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Uniform Title	Helpe to discourse.
Title	A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toys, &c. are added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
Alternative Title	More merriment mixt with serious matters.
	Country-man's councellor.
	Sphinx and Oedipus.
Publication Info	London : printed by J.R. for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1682.
Edition	The seventeenth edition.

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Descript	[6], 42, 41-229 [i.e, 243], [1] p.
Edition	The seventeenth edition.
Note	Often attributed to William Basse or Edward Pond; this attribution, however, is doubtful. Also attributed to Edward Phillips; this attribution is impossible as Phillips born after the first edition.
	"The country-man's counsellor" has caption title on p. 127, and "Sphinx and Oedipus" has caption title on p. 174; register and pagination are continuous.
	Page 243 is misnumbered 229; text is continuous despite pagination.
	Pages stained, torn and faded, with some loss of print.
	Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

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Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Epigrams -- 17th century.
	Anecdotes -- Early works to 1800.
	Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author	Basse, William, -approximately 1653.
	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
	Pond, Edward, -1629.
Alternative Title	More merriment mixt with serious matters.
	Country-man's councellor.
	Sphinx and Oedipus.

Descript	[6], 42, 41-229 [i.e, 243], [1] p.
Edition	The seventeenth edition.
Note	Often attributed to William Basse or Edward Pond; this attribution, however, is doubtful. Also attributed to Edward Phillips; this attribution is impossible as Phillips born after the first edition.
	"The country-man's counsellor" has caption title on p. 127, and "Sphinx and Oedipus" has caption title on p. 174; register and pagination are continuous.
	Page 243 is misnumbered 229; text is continuous despite pagination.
	Pages stained, torn and faded, with some loss of print.
	Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Epigrams -- 17th century.
	Anecdotes -- Early works to 1800.
	Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author	Basse, William, -approximately 1653.
	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
	Pond, Edward, -1629.
Alternative Title	More merriment mixt with serious matters.
	Country-man's councellor.
	Sphinx and Oedipus.

Subject	Epigrams -- 17th century.
	Anecdotes -- Early works to 1800.
	Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Descript	[6], 42, 41-229 [i.e, 243], [1] p.
Note	Often attributed to William Basse or Edward Pond; this attribution, however, is doubtful. Also attributed to Edward Phillips; this attribution is impossible as Phillips born after the first edition.
	"The country-man's counsellor" has caption title on p. 127, and "Sphinx and Oedipus" has caption title on p. 174; register and pagination are continuous.
	Page 243 is misnumbered 229; text is continuous despite pagination.
	Pages stained, torn and faded, with some loss of print.
	Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Alt author	Basse, William, -approximately 1653.
	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
	Pond, Edward, -1629.

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