The Beau's Academy [ESTC R181771]

DMI number:

1735

Publication Date:

1699

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R181771

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:62369598

Shelfmark:

NCBEL 340 (1699)

Full Title:

THE | [i]BEAU'S Academy,[/i] | OR THE | Modern and Genteel | WAY OF | [g]Wooing and Complementing.[/g] | [i]After the most Courtly Manner:[/i] | In which is drawn to the Life, the Deportment of | most accomplished Lovers, the Mode of their | Courtly Entertainments, the Charms of their | Persuasive Language, in their Addresses or more | Secret Dispatches. | To which are added | Poems, Song, Letters of Love and others: Proverbs, Rid- | dles, Jests, Posies, Devices, with variety of Pastimes and | Diversions, as Cross-Purposes, the Lovers Alphabet, &c. | Also a Dictionary for making Rhimes, Four Hundred | and Fifty delightful Questions, with their several Answers. | TOGETHER WITH | [g]A New Invented Art of Logick:[/g] | So plain and easie, that the meanest Capacity may, in a short | time, attain to a Perfection of Arguing and Disputing. | [rule] | [i]London,[/i] Printed for [i]O.B.[/i] and Sold by [i]John Sprint,[/i] at the | [i]Bell[/i] in [i]Little-Britain.[/i] 1699.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose

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Octavo

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: 1) Preface 'The Preface To the Youthful Gentry.' pp. A3r-A6v. 2) Dedicatory Epistle 'To those Cruel Fair ones, that triumph over the distresses of their loyal Lovers, the Auther wisheth more Clemency; and to their afflicted Servants, more magnanimity and Roman Fortitude.' pp. A7r-a2r. 3) Advertisement 'A short Advertisement to the Reader, by way of introduction, for his better understanding of the Mysteries of Eloquence and Complementing.' pp. a2v-a4v.

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The last sad May day know ye not

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pp. 7-9

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Upon the fatal disaster that befell the Gallants upon May-day last in Hide-Park.

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Hey down a down a derry down

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p. 50

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Mistake me not | I am as cold as hot

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pp. 55-6

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Song.

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O thou the dear inflamer of my eyes

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p. 55

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To his Mistriss.

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He whose active thoughts disdain

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pp. 56-7

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Plurality in Love.

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So looks the virgin rose

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pp. 57-8

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A description of his Mistriss.

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Hither I come delightful groves

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pp. 58-9

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The Melancholy Lover.

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Wrong me no more

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pp. 59-61

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To his Mistriss falsly accusing him.

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Celio remains disconsolate

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pp. 61-2

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To his false Mistriss.

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Like dust before a wind those men do fly

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p. 61

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I wonder what the grave and wise

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pp. 62-3

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Resolution to Love.

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Blind Cupid lay thy bow aside

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p. 63

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Tyranny in Love.

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Now fie on love it ill befits

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pp. 63-4

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Against Love.

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Thou worst estate even of the sex that's worst

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pp. 64-5

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The Maiden-head.

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In vain fair Cloris you design

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pp. 65-6

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A Fond Design.

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But that I knew before we met

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pp. 66-7

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Parting.

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I have been in heaven I think

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p. 66

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On his Mistress Singing.

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Can so much beauty over a mind

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pp. 67-8

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Not to be Alter'd

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How long shall I a martyr be

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p. 68

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Loves Martyr.

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Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart

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p. 69

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Protestation of Love.

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When from each thought a seed did spring

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pp. 69-70

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The Golden Age.

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From the fair Lavinian shore

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p. 70

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Her locks are streams of liquid amber

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pp. 70-2

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On the perfections of his Mistress.

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Her cool thoughts feel no hot desires

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p. 72

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Her Chastity.

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In one heaven many stars but never yet

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pp. 73-4

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On a fair and richly attir'd Lady at a Mask.

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When that my mistress looks my sight doth grace

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p. 73

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On her Beauty.

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Celia thy sweet angels face

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p. 74

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Song.

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come follow follow me

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pp. 74-6

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The Queen of Fairies.

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Look out bright eyes and clear the air

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p. 77

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To a Lady in Prison.

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Sorrow why dost thou seek to tempt

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pp. 77-8

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To Sorrow.

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We must not love as others do

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p. 77

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The Departure.

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Come constant hearts that so prevail

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p. 78

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Constancy resolved.

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Lose no time nor youth but be

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p. 78

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Lose no time.

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Not roses couched within a lilly bed

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pp. 78-9

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Song.

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Read in the roses the sad story

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p. 79

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Song.

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Young Thirsis laid in Phillis lap

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p. 79

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Dying to Live.

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Fools they are the only nation

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pp. 80-1

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In praise of Fools.

