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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26956	The Young lovers guide, or, The unsuccessful amours of Philabius, a country lover ... writ by him to his beautious-unkind mistress ... ; with The answer of Helena to Paris, by a country shepherdess ; as also, The sixth Æneid and fourth eclogue of Virgil, both newly translated by J.B., Gent.	Philabius.; Country shepherdess. Answer of Helena to Paris.; Virgil. Bucolica. 4. English.; Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 6. English.; J. B., Gent.	1699 (1699)	Wing B131; ESTC R19435	36,870	128

Bold Poets and rash Painters may aspire With pen and pencill to describe my Faire Alas their arts in the performance fayle And reach not that divine Original Some Shadd'wy glimpse they may present to view And this is all poore humane art Can doe M. Vander ●ucht Seul Philabius THE Young Lovers Guide OR The Unsuccessful Amours of Philabius a Country Lover set forth in several kind Epistles writ by him to his Beautious-unkind Mistress Teaching Lovers how to comport themselves with Resignation in their Love-Disasters WITH The Answer of Helena to Paris by a Country Shepherdess AS ALSO The Sixth Aeneid and Fourth Eclogue of Virgil both newly Translated By J. B. Gent. Si nec blanda satis nec crit tibi comis amica Perfer obdura postmodo mitis crit If your fair Mistress be not mild and kind Bear and persever Time may change her Mind Ovid. de Art Am. l. 1. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by the Booksellers of London 1699. The PREFACE Writ by Philabius to Venus his Planetary Ascendant Dear Mother Venus I must style you so From you descended tho' unhappy Beau. You are my Astral Mother at my birth Your pow'rful Influence bore the sway on Earth From my Ascendent being sprung from you I hop'd Success where-ever I should woo Your Pow'r in Heav'n and Earth prevails shall I A Son of yours by you forsaken die Twenty long Months now I have lov'd a Fair And all my Courtship 's ending in Despair All Earthly Beauties scatter'd here and there From you their Source derive the Charms they bear The Fair I court partakes in high'st degree Of your transcending Heav'nly Quality Her I admire as most resembling You O take from her what is your Right and Due Or so incline her Favour for your Son That by hard Vsage he be not undone 'T is said those Persons at whose birth you reign Prove gracious to your Sex and Favour gain Must I be th' only Man whom you deny This Privilege O great Severity But ' gainst Heav'ns Actions what can Mortals say It deals with us as Potters do with Clay E'en as it lists for better or for worse Thrice happy those not fated for a Curse Tho' while our Ages Course is running on We little know what Heav'n intends t' have done What seems Affliction oft proves for our Good If with Submission we embrace the Rod. Life we are promis'd but first we are drown'd In Death and then with Life immortal crown'd God's Works are all by Means contrary done And cross to Man's Imagination run 'Till the just time is come that they 're fulfill'd And then tho' late to Providence we yield Perhaps my Fair's unkindness and delay Are more t' endear what once I shall enjoy Those Goods are priz'd for which we dearly pay Or if she 's fated for some other Man Perhaps for me kind Heav'n has order'd one More kind and Fair if Fairer there may be Or if being turn'd my Year of Jubilee Fate has ordain'd me a Quietus here And now my Course for Heav'n I must steer O Venus draw me by your Charms divine From Objects here my dreggy Thoughts refine From Earthly Things that being rais'd to you As I your Heav'nly Kingdom have in view Fixt on Ideal Beauty 'mong the Blest I may enjoy an everlasting Rest Philabius E R The Reader is desir'd to Correct the following Mistakes of the Press PAge 10. line 6. read maturer p. 12. l. 9. seldom does r. often fails p. 26. l. 17. mightily r. nightly p. 34. l. 6. breath r. leave ib. l. 14. r. there 's p. 42. l. 4. r. Ideal p. 44. l. 5. our r. ber p. 48. l. 18. r. learnt p. 53. l. 2. Faith's dele ' s ib. l. 3. with r. wish ib. l. 17. r. suppress p. 56. l. 4. calm r. but p. 64. l. 6. now r. new p. 65. l. 14. but r. cut p. 97. l. 11. r. in Heav'n ib. l. 16. might r. night p. 86. l. 20. ward's dele ' s. New Poems Three Addresses writ by Philabius to his beautious Mistress The First Address My only DEAR WIth Thoughts as kind as Lover ever knew Your Lover writes this Love-Address to you Did you but feel that Passion moves my Heart While I to you my Fondness here impart 'T would move your Pity Love Compassion all That tender Lovers grateful Kindness call But here alas my great Misfortune lies Words can't present before your gracious Eyes My inward Feeling All that Words can do I 'll say in short my Dear as God is true There 's nought on this side Heav'n I love as You. Yet let not Words alone my Witness be They 're Actions I desire should testify Command me what you please I beg command When once your Pleasure 's known if I withstand Your Will in ought my Life my Fortunes all I have from God afford then let me fall For ever in Disfavour of my Dear The greatest Curse that Man on Earth can bear I 'll not attempt as common Lovers use To write my Mistress Praise the Fair I choose Surpasses me surpasses Praise of Man She 's Praise it self she 's all Perfection Thrice happy 's he whose blessed Stars incline Her gracious Favour Heav'ns grant they are mine Beside those Stars which influence our Birth Three I must beg propitious here on Earth Your Father and your Mother dear and You Of whom I have already courted two And tho' some Men this Practise may disown Who pass by Friends and Daughter court alone Yet since I know your Parents mighty fond Of their dear Child I let them understand My Thoughts for you and hope 't will not displease My Dearest since their study is your ease ' Gainst my Address they one thing did object It was my Age indeed in that respect There 's disproportion yet such have I known When happy Life has follow'd thereupon All kind Indulgence to my Dear I 'd show Your Will should be my Law to come and go And do whate'er you pleas'd you should be free And I 'll presume to say I think with me You may enjoy as happy Scene of Life As where you else may choose to be a Wife I know in Age but two things give offence The Man's Moroseness or his Impotence And Heav'n's my Witness I think I 'm as free From these as one pretends to court should be And by my Years I this advantage gain They 've taught me Knowledge which may entertain My Dear sometimes with what may please her Mind Sometimes in London Pastimes we would find Where all that 's Curious to my Dear I 'd shew Being more perhaps than other Men may do In Summer-heats the Country we would see The small Retirement there belongs to me Is pretty pleasant may be made much more With little Cost Some Things I have in store Are also curious and of Value these And all I have are yours whene'er you please Indeed but poor are such Allurements where So high Desert