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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Title: 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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Subject terms: Erotic literature.; English language -- Rhyme.
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A Souldier to his Mistress.

Madam,

I Have now left the bloody Banners of Mars to follow Cupids Ensigns. Though I must now confess, the latter to be the severer service: for under the one we onely get broken Pates, under the other wonded Hearts. There we have pay and plunder, here we have neither. But from whence arises all my trouble? 'tis from you Madam, who like Jone of Ar∣quez are risen up to terrifie me in the midst of all my conquests. For alas! the assaults of your eyes have so alarum'd my brest, that it is in vain for me to think of reposing by day, or sleeping by night: Oh! that you would make an end of the War, and come and take me in my own Quarters. Otherwise I must be compell'd to bring my scaling ladders to force that Lathem∣house of Beauty, which is your fair body, to free my self from the hourly incursions, that your perfections make upon my soul. But why do I rage? Deliver it by fair means. By the Nails of Jupiter of you will not delay to do it, I swear there is no man shall venture his life further to defend you from the Batteries of lying fame or injurious slander. And more then that, you shall find me the most faithful Knight that ever smote terri∣ble Gyant for fair Ladies sake,