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Cupids master-piece or, the free-school of witty and delightful complements [ESTC R19646]

DMI number:
1710
Aliases
Cupid's Masterpiece
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
ESTC
Publication Date:
1685
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
R19646
EEBO/ECCO link:
http://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2176/search/full_rec?ACTION=ByID&ID=12399934&SOURCE=config.cfg
Shelfmark:
EEBO - BOD
Full Title:
CUPIDS | MASTER-PIECE | [i] OR [/i], | The Free-School of Witty and | Delightful Complements. | BEING, | The Art of Love Refined; and augmented | with divers new, pleasant, and delightful | comments and discourses of Love. With sundry pleasant | and amorous Songs and Sonnets, As also | ties or Rings, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, and other | things, for benefit and delight of young Men and | Maids. With divers other pretty fancies and | delicacies, full of Delight and variety of Wit. | [ornament] | [rule] | [i] When Hearts and Hands united are, | What joy with Love then can compare [/i]. | [rule] | [i] London [/i], Printed for [i] John Andrews [/i], at the White Lyon | at the Upper end of the Old-Baily, 1685.
Place of Publication:
London
Genres:
Collection of comic verse, Collection including prose, and Collection of songs
Format:
Octavo
Pagination:
[1-26] pp.
Bibliographic details:
Prose: (1) 'Instructions for Lovers: Teaching them, how to demean themselves towards their Sweet-hearts', p.5. (2) 'A merry sportive and Delightful Discourse, between a young Gallant, and a curious conceited Lady', pp.6-8. (3) 'A merry complemental wooing between two jeering Lovers', pp.8-10. (4) 'A merry cross woing, between Tom the Tailor, and Kate of the Kitchin', p.10-12. (5) 'A pleasant Discourse between a Bridegroom and a Bride, on their Bridal night', pp.13-14. (6) 'The gallant Sea-mans resolution concerning Marriage', pp.14-15. (7) 'Dick of the Country his woing of Jone of the Milk pail', pp.15-16. (8) 'The merry simple woing and winning of Jone of the Cream pot, by a Country Farmer' , pp.17-18. (9) 'An amorous Complement between a Young Man, and a beautiful Damzel', pp.19-20. (10) 'Coridon and Phillida, the Shepheard and the Shepheardess', pp.21-22. (11) 'The delicate woing between Oliver and Rebecca', pp.22-23.
Comments:
Plates: frontispiece and engraving on p.8.
Other matter:
End matter: (1) 'A Table'
References:
NCBEL 336 (1685)
Related People
Publisher:
John Andrews
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
'Printed for John Andrews at the White Lyon at the Upper end of the Old-Baily'.
Content/Publication
First Line:
True love is a precious treasure
Page No:
p.4
Poem Title:
Cupids Master-Piece. A brief Description of true Love
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Maids they are grown so coy of late
Page No:
p.8
Poem Title:
A Song for Maids
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Now what is love I will thee tell
Page No:
p.10
Poem Title:
A Sonnet in praise and dispraise of Love
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
All you that women love
Page No:
pp.12-13
Poem Title:
A brief Description of Women
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Lo here's the bride and there's the tree
Page No:
p.15
Poem Title:
One whose choice was either to be Hanged, or married
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Women the wo of men cause of mans fall
Page No:
pp.16-17
Poem Title:
The Praise, and Dispraise of Women
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Come sit we under yonder tree
Page No:
pp.18-19
Poem Title:
A May Day Song
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Is she not wondrous fair But I do see
Page No:
pp.20-21
Poem Title:
The Young Mans Sonnet
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
These eyes which set my fancies all on fire
Page No:
p.23
Poem Title:
This Song in her Praise
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed