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[TOMKIS, THOMAS.] Lingua: or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five senses for Superiority. A pleasant Comoedy. [72] leaves. 8vo, 146x99 mm, early 19th-century 1/4 roan, top of spine chipped; dark stain in lower outer corner of A3, stains in lower margin of A6 and in lower outer corner of last 2 gatherings, endpapers browned. London: Simon Miller, 1657
Originally published in 1607, "a farcical presentation of a struggle between personifications of the tongue and the five senses, all which are identified by their Latin names" (ODNB). Greg 239(fI); Wing T1842.
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