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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84087	Pearls of eloquence, or, The school of complements Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, and schollars, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental, amorous, and high expressions of speaking, or writing of letters. By VV. Elder, Gent.	Elder, William, fl. 1680-1700.; J. G. (John Gough), fl. 1640, attributed name.	1656 (1656)	Wing E325AB; ESTC R229809	69,698	138

than the merit of the gift and so accept it not as a thing of desert but as a testimony of good wil. A description of a Married woman VVidow and Maid A W●fe is like a Garment worn and torn A Maid like one made up and never worn A Widow like a Garment worn thred-bare Sold at the second hand like Brokers ware The Maids Complement upon his Eloquence YOur eloquent deserts speak love and I should wrong to lock it in the wards of covert bosome when it deserves with characters of brass asorted residence against the tooth of time and a razor of oblivion therefore my soul cannot but yeild you forth to publike thanks forerunning more requiralls Oh! how you are winding up the watch of your wit Sir I cannot but admire the delight and life of your wit the light of your wisdome and the Mercury of your Eloquence His Answer in praise of her Elegancie Sweet Mistris I could not without making my self guilty of irreverance speak otherwise to you than in a way of praise I value love in all but faire Lady most in you where I find it richly sitting on the neck of honour Fair one such is the galled condition of the age that should my feeble Encomiums presume to touch a l●ttle at what your beauty in the largest manner merits the fairest title I should gain for my true meaning would be parasite Madam Let others daub and flatter I 'le not give over to draw true lines but maugre all their painting ●il proclaim you aloud vertuous and faire In a Word Madam to live with you is to live with all the graces for Nature hath made you the example of all her liberalities Madam I wil put it upon the file of thankful remembrance and register it for a singular act of your benificence A Lady and a Knight Sir say not you love unless you do For lying wil not honour you His answer Madam I love I love to die And wil not lye unless by you You say I lye I say you A lovers sad passion for loss of his Mistris VVHere shall I finde that Melancholie Muse That never heard of any thing but moan And read that passion that herpen doth us● When she and sorrow sadly sit alone To tel the world more than the world can tel What fits indeed most fitly figured hel Let me not think once of the smallest thought Nay speak of love then of the greatest griefe Where every lover with sorrows over-wrought Live but in death dispairing of reliefe While thus my heart with torments torn assunde May of the world be call'd the woful wonder The Day 's like Night all darkned in distress Pleasure becomes a subject unto pain The Spirit over-prest with heaviness While helpless horror vexeth every vein Dea●h shakes her dart grief hath my grave prepa● Yet to more sorrow is my spirit spar'd The Only eyes that not endures the light The N●ght-ravens song that soundeth nought but death The Cockatrice that killeth with her sight The poysoned ayre that choaks the sweetest breath Thunders and earthquakes all together met These tel a little how my life is set Were woes dissolv'd to sighes and sighes to tears And every tear a torment of the mind The minds destress unto the deadly fears That finde more death than death it self can find Death to that life that living can descrie A little more yet of my misery Put all the woes of all the world together Sorrow and Death set down in all their pride Let miserie bring all her Muses hither W●th all the horrors that the heart may hide Then read the state but of my ruthful story And say my griefe hath gotten sorrows glory For Natures sickness sometime may have ease Fortune though fickle sometime is a friend The minds affection patience may appease And death is cause that many torments end To shew the nature of my pain alas Pain hath no nature to discry my pain But where that pain it self in pain doth pass Think on vexation so in every vein That hopeless helpless some endless pain may tel Save hel it self but mine there is no hel If such love be a ground of deadly grief Consuming cares hath caught me by the heart If want of comfort hopeless of relief Be further moe so weigh my inward smart If love's unkindness so my grief is grounded If causeless wronged so my heart is wounded If love refused so read on my ruin If truth disgraced so my sorrow moved If faith abus'd the ground my sorrow grew in If Vettues scorned so my death approved If death delaying so my heart perplexed If living dying so my spirit vexed My Infants years mispent in Childish toyes My riper years in rules of little reason My better years in all mistaken joyes My present time O most unhappy season In fruitless labour and in endless love O what a horror hath my life to prove I sigh to see my infancy mispent I mourn to finde my youthful life misled I weep to feel my farther discontent I dye to try how love is living dead I sigh I mourn I weep