The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is 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, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is 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, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
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London :: Printed by James Rawlins for Obadiah Blagrave,
1685.
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Erotic literature.
English language -- Rhyme.
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"The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is 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, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54745.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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CAP. 8. The End.
Q. What is the end?
A. The end is the cause for whose sake the thing is.
Q. Give example?
A. To Physical things the proposed End is man to man, God. There is some chief good and last end of all Arts: as to speak well, of Grammer: to plead well, of Rethorick: to dispute well, of Logick.
Q. Give example out of some Poet?
A. Aeneid. 1. Juno assumeth the end of Marriage, when as she promiseth Deip••peia to Eolus, to wit, for solace and childrens sake.
Nimphs full fourteen I have of bodies rareBut who so is most beautiful and fair,Even Deiopeia I to thee do giveHer year in marriage state with thee to live?Thee to reward for thy love unto me,And cause thine off-spring beautiful to be.
Q. Give an example out of some Orator?
A. Cicero pro L••g. urgeth Tubero his accuser, when as he presseth the end of the Wars takenup against Cesar. And truly
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(saith he) he is come forth armed against Caesar himself. But what did this Tubero his sword do in the Pharsalian Army? ••hose sides did the sharp point aim at? who was to feel the force of thy weapon: where was thy minde, eyes, hands, cou∣rage? what didst thou desire? what didst thou wish?
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