,,the ,,english ,,secretary1 ,,or ,methode of writing of ,epistles and ,letters3 ,,with ,a declaration of such ,tropes1 ,figures1 and ,schemes1 as either vsually or for ornament sake are therin required4 ,also the parts and office of a ,secretarie1 ,deuided into two bookes4 ,now newly reuised and in many parts corrected and amended3 ,by ,angel ,day4 ,,at ,,london ,printed by ,p4 ,s4 for ,c4 ,burbie and are to be sold at his shop1 at the ,royall ,exchange4 #aeii4 ,to the right ,honorable1 ,edward de ,vere1 ,earle of ,oxenford1 ,vicount ,bul- becke1 ,lord ,standford and of ,badlesmere1 and ,lord great ,chamberlaine of ,england4 ,it is now a fewe yeares passed 7,right ,honourable1 my very good ,lord7 since emboldned by your faour1 this booke rudely digested1 and then roughly deliuered1 ,i did in the very nonage thereof recmend vnto your ,patronage4 ,and howbeit at that time1 very little therin appeared worthy so honourable acceptance3 yet pleased it your ,l4 the same should then passe vnder your fauourable countenance4 ,to answer so great bountie therein shewed1 ,i haue naught but my simple acknowledgement3 and in signification of the will ,i haue to do vnto your ,lordship any acceptable seruice1 no other matter in shew1 then a fresh renouation of the selfe same title by an other presentment1 howbeit in far more orderly manner then formerly was deliuered4 ,your ,lordship may please of your owne ennobled condition to well dooing1 in pardoning the presumption of the former1 to vouchsafe your liking to this latter1 wherein 7notwithstanding the title all one7 yet shall you finde the worke both in order1 habit and shape1 to be diuersly chaunged4 ,to excuse the defecte of the one1 or enlarge my paines taken in publishing the other1 were on either part needlesse3 seeing my desire in both1 hath principally sorted to one self meaning3 ,if your ,l4 find ought herein answerable to your iudgmt1 it is inough3 and the vsers shall thereby 7,i hope7 finde more cause to be satisfied4 ,the wisest of all ages1 haue not at one instant collected their experience3 ,plato in his first original was nothing so diuine3 ,socrates in his cradle had no taste of his after wisdome3 ,hercules past many yeres ere he grew famed by his labors1 onely vse and practize enableth vnto the greatest perfection4 ,this being so1 ,it will1 ,i trust1 seeme in me a matter the more pardonable1 to haue aduentured as ,i did the formost of this purposed labor1 regarding that by a reuew of the same it hath now receiued some shape and proportion4 ,such as it is ,i humblie recommend as before1 vnto your honorable liking4 ,and for my selfe do remaine1 alwaies ,by your honorable ,l4 to be commanded1 ,angel ,day4 ,to the learned and courteous ,readers in generall4 ,gentlemen1 ,when ,i do begin first to speake vnto you in this action1 me thinks1 you doe espie in me the parts of an ill ,scholler1 who in all his dooinges1 is forced to craue pardon1 but hardly findeth the way that may purchase vnto him selfe the benefite of such a pardon4 ,in reformation1 two notable instances are held the which as ,i conceiue do craue allowance1 though no prerogatiue in wel doing1 and these are for a man to finde his defect1 and secondly to haue a will to amend it4 ,i will assure you1 though ,i be not gratious1 ,i would be loath to seeme gracelesse and this benefite ,i will haue to gaine your allowance1 that ,i will blush for mine errors1 where ,i fault in abilitie1 ,i will shew you my will3 ,and when in all ,i cannot cleare me from your censures1 yet shall your courteous forbearance be in me no waies misprised4 ,i haue to foretime as now still trauelled with the gardener1 who first throweth vp his earth on a rude heape1 the scattereth it1 after smootheth it1 next squareth it1 lastly bringeth it into knots and workmanship1 before which you know1 there are many weeds1 loose hearbes1 grasses1 sticks1 and rubbish to be picked vp thrown out3 ,and then and not before beginneth his worke to drawe towards the perfection4 ,as he so ,i1 at the first threw vp this groundwork in a heape1 and onely did scatter it3 after1 and hether vnto ,i haue endeuored to smooth and to square it1 picking out thereof many thinges which lay to too much disordered4 ,it onely now wanteth to be labored on by a more curious workmanship1 but because it is my garden plat1 my prouision is too small to perfect on a sodaine so spacious a ground worke1 ,i will temporize with those duties1 which either by time may in me be supported or by a greater hability in others may happilie hereafter be performed4 ,now because it is in all omissions the greatest omission not to bee thankefull for courtesies1 ,i will acknowledge that as you haue hitherto benignly delt with me in the suruey of these labours1 so haue you bound mee the more vnto you by your fauourable censures4 ,and yet if after this continued trauell vnto this present1 you either in mine or in the printers escapes find any thing blame worthy1 couer it ,i pray you as before you haue done with the vaile of your courtesie4 ,the copies before this1 haue bene ,i confesse erroniously many wayes deliuered1 and this by the blottings and interlinings had in the former amendements hath peraduenter also his escapes or mistakings3 ,if any be1 they are fewe ,i hope1 and therefore the more easie to be tollerated4 ,onely correct where fault is1 and the printer and ,i shalbe beholding vnto you4 ,hauing thus performed for my selfe what vnto your worthines stoode meete to be considered1 giue mee now leaue ,i pray you1 touching the order and course in this ,methode hereafter obserued1 to say somthing to them which therby are to take any benefit or profite4 ,in which case1 the learner is circumspectly with himselfe to consider1 the seuerall rules in the particular chapters preceeding the orders of those ,epistles1 in such sort as afterwards they are distinguished1 therein see1 what to the better ordering and principall direction1 of whatsoeuer hee shall take in hand to write1 is there 7for his better instruction7 enioyned4 ,by diligent animaduersion wherof1 he shall the better vnderstand the seuerall natures and properties1 that in the parts of euery ,epistle1 are ordinarily to be required1 besides the vse of them in their seueral places1 and what force they beare1 being so sorted out1 according to their speciall purposes and directions4 ,next1 for the better inducement and leading him into a plaine and perfect platforme of this ,methode following1 to the intent he may as neere as may be1 or as his capacitie 7at leastwise7 may any waies reach vnto1 knowe 7skilfully1 not by rote7 how or in what sort he shall happen to doe either well or ill1 ,i haue first 7in a preamble or intermixed discourse1 either preceeding or interchangeably passing1 before or with the kindes of euery sorte of ,epistles7 declared the properties and vse of those ,epistles1 vpon what parts and places1 they and euery of them doo consist1 with what vehemencie or lesse application they are to bee inforced or quallified1 so that he who seemeth to haue least knowledge at all 7be it that he haue perseuerance to conceiue or to distinguish the parts he seeth there laid out before his eyes7 may with great facilitie1 attaine to whatsoeuer1 herein prescribed1 or by the circumstance thereof intended to be in any sort deliuered4 ,to the greater ornament whereof1 ,i haue applied a number of ,figures1 ,schemes1 and ,tropes in the margent of euery ,epistle1 euen with the places where they are vsed4 ,and at the end of this worke1 haue set them altogither1 and therein explaned to the ,learners view1 and for his readier vse1 their particular natures and qualities1 to the end that they who 7being vnlearned1 hauing a pretie conceit of inuention of themselues7 haue heretofore vnknowing done well1 may see how with skill and discretion hereafter to pursue the same1 the ignorant also hereof whose reach hath not been so ample as others1 may be thereby informed what vnto well doing is most consonant and agreeing4 ,now1 for the readier finding of those ,epistles1 as each of their kindes are suted forth in sundrie ,examples3 ,peruse but the head of euery page and there you shall find what in the same page is contained1 viz4 ,where the ,epistles be1 you shall haue them noted in their kindes1 as ,epistles ,hortatorie1 ,dehortatorie1 ,swasorie1 or ,disswasorie1 c4 ,and likewise in the admixtions1 you shall finde ,places or ,parts ,hortatorie1 ,commendatorie1 ,petitorie1 c4 as they fall out to be handled4 ,this booke thus shewing these parts before remembred1 ,i haue termed as you see by the name of ,the ,secretorie1 being in the consideration thereof nothing ignorant what great perfection is to be required in such a one1 by whose title the same is deliuered1 neither supposing the matter herein contained to appeare so sufficient1 as perfectly thereby to enable what in the same function is to bee required1 but because the orderly writing of ,letters1 being a principall part belonging to a ,secretorie1 is by the ,method3 hereof deliuered to any ,learners capacitie whereout the ,scholler or any other that is vnfurnished of the knowledge thereof1 may gather ayde and furtherance1 ,i haue therefore endeuored to tearme it by the name of ,secretarie4 ,these with my willing minde1 and desire of well doing herein1 ,i doo present to the generall and friendly regarde of all1 wishing that in courtesie they repute of my trauels1 as formost of all other things1 ,i therein respected their benefites4 ,in affoording whereof1 they shall doo no more then belongeth to good mindes1 and encourage me by whatsoeuer other meanes hereafter1 to gratifie their fauours4 ,the ,english ,secretorie4 ,of an ,epistle1 the commodities and vse thereof4 ,chap4 #a4 ,forasmuch as we haue herein endeuoured to lay downe a platforme or method for writing of ,epistles4 ,it shall not be amisse1 that following the order of all other writers1 wee first define vnto you what an ,epistle is4 ,an ,epistle therefore1 is that which vsually we in our vulgar1 doe tearms a ,letter1 and for the respectes thereof is called the messenger1 or familiar speach of the absent1 for that therein is discouered whatsoeuer the minde wisheth in such cases to haue deliuered4 ,the diuersities of ,epistles are manifold1 as wherof ensueth a platforme to euerie motion1 being in truth so infinite as are y imaginations of each ones fantasie1 seeing the declaration of euerie letter1 is no more then what the minde willeth in all occasions to be perfourmed1 and according to such instigations wherewith at that instant men are fed when they write1 taketh his formall substance1 whether it be to require1 counsel1 exhort1 command1 informie1 commend1 entreat1 aduertise1 gratulate1 or whatsoeuer other purpose therein pretended1 as cause and matter maie fall out to be required4 ,the antiquity is as ancient as the benefite that therof ensueth is great1 whereof onlie those that are sufficientlie enabled with the qualitie1 can giue the greatest testimonie4 ,needelesse were it for me to commend the vse1 when aswell by the authorities of a number the best learned1 who to aduance the efficacie thereof1 haue in sundrie languages prescribed rules and methods for the same1 as of others besides1 whose most excellent writings of ,epistles are at this present extant1 it is most plentifully aduanced4 ,and although pregnant wit ensuing by nature was the foremost cause that first bred the inuention of ,letters1 and that euery one naturally can speake1 or in some sort or other set down their meaning3 yet ,art preuailing in the cause1 and by cunning skill marshalling euery thing in his due order1 place and proportion1 how much more the same is then beautified1 adorned1 and as it were in a new shape transmuted by such kind of knowledge1 the difference that dailie appeareth may yeeld proofe sufficient4 ,what is chiefelie to be respected in framing of an ,epistle4 ,chap4 #b4 ,forasmuch as by the necessarie vse of ,letters before laid downe1 a commendable maner of writing and framing the same hath bene already remembred3 ,it shall not bee amisse1 that in this ,chapter we now endeuour to answere the purpose therein pretended4 ,for the manifestation whereof1 ,i haue thought good to drawe vnto your consideration certaine principall points1 which thereunto are speciallie to be required3 first1 ,aptnes of words and sentences1 respecting that they be neate and choiselie picked1 and orderly handled3 next1 ,breuity of speach1 according in matter and circumstance fitlie to be framed3 lastly1 ,comlines in deliuerance1 concerning the person and cause1 whereupon the direction is grounded4 ,the first1 being ,aptnesse of wordes and sentences1 consisteth in choice and good tearmes1 in skilful and proper application of them according to their true meanings1 in wel sorting and fitting them1 to their seuerall purposes4 ,choise and good tearmes1 are in words vsual1 and plain for the matter in deliuerie1 not improper nor new coined1 nor too olde1 as hauing not of long time before bene vsed4 ,skilfull application is1 when in their setting down they haue either their true proper signification for deliuery1 or else by a more delicate or pleasant inuenton may be caried conceitedly4 ,well sorting fitting them1 resteth in the matter in handling1 that therein be a concordance with their applications1 whereof may ensue a due construction1 and no disorderlie mistaking4 ,the next1 being ,breuity of speach1 is not as some vndiscreetlie haue imagined1 that which consisteth in fewnes of lines1 shortnes of roome in shew of a side of paper1 but breuitie of matter1 wherein scope sufficient remaining for the necessary demonstration and deliuerie of any needfull occasion1 men are barred from friuolous circumstances1 and inioined therin to abhorre all maner of tediousnes3 ,for which cause some haue beene of opinion1 that continuance of matter ought not to be vsed in an ,epistle1 for that it thereby looseth the shew of an ,epistle1 and taketh vpon it the habit of an ,oration3 ,yet of such sort are in this method sundry ,epistles1 the titles wherof are1 ,hortatorie1 ,dehortatorie1 ,laudatorie1 ,vituperatorie1 ,suasorie1 ,petitorie1 ,monitorie1 ,accusatorie1 ,excusatorie1 ,consolatorie1 ,inuectiue and such like1 whose speciall vses do of necessitie admit such scope as in euerie ordinarie ,epistle is not found1 and though they beare in them many ,oratorie parts1 yet lose they not at all for that1 neither name nor habit of an ,epistle4 ,the tolleration and ordinarie vse of which1 both examples of many learned1 and common custome hath warranted4 ,and therfore1 when to be briefe it is herein inioyned1 it is alwayes thereby to be intended1 that a man with onelie necessarie speeches may bee permitted to deliuer his meaning1 neither is it without the limits of breuitie1 when aptlie and at full the same shall be in this sort reported4 ,and for the better declaration1 howe farre the conceit hereof may be induced only in writing of ,letters1 ,i will first limit what may be accounted necessarie therein1 and afterwards endeuour to lay downe1 howe contrarie thereunto1 men 7aswell in the vse1 as in neglecting thereof7 haue heretofore erred4 ,necessarie speeches1 ,i do account whatsoeuer is set downe1 for the plaine and open deliuerie of euerie occasion1 to the intent the minde of the writer1 and what he pursueth may aptly and in good and ready sort be conceiued4 ,the repugnancie hereof is when either with too much curtalling our arguments1 in conceit to auoyde tediousnes1 or with too manie or ouer often repetitions1 neuer thinking to haue spok sufficiently1 either to induce remembrance1 or put forward our meaning1 we abbreuiate or amplifie our ,epistles4 ,and when some others also1 of a conceit more curious than necessarie1 striuing to excell in varietie of sentences1 and copie of words1 coyned all of one sute1 thinke therfore in paining themselues to write more than needeth1 to be counted more eloquent4 ,these falling out to bee imperfections1 as each of them are in truth to bee blamed1 so where the defect remaineth1 are they 7for well writing7 with studie to be amended4 ,the third and last nowe being ,comelinesse in deliuerance touching the person and cause1 semeth to bee tied vnto two seuerall respects3 that is1 to the reputation of the partie to whome wee write1 his condition1 age1 honour1 and disposition1 and to the fitnes of the matter whereof we take vpon vs to write3 for as it is most decent that in the matter we make choice of1 we giue vnto euerie cause his proper and orderly effect3 so is it euery way as conuenient to afford a like ,decorum of those to whome our letters are directed4 ,the reputation of each partie1 is measured according to his dignitie or worthinesse1 whereby hee beareth reckoning and place before vs4 ,the condition1 by the age or maner of liuing1 wherein resteth either grauitie or youthfulnesse4 ,the humour by the disposition1 as whether desirous to be reuerenced1 fawned on1 or with plaine termes vsed4 ,by this reason1 the methode or stile of our letters falleth out diuerslie to be considered3 in one sort we frame them to olde men1 in an other sort to young men1 one way to sad and graue persons1 another to light and yong fellowes3 one platforme to ,courtiers1 another to ,philosophers4 ,to great and notable personages1 with a dutie speciall1 appropriate to their calling3 ,to our betters1 alwayes with submission3 ,to our inferiours1 benignly and fauourably3 ,to our friends1 louinglie3 ,to our enemies sharplie and nippinglie4 ,thus farre as touching the person1 and now for the cause4 ,in this point it semeth that the matter of euerie writing should still be measureed according to the writers apparance1 credit or worthines1 that the validity thereof should be answerable to the one or the others greatnes1 or goodnesse3 that the intendment be sound1 lawfull1 and to no euill purposes3 that it containe not base1 filthie1 or scurrile matter1 vnbeseming a direction so worthie4 ,then that euerie thing to bee written of should bee deliuered according to his proper qualitie3 ,termes more officious than beseming1 are vnfitting3 not sufficientlie to consider of each reputation1 were ouer homelie4 ,a matter of grauitie is to bee deliuered with waight3 a matter of sorrowe should be reported with griefe3 a matter of pastime1 to be discoursed with pleasure3 a matter of folly1 intermingled with laughter4 ,now contrariwise1 to a person sorrowfull to write of iests1 to talke learnedly to a clowne1 to salute an olde man with childish fantasies3 in cases of waight1 to aduance trifles3 were altogither as improper as peeuish1 and more absurd than fitteth to be tollerated in anie skilfull vsage4 ,sidenote3 ,words improper and impugning the sense4 ,sidenote3 ,errors comm to the learned1 as well as to the vnlearned4 ,and because ,i haue taken vpon me some distinguishments of writing1 wherein ,i speciallie stand vpon choise and meete termes and speches1 with proper applications3 ,i thinke it not amisse to set down vnto you some shew of the contrarie inurements1 wherby you may with the greater discretion conceiue the error thereof1 the which ,i haue sometimes noted in other mens writings2 ,and first1 of vnsemly applications3 as for example3 one that sometimes intended not a litle of his owne inuention1 tooke vpon him to write a loue letter to a woman of verie meane reckoning1 in which1 after he had drawne 7,god ,cupid by the name of the blinded boy7 by those parts of fauor that neuer were in her1 and shewed himselfe much passionat for the loue he ought to her1 he concludeth the meatter in this sort4 ,thus crauing your lawfull beneuolence1 in not mee reiecting1 your answere comfortable and not intollerable1 c4 ,the woman not accustomed to such hote intertainment1 and rather bluntlie before time pursued1 then daintilie intreated1 beganne here vpon 7forsooth7 to waxe coy1 and to intende great matter of her self1 and vaunting her fauour at a higher rate then he belike semed afterwarde willing to become a purchaser of1 remained as she was1 and himselfe at his more profitable studies4 ,the conclusion of his letter was verie improper1 insomuch as requiring liking by the name of ,beneuolence1 hee both misprised his owne demand1 and semed to induce a word more sounding to a charitable reliefe1 or curteous contribution of money1 then to anie such purpose as he meant it4 ,besides1 your answere comfortable1 and not intollerable4 ,if these had passed in a iest1 it had bene more conuenient1 but vsed bona fide1 it was too bad1 especiallie respecting the partie what she was1 from whome one would haue supposed that such a one as himself1 could neuer haue receiued 7but by too much tolleration7 any discontentment at all4 ,this errour we see is not onelie common to the vnlearned1 for as well this one1 who in his profession 7as ,i was informed by him that shewed me the letter7 was well reputed of1 but also some of the forwarder sort1 onlie by affectation of words1 which they haue vsed1 haue bene misliked1 and yet learned ynough4 ,among which a ,doctor of ,physicke long since1 intending to be verie eloquent in words1 and such as euery ,carter should not conceiue of1 began an ,epistle to a booke by him published in this sort3 wherein secondly appeareth this errour of old improper or new coyned termes1 and this was the forme4 ,sidenote3 ,a ridiculous maner of writing4 ,sidenote3 ,vrbanitie and exasperate vnproperlie placed4 ,egregious ,doctours and ,maisters of the eximious and ,archane ,science of ,physicke1 of your ,vrbanitie exasperate not your selues agaynst mee1 for making of this little volume of ,physicke4 ,considering that my pretence is for an vtilitie and a ,common-wealth4 ,and this not onelie1 but also ,i doe it for no detriment1 but for a preferment of your laudable ,science1 that euerie man should esteeme1 repute1 and regarde the excellent facultie4 ,and also you to bee extolled and highlie preferred1 that hath and dooth studie1 practise and labour this saide ,archane ,science1 to the which none inartious persons1 can nor shall attaine to the knowledge3 yet notwithstanding fooles and insipient persons1 yea and manie the which doth think themselues wise 7the which in this facultie be fooles indeed7 will enterprise to smatter1 c4 ,was there euer seene from a learned man a more preposterous confused kind of writing1 farced with so many and such odde coyned tearmes in so little vttering8 ,but surely1 the man did it of a great conceite1 for as appeareth by the course of all his ,epistle following1 his wittes were so pestered with an angrie mislike of the bad demeanor of some vnlearned vsers of his science 7as he thought with himselfe7 that euerie botcher should not be able to vent him1 but hee should bee a man of some reach at least that should finde him4 ,neuerthelesse howe wise so euer stood his imaginations3 this one thing doe ,i knowe1 that diuerse to whome ,i haue shewed the booke haue verie heartilie laughed in perusing the parts of his writing4 ,for these egregious1 eximious1 vrbanitie1 and exasperate1 although the wordes be in some sort tollerable1 yet because anie of them are amongst vs verie rarelie vsed1 and in this writing two of them especially very vnproperly placed1 the maner thereof soundeth 7in mine opinion7 nothing pleasant4 ,insomuch as exasperate is properly to set him in a farther rage1 that is alreadie furiously bent in a thing1 and besides1 by the action of another man then himselfe who as it were of a resolute will and meaning1 would goe about to procure it1 so that it maie be well saide1 hee did exasperate his furies the more1 by inducing such a speach1 or such an acte3 but it cannot bee so properlie deliuered to saie1 exasperate not your selfe for such a thing1 especiallie when ,i am not therewith so much as in anie mislike alreadie1 which no man canne at anie time bee1 without he first knowe an occasion3 your ,vrbanitie likewise being deriued of the ,latine worde ,vrbanus1 which is ciuile1 courteous1 gentle1 modest1 or well ruled1 as men commonlie are in ,cities and places of good gouernement1 whereof that worde taketh his originall1 the worde is not common amongst vs1 nor so apt to the sense as if hee had saide1 your curtesie1 your modestie1 and so it might run thus1 ,let not your curtesies be agreeued against me1 or1 ,let it not be offensiue to your modesty1 that for the benefite of a great manie1 ,i haue published this volume of ,physicke4 ,the grounde was verie good1 for his intendment was1 that the cause belonged to a common wealth1 wherein if anie particular commoditie seemed to be lessened1 wise men and such as were more studious of their ,countries good1 then of their owne peculiar gaine1 ought not to be offended4 ,then saith he3 ,and this not only1 but also ,i doe it for no detriment1 c4 ,what confused deliuerance is this8 ,how much more orderlie thus1 which soundeth also more to his meaning4 ,and this also respected1 in that ,i doe it not for anie detriment vnto you1 but for a preferment of your laudable science4 ,then his comming in with arcane science1 inartious fooles and insipient persons1 had it not beene lesse improper1 if hee had saide profounde science1 and vnskilfull or vnlearned1 for inartious1 and to haue contented himselfe with his fooles1 without adding to the same insipient persons4 ,lastlie he proceedeth3 ,and many the which dooth thinke themselues wise 7the which in this facultie are fooles indeede7 will enterprise1 c4 ,here is the which and the which1 a phrase neuer with vs accustomed1 nor with anie good writer in his time 7which was not manie yeares since7 the sence whereof might in this sort more plainelie bee deliuered4 ,and many who in their owne opinion doe seeme verie wise 7but therein are in truth verie fooles7 will enterprise1 c4 ,but of this ynough1 for that ,i thinke it nowe high time to proceed to the rest1 these two exemples being sufficient to admonish the learner1 of the congruitie of his speaches and sentences1 with good phrases that bee most agreeing to the meaning1 and not improperlie1 to be deliuered1 whereby he shall auoid the like errour1 and absurditie in conueiance hereby expressed1 and already so much reprehended4 ,of the habite and parts of an ,epistle4 ,cap4 #c4 ,sidenote3 ,character of an ,epistle generall4 ,sidenote3 ,epistles distinguished into generall and speciall4 ,sidenote3 ,letters general are familar4 ,sidenote3 ,letters special4 ,sidenote3 ,difference of stile4 ,seeing an ,epistle hath chieflie his definition herof1 in that it is tearmed the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friende to another3 it seemeth the ,character thereof1 shoulde according thereunto bee simple1 plaine1 and of the lowest and meanest stile1 vtterlie deuoid of anie shadow of hie and loftie speaches3 yet neuerthelesse1 for so much as in the argument of a great manie of them 7whose seuerall distinctions hereafter shall appeare7 is required 7as ,i said before7 a more high and loftie deliuerance1 partaking manie waies with that kinde accustomed in ,orations1 and is therefore accordinglie to be necessarilie furnished with the pointes thereunto incident3 we will for the present1 sort all kinde of ,epistles onelie into these two maner of differences1 the one part whereof shall be said to be general1 and the other speciall4 ,under this title of generall shall bee comprehended all such1 as either for fashions sake1 custome1 dutie1 curtesie1 or other familiaritie do ordinarilie passe from one part to another1 rather of a pleasant conceit1 or some other more district or seuere motion1 then of anie extraordinarie cause1 forme1 or substance in either of them contained4 ,such are those as whome either long acquaintance1 or ancient familiaritie1 haue caused enterchangeablie to haue performed3 or fatherly reuerence1 and seruile dutie haue bound1 by graue authoritie ouer children1 kindred or seruants1 accustomablie to be continued4 ,these1 for the common and ordinarie matter in euerie of them vsed1 being vtterly exempt from anie waight or grauitie at all1 are rightlie tearmed by the name of familiar letters4 ,they nowe that be speciall are such1 the matter of whome 7as ,i said before7 doe admit both higher stile1 and more orderlie deliuerance1 according to the waight of the argument1 in anie of them to bee handled3 and for this cause are tearmed speciall1 as bearing in them a resolute purpose and intendment seriouslie to discourse vpon1 to answere1 mittigate or auoid any certain matter or causes1 importing the present affairs whereupon the direction is framed4 ,of them also are certaine diuisions1 learnedly by skilfull ,authours1 that heretofore haue beene distinguished1 the titles whereof ,i doe omit1 in another place then this more opportune to be hereafter remembred4 ,these as they are from the others manie waies estranged in their seuerall argumentes3 so vnto the conueiance and expressing of their causes appertaineth both other order1 and diuers partes in them 7then in the residue7 more fullie to be considered4 ,in whose composition1 that there maie be a platforme gathered of a more certaine proceeding1 we wil as others haue thought meet1 