The academy of complements. Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and enlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of many witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new school of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices
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- The academy of complements. Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and enlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of many witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new school of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices
- Academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence
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London : printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1664.
The last edition, with two tables; the one expounding the most hard English words: the other resolving the most delightfull fictions of the heathen poets.; ..
- Publication year
- 1664
- ESTC No.
- R223713
- Grub Street ID
- 97491
- Description
- [16], 344 p., [1] leaf of plates ; 12°.
- Note
- "The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?
With an added engraved title page
Caption title on p. 1 reads: The academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence
Partly in verse.
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- Added title page = plate