The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
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The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
Author
Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
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London :: Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain,
1699.
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Subject terms
Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
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"The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B09731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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CAP. 21. Likes
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Q. You have expounded Comparison in Quantity, Comparison in Quality followeth; what therefore is Quality?
A. Quality is that whereby the things compared are said to be such.
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Q. What are the kindes of quality?
A. Like or Dislike.
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Q. Whatare Likes?
A. Likes are those of which there is the same quality.
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Q. What are likes called?
A. Likes, is called proportion, as the likes are proportionable.
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Q. What are the notes of likeness, whereby it is concluded in one word?
A. Likes, Effigies, in that manner, as also denials of dis∣likeness.
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Q. What be they?
A. Such as this, not otherwise.
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Q. Give example of the first sort?
A. Aeneid. 1. His mouth and shoulders being like to God. Phil. 9. Although Servius Suspicius could leave no clearer
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monument then his son, the effigies of his manners, vertues, constancy, piety, wit.
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Q. Give example out of some Poet?
A. Ovid Trist. 1.
For he or none, even he that made the wound,Only Achilles 'tis can make me sound.
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Q. Proceed to farther examples?
A. In Phis. There was one day which was to me the like∣ness of immortality, wherein I returned to my countrey. Ver
1. But presently from the same likeness of a man, as it were by some
Circean pot, he is made a Bear. Pro Pomp. Therefore all in this place do behold Cons. Pompeius not as one sent from the city, but fallen from heaven. Aeneid. 3. They do not that which I have commanded. Ter. I am not, neither have been otherwise then he.
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Q. What is the partition of likeness
A. Disjoyned or continued.
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Q. What is a disjoyned similitude?
A. A disjoyned similitude is when as four terms are distin∣guished to the thing.
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Q. Give example?
A. Aeglog. 5.
So me thy song, as sleep on grass doth quenchThe traveller, his weary limbs to drench.
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Q. What is the force of this example?
A. The songs to the hearers, as sleep to the weary, are four distinct terms.
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Q. Give another example?
A. Ad fratrem. As the best Governous cannot overcome the force of the tempest, so the wisest men oftentimes cannot overcome the violence of fortune.
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Q. Shew the force of this example?
A. Here are four terms, as the governor to the ship, so wise men to fortune.
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Q. Proceed to farther example?
A. Trist. 1.
Even as the yellow gold in flaming fire is seen,So men may trust, behold, in time that's sharp and keen.
Cic. Phil. 2. But even as those who in a great sickness do not taste the sweetness of meat, so the lustful, covetous, wic∣ked, have not the taste of true praise. Virg. made these verses.
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All night it rain'd, next day the signs are seen,Th' Empires parted Caesar and Jove between.
Battillus arrogated them to himself and obtained a great reward; therefore Virgil in these Verses mocketh
Ba∣tillus.
I made these Rimes, another had the Land,So Birds, you nests not for your selves have made;So you, O Bees, make honey not for you;So you, O Sheep, bear wool but not for you;So you, O Oxen plow, but not for you.
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Q. Are not the notes sometimes omitted?
A. Yes, sometimes there is no note at all
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Q. Give an example?
A. Virg. Aeglog. 2.
Ah my fair Boy! trust not thy hew too much,Hurtles though black, by every handsom handAre pluck'd while Dazies none vouchsafe to touch,All be they white, yet shed they as they stand.
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Q. What is continual likeness?
A. A continual likeness is when as the first term is to the second, so the second to the third.
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Give an example?
A. De. Leg. 3. See you not that this is the Migistrates power, that he should rule and prescribe right, profitable, and agreeing things with the Lawes: for as the Lawes do govern the Magistrates, so the Magistrates do rule the people.
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Q. What is the force of this example?
A. Here are three terms, Lawes, Magistrates, People.
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Q. Have not feigned likenesses equal force with these above?
Yes.
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Q. Give example?
A. It appeareth chiefly in this explicated similitude of Aesop his Apology taken out of Horace. Epist. 1.
But if Romes people ask me happily,Why not 'mongst Judges on the Bench sit I;And do that which they love, fly that they hate?I answer as the crafty Fox of late.When tooth-sick Lion he this message sent,Fain would I come, to that thing was I bent;
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But that I saw the steps of many feet,That way to go, none back again to get.
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