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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

the feat At night as some did in conceit It would have spoil'd him surely Passion Oh me how I run on Ther 's that that would be thought upon I trow besides the Bride The business of the Kitchin 's great For it is fit that men should eat Nor was it there deny'd Just in the nick the Cook knockt thrice And all the Waiters in a trice His summons did obey Each Serving man with dish in hand Marcht boldly up like our Train-band Presented and away When all the meat was on the Table What man of knife or teeth was able To stay to be intreated And this the very reason was Bofore the Parson could say grace The company was seated Now hats fly off and youths carouse Healths first go round and then the House The Brides came thick and thick And when 't was nam'd anothers health Perhaps he made it hers by stealth And who could help it Dick O' th suddain up they rise and dance Then sit again and sigh and glance Then dance again and kiss Thus sev'ral ways the time did pass Whil'st every woman wisht her place And every man wisht his By this time all were stoln aside To councell and undress the Bride But that he must not know But 't was thought he guest her mind And did not mean to stay behind Above an hour or so When in he came Dick there she lay Like new-fallen snow melting away 'T was time I trow to part Kisses were now the onely stay Which soon she gave as who should say God B'w'y ' with all my heart But just as Heavens would have to cross it In came the Bride-maids with the Posset The Bride-groom eat in spight For had he left the woman to 't It would have cost two hours to do 't Which were too much that night At length the Candle 's out and now All that they had not done they do What that is you can tell But I believe it was no more Than thou and I have done before With Bridget and with Nell The OLD and NEW COURTIER WIth an Old Song made by an Old Antient pate Of an old worshipful Gentleman who had a great Estate Who kept an Old house at a bountiful rate And an Old Porter to relieve the Poor at his Gate Like an old Courtier of the Queens With an Old Lady whose anger good words asswages Who every quarter pays her old Servants their wages Who never knew what belongs to Coachmen Footmen Pages But kept twenty or thirty old Fellows with blew-coats and badges Like an Old Courtier c. With an old Study fill'd full of Learned books With an Old Reverend Parson you may judge him by his looks With an old Buttery hatch worn quite off the old hooks And an old Kitchin which maintains half a dozen old cooks Like an Old c. With an old Hall-hung round about with Guns Pikes and Bows With old swords and bucklers which hath born many shrewd blows And an old Frysadoe coat to cover his worships trunk hose And a Cup of old Sherry to comfort his Copper Nose Like an Old c. With an old Fashion when Christmas is come To call in his Neighbours with Bag-pipe and Drum And good chear enough to furnish every old Room And old Liquor able to make a cat speak a wise man dumb Like an Old c. With an old Hunts-man a Falkonner and a Kennel of Hounds Which never Hunted nor Hawked but in his own Grounds Who like an old Wise-man kept himself within his own bounds And when he died gave every Child a thousand old pounds Like an Old c. But to his eldest Son his house and land he assign'd Charging him in his Will to keep the same bountiful mind To be good to his Servants and to his Neighbours kind But in the ensuing Ditty you shall hear how he was enclin'd Like a young Courtier of the Kings Like a young Gallant newly come to his Land That keeps a Brace of Creatures at 's own command And takes up a thousand pounds upon 's own Bond And lieth drunk in a new Tavern till he can neither go nor stand Like a young Courtier c. With a neat Lady that is fresh and fair Who never knew what belong'd to good house keeping or care But buys several Fans to play with the wanton air And seventeen or eighteen dressings of other womens hair Like a young c. With a new Hall built where the old one stood Wherein is burned neither coal nor wood And a new Shuffle-bord-table where never meat stood Hung round with pictures which doth the poor little good Like a young c. With a new Study stuff't full of Pamphlets and Plays With a new Chaplin that swears faster than he prays With a new Buttery Hatch that opens once in four or five days With a new French-Cook to make Kickshaws and Toys Like a young c. With a new fashion when Christmas is come With a journey up to London we must be gone And leave no body at home but our new Porter John Who relieves the poor with a thnmp on the back with a stone Like a young c. With a Gentleman-Usher whose carriage is compleat With a Footman a Coachman a Page to carry meat With a waiting Gentlewoman whose dressing is very neat Who when the Master has din'd gives the servants little meat Like a young c. With a new honour bought with his Fathers old Gold That many of his Fathers Old Mannors hath sold And this is the occasion that most men do hold That good House-keeping is now a days grown so cold Like a young Courtier of the Kings The FRYER and the MAID ASI lay musing all alone A merry Tale I thought upon