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:

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First Line:

Maids they are grown so coy of late

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

A Song for Maids

Attribution:

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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:

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First Line:

All you that women love

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

A brief Description of Women

Attribution:

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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

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First Line:

Women the wo of men cause of mans fall

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

The Praise, and Dispraise of Women

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First Line:

Come sit we under yonder tree

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

A May Day Song

Attribution:

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First Line:

Is she not wondrous fair But I do see

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

The Young Mans Sonnet

Attribution:

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First Line:

These eyes which set my fancies all on fire

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

This Song in her Praise

Attribution:

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Not attributed