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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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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.
Subjects:	Courtship > Early works to 1800. Love poetry, English > Early works to 1800.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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