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A54745	The mysteries of love & 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 : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?	1685 (1685)	Wing P2067; ESTC R25584	236,029	441

saw you enjoying a thousand wonders and in a moment I was sensible of a thousand torments of Love and being capable of nothing but Admiration methought that this Beauty was in the world for no other end but deserve and for me to be obedient to I see no reason Fairest that the belief which I have taken with the clearest judgement that I have of your Beauty should be swallow'd up by your misbelieving opinions Sir They say that contrariety doth animate persons the more and therefore I shall be silent that I may hinder these unjust Praises perhaps you will have pitty on my seeble 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 ●e 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 seck 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 fear'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

laughter and he speaks truth free from slaughter He 's the grace of every feast And sometimes is the chiefest guest Hath his Trencher and his Stool When Wit waits upon the Fool. O! who would not be Hee Hee Hee The Impolitick Beauty CLoris I wish that envy were As just as pity doth appear Unto thy state whereby I might Rob others to give thee more delight But your too free though lovely charms In others glory breeds your harms But since you so admit So many rivals to your wit Unthriftily you throw away The pleasures of your beauties sway Which loosely scatter'd so on many Securely fastens not on any And then your beauty doth discover Many that gaze but ne're a Lover And your so greedy hands destroy What you would your self enjoy So Princes by Ambition thirsty grown In chase of many Kingdoms lose their own YOU must suppose it to be Easter Holy-days for now Sisly and Dol Kate and Peggie Moll and Nan are marching to Westminster with a Lease of Apprentices before them who go rowing themselves along with their 〈…〉 t Arms to make more haste and now and then with a gre 〈…〉 ●uckender wipe away the dripping that bastes their 〈◊〉 At the door they meet a croud of Wappin● Sea 〈…〉 Southwark Broom-men the Inhabitants of the Bank-side and 〈…〉 utcher or two prickt in among them there a while they 〈…〉 nd gaping for the Master of the Shew staring upon the Sub 〈…〉 s of their delight just as they view the painted Cloth before they go in to the Puppet-play by and by they hear the Keys which rejoyces their hearts like the sound of the Pancake-bell for now the Man of comfort peeps over the spikes and beholding such a learned auditory opens the Gates of Paradise and by that time they are half got into the first Chappel for time is then very precious he lifts up his voice among the Tombs and begins his lurry in manner and form following HEre lies Will. de Valence a right good Earl of Pembroke And this is his monument which you see I 'le swear upon a Book He was High Marshal of England when Harry the Third did raign But this you may take upon my word that he 'l ne're be so again Here the Lord Edward Talbot lies the Town of Shrewsbury's Earle Together with his Countess fair that was a delicate Girle The next to him there lieth one Sir Richard Peckshall hight Of whom we always first do say he was a Hampshire Knight And now to tell the more of him there lies under this stone His two Wives and his Daughters four of whom I knew not one Sir Bernard Brockhurst there doth ●le Lord Chamberlain to Queen An● Queen Ann was Richard the Second's Queen and he was King of Englan Sir Francis Hollis the Lady Frances the same was Suffolks Dutchess Two children of Edward the Third lie here in Deaths cold clutches This is King Edward the Third's brother of whom our Records tell Nothing of note nor say they whether he be in Heaven or Hell This same was John of Eldeston he was no Costermonger But Cornwals Earl And here 's one dy'd 'cause she could live no longer The Lady Mohum Dutches of York and Duke of York's Wife also But Death resolving to cuckold the Duke made her lie with him here below The Lady Ann Ross but note thee well that she in child-bed dy'd The Lady Marquess of Winchester lies buried by her side Now think your penny well spent good folks and that ye are not beguil'd Within this Cup doth lie the heart of a French Embassadours Child Nor can I tell how came to pass on purpose or by chance The bowels they lie underneath the body is in France There 's Oxford's Countess and there also the Lady Burley her Mother And there her Daughter a Countess too lie close one by another These once were bonny Dames and though there were no Coaches then Yet could they jog their tails themselves or had them jogg'd by men But wo is me these High-born sinners that strutted once so stoutly Are now laid low and cause they can't Their statues pray devoutly This is the Dutchess of Somerset by name the Lady Ann Edward the Sixth her Lord protected and he carried himself like a man In this fair Monument which you see adorn'd with so many Pillars Doth lie the Countess of Buckingham and her Husband Sir George Villars This old Sir George was Grandfather the Countess she was Granny To the great Duke of Buckingham who often fox'd King Jamny Sir Robert Eatam a Scotch Knight this man was Secretary And scribled Complements for two Queens Queen Ann and eke Queen Mary This was the Countess of Lenox I clep'd the Lady Marget King Jame's Grandmother but yet 'gainst death she had no Target This was Queen Mary Queen of Scots whom Buchanan doth bespatter She lost her head at Fothringham whatever was the matter The Mother of our Seventh Henry this is that lieth hard by She was the Countess wot ye well of Richmond and of Darby Harry the Seventh himself lies here with his fair Queen beside him He was the Founder of this Chappel Oh! may no ill betide him Therefore his Monument's in brass you 'l say that very much is The Duke of Richmond and Lenox there lieth with his Dutchess And here they stand upright in a Press with bodies made of wax With a Globe and a Wand in either hand and their Robes upon their backs Here lies the Duke of Buckingham and the Dutchess his Wife Whom Felton stab'd at Portsmouth Town and so he lost his life Two Children of King James these are which Death keeps very chary Sophia in the Cradle lies and this is the Lady Mary And this is Queen Elizabeth How the Spaniards did infest her Here she lies buried with Queen Mary and now she agrees with her Sister To another Chappel now come we the people follow and chat This is the Lady Cottington and the people cry Who 's that This is the Lady Frances Sidney The Countess of Sussex is she And this the Lord Dudley Carleton is and then they look up and see Sir Thomas Bromley lieth here Death would not him reprieve With his four Sons and Daughters four yet I heard no body grieve The next is Sir John Tullerton and this is his Lady I trow And this is Sir John Duckering with his fine Bed-fellow That 's Earl of Bridgewater in the middle who makes no use of his bladder Although his Countess lies so near him and so we go up a ladder King Edward the First that gallant blade lies underneath this stone And this is the Chair which he did bring a good while ago from Scone In this same Chair till now of late our Kings and Queens were crown'd Under this Chair another stone doth lie upon the ground On that same stone did Jacob sleep instead of a doun Pillow And after that 't was hither brought by some good

