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.

Between a Lawyers Clerk and his Masters Daughter.

Most celestial beam of Beauty, I have receiv'd you into my heart, which like a burning-glass contracting the heat of your rayes, is now all on fire, not to be quench'd but by the moi∣stening julip of your affection.

Kind Robin, I have long thought thee to be what now I find thee, a Phenix among men, which thou provest, by going about to die in thy flames: but heaven forbid, I will first make water in a bason, and give it thee wherein to bathe thy burning breast, before I will be depriv'd of thy service.

How willingly Mrs. Mary, should I receive such a stream into my bosom. But, Oh your Father; he's the shoe that wrings us both by the foot; methinks I hear him saying al∣ready, Out ye poor condition'd slut; what, marry your Fa∣thers Clerk?

Come Robin, Clerk me no Clerks, I love thee; and if my father do compel me to marry another, yet Robin, thou know∣est there are private corners in London.

Mrs. Mary, I bow with all reverence to your manifold fa∣vours. But what do you think of a little horse-play in the time.

Robin, I acknowledge thy civility, and shall not refuse any occasion to gratifie thy reasonable request; for I love tumbling dearly.