distinguish their seuerall parts as they fall out to be borrowed in an oration4 ,sidenote3 ,inuention4 ,sidenote3 ,disposition4 ,sidenote3 ,eloquution4 ,sidenote3 ,helps to ,inuention and ,eloquution4 ,in such kind therefore of ,epistles1 rightly and with good skil to be handled1 the learner shal vnderstand1 that there are three things1 by meanes whereof1 for the needfull expressing and orderlie deliuerie of anie matter whatsoeuer1 he must of necessitie be furnished4 ,inuention first1 wherein plentifullie is searched and considered1 what kind of matter1 how much varietie of sentences1 what sorts of figures1 how many similitudes1 what approbations1 diminutions1 insinuations and circumstances are presentlie needefull1 or furthering to the matter in handling4 ,then1 ,disposition1 whereby is orderlie1 cunninglie1 and perfectlie laid downe and disposed1 euerie matter and cause in his due order1 proportion and place4 ,thirdlie1 ,eloquution1 whose efficacie in speaches1 neate1 pure and elegant1 is in the other ,chapter vnder aptnes of words sufficientlie alreadie described4 ,the first and the last of these three1 as they are greatlie put forwarde by nature1 which in some being farre more curious of imitation and studie of the best1 then in other some1 whose will and conceit alike1 doe 7by a verie instinct7 affect and couet far more baser purposes3 so besides the furtherance continuallie atchieued by often vse of reading1 shall herein be greatlie holpen1 in that for the selfe same purpose1 and to the intent the learner maie as well in his natiue tongue1 know the right vse of figures and ,tropes heretofore neuer by him vnderstoode1 as also discerne and vse them1 out of others and in his own writings4 ,i haue at the latter end of this booke1 gathered together all such ,figures1 ,schemes and ,tropes hereunto needefull and conuenient1 and there haue by sundrie familiar examples expressed their vses and seuerall effects4 ,in diligent conceit and aduerting whereof1 the vse vnto the practiser shall in short time bee founde greatlie auaileable1 by the benefit thereby attained4 ,sidenote3 ,stile of ,epistles4 ,sidenote3 ,sublime4 ,sidenote3 ,humile4 ,sidenote3 ,mediocre4 ,now in as much as ,eloquution is annexed vnto the stile1 which euermore is also tied to the argument and substance of euerie ,epistle3 it is to be regarded what stile maie generallie bee deemed meetest for the common habit1 wherein each of them maie ordinarilie be published4 ,in the recording whereof1 we do find thre sorts1 especiallie in all kinds of writing and speaking1 to haue bene generallie commended4 ,sublime1 the highest and stateliest maner1 and loftiest deliuerance of anie thing that maie bee1 expressing the heroicall and mightie actions of ,kinges1 ,princes1 and other honourable personages1 the stile whereof is said to be tragicall swelling in choice1 and those the most haughtiest tearmes1 commended1 described1 amplified and preferred also by ,orators1 which manie excellent ,figures and places of ,rhetorique4 ,humile1 the lowest comicall1 and most simple of all others1 the matter whereof is the meanest subiect of anie argument that maie be1 entermedling in common causes1 aduertisements and mutuall affectes of euerie one1 the stile whereof sweepeth euen the very grounde it selfe1 and is fittest appropriate to our familiar ,letters1 for that in such familiar causes and maners1 the same is solely frequented1 in which neuertheless is ,sua faceties et elegantia qudam his certaine kind of elegancie1 pleasant and neat conueiance1 not altogether to be sequestred from that kinde of deliuerance4 ,mediocre1 a meane betwixt high and lowe1 vehement and slender1 too much and too little1 as we saie1 in which are expressed histories1 ,declamations1 ,comentaries1 and other intermingled actions1 not of anie in particular1 but of all in generall1 this stile of all others maie be adapted vnto these speciall kinds of ,epistles4 ,sidenote3 ,skilfull vse of writing4 ,sidenote3 ,parts of an ,epistle4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,narratio ,propositio4 ,sidenote3 ,confirmati4 ,sidenote3 ,confutati4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,thus then it followeth1 that whether we write familiarlie1 or waightilie1 we must endeuour as neere as maie bee that each be perfourmed skilfullie1 for that to neither of them maie want learning1 without the knowledge whereof1 what ornament can there be at all of this expected elegancie4 ,the particularities whereof included in these two titles ,inuention and ,eloquution1 both ,nature and ,skill do put forward as we daily see by a double instruction4 ,this therfore sufficing for those twain1 let vs see what parts are supplied in an ,epistle1 succeding in the other also1 and ayding to ,disposition4 ,the first place is ,exordium1 a beginning or introduction to the matter to be written of1 which is not always after one sort or fashion1 but in diuerse maners3 as sometimes by preamble1 wherein either for our selues1 or the cause we write of1 or in respect of him1 for or to whom we write1 wee studie to win fauor or allowance of the matter1 sometimes by insinuation1 wherin couertly1 either in respect that the matter requireth long debatement or that mislike may bee alreadie grounded in him to whom we direct our letters1 we seeke by cunning reasons to shewe that the case so requiring is tollerable3 or in the other1 that rather equity then selfe opinion must and ought chieflie to be weighed4 ,sometimes by a similitude1 wherein by manifesting the like of that we take in hand to haue bene commenced1 tollerated1 or equally censured1 wee intend the same1 or lesse force in our selues1 at their hands to bee borne withall or accepted1 and diuerse other wayes besides1 as in the ,epistles following shall be tendred4 ,then ,narratio1 or ,propositio1 each seruing to one effect1 wherein is declared or proponed1 in the one by plaine tearmes1 in the other by inference1 or comparison1 the verie substance of the matter whatsoeuer to be handled4 ,then ,confirmatio1 wherein are amplified or suggested many reasons1 for the aggrauating or proof of any matter in question4 ,after ,confutatio1 whereby is diminished1 disproued or auoided1 whatsoeuer to bee supposed1 obiected or aggrauated4 ,lastlie1 ,peroratio1 in which after a briefe recapitulation of that which hath beene vrged1 the occasions thereof are immediatelie concluded4 ,these are not altogither at all times vsed1 but some or the most of them as occasion serueth1 either admitted or reiected3 besides which1 others also are sometimes remembred4 ,the vse whereof as in sundrie ,epistles they may be deemed necessarie1 shall in their seuerall examples hereafter perused1 appeare more euidentlie and largely4 ,of certaine contents generally incident to all maner of ,epistles4 ,chap4 #d4 ,sidenote3 ,maner of salutations4 ,sidenote3 ,epithets4 ,in writing of ,epistles1 four especiall contents are alwaies continuallie incident4 ,the manner of ,salutation1 an order of taking leaue or farewell1 the ,subscription1 and the outwarde direction4 ,salutations of auncient time were woont to bee fixed1 ,quasi omen faustum1 a signe or inuiting to good hap1 in the front or vpper part of the letter3 so did the auncient ,romanes1 and in like manner after their examples doo at this daie some other nations4 ,but seldome or neuer 7especiallie of the learned and most curious writers7 is the same in our ,english directions1 at any time accustomed4 ,onelie this1 where letters are directed from one or more of the ,councell to an inferiour ,magistrate or person1 or from some noble man to such1 whom hee intertaineth not in any estate of societie or equall familiaritie1 the maner of commendations 7which with vs is retained for an order of ,salutation or greting7 runneth lightlie in the beginning of the ,letter1 and customablie is deliuered in this forme4 ,after our heartie commendations vnto your ,l4 if it bee from a number of the ,counsell to a ,noble man1 or otherwise in the singular number vnto an inferiour person1 as thus4 ,after my heartie commendations vnto you4 ,but otherwise writing seriouslie to anie man1 the greeting if it be to one far our better is turned1 to an acknowledgment of some kind of dutie1 or reuerent account1 and that most commonly at the end of the ,letter1 which likewise in equalitie falleth out in such place to be mentioned4 ,and being in familiarities is to no place tied1 but beginning1 middle1 or ending of the ,letter1 all is one1 as semeth most consonant to the vaine disposition of the partie1 and these also at all times not deliuered in the selfe worde of greting or commendations1 but by diuerse ,epithets1 and fine conueiances1 as falleth out to the matter of the ,epistle1 and the conditions of the partie to be handled4 ,this being at the end of the ,letter1 there shall immediatelie follow the order of farewell1 which ioyning so hard thereupon as it doeth1 wee will put them both in one example of wordes and ,epithets1 togither with the subscriptions1 for the easier instruction of the learner1 and his better remembrance1 referring the notes of euerie of them to their places1 where afterwards they are vsed in their seuerall ,letters4 ,diuerse orders of greetings1 farewels and sub- scriptions4 ,cap4 #e4 ,sidenote3 ,greetings of humilitie or acknowledgment of dutie4 ,sidenote3 ,greetings familiar4 ,acknowledging my selfe deepelie bounde vnto your ,l4 for manie sundrie fauours3 ,i doe remaine in all humble reuerrence4 ,finding my selfe manie wayes beholding vnto your exceeding courtesies1 ,i ende4 ,remembring howe much ,i am indebted vnto your ,l4 for your sundrie benefites3 ,i conferre the regard thereof to my present imaginations1 and doe beseech thereof at your honourable handes an euerlasting continuance4 ,all humble loyaltie and seruice protested vnto your honorable calling1 ,i rest nowe and perpetuallie your ,l4 c4 ,fearing in speeches1 neuer with sufficiencie to manifest the conceit ,i haue of your most honourable fauours3 ,i solace my selfe with the remembrance1 and humblie leaue your ,l4 to your woonted perseuerance4 ,praying the ,almightie to haue your ,l4 euermore in his gratious protection1 ,i humblie take my leaue4 ,your worship in this1 besides manie other occasions hauing perpetuallie bound mee1 how can ,i but rest such1 as you haue expected and shall euer find me4 ,eftsoones recording my bounden seruice vnto your worship and my good ,ladie1 ,i remaine as euer before4 ,not forgetting howe manie wayes ,i am charged1 in dutifull remembrance towards you1 ,i rest as ,i haue protested4 ,more grieued at my mishap and disabilitie1 then wanting either will or liking to doe seruice vnto you3 ,i affix my selfe euermore vpon the acceptance of your woonted cutesie1 and humblie there withall do take my leaue3 ,commending the safetie and good estate of your worship to the ,almighties protection1 ,i rest in all dutifull regard to the same4 ,rather desirous to shewe my selfe thankful1 then otherwise able in like sort to giue you any requital1 ,i continue1 c4 ,binding my self by all possible indeuors1 neuer to be fred from the charge of so exceding benefites1 ,i wish ,i might as ,i would1 be vnto you in verie deed1 c4 ,wishing vnto you and yours1 as much happinesse1 as my selfe am clogged with carefulnesse1 ,i surcease4 ,desiring vnto you no worse successe in these and all other your laudable endeuors1 then my selfe haue eftsoones craued in performance of my chiefest trauels1 ,i recommend you to the tuition of the ,almightie4 ,not forgetting our accustomed gretings and interchangeable welwishings1 my hastie ,letter taketh ende4 ,weighing howe much you are alreadie busied1 and not willing to keepe you further occupied1 ,i ende my long and tedious discourse1 beeing in nothing exempted from woonted salutations1 and accustomed kind of greetings4 ,thinke not though my haste be such1 but that ,i remember 7notwithstanding all this breuitie7 how greatlie ,i stand charged both to you and yours1 to whome1 and all the rest to you knowne ,i eftsoones commend me4 ,reioycing not a little at the health of you and all other our friends1 ,i hartily bid you fare well4 ,reiocing my self on your wel-wishing1 and the hope ,i haue to be returned in safetie ,i commend my hap to fortune1 and our gouernement to the ,almightie4 ,rendring vnto you as manie thankes1 as ,i conceiued comfort of your good intreatings1 ,i leaue to detaine you4 ,omitting what else to bee amplified in these or anie other occasions ,i expect your happie returne1 and in hope thereof doe bid you farewell4 ,knowing howe well ,i loue you1 the lesse ceremonies ,i nede to vse in greeting you1 onlie you shall remember to your parents in most hartie maner to commend mee4 ,salute ,i praie you your friendes in my name1 and thinke in my best and serious wishes ,i neuer forget you4 ,my father willed me in his behalfe to salute you1 and all the rest of your acquaintance here do most hartilie greete you4 ,forget not in what sort ,i haue heretofore receiued you1 and thinke in the selfe same maner ,i do still intertaine you4 ,my gretings to our friend ,r4 let not bee vnremembred1 and deeme that in all my vowes ,i haue 7vnto you all7 most heartilie wished4 ,i had almost let slip my commendations vnto your brother1 which for anie thing ,i would not had bene forgotten1 vpon whom1 as of greatest choic1 ,i will make my reposing4 ,the liking ,i haue to ,n4 maketh mee here to remember him whose good demeanour as your own1 ,i haue in chiefest reckoning4 ,my gretings and paper haue all one ende togither1 onelie our friendship indissoluble can neuer be forgotten4 ,thinke how exceedinglie ,i haue alwaies well wished vnto you1 and accordinglie thereunto measure the rest of mine affections towards you4 ,haste compelleth mee to ende sooner than ,i would1 wherin notwithstanding ,i can neuer omit sufficientlie to grete you1 eftsoones recognizing as behooueth1 your especall good liking towards me1 c4 ,innummerable of these and such like might be imagined both in greetings and farewels1 the course whereof beeing furnished with such varietie as it is1 ,i haue left the residue vnto the conceit of the learner1 accounting the plentie herein set down1 for anie studious follower to be alreadie sufficient4 ,sidenote3 ,subscriptions4 ,and now to the ,subscriptions1 the diuersities whereof are 7as best they may be allotted in sence7 to either of these to bee placed1 forwarned alwaies vnto the vnskilfull herein1 that writing to anie person of account1 by howe much the more excellent hee is in calling from him in whose behalfe the ,letter is framed1 by so much the lower1 shall the subscription thereunto belonging1 in any wise be placed4 ,and if the state of honour of him to whome the ,letter shall be directed doe require so much1 the verie lowest margent of paper shall do no more but beare it1 so be it the space bee seemelie for the name1 and the roome fairre inough to comprehend it1 which ,subscriptions in all sortes to be handled shall passe in this or the like order or substance4 ,sidenote3 ,maner and varietie of subscriptions4 ,your ,l4 most deuoted and loyallie affected4 ,your ,honours most assured in whatsoeuer seruices4 ,your ,l4 in whatsoeuer to be commanded4 ,the most affectionate vnto your ,l4 of all others4 ,hee that hath vowed to liue and die in your ,honourable seruice4 ,your ,l4 most faithfull and obedient ,sonne4 ,your ,la4 louing and obedient ,daughter4 ,who but by your ,l4 is onelie to be commaunded4 ,whose heart is your ,honours1 and his life by your ,l4 to be disposed4 ,he that liueth not but for your worship1 and to doe you seruice4 ,whose regard stretcheth vnto your ,worship more then vnto anie others4 ,he that vnto your worship hath vowed to become most assured4 ,whome none haue euer bound so much1 as the deserts of your ,l4 ,your ,l4 in all humblenes4 ,your ,honours euer to be commaunded4 ,at your worships command4 ,your ,la4 most bounden and affectionate4 ,at your honourable direction4 ,alwaies attendant vpon your ,l4 pleasure4 ,your worships in all good account4 ,yours euer louing and most assured4 ,to none so much as your selfe4 ,hee that in all accounts tendereth your welfare4 ,whome by your onelie curtesie you haue conuinced4 ,the same which ,i accept from you1 and not otherwise4 ,such as ,i am1 or as you wish to finde me4 ,he that in his liking is onlie yours4 ,whome you haue euer knowne1 but neuer prooued4 ,whose liking onelie accounteth of your worthinesse4 ,such as you haue euer founde me1 and not otherwise4 ,yours in what soeuer to bee imploied4 ,more chary of your welfare1 then carefull of himselfe4 ,yours as you like to haue me4 ,yours faithfull and euer assured4 ,yours or not his owne4 ,he who found you1 but neuer knew you4 ,he that once fauoured you1 but sithence hath vowed neuer to regarde you4 ,whose liking by your ingratitude hath beene quenched4 ,in whose account you once were1 but now abandoned4 ,who once wished to loue1 but could neuer hate thee4 ,whom thy deserts haue made an enemie4 ,whom hereby you may win1 7if you list7 for euer to become a friend4 ,to each one louing1 but to the most charie4 ,whose heart shall faile in any thing1 sooner then in conceit towardes thee4 ,he1 whose in loialtie thou didst protest to be4 ,who liueth not but to pursue thee4 ,who euer looked on1 but neuer loued thee4 ,the same as you left me4 ,such as you saw when you departed from me4 ,the same and none other1 which ,i haue euer seemed to be4 ,whose worde hath bounde him1 and faith shall assure him4 ,yours most affectionate4 ,yours deuoted till death4 ,yours while life swaieth within me4 ,yours as far forth as anie others4 c4 with manie other applications1 whose ,epithets are infinite1 and rather vpon the cause suggested then otherwise1 to bee euermore added1 altered1 or conceiued4 ,these and the others may only suffice for the present purpose1 referring what else to be expected1 to the regarde of a more curious or delicate inuention4 ,sidenote3 ,acknowledgemt of duty in the ,exordium4 ,and herein ,i thought good to aduertise the learner1 that sometimes it falleth out1 that this acknowledgement of dutie1 mentioned in the beginning of the greetings and farewels1 is in diuers ,letters expressed in the foremost part1 and the ,exordium thereupon framed3 7for that the same in truth is one of the parts thereunto belonging effected in the person or condition of him to whom we write7 which to doe1 if in his writing also the same maie be deemed necessarie1 he maie then vse some other order of farewell or taking leaue1 either by imitation of others1 or if hee thinke meete1 what herein else prescribed1 consonant and agreeing to the state and reputation of the same partie to whome hee writeth4 ,now then shall followe the directions1 which on the outside of euerie ,letter 7the same being made vp and sealed7 are alwaies fired1 and commonlie are termed by the name of ,superscriptions4 ,of ,superscriptions and ,directions4 ,cap4 #f4 ,sidenote3 ,superscriptions and directions of the ,romanes4 ,among the auncient ,romanes1 when learning first grewe vnto skilfull perfecton1 and men first deuised excellentlie to write1 then there began to be extant in memorie1 diuers formes of writing immediatlie1 by the name and title of ,epistles1 to be published to the posterity4 ,in the directions whereof1 animated as ,i thinke with the vertues of their parents1 and accounting it 7as in truth it was then so reputed7 to be a great honour vnto them1 to be intituled with the name of the principall author of their families1 they sought no farther stile of magnificence1 but 7were his parentage neuer so statelie or honorable7 being therewith contented1 did onlie vpon such regard intitle their directions4 ,for who that hath bin but ordinarilie acquainted with the histories of their actes1 but knoweth and hath read1 with what reuerence1 those times 7greedy of vertue17 entertained the honorable desertes of such1 as for the common-wealth1 and publicke aduancement of the state1 had either aduenturouslie hazarded1 or couragiouslie lost a fraile1 vncertaine1 or transitorie life1 to the intent to purchase vnto their country quiet1 honour1 or victorie1 and to themselues and posteritie1 eternized fame and euer flourishing glorie4 ,neither was their country vnkind vnto them herein1 which for their sakes1 and for the reuerend regarde of their vertues1 haue compensed the loue which to their parents they could not shewe1 to their children and succession in manie degres after them4 ,such were the families of the ,gracchi1 ,fabij1 ,cornelij1 ,hortentij1 ,horatij1 ,metelli1 ,amilij1 ,scipiones and ,fabritij4 ,whereby ,i coniecture that the custome hereof1 by such emulation adorned1 became afterwardes a dignitie1 and so succeeded in honour to euerie posteritie4 ,these ,romans therefore1 vsed onlie1 in the front of their letters to write first their owne names1 titles adoptiue1 and surnames1 after that1 his to whom they wrote1 and lastlie their salutation or maner of greetings3 giuing also like aditions vnto the other as to him belonged1 whether it were by familie1 office1 or some other dignitie4 ,and this was the forme4 ,m4 ,t4 ,cicero4 ,m4 ,varoni4 ,sal4 dicit1 or ,c4 ,csar3 ,comelio ,balbo salutem dicit4 ,but that custome according to the antiquity of the time1 is long since worne out1 and these dates and seasons haue induced vnto vs for euerie estate of calling1 a more statelie reuerence according to the dignitie and worthines of the same4 ,the reuerend maiesty of ,emperours1 ,kings and ,princes1 being aduced with a more excellency and supreame magnificence4 ,the names of ,dukes1 ,marquises1 ,earles1 barons and other magistrates1 with more solemne and honourable titles4 ,sidenote3 ,diuersity of ,estates4 ,the offices of estate and places most noble1 amplified with larger honours1 and names accordant to their seuerall dignities4 ,and albeit few are the number1 that herein shall be occasioned to occupy their pen1 but 7knoweth on almost euerie daie7 maie vnderstand the formall application of euerie personages honour or worship3 yet in so much as all sortes are not perfectlie skilled1 nor euerie man liueth in place so conuenient to vnderstand it1 and that it hath beene parcell of a prescribed order so to doe1 by those that haue written the like methode1 ,i will set downe so manie examples of estates for directions1 as to the matter and purpose hereof maie be adiudged conuenient1 beginning from the highest that are or haue beene latelie accustomed in our common wealth 7the soueraign ,maiestie excepted7 vnto the meaner and most ordinary bred1 and in present practise amongst vs4 ,and first1 with the dignitie of ,archbishop1 to whom in this sort we frame our direction4 ,sidenote3 ,directions to an ,archbishop4 ,bishop4 ,duke4 ,sidenote3 ,l4 ,chancellor4 ,l4 ,treasurer4 ,earles and in office4 ,sidenote3 ,lords knights of the priuie councell4 ,to the most reuerend ,father in ,god1 the ,l4 ,archbishop of ,canturburie1 or ,york1 ,primate of ,england1 and ,metropolitane his verie good grace4 ,to the right reuerende ,father in ,god1 and my verie good ,lorde1 the ,l4 ,bishop of ,london4 ,to the high and mightie ,prince1 ,l4 ,duke of ,b4 his most noble grace4 ,to the right honourable and my especiall good ,l4 the ,lorde ,chauncellor1 or ,lord high ,treasurer of ,england4 ,to the right ,honorable the ,lorde ,marquese of ,w4 ,to the right ,honourable the ,earle of ,e4 ,lorde ,lieutenant for her maiestie in the1 c4 ,to the right ,honourable the ,earle of ,h4 ,lorde ,president of her ,maiesties most honorable ,councell established in the ,north4 ,to the right ,honorable1 and my singular good ,l4 the lorde ,b4 one of the lords of her highnes most honourable priuy ,councell4 ,to the right honorable sir ,w4 ,m4 knight1 ,chancellour of the ,exchequer1 and of her ,maiesties most honorable priuy ,councel4 ,to the right honorable and my singular good ,lord and father1 or ladie mother1 the ,earle or ,countesse of ,n4 ,to the right honourable and my verie good ladie1 the ladie ,a4 ,countesse of ,w4 ,to the most noble ladie and ,paragon of all vertue1 the ladie ,m4 ,h4 ,to the right vertuous ladie endued with all singularitie1 the ladie ,f4 ,d4 ,to the most noble and towardlie yong ,gentleman ,g4 ,t4 esquire1 if hee be a noble mans sonne vnder the degre of a ,baron4 ,to the right honourable sir ,w4 ,s4 knight1 ,l4 ,maior of the citie of ,l4 ,to the right worshipfull ,w4 ,l4 esquire1 one of the ,iudges of her ,maiesties court of common ,pleas4 ,to the right worshipfull and my singular good ladie mother1 the ,ladie ,d4 ,h4 ,to my verie good father1 ,w4 ,c4 ,marchant of the citie of ,b4 ,to the right worshipfull his especiall good maister1 ,m4 ,r4 ,marchant and ,alderman of ,l4 ,to my seruant ,r4 ,d4 at ,c4 c4 ,other examples besides these were needelesse to set downe1 for that if any alteration at all happen herein1 it is by reason of familiaritie1 addition of offices1 or change of titles4 ,onlie let herewith be noted1 that when ,letters doe passe from some number of the ,counsell1 or from any ,lord of the same1 to a noble man or knight1 these directions of honour and worship are seldome vsed4 ,but rather thus4 ,to our verie good ,l4 sir ,w4 ,r4 knight1 lord ,deputie of ,ireland4 ,to our verie good ,l4 the ,l4 ,maior of the citie of ,l4 and to our verie louing friends ,w4 ,c4 and ,r4 ,p4 ,aldermen of the same4 ,to my verie good lord1 the ,l4 ,t4 ,h4 ,to my verie louing friend1 sir4 ,t4 ,p4 knight4 ,to our verie louing friends sir ,r4 ,s4 knight1 ,custos rotulorum of her ,maiesties ,count4 of ,b4 and ,r4 ,w4 and ,s4 ,p4 esquires1 ,iustices of peace of the same ,shire4 ,the like directions also are vsed of an ,earle1 to any of these estates to him inferiour in calling1 and of a ,baron to a ,iustice of peace1 but commonlie they will adde the title of worship4 ,the diuisions of ,letters and vnder what titles all sortes of ,epistles are contained4 ,cap #g4 ,albeit the diuersitie of ,epistles are 7as ,i saide before7 as manifold as are the sundrie occurrents1 or rather imaginations of mens fantasies3 yet for so much as it seemeth pertinent vnto this ,method to induce their varieties vnto some particular titles1 by such meanes the rather to bring the learner into a speciall forme1 whereby for his necessitie or present turne to applie the same4 ,i haue thought good in imitation of the best and most learned iudgements of our time1 to drawe the sundrie parts thereof1 vnder foure especiall heads1 that is to saie3 ,demonstratiue1 ,deliberatiue1 ,iudiciall1 and ,familiar ,letters4 ,and howbeit the rules prescribed vnto either of these1 maie vnder their seuerall heads seme to be particularlie allotted1 yet are they in nature so neerelie conioyned togither1 as hardlie shall you in anie of the first three fall into their particular distinctions1 but lightlie in one sort or other1 you shall run into the natures of the others4 ,for proofe whereof1 and this to open more plainlie1 let vs first lay downe their properties in seuerall1 and then se by association each with other how nerlie they do participate in their qualities4 ,you shall then vnderstande that this ,demonstratiue kinde1 hath the name of a declaration1 deliuerie or shewing of some one thing or other1 the distinctions of the ,epistles thereunder contained1 are ,descriptorie1 in which bee described the manners and conuersations of men1 all vertues1 vices and qualities both of bodie and mind4 ,honorable chalenges1 combats1 entertainmts1 attempts1 orders of common weales1 gouermnents1 and estates1 countries1 cities1 hilles1 valleies1 fields1 prospects1 buildings and walkes1 with their pleasures and scituations4 ,laudatorie1 wherein is speciallie praysed anie thing1 and ,vituperatorie1 in which is misliked or condemned whatsoeuer maie be thought worthie either to bee abhorred or dispraysed4 ,the ,deliberatiue is so named1 of the large comprehension it hath of sundry causes and matters1 being not almost tied to any particular occasion or purpose3 ,his distinctions are ,hortatorie1 and ,dehortatorie3 ,swasorie and ,disswasorie1 not much vnlike together in their orders and properties3 the natures of the first being to exhort1 counsell1 aduise1 or perswade to anie thing1 of the other1 to withdraw1 disswade or reduce to another meaning4 ,conciliatorie1 which serueth in acquiring of friendship of acquaintance4 ,reconciliatorie1 in reconcilement of kinred1 friends1 or other persons4 ,petitorie1 in suing for1 or crauing of anie thing4 ,commendatorie1 in preferring the seruices1 persons or good qualities1 of anie one4 ,consolatorie1 in comforting at times of troubles1 sorrowe1 or mishaps4 ,monitorie1 in forewarning1 admonishing1 or counselling from mischiefs4 ,reprehensorie1 in reprehending or correcting of errours and behauiours4 ,amatorie1 in matters of louing4 ,the ,iudiciall is so called1 in that it comprehendeth matters lawfull1 vnlawfull1 or questionable to be handled3 ,the distinctions thereof are1 ,accusatorie1 containing matter of accusation4 ,excusatorie1 which is occupied in excusing4 ,expostulatorie1 in reasoning of causes4 ,purgatorie1 in clearing or auoydance of