I living dye And yet must live to shew more misery The hunted Hart sometime doth leave the hound My heart alas doth never leave the Chase The live Hounds line sometimes is yet unfound My bands are hopeless of so high a grace Summer restores what winter doth deprive But my love withered never can revive I cannot figure sorrows in conceit Sorrow exceeds all figures in our sense But on my wo even sorrows all may wait To see a note exceed their excellence Let me conclude to see how I am wounded A lover himself is in his love confounded But whereof groweth this passion of the pain That thus perplexeth every other part Whence is the humor of this hateful vain So damps the Spirit and consumes the heart O let my soul with bitter teares confess It is the ground of all unhappiness If lack of love I am the note of need If lack of friends no faith on earth remains If lack of health see how my soul doth bleed If lack of pleasure look upon my pains If lack of love of friends of wealth and pleasure Say then my sorrow must be out of measure Measure No measure measure can my thought But that one love that is beyond all measure Which knowing how my grief have now been wrought Can bring her love into the highest pleasure Which must my sorrows either cut off quite Or never let me think upon delight There is a lack that tels me of a life There is a loss that tels me of a Love Betwixt them both a state of such a strife As makes my spirit such a passion prove That lack of one and the others loss alas Makes me the wofulst wretch that ever was A Schollar in praise or rather dispraise of his Mistris A Schollar to win his Mistris love Compar'd her to three Goddesses above And swore she had to give her due

all adulterous arts A perpetuall spring of beauty dwells in that face of hers Fairer than Chloris in all her pride Her face vailed with a robe of darkness shines clearer through it than the eye of the day The fairest ever nature made for wonder But to look upon her face is to live Whose looks would force the Warring Elements into order For her retention of him in her memory DO not that wrong to your true love to let him slide out of your memory the onely monument where his felicity desires to be inshrined Keep me alive in your thoughts as I hold you in the most sensible parts of my soul Of his merits I Could never do so great a thing but would be too small for your merits and my desires Your merits drive me to love you my humor permits it and my content wil needs have me imploy my endeavours to serve you The praises you attribute unto me proceed from your wil and not from any merit of mine The necessity of his affections The necessity of love is most mighty in the world for it overcomes all O how happy a thing is that necessity that inforceth us to imbrace such a desired blessing as your self I was all frozen untill the sunshine of your favour thawed my benummed spirits but when you darted your quickned beams the spring of my affections budded forth in the most pleasant bloomes of Love The Magnetick Stone starts not with such naturall activity to the North-stars summons as I when you command Protestations of obedience I Shall not all the dayes of my life have a wil which shall not obey yours You know the power you have over me and that I am so much yours as you can wish me To offer and present service ALL the honour and ambition I aspire at is to see my self imployed in your service Let all men judge whether your beauty alone is not sufficient to command the affections I bear you All that is mine is no less yours than are your thoughts and words The most favourable gift you can offer me is your friendship a jewel I prefer before all other treasures VVishes HEaven which heares the vows of the faithfull bless and content your desires I need not wish you more but a continuance of those graces you most eminently possess already May you meet with such a Paramour as my equal for sure out-go he cannot your holyer flames may the same shaft with an undivided hast pierce both your hearts together may both your loves bear the same date and when we have made our selves unworthy of enjoying any longer such a worthy patern and rich example of pure affection after you have seen a second Generation may death gently transport you to that place of bliss where he himselfe can never come God make you the happyes● Woman that lives even as he hath made you the fairest and most accomplished Heaven grant that you may be as faithfull as you are dear to me Bewailing of a Lover I do so bewalle our separation that nothing can ever touch my soul like the griefe I endure by it The greatest griefe I carry along with me when part from this place is to see how I am for ever deprived of your fair presence To give thanks If I have done you any acceptable service think it was but the shadow of what I desire to shew you by reall effects To tickle your eares with breath of Complement or the ayre of some presently contradicted Newes would be to imitate the What lack you To give you good words and make your better deeds pay too deer for them I take this benefit from you but as borrowed I will pay you rent for it Though the service I have done you be but small yet the desire I had to acknwledg the honours I have