The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner
Subtitle: in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Courtship; Early works to 1800; Logic; Epithets; Letter writing; English language; Rhyme; Questions and answers
Other titles: Modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing
Notes: Attributed to Edward Phillips. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).

Imperfect: pages torn with some loss of print.

Wing (2nd ed.) P2064