thinges charged4 ,defensorie1 in defence of the action4 ,exprobatorie1 in reproching or obtruding of benefites vpon cause of vnthankfulnes4 ,deprecatorie1 in praying of pardon of a thing committed1 and ,inuectiue1 inueighing agaynst ill natures1 qualities1 occasions or persons4 ,now the distinctions of these heades being thus laide open by particular titles1 we will see how neere in writing they concurre or fall in1 each with others4 ,true is it1 7as shall be sene in some examples hereafter following7 that touching the first head beeing ,demonstratiue1 it sometimes falleth out in causes of aduertisement1 or relation of thinges made1 that the title ,descriptorie is manie times meerlie in it selfe handled1 without entring into anie other particular addition or occasion1 but in the other titles of ,laudatorie and ,vituperatorie1 not so4 ,for how can ,i either praise or discommend anie thing1 without falling into a ,description of those persons1 things or qualities1 which ,i disallow or commend4 ,againe1 for the ,deliberatiue kinde in ,hortatorie1 ,dehortatorie1 ,swasorie and ,disswasorie1 ,commendatorie1 ,monitorie or ,reprehensorie1 how can ,i exhort1 counsell1 aduise1 withdraw1 commend1 admonish or reprehende1 if therein ,i set not forth what is woorthie or vnfit1 what to be praysed1 estemed1 disallowed1 or eschued3 which can not bee1 without of necessitie ,i fall into the partes ,descriptorie1 ,laudatorie and ,vituperatorie4 ,likewise in matters ,consolatorie1 ,conciliatorie ,reconciliatorie1 howe ,i maie comfort seeke friends1 or reconcile1 if the partes ,hortatorie and ,swasorie1 be absent4 ,so also for the iudiciall1 if either ,i accuse1 excuse1 expostulate1 defende1 reproach1 intreate1 or inueigh1 it must be done with the laying out of vices1 and aduauncement of vertues1 in manifesting what is good1 and setting forth what is euill1 neither of which1 can be without matter ,descriptorie1 ,laudatorie1 and ,vituperatorie4 ,by all which it appeareth1 that 7howbeit these seuerall titles stand thus diuided7 yet are the matters of the same diuerslie wrapped togither1 and the precepts seruing to the one1 must of necessitie by a like conueyance be drawne into an obseruation with the other3 notwithstanding for ease of the learner1 and to the end he may with more readines find out what best fitteth and beseemeth the cause hee hath in handling1 they bee thus drawne forth as you see into so many particular distinctions4 ,touching nowe our ,familiar ,letters1 they also are to bee drawne vnder their seuerall titles1 as ,narratorie1 and ,nunciatorie1 somewhat falling into the demonstratiue kind before remembred1 wherein we expresse and declare to those farre from vs1 the matters or newes presentlie in hand amongst vs3 ,gratulatorie1 wherein wee reioyce each with others of the good happes of fortune betiding vs4 ,remuneratorie1 being a gratefull relation of cortesies1 benefites or good turnes receiued4 ,iocatorie1 wherewith by a pleasant and swete kinde of deliuerie of some pretie conceit or iest1 the minde is recreated4 ,obiurgatorie1 in which wee rebuke the ill demeanours of our children1 seruants1 kindred1 or acquaintance4 ,mandatorie1 whereby wee commit expreslie our affaires to such as we haue authoritie1 either to commaunde or intreate to be dispatched4 ,to these and the others before mentioned are manie ,epistles ,responsorie1 the titles whereof cannot be certaine1 but examples and occasions plentifull3 all which ,i referre to their peculiar places each one1 as they are suted forth to be in their kindes deliuered4 ,and now will we passe vnto the other hereafter to bee obserued in deliuerie of ,examples1 accordant vnto the seuerall titles of all these forenamed ,epistles1 and first of ,epistles ,descriptorie4 ,of ,epistles meerely ,descriptory and the parts thereof4 ,chap4 #h4 ,sidenote3 ,parts in ,epistle ,descriptory4 ,sidenote3 ,comparison of the writer and painter4 ,sidenote3 ,painter4 ,sidenote3 ,writer4 ,sidenote3 ,ptolemy and other writers1 de situ orbis4 ,sidenote3 ,virgil in his ,aenidos4 ,sidenote3 ,ouidii ,metamorphoseos4 ,sidenote3 ,example4 ,forsomuch as in ,descriptions1 are 7as ,i saide before7 onelie declared and set foorth at large1 the maner1 order1 state1 gouernment1 proportion goodnesse or value of anie thing3 the ,epistles consisting solie thereof1 be commonlie without addition at all1 either of praise or mislike1 or anie other intendment1 in respect whereof they might in anie one iote varie from that title of ,descriptorie4 ,the force hereof besides the ,exordium1 comprehendeth chieflie a narration1 throughout1 in which is contained 7by laying out the seuerall parts thereof7 a perfect and plain demonstration or description of any thing3 ,in these sortes of ,epistles1 the excellency of the writer1 and painter concurreth in one1 who the more that each of them studieth by perfection1 to touch al things to the quick1 by so much the more neerer doe they both aspire to that exquisit kind of cunning1 that in each of these differences1 is absolutely to be required4 ,the curious painter in drawing a perfect peece of ,lantskip1 presenteth many things vnto the eie1 the conceit whereof is maruellous3 for with great admiration we do there seme to behold1 the most pleasant and goodlie vallies3 ,woods hie and decked with statelie tres 7some tops whereof the wind seemeth to wreath and turne at one side7 then goodly riuers1 hie waies and walkes1 large situate high climing hils and mountains1 far prospects of ,cities1 steeples1 and ,towers1 ships sayling on seas1 and waues blown vp aloft1 the element cleere1 faire and temperate1 with some shining beames shadowing and spreading ouer all these1 wherein seemeth the delight so rare1 and climate so perfect1 as verie desire prouoketh a man to gaze of it1 as a thing in present life1 and most certaine viewe4 ,and do ,i praie you1 our excellent writers degenerate at all from anie part of these8 ,doeth not the learned ,cosmographer in acquainting vs with the vnknowne delights1 scituation1 plenty and riches of ,countries which we neuer sawe1 nor happilie maie euer approch vnto1 rauish vs oftentimes1 and bring in contempt the pleasures of our owne soyle3 and manie times a huge woonder1 of the vnheard secrets neuer before reported of1 the incredible operations of diuers thinges1 and state so high and magnificent1 such as the verie description and liuelie deliuery whereof1 maketh vs beleeue that our eies do almost witnes the same1 and that our verie sences are partakers of euerie delicacie in them contained4 ,but omitting the wight hereof1 consisting in these worlds of such strange accompt1 with that fine inuention doeth ,virgil manie times in his ,aeneidos1 and with howe much varietie describe vnto vs the tides of the morning8 ,howe greatlie in his first booke doth he amuse the reader1 with the lamentable shipwracke1 and euen then 7as it were7 appearing surges1 and intollerable turmoils vpon the sea happening to ,aeneas8 ,what darknesse1 what tempestes1 what rising and deepest fall of waues againe1 what winds1 what mingling of heauen and earth together doth hee there relate8 ,then after1 his arriuall on shore and presenting to ,queene ,dido1 howe is the destruction of ,troy in the person of ,aeneas to her described8 ,in the fourth booke likewise1 what an excellent description maketh he of ,fame8 ,how he sheweth the banquet by the ,queene to ,aeneas made1 and how liuelie is the state and magnificence thereof deliuered8 ,innumerable of these1 both from him and the ,transformed shapes of ,ouid coulde ,i here recorde1 the excellencie of each being such1 as by the forceable vtterance thereof bredeth as great delight as astonishment vnto the curious searcher of the same4 ,and in as much as ,i haue vndertaken to conduct the learner by example1 howe to behaue himselfe in some sort herein1 we will proceed with our ,epistles ,descriptory1 the first wherof following1 maie seeme to bee sent from a traueller to a friend of his in ,england1 the mater whereof ensueth4 ,an example of a latter ,descriptory1 wherein is particu- larly described an ancient ,city1 by laying down the seuerall parts thereof4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium ,or a charge giuen1 and promise made4 ,sidenote3 ,narratio4 ,sidenote3 ,scituation4 ,sidenote3 ,buildings4 ,sidenote3 ,deckings4 ,sidenote3 ,streets4 ,sidenote3 ,gouernment ,sidenote3 ,habit of the people4 ,sidenote3 ,conclus ,my good ,vncle1 the remembrance of your charge giuen me1 my promise to you made at my departure out of ,england1 bindeth me 7at my nowe being in quiet1 and with good leasure setled in ,germany7 that ,i should returne vnto you againe1 my accustomed and dutifull regard1 in sort as ,i haue euer endeuoured my selfe to do vnto you4 ,it may then please you1 that remaining with my ,l4 the ,duke but a fewe daies at ,geneua1 wee hasted thence to a ,citie1 called ,noremberge1 being imperiall1 scituate in the high partes of ,germany1 where sithence wee haue almost continually remained4 ,and albeit ,i could somewhat write vnto you of our passages through diuers places of the ,country1 yet insomuch as there is no part thereof so memorable as this citie wherein we now remaine1 the description thereof at this present may solie content you4 ,the ,citie therefore1 as it seemeth is most ancient1 and as many doe suppose and affirme1 at that time when the ,country was first in subiection to the ,empire of ,rome1 was builded by ,nero the ,emperour1 and of him taketh his name1 as ,noremberghe1 in signification ,neros berghe1 and so much the rather doth it appeare1 by sundry auncient monumentes therein yet remaining4 ,the ,citie 7besides that it is situate in a most delicate and pleasant soyle1 wooded and watered most plentifully on euerie side1 with goodlie ,trees1 faire and delicate ,riuers and springes17 is both of great strength in the walles of the same1 and plentifully builded with high and statelie ,towers on euerie part4 ,the edificies of the ,citie are rare1 and of most sumptuous and statelie appearaunce1 insomuch that there is no one house in any rowe that exceedeth another in height1 but all of them builded leuell1 by a verie ,geometricall proportion4 ,the insides are not more polished with riches and ornamentes of great beauty1 then the outsides with brauerie1 the verie fronts of all which1 aswell of rich as poore1 are most curiously embossed in a hard kinde of substance 7such ,i thinke as is our plaster of ,paris7 with artificiall and liuely pictures1 conteining histories of diuers memorable1 and strange effectes1 and that with such wonderfull excellency1 as any waies may bee conceiued4 ,the cost hereof is continually maintayned1 repaired1 enlarged1 and preserued1 by a generall contribution of the most worthy and honourable of the ,citie4 ,besides1 the colours so fresh1 so braue1 and delicate laide in oyle1 for defence against weather1 wherewith they are beautified and set forth1 are verie straunge4 ,the streetes are wide1 faire1 and excellentlie well paued4 ,the stone they vse for the most part is marble1 white1 gray1 and blacke1 whereof is great plentie1 besides other kindes1 which verie wonderfully they cut and square in diuers small proportions artificiallie pointed and shaped4 ,the houses are not high1 but backwarde builte1 and inwardelie large4 ,this ,citie retaineth yet the auncient gouernement of the ,romanes1 for at this instant they haue their ,consuls1 ,tribunes1 ,senators1 ,pretors1 ,qustors1 ,aediles and other interchangeable offices1 as sometimes had ,rome1 beeing in her greatest prosperitie4 ,the attire also alike to their dignities of all sortes of honourable personages1 accustomed to their callinges4 ,plaine are their habites for the most part1 and nothing sumptuous1 retaining still one1 and the selfe same ancient fashion4 ,the constitution of their bodies as wel men as women1 are faire1 cleare1 and of sounde complexion4 ,frugall in diet and expence1 and nothing prodigall4 ,my ,l4 the ,duke is here of great sway1 and entertained with honorable accompt4 ,thus much haue ,i thought good to aduertise you in discharge of my debt and your desire1 attending by the returne of this messenger the newes of your good health4 ,to whom al other our friends1 in sound and good affection ,i eftsoones do recommend me4 ,at ,noremberghe this of1 c4 ,another example wherein the state of a ,coun- trey is soly described4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,of their accustomed friendship4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,pleasant ayre vnfrequented4 ,sidenote3 ,in voluntary abstinence4 ,sidenote3 ,hard feeding4 ,sidenote3 ,ill lodging4 ,sidenote3 ,danger4 ,i doubt not ,n4 but that thy hart longeth1 and mind is yet vnquieted1 because of my suddaine departure from thee1 and ignorance of my estate and present being1 whereof that thy desires may nowe at full be resolued3 know my good ,n4 that not hauing beene scarce sixe moneths from thee1 ,i did long since perceiue my selfe to bee out of ,england1 and that it may appeare vnto thee1 that ,i haue iust cause so to say1 thou shalt somewhat vnderstande by mee the state of this ,countrey4 ,wee liue heere in a soile delicate ,i must confesse for the ayre1 and pleasant for the situation3 with good leasure 7,i must tell thee7 may we here attend our deuotions1 as hauing no care wherewith to encumber vs1 but the needlesse search of that whereof wee neuer find likelihood to annoy vs4 ,as vncompelled by seuere decrees and interdictions1 we limit vnto ourselues an abstinence1 thou mightst think we do it of zeale1 but in truth it is of want1 wherein we haue more fasting daies by a great manie then ability to beare them4 ,our conuersation is with elements1 with waters1 with fieldes1 with trees1 with valleyes1 with hilles1 with beasts1 in the general vse whereof1 wee find nothing else but their proper shapes4 ,and if by chaunce any other sorts of creatures do appeare1 they are naked shapes formed as men and women1 fierce1 sauage1 wilde1 not capable of anie our reasons1 nor we of their speeches4 ,our foode is rootes1 dried fishes1 berries1 and ,i knowe not what other harsh kind of fruits1 and sometime foules1 besides a kind of graine growing in great cods wherby we somtimes obtain 7though not the naturall7 yet some vse of bread1 vnlike to that you eat1 in taste1 goodnes1 or propertie4 ,our lodgings and places of repose are caues1 entrenched in the ground1 the earth our beds1 and clothes our couerings4 ,and these also hard as they are1 enioy wee not in quiet1 but being awaited of the naked multitude 7whose policies insinuate by nature are farre greater then their strength7 wee are faine by much industrie to preuent them3 into whose hands if any of vs doe chaunce to fall1 our dead carkasses in hastie morsels are conueied into their intrailes4 ,hereby iudging of our estate1 thou mayest accordinglie deeme of our pleasures4 ,the next message that thou shalt attend from mee1 shall bee my speedie returne1 the seas and windes being not lesse fauourable then they were at my going forth4 ,meane while recommend my selfe to thy wel-wishing1 and our safeties to ,god1 ,i ende as thou knowest1 this of1 c4 ,an example wherein the death of a nobleman is onelie described4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,of the cause it selfe4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,sudden sickenesse4 ,sidenote3 ,declaration of his speeches4 ,sidenote3 ,mislike of the world4 ,sidenote3 ,certain notice and liking of death4 ,the decease 7good ,madame7 of my ,lorde your brother1 hath occasioned vnto your ,lad4 the sight of these ,letters1 wherein ,i haue rather acquited my selfe of that whereunto by your honourable commaunde ,i was enioyned1 then anie wayes satisfied the griefe that by my selfe among manie others1 for his losse is intirelie conceyued4 ,the manner whereof may please you nowe to bee informed of1 which was thus4 ,on ,tuesday beeing the thirteenth of this instant1 hauing as it then seemed vnto his ,l4 and others1 beene reasonablie well recouered from the woonted force of his long consuming disease1 beeing importuned by the dispatch of some present affayres1 as otherwise to haue some conference with her ,maiestie1 hee went from his house of ,b4 to the ,court1 where all that day hee remained1 and returned againe at night1 not for all this1 finding himselfe at all disquieted at the least motion of anie the pangs wherewith before time hee had so often been vexed4 ,the most part of that night hee was verie well reposed4 ,towardes morning the next daie1 he beganne somewhat to be agreeued1 but nothing as accustomed3 in which state the most part of that day hee continued4 ,at night againe hauing eaten some small pittance to supper1 towardes nine of the clocke hee beganne most vehementlie to bee passioned1 till which time wee all had verie good expectation of his health and recouerie1 which his ,l4 perceyuing1 after hee had beene a while set vp in his bedde1 hee sayde1 ,i knowe my good friends and faithfull louing seruaunts1 that the great zeale and loue you doo beare vnto mee1 is a vehement occasion to kindle in you a desire of wel-wishing1 and intendment of assured safetie towardes mee1 wherein ,i haue more cause to thanke your good willes1 then meane thereby to imagine the force of my disease to bee lesse then long since ,i expected1 and exceedinglie in my selfe haue euer doubted1 what wordes of comfort1 protraction and delayes so euer1 haue by the ,physitions to the contrarie beene vsed4 ,one great and exceeding comfort vnto mee is1 that liuing1 ,i euer loyallie demeaned my selfe3 and dying1 ,i shall depart this worlde in her ,maiesties good grace1 and especiall fauour4 ,next vnto that1 the loue of you my dearest friendes and entirelie beloued seruants and followers1 whose hearts ,i knowe doe pursue mee1 and whose affections euen to the last gaspe of death ,i am perswaded to bee euer firme and fixed towardes mee4 ,your desires are1 ,i knowe1 that ,i shoulde liue1 according vnto which the least mitigation that may bee of my griefe1 you measure by by to the hope of amendment1 which is not so4 ,for that in all the comfortable speeches1 that sundrie times ,i haue receiued from you1 my selfe to whome the inwarde effects thereof haue beene found most forcible1 haue euer mistrusted1 and by manie probable circumstances adiudged the contrarie4 ,long time endure ,i cannot1 this knowe ,i well1 happelie a daie1 two or three1 ,i may yet bee conuersant among you1 for my disease1 that standeth assured 7the messenger whereof continuallie knocketh at the doore of my imaginations1 readie euerie houre to assault my heart1 and to carrie away with him the spoyles of a dying carkasse7 will not permit ,i shall long time trauell in this sort among you4 ,and for my selfe1 stand ye all assertained1 that hauing long since poyzed in equall ballance1 the long continuance of a fraile1 wretched1 and trauelled life1 the most part whereof is caryed away in sleepe1 sorrowe1 griefe sickenesse1 daunger1 and the residue also neuer freed of care and all maner of disquiet1 with the hope of an euerlasting ioy1 happines1 rest peace1 and immortall residence3 ,i finde no reason whie ,i should at all affect the toyle of such earthlie tediousnesse4 ,insomuch as hauing liued nowe almost threescore and thirteene yeares1 and borne my selfe 7honourablie ,i trust7 in all mine actions and seruices1 and further in the progression of my ripest yeares1 yea in this verie instant more then at anie other time am regarded of my ,prince1 and esteemed of my ,countrey1 and among my ,peeres reputed in the highest degree of my fidelitie3 ,i shall nowe die as becommeth my person1 woorthilie and honourablie4 ,bee you therefore recomforted ,i pray you1 as ,i am1 and thinke that for all the loue you haue ought me1 the seruices you haue done mee1 or tender care you doe yet in my heauiest pangs beare vnto mee1 the chiefest content you can doe vnto mee1 is that you bee satified herein with mee4 ,that beeing verelie resolued in my soule1 of all that ,i haue here sayde vnto you1 and hauing ordered mine actions1 and prepared my selfe thereto accordinglie1 ,i doe willinglie and with a right contented mind1 leaue this transitorie world so replenished as it is1 with so manie grieuous casualties1 hartilie do giue my bodie to his naturall course1 and my soule into the handes of the mightie ,creator1 for euer in his glorie 7,i trust7 to bee eternized4 ,this speech ended1 hee continued till after midnight1 at which time hee had about two houres slumber1 and so beganne his paine to encrease againe4 ,in which till ,wednesday following1 almost in one state1 hee for the most part remained1 oftentimes accustoming himselfe with those that were about him to prayer1 manie times1 recording to himselfe the goodnesse of ,god1 and his mercies to him remembred1 and that with such zeale and intire regarde of his hoped repose1 as that it still seemed and was euidentlie apparant howe muche hee longed and thirsted for the same4 ,in fine1 drawing by little and little towardes an ende1 euen in the verie last pang1 ioyning his handes vp to heauen1 his heart and eyes thitherwarde fixed1 hee recommended eftsoones himselfe to the mercie of his ,redeemer1 and on ,thursday last about two in the morning died1 to the lamentable griefe of all that were about him1 who heartily sorrowing his losse1 were forced to shed teares aboundantly4 ,the day of the funerall is not yet certaine1 but the same is intended verie honorablie4 ,recommending my selfe vnto your ,la4 in all humblenesse1 ,i take my leaue4 ,at our sorrowfull house of ,b1 this of1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,laudatorie and ,vituperatorie4 ,chap4 #i4 ,sidenote3 ,praise of the person4 ,sidenote3 #a ,sidenote3 #b ,sidenote3 #c ,sidenote3 #d ,sidenote3 #e ,sidenote3 #f ,nowe followeth it next1 that after these ,letters1 meere ,descriptorie as you see1 we doe treate of the other two partes appertaining also to this forme1 which are ,laudatorie and ,vituperatorie1 the vse whereof either solelie or intermixed in any other kind of ,epistles1 shal of one or more of these causes take their originall1 that is to say1 of the ,person1 deeds or thing it selfe to bee commended1 misliked or dispraysed4 ,the person of anie one is to be preferred or disabled1 by his birth1 descent1 shewe1 or abilitie4 ,secondlie1 by his childhoode1 or good education from his infancie4 ,thirdlie1 of his youth1 in which he is either conuersant in studies of honest life1 seriously giuen to the knowledge of letters1 affecting alwayes vnto laudable exercises1 temperat and sober in demeanour1 or otherwise accounted dissolute and wanton1 vnhappilie led to the search of whatsoeuer mischiefes1 affectionate to the most basest conditions and practises1 not tied to anie order1 but wholie pursuing an vncontroulled libertie4 ,fourthlie1 of his manly yeares being frequented with ciuill gouernment1 or liuing altogether without account4 ,priuately and publikely in all manlie actions demeaned1 or by apparant loosenes in each place discredited4 ,fiftlie1 of his olde age1 the course whereof is with ancient grauitie continued1 or by al kind of euils most hainously misprised1 whose siluer haires are shining in vertuous happines1 or miserable estate drowned in lothsomnes4 ,sixtly1 in his ende or departure out of this world1 agreeing to the saying of ,solon1 ,no man may be counted happie before his death4 ,for that in the expectati or attaining therof1 as at no time more in all the life of a man1 then chiefly appeareth1 his vertue1 constancy1 strength worthinesse1 or otherwise his imbecility1 ouerthrow1 shame and ignominious filthines4 ,besides all these1 many likelihoods are often taken either to the praise or dispraise of the person1 by occasion of the nation or soile from whence he came1 where hee was borne or trained4 ,from the generall condition or application of himselfe or of the people thereof1 by the habite1 constitution of the bodie1 complexion1 looks1 fame1 or other circumstances thereunto incident1 by the actiuitie1 strength1 swiftnes1 nimblenes1 fauor or beauty of the body4 ,by the gifts of fortune1 as honor1 wealth1 worship1 reputation and kindred4 ,and forasmuch as these demonstrations of persons are wholy occupied either in praise or dispraise of their conditions or behauiours3 the chiefest part hereof shall also consist in ,narration1 without peraduenture it falleth out in the life of anie one to haue some one or mo things hapned or of them supposed1 ill beseeming or vnworthy their reputation1 which either by defence1 excusation1 or ,confutation must bee coloured1 diminished1 or cleerely auoided4 ,examples whereof do follow according to their particular occasions3 and thus much for the ,persons4 ,sidenote3 ,of the deeds4 ,in commendation or vituperation of the deds of any one1 we shall weigh with our selues what notable actions haue bin1 wherein he or she haue honorably or worthily behaued themselues1 or by perpetual infamy therof haue deserued in each posteritie for euer to be contemned4 ,touching things likewise by themselues to bee extolled or disabled1 they are euer measured by the consonance and agrement they haue either with reputation or dignitie4 ,sidenote3 ,honest which is tied to vertue4 ,the goodnesse or badnes1 excellencie or basenesse of any thing1 is gathered from the places of ,honestum1 ,inhonesty1 vnder which is comprehended what is iust or vniust1 godlie or wicked1 direct or indirect1 worthy or to be dispraised4 ,honest is alwaies linked to vertue4 ,for whatsoeuer is either vertue it selfe1 or affined with vertue or deriued from vertue1 or conducing to vertue1 is absolutelie declared honest4 ,sidenote3 ,honest1 what it is4 ,the distinguishment of these falleth out to be sorted into foure principall excellencies1 that is1 ,prudence1 ,iustice1 fortitude and ,temperance1 it is therefore to be intended1 that not onelie deedes and actions1 but also thinges themselues are solelie of these1 and for these either praised or debased4 ,whatsoeuer then by sounde and wholesome perswasion tendeth either to the embracing of the good1 or shunning of the euill4 ,whatsoeuer includeth either fidelitie1 true friendship1 equitie1 obedience or gratitude4 ,whatsoeuer conduceth to true pietie to ,god1 thy ,countrie1 ,parents1 children1 and friends4 ,whatsoeuer appertaineth to the seueritie of the law1 to the admonishing of the wicked1 and to the remuneration and defence of the well deserued4 ,whatsoeuer tendeth to a tolleration or patient forebearance of euils1 to longanimitie1 entring into hazard and dangers for conscience1 for thy countrey1 kindred or friends4 ,whatsoeuer concerneth chastitie1 sobrietie or frugalitie1 and seemely moderation in all thinges1 that in each of these is adiudged honest and none others4 ,sidenote3 ,vnhonest4 ,the contrarie hereof1 which is ,inhonestum1 includeth likewise whatsoeuer is not vertue1 or is estranged from vertue1 hindering to vertue1 or in nothing furthering towards vertue1 whatsoeuer is pertinent to follie1 iniustic1 pusillanimitie1 or excesse1 whatsoeuer by the euill therein committed is exempted from praise4 ,whatsoeuer carieth perswasion to mischiefe seducement from the good4 ,whatsoeuer appertaineth to infedilitie1 falshood1 treason1 disobedience1 slander1 or ingratitude4 ,whatsoeuer withdraweth from naturall regard and loue of thy ,countrie1 parents1 children and friends4 ,whatsoeuer impugneth the wholesome lawes and estate of euerie common-wealth1 tendeth to a notorious example of euill1 hindereth or blemisheth any others good deseruing4 ,whatsoeuer enforceth reuengement vpon euerie small offence1 hath in it no meane of sufferance1 or forbearance at all1 entertaineth a lawlesse libertie of conscience to perpetrate or yeld to any vnlawfull action1 or to become iniurious to thy ,country1 state or calling4 ,whatsoeuer is furthering to a dissolute liuing1 vnbrideled lust1 couetous tenacitie1 prodegality1 or detestable excesse4 ,these and such like1 as confounders of all ciuilitie and humane gouernment1 are confirmed to be vnhonest4 ,sidenote3 ,laus ab honesto4 ,sidenote3 ,ab quo4 ,sidenote3 ,a necessitate4 ,sidenote3 ,ab vtiltiate4 ,sidenote3 ,a difficili4 ,now these deedes1 actions or thinges are by manie ,oratory partes to bee handled1 or commended1 according to the matters or occasions whereout their praises are deriued1 and because examples are the best ,i might sort out diuers3 as of ,dauid1 ,i coulde commend his combate against ,goliah1 first ab honesto1 in that he being the seruant of god fought against a blasphemer1 also in his ,princes quarell defence of his countrey3 ab quo1 because it is meet and conuenient1 that in causes so perillous1 the strength of each one be applied4 ,a necessitate1 insomuch as thereon depended the sauegard of the ,prince and people4 ,ab vtilitate1 for that he killing such an enemie1 brought to their owne country peace and quiet1 and also draue the other part in subiection to his king and people4 ,a difficili1 because the vndertaking thereof was so much the more waighty1 by howe much himselfe was as it were an infant agaynst a