Two new novels ... translated out of the French by P.B.G.

THE ART Of making LOVE WITHOUT Speaking, Writing, or Enterveiw of the LOVERS.

SInce I had the Honour, Sir, of entertaining you with a Dumb Language, that the Turks use to Express without Speaking, without Writing, and without Seeing one another, the strongest of all the Passions. You

have been exceedingly pressing in obliging me to put in Writing that which I had Communicated to you in a familiar Conversation. You extreamly pusle me in it, and I assure you that I had beg'd your excuse, had I but known the diffe∣rence betwixt a particular Dis∣course of two Persons in which all freedom is admitted, and from whence all Affectation is banish'd, and a studdied Discourse, which peradventure you will publish, and so cause it to be Criticis'd, in its Phrase, Method, Words, and in all Things else which those that Write are oblig'd to ob∣serve

I am not Ignorant of the ha∣zard I run, I prepare my self a∣gainst all the troublesome conse∣quences, that my temerity will draw on me. You are oblig'd to maintain my Reputation, seeing you have first engag'd me to satis∣fie your Curiosity, without giving

me the leasure of reflecting on the difficulty of my enterprise. And if Love is counted the Shipwrack of Liberties and Hearts, he may well be that of my Pen also. Be it what it will, spare me, I pray you, and expose not this small Peice to the public, who will not prove so kind as you are, and that will not consider, that my design is but to Divert you in a manner of making Love, which is wholly new.

There are divers ways of ex∣pressing that Passion. The first School in that, is that of Nature, and all those Lessons which the Poets have given us on that Sub∣ject, would remain very useless without the Aid and Assistance of this Universal School Mi∣striss.

Though the Love of the Brutes is necessary to the Conservation of their Species, Nature has ad∣ded to it the seasoning of some

preparatory Agreements, to quick∣en the Senses and to stir up the Natural Heat.

Man, the most rational and sensual of Animals, finds the plea∣sure too short, and endeavours to prolong it, by new Inventions, he sets to work all sorts of Means, to express unto the belov'd object, what he makes us to feel, and these Troubles which he causes in a Lovers Heart; who sometimes expresses himself with the Voice, who employs Writing to set forth in the most moving Manner that Ardor which consumes him, and who in defect of Voice and Writing endeavours to express by the different Motions of his Face the Sentiments of his Heart.

These are the usual ways of making Love in a Country of Freedom, where Communication is easily obtain'd, and where Per∣sons can See, Speak, and Write to one another.

There are Nation that enjoy not those advantages. The great∣est part of the Turks can neither Write, nor Read, neither have they the freedom of Conversing with Women; yet are they not insensible. On the contrary it ap∣pears that the Eastern People are more apt to Love then any other Nation; They wholly Abandon themselves to it, there they fix their sovereign good, they raise their Passion even to a Fury, and I have seen some in their Rage to Stab their Limbs with D••ggers, and then to drop burning Brimstone in the Wounds.

There is no wonder therefore that People of so Hot Tempers, when they want the ordinary means of making known their Passion, endeavour to invent ex∣traordinary ones. Flowers, Leaves, Fruits, Aromatick Woods, Gold, Silver, all Colours, Stuffs, and in fine, almost all things that are use∣ful

in the Commerce of Life, en∣ter in that of Love.

All those things which the Turks call Selam's, Salutes, have their signification, and their Natural or Allegorical Valour, much like the Old way of Poetry, so that a little packet about the bigness of a Thumb does form by the several things which it contains, a very expressive Discourse.

This way of Expressing a Passion, will appear to you as extravagant as new. Yet it wants not its A∣greements also, and though it proceeds but from a great want of Liberty, and a defect in the most Common of Arts, which is that of Writing and Reading, yet it is so Gallant and Ingenious, that those that can both Write and Read, make use of it also, and believe that those Selams, have more force and make a greater impression on the mind, then the Characters of a Letter.

To Initiate you with delight into the Commerce of that Dumb Love, and to give you a perfect Knowledg of it. You must be introduc'd by the Knowledg of those things, which Compose that Language.

I have reduc'd them in an Al∣phabetical Order, to ease the find∣ing out of those Names. I have Compos'd divers Letters with them, to shew you the way of their Order, and I have Inserted them in a Gallant and true Hy∣story, to give them more A∣greement, and the more to en∣gage you to the reading of them.