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A60018	The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3520A; ESTC R220267	116,290	243

c. and after that mention their Office and Dignity as the rest To the Right Worshipfull T. B. Knight and Baronet To Sir B. B. Knight These humbly present These for L. C. Esq or the Worshipfull L. C. Esq To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London and so to the Lord Mayor or the City of York or only to the Honourable the Lord Mayor of York c. And all those that have passed the Chair as Lord Mayors of London are ever styled Honourable To the Worshipfull Alderman A. C. To the Worshipfull M. C. Sheriff of London c. To the Reverend Judge A. B. or To the Reverend A. B. one of his Majesties Justices c. To M. C. Serjeant at Law. To E. G. Counsellor at Law. To any of the Inferiour Clergy direct viz. To the Reverend T. C. D. D. or as the degree is naming the Preferment and Dignity All Mayors of Burg-Towns or Masters of Corporations or Companies by the King's charter are ever after styled Esquires To all private Gentlemen viz. These for Mr. T. C. To all Gentlewomen c. To Madam A. C. To Mrs. B. D. But if she be the Wife of a Duke Marquess Earl Viscount Baron Baronet Knight c. Then you must give the Title as Dutchess Marchioness Countess Viscountess Baroness Lady c. Internal Superscriptions These are those that are written on the top of the Letter or superscription c. Viz. To the King Sir Dread Sir or May it please Your Majesty or Sacred Sir or Dread Soveraign To the Queen Madam or May it please your Majestie To the Prince royal Sir or May it please your Royal Highness To the Princess Madam or May it please your Royal Highness To a Duke My Lord or May it please your Grace To a Dutchess Madam or May it please your Grace To a Marquess My Lord May it please your Lordship To a Marchioness Madam May it please your Ladiship To an Earl My Lord or May it please your Honour To his Lady Madam or May it please your Honour And the like to a Viscount Viscountess Baronet Baroness c. only distinguishing the Sex. To a Baronet May it please the Right Worshipfull To his Lady Madam or May it please your Ladiship To a Knight Sir or May it please your Worship To any Gentleman Sir or Much Honoured and to any Gentlewoman c. indifferently Madam or Mistriss c. Complimental Expressions or Quaint and Modish Deliverances of Sentence or short Speeches referring to Men of sundry Qualities c. To the King. MAy it please your most excellent Majesty so far in your Princely Goodness to condescend as to accept of the humble acknowledgment the most devoted of your Subjects and Servants with all humility tenders the King c. Great Sir or Sacred Sir May it please you to look down upon your loyal obedient and ever-devoted Subject and Servant and cast a kindly beam on him that lives but to do you service c. To a Duke Most Honourable Lord May it please your Grace to vouchsafe your acceptance of this present from him that lives by your Bounties and must acknowledge himself and fortunes ever at your command May it please the High-born Prince and my ever-honoured Patron his Grace the D. of c. to accept this humble acknowledgment from his slave c. Most honourable Sir I can scarce express the joy I conceived that your sickness or affliction is vanished like a dream an suffers me to find you in your wonted tranquillity and peace c. To a Marquess Most honourable and my very good Lord it has not a little exalted the joy I conceive at your Presence since you have been pleased to own my services and think me worthy of your notice To an Earl. Right Honourable and my most benigne Lord the humblest of your Servants lays himself in conceit at your feet and acknowledges your bounty May it please your Honour to consider how much my daily endeavours are and how I struggle with all difficulties that oppose to render my self in some manner acceptable to your Lordship To a Viscount My honourable Lord what remains considering the bounties and favours you have heaped upon me but that I make it the business of my life in some measure to make me a requital To a Baron May Lord May I presume to lay my self at your feet whilst I can have time and utterance to express my self how much I am indebted to your bounty which in all places I must acknowledge To a Baronet Right Worshipfull Sir the Obligations you have laid upon me are such that I blush to think that it is not in my power to make any sutable return to a Knight Sir May it please your Worship to accept this first acknowledgment of my gratitude though I must confess it unworthy of your notice yet knowing your goodness I grounded my presumption thereon Expressions that may be indifferentiy applied to any Man. Sir I am the humblest of your Servants and nothing joys me more than that my Ears are dally filled with the pleasing sound of your noble Actions and glorious Atchievements Sir Your favour has revived me and what shall I do or how shall I express my self that some gratefull acknowledgment may appear or that I may be anywa●● a●counted worthy to be named amongst the number of your friends Sir I must own my self the happiest of Mankind since I am truly satisfied you have pardoned my rudeness committed more through inconsiderateness than any affront or disloyalty to friendship Sir I shall ever esteem your happiness as my own nor shall I share a joy willingly but with your self Sir I own my self indebted to you in so high a nature and my Abilities so small to bring me off that I must confess my self at a loss how I shall in any measure make you a sutable return yet my will is good and my person and service shall ever be at your devotion Sir Did you know how earnestly I strive to pay an acknowledgment due to your Virtues and how little I am able to perform you wou'd past doubt pity my fruitless labours Sir when I seek for a Theam to inlarge upon your Name is sufficient at once to supply and charm me the sound of it being enough to compleat my largest intention and to inspire me with rapture Great indeed Sir have been the Obligations you have laid upon me and great must be my thoughts if I durst presume to make a sutable return The Man Sir that secures your friendship must of necessity account himself rich and repine no more at fortune Sir I am proud of your last visit and can only say that my poor habitation was never so grac'd nor made so happy till then knowing your parts I cou'd do no less than chuse you to manage my affairs and find by grand experience that I have so well prospered in your hands that I find my self at a loss to let