Now listen a while and I will you tell Of a Fryer that lov'd a Bonny Lass well He came to her when she was going to bed Desiring to have her Maiden-head But she denyed his desire And said that she did fear Hell-fire Tush tush quoth the Fryer thou need 's not doubt If thou wer 't in Hell I could sing thee out Why then quoth the Maid thou shalt have thy request The Fryer was as glad as a Fox in his nest But one thing more I must request More than to sing me out of Hell-fire That is for doing of the thing An Angel of Mony you must me bring Tush tush quoth the Fryer we two shall agree No Mony shall part thee and me Before thy company I will lack I le pawn the Gray-gown off my back The maid bethought her on a Wile How she might this Fryer beguile When he was gone the truth to tell She hung a Cloth before a Well The Fryar came as his bargain was With Mony unto his bonny Lass Good morrow Fair Maid good morrow quoth she Here is the Mony I promis'd thee She thank'd him and she took the Mony Now let 's go to 't my own sweet Honey Nay stay a while some respite

Grape I presented him with this Book of the Mysteries of Love which together with clapping of warm trenchers to his Belly so perfecty and speedily recovered him that within a few dayes after I met him in Bloomesbury with fresh Roses in his Cheeks he lookt as if his Soul were returned to its right home again probatum est Thus have I given your fair Ladiships a large but no Empirical relation of the cure of this mad Lover without either casting of his Urine or any other Charms on his Mistress except they are such as are contained in this Book the Witchcrafts of Eloquence and the right Arts of Wooing which as I hear have since taken her Fort in and that they are now happily married I wish them all joy only I thought fit in this my Epistle to give your coy Ladiships notice what vertue this Volume hath to triumph over your most Beautiful Disdains to turn your Frowns into Smiles your Anger 's into Kisses to repreive those whom you have destined for most bloody Sacrafices to metamorphose your Champion Cupid from a Boy to a Man to give him his eyes again peruse this Book bright Ladies and commend it to any of your modest Sex that are troubled with the Green-sickness of Love they cannot fail of a Remedy 't is Diana's own Receipt Book To conclude I do not desire that either of the Sexes should take any tyrannous advantages over one anothers Affections neither would I bar them of their Frolicks but that after the Youths have plaid a while at Bo-peep lookt Babies in one anothers eyes Hymen in his saffron robe hath his torch light may conduct them to their Marriage Beds which is the hearty wish and hath been the aim of these endeavours of your Ladiships Eternally obliged E. P. A short Advertisement to the Reader by way of introduction for his better understanding of the Mysteries of Eloquence and Complementing HAving already in my Epistle to the Coy Madams treated or rather traversed the passion of Love with a serious and light fancie like Gallen and Donquixot mixt together to please as well the Stoical Student as the most airy and fantastical Gallant I have since thought it no less my duty to discourse of these two other mysteries of Eloquence and Complementing This task I might have evaded since none of the former scriblers of Books in this kind ever particularly undertook these Subjects which I must either impute to their simplicity or laziness Courteous Reader Eloquence is so absolutely necessary and pertinent to humane converse that it cannot but be confessed by all intelligent persons that in the management and conveyance even of reason it self it would be most expedient that there should be so many Artifices and Masteries together with most subtil Conducts for without them a man cannot so well attain his ends Hence it is that the Learned compare Eloquence to the Chymists Elixar it contains all qualities in it yet it should not have one perceiveable it is not to be denied but that this age is that which expects that men should learn the Rhetorick from their own Genius or as some Naturalists writes of the Spider that she weaves her web out of her own bowels or like our Enthusiasts that pretend to inspirations It were to be wisht Eloquence could be so attained rather then that the Schools should so manacle and fetter it with their old Maxims but if these so pregnant persons in their own imaginations did but rightly consider what Eloquence is in its definition How that it is a way of speech prevailing over those we have designed to prevail over and that it is so Etherial or rather I cannot tell how Divine that it depends not alone on the single Embroidry of words but there must be somewhat more in it an excellent knowledge of men deep and studied acquaintances with their passions a man must not onely know very perfectly the agitations of his own mind but be seen and conversant in those of others otherwise it wants that which animates and breaths a fire which makes it both warm and shine We say of Logick that it files and keels the reason of a man which otherwise had been blunt in the wedge and tongue which is the only distinction of a man from a bruit beast The same may be said of a person without behaviour and good language that he is but a meer motion a most sad spectacle Indeed this is our misery that though Eloquence be so absolutely necessary yet it is such a thing of it self that though we make use of our quickest conceits we can rather wish for it then describe it in its perfect Idea the Crises of it having been so altered from time to time in all Speeches and publique Harrangues in so much that it cannot be amiss to consider how the ancient Orators that lead the people whither they pleased were put to it being sorced to wrestle with the disadvantages of single nature so as at the last to divide and throw it into several Subjects by which they reigned over the mindes of men and did many strange things the end of Oratory being to perswade Thus having discoursed of Eloquence I am now to descend to entertain some thoughts of her fair subservient Hand-maid Complement Civility is the most refined Complement for as Complements themselves do but serve to compleat the Gentry so where they are thus tendred they are always in Fashion ever new ever acceptable and as they entertain a grace in the wearer so they deserve an admiration from the beholder And thus they have in all ages been received for no less formal then real accomplishments and are held as most absolute ornaments of Gentility Complements were first intended to distinguish betwixt the Civil and the Savage Persons of Honour and Peasants yea to appropriate a title of Prehemincy to such who exceed others in grounds of Precept of Morality such as used not paintick Rhetorick but express'd themselves compleat without singularity that could love without flattery discourse without affection that freed Courtly Ceremonies from dissimulation and made Vertue their Mistress that knew what it was to protest in jeast and entertain Suitors onely for their Pastime All wise people are sufficiently convinced that Complements consist not of Conges Cringes Salutes Superficial Discourses foolish Repetitions or frivilous Extravagances these are but the shadows which they that use forget the substance wheras the attraction and desert of a Complement consists very much in the gracefulness of the presence beautified and set forth with a modest and native comeliness nor do I question but these three Nations have many such noble and compleat Ladies that prefer the inside before the outside the kernel before the shell that make honour the Load-stone by which they daily draw near to perfection their own proper Centre Certain it is that tho' our tongues hands and legs be the same our Elocution Action Gesture and Posture are not the same though

managed in the like manner by others yet are they not alwayes directed to the same ends as there are vast differences to be made betwixt Vertue and Vice I cannot want instances the fantastical Amorist is one of those puppies that hath them in a continual practise he forsooth will complement your very glove worship and sweeten every seam of it with the perfume of his discourse he will take it for an extraordinary favor but to be the porter of a Ladies Fan whilst she pins on her Mask these kind of complementings among great persons are like chantings among Beggars only in use with the Mimicks and Buffons of our times whose behaviours deserve more derision then applause I will not here squirt any more ink at them Courteous Reader in my Preface to the youthful Gentry you shall find something to this purpose inserted which I accounted too improper for this place To draw to a Conclusion the Court and such emiminent places as Hide Park the Spring Garden and the New Exchange and set Meetings at Balls are esteemed the fittest Schools of Ceremony and Complement where the most select as also the newest Fashions are alwayes in request where if discretion be not wanting in the Courtier he will not fail to confirm himself to the mode and condition of the place that he is to exercise his Genius in For Complements do not suit with all places nor with all sorts of men it ill beseems a Mechanick to play the Orator that urbanity which becomes a Citizen would relish of too much curiosity in a Countrey-man and that Complement which gives proper grace to a Courtier would cause derision if presented by a Merchant or a Factor The Statesman requires a graceful and grave posture whereas in ordinary affairs of Traffique it were indiscretion to represent any such state Thus I might instance from the Madam to the Chamber-maid but that I am resolved to trouble the Reader with no further Preadmonitions the Series of the ensuing Work will fully inform him in whatsoever other concernments have been wanting in this Advertisement Farewell THE MYSTERIES OF Love and Eloquence OR The Arts of WOOING and COMPLEMENTING c. The Mode of Hide Park MAdam That free Interest which you have granted me in your Favour honours me with a boldness to give you an invitation this fair afternoon to take the Air in Hide Park Your most humble servant Sir I 'le assure you had you not come as you did you might perchance have found me there before you for my Cousin here and I were taking up a resolution to be jogging that way I 'le assure you Madam your journey will not want its pleasure beside that of the season if the Town news hold true I see you