The beau's academy, or The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing. After the most courtly manner: 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, songs, letters of love and others: proverbs, riddles, 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 A new invented art of logick: so plain and easie, that the meanest capacity may, in a short time, attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.

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  • The beau's academy, or The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing. After the most courtly manner: 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, songs, letters of love and others: proverbs, riddles, 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 A new invented art of logick: so plain and easie, that the meanest capacity may, in a short time, attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
  • Modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing Mysteries of love and eloquence; or, The arts of wooing and complementing, &c
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Imprint
London: printed for O. B[lagrave]. and sold by John Sprint, at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1699.
Publication year
1699-1699
ESTC No.
R181771
Grub Street ID
72214
Description
[24], 208, 207-318, 70, [12] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 8⁰
Note
The preface is signed: E.P.; attributed to Edward Phillips by Wing.

Signatures: A? a? B-2C? 2D? (-2D2, blank?).

Frontis. = ill.

Quire Y wrongly imposed; pagination reads: 1, 6, 7, 4, 5, 2, 3, 8, 9, 14, 15, 12, 13, 10, 11, 16.