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 work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and enlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new school of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Philomusus, fl. 1640
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1664.
Edition: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.
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
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.
Reproduction of the original at the Bodleian Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([16], 344 pages, [1] leaf of plates