The card of courtship: or the language of love; fitted to the humours of all degrees, sexes, and conditions. Made up of all sorts of curious and ingenious dialogues, pithy and pleasant discourses, eloquent and winning letters, delicious songs and sonnets, fine fancies, harmonious odes, sweet rhapsodies.
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The card of courtship: or the language of love; fitted to the humours of all degrees, sexes, and conditions. Made up of all sorts of curious and ingenious dialogues, pithy and pleasant discourses, eloquent and winning letters, delicious songs and sonnets, fine fancies, harmonious odes, sweet rhapsodies.
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London :: Printed by J.C. for Humphrey Mosley; and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church-yard,
1653.
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A Letter of complement from one friend to another.
Sir,
I Doubt not (nay, I am confident) that you will wonder, that after the ungrate silence of so ma∣ny by-past yeers, I should now begin to make an apologie: but, I hope, my negligence acknow∣ledged, will obtain a parden. Desiring therefore that you will think of me with favour, and impute my fault, not to a willing ingratitude, but to a too great distance. But why speak I of distance? it was not that could make me hold back my due re∣spects; but an incertainty, nay, I may truely say, an impossibility to send, was my chief, nay my one∣ly reason: yet I hope a good occasion will now ere long bring us together, and afford us that op∣portunity of renewing friendship, which I have
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long wished, and shall in no mean measure rejoyce at last to enjoy: then shall be a time of more real and full expressions of my respects towards you, then can finde compass within this narrow page: then shall be a time, when, by a return of cour∣tesies for received obliging favours, I shall endea∣vour to repay that friendship which I well under∣stand I owe unto you. And till I can be happie in the fruition of this time, know that I study grati∣tude, and shall ever seriously endeavour to seem as I am, and be as I seem,
SIR,
Your most obliged servant.
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