The Marrovv of complements. Or, A most methodicall and accurate forme of instructions for all variety of love-letters, amorous discourses, and complementall entertainements. Fitted for the use of all sorts of persons from the noblemans palace to the artizans shop. With many delightfull songs, sonnetts, odes, dialogues, &c. Never before published.

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The Marrovv of complements. Or, A most methodicall and accurate forme of instructions for all variety of love-letters, amorous discourses, and complementall entertainements. Fitted for the use of all sorts of persons from the noblemans palace to the artizans shop. With many delightfull songs, sonnetts, odes, dialogues, &c. Never before published.
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London, :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard.,
1655. [i.e. 1654]
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"The Marrovv of complements. Or, A most methodicall and accurate forme of instructions for all variety of love-letters, amorous discourses, and complementall entertainements. Fitted for the use of all sorts of persons from the noblemans palace to the artizans shop. With many delightfull songs, sonnetts, odes, dialogues, &c. Never before published." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89551.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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A SONG.

IF thou canst not live chast, Tempus est. Then take a wife in hast. Tempus est. But for feare of strife, Bonum est. Be advis'd of a wife. Bonum est. For this is true and plaine, Cavendum est. If thou match for lucre & gaine. Cavendum est. That she will in the end, Suspectum est. Prove but a fickle friend. Suspectum est. And if thou once canst prove Signum est. She doth another Love. Signum est. She meaneth to adorne Certum est. Thy forehead with a horne. Certum est. And when a man doth grow Monstrum est. Much like a Buck you know, Monstrum est.

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Each boy will in disgrace, Rejectum est. Deride him to his face, Rejectum est. And when that he doth dy, Horrendum est And on his biere doth ly, Horrendum est Each boy will then in jest, Cornutus est. There write upon his Crest, Cornutus est. And he that alwaies will, Stultus est. Be rul'd by his wife still, Stultus est. For this he sure shall find, Confutus est. If she alwaies have her mind, Confutus est. He that will needs be wed, Insanus est. And bring a shrew to bed, Insanus est. Who leades a single life, Quietus est. He liveth void of strife, Quietus est.
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