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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.
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- Title
- 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?
- Publication
- 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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have so far engag'd us, that I believe, that there is no Lady here but will think her self oblig'd to take from hence a hap∣py occasion, to be the publibk relater of your Nobleness and Civility.