman could be otherways then vertuous when Vertue was only true Nobility another That she wondered their could be any Atheists in the World when every thing put them in mind of a Divinity and a third more divinely yet That she wondered how any one could breathe or stir a foot without thinking on him in whom we live move and have our being The Fifth Nights Sport of WISHES THis amongst Gallants is one of their cheifest Sports when striving who should wish somewhat most pleasing to their Mistress One wishes himself Somnus or the God of Sleep to charm her senses into a sweet repose another Morpheus or the God of Dreams to enter into her mind and with some delightful dream insinuate the thought of himself amongst the rest And a third wishing his Brest wholly transparent that she might see through it the pureness of his affection with many such like Gallantries but all in vain For just as Water can be derived no higher then its Fountain head so Earthly minds can think of nothing but Earthly things whilest these Ladies were so heavenly minded as one wished her self a Bird of Paradice to have no more communication with Earth another soared higher yet Wishing her self in Heaven and the third Wished her self an Angel there and she only wanted Wings having in an Angelical Body an Angelical Spirit too And this with more delight and chearfulness then others wished for all the Treasures in the World well knowing this World in comparison with the other was less then a drop of Water compared to the Ocean or Grain of Dust to the whole Globe of the Earth but not to be thought to undervalue this World too much by those who have but too magnificent a conceit of it We will say no more but past to the next Nights Sport The Sixth Nights Sport Of GIPSIES THe Sport of Gipsies was excellent well represented by Her Highness servants all properly habited with their Faces umbered over supposed so many Doxies with their Solyman who making their Entry in a Dance fell to telling Fortunes by Inspection of the Hand or Art of Chyromancy as they pretended though all their Art was to give such Fortunes as they imagined best pleasing to every one like