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    How to Sweet Talk Your Lady, 1656

    Instructions for Lovers, teaching them, how to demean themselves towards their Sweet-hearts…

    How to Speak French, 1694

    Que faites vous? What do you do?…

    How to Discuss Meat Carving, 1673

    In cutting up all manner of small Birds, it is proper to say, Thigh them…

    How to Make White-Out, 1563

    For to make a water that will take out incontinent letters from the Paper…

    How to Handle Books, 1345

    And in the first place as to the opening and closing of books, let there be due moderation…

    How to Make a Rainbow, 1633

    The Rainebow is a thing admirable in the world, which ravisheth often the eyes and spirits of men…

    How to Succeed on a Business Trip, 1528

    Cosimo de’ Medici spoke to a friend of his who was very rich but not very learned…

    How to Improve Your Memory, 1563

    To make one have a good memorie. Take a Tooth or the lefte legge of a Badgre…

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