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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A Description of a sport, called the Crab, or a thing done, and who did it.

FOR the better understanding of this recreation, the places are to be distributed, and sundry names to be in∣vented, as they shall follow in the sport; for example Phan∣taste she begins, I imagine saith she a thing done: Heidon thinks, who did it; Moria, with what was it done; Anaides where it was done; Argureon, when it was done; Amo∣phus, for what cause was it done; Philantia, what followed upon the doing of it; Asotus who would have done it better; One askes what is it conceived about, they all answer yes, yes. Then speak you sir, sayes Phantaste; who would have done it better, sayes Asotus, how does it begin at me, Phan taste, gives him a reason, and says yes sir, this play is called the Crab, it begins backwards; Asotus sayes may I not name my selfe, Phantaste answers yes sir if you Please to abide th venture of it, Asotus then sayes I would have done it better whatsoever it is, Phil. no doubt on't sir, a good confidence, what followed upon the act, Phil. a few heat drops, and a months mirth, Pha. for what cause, Amo. for the delight o Ladies, Phag, when, Arg. last progresse, Pha. where. Ana. why in a pair of painted slops, Pha. with what, Mor, with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Glister, Pha. who, Hed. by a Traveller, Phantaste then re∣veales the subject, till then concealed, sayes she, the thing done

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was, an Oration was made, afterwards they all of them in or∣der rehearse an Oration was made, Hed. by a Traveller, Mor. with a Glister, Ana. in a pair of painted slops, Au g. the last progress, Amo. for the delight of Ladies, Phi. a few heat drops and a months mirth, followed, Pha, and this silent Gentleman Mr. Asotus would have done it better.

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