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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79208	The lovers logick: or, logical-love Compos'd in French by Monsieur de Callieres junior. And now newly translated into English. Licensed Sep. 21 1669. Roger L'Estrange.	Callières, Monsieur de (François de), 1645-1717.	1670 (1670)	Wing C300A; ESTC R229495	29,879	104

to blush when they hear a Person that is dear to them discours'd of and though they stand upon their guard this petty accident usually happens as soon as that ruddiness begins to rise in the face the shame that they apprehend will attend them in the discovery forceth them to blush the more and appears with the greater lustre Let not then the Lover doubt of his being belov'd when this accident happens upon his occasion but if possible let him endeavour to make a discovery in his own person of what is suffered for him and not rely too much upon his friend To Court by Embassadors and Proxies belongs only to Kings and Princes besides a Lover is more Eagle-ey'd in that which concerns him so nearly than a second person that hath but a slender interest he must always in matters of this moment suspect the most faithful and believe nothing but his own eyes The best friend in the world loves himself better than you and if he find himself smitten with the same passion he will make no scruple to dethrone you out of the heart of your Mistress that he may reign there Such Treachery as this is the product of every day the whole world over because not foreseen and when they resolve to follow me there are few persons who stand upon their honour so much as not to violate their faith to their friends Hence arise the greatest disorders and and most irreconcileable enmities but this would force me beside my subject therefore I will treat of this matter more exactly when I have given it a proper place and having sufficiently explain'd this first Chapter of Conceptions which will serve to let you know how I get into the heart we will pass to the Categories or Praedicaments Logick usually makes Ten which are Substance Quantity Quality Relation Action Passion Where When Situation and Habit. And I for my part lay down five that are Principal with their contraries which make the same number viz. Their contraries are Beauty Deformity Wealth Poverty Youth Old age Gallantry Clownishness Wit Stupidity Which you may make use of in the framing of all sorts of Propositions both affirmitive and negative that conduce to the distinguishing of true Love from that which is false The Definition of Beauty Of Substance BEauty is a Substance and perfect being the subject and support without which I cannot long subsist in any one place whatsoever There are two sorts of Beauty viz. Immaterial and Material the former belongs to the Soul and the latter is lincked to the Body the one comprehends all the vertues and good inclinations that are capable of attracting Love and the other c●ntains the Symmetry of proportion the lustre of Complexion and the comeliness of Stature some add the Action but that is in the same sense under the Jurisdiction of the mind As there are an infinite number of Beauties comprised under this didivision so are the Subjects infinite that are capable of creating love some persons are captivated with the beauties of the Soul and others enchain'd to those of the body but since these last exceed the first in number I will make a more strict examination and exact division of them than the other The Division of Immaterial Beauties Magnanimity Generosity Gratitude Sensibility Constancie Liberality Complaisance Fidelity Tenderness To these are added the accomplishments of the Voice which participates of both The Material are A Smooth Complexion white and red and each colour be truly placed and lose themselves imperceptibly the one in the other which some Ladies would express by the new French Phrase demeslee Full Eyes well made of a dark or black colour graceful and casting a lustre A Nose well made neither too big nor too small A little Mouth the upper-Lip resembling a Heart in shape and the under somewhat larger but both of a vermilion colour as well in Winter as Summer and on each side two small dimples easily to be discern'd in their moving upwards which look like a kind of constant smile White Teeth very clean well ranged in order of an equal bigness neither short nor long but very close set A forked Chin not too short nor too long and hanging double A full round or oval Visage The Temples high rais'd As for the colour of the Hair opinions are various One the fair hair another brown admires A third a colour between both desires But herein all concentre and do rest The colour o' th' lov'd object is the best Therefore 't is indifferent to me which of the three they be provided the Hair be very long and thick loose cleanly kept and a very little frizz'd or curl'd in rings but above all that it be not red nor come near that tincture For it were disadvantageous to them to have all the other species of Beauty if they are of that colour I have a natural antipathy against it insomuch that I oftentimes betake my self to my heels when I spy it not but they are usually accompanied with a pure skin for which I have a great inclination but the aversion I have for the one makes me sometimes abandon the other All the remedy that can be is to deceive me at the first by shaving off all the Hair or by an industrious concealment of them shew me those that are of another colour and as they are purchased you may have those that are most curious and of what colour you desire but this foolish kind of disguise is sufficiently practis'd in this age so that I need not put my self to the trouble of instructing it and I have been so often deceiv'd that it is now a business of no small difficulty to surprize me my diffidence makes me oftentimes mistake natural for artificial Hair far from taking the artificial for those that are natural their extraordinary comliness renders them suspected especially among Ladies of Quality although Nature denies it to them no more than to the most innocent Shepherdess But in this age Art carries so great a sway in the Macrocosm that I mistrust all Nay the very men that I have seen impudently masque themselves for so term the light colour'd Hair of those that are naturally black But to return to the Ladies to whom beauty de jure belongs I am acquainted with some who by their damned Art destroy the most beautiful works of Nature I am sometimes so incensed against them that I have a great mind to put an affront upon them and I have a kind of itching desire to go and rub their cheeks with the little end of my to give men to understand the artifices wherewith they endeavour to abuse them For I phancie no beauty but what is natural which I have framed and am an enemy to those kind of disguises that in vain strive to imitate the naturals But as the Lover cannot take the same liberty that my absolute Empire over all that is beautiful furnisheth me with to reform all abuses that are committed that