received from you are exceeding great On the deceits of Love Your faire eyes have too much majesty to serve for baits or allurements of a dissembling love Dot deceive him that wil out-braue death it selfe ●o insure your life and withstand the frowns of fortune to protect your honors On his life MY Life is a Comedy and therefore no matter how long it be so that it wil be wel acted sweetest if the last Scene be Tragick your cruelty must be the Nemesis Our life without some pleasantness is like a long Journey without an I●ne or like a bed of Roses where flowers are mixed with prickles Lady if you please from your hospitable bounty to refresh my over-weatied and solitary progress I shall conclude my time richly spent having attained the end at which alwaies I aim'd but you have hitherto clos'd up your fragrant sweet and amidst the stearnest bryars of discontent have left me miserably intangled On the lustre of her eyes Your eyes flash so much lightning that like Suns they dazell the sight of all such as dare behold them Your souls bright lustre sparkles in your eye and like the Persian that only sun I adore You have so established your soveraignty over my soul● that the least twinckle of your eyes dispossess me of the state of my life Amorous Expressions This kiss and thy white hand Her spring of beauty raised in him noble desires which soone broke forth in liberall streams Let me rule lady like a Planet in the Orb of your favours You have a most imperious beauty I must obey it Delight shall streame into our bosome A faint lovers wishes cannot recall the hours I wil imbrace thee as all wealth and honour Though she were divided from me by armies I would make way through death to gain her Let me dwel an age upon those lips She is a sparkling delightful piece of Nature She is the queen and goddess of beauty She is a Mine of pleasing joyes and sweetness The great commandress of all hearts I cannot spe●● to thee go thy wayes We 'le stri● make the example of Love an easie Law As white as Truth as innocent as Vertue Take all your vows again you are as free as the aire The Cyprian queen compared to thee was but a Negro Whose love is the Exchequer of wealth A spring of Love issues from her Soul I must walk in the dark and be benighted to all the World but thee Madam I am a poor Flye burnt in the Candle of your beauty A Woman worthy of so composed a man Crown your servant Mistris with this favour A Magnificent present of similitudes Comparisons and Examples Collected for the Readers Application AS the glistring beams of the Sun when it riseth decketh the heavens so the beuty of a good wife adorneth the house As golden Pillars do shine upon the sockets of Silver so doth a faire face in a vertuous mind Her tresses are like the coloured Hyacinth of Aarabia Her love is such a fire as either will burst forth or burn the house it is such a stream as wil e●ther have his course or break through the banks and make a deluge

precious for if you please to let it incircle your white finger it being a Diamond Ring will sparkle most in the dark shewing that love like a clouded Star shines lightest in the night of misfortune Gent VVell sir I am obliged to your courtesie to receive it and since you please to conser so rich a gift on my unworthiness I wil weare it for your sake Aym. Then you honour me above my desert for your acceptance of this sacrifice of my love is to me above all rewards The Ring is inscribed with amor circulus love is a Circle without end Gent. I must acknowledge your beauty and my self your servant for bestowing on me so rich a gift Aym. The sparkling lustre thereof cannot compare with the light beams of your eyes but honour me so much to weare it on your finger Gent. I promise that and more acknowledge my selfe infinitely beholding to you Aym. You have said too much concerning so poor a present yet in your acceptance of this trifle I shall ever bless my own happiness To wooe a coy scornfull Maid Aym. LEt not my love be misconstrued for presumption if I once again strive to warm your affection by declaring unto you how much I honour your perfection pray at last be mercifull and do not stil reward my love with cold disdain Maid Sir I know that men have powerfull Language but I am none of those young ones you are deceived if you think that fine Musk words can sweeten me up to betray my self and for my beauty I would not have you dote on that it suffices me without commendation Aym. Should I not commend what all admire I were much too blame Maid Sir Wise men admire nothing for if I were beautiful what is beauty but a fading flower blasted often with too much breathing on and cannot grow safely upon the stalk of Virginity because every one will be reaching forth to gather it Pray excuse me if I prevent such a danger for love and I are quite faln out Aym. Let me reconcile you to a good opinion of a chast love there is no greater happiness than the sacred Vnion of Hearts especially when long and humble suits conquer disdain and so I hope perseverance will at last Crown me with your love and bring you to entertain my desire with a mutuall affection Maid Sir If you would be more thrifty of your breath you may spend it to better purpose for you may intimate your