The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, the arts of vvooing and complementing; as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places. A work, in which are drawn to the life, the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mod of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolles and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language, in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches. To compleat the young practioners of love and courtship, these following conducing helps are chiefly insisted on. Addresses, and set forms of expressions for imitation; poems, pleasant songs, letters, proverbs, riddles, jeasts, posies, devices, a la mode pastimes, a dictionary for the making of rimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions, with their several answers. As also epithets, and flourishing similitudes, alphabetically collected, and so properly applied to their serveral [sic] subjects, that

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  • The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, the arts of vvooing and complementing; as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places. A work, in which are drawn to the life, the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mod of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolles and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language, in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches. To compleat the young practioners of love and courtship, these following conducing helps are chiefly insisted on. Addresses, and set forms of expressions for imitation; poems, pleasant songs, letters, proverbs, riddles, jeasts, posies, devices, a la mode pastimes, a dictionary for the making of rimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions, with their several answers. As also epithets, and flourishing similitudes, alphabetically collected, and so properly applied to their serveral [sic] subjects, that
  • Mysteries of love & eloquence Arts of wooing and complementing Generosi ludentes a description of those jovial al-a-mode sports and games, that are most celebrated by persons of honor Mysteries of love and eloquence, or, the arts of wooing and complementing
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Imprint
London: printed for N. Brooks, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1658.
Publication year
1658-1658
ESTC No.
R6398
Grub Street ID
126744
Description
[24], 192, 177-288, 70, [26] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 8⁰
Note
Anonymous. By Edward Phillips.

With added engraved title page (A1v).

Text continuous despite pagination.

Includes index.