came Sir with a resolution not to be deny'd having brought an argument so perswasive to Women as that of Novelty but pray what is it Madam they say Sir Charles hath put off his mourning-weeds and appears this day in the Park with a new Coach and Livery they report he looks with an amorous Countenance upon the young Lady to whom he intends as they say to give a Treatment at the Spring Garden so that if Businesses be well manag'd on her side it may chance to be a match But pray give me leave I heard lately that the old Countess is dead Very true Madam I was this morning at a Drapers shop in Pauls Church-yard and there came in her Steward to provide Four hundred pounds worth of Mourning Do's it not bring a very great addition to my Lords Estate Doubtless Madam a very considerable one for she was always a near and parcimonious Woman and indeed was considerable for nothing else but the affection she bare him I could tell you more Madam but I defer the rest for discourse in the Coach In the Ring Coachman keep the out-side of the Ring I think Madam that way will not be so dusty This is the voice of a Gentleman that would shew a more then ordinary care of his Mistress Much discourse cannot be expected from that restless motion of Wheels and Horses it being only a preparative for treatment talk neither indeed in that place of Observation is more required then only as occasion serves to tell your Lady That is my Lord such a ones Coach That 's my Lady such a one That 's Squire such a one And then when opportunity offers it self to say Your humble Servant my Lord Your most humble Servant Madam For though it be not so great a sin yet it is as great a Solecism as to talk at Church and they shall be counted as shallow persons that can give no account of what they have seen here as those that can remember nothing that they have heard spoken to a Text. This is not without reason for it being an impossibility for Ladies to travel it was thought fit that there should be a publick Meeting of all sorts of Societies and Habits both Forreign and Domestique that so those young and tender Gallants might be spar'd the labour of going beyond Sea In the spaces among the Coaches there walk up and down Objects of Charity and Enticements to Liberality Beggars and Fruiterers who are bold Wenches and by their own well knowing the disposition of other Women with their Eyes fix'd upon the Ladies and their Ware held up to the Gentlemen they cry so as they may easily be heard My Lord Will your Honour have any Civil Oranges Madam Will your Honour buy a Basket of Cherries The Gentleman finds himself surpriz'd but knows not which to give Oranges or Cherries yet at length remembring Oranges how great whetters of the stomach they are and deeply considering the price of Cheesecakes he resolves upon Cherries Then quoth he How do you sell your Cherries good Woman A Crown a Ba●ket my Lord quoth she with which word being extreamly pleased he parts chearfully with his money for who would not purchase Honour at any Rate and then presents his new bought treasure to his Lady in these words Madam I do here present you with these First-fruits of the Year which would have been due from Pomona her self had she not forgot the duty that she owes your perfections The Lady makes a short reply well knowing the end of his kindness which was to stop her mouth Whether Cherries are diuretick or no I will not here dispute however the Coachman presently after hath a command given him to wheel off and the Lady finds in her self a disposition to walk on foot toward the Brakes yet she is not so much tormented but that she can talk which is commonly much to this effect Really Sir I have not seen so great an appearance of company in the Park all this Spring before Madam it was the lustre of your person drew'em hither and doubtless having now seen you they will have no cause to repent their coming Sir you have a strong faith to speak so highly of one whom you have

Sacrifices voiced their Leader on a Demigod when as indeed each common souldiers blood drops down as currant coin in that hard purchase as his whose much more delicate condition hath sucked the milk of ease judgement commands but resolution executes He that fights well at the end of the Wars His head wears Sun Beams and his feet touch Stars Vertue is a sollid rock whereat being aimed the keenest darts of Envy cannot hurt Her Marble Hero's stand built on such Bases That they recoil and wound their shooters faces The World is a Labyrinth where unguided men walk up and down till they are weary The World is a Foot ball we run after it with whoop and hollow he that is next to it is sure to catch a fall The World 's a City full of straying Streets And Death 's the Market place where each one meets The World is like an Inn-keepers Chamber-pot it receives all waters both good and bad it hath need of much scowring The World shoots up daily into more cunning the very spider weaves her cawls with more art to entrap the wanton silly flie so that we had need to keep our wits wound up to their strecht height Where the Whore ends the Bawd begins and the corruption of a Bawd is the generation of a Witch Pythagoras holds an opinion that a Witch turns to a wild cat as an old