mightie giant1 vnarmed against him that was armed1 vnfurnished against him that had al maner of complements of warre3 weake1 where the other was strong3 besides that the terrour of his chalenge and hugenes of stature had before daunted the armie1 put them all out of conceit1 in so much that the doubt was so generall1 as no man dared to vndertake the quarell4 ,besides1 herein is praised of bodily force1 his ,actiuitie1 and courage3 of ,vertues1 his woonderfull ,magnanimitie1 who by couragious desire durst to vndertake the same3 also his affiance in ,iustice1 and equitie of the cause3 ,his ,pietie to ,god1 his ,prince and countrey3 ,lastly1 his ,fidelitie1 whose life was not spared when each one drew backe for feare to be brought in hazard4 ,and as to this action of ,dauid1 ,i haue vsed all these ,oratorie parts1 so in causes of sway and gouernment1 a man might by the like parts and places be praised for his great wisdome1 whereby in handling of some notable action in ambassage or consultation1 he hath onely by graue aduise1 industrie1 discreete search1 perswasion or circumspection1 compassed weightie matters to the common weale1 or thence auoyded huge and imminent dangers3 ,cicero in the coniuration of ,catiline1 beeing a mightie enemie agaynst his owne ,citie of ,rome1 might herein be an excellent patterne1 who without stirring the people at all1 without any maner of bodilie resistance or force of armes1 without passing by any priuate or indirect means1 did by the sole matter of his wisedome1 waightines of spech1 forcible reasons1 enforcements1 rebukes1 and perswasions driue him cleane out of the ,citie1 and being expulsed 7to the common peace1 tranquilitie and surety of the same ,citie7 did afterwarde by like demeanour1 industrie1 and circumspection1 so preuent his purposes1 so circumuent his policies1 so turne him vpside downe1 as he dared not1 he could not1 he shamed to perpetrate what so often hee had sworne1 and so many wayes intended3 in which action of ,ciceroes1 all these ,oratorie parts are in like maner included4 ,so likewise1 for some one rare singular point of ,iustice another might be extolled1 as beside common expectation exercising the same4 ,a president hereof might bee the ,l4 chiefe ,iustice of ,englande in the time of ,king ,henrie the fourth1 who was so streictlie bent to the obseruation of iustice1 as hauing one of the ,princes seruants arraigned before him at the ,kings ,bench barre1 for a fellon1 and beeing one that the young ,prince greatlie 7at that time of his youth7 fauoured4 ,the prince came to the barre1 and at the ,iudges hands required his seruant2 who answered that he was the ,king his fathers prisoner1 and stoode there vpon his triall by lawe for his offences1 that he could not in iustice1 nor would 7by his pardon7 deliuer him without his triall4 ,the ,prince mooued with such deniall1 stroke the ,iudge on the face1 and woulde by force haue withdrawne the prisoner4 ,the ,iudge withstoode him1 and aduertising him mildlie of the offence he had done to the seate and place wherin he sate of iustice1 in such sort to strike him1 stoutlie commanded him to ,warde1 whereunto 7uppon such admonition7 the ,prince obeyed1 and accordinglie remayned in durance1 attending the aduertisement and knowledge of his fathers pleasure4 ,here might bee a great contention1 whether the worthie ,iudge in his equall administration and execution of iustice1 without feare1 whereon stoode the hazard of his owne life1 beeing vpon him that was in succession to become his soueraigne ,lord1 were more to be commended3 or the ,prince1 in his subiection1 and of all other most singular obedience1 more highly to bee extolled3 the one daring to doe what was lawfull vpon whatsoeuer hazard1 the other humbling himselfe to authoritie which he might easilie haue impugned3 and yet both actions such1 as by many excellent ,oratorie parts seme fit to be inlarged4 ,for no doubt there was as much vertue in the ones obedience1 as there was excellency in the others sentence4 ,and as these1 so the honor1 worship1 or wealth of anie man1 his deedes of charitie1 either in ,erection1 conuersion or repayring of any thing1 whereby the common wealth is benefited1 vertue furthered1 or the nedy prouided for1 might bee in like sort aduanced4 ,finallie1 ,wisdome1 ,iustice1 ,bountie1 ,liberalitie1 ,curtesie1 ,chastitie1 might each of them as things by themselues1 of themselues without the person of any one be alike commended4 ,whereof ,i think it nedlesse to amplifie any further1 seeing by the examples hereafter set downe1 the learner may sufficientlie bee enabled in whatsoeuer1 for those causes he shall vndertake to proceed vpon4 ,an example of a laudatorie epistle soly touching the person4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium1 by insinuation4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,hyperbole4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,anadiplosis4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotiposis4 ,sidenote3 ,praise of the ,prince in generall4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,prteritio4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,parabola4 ,sidenote3 ,metapora4 ,sidenote3 ,antimetabole4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,the feruent loue1 and entire zeale and regarde1 wherewith your ,l4 euen in these tender and as yet vnripened yeares1 seemeth to pursue the vertues and honourable worthinesse of the most renowned and famous1 and the reuerend account1 wherewith in your most secret imaginations you haue euer admired1 as it were emulated their highest progressions3 hath mooued me in recordation thereof 7and the rather to deliuer vnto your ,l4 the verye true image and liuely counterfeit indeede1 of vnblemished honour1 adorned with all princely and most surpassing noblenes7 to propose vnto your view1 a paragon so peerlesse1 and of so rare and excellent performaunce1 as whereof no hystorie hath the semblable1 no region the match1 nor any worlde hereafter may eftsoones be supposed to produce the like4 ,you shall not neede my ,l4 to ransacke volumes1 to search out the liues of the most honoured ,scipio1 amongst the ,romanes1 nor out of ,greece to fetche ,themistocles or ,alcibiades from ,lacedemon or ,athens4 ,let ,haniball rest with his predecessors1 who sometimes by vnbearded fortune did honor to mightie ,carthage1 and 7before them all7 ,achilles and ,hector1 that made the fall of ,troy so famous3 ,and come wee into our owne ,countrey1 the land wherein our selues inhabite1 the soyle to vs natiue1 and of all others most deerest1 and see you here my ,l4 a ,prince of so rare and incomparable worthinesse1 as your selfe will confesse throughout all the course of his life1 to haue beene of all others the moste happie and vertuous4 ,edwarde1 my ,l4 young ,edward 7so helde in his fathers life7 vnder whose raigne he died in ,englande1 surnamed for his noted excellencie1 sometymes the blacke ,prince4 ,this is hee on whome ,nature1 ,fortune and ,vertue1 to the intent to yeelde some apparaunt shewe of theyr woonderfull and mightie operations1 had aboue all others so especially enriched with all kinde of wished and most exquisite perfections1 as in that present season1 in which the delicacie of his aspiring minde reste vnto himselfe the highest branch of honour from out her loftie seate of dignity1 it was denied to any other whatsoeuer1 to exceede8 nay1 but so much as to become partaker with so rare a patterne of the like fruites of vertue and neuer dying glory4 ,and to the ende 7in rehearsing some fewe of the many particularities of such sounde and vncorrupted maiestie7 the radiant shining beames resiant in so high a personage1 may with more facilitie the sooner bee discouered3 wee will first beginne with his originall and foremost infancie1 that by deducing from thence his complementes of princelie excellencie1 euen in the verie mouth of his entombed graue1 his bones may not bee reposed without an immortall recordation1 and the fame of his vertue celebrated by an endlesse memorie4 ,needlesse were it my ,l4 that ,i shoulde tell you of this statelie ,prince1 that hee were sonne and heire in succession1 to the most mightie and most renowmed ,edward the thirde1 king of this noble realme of ,england1 the most regarded vertues and inuincible chiualrie of whome1 beeing then euerie where so surpassing1 and of such redoubted force1 as 7were it not such memorable issue had sprong out of his ,kingly loynes1 as wherewith the states of the mightie were daunted1 and ,europe made to woonder7 might hitherto haue remained of-fame compotent ynough1 to haue bene compared vnto the mightiest3 but that ,i may rather imparte vnto you1 that as golde1 in the riches and glorie of it selfe1 beareth price and value with the most precious1 yet hauing annexed vnto his proportion1 a ,diamonde of inestimable beautie1 valour and goodnesse1 becommeth thereby farre more excellent then before1 more shining and glorious3 so this soueraigne and puissant ,monarch 7admirable no doubt by himselfe7 yet hauing thus tied vnto the sunne-shine of his happie raigne1 the obscurer and eclipsing glorie of all other nations1 the verie ,loadstarre and direction of all other ,tropheis1 the ,sunne it selfe of worthinesse1 and absolute concluder of euerie honourable enterprise3 howe coulde it bee but that this prerogatiue of his must of force exceede1 and goe beyonde all others1 when himselfe1 by the verie chaire of honours selfe was so farre aduaunced aboue any others8 ,and albeit the high and kingly worthinesse of so statelie offspring and parentage1 might no question in sundry sortes1 yeelde greate and mightie glorie to the issue3 yet that it might not bee alleadged that in taking vppon vs to commende the personage of one1 wee shoulde intimate the soueraigntie of the other1 as it were by a defect of praise sufficient1 to supply the wante of our owne1 and that the honourable reputation of another cannot fitly bee saide to bee this mans worthinesse1 without by the braunch of his owne deserte1 hee hadde in his owne proper right most effectually caried the same4 ,vnderstand you then of him1 that which all men deeme most princely and honourable1 and there is none1 were it the stoutest enemie that euer liued1 but will most highlie commende4 ,this ,prince1 my ,l4 who euen from the verie cradle seemed to bee addicted to the knowledge1 and feare of ,god1 and verie pietie of a sincere and ,christian religion 7besides that hee was naturally so well formed and instructed in good documentes as anie might bee7 became in those verie tender yeares also1 so apte vnto learning1 as the match or like of him therein1 was seldome or neuer in those dayes any where found1 and in these times also may not easily bee hearde of4 ,insomuch as of those that then knewe him verie well1 it certainely is deliuered1 that beeing but the age of twelue yeares1 his vnderstanding and knowledge in the ,latine tongue1 was so perfect1 his progression in the ,greeke so excellent1 his skill and deliuerie of forraigne languages so woonderfull1 his ,princelie towardnesse in all thinges so rare and so plentiful1 as many times mooued all the regarders to admire him1 but founde none of all his associates in the same exercises1 that were able to follow him4 ,sidenote3 ,of his adolescence4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodus4 ,his mans estate4 ,sidenote3 ,his outward actions4 ,sidenote3 ,his inward vertues4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotiposis4 ,sidenote3 ,his bounty great humility4 ,sidenote3 ,his modestie4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,confirmati4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotiposis4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,confutati4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,praise of his death4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,articulus4 ,nowe if wee shall come to his riper yeares1 and howe therein hee profited in the towardlie exercise and vse of armes1 beeseeming a ,prince of so high and exspected admiration1 what coulde bee wished in anie one that in him was not fullie accomplished4 ,so comelie1 and with such vncontrouled dexteritie coulde hee sitte1 ride and gouerne his horse1 so couragiously1 and with such nobilitie coulde hee welde and vse any weapon1 either at tilte1 barriers or turney1 with such high and woonderfull direction1 ordered hee all his complementes to either of these belonging1 as did well manifest the magnanimitie and worthinesse of his minde1 and what manner a one hee woulde afterwardes become toward the beautifying of his countrie4 ,a more plaine and euident demonstration whereof1 did at any one time in nothinge so much appeare as euen then1 when hee was yet in his minoritie4 ,for when there was remaining as then1 no signe or token at all of manlie shewe in his face 7beeing neuer the lesse of stature seemelie and tall1 and of goodlie constitution in his bodie1 well beseeming the yeares hee then caried7 also attendante on the mightie ,king his father in the warres of ,fraunce3 what thinges did hee there perfourme8 what weightie enterprises1 and those beyonde all expectation would hee vndertake1 in honour of his royall progenie3 was it not too straunge1 that beeing in comparison of yeares1 as it were a childe1 deuoide of so confirmed and auncient graffed experience as beseemed the warres1 hee vndertooke notwithstanding at eighteene yeares of age1 with halfe his fathers power 7by a most couragious desire of an euerthirsting glorie1 with condition and charge either there to eternize his death by an euerlasting memorie1 or backe to returne againe with triumphant gained victorie7 to ioine with the whole and mightie power of ,fraunce1 and all the ,chiualrie thereof1 where 7to his immortall and surpassing high renowne7 hee attained vppon them by the high permission of ,god1 a most memorable ,tropheie8 ,but why dwell ,i in these slender discourses 7small ,god knowes in respect of those mightie conquestes by him afterwards atchieued7 in deteining you from the sweete and ardente remembrance of the rest8 ,if he being yet sequestred in years from any ripenes at all1 when it was th to be supposed he most needed gouernmente1 coulde by such stately and inuincible valour1 so moderate his great and waightiest actions1 as to become at that verie instant so redoubted and famous3 what might we deem of him afterward1 being once perfectly established in all kinde of manly directions1 but that of necessity he should by manie degrees exceed and go beyond the formost shewe of all his excellencies1 and the greatest expectation that might be of all his progressions8 so vndoubtedly he did4 ,for being once attained to mans estate hee grewe immediatly to become a ,prince4 sage1 discreet1 politike wise1 in all his actis of rare singular circspecti and prouidence1 benigne3 of all others most fauourable and courteous3 fortunate1 and euer inuincible in the warres1 liberall to his followers1 and of a high replenished bountie to euerie one1 a verie ,patrone and defender of innocents1 absolutelye fauouring alwayes the right1 ,magnanimious as touching his estate and the high and waightie enterprises he tooke in hande1 exceedinglie feared abroad1 woonderfullie beloued at home1 mixing alwayes the enterchangeable exercise of ,armes1 with continuall studie of learning4 ,of such rare modestie and temperance as is maruellous3 ,in so much as the ,king his father beeing here in ,england1 when in the great fight of ,poictiers1 hee had discomfited and ouerthrowne in one day three mightie battels of the ,french1 and taken in the last of them king ,iohn and his sonne prisoners3 he was not puffed vp at all with the honour of so statelie and triumphant victorie1 neither grewe he insolent vpon the same1 but entertayned the ,king and his sonne in his owne ,tent so honourablie1 and therewithall with so great nobilitie and surpassing courtesie1 as that hee neglected not to serue them himselfe at ,supper1 and seemed verely at that season in all things1 to haue beene reputed in his owne intendment1 as if hee had neuer beene conquerour4 ,the shewe whereof1 so much increased his incomparable bountie3 and so mightilie honoured the estate of his victorie1 as that the ,king then confessed1 that to become the prisoner of such a one1 it could bee no disparagement vnto so mightie a soueraigne as himselfe1 seeing that hee was by the force of that onely ouerthrowe1 made companion of the greatest ,nobilitie that euer hee sawe4 ,manie ,honourable partes could ,i here inferre vnto you of him 7infallible arguements of his incredible modestie7 for long after this1 when this mightie ,prince had atchieued so manie and waightie honours throughout all ,fraunce1 as that the regard thereof made his name a terrour1 and his becke a commaunde to compell theyr ,soueraigntie vnto his fathers obedience3 he was required by ,don ,petro1 king of ,castile1 to helpe him agaynst ,henrie his bastard brother1 who had then expulsed him vnlawfully2 and vsurped vpon his kingdome4 ,whereupon hauing by the couragious endeuour of him selfe1 and his ,knightes1 and by their sole and onely prowesse1 brought downe the vsurper1 and driuen him cleane out of the ,countrey1 7albeit his strength was such1 and the admirable fauour of the people so greate1 as might easilye haue inuited him there1 to the wearing of a crowne7 hee neuerthelesse of a high and noble disposition1 holding it farre more honourable to make a king then to be a king1 so farre foorth declared his temperance at that verie instant 7not commonlie happening vnto euerie one1 especially in causes of a kingdome7 as that hee vtterlie abstained so much as to beare an appetite or liking therunto1 howbeit good occasi was therunto ministred by the breach of ,don ,petro in paiment of his souldiors3 but to his immortall renowne1 placed and restored therin againe the true lawful inheritour of the same setling him 7according as was intended7 in his crowne and kingdome4 ,could there my ,l4 in any one haue appeared greater arguments of ,magnanimitie1 ,iustice1 and ,temperaunce1 then was remaining in this ,prince8 ,and yet if continuall happinesse in all worldly attempts1 if neuer ceasing and eternized famous victories1 if the commendation and honour done vnto him of his mightiest enemies1 if strength and glorie of his countrey1 and honoured titles of his victorious father1 if confirmed leagues of diuers mightie ,princes1 ,confederates and ,alies1 if feruent and of all others the moste principall and ardent loue of his ,knightes1 subiects and followers1 if all or anie of these might anie wayes haue induced him to the breach of eyther of these vertues1 what wanted to the furtheraunce thereof1 that in and vppon him1 was not alwayes attendant and 7as it were7 continuallie powred4 ,was hee not then wedded to honour1 euen in his formost ,cradle8 ,did not ,fortune immediately acknowledge him1 and confesse that he was her darling8 ,seemed vertue euer prowde1 but in his greatest perfection8 ,grew ,fame at any time so impatient as euen then1 when 7as the most conuenient harbour of all her worthinesse7 she sought out his dwelling8 ,agreed they not all with one voice to abandon the statelinesse of all others1 onelie to bee resiant with him whome they helde most charie of all others8 ,witnesse among manie other his more then ordinarie attemptes1 the three battels 7then which no one thing throughout the worlde before or since became of more greater remembraunce7 by him in his moste youngest yeares1 so miraculouslie foughten1 the one of which was at ,cressay agaynst the ,french1 when he was but eighteene yeares of age 7as you haue before remembred47 the second at ,poictiers1 where died the ,king of ,bohemia1 and ,king ,iohn of ,fraunce became his prisoner3 the thirde against the bastard ,henrie1 for the kingdome of ,castile1 where in one whole intire fight the same ,henry bearing a mightie hoste1 was by meere surpassing valour and moste woorthie prowesse of this ,prince discomfited1 and by maine force thereof expulsed his ,seignorie4 ,all which exploytes1 and manie more besides1 celebrating thereby his eternall prayses1 when he had with greater glorie1 then well may bee conceyued1 furnished and finished to the aduauncement of his immortall dignitie3 ,see death1 dispightfull death1 who ioyning with the malignitie of the wicked world1 hatefull alwayes to vertue1 and satisfying euer to malicious enuie1 bereft the vnwoorthie earth of his most worthie life4 ,but howe8 ,not as falleth out to euerie common creature1 deuoyde of after memorie3 for why8 the soueraigne commaunder of earth and skyes1 allowed it otherwise3 neither beseemeth such stately patternes of honoured vertue1 whose spirites caried with greater efficacie of aspiring eternitie1 then those whose duller conceytes are adapted to more terrene and grosse validities1 shoulde bee exempted their perpetuitie4 ,and albeit in all the progression of the wished life of this mightie ,prince1 anie one thing was neuer founde contrarying1 blemishing1 or in one sort or other impugning his honour 7one sole imposition or taxe contraried in his gouernement of ,gascoigne excepted7 yet in the highest estate of happinesse wherein hee alwayes liued1 was hee neuer more happie or glorious1 then euen in his verie death4 ,insomuch as hee then dyed1 at which time in most honour and highest1 toppe of all prosperitie1 hee was principallie established and chieflie florishing3 at that instant in which the type of his excellencie was in no one tytle or iote obscured3 at that verie season when in the whole course and practise of his life1 hauing still addicted himselfe to sounde out the incertaine and momentarie pleasures of the worlde1 he had by perfect tryall found out the small validitie and little affiaunce that was to bee reposed in transitorie and fading glorie of the same4 ,euen then1 when in the exchaunge of the eternall habitation 7the incomprehensible ioyes whereof no eye hath seene1 eare hath heard1 nor tongue can expresse17 hee best knewe howe to leaue this wretched life1 and to compasse the sweete and wholesome meditation of the other4 ,he died 7my ,l47 as hee euer liued1 vertuouslie and honourablie1 the determination of whose deceasing corps1 was preparation to newe ioyes3 and commutation of momentarie pleasures1 an assurance of euer flourishing gladnesse4 ,thus1 see you 7my good ,l47 before your eyes1 the most certaine and assured counterfeite of verie true ,nobilitie1 furnished in the discouerie of such a one1 whose personage beeing in no kinde of excellencie inferiour1 to that in the highest degree may bee of any other imagined3 deserueth by so much the more of all honourable estates accordingly to be embraced4 ,great is the ornament of prayse1 and precious the renowne that longeth to such vertue3 the ,diamond glimpse whereof equalleth in beautie the fairest1 and dimmeth by the verie shadowe thereof the glittering pompe of the mightiest4 ,beautie1 strength1 comelinesse fadeth1 yea1 the worlde decayeth1 pleasure vanisheth1 and the verie face of heauen it selfe perisheth3 ,onlie sacred vertue is immortall1 she neuer dieth1 euer quickeneth1 absolutely triumpheth1 and ouer all other earthly monuments euen out of the deepest graue for euer flourisheth4 ,liue therefore my ,l4 vertuouslie1 and die wheresoeuer and whensoeuer1 yet howsoeuer honourablie4 ,my paper burthened with his long discourse1 desirous rather to recreate then toyle your ,l4 enforceth an ende4 ,recommending my humble duetie in whatsoeuer to your honourable acceptance4 ,the respects of this ,epistle argued in the personage of so noble a ,prince1 haue caried in the matter thereof1 the very shew of the highest and chiefest vertues1 whereupon all commendation may bee principallie gathered4 ,the next hereunto shall be ,vituperatorie also touching the person4 ,wherein as wee haue in the other1 sought by all occasions and circumstances therunto incident1 what to the furtherance of such requisite commendation might be alledged3 so will we herein imagin vpon what groundes or respects the occasions of dispraise1 may as farre forth otherwise in anie other qualitie be remembred4 ,an example of an ,epistle vituperatorie1 concerning also the person4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,of the cause mouing admiration4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,paradoxon4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,paradoxon4 ,sidenote3 ,his ,parents4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,epanodis4 ,sidenote3 ,antiphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,apostrophe4 ,sidenote3 ,his childhood4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,omoioteleton4 ,sidenote3 ,adolescencie4 ,sidenote3 ,sinathrismus4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,brachiologia4 ,sidenote3 ,ironia4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,epiheton4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,his youth and age4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,transiti4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,sidenote3 ,his inordinarie sicknes4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,his death4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,sir1 the straungenesse of an accident happening of late amongst vs1 hath occasioned at this instaunt1 this discourse to come vnto your handes4 ,there was1 if you remember1 at your last beeng with mee in the ,countrey1 a man of great abilitie1 dwelling about a mile from me1 his name was ,b4 and if ,i faile not of memorie therein1 wee had once at a dinner together sitting 7by occasion of a pleasaunt ,gentleman then beeing in our companie7 greate speaches of him3 the man ,i knowe is not cleane out of your conceite1 and therefore ,i will cease in further speaches at this presente to reuoke him4 ,what generall hate the people bare him1 and howe ill hee deserued from his first conuersing among them1 you haue not 7,i am sure7 forgotten1 in so much as he was called the ,hell of the world1 the ,plague of a common-weale1 the ,mischiefe of men1 and the ,bondslaue of the deuill4 ,and no maruaile1 for what iniurie mighte bee conceiued1 that was not by him imagined8 what euill coulde there bee that hee shunned to practise8 ,what mercilesse dealing that hee woulde not proffer8 ,what apparant wrong that hee ceased to inferre8 ,what execrable extortion that hee cared not to committe8 ,what villanie so damnable that he durste not put forwarde8 ,o ,god1 it is incredible to thinke1 and vnpossible to bee surmised1 howe greate1 howe forcible1 howe manifolde1 howe mischieuous1 howe insufferable1 howe detestable hath beene the originall1 progression1 continuation1 and determination of his most wicked and shamelesse life1 and were it not that by the incessant outcries1 continuall cursinges1 and horrible denuntiations of the innumerable multitude of those1 whome in his life time hee yoked1 whome with his actions he feared1 whom with the weighte of his endelesse wealth1 hee poized downe1 that they durste not then whisper in secrete1 what nowe they openlie discouer1 whereby the force of his wickednesse being then secrete1 became not as nowe so open and apparant4 ,i durste not me thinkes of my selfe so much as surmize but the one halfe of that1 wherein he became so notorious1 so rare and vnused are the euils1 wherein hee seemed so throughly to bee fleshed4 ,i haue woondered sithence with my selfe many times3 what soyle it might bee1 or what constellation so furious1 as effected their operations in production of so bad and vile a creature1 at the time when hee was first put forwarde with liuing into the worlde3 ,in the search whereof ,i haue beene the lesse astonied1 in so much as thereby ,i haue growne into some particular knowledge of his originall and parentes4 ,his sire ,i haue vnderstoode was a villaine by birth1 by nature1 by soyle1 by discente1 by education1 by practise1 by studie1 by experience3 his damme the common sinke of euerie rakehels filthinesse3 the one of whome 7after innumerable offences committed1 whereby hee deserued a thousande deathes7 was at the last for a detestable and notorius crime burned peecemeale vppon a stage in ,holland1 and the other 7after sundrie consuming and filthie diseases1 neuer able to rid her7 was in like manner hanged aliue in chaines for a most horrible murder in ,england4 ,expect you not then1 that the procreation and generation of such an issue1 must by argumente of the ,parentes condition1 sorte to some notable purpose3 you doe ,i know1 and in trueth howe coulde it otherwise bee likely4 ,nowe if hereby wee shoulde conceiue of his education1 and howe his childehoode past away beeing fostered vp as hee was1 from one place to another1 without any certaine abiding1 but onely ,clum omnibus commune1 the common habitation of the worlde4 ,we must no doubte suppose that he sawe much1 knewe much1 practised much1 ouerpassed much1 and was glutted with verie much4 ,and surely if ,i shoulde giue credite to some whome ,i durst beleeue1 that knewe him euen then when hee was not much more then a childe1 