Begers and Gipsies In their posturs true With Country Mirth you In this page may View THE Triumph of WIT OR Ingenuity display'd in its Perfection Being the newest and most usefull ACADEMY In Three Parts PART I. Containing Variety of excellent Poems Pastorals Satyrs Dialogues Epigrams Anagrams Acrosticks choice Letters with their Answers Epitaphs Poesies Titles of Honour and Directions Complemental Expressions and Addresses also Directions relating to Love and Business and the newest best and exactest Collection of Choice Songs PART II. Containing the whole Art and Mystery of Love in all its nicest Intreagues and curious Particulars promising wonderfull success as well in a happy Choice as in the great Affair of Courtship to either Sex with the Description Anatomy of perfect Beauty PART III. Containing the Mystery and Art of Wheedling and Canting with the Original and Present Management thereof and the ends to which it serves and is employed Illustrated with Poems Songs and various Intreagues in the Canting Language with the Explanation c. To which is added Instructions for DANCING with Musical Notes Printed for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane 1688. Licens'd according to Order October the 6th 1687. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THough sundry Essays of this nature have been made yet there is nothing wrough● up to that height of Eloquence or stamped with such Perfection but that the same Subject is Copious enough for new Undertakings and may admit of a greater lustre The consideration of which and that I may still endeavour to please especially the softer Sex has emboldened me to undertake this Work to try if possibly I may exceed what has hitherto been scatter'd abroad in the World. Great indeed have been the pains and industry of some to deliver themselves in such a Method and Stile as has charmed the Senses of many and induced them to believe it would be altogether vain and unsuccessfull for any after them to pretend to the like So in the days of Chaucer the Men of that Age concluded the succeeding Writers must be silent when his Works appeared but even the following Age was convinced that their Fathers layed too great a stress upon his Writings though 't is true they are to this day held in much esteem yet more for their Antiquity and the good meaning of the Authour than any excellent Stile or accurate Fancy that adorns ' em But least I should be censured as vain glorious in attempting to create in others a good Opinion of what I have written it is time I should limit my Prentensions and tell the Reader that my design has all along been to give Birth to somewhat that might please especially the Younger sort so that after many Considerations and Debates with my self what should be brought forth my teeming Fancy grew pregnant with many Accademicall Conceits which like the Actoms of original Chaos serrieing together framed this Book so full of variety that I hope it will answer the Expectations of those that shall give themselves the leisure to peruse it which if it do's I have my end and remain Reader Your most humble Servant John Shirley J. D. To his worthy Friend J. S. upon the perusal of his new Book Intituled The Triumph of Wit c. SIR I Have view'd the Book you lately wrought And find each Page with curious Fancy fraught Such as must raise the most dejected mind Charm the dull Soul and make the froward kind● In all the Lines you to the World impart The kindling flames of Love of Wit and Art Unite their Powers Yet calm and innocent in all appear As Thoughts and Dreams of new Born Infants are In it as in a Garden choice in Flow'rs Profuse in Fruits cool Fountains shady Bow'rs Soft Walks excluding Phoelus scorching Heat Breathing cool Airs yet making Storms Retreat Variety of Recreation lyes Scatter'd all o'er cast where we will our Eyes The more we look the more the Work we prize 'T is something strange it lay so long obscure So long the World its absence should endure Whilst those that are but shaddows of the kind With much applause could large Acceptance find So when the Earth rose from her watr'y Bed A dim expanded Light her Face oe r-spred But when the Sun made from its Eastern Throne The feeble Shadow of a Light was gone But wherefore strive I to make known its worth When in it's self it's self 's so well set forth 'T is but perusing and the Reader 'll see There is no need it should be prais'd by me But rather I may undergo his Fate Who wou'd read War to Hannibal the Great Pardon me then if I have done amiss And if I have let Friendship plead for this And let the Reader too forgive the Man Where Merit has commanded what is done What did I say what 's done yes that is true But how much more alass than he can do I like a Rivulet run to the large Flood That needs me not yet so my Will is good He that has Kingdoms Cities may bestow But he that has no Cities cann't do so He that do's give though Fortune ha'n't him blest With a good Will the Will supplies the Rest Sir Your Friend and very Humble Servant J. D. G. E. To his worthy Friend Mr. J. S. upon the perusal of his new Book Entituled The Triumph of Wit c. DEar Friend I read your Book and find in it No common Suff but th' Quintessence of Wit No trivial Things to fill an empty Page But such as must if ought will please the Age Nature and Art conspir'd to guide your Pen As if they 'd make well-writing live again By giving to each Line force fire and Sence To move compell and charm with Eloquence Each pleas'd my Ear and rais'd my wonder too How in so short a time you this cou'd do How in a Time when other Labours prest Your Teeming Fancy gave your Muse no rest Your Brain the World with this Minerva blest When many puzled till Old Age at last But Embrio Brats into the World have cast Yet proud of the dull indigest Load Each swells and thinks himself a Demi-god Hoping by such a Trifle that his name Shall e'er stand fair i' th' Records of loud Fame When you more Books than Weeks compose the year By far have wrought yet unconcern'd appear All unaffected stand and rather choose Than boast of it the praise of all to loose Whilst others claim as Virgils once your Muse So still go on that you like him may rise Humility when mounting highest flies And Phoenix like can soonest reach the Skies Nor need the coyest Virgins fear to Read These Nectar Lines that from your Pen proceed No obsceen Words take place to raise a Blush And make the Roses o'er the Lillies flush But softest strains of Mirth and modest Love Enammel all this fragrant tempting Grove Where dwells th' Eternal Spring of charming Wit Such as can ne'er offend but must delight And