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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Who his Mistress is.
WIll you know my Mistress face?'tis a Garden full of RosesWhen the Spring in every place:white and blushing red discloses;'Tis a Paradise, where allThat attempt the fruit, must fall.
Will you know her forehead fair,Line 2 'tis heavenly living Sphere;Under which the veins like air,all Celestial blew appear:But those burning Suns, her Eyes,He that dares live under, dies.
Will you know her body now,Line 3 'tis a tall ship under sail;From the rudder to the prow,nothing but Imperial:But that foolish man that stears,Fills his Compass by his fears.
Shall I now her mind declare,Line 4 'tis a body arm'd for war;Marching in proportion fair:till the Lover hopes too far:Then her eyes give fire, and allWithin level, helpless fall,
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