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 ...

Forms for the concluding of Letters.

BUt whatsoever happen, I shall be no other then, &c.

I shall endeavour with the best of my care and indu∣stry, whenever you desire the proofs of the obedience of, &c.

If it could be perswaded that my absence gave you any dis∣quiet, or that my presence could afford you any service, you should soon perceive by my speedy return how much I am, &c.

If I am able to do you service, there wants nothing but that you should command me the imployment; there being no∣thing which I more desire than to witness my self conti∣nually, &c.

There being no man who hath a firmer resolution to ren∣der you all the testimonies of a willing service, in the qua∣lity of, &c.

Let this for the present satisfie you, till I shall meet with some better opportunity, to shew how much I am, &c.

The only happiness that I expect is, that I may be able to change my words into effects, that I might shew you how much I am really, &c.

I shall now free your patience from reading any more, give me leave only to make this conclusion, that I am and shall be, &c.

For every time I reflect upon your great obligations, I am impatient of an opportunity to shew my self; I cannot pass away the unquiet of my mind by any other way, than by seeking occasions to testifie how much I am, &c.

Be pleased to take this for a real truth from him who hath made an Oath to live and die, &c.

This is the advice and friendly Counsel of, &c.

And I hope there is nothing shall debar me from conti∣nuing for the time to come, what hitherto I have been, &c.

Neither is there any thing that I would omit whereby I might give you an assurance of fidelity to your Commands, as protesting to live and die, &c.

But I desire to testifie to you rather by words than by dis∣course, how much I am, &c.

Sir, I beg you to accept this testimony of my gratitude, and my earnest desires to be, &c.

I never reckon up the Catalogue of my friends, but I pre∣sently call to mind how much I am obliged to give you this Subscription, &c.

My gratitude is as necessary as my being, and I can sooner not be, then not be most truly, &c.

For I never think of your favours but it renews the re∣membrance of my engagements to be, &c.

Though I have a very great press and urgency of business at present upon me, yet shall my occasions never be so vio∣lent, but that I will have leisure both to be and to tell you, that I am, &c.

I shall be contented to be counted ungrateful when I am less, &c.

Sir, if you doubt the truth of my service, I beseech you to make use of that absolute power which you have acquired over me, to oblige my endeavours to all manner of proofs, that I am, &c.

He pleased as yet to take my bare word till I can give you further testimonies how much I am, &c.

Though I am debarr'd your sight, yet I hope I am not en∣vied the happiness of giving you notice, how passionately I am, &c.

I will lose my life, rather than my resolution to die, &c.

If you knew with what impatience I expect a reply, charity would oblige you to set at rest the disquiet mind of, &c.

My resolution is to possess my self always, &c.

There is none more interested in your concernments, nor more participates in any satisfaction of yours, than he that is by reason as well as inclination, &c.

Could my endeavours take effect, or my vows accomplish∣ment, you should not long reckon me in the number of your unprofitable servants, for I am most assuredly, &c.

Sir, I know your high merits, and the nobleness of your condition hath much encreased the number of your servants; yet I will say this, that though you joyn them altogether, yet they are not so much as I am, &c.

You may easily know, without being a Prophet, the dear esteem I have for you, and may believe without any further assurance, that I am, &c.

It remains in you to allay the discontent of my mind, by giving me some imployment in your service, which may wit∣ness

the passion that I have to maintain the quality of, &c.

Which obliges me in the midst of mine ill fortune to have recourse to prayers, that you would honour me with your commands, that by my obedience to them you may be forced to believe, &c.

Desiring to make you see rather by effects than words, how much I am without complement, &c.

I shall give you new proofs thereof by the continuance of my respects, and the title which I desire to bear of, &c.

For though you may have a more powerful, yet you never can have a more constant and faithful servant, &c.

I shall expect the favour that I may not bear the unprofita∣ble title of, &c.

Neither shall I be contented till I have given you full te∣stimonies thereof, as being, &c.

Desiring nothing more then to live and die, &c.

Though I shall not regard that while it is for your interest, as being one that makes it his publick profession to appear in all places, &c.

Only be confident of this, that I am more than any man in the World, &c.

For I shall never be capable of apprehending any thing else, but how to testifie my devotion to be, &c.

For she participates very much of that passion which I have to serve you, &c.

In which list I am bold to write my self, &c.

Among all my felicities I count it not the meanest, the li∣berty which you are pleased to give me of stiling my self, what I most truly am, &c.

And find occasions more and more to testifie what I am, and shall ever be, &c.

Sir, if you will permit me to imploy my soul thus, you may still enjoy him, who is, &c.

I am preparing to forsake all the affairs of the world to entertain you, and testifie how much I am, &c.

You know very well that I am but a rude Courtier, but my words carry truth with them, while I affirm, that I am from my soul, &c.