Cupids master-piece or, the free-school of witty and delightful complements [ESTC R19646]
- DMI number:
- 1710
- 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)
- Publisher:
- John Andrews
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for John Andrews at the White Lyon at the Upper end of the Old-Baily'.
- 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
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Cupid's Masterpiece
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