The mysteries of love and eloquence, or, the arts of wooing and complementing; as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places / [Anon].

  • Edward Phillips
Date:
1658
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Credit: The mysteries of love and eloquence, or, the arts of wooing and complementing; as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ———— ee The Preface. narrowly into their gifts , onc {peaks well, but writes invention but no method, fothac whatfoever fome of our Moderns pretend to their ex.rempore infpirati- ons, it cannot but béconfeffed by all menin their right mindes, that Artificial fet Forms may be aiding to them all,not as they are litterally to be applied, but as they areadditional helps to quicken and inlighten the Genius. This my affertion will be clearly made good, if wedo but confider the fmooth effeminate fil- ken tribe, how fome of them demean themfelves, who if they.are put to it on fuddenallarums,or unexpected fummons of their fancies, by letters or otherwife, how are they forced in fuch exigents , to have recourfe to their Romances, Playes , Manufcripts, and fuch like Common place books, they turn down the page,tran- {cribe,. and for the prefent fubfift on fuch flender no- tions. How without blufhing can I exprefs.it, that] have known a wench of fourteen, with a few Drama- tical Drayton and Siduey Quillets, put to the on plus a Gallant of thirty ; I may fafely depofe onit, that I haveheard fuch a Lafsdefeata Gentlemanof fome years Randing at the Inns of Court. nies, and Tenders of Service, I poflitively affirm,that fuch nimble applications, if rightly directed, are moft adorned with fuch. qualifications , have had fuch tall fhort of their ends ; more efpecially when their good behaviours have been fet off with Eloquence, which SO EL IGA LLL! SOE OI
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