Talk:Five wits

This article was nominated for deletion on 6 June 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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Did you know... that during Shakespeare's time, it was commonly believed that there were five "outward" wits as well as five "inward" wits?

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References in Shakespeare[edit]

I have found references to the five wits in "Much Ado about Nothing", "Paradise Lost", "Malleus Maleficarum", and others. please, post any and all references you can find.

Please expand[edit]

The concept of "The Five Wits" is an old one, references can be found in Shakespeare and Chaucer's works among other classics. This would be a topic worthy of expansion, I only wish I had the expertise to do so. Just a Google search of the term should be enough to convince anyone of the potential for this article. -- Atama ^chat 23:36, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the subject of expanding, apparently The Discarded Image is also a source. Dranorter (talk) 07:19, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]