The academy of complements : Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and formes of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A worke perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inriched, by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed by T. Badger, for H. Mosley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-yard,
1645.
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| Edition: | The sixt edition, with two tables, the one expounding the most hard English words, the other resolving the most delightfull fictions of the heathen poets. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, id est John Gough?. With an added engraved title page. Caption title on pages 1 reads: The academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence. Partly in verse. Imperfect; H10 (pp. 165-166) lacking; some leaves torn, affecting page numbers. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([22], 290 pages : illustrations. |