desires and make tedious discourses But in a word I shall never love you Aym. O say not so you know not how much misery those few words would bring upon me for hope grounded on your gentle disposition hath hitherto kept me alive and made me walk like a faint shadow whilest in my chamber I am like a mourner with a Taper by me watching my own funerall and I will dwell there in a mist of sighes and all this for your sake Maid Sir I hope you will not accuse me of your death pray shake of this love and I will then acknowledg your kindness in ceasing to trouble me with complaints Learn wisdome that will cure all distempers Aym. Yet while I live I wil attend upon you and when I am dead I wil visit yo●●n a dream and tel you you were a ciuell Maid 〈◊〉 ●●clude let one parting kiss seal my transport to Eli●●●● and I am gone Maid Sir since you are so resolu●e I will strive to give you a better answer at your next return Aym. In confidence of that happiness I wil presume to visit you again and live to be your servant A jesting discourse with a maid Aym COme why wil you be an enemie to your self and let modestie keep you stil in the state of virginity I came to offer my service to help you out of this trouble Maid You are very kind but I like my present estate Maids are happie Aym. Alas poor ignorance dost thou talk of happiness I tel thee until thou art married thou art but a Cypher and of no account Maid O sir You are deceived our hearts are free from the passion of love retain a world of happiness being exempted from any wanto Knowledge for maids dying in their present condition do all go to heaven Aym. You are deceived their punishment is to lead apes in hel and therefore to avoid this be kind while you may and accept of a friendly offer Maid What offer Aym. Lest it should raise a blush upon your cheek I wil whisper it into your ear you understand Maid Take heed sir lest while you counterfeit a flame you kindle a real fire I bear too much thy infectious words have betrayed a base ignoble mind Aym. Why I did but tel you a truth I had thought you had been more intelligent and would not have scarred at a bold word Maid Nay farwel Aym. Pardon me all I have spoken was to try your temper and having found you both wise and witty I wil desire you in a fair manner to grant me your love which I only desire and though I did appear rash and wanton you shal find me worthy of your affections To contract privately ones self to tythe knot of marriage Aym. NOw our love hath arrived to a happy conclusion the storms raised by our disdain being blown over the union of our affections making a soft and gentle harmony which the soul can only discern therefore that our new begun love may never expire I do here in the sight of heaven and all good angels marry and contract my soul to yours and give away my selfe wholly to be at your disposing till the Ceremonies of the Church confirm my promise Maid With as true an affection I do give my self over into your possession and freely bestow on you my love which shall never know alteration but remain ever firm and constant to you it is therefore expedient that you obtain my friends good wil according to your promise and til then we must remain only contracted in our affections Aym. Heaven I beseech thee bear witness to our private agreement and may I never know one day of comfort when I break my promised Vow let me now embrace you with the arms of affection and thus with a soft kiss seal the obligation of our loves To salute a friend newly arriv'd from a journey Alex. SIir When first the news of your return had arrived to my knowledg I was heigtn'd with an earnest desire to behold you and prevent other of your friends by the first tender of my service that as my love towards you doth exceed theirs in true perfect sincerity so it might in place obtain priority and shew how ambitious I am of your favour Aym. Sir You still continue your former nobleness making it your chiefe ayme to exceed others in perfection of mind otherwise I had an intention to visit you but it is your desire and happiness to overcome others in kindness for which I can but

Where shines their Father but in loves great Court On her delaying marriage Where hearts be knit what helps if not to enjoy Delay breeds doubts no cunning to be coy On his desires What can be said that lovers cannot say Desire can make a Doctor in a day On hand and heart Heaven seals that faith which firmly stands And joyns our hands with hearts our hearts with hands On Misfortune The man that stil amidst misfortunes stands Is sorrows slave and bound in lasting bands On fate They fall which trust to Fortunes fickle wheel But staid by vertue men shall never reel On disdain In high disdain love is a base desire And Cupids Flames is but a watry fire A Knot of most Excellent Letters Wherein is laid open all the Perfections or art of Complementing or inditing any Epistle or Love-Letters A letter of a loving father to his sonne before his death MY Son thou art now coming into the world that I am going out of and yet before my departure I thought fit to write a few lines unto thee what are I hope needful for thee to have a care of whil'st thou livest in it I know thou wilt not break thy bread all in one house