envy your beauties and the most perfect your merits yet are they silenced by your charms nay sickness it self is render'd captive by the puissence of your allurements though if it wound you now it is but with the wounds that you have made and doubtless it hath seiz'd on you hoping that by possession of your fair body it may both change its name and nature so that it is pardonable both for its love and for its subtlety Neither do I believe that it is you but your rigour that it aims to destroy be you less cruel and the disease will asswage otherwise you will be in danger of your life Though doubtless the consideration of destroying so many marvels will stop his designs Death oft-times make use of love against us so that he will have a care of your life as of his keenest weapon wherewith he brings us men under his command making us willing to yield to his stroak as the refuge of that misery into which your cruelty oft-times throws us This I know by experience as being your Slave To his Mistriss despairing of her Favour though unjustly offended against her Madam WHat avails it you to make me feel your Thorns when I have gather'd your Flower Why do you blame in words him whom you have honour'd in effects and blame him without cause who cannot praise you but unjustly Moderate your severity seeing that it offends you more then it hurts me I have protested a thousand times that I never was faulty as you thought me though it was to no purpose you believing otherwise It suffices for my satisfaction that I know the truth and that I have essay'd all the ways in the world to make you understand it though in vain Adieu most fair but yet too cruel if you leave me triumphing over the most worthy subject in the world I leave you vanquish'd by a more faithful Lover A Letter of Consolation to a Mistress upon the death of her Servant Madam I Believe that if you have been the last who have understood the death of your Servant that you will be one of the first and indeed the onely person who will in your soul celebrate the sad remembrance of him a much longer time than any of his Friends not that his merit doth oblige you for I well know that all merit loses its esteem in your presence being so perfect as you are nor your Piety though it be a thing natural to you with your other vertues but only his love and constancy as being both equally incomparable Neither do I believe that either of these do oblige you at all for though his love were very great that could not be otherwise seeing you were his object no more than his constancy whatever it were so that to say the truth I know not what can urge you to bewail his loss unless it be the goodness of your inclinations being as mild and sweet as you are fair and consequently full of Piety I should weep my self for having the least thought to condemn your tears yet give me leave to believe that when you remember that the fires proceeding from your eyes did help to consume his life it would make them weep for sorrow Now what punishment will you impose upon your Beauty if there be nothing in you that hath partaken of the millions of pains which he hath endured for your sake Certainly you ought to suffer Shipwrack in the Sea of your tears unless the God of Love have need of you for one of his Altars Since you are the only Idol to whom all mortals will present the sacrifices of their Servitude And as for my self who have undertaken to succeed to the merits and constancy of your deceased Servant I will not give assurances in words for deeds themselves shall always be my sureties Dry up your tears stop your sighs I summon you to this duty in the behalf of Reason it self knowing that his Commands are to be obey'd Madam when I first put Pen to Paper I had a design to comfort you but knowing the greatness of your resolution against all sorts of accidents I chang'd my intention to assure you of the love and servitude that I have vow'd to you under the title of Madam Your most humble Servant Letters SIR I Know 't is to 〈◊〉 purpose to dispute of Civilities with you 〈◊〉 li●● in the light of the world and are so well stor'd with the best words to express them I know too well that the excellency that dwells in you begets at the same time desires to preserve as well as to acquire your favour I have but one grief that I have not Soul enough to judge of those perfections that dwell in you which though I can never attain rightly to conceive yet I am confident no man can honour them more so that should you call me your Idolater you could not strain a word that could so rightly as that express my respects toward you Sir Complements are very rare with me and therefore I request you to believe me when I say that they must be very strong cords and dangerous commandments that shall remove me from your service I know I can never deserve such violent proofs of my obedience it shall suffice me that I doubt not of your love as being Sir Your most devoted Servant To his Absent Friend SIR IF I thought Fortune could be so much our Friend I should request her to make us inseparable that I might be no more oblig'd thus to write since the entertainments that distant friends do give and take by Letters is but a picture of those between persons presents for to say the truth a Letter is but a Copy of that which makes us more curious of the original a Glass that shadows to us stronger desires to enjoy the person that is absent The very lines I receive from you carrying with them the effects of joy to hear from you and of a passion to be more near you that I might not still be forc'd to write that to you which I would willingly protest and find occasions more and more to testifie what I am and ever shall be To his Friend complaining of Neglect SIR THE Friendship which you have promised me and the service which you have protested to me force me now to demand the reason of your silence I question not but that you will want no excuse to plead for your self But I entreat you to believe that unless they be very lawful I shall not cease to complain of you You do well to lay the fault sometimes upon your urgent occasions sometimes upon the indisposition of your body but all this is no satisfaction to me Confess but your fault crave pardon and you shall have it presently granted This is the way to preserve eternally the friendship of Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR YOu do me so great a favour in complaining of me that I am constrained to give you thanks instead of taking

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 oftentimes 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 ser 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 ironhinges 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 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ans 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 shine Carbuneles 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