the verie yeares he lastly bare1 gaue not more assured testimonie of what hee nowe was1 then the season in which he then passed1 did yeelde an inuiolable approbation1 what in time following he would become1 for euen th2 what rapine1 what theft1 what iniurie1 what slaunder1 what lying1 what enuie1 what malice1 what desperate boldnesse1 and daring to enter into any mischiefe1 was in him throughly planted8 ,there was not 7by reporte7 any one thinge whereby a man might afterwarde bee coniectured to become infamous1 but was in him fully replenished4 ,credite mee1 ,i coniecture so manifoldly of the sequell of his actions1 as when ,i vnderstande what hee was so ripely1 ,i maruaile that hee liued thus long so wickedly4 ,but shall ,i turne here from1 to his ,adolescencie1 and shew what therein ,i haue hearde8 ,truely it passeth all capacitie to be censured3 and it is too much to bee thought vppon4 ,his pride1 his bouldnes1 his shameles countenance1 his lookes1 his gesture1 his shew1 his liuing1 his conuersation1 his companie1 his hauntes shewed still what hee was3 ,there was no rake-hell1 no ruffian1 no knaue1 no villaine1 no cogging raskall1 no hatefull companion1 no robber on high waies1 no priuy pilferer1 but his hande was in with him1 and that hee was a copesmate for him1 no brothell house but he haunted1 no odde corner but hee knewe1 no cutter1 but hee was a sharer with1 no person so lasciuious1 abiect1 vilde1 or dissolute1 but hee would bee a copartner with4 ,yet after all these trades1 hauntes1 sharinges1 and partakings1 hee became at last to serue an olde miser1 aged for his yeares and miserable for his couetousnes4 ,this wretched olde man 7as each one fancieth as hee liketh7 conceiued so much of the odde youth1 that hee took him into his seruice1 where1 with badde attire1 and thredbare diet1 hee liued with him a prettie season1 somewhat more then quarter maister4 ,in the ende 7by whose thefte ,god knowes7 the man had a chist broken vp1 and a little coyne and plate stolne1 where with 7becomming desperate7 it was deliuered hee hung himselfe for griefe1 and beeing nowe deade1 lefte no issue or other heire1 to succeede his wretchednesse and double barred hoorde1 but ,b4 his man1 who being a strong lubber1 was by this time growne a sturdie knaue1 and would needes bee counted a man1 and thereupon hee became owner and intruder to his maisters pelfe1 wretchednes and miserie4 ,to reckon to you since1 howe hee came into the countrie here1 beecame a purchaser1 howe hee hath spente his youth1 passed his olde age1 what bribery1 extortion1 wrong1 crueltie1 rapine1 mischiefe1 and all kinde of villanie1 hee hath bolstered1 perpetrated1 followed3 what infidelitie1 falshoode1 reuenge1 priuy guile1 treacherie1 betraying the innocent1 beating downe the poore1 fatherlesse and widowes3 howe much euill hee hath done and what litle good he hath deserued1 what shoulde ,i clogge my selfe with the remembrance1 or trouble you with the rehearsall4 ,it is too much1 ,i am not able1 ,i cannot1 nay1 it were vnpossible to perfourme it4 ,what resteth then1 but that ,i hasten to the scope which in my foremost purpose was intended1 that hauing deliuered his shamefull life1 ,i doe reporte vnto you his shamelesse and vnaccustomed death4 ,see then the incomprehensible power and iustice of ,god1 see the weight of his measure1 see the woonderfull demonstration of his secrete iudgement1 howe of a carelesse life ensueth a cankered death3 of a wilfull liuing a wretched ending3 of such money misers so manifolde miseries2 as whereof ,i sigh to thinke1 and grieue to remember4 ,the man somewhat before his sicknesse grew into an extreame numnesse1 in so much as hee that neuer lusted to helpe others1 was not nowe able to helpe himselfe1 nor any cared to relieue him3 afterwardes fretting and fuming with him selfe as it seemed1 that not withstanding his greate masse of money1 and huge heape of wealth1 none could bee entreated with prayers1 or hiered with guiftes1 so much as to meddle with him1 he grew into such a frensie1 and consequently1 into so ranck a madnes1 that hee sate swearing and blaspheming1 crying1 cursing1 and banning1 and that most execrable1 his lookes were grimme1 furious and chaunged1 his face terrible1 his sight fiery and pearcing1 they that sawe him feared1 and they that heard of it durst not come nigh him4 ,in conclusion1 some that pittied him more then his deseruing1 and grieued to see that1 they coulde not redresse in him1 caused a companie to watch him1 others to prouide warme brothes1 and in conclusion vsed all meanes possible to comforte him4 ,but what can man doe to preuent the secret determination of the almightie8 ,for loe whilst all men lefte him1 and each one stoode in doubt of him1 a companie of rattes vpon a sudden possest his house1 his tables1 his chymnies1 his chambers1 yea his verie bed and his lodging1 vpon which about which1 they were so bold1 as in the sight of the beholders they durst appeare and come before them1 and beeing stroken1 aboade1 and were killed1 and others come in their places3 ,what shall ,i say1 the sight became so vncouth1 as all men shunned1 ech one feared1 and none durst abide it2 whereupon the miser beeing lefte alone1 thus pittifully died4 ,the stench of his corpes admitted neither day-light nor companie wherein to bee buried4 ,two onely that were the conueyers of him1 sickened vehemently1 and one of them dyed1 the other is yet scarcely recouered4 ,the matter hereof seemed vnto me so straunge1 and therewithall so opportune to warne vs of our actions1 considering how seuerely ,god punisheth when hee is once bent to correction1 as ,i coulde not but deeply consider of it1 weighing with my self that such as was his life1 such was his death1 the one beeing hated of manie1 the other not to be tolerated of any4 ,the circumstance whereof1 referring herewith to your deep consideration1 ,i doe bid you hartily farewell4 ,of ,epistles deliberatiue4 ,chap4 #aj4 ,the next vnto these laste of this ,demonstratiue kinds are nowe the ,deliberatiue1 the first titles whereof in order suted forth1 appeare to bee ,hortatorie1 ,dehortatorie1 ,swasorie1 and ,disswasorie4 ,these beeing as ,i saide before1 neerlie affined together 7sauing onelie that the ,hortatorie and ,dehortatorie are a little more vehement1 stirring and pricking then the others1 yet both consisting in well aduising and counselling1 the one by necessitie1 the other as an inducement to thinges laudable and worthie7 neede therefore in all seeming but one maner of direction in them to be followed4 ,you shall then vnderstand that the seuerall partes in either of these ,hortatorie or ,swasorie1 to be considered1 doe principally stand vppon a diuersitie of affections1 which nature as it seemeth1 hath from the beginning ordained1 to bee as it were stirrings or prouocations within vs1 thereby to propose a direct and most readie waie vnto ,vertue1 or to terrifie by like degrees1 or withdrawe vs from the pursuing of vices4 ,the motions or effects herein frequented1 may bee said to bee either of praise or mislike1 of hope or reward1 or feare of euill to folow1 of loue to well doing1 or of hate vnto badnes1 of emulation of others praise1 glory1 or reputation1 of expectation thereon depending1 of examples or of intreatie4 ,by laying out of all or either of these1 as occasion shall serue1 consisteth the efficacie of all exhortation or aduising1 pulling backe or disswading4 ,now how the qualities of these1 or any other in generall touching the propertie they haue with ,vertue or ,vice1 may for any turne be allotted3 ,i must as well for this ,deliberatiue kind ensuing1 as for all other titles whatsoeuer1 the same hereafter requiring1 wholy referre the learner to the places in the chapter preceeding the ,epistles ,laudatorie and ,vituperatorie in all things to be directed4 ,as touching these particularities1 which wee haue tearmed ,motions and affects1 let vs consider if you will in seuerall1 and see what efficacie by distinguishment of all their properties partes they may beare in this writing4 ,praise 7no doubt7 in matter of exhortation or stirring vp to well doing is of most singular force1 and so questionlesse is ,mislike1 when generallie it may bee drawne from a regarded conceite of the greatest and woorthiest1 to the withdrawing from euill4 ,for if we shall but enter into1 or consider of our owne common passages3 what is it ,i pray you that preferreth or disalloweth1 giueth grace or disableth the actions and endeuours of men1 but the speciall allowance or mislike that is euery where had of them8 ,is it not account alone that giueth encouragement vnto ,vertue8 ,is ,vertue so fullie aduaunced in anie thing as in the estimate prayse and reputation1 that is attributed vnto her8 ,no surelie4 ,and this by insight had into the verie woorst and lowest sort of men shall you find1 that there is hardlie anie lyuing of so base and contemptible a spirite1 but that by ,prayse and commendation1 hee may bee drawne vppe to some liking of well dooing4 ,and howebeit the issues of mens actions doe at anie time seeme to bee spotted with euill1 yet desire they at the least wise for their reckoning sake1 that they might bee esteemed as good4 ,by this appeareth the singularitie of thinges excellent1 in so much as nothing is1 or semeth rightlie prayse-woorthie1 but what is accounted good1 so little reputation haue the perpetratours of euilles1 as that of necessitie they are compelled to seeke credite1 by falselie attributing vnto themselues the name of good4 ,howe much more then true ,prayse and ,mislike of thinges woorthie1 or to bee despysed1 may by all lykelihoode bee auailable with those of good spirite1 to drawe them to ,vertues4 ,to applie nowe this prayse in exhorting or counsailing anie one1 it behooueth wee first conceyue what disposition1 habiliments1 or other matter of value are in him whome wee haue to deale with1 furthering or conuenient to such a purpose1 whereunto wee woulde exhort or perswade him1 and the likelihoode of the same1 greatlie to put foorth or commende3 or if before time he haue behaued himselfe anie wayes well1 we shall incourage him in praysing of that alreadie done2 and in shewing that the more excellent the thing is1 the more difficult it is to bee attained1 for ,difficilia qu pulchra1 and yet the difficultie not so great as the prayse1 glorie and recordation thereof1 shall thereby afterwards be returned honourable4 ,likewise1 if the state of the partie doe serue thereunto1 it shall not bee amisse to put him in minde of his parentage1 or that fayling1 of his ,fortune1 ,vertue1 ,nobilitie of minde1 ,wit1 towardnesse1 his great expectation1 abilitie1 age1 and ,discretion1 all of them no lesse requiring1 but this with great modeste to be deliuered1 least in seming to preferre the certaintie of those vertues which are of good account to be in him1 we doe not palpably gloze with the partie1 and as it were seeke to drawe from his person1 or account1 the things that neuer came neare him4 ,now as ,prayse1 and the laudable estimate of euerie good action1 together with the iust mislike of thinges euill1 spurreth and eggeth forward to great purposes1 so verie much thereunto preuaileth this other of ,hope1 not that which of a seruile and base humour or condition ensueth1 which expecteth nothing that is frustrate of gain1 and performeth all endeuours by expectation of reward1 but that vertuous kinde of ,hope1 which enableth to the perfection and absolute summe of all worthinesse1 and whose limit is honour1 reputation1 estimate and account3 ,a like ,companion whereunto is ,loue1 beeing a zealous affectation of thinges singular1 which ,loue produceth likewise in it selfe1 not a mislike onelie1 but a burning ,hate of things vile1 contemptible1 and vnbeseeming4 ,as these in themselues doe each particularlie thrust forwards to goodnes1 so many times ,feare1 or doubt of inconuenience that may ensue1 terrifieth or disswadeth from euils4 ,commiseration of the lamentable estate of any one1 prouoketh also sometimes to pittie1 and disturneth in like sort manie times from reuenge4 ,expectati1 as wel of ,loue as of ,hate1 of good opinion as mislike in compassing of any thing is not the least4 ,shame ignomie of the action also1 the dependance whereof is oftentimes occasion sufficient of well doing1 and hindrance alike1 and withdrawing from euill purposes4 ,but aboue all is the spur of ,emulation1 whose force gathered by a certaine kind of ,enuie1 of others proceedings kindleth flames of regarde to aspire vnto the like1 but not that sluggish and execrable enuie bred of most wicked and detestable malice1 which when it selfe cannot1 nor is able to doe any thing worthie1 snatcheth and continuallie gnaweth on the deserts of others1 but that generous and noble kind of enuie which discreete ,nature and vertue haue insinuated in our mindes1 emulating by a feruent desire to compasse1 or possibly to go beyond what mightily by others hath bene performed4 ,the authoritie of ,example is also very weightie1 giuing warrant to any vertuous imitation that may be prescribed1 and lastly requests and intreatie which euer more preuaileth according to the writers credit or grauity4 ,these being sufficently considered1 we will nowe according to such like directions1 endeuour to suite foorth vnto you some particular examples4 ,an ,example of an ,epistle ,exhortatorie for the attaining of vertue4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,praise of the person4 ,sidenote3 ,parmia4 ,sidenote3 ,exhortati4 ,sidenote3 ,confirmati4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,ab quo4 ,sidenote3 praise of his ancestors4 ,sidenote3 ,a necessitate4 ,sidenote3 ,of expectation4 ,sidenote3 ,of loue and hate4 ,sidenote3 ,hyberbole4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,sidenote3 entreatie4 ,i haue manie times desired with my selfe 7good ,cosin7 to obtaine some necessarie meanes1 whereby to manyfest the greate good will ,i doe owe vnto you1 and in some sorte or other to giue you to vnderstande1 howe much and howe greatly ,i haue tendred those good partes1 that manie times ,i haue seene and prooued to bee in you4 ,and for as much as ,fortune hath denied vnto mee the estate1 reputation and wealth1 that manie haue gained1 and the most doe couet1 whereby ,i cannot if ,i woulde1 bestowe vppon you such riches and treasures as might breede content vnto others3 ,i am determmined to imparte vnto you1 that1 which vnto your present condition seemeth most requisite1 and wherewith vse and common experience hath heretofore inured mee1 in steede of wealth to giue you wordes1 in steede of golde1 good1 for riches1 reason1 and in lue of liuing1 to affoord you a louing and constant hearte4 ,and whereas ,i am enfourmed1 that contrarie to the expectation of some 7who ouer peremptorily haue heretofore deemed of these your young yeares to be laden with loosenesse1 and led forwarde by libertie7 you haue of your selfe1 and of your owne motion and free will1 obtained license and allowance of your father to go to ,cambridge1 in minde to giue your selfe whollie to studie1 and the sole fruition of learning1 ,i mused with my selfe whether ,i might more commende the motion1 or attende your perseuerance in the action that thereby you haue taken in hande1 in so much as the memorie of the one cannot bee for the worthinesse more permanent1 th the glorie of the other1 to your euerlasting commendation1 will appeare to be most excellent4 ,it is reported of the mightie ,alexander of ,macedon1 that he was a ,king1 that he was puissant1 that he was warlike1 that hee was famous1 that he was a ,conqueror1 and that hee subdued the whole worlde3 but when he came to himselfe1 to the conuincing of his owne appetite1 to rule reason by the square of right he became a meacocke1 a childe1 an infant1 what should ,i say8 he was no bodie4 ,howe much greater then hee was1 hadde the woorthie ,prince appeared1 if as in the conquest of sundrie mightie kinges1 regions and prouinces1 so in all other thinges tending to the suppression of his owne peculiar affectes1 he had bene no lesse or fullie so much as ,alexander4 ,scipio1 the most renowned amongst the ,romanes1 and for his sundrie great exploites in ,affrica1 surnamed ,affricanus1 we doe reade1 atchieued many valiant and incomparable victories1 and were it but that sole battell which hee fought 7when ,rome was nowe at wracke1 her ,nobilitie spoyled1 and her glorie trode vnder foote1 readie almost vppon any reasonable condition to bee deliuered into the handes of the enemie7 in which hee then freed his citie1 repulsed ,haniball by a mightie ouerthrowe1 and thereby daunted so farre foorth his pride for euer1 as expelled from him all hope thence forwarde1 at anie time else to become a ,conquerour3 ,it coulde not otherwise bee saide without question1 but herein1 yea in this onelie action1 hee deserued eternall memorie3 ,but was hee herein1 thinke you1 and for this onely matter throughout all the prouinces recounted so famous8 ,no assuredlie4 ,it was also his rare and most singular vertues otherwise1 that fullie perfected and polished the glorie thereof4 ,it was his rare ,temperance1 ,modestie1 ,continencie1 and ,sobrietie1 wherein with woonderfull admiration hee exceedinglie flourished1 and became extolled aboue all others4 ,this was it1 wherein more then ,alexander hee became regarded and famous4 ,the conquestes that by this meanes hee daylie made of himselfe1 returned more glorie to ,rome1 more firme faith and reuerence1 then the forcible progression of all other his fattall ouerthrowes and victories3 of so greate and woonderfull reputation is ,vertue to all her followers4 ,this beeing so1 how can ,i then say1 but in this your action1 you haue of your selfe right wel begun1 how can ,i think1 but aboue many others you haue therein verie well deserued8 ,wherein shoulde ,i augmente your praise if not in that which you haue heereby so well performed1 the force1 operation1 and effect of all which1 hath onely consisted in subduing your owne appetite8 ,great commendation haue you won ,i must needes confesse1 and more then with common worthines haue you in this thinge demeaned your selfe1 but 7my good ,cosen7 it is not ynough to haue well begun in a matter1 without also therein you doe vse perseuerance4 ,hanniball knew well how to subdue1 but he knew not howe to entertaine his victories4 ,as you haue alreadie in this your resolution gotten great good liking1 so behooueth both for the preseruation of what alreadie woone1 and to induce a perpetuall increase to the same1 that you doe euermore frequente and by earnest and zealous prosecution seeke still to entertaine the fruits thereof4 ,proceede then a ,gods name1 and goe on with good lucke in your enterprise1 the more harder and greater you finde the difficulty in attaining to vertue1 the more vehemente shall bee your glorie1 and the more honourable the reputation that thereby is pursued4 ,for1 what hath a man of all that may be left vnto him in this worlde1 whereof to vaunt himselfe1 but the memorie of that wherein he hath most worthily trauailed4 ,the rich reape possessions1 which when themselues are once passed away1 are immediately distributed to others4 ,the pleasures of the worlde are momentarie1 and after wee are once deade wee perceiue them no more4 ,worship1 honour and dignitie1 perisheth euen in the verie selfe remembrance4 ,the reuenues of the mightie1 when life is once fled1 are no more to be tendred4 ,shall wee then for a number of fruitelesse vanities1 7the regarde whereof doeth neuer last longer1 then whilest wee are in present vse of them7 neglect the search of that which is of all others most permanent8 ,no surely4 ,so behooueth not such as your selfe1 that of your auncestours haue had so many good encouragements1 beseemeth not the remembrance of their excellencies in you alone to bee perished4 ,tis vertue1 beleeue me1 that procureth ,fame1 and soly ,fame that makes men immortall4 ,all other meanes are feeble as the originall from whence they are deriued is vncertaine4 ,at leaste wise1 it shall many other waies stande you greatly vppon1 to continue this course1 in so much as by the mulation of the vertues of others1 you shall thereunto be constrained1 besides the loue and regarde that all men haue borne1 and euer doe beare to the remembrance of vertue1 the expectation of your entirely fauouring and carefull louing friendes1 who with greate longing doe attende the prosequution of your woorthinesse1 the ill conceite1 malice and spite that some haue hadde towardes you1 whereby to ouerthrowe the good opinion of your father1 who with greater greedinesse than ,woolues themselues1 with more enuie than the ,crocodile1 and farre more poyson than the serpent1 doe lie in waite but onely to hearken after the newes of your declination1 and the dissolued purpose of your good intention4 ,finally1 my dearest and best fauoured kinsman1 ,i doe adiure you1 pray you1 and as earnestly as ,i can beeseech you1 by the verie pure and entire loue of vertue1 whereof you nowe shall become partaker1 by the immortall fame thereunto onely awarded1 by the care you are bounde and ought to haue of your selfe1 by all the kindred that hath tied vs in affinitie together1 by all the loues and possible entreatie that ,i can1 you doe persist1 continue and remaine firme in this your intended purpose4 ,in pursuite whereof you shall minister vnto your friendes ioy and comforte1 to your enemies shame and reproch1 to your selfe praise and eternall regarde1 and to all sortes of your acquaintance occasion to admire you4 ,preferring many times my care and earnest affection towards you1 with my manifolde greetings vnto your good selfe4 ,i doe bid you farewell4 c4 ,of ,epistles ,responsorie4 ,chap4 #aa4 ,for asmuch as the knowledge of letters ,responsorie are as mete to bee vnderstoode in the ordinarie occasions hereof as any others3 ,i deeme it not amisse amongst the passages of these seuerall titles of ,epistles to sorte you foorth also of them some particular ,examples1 the better in their disposition to enable y learner as occasion may serue4 ,touching which1 it is to bee vnderstoode that the matter of euerie answere taketh his originall of a letter preceding1 and dependeth principally on the parts thereof4 ,the ordering whereof 7except in ,letters ,excusatorie or ,defensorie7 is wholy exempted1 the course in those other letters prescribed1 and the obseruation in these1 is principally to consider on what partes the letter which ought to be answered consisteth or is chiefly grounded4 ,those1 howebeit it behooueth we doe fully answere1 yet shall you not 7as some ignorant of weldoing haue done7 recite in your answere the whole circumstance of the matter charged1 verbatim in a manner as it is written before you1 for that woulde brede tediousnesse1 besides a ridiculous disorder by such meanes frequented1 but you shall 7if nede so vrge7 capitulate the principall partes of euerie seuerall matter charged1 and thereupon frame you to answere the points1 in sorte as before you1 shall be deliuered4 ,or sometimes not needing any rehersall at all1 if the pointes be but fewe1 you shall answere onely as the matter you haue in hande is to be deliuered4 ,or otherwise in this sorte3 ,touching the pointes in your ,letter to bee answered3 for the first ,i say1 or it is thus or thus1 c4 ,in the second1 it is so or so4 ,for the thirde1 in this manner or that4 ,touching the fourth1 c4 ,and so answere the partes by their number4 ,by which meanes you shall both drawe your selfe to a breuitie therein1 and become far more pithie in the matters you haue to write of then otherwise can be expressed4 ,and this being sufficient for all matters hereafter1 touching these ,responsorie kindes1 we will nowe for the first ,example set you downe an answere to the epistle preceding4 ,an example ,responsorie to the last ,epistle be- fore remembred4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,dichologia4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,the regard of your exceeding good will1 and weight of your aduise and good exhortations 7my verie good ,cosen7 haue mooued me many times to thinke on you1 and to thank you for the same1 ,i take no litle comfort of your great good liking of my determination1 and that the endeuour therof beareth so forcible allowance at your handes1 as to reckon the same in so hie and great accompte1 as you doe4 ,i did 7,i confesse7 erre a while1 but howe8 as a young man1 ,i went astraie ,i graunt1 but not with perseuerance1 for ,i reclaimed my selfe ere ,i fell1 and stoode vpright ere by ouer much weight ,i slided too far in my purposes1 ,errare est humanum1 sed persistere belluinum4 ,the course ,i haue taken in hand as it was estranged from the opinion of many3 so in the prosecuti thereof1 ,i hope to vse such pursuit1 as willingly by declination therein1 ,i meane not to become offensiue to any4 ,feare you not sir1 the account is alreadie set downe1 for notwithstanding my greene yeares must yet of force continue their note of imbecilitie3 ,this prerogatiue yet remaineth1 that ,i may as ,i liste adapt my opinion to grauitie4 ,you shall 7good ,coosen7 doe mee a great pleasure1 if as ,i am partner of your loue and entyre affection1 so ,i may sometymes bee partaker with you of those exercises and sweet pleasures1 wherewith your studie is frequented3 ,i meane that with some discourses of yours you will nowe and then remember mee4 ,by expectation whereof1 you shall often prouoke mee to aunswere you4 ,thus assuring my selfe of that ,i neuer yet distrusted at your handes1 your zeale and fidelitie towardes mee2 ,i regarde you as faithfull as ,i haue euer found you1 and so will alwayes account of you1 c4 ,an example of an ,epistle hortatorie1 to the studie of learning4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,sidenote3 ,propositi4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,ab honesto4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,synathrismus4 ,sidenote3 ,anthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,sidenote3 ,paramologia4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,dignitie and zeale of others4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,by example4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,it is no little pleasure vnto me1 to consider with my selfe my good ,n4 the great trauaile1 cost1 and paine1 dayly employed by your dearest beloued parents1 to induce vnto you the precious1 and of all other most delicate and sweete pleasure of learning3 the value whereof1 is without all estimate1 and the comfort therein conceiued1 in no wise to bee comprehended3 the louing regarde of whome1 and the most lamentable want of the other1 when ,i doe see you either with some ill fauouring aspect not to incline vnto1 or with some more then straunge or vnused tearmes not to account of1 ,i cannot but greeue with my heart1 respecting the linke whereby ,i stand charged to either of you1 in so great apparance as ,i doe to behold the same4 ,true it is1 that you are a ,gent4 that you are heire apparant to large and verie great possessions1 that you are 7for the yeares you beare7 of comely and goodly personage1 that you are in all things well accomplished1 and euerie way as beseemeth3 but yet when ,i behold this fauour1 this comlinesse1 these accomplishments1 and know you to bee a ,gent4 and thinke vpon your large ensuing reuenues and possessions1 me thinkes there should yet be an ornament of all these1 and a thing of farre more goodly shewe1 and more surpassing value wanting to the same1 that might if it were well entertained ad more glorie vnto all the others1 then the waight of the rest were euer able to purchase4 ,for suppose that all these complements of yours are of large price1 and verie necessarie1 as they are indeede1 and such wherewith the state of man is greatly beautified1 yet are they all but thinges pertinent vnto the bodie1 by force whereof 7setting onelie our shape aside7 wee doe communicate in euerie thing with beastes1 for with them wee liue1 wee mooue1 wee go1 wee eate1 and enioie the sensuall appetite of inward or outward abilities4 ,but by the benefit of learning1 of knowledge1 of skill1 wee make difference of things1 and are onely thereby in our selues distinguished from beastes4 ,and if man which is the principal worke of ,god1 was from the beginning a chosen creature indued aboue any others1 and therefore poynted to excell and go beyond all others1 howe much more needefull shall it bee for euerye one according to such appoyntment to preferre and put forwarde the vse thereof vnto his owne profite4 ,and seeing as well by the ordinance of ,god1 as common vse of reason1 whereby we are gouerned and ledde1 euerie man is induced to propose vnto himselfe the exercise of thinges that are good and honest1 and that the same also among these1 which maketh a man nearest to his ,creatour in perfection1 is of all others the moste to bee desired3 howe much auaylable then and importaunt is it to euerie man to bee frequented with learning1 the vse whereof freeth him of common ignoraunce1 and maketh him capable of the