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Will you know my mistress face

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p. 80

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Who his Mistress is.

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Cloris I wish that envy were

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p. 81

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The Impolitick Beauty.

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Here lies William de Valence

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pp. 82-9

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Good people all I pray give ear

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pp. 89-91

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The Hector's Farewell.

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Farewell Three Kings where I have spent

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pp. 91-2

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The Second Part.

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When rich men die whose purses swell

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pp. 92-4

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On the Death of Jo. W.

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The wit hath long beholding been

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pp. 94-7

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The Song of the Caps.

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I cannot eat but little meat

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pp. 97-8

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The Jolly Ale-Drinker.

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Thou that art called the bright Hiperion

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pp. 98-9

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The Shepherd's Song in praise of his God Pan, who prefers him before the Sun.

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Come muses all that dwell nigh the fountain

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pp. 99-100

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On an Excellent Race-Horse.

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Trust not a woman when she cries

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p. 99

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Song on Women.

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Happy am I in Mops love

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pp. 100-1

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The Clown's Description of his Mistress.

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Sing and rejoice the day is gone

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pp. 101-2

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The Watch-mens Song.

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Come let's drink the time invites

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pp. 102-3

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The Jovial Companion.

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Why should we boast of Arthur and his knights

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pp. 104-6

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A New Ballad of St George for England, and the Dragon.

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What a' devil ail our poets all

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pp.106-109

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New Song. In Defiance of Drinking-sack

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If you will be still

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pp. 109-110

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The Old Gill.

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From twelve years old I oft have been told

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pp. 111-2

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The Pudding.

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I'll tell thee Dick where I have been

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pp. 113-6

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A Parly, between two West-Countrimen on sight of a wedding.

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With an old song made by an old antient pate

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pp. 116-8

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The Old and New Courtier.

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As I lay musing all alone

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pp. 119-20

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The Fryer and the Maid.

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Forth from my sad and darksome cell

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pp. 120-20

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Tom a Bedlam.

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In a melancholy study

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pp. 120-5

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Alas poor Scholar, Whither wilt thou go? Or Strange Alterations which at this time be There's many did think they never should see.

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Why thus in Cynthia's sports do you delight

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p. 150

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A Letter of Resolution.

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Tell me cruel fair one why

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pp. 151-2

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To his Mistress, desiring Enjoyment.

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In every line here may'st thou understand

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pp. 152-3

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When thou dost see my letter dost thou know

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pp. 153-4

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A Letter from a Lady with Child.

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Sweetest but read what silent love hath writ

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pp. 154-5

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A Perswasive Letter to his Mistress.

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Most worthy Sir | Unto your noble blood

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pp. 155-6

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Best Wishes from a Lady.

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I am not angry who can angry be

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p. 156

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A Letter of Acceptance from his Mistress.

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Modest shentle when her but see

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pp. 156-7

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Taffy to his Mistress.

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Thou art fair Fabulla rich and all's a maid

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p. 268

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As many shells on shore as roses sweet

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p. 271

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Tell in what place and I will herry thee

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p. 272

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O great Aeneas although Jove should not

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p. 274

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Rather had I Thirses thy fire should be

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p. 274

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Thy body to redeem bear sword and fire

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p. 275

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The light-heeled hinds in the air shall feed therefore

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p. 276

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Ah my fair boy trust not thy hue too much

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pp. 278

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But if Romes people ask me happily

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pp. 278-9

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I made these rhymes another had the land

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p. 278

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Ah fond friend Melibe I whilom dempt

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p. 279

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Quintia is fair to many so to me

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p. 284

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What makes glad corn and how to till the ground

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p. 284

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No region is without some living thing

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p. 286

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Fill thy sad matter with thy virtues grave

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p. 287

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Five zones the heavens do hold the middle hot

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p. 288

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Thy maiden-head's not wholly thine I ween

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p. 288

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From Libeans temple cometh forth great fame

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p. 290

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But if that oracles true things do tell

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p. 292

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Wilt then by turns we hand to hand do try

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p. 293

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Priscus thou often asks what I shall be

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p. 296

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There as they say is either silent night

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p. 301

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Paleness and sloth are not in the high mind

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p. 305

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They that make verses should not merry be

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p. 306

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Who freer is he that as a servant dwelleth

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p. 307

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It is no glory virgins to deceive

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p. 308

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That which we long for with desires great

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p. 308

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Dost thou me fly by these tears I thee pray

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p. 310

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When Paris Oenon hoped to forsake

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p. 310

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If I where wise those sisters I should hate

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p. 311

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What if thou sayest the thing thou dost not mean

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pp. 312-3

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The first part of my task is ended now

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p. 316

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Ne doth this man Troy's Wars divide so well

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p. 318

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