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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41680	The Academy of complements, or, A new way of wooing wherein is variety of love-letters, very fit to be read of all young men and maids, that desire to learn the true way of complements.	J. G. (John Gough), fl. 1640.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1407; ESTC R40502	10,475	26

well understand my respect to you that Pardon my boldness if I say your care was somewhat needless Lady it is you that I adore and can you then imagine I would injure you you that I would gladly make mine own and be proud of such a Purchace Again my Birth is not so base as to tyrannize over Ladies especially you the best of Ladies When the Sky puts on her bespangled Garments the glittering Stars I will expect you with all the reverene● and submission due to your Noble merits from Divine Lady Yours if you think me worthy R. P. A SONG I am comfirmed a Woman can Love this or that or any Man To day her Love is melting hot To Morrow swears she knows not what Let her but a new object find And she is of another mind Then hang me Ladies at your door If e'er I dote upon you more And yet I love the fair own Why For nothing but to please my Eye For he that 's Musical long When I am sad to sing a Song And for that fair and smooth-skin'd Dame I flatter to appease my flame Then hang me Ladies at your Door If e'er I dote upon you more I give my fancy leave to range In every face to find a change The Black the Brown the Fair shall be But Objects of Variety I Court you all to serve my turn But with such flames as shall not burn Then hang me Ladies at your Door If e'er I dote upon you more A Letter of Love from John Downright to his Sweet-heart Sweet Susan YOu know I am no Miller and therefore will make no cogs with you nor no Gamester and therfore will not play a false Card with you but as true as I live I told you now that is the plain truth and therefore believe it for by my kerson Soul I do not hault with you for at the last turn when I last danced with you your hand gave such a quitch to me heart that it was ready to leap out of my mouth to deliver me mind to you therefore I have gotten the School-master of our Town to write this to you Now if you be as you are and I hope still to be as kind to m● as I shall be to you it shall not be long e'er it come to that up-shot that shall not in haste he put back again And therefore I pray you wear these Gloves that I send you they cost me two groats I would then were better for you So till I see you at the Wake the next Week where I hope a good bargain shall not be long a making when good ware shall be worth money and an honest Man will take pains for his living I rest Your own Sweet-heart J. D. Her Answer TRuly John I know not what to say to you but I would be loath that you should be so ill that I could not help you but had I known your mind when I was last with you I could with more content have written to you for I will tell you what after you were gone from me here came a youngster unto me that kept such 〈◊〉 stir with me that there was no ho but he would have me For by his troth he swore and ●ll the troths that he could swear by that for ●his whole year he hath had a months mind to ●e and do what I could I could not be rid of ●im before I did tell him that I could love him ●nd so indeed I could if I had known him for ●e was a handsome fellow but being a Stranger ●e should pardon me for the main chance Now therefore yet John all is whole and I am a true Maid and since an honest Batchelor is worthy of a good Wench without Cogs or Cards by my Holidum I swear there shall be no ●ove lost betwixt true hearts but I am my Fa●hers jewel and you are your Mothers joy and therefore if they will think well of the matter I hope it shall be as it will be for your Gloves I thank you but why are you at such charges with me but 't is no matter there will be more gotten or lost by that time ere the bargain be made up at the wake I hope to meet you and therefore be not asleep when you should be there I will have a trick to get my Father thither and if you can bring your Mother I hope we shall make a merry day Farewel Thine own if good hap hit M.J. What Love is Love is a blinded God and angry Boy A slave to beauties will a witless toy A Ravening Bird a Tyrant most unjust A private Hell a very Sea of lust A Love Letter to a most worthy Gentlewoman FAir Creature to tell you I love you were 〈◊〉 phrase of too plain a fashion and yet when truth is indeed the best eloquence affection needs no invention to express the care of her contents which being in the Letters makes a word soon to be read which being Y O U nothing doubting your spelling I hope you will so kindly put together that a conjunction of Love shall have no separation during Life and thus beseeching you to learn this Lesson by heart without a cross i● conceit to hinder the course of Loves comfort t●● I hear from you in that nature that may make me a happy Creature I rest Yours wholly and only if you will T. H. Her Answer KInd Sir to tell you I love you were to cross an Answer with a comfortable request yet when dissimulation is the worst fruits o● invention discretion may be pardoned in concealing of Love touching your Letters they are sooner read than understood while imaginative hopes may be deceived in their haphappiness and yet to avoid all touch of ingratitude in that nature of kindness that may give honour content as a simple Scholar in the art of Love loth to have that by heart that may trouble more than my head when separations of Conjunctions may endanger the Death of Comfort wishing nothing amiss to them that mean well I rest Yours as I may be mine own F. S. An Old Mans Letter to a Young Widow WIdow I have neither a smooth-Face nor a filed Longue to clear your Eyes nor abuse your Ears withal but a true heart and a constant mind that doth inwardly love you and will never deceive you fickle heads and unbridled wills know not where or how to bestow themselves when their Wits go a Wool-gathering among shrews that have had fleeces they may be kind but not constant and love loves no out-lookers but besides light heads have no stayed heels and a little wealth is soon spent Who knoweth the woe of want can tell you the difference between an Old Mans darling and a Young Mans Warling Why how can they love that scarce know how to like I know you have many Suitors of worth but none that I think more worthy than myself for none can love you so much nor esteem you so well for