high and loftie mysteries4 ,and if in anie studie whatsoeuer1 the reputation of honest and good is to bee sought for1 what ,i pray you then learning1 may bee iudged more honest1 which hauing with it a certaine kinde of diuine and sacred originall1 hath from the beginning of the worlde1 beene with all men in greatest price and estimation4 ,what may bee deemed more good then that which from verie ,asses and blockes1 and 7if it were lawfull to say7 from bruite men and beastes also themselues maketh distinction1 and without the which1 there were left vnto vs from such1 no place at all of difference4 ,what then that can bee sayde to bee more honest1 which draweth a man vppe to the diuine contemplation of the sacred ,maiestie1 to the knowledge of high and heauenly thinges1 of woorthie and honourable vertues1 and beeing sequestred by the wante thereof1 hee becommeth no otherwise than as a hogge1 still groueling on the earth1 searching onely wherewith to fill his bellie1 neglecting in the meane time the expectation or regarde of any other statelie or eternall ,soueraintie4 ,nowe therefore1 if the vse of learning1 as the thinge of greatest accompt and most woorthie1 is heere sette downe to bee so generallie1 commended to all sortes of men1 howe much more consonant and agreeing is it then to the reputation of a ,gentleman1 who by what distaunce so euer hee is measured in capacitie1 minde1 order1 state and gouernment from anie other common or ordinarie person1 by so much the more ought hee in all endeuours to aspyre and seek to goe beyond them4 ,for whereas all other men in their seuerall vocations are for the most parte1 as it were withdrawne from the speciall notice and eye-marke of all publique administration and gouernement3 the ,gentl4 contrariwise1 the more woorthie and noble that hee is in calling1 the more neerer is hee to that aduauncement whereunto by nothing so much as learning hee is enabled to bee preferred4 ,for what profitable member can hee bee in such a place1 whose ignoraunce is farre greater then his witte1 and whose knowledge is lesse then the least of that1 whereof hee ought to take notice and experience4 ,and seeing learning is of all other thinges1 a store-house so plentifull and precious1 as whereof the wiseman maketh his treasure1 the poore man his riches1 and the wealthy one his pastime and pleasure1 shall the ,gentleman who in all other thinges1 by ,nature striueth to bee excellent1 bee in the greatest action of all others so carelesse and negligent8 ,admit that you will heere alledge the tediousnesse of studie1 and a certaine impossibilitie almost to attaine thereunto1 ,i must aunswere vnto you againe1 that this commeth not of the labour thereof1 which to those that willingly aspire to the delicate taste of the same1 yeeldeth great facilitie with pleasure to bee receyued3 but to a slouthfull and sluggish endeuour and disposition4 ,far be it therefore 7good ,sir7 that you beeing a ,gentleman in all other thinges so towardly1 and the sonne of such a one as you are1 shoulde with the touch of so great a blemish1 bee so throughly stained4 ,so woorthie a discente as whereof you are deriued1 such infancie and child-hoode wherein so worthily you haue beene trained1 so great loue and charge of parents wherewithe you may bee animated1 doe inuite you farre otherwise1 and to a more excellent purpose4 ,let the sweete and yet vnknowne delight thereof prouoke you1 the praise and commendation solye to vertue appropriate and belonging1 once prick you forward1 the honour and aduancement thereby continually happening egge you4 ,and if none of all these preuaile1 yet the riches and rewarde farre greater then anie earthly treasure1 which are therunto incident1 tie you to a desire thereof4 ,thinke of the worthines of those1 who by howe much the more noble they were in birth1 by so much the more zealouslie they haue trauelled1 not shunning any labour1 sweate1 tediousnesse1 scorning1 yea bondage it selfe1 whereby to compasse vnto themselues the glorie and rewardes annexed to the dignitie heereof4 ,and if no other remembrance may be sufficient to establish you1 regard yet your liuing father and grandfather1 the one of whom neglecting his ease and quiet at home1 trauailed all ,fraunce1 ,germanie1 and ,italie1 to the intent to attaine vnto the greatnesse of that whereunto you are so hardly perswaded4 ,neither thinke ,i that you in whome all other good actions do so plentifully flow1 wil herein alone with a little labour be terrified3 ,wherefore my good ,n4 ,i eftsoones entreate you againe1 and againe1 by all the loue you haue ought to your name1 fame1 parentage and stocke1 and by all the expectation that in them1 or anie of them1 is of your happinesse conceiued1 you will proceede in this purpose3 the weight whereof besides the commoditie and pleasure redounding to your selfe1 shall vnto your parents and all others returne most comfortable and pleasing4 ,all which recommending to your courteous consideration to bee entertained1 ,i doe herewith take my leaue1 c4 ,an other example ,hortatorie1 wherein an honourable ,gentleman is egged forward in the profession of ,armes1 and seruice of his ,prince and ,country4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sithence the time of my little abode heere in ,london being scarce twentie dayes1 vnderstanding of the being in town of my ,la4 your mother1 ,i repaired thereupon to her presence to visite her3 there did ,i receiue notice of your being in ,ireland1 and that vpon your honourable behauiour1 and good seruice there done3 ,the ,l4 ,d4 did not onely testifie the same by his owne hand-writing vnto diuers of the priuie ,counsell1 but also in especiall letters besides commended the weight thereof1 vnto the regard of her most excellent ,maiestie4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuatio by praise of the action4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,i did not a little reioyce to see that in such young yeares wherein commonlie falleth out a contempt of all excellencies1 and a fantasticall desyre of counterfeyte vanities1 you coulde 7besides the common trade and custome of the worlde7 addict your selfe wholie vnto so weightie and honourable an exercise1 as by laboursome trauaile in the seruice and honour of your ,prince and countrie1 to put forwarde your selfe so timely4 ,credite mee1 it is not a little pleasing vnto mee to thinke thereon1 neither standeth my affection so slender vnto your fathers off-spring1 but that ,i must euer holde the reputation of their weldoing1 an aduauncemente to my imaginations1 and the sounde of their good successe the verie harmonie of mine inwarde soule4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,it is no newe thing ,i confesse1 euen in these dayes to see a ,gentleman honourablie descended as your selfe1 and of like worthie education1 to attaine vnto learning1 to become practised in ,armes1 to put forward themselues in seruice1 but to continue with resolution1 to performe it with labour1 to atchieue it with valour1 to beare it with honour1 here is the excellencie1 this is the rarenesse1 hence springeth the noueltie4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 vertue hath three entrances4 ,sidenote3 ,fortitude4 ,sidenote3 ,magnanimitie4 ,sidenote3 ,longanimitie4 ,vertue retaining yet her ancient ,maiestie1 though not pursued as in olde time1 with such woonted vehemencie1 hath three entraunces1 leading directly vnto her beautifull passage1 by the portes whereof1 whosoeuer is desirous to attaine her1 in her purest and most glorious estate1 must of necessitie enter4 ,first1 ,fortitude1 whereby hee must be enabled to endure whatsoeuer labour and trauell to be imposed1 accounting nothing difficult1 to the end and sweet rewarde whereof her excellencie is appropriate4 ,next1 ,magnanimitie1 which by a vehement and haughtie desire1 reacheth vnto thinges most excellent of highest and stateliest value1 not regarding the hard1 tough1 maine force of the passage1 with what pursuit soeuer it must bee followed1 so be it by such meanes it may be wonne1 and the glorie thereunto due1 may at last be attained3 the reach wherof1 tending to the last end and scope of al his determinatis1 sweetneth all maner of trauel1 and induceth therewithal a contempt of whatsoeuer lesse valued or hindering1 to the worthines of the same4 ,then ,longanimity1 enabling by greate constancie with rare and accustomed patience1 to awaite and endure the end1 neuer giuing ouer vpon whatsoeuer assaults1 til the determined scope be by all kind of industry fullie and perfectly furnished4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,for this cause1 the most renowmed parte of vertue is saide to bee excellent1 for that manie doe contemplate her a far off1 but few or none at all doe almost come so nigh her1 as perfectly to see and discerne her1 in so much as some1 nothing regarding the singularitie of that1 whose sweetnesse they neuer tasted of1 become forcelesse of the pursuit of so diuine an excellencie3 and some other fauouring a litle the daintines thereof1 yet ouer-reached with the tediousnes of the enterprise1 and hindered by the opposition of a thousand vanities1 are so astonished in the first onset1 as being therewith ouercome1 doe by and by giue ouer their purposes4 ,sidenote3 ,adhortation to vertue4 ,now therefore my ,c4 if you will bee a right fauourer of vertue indeede1 it behooueth that by these possibilities you doe 7as a faithful regarder of her diuine sacred essence7 only seeke to pursue her1 and that with such and none other respectes1 and to no other ende and purpose1 but for the sole fruition of her stately and immortall deitie4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,the time now calleth you forth1 your ,countrie and soyle wherein you were borne and nourished inuiteth you1 your praise alreadie gotten1 and hope of renowne euer after to followe1 perswade you1 the honour of your house and parentage constraineth you1 yea euerie of these solie and altogether doe exhort and commaund you1 that becomming the selfe same you vowed1 and they long since haue looked for1 you doe nowe shewe your selfe such as was promised1 and wherein the expectation first conceiued of you1 may in no wise bee frustrated4 ,sidenote3 ,clymax4 ,sidenote3 ,antistrophe4 ,consider ,i pray you1 that the rewarde of vertue is honour1 the guerdon of honour1 ,fame1 the scope of ,fame1 ,eternity1 the seat of eternity1 immortall and euerlasting glory4 ,in liuing in the seruice of your ,prince and countrie1 the profession you haue taken in hand is honourable1 the charge honourable1 the purpose honourable1 and the ende and successe thereof must needes be honourable3 behooueth then that your continuance therein and your owne deserts be also deemed honourable4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,commoratio4 ,thinke when you tooke vpon you to beare ,armes1 you then receiued the full cognizance of ,vertue1 you were entertained with honour1 you became apprentise to fame1 and it was assured 7that beeing with loyaltie demeaned7 you shoulde at length receiue the rewarde of euer flourishing glorie4 ,it is 7beleeue me7 no small matter1 that being a particular member1 you are put foorth as a piller1 vpon the prop whereof reposeth one parte of the weight of the common-weale1 that the ioyes of your whole countrie are fixed vpon your wel-doing1 that in pursuite hereof your priuate cause is not your owne1 7the secrete reuenge whereof may happelie turn to an infamed mischiefe7 but the cause of the common good1 the publike matter of al1 and that where the scope is of all others most famous and honoured4 ,sidenote3 ,of right and meet4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,being entertained in a sorte as you are1 you shoulde highly wrong the opinion of a greate manie1 in drawing backe from that wherein you haue beene alreadie so worthilie behaued1 and in becomming lesse than that whereunto in your cradle you were at the beginning so principally ordained3 for vnseemelie were it that you shoulde not haue beene hereunto at the first committed1 vnlawfull not to haue persisted1 and dishonourable 7in due sorte7 not to see it accomplished4 ,sidenote3 ,of example4 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,prosopopia4 ,proceede then my ,c4 in that whereunto your vertue1 your ,parentage1 your soile1 and your fidelitie haue called you1 thinke what1 how much1 and how greatlie it importeth you1 that hauing had so manie of your auncestours since their first originall1 who haue beene deemed so woorthie1 it fitteth not your selfe alone 7in so important actions1 concerning especially the honour of your prince and countrie7 to bee founde otherwise then equall vnto them in the highest qualitie4 ,so and in such maner1 and by such kind of meanes haue the most auncient and renowned worthies of the world be come to be tearmed honored1 and mightie4 ,so ,epaminondas and ,alcibiades among the ,grecians1 milius ,paulus1 ,fabii and ,scipiones among the ,romanes1 haue bin deemed most statelie4 ,for such cause the acts of your predecessors nobilitie of your deceased father haue bin registred with the most worthy4 ,o so sweetly might sound from out his breathing ghost vnto your liuing eare1 that excellent verse of ,virgill4 ,disce puer virtutem ex me verumque laborem1 ,fortunam ex aliis4 ,learne vertue 7,child7 of me and labours true1 ,but ,fortunes chaunce1 from others do pursue4 ,sidenote3 ,his ,parents4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,dialysis4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,the signification whereof1 what other thinge may it else importe1 but that betweene them who beeing neuer eternized by anie memorable action1 as hauing confounded their liues with obscuritie1 and such as neuer were borne1 there resteth in maner no difference at all4 ,ardua virtutis est via4 ,t'is labours force that maketh way vnto ,vertue3 great matters vnto the furtherance of her are but easie1 the meaner1 trifles2 the lowest of no value4 ,to ouercome others by vertue is a thinge most honourable1 but in pursuite thereof to bee conuinced of any other1 is a thinge most vituperable3 ,you are nowe brought by ,fortune into a straight passage1 whereby of necessitie you must either by reputation of most excelling worthinesse finish the iourney1 or recreant and discomfited1 confesse the vttermost of your imbecilitie4 ,but what doe ,i conferre vnto your viewe1 the notes of such and so manie doubtes and hazardes1 knowing a minde insinuate in your selfe by nature1 that coulde neuer so much as thinke or imagine of thinges contemptible1 or of anie vile or seruile qualitie at all8 truelie for no woorse meane1 nor to anie other ende or purpose1 but thereby to egge you forwarde by all kinde of possibilities1 to the encrease of your highest woorthinesse1 that by howe much the more you shall goe about to excell any others1 by so much the more greater you may be commended and extolled aboue others4 ,sidenote3 ,parmia4 ,ease and securitie1 are two pernicious enemies of euer flourishing glorie1 and industrie preuenteth all circumuention1 which either by slouth or negligence may bee imposed3 the victorie is not any others1 but your owne1 nor the honour to any other appertaining but vnto your selfe4 ,bee therefore such in continuance1 as may fullie bee answerable to each part of your noblenesse1 and ,god who is the creator of all thinges1 and fauourer of each worthie enterprise1 blesse your endeuours with the sustentation of ,vertue1 which is euer permanent4 ,at ,b4 this of c4 ,an ,epistle ,swasorie1 wherein a ,gentlewoman is counsel- led to mariage4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,the extreame griefe wherein my selfe was a partaker with you1 of the death of your late husbande1 woulde not suffer mee 7good ,mistresse ,e47 at my last beeing with you1 to deliuer what then ,i thought meete for your estate1 sithence ,i haue more at large considered vppon to bee for your profite4 ,and albeit your selfe are1 ,i knowe of discretion sufficient1 and the number of your friendes of regarde compotent1 both to consider and counsell1 what vnto your present affayres may bee deemed most correspondent3 yet may it not bee ill accepted1 if my selfe of a great manie1 that haue wyshed well to your person1 and fauoured euermore your good condition1 doe heerein also among the rest1 put forwarde my meaning1 and perswade you thereby vnto that1 which 7though not alreadie may bee fitting to your instant lyking7 yet to your present behoofe may returne no question of soundest and best consideration4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,and first1 ,i deeme it not impertinent to referre vnto your knowledge what ,i haue throughly conceyued with my selfe of your beeing1 viz4 that you are a widowe1 a ,gentlewoman of verie worshipfull parentage and discent1 the wife before time of a ,gentleman of as good reputation as liuing1 as good alliaunce as credite1 that you are knowne to bee modest1 discreete1 wise and well gouerned1 that you are and ought to bee warie in your actions1 and such as whereof the babling multitude may reape no aduauntage1 and finallie that by reason of the ouerhastie determination of his life 7whose continuaunce might haue ridde you of innumerable cares7 you are pestred with some troubles1 the most part of your liuing in suspence1 and that whereof you deeme your selfe most assured1 hanging vppon so manie hazardes1 as hitherto remayneth doubtfull1 in what sort you shall compasse it1 or with what liking to your selfe you may happily ouerpasse the same4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,touching the first1 ,i warne you not that according to your present estate1 you do minde what you are1 what you haue bin1 of whom you are discended1 and in what sort you may best prouide with warinesse1 to deale for all these3 but drawing to the latter1 and weighing on what tearmes you stande1 howe hardly you are bestead1 howe slender meanes to auoid it1 ,i repute him not the worst wel-willer1 that coulde aduise you with contentment and litle hazard1 in what sort you might best endeuour in all effectes to aunswere it4 ,it is reported vnto mee1 that by the procurement of some1 fauouring your aduauncement1 there is nowe profered vnto your lyking a young ,gentleman1 vertuous1 discreete1 and well ordered1 the sonne and heyre of a worshipfull ,knight1 on the choyce and regarde of whose ,parents1 dependeth the best assuraunce of your whole portion1 in whose condition and behauiour1 albeit you finde no one thing to bee reprehended1 yet disclaime you to bee married1 you will heare of no suters1 there must bee in your presence no speech at all of lyking1 and you meane not so soone forsooth to set forwarde for a husband4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,vtilitie4 ,sidenote3 ,necessitie4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,the course you doe take herein1 seemeth in my opinion verie euill1 insomuch as contrarie to that1 which both your yeares1 your estate1 your liuing and present occasions doe require1 you forciblie are endeuoured to make so vndiscreete and setled a resistance3 ,whie ,la4 doe you thinke it profiteth at all1 the deceased ghost of him that loued you 7a young ,gentlewoman as you are1 scarce exceeding twentie yeares7 to liue thus solitarie8 ,hangeth the censuring of your modestie1 and acceptaunce of that which your best friendes doe wish for1 and the wisest doe allowe of1 on the tatling humours of common supposes8 if it bee deemed once fit for you to marry againe1 and that vpon the warie and circumspect choyse thereof dependeth a manner of necessitie1 and that nowe1 before anie one of yours almost suspected it1 the plenty of that might bee charily wished for1 is layde alreadie into your bosome1 behooueth the respect of a little time1 which 7beeing sooner or later1 so it bee perfourmed with modestie and aunswered with discretion7 mattereth not at all to detaine you so much1 as thereby you are not able to see into your owne profite8 ,is it not1 ,i pray you1 a purpose honest that is tendered8 ,is it not a matter lawfull to bee accepted8 ,is it a thing vnmeete for your present yeares at this instant to be reputed8 ,nay1 is it not all in all whatsoeuer1 that in the best sort as the case now standeth1 may vnto you be offered8 ,why then abstaine you the entertainment of your owne good8 ,why drawe you thus backeward from your owne aduauncement8 ,why cease you to accept that1 whereunto in the ende you must by meere force bee compelled8 ,if you will beleeue mee in any thing1 or doe suppose the waight of my credite to be auaylable vnto you in ought1 ,i would aduise you in other sort1 considering that by declyning from a selfe-opinion of that whereunto without anie manifest reason you are induced1 you shall doe most good vnto your selfe1 and giue occasion to them that loue you1 to thinke that by so doing1 their good counselles haue happely preuailed with you and wrought such aduauncemente vnto you1 ,i haue thought with my selfe many times sithence the death of your husbd1 howe much imported the vnsetled reach of your liuing to be renued in match with one of good calling3 see nowe ,god and ,fortune more fauouring your hap1 then your selfe1 your owne wel doing1 haue sente you such a one1 as of whome you might vaunt1 and iustly in all thinges be occasioned to accompt of4 ,it now appertaineth that either by fond self-wil1 or too much vnkindnes1 you shake not off from you the foremost occasion of your succeeding happines4 ,i reck not what of the cmon sort 7more of ignorance then wit7 may insuppose of the hastie conclusion be in secret alleadged1 their errours like their fancies1 are as incertaine as peeuish4 ,be you onely herein perswaded1 to what most of all beseemeth you1 and think that both in the waightines1 and regard attributed to his and your own worthines1 you can for the present frame your selfe to nothing1 that to your estate may returne so cmodious1 whereunto though no other matter at all enioyned you1 it were sufficient that so forced a necessitie constraineth you1 to which the regard of your selfe and your owne good fortune willeth to obey4 ,longer coulde ,i debate vnto you the greate liking of many1 conceiued of the partie1 to the deliuerie whereof by the report of your neerest kinsmen1 ,i doe solie refer you1 onelie studying in this1 and whatsoeuer els ,i may1 by all indeuours to pleasure you1 whereof praying you to be most assured1 ,i doe in all curtesie leaue to detaine you4 ,at ,b4 this of1 c4 ,another ,example of an ,epistle ,swasorie perswading the carefull acceptance and regard of one brother to another4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium1 by insinuation4 ,the sounde and entire familiaritie wherewith your parents in their life time sometimes entertained me1 and the neerenes of neighbourhoode twixte both our friendes and long education wherein iointly we haue conuersed together1 mooueth mee at this instant somewhat to write vnto you in respect of the reputation credit1 and accompt that in the worlde you nowe beare1 and also the rather to win you to the regarde of that1 which to the estate of your presente being1 and worthinesse of your parents1 might be found meetest and conuenient4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,it is giuen me to vnderstand of a younger brother you haue here in ,london1 who at the time of your fathers death beeing committed to your charge1 is for the defaulte of maintenaunce1 badly inured1 woorse trained1 and most perillously by all kinde of likelihood 7through such sufferaunce7 in the loosnesse of his liuing alreadie hazarded4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,parabola4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,i woondered not a little when ,i hearde it1 and so much the more was the matter troublesome vnto mee1 in that respecting it was not tolde in secrete1 it seemed by the lookes and gestures of the whole companie that heard it1 your good demeanor thereby was very hardly censured1 for that standing in such case of credite as you doe1 your wealth so aboundant1 and your parentes so well accompted of1 you woulde in this sort1 and in that place of all others suffer him to wander carelesse1 whome you ought to the contrarie to haue constrained1 by any possible carefulnes4 ,how ill beseeming it is both to you yours1 that it shoulde so fall out1 you may by supposes coniecture4 ,for my parte1 it grieued mee when ,i heard it1 and ,i was not quiet till ,i found conuenient time to aduertise you of it4 ,and if my opinion may at all preuaile with you1 you shoulde quickly call him home from hence1 and see him more better to be prouided for1 and more worthily trained4 ,consider ,i pray you1 the life hee taketh in hand1 befitteth not such a one1 whose originall was so honest1 is ill beseeming the younger brother of your selfe1 vnwoorthie his birth or name of a ,gentleman1 and altogether repugnant to the qualitie of your behauior or the greatnesse of your liuing4 ,you are to remember that hee is yet verie greene1 nowe pliable to whatsoeuer may bee impressed in him1 as chafed waxe apte to receiue anie figure1 like vnto a newe vessell to bee seasoned with whatsoeuer liquor1 what hee now taketh taste and sauour of1 that hee holdeth1 what habite you nowe cast vpon him1 the same shadow he lightly beareth4 ,great cause haue you therfore now to be warie how and in what sort he liueth4 ,sidenote3 ,congeries4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,your industrie1 your brotherlie care1 your loue1 your especiall regarde and kindnesse it is1 that must bee ayding in this1 you and none but you are the man on whome hee relieth1 you are to prouide for him1 and it is your selfe that must answere for him4 ,think that nature1 loue1 dutie yea verie piety bindeth you vnto him1 who hath none other left to depend on1 but such as by possibilitie your self may become vnto him4 ,in the consideration of which let 7,i pray you7 my wordes become thus much regarded vnto you1 that herein as in all other things you performe that beseemeth you4 ,longer could ,i occupie my selfe to trauell in this action with you1 but that ,i deem it 7more then impertinent7 any further therein to require you4 ,greeting your selfe manie times in my name1 ,i bid you therefore farewell4 ,from my house in ,b4 this of1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,dehortatorie1 and ,disswasorie4 ,chap4 #ab4 ,vnnecessary were it to wade further in either of these titles hortatorie or ,swasorie1 the examples alreadie laide downe being for them sufficient1 wherfore we will now passe vnto the contraries of these1 being ,dehortatorie and disswasorie4 ,the partes and places exhorting or perswading hauing as you se bene drawne from the qualities of praise1 fortified in diuers sortes1 as well by the person1 by the action1 as by the thing it selfe1 where vnder was comprehended what might be called honest or good3 ,so these on the contrarie parte pulling backe or disswading1 shall by the vnhonestie of the action or thing as before hath bin said1 and by the indignitie1 vniustnes1 wickednes1 insufferablenes1 hate1 mislike1 contempt1 or hazard of danger1 reputation or good name that thereof ensueth1 be euermore measured4 ,in the handling whereof it is tolerable1 by all sortes of arguments1 to infer and obiect any thinge to the diminution or defacing of that which we go about to impugne4 ,yea1 if need be1 to inuert the good also that in such a person may be supposed vnto a worser sence4 ,as if in dehorting or disswading a man from infidelity towards his country ,i might first touching the action tender vnto him1 how vnnatural the cause is he taketh in hand1 being against his natiue soile3 how vnhonest1 by laying out the quality of the offence1 how vniust1 in respect that it is against his allegiance to his ,prince1 how impious1 in that it retaineth no piety1 turneth to the disturbance of a quiet state1 bredeth the subuersion of al peaceable gouernment1 how insufferable1 by reason that good and wholesome lawes are thereby infringed1 all sortes of honest and good men wronged1 and consequently the common wealth by such meanes topsie turuie turned4 ,for the ,person if he were at any time of worth ,i might shewe then the indignitie1 or ill beseming of such a thinge vnto him1 for that actions of such kinde are alwaies vnto the noble and best endued mindes vtterly repugning4 ,and so thereupon if in him there was euer reputed any wisdome1 ,i might diuert it now vnto follie1 his ,fortitude1 ,i might challenge to be ,temeritie1 his moderation crueltie1 his stoutnes arrogancie1 his haughtines pride1 his ,freedome loosnes1 and consequently1 for euerie other vertue induce or lay downe vnto him a contrarie vice1 respecting that by committing of actions so vile contemptible1 all properties whatsoeuer of former esteemed worthines doe vtterly loose the partes they haue of good1 and immideately are disturned there withall vnto euill4 ,and as in ,epistles ,exhorting or ,perswading1 the intended vertue of goodnesse of euerie thing is more amplie set foorth by the