The Quakers art of courtship, or, The Yea-and-nay academy of complements calculated for the meridian of the Bull-and-Mouth and may indifferently serve the brethren of the wind-mill order for noddification in any part of will-a-wisp land / by the author of Teagueland jests.

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The Quakers art of courtship, or, The Yea-and-nay academy of complements calculated for the meridian of the Bull-and-Mouth and may indifferently serve the brethren of the wind-mill order for noddification in any part of will-a-wisp land / by the author of Teagueland jests.

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Author of Teagueland jests.

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London :: Printed and are to be sold by most booksellers,

1689.

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Society of Friends -- Anecdotes

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"The Quakers art of courtship, or, The Yea-and-nay academy of complements calculated for the meridian of the Bull-and-Mouth and may indifferently serve the brethren of the wind-mill order for noddification in any part of will-a-wisp land / by the author of Teagueland jests." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56861.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
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• THE PREFACE TO THE Unprejudic'd READER, By Way of DIALOGUE, Between Gent. and Prefacer.
• An Enthusiastick PREFACE, By way of Greeting, unto Friends.
• CHAP. I.
• CHAP. II.
  • Forms of Salutation used by Friends, which shew their great Improvement in Courtship.
• CHAP. III.
  • Another Relation touching the Courtship of Friends.
  • Another Complement by a Friend of the Order of the Grape, on a famous King of B. M.
• CHAP. IV.
• CHAP. V.
  • A Letter from a Friend that had buried his Wife, about a second Election.
  • An Answer of Friend unto the fore∣going Letter.
  • A Dialogue between John and Elizabeth.
• CHAP. VI.
  • A Letter from a Friend to an Attorney in Lon∣don, to Arrest one that owed him Monies.
  • Another Letter from Friend A. to the Parson of N.
  • A Letter from a Friend in Noddy-Land.
• CHAP. VII.
  • Certain Verses made into Metre to signifie Friends Attainment in Poetry.
• CHAP. VIII.
• CHAP. IX.
• CHAP. X.
• CHAP. XI.
• CHAP. XII.
  • The DIRECTIONS.
  • Friends Form of Marriage.
• CHAP. XIII.
  • A Letter from a Friend, to another Friend in Prison.
  • An Epistle from a Yea-and-Nay Youth, who was a Prentice with a Comb-maker, writ∣ten to his Father in the Country.
  • Some Metre upon Occasion of the Wet Quaker.
  • A Letter from a Friend to the Keeper of a Prison-House.
  • Another Epistle, by way of Enthusiasm, written to Penelope, the Daughter of Geffery.
  • Another Witticism, whereby it may appear that Friends do not want Talents.
  • Likewise another.
  • And another also.
• CHAP. XIV.