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].

  • Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
Date:
1658
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    amarato, fome Love-fick perfon. fuch an onewhom the blinde God had more fiercely wounded, then the twelve Signs of the Anatomy. A diftnal obje@ he was, and fo reprefented to my view, as if his misfor- tune hadruined him fo at once, as that he could not } be rendred more unfortunate; he lookt as if one of; your Ladifhips had whifpered into-his ear that doleful:} tone of Adien , of at leaft that defperate fentence, Mifcreant, thou thalt lie alone with thy bed unwarm-| eda fcore of frofty Winters. It cannot be amifs, by} your Ladifhips fair permiffions, to draw the curtain: from before this Love Martyrs pi@ure ; to defcribe- im to you, walty, geftx, & cals, ju as 1 then | | found him faffering of his ten Pérfecutions , his’ Hat | in one place, with papers of Verfesin another, were } fo fantaftically difperfed on the verdent Grafs, that if he pleafed, with his Feet he might: fpurn the wan- | tonnefs of his own Mufe: for I perceived by the | Baldnefs of his crown with feratching , that he had lately been delivered of Acrofticks and Encomiums, } ‘in praife of fome of your Beauties. After the writing | of which, for fear of a non acceptance , he RS | peftilently dogged, andasI then found him , in fuch a fullen ftation, yet were not his eyesfo fet in the hol: } lowneffes of his head, but that I difcerned from them } fach deliberate and heavy motions , as caufed me, | “had not been convinced by the former fymptomes | ‘of his difeafe, to have fufpected, whether other- } wife, according to his education , he were not fome Clown,’ who having miftaken the Almanack, wept | } for fair weather. Certain I am that I faw a moft pitti- } ful object, one that I'could not but conceive that his | Miftrefs had frowned on, andhein requital es _ for