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B09731	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.	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?	1699 (1699)	Wing P2064; ESTC R181771	227,423	431

silent that I may hinder these unjust Praises perhaps you will have pitty on my feeble resistance and will be weary of conquering so easily Madam 'T is rather my self that ought to keep silent being so lately in an astonishment but as for you Madam it would be a sin against your fair lips whose words are Oracles Then pray Sir why do you not believe that which I say for all Oracles are truth But why will you Madam by perswasion hinder the belief which I have taken with sight and judgment For I will believe your Beauty against all your unbelief and undervaluings and also continue the Service which I have sworn you against any thing that shall hinder it My Attempt also hath promis'd my Design that future Ages shall admire your Merit and my Servitude and record us as the most faithful Lovers in Cupid's Dominions I fear Sir that time will alter this opinion Madam Time can do nothing against that which Love hath ordain'd he is the master of Fortune and an enemy to change But wherefore this superfluity of speech It is better to believe by the force of Words then by the force of Perswasion and therefore at this time it is more necessary for me to demand of you Remedies for this remove the apprehension whereof makes me endure this present pain Sir It behooves you to forget your Design and you will avoid the Pain that will follow and also the Repentance No Madam I will keep the memory of my Design eternally and shall always see painted before me the glory of my Enterprize Adieu great Beauty you shall never cast your eyes downward but you shall perceive lying at your feet him that admires you nor ever elevate your Thoughts to your deserts but you shall remember your conquest Adieu Fairest for now I leave the Sun and go to seek out Night and Sorrows cell The Return I come Madam to receive as much content from your chearful Countenance as the loss of it hath yielded me sorrow I know the Good will now be as great as the Evil since they proceed both from the same cause Sir I do believe that you do receive the one as well as you have suffer'd the other but I beseech you Sir to tell me from whence that pain proceeds which you say you do endure for as to my self I do believe that the pleasure of Thinking is greater then that of Seeing Madam It is permitted me to think but experiment forbids me believe that opinion for I receive from my Imaginations only a good imagination on the contrary the sight cannot err But it is said Sir that the presence only contents the Eyes which are Mortal but that absence exercises the Soul which is Divine and therefore if that did any way afflict you you might easily avoid it It was some good Genius Madam that took me yesterday from your eyes that I might the better value the happiness of their lustre and avoid the extremity of that pain which the loss of them made me endure causing in me such an impatience to return to you that every hour I staid from you seem'd an age Sir That which is foreseen is easily avoided Now you perceive whence the evil that you speak of proceeds yet the little occasion that you had to fear it makes you find it out willingly therefore blame your own desires which have procur'd you this evil and do not complain on Destiny which is always just Madam My Will is not the cause for then I should fly my self and come back to you but Love to abuse me the more gave me the Desire and hinder'd the Effect Though I believe it to be one of his Destinies for it behooves a true passion to overcome the violence of all opposition by a diligent constancy Demand of Assurance Fairest It is now time that I should require from you some Assurances of your friendship because I cannot grant you that authority which you have over my Affections but by the service which I am willing to render to your power The proof whereof depends upon opportunity and the opportunity occasion upon your commands swear to me therefore by your fair Eyes that you love that which they have subdu'd that I may boast my ruine to be a mark as well of my glory as of your puissance Do you think Sir that that which is ruin'd by the Eyes can be belov'd by the Heart Dear Lady why should you not affect that love which you your self have created Would you cause it to be born and dye at the same instant that would be the action of an inconstant soul It is you Sir that run the hazard of being call'd by that name for if love proceed from merit you will soon finde some one more worthy your Affection then my self Madam I shall never seek the means to find any more signal worth then that which you possess it is permitted to those who are less worthy to have such jealousies but not to you whose Beauty hath such a supereminence above all others in the world No Madam take counsel of your own worth and