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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

labouring thoughts to move compassion in the Saint 〈◊〉 adore all on a sudden our Tongues begin to faulter a trembling seizes every Nerve and words forge● their way instead of which sighs and abrupt stammorings take place blushes and eager gazes still succeed or accompany them However encouraged by you whose Counsels never failed me at my greatest need the fair one shall know for whom I languish though thunder-struck by her frowns I fall before her anger and am lost for ever And so dear Sir with all imaginable returns of Thanks and the long Endearments of our Mutual friendship I take the boldness to subscribe my self Sir Your most affectionate Friend and Servant A. C. A Letter from a young Lover to his Mistriss Dear Madam PArdon my boldness that unknown to you I presume to send this Letter as a Messenger to tell you I am your Captive and that I only wait the favourable opportunity to lay my self at your feet and pay those profound Respects due to your Bounty and Virtue till which happy time if Heaven vouchsafe ●● a great blessing I must languish between hope of your goodness and compassion towards me and despair of being accepted into the number of those you vouchsafe to cast your smiles upon but if you are so mercifull as you are fair and esteemed Virtuous I may promise my self that you will not be so unkind as altogether to deny me access to your Presence but at least suffer me if fate or any hard fortune has ordained me miserable to receive my doom in person from your fair lips which of the two extreams may prove the milder Therefore fairest of creatures in expectation of knowing your pleasure I flatter my self with the happiness to subscribe that I am Madam Your most affectionate and most obedient Servant P. C. The Answer SIR YOur Letter did not a little surprize me especially when I considered you are altogether a stranger to me or my conversation nor can you reasonably expect that I should upon second thoughts esteem of it as any other than the effect of a complemental humour for it is much that you should be so passionately affected as you express your self to wards a Maid to whom you are so much a stranger or at least I must afflrm my self so to you as not having ever seen you to my knowledge however I am not so reserved but I thought fit to return you these Lines and further to let you know that when I am better informed as to your Person and Merits I shall better and more at leasure consider what to determine as to your requiring to pay me a visit which I am not so curious in refusing as far as the bounds of Modesty will admit to any Gentleman whose mind is vertuous and his intentions honest and till I better understand your Worth I must beg your pardon and only take leave to subscribe my self A friend to Virtuous Inclinations A. G A Passionate Letter to Reproach a Scornfull Mistriss Madam WHat more can be expected from the most obsequious Slave than I have performed how have I marked your Eyes and taken the least motion for a command to do you service how have I neglected my own affairs and with all the diligence expressible laboured to let you see by my service how much I was yours and how truly I loved you but what is my reward nothing but scorn and disdain when others reap the harvest of your smiles and are highly caressed O the ingratitude of Woman into what a Monster can it form it self had it been once sounded with an Angel-Trumpet in my Ears that the seeming virtuous fair charming Bellamira could have been false and inconstant as the Winds to the Man she promised so fair and at so light a rate broke all her vows and promises of an unalterable fidelity I durst not believe it but now too plain I find that they were uses yet false one I will not curse nor repine but bear my sufferings with patience and though the grief sits heavy on my soul ' yet with a manly courage I 'll suppress my woe and having once shook off these chains be free for ever from the fatal mischief that attends on Love and befalls Fair One still my own and C. D. The Answer SIR I Cannot but wonder you should be so much concerned to be rejected seeing the encouragements I gave you were never so large as to ground any hope of succeeding upon And as for your officiousness it was in your own choice whether you would have persevered in such diligence or not and although I am constrained to confess your services merited my thanks which I often rendered you and I though it had been sufficient yet you aiming higher no marvel if you was rejected Women Sir in these days are improved in craftiness and wear their Lovers like their Garments putting one on to day and another to morrow and would not willingly wear out any but when they are pressed to declare themselves then it is time to pull off the Vizor to those they cannot affect and let them discover how vain their hopes have been and this Sir is your misfortune if it be worth your terming it so however I shall not be wanting to continue such an esteem for you as you have merited but would by any means advise you to withdraw your affections if you have placed any upon me beyond the bounds of friendship and civil conversation and so I take leave to remain Your Friend and Servant A. C. Directions or Superscriptions of Letters to Persons of sundry Qualities c. Internal and External 1. External or outward Superscriptions TO The King's most Excellent Majesty or To the Sacred Majesty of James the Second c. To the Queen 's most Excellent Majesty To his Royal Highness the Prince of D. To her Royal Highness the Princess of D. To his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of Cant. To his Grace the Lord A. B. of York or To the most Reverend Father in God c. And to all other Bishops viz. To the Right Reverend Father in God H. Lord-Bishop of L. To his Grace the Duke of S. or To the High-Born Prince A. B. Duke of S. To the Right Honourable the Marquess of W. To the Right Honourable the Earl of C. To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount F. To the Right Honourable the Lord P. Baron of D. To the Honourable Lord C. that is the Son of a Noble Man for they are always styled Honourable though but esquires c. To his Excellence A. B. Ambassador from the High and Mighty Prince L. c. and so to any Ambassador To his Excellency L. E. of F. Captain-General of his Majesties Forces c. And so to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland To all Privy Counselors the Lord Chancellor the L Chamberlain L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold Secretary of State Lord Privy Seal c. you must direct your Letter viz. To the Right Honourable