the ordinary terms of Philosophy and in my Precepts to resemble her's as neer as I can possibly I will therefore begin my Logick with the Definition thereof The Lovers Logick is the Art of discerning true Love from that which is counterfeit and of arguing exactly upon all things that may befal them Of Amorous conceptions YOu must understand that man never really loves unless the Object that is capable of creating it be presented to his sight Some there are that have been inamour'd by hearing others by touching but that is of no continuance unless confirm'd by seeing Then this very Sense is the Porter that gives me entrance into the heart 't is by these two windows of the Soul that I am inrroduced to co-habit with her not but that the other Senses afford me their assistance but I must first enter by the eye And to the end that this passage may lie open to me and that I may without difficulty gain my design of the rest I must be accompanied with a certain Gentlewoman whom they call Wealth But when I am destitute of this Pilotess I have much ado to cruze about with all the craft I am Master of I find it difficult to pass nay when I am just upon my entrance into a heart I am oftentimes repuls'd if the Lady Wealth doth not accompany me all that I can do to preserve my self when I am destitute of her company is to strike a League with Wit It is a Youth well shap'd as to his Person acceptable in Society and who is author of rate Compositions as well in Verse as Prose he hath always a kind reception in all good company he understands how to gain esteem among people of the greatest integrity and doth also succeed indifferently in obtaining the favour of women but when Wealth is at a distance with Wit it so falls out sometimes that he is despis'd She is an arrogant Baggage who is accustomed to treat all those unhandsomly she is unacquainted with Prosperity her usual companion swells her excessively with pride and makes her carriage insupportable to good people She will often play at foot-ball with Wit and Desert and raise up ignorance and stupidity In fine she values none but those that enjoy her unless she be attended by vertue I give you here a description of their Qualities that you may know how to appropriate them but though the Qualifications of Wit are far more noble than those of Wealth yet for all that they are not so advantageous for in the age wherein we live her treasures cast a mist before the eyes of all persons in the world but when we meet all three together and that we proceed unanimously we make a great progress in a little time and scarce encounter any heart that resists There is another great Youth known by the name of Good-face the Brother of Beauty whose society is of very advantagious to me 't is he that opens the doors of the eyes and causeth his Daughter Idaea to enter with me they are as like one another as two drops of water in so much that he being absent she supplies her Father's place This ingenious Idaea le ts slip no opportunity of speaking well of him that gave her being she many times entertains the Lady with whom she sojourneth with the passion that he hath for her and puts her in mind of those delightful minutes that she enjoyed by his conversation Whilest she is young she is very serviceaable to him but when she grows in years she is not so sollicitous She doth not then so often entertain her Mistress she appears but seldom in her sight she begins to seem less obliging and is at length expell'd by some other person if not speedily assisted by the presence of the Lover How deep soever the impression be she made in the heart absence will soon wipe it away that which must be done to continue it fresh a little longer is to summon Nature to the assistance of Art and this is practic'd several ways First let the accomplisht Lover endeavor to gain his Mistress Picture and that afterwards he perswade her to accept of his Though the Portraictures of these Lovers are dumb yet they entertain them very pleasantly But there is another kind of speaking-Picture that is more effectual this softens the rigors endur'd by absence by complaining of those evils which she causeth them to suffer she speaks without a mouth and is understood from the remotest parts It is she that serves as fuel to the fire that I have kindled reciprocally in two hearts 't is she that links them together invisibly by a chain which time it self can hardly break There are two sorts of speaking as well as of dumb painting the one called Prose the other Poetry this latter resembles Miniature which is far more delightful than the other when well compos'd but the eye of the understanding must be very sharp-sighted that can prompt you to give judgment thereupon therefore it is prudence in the Painter not to expose it to the view of all persons Now the Lover must be satisfied that his Lady is ingenious before he present her with a Copy of Verses that she may not mistake his witty Sonnets and passionate Stanzas for Ballads but as often in this kind of Language they abandon their reason to catch at the Rhythme and that they many times say more sometimes less than they desire the use hereof will not prove effectual Not but that Poetry enjoys many Priviledges which Prose is deny'd and that you may express your love to a fair Lady in Verse which cannot be so freely done in Prose for there you must take a greater compass and above all be sure at the first you mention not my name Women do observe this kind of foppery among themselves and fein a displeasure when they hear me nam'd though they lodge me in their heart with the greatest joy imaginable when I am entred I cannot forbear smiling to see all the close-stool faces they make to conceal me but 't is to no purpose for I am seldome long in a place before I am discover'd The way to divine it is for a Lover to strive to discover by some she-servant upon whom he must exercise his liberality or else some she-Confident whom he must make his friend whether she often discourseth of him he may also desire one of his most intimate friends to speak somewhat amiss of him before his Mistress yet so that it may no way blast his Reputation to see with what heat she will maintain his concerns and if she be so cunning as to say nothing Pro or Contra let them observe the Aer of her Countenance which undoubtedly carries less dissimulation with it than the tongue 't is she that oftentimes publisheth the most mysterious secrets of the heart whose comply ruddiness discovers my flames which they with so much pains endeavour to keep secret Indeed 't is natural to the fair