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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard,
1664.
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| 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 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([16], 344 pages, [1] leaf of plates |