The Return.
I come, Madam, to receive as much content from your
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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- 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 15, 2025.
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chearful Countenance, as the loss of it hath yielded me sor∣row. I know the Good will now be as great as the Evil, since they proceed both from the same cause.
Sir, I do believe that you do receive the one, as well as you have suffer'd the other: but I beseech you, Sir, to tell me from whence that pain proceeds, which you say you do en∣dure; for as to my self, I do believe, that the pleasure of Thinking, is greater then that of Seeing.
Madam, It is permitted me to think, but experiment for∣bids me believe that opinion; for I receive from my Ima∣ginations only a good imagination; on the contrary the sight cannot err.
But it is said, Sir, that the presence only contents the Eyes, which are Mortal; but that absence exercises the Soul, which is Divine; and therefore if that did any way afflict you, you might easily avoid it.
It was some good Genius, Madam, that took me yesterday from your eyes, that I might the better value the happiness of their lustre, and avoid the extremity of that pain which the loss of them made me endure; causing in me such an im∣patience to return to you, that every hour I staid from you seem'd an age.
Sir, That which is foreseen is easily avoided. Now you perceive whence the evil that you speak of proceeds, yet the little occasion that you had to fear it, makes you find it out willingly; therefore blame your own desires, which have pro∣cur'd you this evil, and do not complain on Destiny, which is always just.
Madam, My Will is not the cause; for then I should fly my self, and come back to you: but Love, to abuse me the more, gave me the Desire, and hinder'd the Effect. Though I believe it to be one of his Destinies, for it behooves a true passion to overcome the violence of all opposition by a dili∣gent constancy.