How to Express Your Feelings, 1689

Facepalm Cupid, Andrea Alciato, Emblematum Liber (1534)Excerpts from The Theatre of Compliments, Or, A Compleat New Academy: Expressions of Love and Friendship of Men towards Men.Sir, I'le repay your love with usury.Sir, When I contemplate...

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How to Encrypt a Message, 1641

Giambattista della Porta, De furtivislitterarum notis (1591), Folger"The second way of secrecy in speech, is by an alteration of any knowne language... by augmenting words with the addition of other letters. Of which kind, is that secret way...

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