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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19610	The lover: or, Nuptiall love. VVritten, by Robert Crofts, to please himselfe	R. C. (Robert Crofts); Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 6042; ESTC S109075	27,528	88

THE LOVER or A Discourse of NUPTIALL LOVE Written by Robert Crosts To please himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgil. Ecloga 10. Omnia Vincit amor nos cedamus amori Boetius metro 8. lib 2. Hic coniugij sacrum Castis nectit amoribꝰ Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci 〈…〉 W. Marshall sculp THE LOVER OR NVPTIALL LOVE WRITTEN by Robert Crofts To please himselfe LONDON Printed by B. Alsop and T.F. for Rich Meighen next to the middle Temple in Fleet-street 1638. TO THE READER COurteous Reader if you aske mee to what intent I publish this Treatise I may answer to please you A well resolved man cannot please himselfe but hee desires to please others also and endeavours in all good wayes so to doe And I am not out of hope but that this discourse wil profit some men also since I have made use of many and divers Authors in the composing thereof But I have endeavoured to digest the same into such a new manner method stile and forme as was most pleasing to my selfe adding therevnto such Inventions Raptures observations Poems Alterations experiments as met with my meditations so as the Treatise may seeme and bee even as pleasing as if it were all new Which to doe oft times requires wel nigh as much Art as wholly the Invention of new matters It is true I know the world is cloyd with bookes and many there bee perhaps more then needs of this subject but this is a breife and Compendious discourse and therefore I hope will neither cloy the world or the Reader It was written for Recreation amidst more serious occasions and so I desire it may be read I know there be many malicious envious male contented and maligne Spirits in the world who will pine greive and grudge at the prosperity and pleasures of True-lovers as they doe at all happinesse and that there bee many carping Readers who vsually read all especially pleasing bookes in a sneaking manner and endeavor to find nothing so much as faults and by their jugling and cunning art of detraction can make one or a few faults seeme to devoure a multitude of good Actions endeavouring nothing so much as to discourage and hinder all good pleasant and happy waies But for the censure of such men I shall endeavor not to regard or else to contemn them Yet truely I shall thinke my selfe much obliged to such as in good will shall tell me of my faults Errors Ignorances and negligences However knowing that all things in the world are imperfect it shall suffise to please my selfe that I have done as well as I could for the present time But I had not so easily nor so soone bin perswaded to be a foole in Print as the proverb goes and as the Carping and barking Reader is especially like to say if I had not had some enemies aswel as many friēds who have provoked me rather to be cēsured by many then abused by a few But if I did not thinke and hope that this discourse would be pleasant profitable to some in reading as it hath bin to me in writing if that I had not bin greatly encouraged herein by many men I should still have bin content to have suffered the aspersion of a Pocket Author ashamed to shew himselfe abroad fearing to be a foole in Print Farewell The Contents THe first Section treateth of the Excellency of Nuptiall Love The II of the miseries of the losse and want of such Love Section III. of a good choyce in Love IV How to Enjoy our wishes please our Lovers and encrease Love V The Art of Love discourse VI An instance in this Art concerning Loves Excellency VII Shewing further the vse of this Art of discourse VIII Shewing breifely how to attaine the same IX Answeres to some obiections X Remedies against the losse of Love XI Remedies against an oversottish and doting Love XII Remedies against vnlawfull Lusts XIII Remedies against discontents after marriage XIIII A breife perswasion to marriage XV The good use of this Nuptiall Love and so concluding with a breife discourse of Divine Love THE LOVER OR A Compendious Discourse of Nuptiall Love SECTION 1. Of the Excellency thereof THe Difinition Divisions Pedigree kinds object causes symptomes and effects of this subject Nuptiall Love hath exercised the pen of many and divers Authors they are Common and well knowne I shall therefore begin with the excellency thereof The Excellency of this marriage Love may first appeare by the Author thereof which is God himselfe In the beginning of the World the Lord God said it is not good that man should bee alone I will make an helpe meet for him Gen. 2.18 Our Saviour saith from the beginning of the Creation God made them male and female for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they two shall be one flesh Mark 10.7 Mat. 19. And in his Sacred Word by St. Paul he saith Husbands love your wiues as Christ loved his Church so ought men to love their wives as their owne bodies for he that loveth his wife loveth himselfe Eph. 5.25.28 The excellency of this Nuptiall Love may further appeare in respect of the object which is Woman who is the image of God as well as man Gen. 1.27 An help meet for him 2.28 A part of himselfe 31. Wine is strong Kings are strong but a woman is stronger Women have Dominion over Kings saith Zorobabell Esdr 4. All men submit to Love When that Hermits boy who had alwayes bin brought vp in the wildernesse came first abroad in the world being asked what sight pleased him best therein readily reply'd Those things which you call Women A vertuous woman is a Crowne to her husband saith King Solomon Prov. 12.4 Loves excellency also appeares in respect of the parties affected The bravest the most noble generous and gallant spirits are commonly most and best taken and possest with this Love wherefore it is called Heroicall Love And the parts of man affected also are his most excellēt parts as the Heart liver bloud and braines and consequently the imagination and Reason I say Reason for want of Love commonly shewes want of reason either stupidity or peeuishnesse in a man It is most certaine that divine Love is infinitely more excellent and aboue humane Love And such men as are of a Divine temper may easily overcome the same But all of us have bodies aswell as soules wee are composed of humanity aswell as divinity and he that never felt the power of this love may be esteemed as some Eunuch or sot or else of a super-humane temper And on the other side excesse of love shewes weaknesse dotishnesse and folly and then these excellent parts of man are misaffected Such Love is without Reason but true love is most agreeable therevnto and therefore Excellent And further the excellency of this Nuptiall Love appeareth by the effects thereof which are very