it will shew the fair Election which I have made how impossible it is to be changed the design coming from the judgement of our Soul which being Divine cannot erre But Sir they say that love is very subject to knowledge of which you being so well provided 't is to be fear'd that you may make use of those agreeable diversities that Love doth every day present to unfaithful Lovers Madam May he banish me from his Empire if I have any other Will then what is agreeable to his He sees that I am yours so his Power and my Will are agreed my Designs concur with his Commands Sir I believe that Love himself could not know how to force you to love He scar'd Madam lest he should be made himself a slave He hath no force able to resist your puissance unless it be your own therefore since you have this Glory entire to your self to have vanquish'd all the world there remains nothing now but that you should vanquish your self Sir I cannot do any thing else but vanquish having neither Will nor Thought which doth not render obedience to that duty which I have taken to be the perfect guide of my life Madam You oppose your Designs to my Prayers to the end this refusal may redouble my passion and cause me to persist more eagerly in the pursuit of your tempting Graces yet it suffices that the pain and difficulties of the acquest will remain the glory of my conquest If it be your Difficulties Sir that can create your Glory why do you complain Madam I do not repine at the pain but at your unkindness that will not acknowledge it but if that be not so I do conjure your fair Lips to produce some assurance of your friendship Will Sir then I do promise your servitude to acknowledge it for the price of your constancy and believe this that as

are so extreamly high there is no extremity which I would not undergo to requite them This is no complemental discourse my heart dictates to my Pen all that which I write to you assuring you once more that I will long bear in vain the title of Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR I must complain of the excess of your civilities and curtesies since our interest consists in a reciprocal friendship You thank me for curtesies receiv'd from me as if I were not oblig'd to do them accustom not your self to such kind of Phrase and believe that the Language of Complements is unknown to friends I am in the number of them and moreover Your most humble Servant To desire a Curtesie SIR The fame of your generosity hath given me the boldness to require a favour from you to disintangle me from a business the success whereof depends much upon your authority 'T is true that I never had the honor to be acquainted with you But though this be my particular unhappiness I hope that you will not make any excuse to refuse me the Curtesie which I desire from you not doubting but that in some other matter I may have the honour to make my self known to you rather by my services then by my name since your descent obliges me to remain Sir Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR I have done all what you required of me with a great deal of satisfaction and little trouble Prepare your self to impose commands upon me that you may not let the passion which I have to serve you lie idle and you shall discern by my obedience that I take delight in nothing more then in making my self appear in all places Sir Your most humble Servant On the same Subject SIR ALthough I am the most unprofitable of all your Friends yet am I none of the least willing to serve you and from thence I take the liberty to desire you to give me a meeting All that I can say for the first acknowledgement of this favour is that I shall eternally remember this favour and that if I cannot meet with any opportunity to requite so great a kindness I shall bear my sorrow for it to my grave together with the title of Your most loyal Servant The Answer SIR WHen you desire any service from me I entreat you to consider whether it be in my power to perform it that I may be more bold to encounter the blame which my unhappiness obliges you to lay upon me You shall command when you please other proofs of my willingness to serve you desiring nothing more then the title of Sir Your most humble Servant To congratulate the good Fortune of his Friend SIR IF you know how acceptable the news of your good fortune is to me you would not doubt but that the joy which surprises me for the same is equal to yours Truly I cannot add any thing to it since it proceeds from the friendship which I have vow'd to you which is not common since your merit is the object I would tell you more if the excess of my joy would give me liberty It fuffices me to assure you that my content cannot equal the passion which I have to serve you as being Sir Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR I Did always believe that you were of so generous a spirit that you participate in my concernments But I perswade my self at the same instant of time that you doubt