feed alwayes of one dish nor live alwayes in one place therefore let me give thee a little kind admonition in this short Letter for thy carriage in all courses the Court is a place of more charge than ease the City-Gawds of more pleasure than worth and the Countrey sports of more pleasure than profit yet is there no service to the King no dwelling to the City nor pleasure to the Countrey but all the weight of the worth of them is in the hand of wisdom who in the knowledge of the use of them makes the best esteem of them but lest I am too tedious and long lessons may overcharge the memory take this one rule for thy learning in all and thou shalt finde it good in ●ore than a few Whersoever thou goest note the best choose the best and keep the best be nor buryed in earth before thou commest to the grave no● build Castles in the Ayre lest they fall down upon thy head let not thy eye abuse thy heart nor thy tongue thy will and let reason govern thy will in all the passages of thy Nature be neither needy nor ungratefull uncourteous or unkind and examine thy conscience in the care of thy content ground thy love upon Vertue thy hope upon Reason and thy Happiness upon Grace Live as a Stranger in the World and make what hast thou canst to Heaven Be loyall to thy Prince naturall to thy Countr●y Faithfull to thy Friend Kind to thy Neighbour and honest to the whole World so shall God bless thee the best love thee and the worst not hurt thee And thus so weak in body that the Spirit fainteth enforced me to express these few lines of fatherly love unto thee with my Prayers to the Lord of Heaven for thy preservation in this World and Eternall Happiness in the World to come with my Love Blessing and therewith what I am able to leave thee to the Merciful Guard of Heaven I commit thee and rest Thy loving Father c. His Answer MY most loving father this legacy of your love for the direction of my life how much I prize it in my hearts thankfulness the eye of your judgment shal behold in my observation give me leave to tel you that in this little time that I have spent idly in this world I have had some tast of the meat that you have given me where I find that the best meat may be spoyled spoyled in the dressing whilest a cunning Cook will make a rich service of small cost and though giddy heads are in love with gaudy toyes yet the better sor● of opinions esteem a small Diamond before a great Saphire I care not if I rather adventure far for the honour of vertue than lessen my Estate by breach of arms and seeing there are so many counterfeits that the best jewel may be mistaken I will meddle with no such wares as may call repentance to an after-reckoning while mine heart looketh toward heaven I hope the Earth shall not blinde my eyes nor the vain ●●lights of Nature prevail against the vertues of reason but all is in the power of powers by whose grace being guided I shall be ever so preserved that howsoever my heart may be wounded yet I hope I shal never be confounded in hope whereof and unto the which beseeching the almighty either in health to prolong your dayes or in the election of his love to call you to a better life more esteeming these precepts of your love than all the portion you can leave me saving your blessing and so I humbly take my leave and rest Your loving and most obedient Son til death c. A Letter to a friend to borrow money SIR If borrowing of money be not a breach of friendship let me intreat your patience to open your purse I am loath to be too troublesome in making many words where such affable gentleness out-passeth all merit a present occasion puts me to the adventure of your kindness the matter is not much yet it will at this time pleasure me as much as so much may do the sum five pounds the time three months my credit the assurance and hearty thanks the interest thus without troubling the Scrivener I hope my letter will be of sufficient power to prevail with your love intreating your present answer in the affection of an honest heart I commit you to the Almighty Yours or not his own His Answer SIR if your friendship were a follower of fortune Love would have but a little life in this World the contents of your Letter hath put me to a strict account of my Estate how I may help you and not hurt my self I could make many excuses but that they tast of small comfort and therefore knowing time to be precious and to avoid delayes let this suffice your request is granted and the money I have sent you and not doubting your credit wil take your word for a bond and for the use without abuse I wish but requitall upon the like occasion Sir I am so glad that in this or any thing in my power I may make proof of my love I rest in the same Yours or not mine own c. A love-letter to a worthy Gentlewoman FAire Mistris if I had no eyes I should not like you and if not wit I should not love you for the brightness of your beauty is for no blind sight to gaze upon nor the worthiness of your vertue for no weak brains to beat upon if you say I flatter you look into your self and do me no wrong and if I do you right chide nor affection for a discovery where truth is honourable pardon my presumption if it exceed your pleasure and commend his service who will make an honour of