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J. G. 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 inlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of many witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new schoole of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices

Creator
J. G. (John Gough), active 1640
Date
1650
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
G1402
Caption
London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1650 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
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A new academy of complements, or, The lover's secratary [sic] : being wit and mirth, improv'd by the most elegant expressions us'd in the art of courtship, in divers examples of writing or inditing letters, relating either to love or business : also the silent language, or a compleat rule for discoursing by motion of the hand without being understood by the company ... : to which is added, a choice collections [sic] of above 120 love-songs, merry catches, and jovial healths : being the newest now extant : with plain instructions for dancing

Date
1715
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
229- 860q
Caption
London : Printed for C. Bates, in Gilspur-Street, and A. Bettesworth on London-Bridge, 1715 The fourth edition, with additions
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