opposite euil3 ,so in these of withdrawing or disswading the intended euil by the opposite good1 is euer made more hatefull4 ,besides1 as there bee some thinges that are expresly good in themselues or expresly euil1 so are there some thinges that for themselues are helde indifferent4 ,in these1 to perswade or withdrawe1 there is a prettie skill to be vsed1 in which the discretion of the writer may not passe vncommended1 wherof 7for so much as to a learner they may happely passe vnregarded7 ,i entende in this chapter to affoorde some application4 ,for in thinges alwaies knowne to be of themselues either good or euill1 there is no great cunning to make a shew of them as they are3 but of things which either by times1 by liking1 by place1 by allowance1 by conuersation may be deemed good or bad1 to be commended or disalowed1 in the setting foorth thereof appeareth both skill and discretion4 ,for example1 that mariage is a thinge much to be preferred1 and to the increase of man of so greate necessitie1 as without which there could be no orderlie estate or societie1 no man ,i am sure will denie me4 ,and to a man vnwilling to enter thereinto1 ,i might 7with intent to drawe him to a liking thereof7 besides a number of necessarie causes to be alleadged1 as the decay of his house1 the continuance of a solitary1 loose or bad kind of liuing1 the end of his wealth and name together hauing no issue to succede him1 infer also as much pertinent to such a perswasion the sacred solemnization thereof in ,paradise1 first by the eternall ,wisdome himselfe thought met and appointed1 then his pleasure to inioine the same to the worlds increase1 then the care that naturally we haue of issue to succed vs1 the indignity for a man of value not to haue respect therof1 the loue likewise mutuall societie betwixt man wife1 being of such mightie efficacie1 as wherunto no liking is to be compared1 the swet pleasures1 cares delights1 interchangeably passing betwene them1 each dearly affying8 them selues in the others contentment1 solace or pleasing1 the ioy of procreation1 when there shall be a childe produced1 whose infancie tatling with a pleasant lisping sound1 shall become an incredible delight to the parents hearing1 with sundrie other like inforcements and suggestions1 all which might certainlie shewe and declare the same to be as it is a matter of much woorth1 and sufficientlie set forth vnto the partie why it ought to be embraced4 ,now1 as the same is out of all doubt not onelie tollerable1 as ,i said before1 but by the necessitie thereof among many thinges held to be praise worthy3 so in another place1 to another person might ,i againe find as much occasion for matter1 why the selfe same marriage should be alike dispraised1 as 7not reckoning the age of man or woman1 which many times more of dotage then discretion pursueth the same7 there might be opposed thereagainst the swetnes of libertie1 the vse wherof 7nothing more7 conduceth principally vnto the estate life of man1 who naturally coueteth vnrestrained without controlment to do that him liketh1 the benefit wherof enioying1 he may ride1 go1 walke1 rest1 eat1 drinke1 studie1 recreate1 solace1 and whersoeuer1 and in whatsoeuer companie pleaseth him best1 vse the conceit thereof to his owne appetite4 ,now1 hauing a wife 7suppose she haue all the perfections you will giue her7 yet is the delicacie hereof bereft a man3 for being once married1 hee thenceforth is no more vnto himselfe1 but vnto her1 for her pleasure1 to her choyce1 at her liking1 with her contentment1 must he then order his humours1 his houres1 his gestures1 his companies1 his iourneys1 his recreations1 and what els he before time might frelie haue vsed1 his owne liking is quenched1 his libertie restrained1 and yet the losse hereof a heauen to that which followeth1 if by great good fortune he bee not the better matched1 ,for imagin the woman chosen1 do prooue a scolde1 wayward1 self-willed1 malicious1 frowning1 or suspitious1 what a hell is hee then driuen into1 whose serpentine and more then ,adderlike disposition shall be such as would terrifie a thousande ,diuelles4 ,if she bee wanton1 dissolute1 lewde1 or loose in liuing1 howe on the other side shall he then be turmoyled3 what is it that she will not presume vpon1 dare to hazarde8 how infamous shall her life then become to his liuing8 how little will shee esteeme of him1 in respect of the large account she holdeth of many others8 ,if she be proude1 then may she be vnsupportable3 if her wit be more then his1 then arrogant3 if she be foolish1 then a mocking stocke3 if she be faire1 then a spectacle to gaze on3 if foule1 then a simpring puppet to wonder on3 if shee be rich1 presumptuous3 if poore1 then happilie odious4 ,but being what shee may bee1 or touching her owne person the best she can bee1 what intollerable charge bringeth shee with her1 what cost of apparel1 what care of diet1 what houshold of seruants1 what expence for attendance1 what prouision for children2 what furniture for house1 what daily1 continual neuer ceasing cark toile for her hers3 in conclusion1 what one discommoditie may be reckoned1 that with her or for her is not in short space a thousande times hazarded8 ,thus doe you see how out of one selfe thing both praise and dispraise by admittance may be gathered4 ,a like thereunto may be added in the vsage of wine4 ,to a crazed man of weak disposition1 or such a one whose constitution of bodie for ,phisicks sake should require it1 ,i might1 to perswade him to the vse thereof1 vrge the necessarie meane1 the goodnesse1 propertie1 vertue and wholesomnesse of the same1 the operation1 howe it recreateth1 driueth away heauinesse from the minde1 prouoketh appetite1 comforteth1 and many wayes 7moderatelie taken7 helpeth and relieueth4 ,but now to disswade againe the intermedling therewith1 what might bee imagined that coulde not bee rehearsed3 by manifesting the hurt and manifold inconueniences thereby ensuing1 as that it causeth drunkennes1 dulleth the wits1 making ill digestion1 ingendreth superfluities1 weakneth the spirits1 hurteth the braine1 driueth a man to forget himselfe1 enforceth to commit that which many times is filthie and often vnbeseeming1 of a reasonable creature frameth a beast1 discouereth counsels1 causeth slaughters1 and consequentlie ladeth both the bodie and minde with a thousand mischiefes1 impediments and diseases4 ,as of these twain1 so might ,i stand vpon many others the like1 which for breuitie ,i omit1 holding these applications sufficient for the present intendment3 adding herewithall1 that the exhorter1 perswader or withdrawer from any thing1 ought touching things indifferent1 specially to haue before his eyes the reputation of the partie to whome he writeth1 considering that some things are lesse meete in one person then in another1 and that which well fitteth and agreeth with the state or condition of some one1 is altogether vnmeet and disagreing in the behauiour of another4 ,to consider in like sort this old adage1 ne quid nimis1 whereby in reprouing the vse of any thing he may prefer the moderation1 and inueigh against the nimium4 ,finally1 to respect1 that of sundry indifferent occasions not the vse1 but the abuse is it which ought to bee reprehended4 ,these beeing admitted1 wee will come to the ,examples of both kindes aswell ,dehortatorie as ,disswasorie1 and see what therein may be tendred4 ,an example of an ,epistle dehortatorie1 wherein a noble ,gentleman is withdrawne from infidelitie or rebellion4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,by insinuation4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,my good ,g4 my faithfull louing ,countriman1 and dearest of account 7whilome all and either of these vnto me1 so bee it the frowning heauens and dispiteful wicked fate had not harboured the contrarie7 what shall ,i write vnto thee1 or by what tearmes may ,i now salute thee8 ,erst woonted were my letters to pursue thee1 carelesse in any cost1 and familiarly and boldly to regard thee1 now blushing at thy vncouth hap1 and carefull of they carelesse vsage1 they cannot without griefe approch thee1 nor once without sorrowe intentiuely behold thee4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,alas1 my ,g4 what furie hath ledde thee1 what madnes hath bewitched thee1 what hatefull destinie hath pursued thee1 that beeing such as thou wert1 on whome ,nature and the heauens as it seemed1 had powred all their giftes moste plentifullie1 thou wouldest yet be ledde to deface so many partes of excellencie1 with one hatefull1 ignominious and shamefull blott1 of wicked1 and most heynous treacherie4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,sinathrismus4 ,diddest thou for this cause take vppon thee the profession of ,armes1 to become iniurious to thy ,countrey1 to bereaue men of their patrimonie1 to bee a destroyer of vnitie1 a patterne of infidelitie1 the dishonour of thy familie1 and consequently to thy selfe and dearest soile1 a professed and open enemie8 ,ah happie in all other things1 but in this sole enterprize1 in the broaching whereof thou wast put forwarde to bee made the onelie vnhappie1 behooueth with such ingratitude to rewarde the first ,authour of thy familie8 ,was this the ende of thy birth1 thy parents1 education1 thy estate1 thy wealth1 thy possibilitie1 to become a ,traytour to thy ,prince1 and rebell to thy ,countrey8 ,no1 no1 my ,g4 vilde and too ill beseeming is the drift that hath so ouertaken thee1 and ignorant was he of that became thee1 that first thereunto perswaded thee4 ,sidenote3 ,dialogismus4 ,when thou liest armed in the fields and 7mustering thy ranks in the day time7 beholdest and lookest around about thy ,countrey1 thinkest thou not then with thy selfe1 in this soyle was ,i borne1 within this land lieth my patrimonie1 heere had ,i first sucke1 and sithence haue the fruits thereof nourished me1 and could ,i then become so ingratefull and vnkinde1 as for all these benefits to destroy thee8 ,not so1 nor in such maner haue the vertuous in field beene accounted so woorthie1 not for this cause in such actions1 haue men beene said to beare themselues honourably4 ,coriolanus1 thou wast conuinced by the view of the ,citie and mothers intreatie1 and shall ,i vnhappie man for all this1 persist in this crueltie8 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodus4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,iustlie and by great occasion credit me1 mightest thou thus complaine of so great an iniurie1 and all this being so true1 as nothing more true2 can it be said in prosecuting the same1 thou maist be freed fr infamie8 ,what ,i pray thee hath made men famous1 and canonized their memorie1 was it not their munificence and valiant demerits in and for the good of their country8 ,for in what one thing are we more likened vnto ,god himselfe1 then in the worthines of our minds1 the resolutions whereof1 ought in no wise to be stained with such hatefull obloquie8 ,the ,asse runneth through fire for the safegard of her issue and shall the valiant man then become negligent to the ayde of his ,countrey8 ,howe farre more waightilie shall hee bee accused1 who not onelie giueth no ayde at all to his ,countrey1 but also is therunto an inconsiderate and most cruell enemie8 ,howe carelesse are such men of their fame1 and howe vnlike of all others to those memorable woorthies1 the precious regard whereof1 vnto them hath beene such1 as then goods1 possessions1 riches1 kingdomes1 yea life it selfe hath beene helde most dearest4 ,peruse but the auncient hystories of ,rome1 and looke there of ,mutius ,scuola1 the most inuincible ,romane1 with what confidence hee went solie into the ,tent of ,prosenna1 his and their ,countryes capitall enemie1 in minde onelie to destroie him4 ,the good ,furius ,camillus1 who after manie high and honourable seruices by him done to the ,common-wealth of ,rome1 was by his owne ,citizens vniustlie banished3 howe farre off was hee thinke you1 from this your opinion8 ,for the ,galles whom before he had expulsed1 hauing in the time of this his banishment assieged the ,citie of ,rome1 and beeing then verie likely to haue distressed the same1 insomuch as they had alreadie forraged1 burnt and destroyed the whole ,countrey round about1 hee more sorrowfull at the likely ruine of his ,citie1 then grieued at his owne banishment1 7mooued thereunto of verie pietie to his natiue soyle and ,countrey7 entred counsell with the ,ardeats1 and by his wisedome1 policie1 and great manhood1 so perswaded those people1 that in feare of their mishap1 they were content to leuie a mightie armie vnder his conduct1 wherewith hee not onely put backe the enemie1 but therewith so mightilie pursued them1 as by such meanes he vtterly freed and set at libertie his ,citie and ,conntrey4 ,sidenote3 ,transiti4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,dialogismus4 ,sidenote3 ,epizeuxis4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,prosopopia4 ,what neede wee search abroade for such forraine examples1 and why draw wee not home into our owne soyle of ,england8 ,what ,chronicle shall euer remaine1 or what ,english ,hystorie shall euer bee extant1 that shall not euerlastinglie report1 the deserued fame of that right woorthie and verie noble indeede1 ,sir ,william ,walwoorth1 ,knight1 once ,lord ,maior of ,london1 the remembraunce whereof 7to his perpetuall prayse1 and endlesse confusion of others1 who not onely abstaine the putting in vre of such his memorable vertue1 but which is woorse1 doe endeuour by cruell force to tender violence vnto their ,sacred ,prince and ,countrey7 shall yet flourish for euer4 ,ill doe you example vnto your selfe1 or thinke on the woorthinesse of that good man1 who in the time of ,king ,richard the seconde1 when with a most suddaine and strange kinde of ,rebellion the ,king was troubled1 the ,realme pestered1 and the strongest of the ,kinges subiectes greatlie feared3 euen at that time when the proude fawtour and ,captaine of the rebellious and rascallie multitude1 durst hatefullie and most vndutifullie to bearde the ,king in his owne presence1 and each man shunned to impugne the contrarie4 ,this valiant1 this good1 this right noble and woorthie ,citizen1 standing by1 when the wicked and presumptuous varlet1 with so little reuerence approached the ,king1 and remembring the seruices of manie worthie men1 that by an honourable aduenture and hazarde of their liues had to their eternall memorie1 before time freed their ,countrey with libertie1 grieuing that with so high an abuse his soueraigne ,lorde beeing yet as it were a childe1 shoulde there in his hearing1 bee so farre amated1 couragiouslie stept vnto the ,rebell1 and taking him by the gorge1 proude varlet 7quoth hee7 that darest thus contemptouslie demeane thy selfe vnto thy ,king and ,soueraigne1 foule death betide thee1 and shame quicklie consume thee3 ,whie1 aunswered the villaine in greate disdaine1 is it thou that greeuest at that ,i haue sayde8 ,greeue1 replyed the stoute couragious ,citizen1 yea1 euen ,i1 ,i it is that greeue at thee1 and happilie shoulde thinke my selfe accurst1 if thou shouldest escape from mee vnreuenged1 wherewith drawing more closelie vnto him1 hee pulled him from his horse by maine force1 and stabbed him to the heart with his dagger4 ,the destruction of whom1 bredde such confusion vnto all the residue of his headstrong armie1 and sight whereof kindeled so great a furie in the residue of the ,kings companie1 7who for that present vpon speciall considerations1 was there attended on but meanelie7 that the whole rebellious route were by such meanes euer after discomfited vtterlie3 wherewith before that instaunt the whole ,realme had lyke to haue beene turned topsie turuie4 ,hee and such as hee laboured not by ambitious pride to arrogate vnto themselues a lawlesse extremitie1 but studyed of meere loue and entire zeale1 how and which way they might performe best seruice to their ,prince and ,conntrey4 ,o more then ordinarie affection1 and feruencie of high and statelie woorthinesse1 in the regarde whereof1 life was not sweete vnto these men1 whose liuing might not redounde to become 7for their dearest soyle7 to bee honoured and famous4 ,what then may ,i say my ,g4 of that by thee1 and thy copartners taken in hande1 whether will you be driuen1 what shall become of you1 how doe ye behaue your selues1 who may receiue you1 in whose inward conceites 7not the pietie and regard of anie of theese7 no nor so much as one sparke of their loialtie1 coulde so deepelie bee impressed1 as whereby to withdrawe you from these vnnaturall broiles8 ,what haue you found in your deare prince8 what in your louing countrie8 what in this citie8 what to anie one of al your selues in particularitie1 that might in such hatefull maner incite you1 by occasion whereof you should thrust your selues into so great an enormitie8 ,beleeue me1 it shal verilie be auowed1 the successe hereof will returne vnto you none other in the ende then the verie reward of infamie4 ,i haue knowne thee1 beeing far lesse in yeares then at this instant1 to haue bene able to rule thy selfe1 and with plausible moderation to bee indued in all things1 couldest thou then beeing a childe performe this in thy selfe1 and beeing nowe a man art not able to endure it8 ,there be ,i know about thee1 that will perswade that all that thou doest herein is vertue1 that herein thou hast great wisdom1 much fortitude1 and notable moderation1 that the action is haughtie1 the occasion libertie1 and the end glorie4 ,but how greatlie they doe erre in so saying1 let this saying of good ,camillus stand for you and vs indifferentlie1 whose notable speach sprung vp from those his inuiolable vertues1 spared not this1 to affirme in presence of all the ,senate vnto the people4 ,let others 7quoth hee7 deeme it a thinge euill and reprochfull at anie time to bee founde faultie1 in not yeelding ready succors and aid to their country3 ,camillus for his part is shal be of that resolute determination1 that it is ought to be reputed for euermore a thing detestable and vild1 and of all other the most hatefull and replenished with all execrable miserie4 ,how thinketh then your gentle mind1 of the action by this time4 ,is it 7suppose you7 anie vertue that thereunto preferreth you8 ,camillus iudged that it was not reprochfull1 but villanous and detestable1 so much as to bee founde failing in ought to his countrie1 and may it then bee thought a thinge honest to become a persecutor of your countrie8 ,sidenote3 ,orismus4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,loue4 ,sidenote3 ,hate4 ,sidenote3 ,feare4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,it is not ,fortitude1 but ,temeritie1 that conducteth your enterprises1 for ,fortitude aspireth to far more noble and statelier purposes4 ,the action and determination1 you preferre therein is not 7as fondlie by you is conceaued7 honour1 but haughtines1 not libertie1 but loosenes1 not vertue1 but viciousnes3 why then continue you in this sorte togethers1 vpon so wicked and diuelish a purpose8 ,why returnest not thou rather to thy self my ,g4 hauing long before striued to emulate the praise of others by an vnstained gentilitie1 wipe nowe quickly off this foule blemish from thee1 and couering the filthinesse thereof by a most incomparable fidelitie1 become once againe like vnto thy self4 ,at the least wise1 if the loue of thy cotrie1 fidelitie towards thy prince1 the example of ,vertue her selfe and so many her famous and renowned followers 7then which no one thinge on earth ought more to allure a man7 may not herewith conuince thee1 let yet the execrable and immortall hate1 that all good men beare to the practise of such kind of crueltie1 the feare of euer harbouring shame1 and erected ignomie1 and neuer after hope 7thy credite once consumed7 againe to recouer thee1 let these ,i say constrain thee4 ,whilst there is yet but one craze or slender flaw in the touchstone of thy reputation1 peece it vp1 new flourish again by a greater excellcie1 the square of thy workmanship4 ,a fewe daies are to bee passed in which there is yet time1 fame wounded in life may once bee restored1 if death doe preuente thee1 thy shame and destruction is for euer shrowded4 ,the next newes ,i hear from thee1 may make thee fortunate1 or me for thee alwaies vnhappie4 ,my longing would bee satisfied of this from which ,i dehort thee4 ,if onelie herein thou condiscende vnto mee1 my selfe am thine1 and to none so much as thy selfe absolutely1 ,i loue thee1 ,i require thee1 ,i pray thee1 and pray for thee1 that thou maist as ,i wish1 and wouldest as ,i bid1 bee for1 and to mee4 ,farewell if thou doest well4 ,an ,example of a disswasorie ,epistle1 wherin one is disswaded from fruit- les vanities1 to more learned pro- fitable studies4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,i receiued on ,saturday last a letter from your ,vncle1 wherein amongst sundrie other matters ,i was aduertised1 that leauing your former learned studies1 whereunto with greate cost and charge of your parents1 you had bene trained1 you haue giuen your selfe wholie to certaine thinges1 the regarde whereof albeit in their moderate vses1 ,i cannot discommende1 yet in respecte of your former intendmentes1 ,i can tearme them none other then meere follies1 and verie fruitles vanities4 ,it is reported with vs for certaine1 that you are become an excellent good dauncer1 that you are growne prettilie skilled on instrumentes1 whereon you play reasonablie1 that you spende the time limitted for more profite in the ,vniuersitie1 in making of songes and exquisite fine ditties1 that you are verie fitlie seated for wantonnesse1 and worthilie behaued in all kind of curious conueyances4 ,sidenote3 concession4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,i woulde for mine owne parte nothing at all mislike what herein you haue in some sorte frequented1 weighing indeede that as they may bee in sorte entertained1 those qualities doe not ill beseeme a ,gentleman1 but are in their kinde verie fit and commendable to anie youthfull reckoning3 yet studying them as you doe by them selues1 inuring your selfe whollie to their delighte1 abandoning what else might best honour and beautifie their woorthinesse1 in respect of the sole propertie of them selues and their owne peculiar goodnesse1 ,i say that in such regarde they are vanities1 trifles1 thinges of no momente1 and in each sounde opinion to bee helde of farre lesse value and iudgement4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,the intendment of your going to the ,vniuersitie was for learning sake1 to become an excellent scholler1 not an exquisite dauncer1 a ,maister of ,arte not an artlesse maister1 a good ,rhetorician1 not a conceited ,musitian3 your ,vncles care1 was by vilefying his wealth vnto you1 7the weight whereof by imminent perilles wee see daylie perish before our eies7 to purchase for you the endowment of a farre more greater and assured treasure1 and that is by knowledge to teach you to discerne trifles1 to procure in you a minde to despise trifles1 that leauing small riches to inherit1 you your selfe might gather possessions whereby to enrich you4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,you then are farre misconceiued1 to relinquish the hoped reckoning of that you came for1 to applie your selfe to that which fewe doe accompt of1 and the wisest woulde neuer sweate for1 you shall therefore vppon better aduise endeuour if you doe well1 to returne your conceite to a far more better purpose4 ,you shall call to minde that all studies whatsoeuer1 by how much the more excellent ech one appeareth before the other1 by so much the more assured are they in their kinde1 and aboue all the residue1 with far greater estimate to bee preferred3 if so8 then must you graunt me that no one thing vpon earth 7then learning1 then precious and high esteemed skill1 then aboue all earthly things whatsoeuer1 heauenlie science7 is of so great and surpassing excellence4 ,to lay out vnto you herein1 howe much glorious is her shining hue aboue all others1 howe sugred her plantes1 howe daintie her fruits1 howe delicate her pleasures1 howe incomparable her high and statelie reach1 how she participateth the skies1 the element1 the venerable search and knowledge of high and sacred mysteries3 ,i need not1 you know it1 you haue felt tasted of it4 ,but to shewe howe much you misprise the force of her vertue1 howe ill conceiued1 and far wandring1 you are from the due esteeme of her glorie1 to make loue to her handmaides1 to professe liking to her seruantes1 to become sole entertainer of her vassals3 hereon resteth the iniurie1 this is it ,i complaine of vnto you4 ,sidenote3 congeries4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,and if either the sum and type of honestie placed in the weight of the action1 the necessitie1 meetnes1 and worthines1 the vtility and benefits seuen hundred fold compensing the trauel1 may 7as earthly things haue often power to mooue one1 aboue things of far higher estimation7 induce you to her most dearest and precious fruition1 search then the fauor of these your louing mistresses1 and 7seemlie ,i grant you may find them7 but neuer shall they proue either so wealthy or beautifull4 ,what then should let you to returne to this glorious ,ladie8 ,will you because you are an earthlie substance1 followe the common reason of euerie earthlie creature8 humum sapere alta spernere8 or saying that the appetites of the one are much pleasanter for the time1 or far lesse tedious then the other1 welde your opinion by a peeuish conceite of ease1 to become a creditor to wantonnes8 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,these imaginations as they are meerelie bad1 so are they ten times woorse in the pursuite1 then they are sweete in the foremost thought4 ,peeuish were it1 simplie for you to stande vppon these vanities1 thinges wherein children haue delight1 and young weaklinges doe roue at cunninglie3 you must suppose and harpe vpon the end that must succeede vnto your trauaile1 and finding the reache thereof pursue it with feruencie3 ,such actions as these doe onelie beseeme men1 and heerein alone shall you shewe your selfe such as you may desire to bee1 and your friends doe heartilie wish you to prooue4 ,alexander restlesse in the day tyme1 gaped for worldles1 but in the night season was rocked a sleepe by the ,muses1 the pleasure hereof appeased his day labours1 and the content of this gaue rest to his trauels4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,too much impertinent were it for me to hale you on with arguments1 who onelie go about to perswade you with warrantise3 ,neither thinke ,i in the ende you will declare your selfe otherwise1 then euer ,i haue expected of you4 ,much more could ,i infer1 that might greatlie induce you to that whereunto your owne willingnesse must in the ende1 of necessitie conduce you4 ,onely1 if in the weight hereof my perswasions may something preuaile3 ,i shall not forget in any woorthie part thereof1 at all times to commend you4 ,in which reposing my selfe for the present1 ,i ende3 this of1 c4 ,an other example disswasorie1 wherein the partie is by diuers rea- sons disswaded from entring into an action in appa- rance verie dangerous4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,propositi4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,i haue 7good brother7 receiued your letters1 dated the eight day of this instant1 which were with as great diligence as celeritie1 conueied to my handes1 and by the fidelitie of the bearer haue vnderstoode to the vttermost what you willed1 and both of that and your letter haue at large considered4 ,it seemeth therin vnto mee1 that whether through ignorance of your owne good1 or inconsiderate rashnesse of youth1 or voluntarie intrusion of your selfe into your owne harmes1 ,i knowe not1 but the matter and action mentioned and inforced by the whole course of your letter1 is altogither to be misliked1 and for the extremitie thereof to bee by all reason vtterly condemned1 as whereunto you ought not to condescende1 much lesse to bee seene in publique to bee a fauourer of1 or1 which is more1 to appeare to bee1 the onelie man through whose follie and immoderate rashnesse1 the same is solie to be accomplished4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,o good ,god6 what blindnes is it that leadeth you8 what sencelesse furie that bewitcheth you8 ,what matter of euill that pursueth you8 ,by the intollerable force whereof1 without anie fore-sight at all1 either of the goodnesse or ilnesse of the action1 the lawlesse prosecution1 the matter of your owne reputation1 the daunger of lawe wherein you are intruded1 the difficultie whereby it must be attained1 the vnhonest sollicitation of your friends1 to so great a hazard1 the discommoditie that thereon is attendant1 and perill euerie way that in the execution cannot be auoyded3 you will notwithstanding all this forget your selfe so much1 as in the accomplishment of a purpose so farre different from the nature 7,i will not say of a ,gentleman7 