familiarity with a Gentleman with whom she never had any dishonest compliance to asswage her Husbands jealousie does thus admonish the Gentleman to refrain her house and society SIR IT is not with blushes but tears that I presume to write unto you for indeed it grieves me to publish my Husbands folly which by duty I am bound to conceal neither had I attempted it but that grief and necessity throws me on this exigent for so it is that my unspotted chastity is not capable to defend him from jealousie which makes me as much triumph in my own Loyalty as I grieve at his ingratitude and not content to wrong me his folly or rather his frenzy hath reflection on you whom he takes to be both the object and cause thereof but as your innocency can justly warrant and defend my honour and your honour my innocency from the least shadow of that Crime so that we may both indeavour rather to quench than inflame this irrigularity I most humbly beseech you to refrain our house and neither to visit me nor be familiar with him and so peradventure time may wear away from his thoughts that which at present truth and reason cannot your eloquent vertues and true Generosity assure me of this courtesie which I will repay with thanks and requite with prayers that your days may be as infinite as your perfections and your fame as glorious as your merits so prays Noble Sir The honourer of your Vertues and lover of your worth O. R. His Answer Noble and vertuous Lady Your Vertues and my Conscience make us as unworthy of your Husbands jealousie as he of so chaste a wife as your self and so true a friend as I am but as your affection to him hath still shined in your loyalty so it must now in your Patience since he in this base passion of his seeking his own shame will at last assuredly find out your glory Had his folly revealed me so much as your discreet Letter I would have exchanged my pen to a Sword and with the hazard of my life and loss of my dearest blood made known as well to him as to the whole World the truth both of your Chastity and Honour and of mine Honour and Innocency In the mean time I will both embrace and obey your request and will manage it with such observance to your Husband such respect to your Vertues and such regard to mine own Reputation as I hope he shall rest satisfied of your Chastity towards himself and of mine to you otherwise I Prize Ladies of your respection at so high a rate and set one of his humour and inclination at so low an esteem that I will know how to answer his choler with contempt and to requite your discretion both with Admiration and Praise Madam Your affectionate honourer in all noble Essays E. G. A merry but civil discourse betwixt Roger and Kate sitting up late together Roger. IT is time Kate that I should now discover my mind unto you we have long been Servants together and ever since my first coming I have born you good will which I would desire you to accept and grant me your love Kate. For that you must pardon me for I do not intend to marry and therefore let that serve for an excuse since I would be loth to discourage you and say I cannot love you Roger. I hope you will not for since I beheld you I have admired your perfections Kate. You know affection cannot be compell'd therefore I thank you for the good will which you have hitherto born but as for your love I cannot accept of it Roger. Then I perceive you love some other Kate. I desire you to excuse me I cannot frame my mind to fancy you though I know you deserve my betters but for me to settle affection where I cannot love would be an endless misery the Bryer and the Honey-suckle can't agree Roger. Then you compare me to a Bryer but I will with all humility put up your disdain hoping that the continuance of my love shall soften your mind to receive me into some degree of favour for I protest I love you intirely Kate. The utmost that I can do for you in requital of your love is to give you thanks and counsel to suppress your desire and not to proceed any further in this fuit which at last will become fruitless Roger. I shall be sorry then by this Kiss which I presume to take none hath power over me but your self I love you all over and if you would license my hand to stray about how happy shall I be Kate. Nay then I perceive your love is but rash and wanton desire neither can I stay with you any longer lest my absence out of my Mistrisses Chamber may breed some suspicion Roger. Nay I will hold you in the Prison of my Arms and if you will get your freedom you shall yield me some of your sweet kisses which are but shadows of that substantial happiness which you can afford me Kate. Nay pray be not so rude nor give me a cause to suspect that your love is dishonest I had formerly a better opinion of you but now I am jealous of your good intent Roger. Pardon me if Love hath made me to offend in some boysterous actions Kate. Come let me be gone I shall be angry if you hinder me Roger. Sweet Rogue I obey thy desire but let me prevail further with you at your next meeting On Love Love is a Game at Tables where the Dye Of Maids affection doth by fancy fly And if you take such pleasures in a blot 'T is ten to one if that you enter not But Gamester you may safely venture When that your point is opposite to th' centre And watch your play for now and then Do what you can they will be learning Men. A Whimsie to his Mistress Venus naked in her Chamber Wounds more deep than Mars in Armour Her Reply Which an Enemy you fear Book to it see you come not there A Description of true Love Two Hands two Feet two ears two eyes One Tongue one Heart where love ne're dyes A Lady to whom she affects SIR I Should have been happy if Heaven had given me merits to deserve your affections since I hold it no great difficulty to afford you mine but that we may discourse with a little freedom I will borrow so much time from my other affairs as to meet you only I shall give this caution that as I am a Virgin you will show your self so far a Gentleman as not to offer any thing that may savour of incivility pardon me that I lay such an injunction on you it is not that I question you are otherwise Noble but only what is commonly expected from a Maiden that hath respect to her own modesty and credit and may therefore very well become Sir Your Friend and Servant R. T. The Answer The Lover to his Amorous Lady Dear Madam I Do so