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 ...

A Hector to his Mistress.

Most Illustrious Queen of Beauty,

BY the heard of Achilles my affections groan for you; Your perfections have trapand me: For when I had the honour to smell your odoriferous breath, me thought it pleas'd me better then the sent of the best Spanish Tobacco. And when I kiss'd your vermillion lips, I suck'd Canary from them. Now Lady, your Sack and Tobacco are the two strings to the bowe of a mans life; Oh, thou that art the third string to the bowe of my life! bind thy self about my waste, that I may be thy Oak, and thou my Ivy; or else that I may bear thee up and down the Town like the Fellow that carries his Brother in his belly. Destroy not him that both can and will destroy millions for thy sake. But be my Aqua Coelestis, my Castle of strong water, to defend from the Batteries of misfortune, the drooping spirits of thy dejected Slave.