not of my willingness to serve you that I may in some measure merit the effects of your noble disposition This I am urg'd to not being able further to requite the continual proofs which you give me of your good will towards me I entreat you to esteem this for an undenyable truth as being from my heart and soul Sir Your most faithful Servant To his Accomplish'd Friend SIR If I have hope to be known to after ages it must be by the honour of your acquaintance Your reputation at this time being so just and so general that 't is become a verity wherein the Wise agree with the Vulgar Pardon me Sir if I presume thus to prevent your command by this early showing you my ready inclination to obey them But I am content that you should give it what name you please provided you judge well of the effects of my duty and do me the honor to believe that I am Your c. To his Learned Friend SIR All the riches both of Nature and Art dwell in you and are of such force that I acknowledge my inclinations to serve you carry with them immortal reason your discourse being so grave and soild that they cannot be sufficiently listen'd to for the edification of men that have seen four ages And for your Letters in what stile soever you write them They are always pleasing if not most admirably profitable as if your Spirit had been employ'd from your youth in perswading of Princes or instructing of Embassadours When your Lines are serious they strain not when familiar they are without neglect like beauties that appear in all fashions yet allure whether neatly drest or carelesly plain Pardon me Sir if I lay open my naked soul before you in this simplicity of my acknowledegments you having so absolutely purchast both my thoughts and affections that I must need ingenuously confess that I have nothing left but to assure you Sir how much I am Your c. To his Friend at Court SIR YOV seem to have so perfum'd your self with the sweetness of the Court that you cannot admit of the profaneness of a Village Such a rudeness is the errand this Letter carries with it but be pleas'd to accept of it as you know the height of my ambition is bounded in such rural presents neither should I dare to presume thus were I not perswaded that you allow me this liberty which otherwise I should never take But I am confident you delight to gratifie me and to do me the same good that I wish to you If you desire to know the cause of such extraordinary boldness in me I beseech you to believe there is no other then the great affection I have to serve you and to be Sir c. To his Friend upon the renewing of their Correspondence SIR To be separated from a man so dear to me as your self I do believe I could not live in the fortunate Islands and having till I embrace you no other way of traffick but by Letters I am extreamly angry with my self that you have prevented me in returning our old correspondence Though I must acknowledge there is some justice in it for since you were the first that broke it 't was fit you should be the first to reestablish it I write thus of the honour of your favour assuring you notwithstanding that I could no way deserve it Therefore Sir give me leave to beg your pardon for my neglect if I were guilty which I shall never be in any

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What Logick is Q. WHat is Logick A. Logick is the Art of disputing well and in that sense is called Logick CAP. 2. The parts of Logick and kinds of Arguments Q. How many parts hath Logick A. Logick hath two parts Invention and Judgment Q. What is Invention A. Invention is a part of Logick of inventing Arguments Q. What is an Argument A. An Argument is that which is affected to argue any thing such as are all Reasons considered apart and by themselves Q. What be the Kindes A. Artificial and Inartificial Q. What is an Artificial Argument A. That which argueth of it self Q. What be the Kindes A. First or derived from the First Q. What is First A. First is that which is of its own original Q. What be the Kindes A. Simple or Comparative Q. What is Simple A. Simple is that which is considered simply and absolutely Q. What be the Kindes A. Agreeing or disagreeing Q. What is Agreeing A. That which agreeth with the thing which it argueth Q. What be the Kindes A. Agreeing absolutely or after a certain manner Q. What is agreeing absolutely A. The Cause and Effect CAP. 3. The Efficient Procreant and Conservant Cause Q. what is the Cause A. The Cause is that by whose force the thing is Q. What is the profit of it A. This first place of Invention is the fountain of all Knowledge and he is believed to know of whom the cause is held As the Poet saith worthily The man sure happy is who cause of things doth know Q. How is the Cause divided A. Into two Kindes Efficient and Matter or Form and End Q. what is the Efficient Cause A. The Efficient Cause is that which the thing is Q. How many Kindes hath it A. There appeareth to us no true Kindes yet the great plenty of it is