The academy of complements. Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A worke perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inriched by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs.

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  • The academy of complements. Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A worke perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inriched by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs.
  • Academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence
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Imprint
London: printed by M. Bell, for Hum. Mosely, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-yard, 1646.
Publication year
1646-1646
ESTC No.
R223712
Grub Street ID
97490
Description
[16], 248, 219-290 p. ; 12⁰
Note
"The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?.

Caption title on p. 1 reads: The academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence.

Partly in verse.Citation/references Wing (2nd ed.), G1401B