The Whores Rhetorick 1683

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... ingly to want, or care for their money, you will the easier arrive at the end of your own desires: and by standing on your punctilios, be able on all occasions, to calm the heat and extravagance of any insulting Hector, not suffering your self to be fed with that aery nutriment (loud big words ) which is the usual entertainment of certain Bravos. With all Men without distinction of persons, you must study to be in your dissembling and cheating Talents crafty and cunning, in your delights graceful, and in your perswasions powerful: thus you will in some sort imitate the good Orator, and fulfil the practical Doctrines in your own Rlietorick. The Memory which belongs properly to you, is not so much an immense capacity, qualified to receive and retain all objects represented to the exterior, and thence introduced to the general and interior sense; as an artificial ready remembrance of all points necessary in your own Trade, and the perswading power of your eloquence, which consists in timing your words and actions with a seasonable discretion, assigning every part of your art its proper place, and feeding your Lover with a real, or at least an imaginary pleasure. Dor. Good Mother, do not confine your self to the Rules of Rhetorick, because that will render your precepts obscure, and as to me scarce intelligible. M. C. Where your interest, and the Rules of Art concur, there you will permit me to speak in terms consonant to the name I have given the discourse. Where they jarr, I promise to forget the Rhetorick for your particular advantage. Dor. I thank you. M. C. What the Rhetoricians call Disposition, is requisite in this place to regulate the several parts of interest to the best advantage. The Rhetor some times perswades with arguments...