Oastler turns to an ambling Nag As of the Lion and Eagle it is said that when they go they draw their sears and tallons close up to shun rebating of their fierceness so our wits sharpness which we should employ in noble knowledge we should never waste on vile and gar admiration They talk of Jupiter and a golden shower give me a Mer●ury with wit and tongue and he shall charm more Ladies on their backs then the whole bundle of the Gods besides You have a pretty ambling Wit in summer do you let it out or keep it for your own riding who holds your stirrup whilst you jump into a jeast to the endangering of your Quodlibets Like Jupiter you want a Vulcan but to cleave your head and out peeps bright Minerva The War is a school where all the principles tending to Honour are taught if truly followed but for such as do repair thither as to a place in which they do presume they may with licence practise their Lust and Riots such will never merit the noble Characters of Souldiers All Wars are bad yet sometimes they do good And like to Surgions let sick Kingdoms blood Whores are sweet meats which rot the eater poisoned perfumes cozening Alchimy shipwracks in calmest weather Russian winters which appear so baren as if that nature had forgot the spring Whores are the true material fires of Hell worse then the tributes paid in the Low Countries exactions upon meat drink garments sheep I even one mans prediction his sin Whores are like those brittle Evidences of Law that forfeit a mans wretched estate for leaving out a sillable Whores are like those flattering bells that ring one tune at Weddings and at Funerals A Whore is like the guilty counterfeited coin that whosoever first stamps it brings in question and troubles all that do receive it A Whore is as modest as one can be that hath lest to blush at twelve felt motions at eleven and hath been hardned before three congregation and done pennance A Wench that will make a Hermit run to Hell for a touch of her For a Whore for to turn honest is one of Hercules Labours it was more easie for him in one night to make fifty Queans then to turn one of them honest again in fifty years A Whore is one of the devils vines all sins like so many poles are stuck upright out of hell to be her props that she may spred upon them and when she is ripe every Knave hath a pull at her till she be pressed the yong beautiful grape sets the teeth of lust on edge she will be tasted though she be rank poison Sives can hold no water nor Harlots hoard up money she hath too many sluces to let it out yet she is the Gallipot that drones do fly to for the sweet sucket that they thinks within it Your Widdows are a politick generation proved so by Similies many voyages make an experienced Sea-man many offices a crafty Knave so many marriages a subtil cunning Widdow A Widdow is a garment worn thred-bare Selling at second hand like Brokers ware A good Wife she is a golden sentence writ by our Maker which the Angels know how to discourse of only men know not how to make use of A Woman was made of the rib of a man and that rib was crooked the Moral of which is That a man from the beginning must be crooked to his wife let him be an Orange to her and she will be as sower as Vinegar to him Women are the baggage of our lives they are troublesome and hinder us in our great march and yet we cannot be without them Women are like to burs where their affections throw them there they stick Women carry springs within their eyes and can out-weep the Crocodile till too much pity betrays us men to their merciless devourings A Woman is a Labyrinth we can measure the height of any Star point out all the demensions of the Earth examine the Seas great womb and sound its subtil depth but Art will never be able to finde out the demonstration of a Womans heart FINIS A general Table of the Contents of this Book Courteous Reader the Epithets and Similitudes being placed at the latter end of this Book and beginning Folio 1. thou mayest easily find the Word there having this addition in the Table The Epithets or the Similitudes A AN Abstract of all the perfections of ones Mistress together Page 22 To make an Acquaintance 37 An Address to a company of Ladies 16 An Address to make known his affection to his mistress 18 Address of salutation 19 An Address of Courtship to his mistress 22 Several Addresses of perfect Courtship 25 Aspect the Epithets 6 Allurements the Epithets 6 Affections the Epithets 6 Affections the Similitudes 50 Air the Epithets 6 Absence the Epithets 6 Accomplishment the Epithets 6 Adieu the Epithets 7 Apparel the Similitudes 50 Apparel the Epithets 6 Anger the Simil 49 Ambition and Ambitious men the Similitudes 49 On her arms 22 The Art of Reason or Logick 252 Demand of assurance 29 Allegiance the Simil. 50 Affliction the Simil. 50 Adulterers the Simil. 50 B. The ballad of S. George 104 Beauty the Epithets 7 Beauty the Simil. 50 On her Beauty 73 Bootless complaint 76 On her Breasts 22 Breasts the Epith. 7 On her Brow 22 A Broom-man in Kent-street to a yong Lady 166 Bastard children why more ingenuous for the most part then Legitimate 184 Bald why 191 Bawd what she like 194 198 Bawd the Epithets 7 Bawd the Similitudes 51 Broker the Similitudes 50 Body described 183