09.04.01

The Five Wits

Posted in General at 11 am

I’m always collecting lists of things: the names of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, the seven deadly sins, the seven wonders of the ancient world, etc. Today’s list comes from the “Forgotten English” word-a-day calendar that Amy got me for Christmas:

The Five Wits:

1. Common Wit
2. Imagination
3. Fantasy
4. Estimation
5. Memory

This is from Robert Nare’s Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859.

(Oh, the horsemen are Famine, Plague, War and Death.)

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