The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
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London :: Printed by T.N. for Humphrey Moseley ...,
1654.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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XXII. To a Lady upon her weaving hair-bracelets.
Madam,
LAst night when I found you in a pretty harm∣less employment, weaving hair-bracelets, you commanded me to make you some Poesies for that purpose, which I told you was a work fitter for Poets and men of wit, then for me, whose Cabinet enshrineth no such Treasure; yet (Madam) that you may see what a supremacy of power you have over all my faculties, I send you these inclosed; if any of which prove worth your use, the compo∣sure must be ascribed to the vertue of your com∣mands, rather then to any skill of mine, which as I disclaim to have, out of a just sense of my own im∣perfections; so must I always subscribe my selfe (out of a like sense of your worth)
Madam,
Your most devoted servant, T. B.
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Qui est tout de Coeur; n'a point de langue.Qui dedit: se dedit. (Nec fallit nec fallitur. A se convertitur in se. (Ʋnus: una: unum.
Wear this (dear heart) and prove as trueIn faith to me, as I to you.
This gift shall tell you, that I doLove you alone, and none but you.
No heart more true,Then mine to you.
Cupid has bound me by this band,To be your servant at command.
I find it true, since you are gone,That Love makes perfect union.
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