distinguished by certain means Q. What is that which effecteth by the first means A. That which procreateth or defendeth Q. Give me an example out of some Poet A. Ovid first remedio amoris Therefore when thou shalt look in this our medsonal Art My admonition do set idleness apart This causeth thee to love this doth defend it still This is the cause of Joy as meat sometimes breeds ill Take lastly sloath away God Cupids bow is lost His torches lose their light contemn'd away they 'r tost Q. Give me a more familiar example A. The Father and Mother procreate the Nurse defendeth Q. Give an example of this out of some Poet A. 4. Aeneid Th' rt no Gods child ne Dardanus his son Thou rather from the steep hard rocks didst come Of Caucasus it seemeth of that breed Hyrcanian Tigars thee with breasts did feed Aeglog 8. Now what this whorson love is I well wot It is a little busie boy begot Not of mans seed ne sib to one of us But farthest Garamants and Ismarus Or rockie Rhodope as it should seem In their rough ragged hills ingendred him Q. Do not builders and governours of Cities come under this Head A. Yes Romulus the builder of the City of Rome also all other Kings Consulls and Emperours are defenders and keepers CAP. 4. The Efficient alone and with others Q. What is that which effecteth by the second means A. That which effecteth alone or with others Q. What are those others A. Some oftent imes are Principal others are helping and Ministers Q. Give an example of the Cause that effecteth by it self A. Aeneid 6. Nisus called back both the blame and the punishment of the slaughter from Euryalus upon himself because he was the onely author Lo here I am who only did this deed Nations against me turn your swords with speed T' was my deceit He could it never do Ne would his courage serve

him thereunto Q. Give an example of the solitary Cause with Principals and Fellows out of some Orator A. The Solitary Cause with many both Principals and Fellows is diversly set forth pro Marcello For the warlike praises saith the Orator they are wont to extenuate truly by words and to detract them from their Leaders to communicate them with many lest they should be proper to their Commanders and certainly in War the strength of the Soldiers opportunity of places help of fellows ranks provision do much avail But Fortune as it were by her own right challengeth the chiefest part to her self and whatsoever is prosperously carried that altogether she leadeth But yet of this glory O Caesar which a little before thou didst obtain thou hast no companion all that how much soever it is which truly is the chiefest all I say is thine The Penturion President Ranks and Companies have taken from thee none of this praise Yea even the Lady of Humane Affairs Fortune offereth not her self into the society of this glory to thee she giveth place and confesseth it all and wholly to be thine Quest Are not Instruments numbered among helping Causes A. Yes Q. Give an example of it A. By this Argument the impious Epicure disputeth that the World was never made Primo de Nat. For by what Eyes of the Mind saith he could your Plato behold the frame of so great a Work whereby he maketh it constructed and builded of God what labour what iron hinges what lever what devices what ministers were there of so great a work CAP. 5. The Efficient by it self or an Accident Q. What is that that which effecteth by the third means A. That which effecteth by it self or an Accident Q. How effecteth it by it self A. When it effecteth by its own faculty Q. How effecteth it by its own faculty A. When it effecteth by nature or counsel Q. Give an example of that which effecteth by Nature A. The efficient of the winds is natural Aeneid 1. The East and South winds on the Sea do blow They rush through deep till on the top they show The Affrick oft with these his blasts conjoyns And so the floods are cast up by the winds Q. Give some example of that which effecteth by counsel A. That confession of Cicero touching himself is an example of Counsel The War taken in hand O Caesar waged also for the most part not constrained by any of my judgement and will I came forth to those Wars which were undertaken against thee Q. How doth the Efficient Cause effect by an Accident A. When it effecteth by an external faculty Q. How doth it effect by an external faculty A. When it is done by Necessity-or Fortune Q. How by Necessity A. When as the Efficient is constrained to the Effect Q. Give an example of this A. There is one in the excuse of the Pompenians But to me truly saith the Orator if there may be sought out a proper and true name of our evil it doth seem that we are faln into a certain fatal calamity that hath occupied the unprovident mindes of men that none should wonder how humane Counsel is overcome by Divine Necessity Q. How by Fortune A. When somewhat happeneth beyond the scope of the Efficient Q. Give an example A. So the case chanced saith Tullius tertio de Nat. deo That