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 mode 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 they may be rendred admirably useful on the sudden occasions of discourse or writing. Together, with a new invented art of logick, so plain and easie by way of questions and answers, that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection in the wayes of arguing and disputing.
1658
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Title
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 mode 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 they may be rendred admirably useful on the sudden occasions of discourse or writing. Together, with a new invented art of logick, so plain and easie by way of questions and answers, that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection in the wayes of arguing and disputing.
Created/published
London : Printed for N. Brooks, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1658.
Description
[24], 192, 177-288, 70, [26] p. : ill. (engraving) ; (8vo)
Associated name
Note
Anonymous. By Edward Phillips.
With added engraved title page (A1v).
Text continuous despite pagination.
Includes index.
With 7 final advertisement leaves.
"Generosi ludentes a description of those jovial al-a-mode sports and games, that are most celebrated by persons of honor" has caption title and separate pagination; register is continuous.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug:".
With added engraved title page (A1v).
Text continuous despite pagination.
Includes index.
With 7 final advertisement leaves.
"Generosi ludentes a description of those jovial al-a-mode sports and games, that are most celebrated by persons of honor" has caption title and separate pagination; register is continuous.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug:".
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 54)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), P2066
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.1735[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R6398
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.1735[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R6398
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
P2066
Folger-specific note
203113. Provenance: book-labels of Roger Senhouse and Anthony Fair