To excuse to his Mistress his too easie believing of false Reports,
LAdy, I am impatient till I see you, that I may between your hands abjure all false opinions. Onely be pleas'd so to dis∣pose your self, that you may accept of my recantation. By my
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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"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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last letters, you might perceive that I had let in some false re∣ports had almost poison'd the fair soul of my belief: but as soon as I receiv'd the characters of your hand, and perus'd the simplicity of that naked truth, wherewith you may put my suspicion to flight, I soon came to my self. I was ever confi∣dent, whatever false rumour divulg'd, that a person of your noble deportment, knew how to preserve your self in the greatest contagion: and that ye could run no other peril in those adventures, but that of being importun'd. You express in your Letter some weak conjectures concerning me: I per∣ceive we were both tainted with the same imperfection. Lady, such jealousies, though they are dangerous if dispers'd, yet are the greatest confirmations of future love. It was no great mat∣ter which of us chang'd our opinion; It was no great matter which of us chang'd our opinions first. The thick breath is now gone off from the clear Crystal of our then blemish'd af∣fections. I assure you now, that I have suffer'd my self to be perswaded by your Reasons; as for your Objections, they were not worth the confu••ing. Lady, you see, how easily I am cured of this sickness, being wholly dispos'd to believe and obey you; and be to the uttermost of my power,
Lady,
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