Pherius the enemy was profitable to Jason who opened his impostume with his sword which the Physicians could by no means heal Q. May not Impudence be numbered amongst these kind of Causes A. Yes Q. Give an example A. Ovid. de Trist 2. Why hurtful light or ought else did I see The fault was mine and not unknown to me Wise Acteon Diana naked saw And food became to 's dogs devouring maw Blind Fortune ' mongst the Gods is surely blamed Ne pardon gets the Gods she hath so harmed Q. Do not Deprecations then proceed from hence A. Yes Q. Give an example A. Pro P L. Pardon O Father he hath erred he is slipped he thought not if ever hereafter And a little after I have erred I have done rashly it repenteth me I fly to thy clemency I ask pardon for mine offence I intreat thee that thou wilt pardon me Q. What first caused the name of Fortune A. The ignorance of the Causes have feigned this name for when as something happened beyond counsel and hope it was called by the common people Fortune Q. What is Juvenals Opinion of it A. Wise if we were no God should want but Fortune We place thee high and often thee importune CAP. 6. The Matter Q. What is the Matter A. The Matter is the cause of which the thing is Q. Give an example out of some Poet A. By this feigned Argument the house of the Sun is compounded of Gold Carbuncles Ivory and Silver Ovid. 2. Metamorf The Suns high place was built with Pillars tall The Gold did shire Carbuncles flames let fall The top thereof was laid with Ivory neat And silver doors in portal shined feet Aeglog 3. A merry Musor fram'd of Beech in tree Carv'd work by hand of divine Alcimeden 'T is round impaled with a scattering trail Of tender Vine and over all between A pale green Ivy wherewith as a vale The thick diffused cluster shaded been Q. Give an example out of some Orator Q. Caesar 1. Bel. Civil Caesar commanded his Soldiers to make ships of that kind which in former years the use of the Britains had taught him first they made the keil and pins of light matter the rest of the body of the ship being knit together with Osiers was covered over with Leather CAP. 7. The Form Q. The first kinde of the Cause in the Efficient and Matter being expounded the second followeth in the Form and the End what therefore is the Form A. The Form is the Cause by which the thing is that which it is Q. What is the benefit of it A. From hence the thing is distinguished from all other things and the Form is ingenerated together with the thing it self Q. Give some example of it A. A reasonable soul is the form of a man because by it a man is a man and is distinguished from all other creatures thereby The form of Geometrical Figures is in Triangles and Quadrangles Heaven Earth Trees Fishes are the form of Physical things From whence the chief explication of things as it is by nature so if it may be found out it shall be as in artificial things it is more easily met withall Q. Give an example out of some Orator A. Caesar lib. 7. But all the French walls are almost of this form the beams long and plain with equal distance between them about two foot are placed upon the foundation These are bound within and fastened very strongly for those spaces of which we spake are filled up to the top with great stones These placed and knit together another row is also added that the same might keep the

neither that we have truly given our selves al together to this study for all arts which pertain to humanity have a certain common band and are contained as it were in a certain knowledge amongst themselves Q. Shew the force of this example A. Art is the genus poesie and eloquence the species Q. Is not the genus handled by the species A. Yes Q. Give example A. Ovid de Trist 4. Fill thy sad matter with thy vertues grave Hot glory doth decay it none can save Who had known Hector if Troy well had been Through publique vices way to vertue 's seen Thine art O Typhis lies if in the sea There be no floods if men be well truly Then Phoebus art decayeth instantly That which they hid and is not known for good Appears at last and shews where evil stood Q. But are there no special examples fitted to this kind A. Yes such as this Attic. 7. Wilt thou leave the city What if the French men come The Commonwealth he saith is not in walls but altars and Religion Theomisticles did the same and a whole host of Barbarians were not able to take one city But Pericles did not so who in the year almost before fifty when he kept nothing but a wall our city before being taken they kept the tower notwithstanding CAP. 28. Distribution from the Subject Q. what is the other distribution A. The other distribution is of agreeings afrer a certain manner Q. what are agreeings after a certain manner A. The subjects and adjuncts Q. what is the distribution from subjects A. The distribution from subjects is when the parts are subjects Q. Give example A. Cat. Thy maiden-head's not wholly thine I ween One part thy Father gave the part between Thou of thy