Word: compleat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...printed in 1685, and entitled "The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, the Arts of Wooing and Complimenting," as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange and other eminent places. The contents of the book are further set off in the phrases "And to compleat the young Practitioners of Love and Courtship, these following conducing Helps are chiefly insisted on: Addresses and set Forms of Expression for imitation, Poems, pleasant Songs, Letters, Proverbs, Riddles, Jests, Posies, Devices, Ala-Mode Pastimes; a Dictionary for the making of Rimes, Four hundred and fifty delightful Questions, with their...
...three Days their Bacchanals compleat...