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Author: Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
Title: Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation obtain'd by general conversation and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.
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Print source: Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation obtain'd by general conversation and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.
Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
London: Printed by W.D. ..., 1675.
Subject terms:
Rogues and vagabonds.
Swindlers and swindling.
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THE AUTHORS EPISTLE and APOLOGY TO HIS INGENIOUS FRIEND N. W. Esq
PROTEUS REDIVIVUS, Or the ART of WHEEDLING OR INSINUATION.
CHAP. I. The signification of the word Wheedle.
CHAP. II. The Nature of Wheedling, and what the Practice thereof directly drives at.
CHAP. III. What Qualifications are requisite in a General Wheedle, or Dissembler.
The first Qualification of a Wheedle, a Good Ge∣nius; adorn'd with Real or Counterfeit Learning, or Languages acquired by Travel.
The second Qualification of a Wheedle, Reservation.
The third Qualification of a Wheedle; Dissimulation.
The fourth Qualification of a Wheedle, Flattery.
The Fifth Qualification of a Wheedle, Feigned Patience.
The Sixth Qualification of a Wheedle, Humility.
The Seventh Qualification of a Wheedle, Civility.
The Eight Qualification of a Wheedle, Affability.
The Ninth Qualification of a Wheedle, Plausibility.
CHAP. IV. What are the Praecognita, or things first necessary to be known, before the Student in this Art of Wheedling, enter upon the Practice of the Profession.
CHAP. V. Of the four Principal Humours or Complexions. Of the Sanguine.
Of Choler.
Of Phlegm.
Of Melancholy.
CHAP. VII. How to Wheedle or Dissemble with all sorts of Persons according to their several Humours, Ages, and Conditions.
CHAP. VIII. Some general Observations tending to a further dis∣covery of Mens Inclinations.
CHAP. IX. Of the Passions in General, by which we come to know, and win upon men.
CHAP. X. Of the Number of the Passions.
CHAP. XI. That Passions are the seeds of Vice, from whence the Wheedle receives frequently a plentiful Harvest.
Of LOVE.
Of DESIRE.
Of HOPE.
Of AUDACITY.
Of ANGER.
Of Delight or Pleasure.
On Tunbridge-Wells.
HATRED.
Eschewing, or Shunning.
OF DESPAIR.
Of FEAR.
The Policy of the Passions briefly sum'd up.
CHAP. XII. Of Acquaintance and Conversation.
PROTEUS REDIVIVUS, OR THE SECOND PART OF THE ART of WHEEDLING. Containing a true account of several pri∣vate and publick Practicers of this Mysterious Science.
CHAP. I. Of the variety of Wheedles or Insinuators.
CHAP. II. The Gentile Town-shift.
CHAP. III. The Ordinary Town shift.
CHAP. IV. Wheedles between the Town-shift, Vintner, and Drawers.
CHAP. V. Wheedles of a Town-shift in a Coffee-house, Ordinary, Theatre, Inn, on the Road, with the Watch, and his Lodgings.
CHAP. VI. The Wheedles of a Quacking Astrological Doctor.
CHAP. VII. Phanatick Wheedles of a Self-Edifying Non Conformist.
The Wheedle of the Shop-keeper.
CHAP. VIII. The Practicing APOTHECARY;
CHAP. IX. The Countrey-Attorney, Pettifogger, and other Law-Hangers-on.
CHAP. X. The Catch-Pole, or Tenter-Hook.
CHAP. XI. The Miseries in, and Wheedles of a Prison:
CHAP. XII. The Wheedles, of an handsome Hostess.
CHAP. XIII. The Master of a Ship, and his Owners.
CHAP. XIV. The Scrivener.