mother hadst so that to thee None but the third remaineth for to be Therefore resist not two cast not away The thing thy parents gave to thee I say Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Cic. Tusc 1. There are therefore three kindes of good as I understand from the Stoicks to whose use oftener then I am wont we give place There are therefore those kindes of good whilst that the external things of the body are cast upon the ground and because they are to be undertaken they are called good There are other divine things which do more nearly concern us and are heavenly so that those who have attained them why may I not call them after a manner blessed yea most happy CAP. 29. Distribution from Adjuncts Q. What is Distribution from Adjuncts A. Distribution from Adjunct is when the parts are Adjuncts Q. Give example A. Of men some are sound some sick some rich some poor Q. Give a poetical example A. Virg. Georg. 1. Divideth the World into five parts the middle scorching hot the other two extream cold the two last temperate Five Zones the heavens do hold the middle hot The Sun there burns cold in it there is not But on the right and left hand there is seen Rain frost and cold that 's bitter sharp and keen The two last temperate yet in them is Mortality and many sicknesses Q. Give an Orators example A. Caes Bel. Gal. 1. All France is divided into three parts of which one the Belgians inhabit the other the Aequitans the third those who in their tongue are called Cetts in our Language the Gaules CAP. 30. Definition Q. What is definition A. Definition is when it is explicated what the thing is and that interchangeably may be argued with the thing defined Q. What are the kindes of definition A. A definition is perfect or imperfect Q. What is the perfect definition called A. This is properly called a definition Q. VVhat is the imperfect called A. A description Q. What is a perfect definition A. A perfect definition is a definition consisting of the onely causes which constitute the essence such as the causes comprehended by the genus and form Q. Give example A. After this manner is a man defined viz. by the genus a living creature we understand as it is said a corporeal essence full of life and sense which is the matter and a part of the form of a man to which if thou addest reasonable thou comprehendest the whole form of a man by the whole faculty of this life sense reason Q. It should seem then that the perfect definition is nothing else then an universal symbol of the causes constituting the essence and nature of things A. So it is Q. Give an example A. The Arts have such definitions Grammer of well speaking Rhetorick of pleading well Logick of disputing well Arithmetick of numbering well Geometry of measuring well CAP. 31. Description Q. VVhat is description A. Description is a definition defining the thing from other arguments also Q. Give example A. This is the description of a man a man is a living crea●ure mortal capable of discipline Q. Are not proper circumstances also mingled with common causes sometimes A. Yes Q. Then it seemeth that succint brevity is not always in this kinde A. No oftentimes it desireth a clearer and greater explication Q. Give an example out of some Orator A. In Mil. Glory is described But yet of all rewards of vertue if there be a reason of rewards the greatest is glory this one comforteth us touching the shortness of our life causeth that we are present with the absent dead maketh us live to conclude by these steps we do seem to ascend unto Heaven Q. Give a poetical example A. Aeneid 4. Fame is described From Libeans temple cometh forth great fame Nought swifter then ill news which bears this name Moving she goes by going strength she gets She fears at first at last with winds she fleets Walks on the earth her head she lifts to 'th skie Earth brought her forth the Gods were angry In Caeus and Encelladus his land She was at last as I do understand Her feet were swift here wings most hurtful were A horrid monster wicked full of fear As many feathers as upon her are So many eyes attend her every where So many tongues so many mouths do sound So many years do lessen her around In night she flies through heaven and in the shade About the earth she goes no noise is made She sitteth by the light on houses high And causeth towns to quiver fearfully As well a bruiter of things false that be As messengers of truth and verity Q. Proceed to further example A. Such are the discriptions of plants and living creatures ●n physick also of rivers mountains cities in Geography and History CAP. 32. Divine Testimony Q. You have expounded the artificial arguments the inartificial followeth tell me then what an inartificial argument is A. An inartificial argument is that which argueth not by its own nature but taken force from some artificial argument Q. It seemeth by this when a hidden truth of things is more subtily searched for that this argument hath small force of proof A. So