A description of his Mistriss.
SO looks the Virgin Rose,
which cherish'd by the genial truth;
Her crimson Beauties doth disclose,
as doth the ruby portals of her mouth.
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 ...
- Author
- Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
- Publication
- 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 15, 2025.
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Page 58
Which when she doth unfold,
Two bright transparent rows
Of pearl ye may behold;
From between which a breath of Amber flows.
A more then Tyrean purple doth o'respread
Her lips, which softer are
Then the Swans down, and smoother far:
The costly juice that dwells
In Oriental shells,
To them looks pale, they are so purely red.
Fair Cheeks that look like blushing roses plac't
In purest Ivory,
Or Coral, within snow enchas'd;
The Glories of the Spring
Grow pale, and languishing
For envy, so out-shin'd by them to be.
Sweetly triumphing Eyes,
That in two Crystal prisons do contain,
Death in affrown's disguise,
How gladly would I die to be by those eyes slain.
Delightful cruelty
Of those all charming Eyes,
That have on one design'd to try
With what a pleasing empire they can tyrannize.