but of an honest man1 go about to put in proofe what in the ende must of necessitie returne to your owne confusion4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,orismus4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,but you will say it is loue1 and extreame lyking that compelleth you to so forcible an action1 as without the obtaining whereof you are no bodie1 you cannot liue4 ,loue say you8 ,alas1 what loue tearme you this1 that is laden with so manie disordered motions1 call you this loue8 ,nay rather call it madnesse1 for loue is measured by no extremitie1 but in the honest and vertuous encrease thereof1 where not by a harebraine furie1 but by a discreete and moderate ascention men by degrees doe climbe vnto that1 the sweete and pleasant force whereof neuer participateth anie occasion of such vnreasonable badnesse4 ,why brother1 doe you loue her whome you haue sued for1 and because by desert you cannot attaine her1 will you vndertake thereupon to bereaue her by force8 ,howe vnhonest ,i pray you is the purpose of so great a wrong8 ,howe vnfit to bee put forwarde in the meaner sort of men8 ,how intollerable in a ,gentleman8 ,for if in the account of things vnhonest1 any action whatsoeuer may appeare to be vile1 what then this ,i pray you may bee deemed more dishonest1 more bad1 or more vile8 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,and if it be punished extreamly by the lawe1 the taking away of a mans goods against his will1 what may he deserue that bereaueth the person of anie one1 being also a ,gentlewoman1 such as to whome all humanitie forbiddeth to proffer wrong1 and to the honourable entertainment of whome1 is appropriate onely the nobilitie of a ,gentleman1 nay1 in what sort may such a one bee censured in the reputation of all honest men1 that in sort so violent1 goeth about to rauish her1 not onlie offering iniurie therein to her person1 but also to her fame1 reputation and offspring4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,concessi4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,asindeton4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,thinke you that the intendment heereof can returne credite to your lyuing8 ,thinke you that by deliuerie of such fruites you may bee reputed a ,gentleman8 ,no beleeue mee1 it cannot bee1 but according to the vnwoorthinesse thereof1 it rather shall giue occasion to all that shall heare or vnderstande of it1 to accuse1 blame1 mislike1 and vtterlie to condemne you4 ,but what if no manner of suppose at all of dishonestie were left therein1 whereby to discourage and withdrawe you from the action1 imagining that the purpose thereof were helde meete and honourable1 and that to euerie one that could winne his choyce by anie force he might1 it were lawfull without discredite or anie censure of law by what meanes soeuer1 to compasse the same1 do you thinke it a matter sleight and easie for you to performe it8 ,no1 no sir1 you reckon too wide1 you goe beyond the ,moone1 you are too much deceyued4 ,know you not the ,gentlewoman is worthilie descended1 that she hath parents1 brethren1 vncles1 and friendes to keepe her1 to rescue her1 to defend her8 ,why sir1 is there no more to say1 but you will haue her8 ,you must haue her8 and by maine force you will take her8 ,you deale with no children ,i can tell you1 nor weakelings as you account of1 but men wise1 valiaunt1 well reputed1 and of sound gouernment3 who by so much the more iust and right1 the occasion is of their defence1 by so much the sooner will they1 and are able to preuaile against you4 ,i recke not that you haue courage sufficient1 that you are hardie1 bolde1 and aduenturous 7the vse whereof being imployed to good and laudable purposes1 were ,i confesse much more effectuall7 but herein how euer the case standeth1 ,i see nothing so likelie as an impossibilitie1 in somuch as if you be delighted to become infamous1 and in the memorie of a shamelesse life to hazard your selfe to a shamefull death1 then may you enter into it3 once this ,i knowe1 that her can you neuer finde so slenderlie accompanied1 that with small force you can carie her1 but within a moment alwayes1 there will not bee wanting a number that shall bicker for her1 from whose insight1 you are altogither vnable1 if her selfe consented thereunto1 to conuey her4 ,sidenote3 ,concessi4 ,sidenote3 ,congeries4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,but graunting vnto your wilfull imagination1 as much in all things as you can desire1 suppose you might winne her1 conuey her1 keepe her1 and that the daunger of lawe limited at all no hazarde thereunto1 7the contrarie whereof you well knowe1 being guerdoned with no woorse then losse of life7 doe but yet againe returne to your selfe1 and call to minde your birth1 your familie1 your profession1 your maner of liuing3 your birth by your parents who were worshipfull1 your stocke by the reputation yet helde of the same3 your profession1 which is ,armes3 your liuing1 a ,gentleman4 ,is it then consonant or agreeing to all or anie of these1 to commit any outrage1 and that such an outrage1 as to any other were not so proper1 as to a villaine1 a wretch1 a rascall1 such a one as neither by nature1 education1 or custome1 knoweth to do otherwise8 ,what would you exercise ,i pray you on her1 if you had her8 ,once you confesse she doth not loue you1 then no question1 would she ten times more hate you3 ,your answere ,i knowe would bee1 either by entreatie to perswade her1 or by force to subdue her4 ,sidenote3 ,dialysis4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,confutati4 ,the conclusion is friuolous1 if being now her supposed wel-willer1 you can by no meanes allure her1 imagine you then by prayers to conuince her1 after you haue once shewed your selfe so extreame vnto her8 ,and if force be it you pretend1 it is repugnant to gentlenes1 yet 7be it you neglect what therein to be considered7 assure your selfe her malice neuerthelesse towards you will neuer be quenched4 ,for that of our selues we cannot freelie accept of1 we neuer by compulsion can be procured to like of4 ,with you now1 the case is quite contrarie1 for so imminent euerie way are the perils thereof vnto you1 as if her friendes should abstaine it1 yet the lawes will punish it1 and if no lawes were at all1 yet ,god would reuenge it4 ,if then you will hearken or vnderstand what is right1 you must bee disswaded from these intendments1 wherin if my selfe should haue become so graceles1 as to haue set in foote with you1 iustly we might haue both confessed to haue beene drowned in all vnhappines togithers4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,and nowe good brother1 vse ,i pray you that meanes herein1 that with greatest commendation maie beseeme you1 weigh with your selfe1 that such distemperate motions are not to bee followed1 conceyue that ,vertue1 whose seruaunt you were in your first education1 forbiddeth you to bee ledde by such sensuall appetites1 thinke that honour of ,armes which you haue professed1 extendeth not it selfe to the frayle and weake subduing of a ,womans condition1 who by reason of her sexe rather chalengeth at your handes a defence1 then anie man-like enforcement3 besides1 much vnwoorthie should it bee vnto your reputation by violence to dishonour her1 whose estimate and account by reason of your liking1 you oughte to preferre with all honour4 ,in fine1 frame your selfe to doe that vncompelled1 which by force you shall bee constrained to wish once to haue perfourmed1 so shall you euer doe that beeseemeth you1 and giue me cause1 as my deare and louing brother euermore to accompte of you4 ,our former loue and liking willeth mee euermore to greete you1 your sister and mine commendeth her heartilie vnto you4 ,fare yee well1 ,b4 this thirteenth of ,nouember1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,conciliatorie4 ,chap4 #ac ,after these ,epistles dehorting and disswading1 followeth nowe the nexte title ,conciliatorie1 whose vse being preferred in acquiring vnto our selues the acquaintance1 friendship or familiaritie of men worthie1 haue often their directions as well from those of honourable or worshipfull name or calling1 to such as are their inferiours1 as otherwise betweene equals1 or those that bee accompted familiars3 but seldome or neuer is frequented to such as are our betters1 for then it looseth the name of ,conciliatorie1 and because of the humilitie thereof semeth to be ,petitorie4 ,touching the first degree of these ,epistles1 it is likelie1 that hee who is much our better1 will either of his honour1 woorshippe1 or gentlenesse1 in plainest tearmes alwaies offer himselfe to his inferiours1 whome in such sorte hee desireth to bee knowne vnto1 or otherwise willinglie woulde repute of4 ,for the others1 touching equals or familiars1 order therein requireth1 that pithily and plainly wee set downe the cause moouing vs to take knoweledge of him wee write vnto1 and thereupon to mooue his acquaintance4 ,this1 albeit without some assentation1 it hardlie falleth with some in their writing to bee caried1 yet shall our learner by all possible means indeuour to keepe such ,decorum herein1 that hee gloze not too palpably1 least by such means he do incurre a notable suspition of flatterie4 ,if in our selues we do conceiue or find some one or mo things1 that are vnto such a one pleasing1 or whereof wee may coniecture the regarde to returne vnto him1 commodious1 or to confirme towards vs a more speciall liking1 that shall we modestlie tender1 and deuise without arrogancy in some conuenient sorte to be signified4 ,these are the onely precepts in this kind of writing1 to be considered1 the effectes whereof are in this sort following by their examples deliuered4 ,an ,epistle ,conciliatorie1 written from one of good accompt to his inferiour4 ,after my verie heartie commendations vnto you4 ,this bearer and my seruaunt whome ,i greatlie credite1 hath signified vnto mee manie matters tending to your great commendation1 the reporte whereof1 ,i haue often sithence hearde confirmed by others4 ,and for asmuch as touching mine owne condition1 ,i haue alwaies beene a fauourer of artes1 and entirelie accounted of the singularitie of anie one according to his worthinesse1 ,i haue so much the more greatlie desired your acquaintance1 as one whome willinglie ,i would doe good vnto4 ,assuring you1 that if at some conuenient time you will take paines to see mee1 ,i will not onelie 7as occasion serueth7 bee well content to imploy you my selfe1 but also in place of further accompt doe the best ,i may to recommende you4 ,meane while ,i woulde gladlie bee infourmed by the returne of this ,messenger1 at what time ,i may expect to see you1 according to which ,i will appoint horses1 and send some to accompanie you4 ,and so for this present doe bid you hartilie farewell4 ,from my house of ,n4 this twentieth of ,april1 c4 ,an example ,conciliatorie1 from one e- quall to another4 ,the vniuersall reporte of your excellencie1 each where declared1 hath mooued mee good ,m4 ,n4 not onelie to admire you for the same1 but among a greate manie others1 that regarde and especiallie doe accompte of you1 hath induced mee also hereby to praie your acquaintance4 ,i confesse sir1 sithence ,i first heard of you1 ,i grewe euen then verie desirous to see and to know you1 but being this other daie in companie with sir ,t4 ,p4 ,i vnderstood howe much for your singular vertue both of the good ,knight and ,ladie1 you were hartilie commended and entirelie fauoured4 ,this considerate opinion of theirs1 hath in my speedie determination egged mee forwarde1 and caused me to salute you by these letters1 the rather for that ,i haue sundry times bene enformed with what ioifull and friendlie conceite1 you doe entertaine the familiaritie of euerie ,gentleman4 ,little 7,god knoweth7 resteth in mee to pleasure you1 the worthines whereof ,i coulde wish1 were as well answerable to your vertue as effectuallie you might haue power in mee to commaunde it4 ,this one thing can ,i deliuer of my selfe1 that since ,i had first capacitie to discerne of mens conditions1 ,i haue alwaies studied to honour the vertuous1 and euermore with reuerence to entertaine their actions4 ,a fauourer ,i haue still beene of the learned1 and a diligent regarder of their excellencies1 such as in minde more then wealth wuld wish to be reputed happy1 to my vttermost power gladlie accomplish what might bee deemed most worthie4 ,such a one if you vouchsafe to like of1 ,i wholie yeelde my selfe vnto you1 expecting nothing more then at your conueniente leisure ,i might finde occasion to see you4 ,whereunto referring the residue of all my desires1 ,it doe for the present cease to detaine you4 ,london this fourth of ,iune1 c4 ,to these ,epistles might be added two seuerall answers3 in both of which there is required a special and wel demeaned modesty1 in the one of humility to bee according to his better1 in the other of curtesie to gratifie his equall1 each of them containing1 a submissiue executio of that1 in either of their faculties and professions simply to be attributed1 the diuersities of both of them not impertinent to these our instructions1 ,i haue in sort following put downe to be considered4 ,an ,epistle responsorie answering to the first of these ,letters4 ,it may please your ,worshippe1 ,i haue receiued your curteous ,letters1 and by the same1 as also by your messenger haue fullie conceiued of your fauour and louing intendment towardes mee1 for all which ,i can but render vnto you my most humble and duetiful thankes4 ,touching my selfe1 ,i verie gladlie wish that there were anie thing in mee1 whereof you might take pleasure1 or wherewith ,i might anie waies bee enabled to doe you seruice3 ,such as it is ,i humblie render vnto your commaunde1 and doe pray that in as good sorte as ,i tender it1 you will bee pleased to accepte of it4 ,your man can witnesse1 that as yet ,i haue some earnest occasions for a while to detaine mee1 who otherwise woulde bee well contented foorthwith to waite vpon you4 ,and were ,i not thereunto especiallie enioined by your good fauour1 the importunitie of your seruaunt might happily in such case haue preuailed with mee4 ,it may therefore stand with your good pleasure to pardon mee1 one moneth1 which tearme beeing expired1 ,i thence forwarde will remaine at the commaunde of none so much as your ,worshippe1 to whose good acceptaunce ,i eftsoones doe recommende my selfe in all reuerente duetie4 ,london this of1 c4 ,a letter responsorie answering to the latter ,epistle4 ,sir1 ,i haue vnderstoode by your gentle and friendlie letters1 not onelie howe much ,i rest beholding to your good opinion1 but also to the curteous ,knight1 and my especiall good ,ladie you write of1 to each of whome ,i haue founde my selfe indebted exceedinglie4 ,manie waies might ,i aduertise you howe much ,i haue to thanke both them and you1 which that my desires may appeare answerable to your wishes ,i doe leaue1 till personallie in as present hast as conuenientlie may bee1 ,i see you4 ,i am not altogether ignoraunt of the good partes which by some 7vnto your selfe well knowne7 hath beene aduertised heretofore vnto me of you1 and for which ,i do most willinglie embrace you4 ,assuring you y you haue but preuted me in this one curtesie1 which before my going out of town1 ,i was vehementlie perswaded to haue tendred vnto you1 wherein neuerthelesse ,i rest satisfied1 in that by one so well accomplished as your selfe1 ,i haue heerein been so farre foorth conuinced4 ,my busines with his ,l4 resteth ,i hope vpon a present dispatch1 and therefore doe ,i reckon 7by ,gods grace7 within these verie few dayes to visite you4 ,meane while1 confessing howe much ,i stande charged vnto your selfe for this sole courtesie1 ,i doe pray that vnto the good ,knight1 and his ,la4 you will report my right humble dutie3 ,and euen so doe commit you to the ,almightie4 ,this of1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,reconciliatorie4 ,chap4 #ad4 ,nowe after these ,responsorie ,letters1 each answering vnto the others tendered courtesies1 ,i thinke it meet to come to the next title1 being in order ,reconciliatorie4 ,the matter whereof importeth a reconciliation to those from whom wee acknowledge in some sort or other to haue beene disseuered1 contrarie to the bonde of friendshippe or dutie that therein might bee required1 whether by our owne default1 or by whose or what defect1 as by the circumstance of the action shall bee tendered4 ,in the framing of these ,epistles wee shall recorde with our selues1 in what league1 amitie or dutie1 wee haue before time stoode charged or bounde to him to whome wee studie to bee reconciled1 thereupon shall wee according to the district obseruation at that instant helde of the same1 studie eyther to qualifie1 adnihilate1 or vtterlie to extinguish the cause of falling of the disseuerance1 or breach4 ,then shall we desire for the considerations thereunto inducing vs1 to be retained againe in his wonted fauour or friendlie acceptance4 ,and these as in the examples following may accordingly be suted4 ,an example reconciliatorie1 from one friend to another4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,the regarde of our auncient amitie and long continued acquaintaunce1 wherein so firmelie and manie yeares wee haue beene knit togithers1 will not permit 7my good ,d47 that wee for one slender grudge1 7rather by the malice and despite of others enuying our olde friendship1 then by anie occasion of our selues1 in ill time suggested betweene vs7 shoulde in this sort bee disseuered4 ,true it is1 that before this time the like breach1 or anie thing neare vnto the same was neuer seene betweene vs1 but what 7mischiefe7 shall ,i nowe tearme it1 or imagine to bee the occasion1 that in so vnlooked time1 and vpon so vnexpected occasion1 hath in this vilde sort1 giuen meane to vntie vs1 betweene whome so great a league of loue1 so long confirmed and approoued liking1 so manie protestations and vowes haue ere this passed1 as that by the force thereof it might well haue seemed wee should neuer haue fallen to this variance4 ,but what cannot enuie doe8 ,what is it that cruell1 detestable and inueterate malice cannot performe8 ,credite mee1 my ,d4 for my part ,i am sorie that euer follie so much maistred vs1 as to hearken in any sort to the stirrers vp of such bitternesse4 ,and as my selfe was the first that by admittaunce and allowaunce of those rumours gaue the formost onset1 by meanes whereof grewe this discontenting and vnkinde department betweene vs3 so will ,i bee the first that shall endeuour to renue againe our friendshippe by a more iust reconcilement1 to the intent the fruites of our vnfained liking becomming by such meanes the more forcible1 may render vnto all the worlde a sufficient testimonie1 how hard and difficult a thing it is to part those whome 7but onelie death itselfe7 hath power to disseuer4 ,bee onelie contented my ,d4 once againe1 to restablish that which being a little vntwisted1 could neuer wholie be broken4 ,thy knowne good will1 and heartie zeale vnto mee2 assureth mee not to distrust the same at thy handes1 which thou shalt euer finde to be graffed within me4 ,this euening by ,gods grace ,i meane at our lodging to see thee1 whither1 and to thy selfe ,i doe most heartilie commend me4 ,this ,reconciliatorie being different from that other ,conciliatorie ,epistle1 by reason of the argument thereof tending to renue that1 which formerlie might by the other before bee intreated for1 carrieth the effects thereof as well as it dooth betwene equals3 so from an inferiour person to one who in reputation is somewhat more then his better4 ,upon presumption of whose fauor1 or by negligence of his own dealing1 hauing thrown himselfe into some disgrace with such a partie1 he may by meanes herein offred1 reconcile himselfe in any sort he list of humility4 ,to the furtherance whereof1 this example following may bee considered4 ,an ,epistle ,reconciliatorie1 from an inferiour person1 to one that is his better4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,propositi4 ,sidenote3 ,dichologia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,pleaseth my honourable good ,l4 ,it was giuen me to vnderstand about two daies passed by ,m4 ,r4 that your ,l4 should very hardly conceiue of me1 in that vpon some vrgent occasion1 ,i delaied to yeeld that testimonie vnto his cause1 which in equitie and reason ,i ought to doe3 and the rather1 for that by your earnest entreatie and request1 ,i was eftsoones thereunto required4 ,the griefe was not small ,i sustained thereby1 in that hauing receiued many and sundrie benefits by your honourable fauour1 whereby diuers waies ,i remaine in dutie and honestie charged during my life vnto your ,l4 ,i should stand on so great a hazard1 as the aduenture or losse of your good opinion1 onely for a matter sinisterly suggested vnto you against mee1 without anie maintainable reason4 ,your ,l4 dooth ,i hope remember1 in my last speeches had with you about the very same matter 7albeit before that time1 ,i stoode on some tearmes1 doubting the malicious dealinges of the aduerse parties agaynst mee1 in reuengment of my plaine and honest testimonie to bee there giuen7 yet at the last ,i concluded1 to gather together all the ,notes ministring furtheraunce to the cause1 and thereuppon to deliuer my true and certaine knowledge according as had beene required4 ,nowe1 what care ,i haue sithence vsed in the matter1 and vppon intelligence had with ,m4 ,r4 howe vehementlie in satisfaction of what might anie wayes content your ,l4 and bee furthering to his right1 ,i haue proceeded therein1 ,i had rather himselfe shoulde deliuer1 then ,i to become a reporter vnto you4 ,insomuch as ,i well knowe 7howeuer any others haue misinformed your ,l47 himselfe as a ,gentleman1 will vppon his woorde assure the truth and certaintie4 ,i did ,i must confesse at the first vse some delayes in immediate dispatch of the thing1 but how and in what manner1 and to what end and purpose1 let him also relate4 ,your ,l4 ,i hope1 will therefore bee pleased to do mee that right1 as not to be euill perswaded towardes mee1 in a case wherein ,i haue vpon your honourable assuraunce and commaund1 entred so farre foorth1 as thereby ,i stande assured to haue purchased vnto my selfe matter ynough of hatred1 and by those whome 7hauing refused to entertaine as my friendes7 ,i haue inabled sufficiently thereby to become my heauie and bitter enemies4 ,the hatred of whome cannot vnto mee anie wayes become so iniurious as the ill conceyte of your ,l4 should redound to bee of all others most grieuous4 ,for mine owne parte 7so much doe ,i stande on the reuerent regarde and account ,i beare vnto your ,l47 as were it not ,i rest perswaded that vpon the equall deliueraunce conceiued of my willing minde vnto your seruice1 you would againe bee reconciled in fauourable and good opinion towards me1 ,i should so farre foorth bee discontented in my selfe1 as neuer could ,i bee at attonement with mine actions1 wherein by the least sparke of negligence whatsoeuer1 ,i might thinke to haue ouerslipped anie thing that shoulde become displeasing1 or otherwise offensiue vnto your honourable liking4 ,your ,l4 woonted fauour and bountie giueth mee great expectation of the contrarie1 and mine innocencie and true report of maister ,r4 doth also in some sort assure me4 ,whereupon remaining as he that alwaies thinketh his life no better spent1 then for and in your ,l4 vtmost seruice1 ,i humblie surcease1 this day of1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,petitorie4 ,chap4 #ae4 ,the manner of these ,epistles might in another purpose then herein expressed1 bee also applyed1 as being ,reconciliatorie1 in the behalfe of some other to bee written1 as occasion may bee offered1 but forasmuch as they in that sort beeing handled1 doe for the most part1 fall into the ,swasorie1 ,disswasorie1 ,defensorie1 or ,excusatorie kinde1 ,i deeme it besides necessitie1 to write anie further examples thereof1 for that when anie such shall bee brought in question1 the substaunce and conueyance of the state and cause1 may readily thereunto be drawne out of the places before sorted vnto each of those kindes1 as in the discourse formerly set forth are at large remembred4 ,in manifestation whereof1 let it be considered1 that if by an epistle of this title ,i shoulde endeuour to reconcile a man to his wife1 or a woman to her husband1 a seruaunt to his maister1 or a maister to his seruant3 the father to the ,childe1 the friende to a friende1 the neighbour to neighbour1 or kinsman to kindred4 ,needes must ,i for the compassing thereof shewe some reasons howe and which way to induce these1 and therefor must ,i of necessitie run into diuers perswasions1 defences or excuses1 in the qualities whereof 7by whatsoeuer action ,i goe about to transpose them7 the effectes yet must nedes be concluded4 ,sufficeth therefore that for these ,epistles ,i haue deliuered sufficiently1 and herewith will wee wade vnto the nexte1 which in order hereunto are ,petitorie4 ,and in asmuch as these ,epistles are so named1 for the earnest petition or requests in euerie of them contained1 and that the variety of thinges are such to be demanded1 and mens conditions so diuers1 at whose handes or from whom the same are to be receiued3 ,it therefore falleth out by consequence that according thereunto the maner of the ,epistle must needs also be diuers and variable4 ,for some things ther are which fauorably and with great indifferencie1 are oftentimes to be graunted1 required or obtained1 as counsell1 aid1 patronage1 good speeches1 natural care and regard1 such other like4 ,some also and such semblable persons1 as for which1 or to whom1 to aske or sue a certain kind of shame1 is in a mer tied1 viz4 in crauing1 borrowing1 importuning1 charging1 or to vehement troubling4 ,the stile1 order1 and deliuery therefore appertaining to either of these must needly be different4 ,touching then the generality of both1 to either of them it is requisite that in the ,exordium1 an indeuour bee vsed whereby to adhibit vnto vs the good will1 fauour1 or good liking of him to whome wee write4 ,nexte that therein wee procede according to our acquaintance with the partie1 his estate1 credite1 or supporte whereby to pleasure vs4 ,thirdlie1 that the cause we take vpon vs to preferre1 bee iust1 lawfull1 and honest4 ,fourthly1 that it be in his ability1 or power1 counsel1 aid1 or protection1 to prefer or relieue vs4 ,fiftly1 the order or meanes whereby the same may be wrought and accomplished4 ,sixtly1 our gratitude and remuneration1 worthily tied to the thankefull acknowledgement or requitall of the same4 ,in the first sorte of these1 the cause standing fauourable or indifferent1 we may the more bolder indeuour to produce or lay forth the aptnes or beseeming therof4 ,in the second1 greater modestie1 and a more shamefast deliuerance is to be retained1 the preferring whereof woulde be best by insinuation1 the better by couert meanes to wade into the depth of our petiti4 ,in this place a more then ordinarie bashfulnes would bee admitted1 which giueth no small furtherance to euerie demaund1 as audacious and wainscot impudencie on the other side returneth the greatest impediment in anie thing to be obtained4 ,for no man willingly would do benefit to such a one who in maner goeth about as of duety and not of curtesie to exact the same1 and rather as a commaunder then crauer1 woulde impudently thrust himselfe to the obtaining thereof4 ,and because the whole course hereof obserued by way of euerie ,petition1 is by inference of many circumstances to be altogither determined1 the order as ,i haue related vnto you before1 must be conueyed by places ,swasorie1 resting very often in confirmation of the honestie1 goodnes1 lawfulnes1 and needfulnes of our petition4 ,and if the ,exordium be happily framed of his person to whom we direct our letters1 it shall not be amisse that therein briefly wee capitulate some parte of his vertues1 curtesies1 humanity1 bounty1 readines to comfort1 pleasure1 or doe reliefe vnto any1 whereby we may priuately draw his fauour and good acceptance vnto vs3 besides1 if he haue made vs before time beholding vnto him1 we shall gladly acknowledge the same1 and declare that being already indebted1 we study more thereby to yoke our selues vnto him4 ,if of our owne persons1 then shall we lay open1 with what great expectation and regard we do in our conceits entertaine the desertes and worthinesse of such a one1 modestly preferring what in fauor of him1 and common and equall loue or regard hath passed between vs4 ,if of the interchangeable loue1 liking and curtesie1 whilome resting between our predecessors or auncistors1 then the weight and force thereof we shall put forwards accordingly4 ,if of the person of our aduersarie against whom we demaund any assistance1 fauor1 protection1 or remedy1 we may infer 7if any such be7 the common mislike of both of vs towardes him1 and how ill he hath deserued at eithers handes and thereupon require aid against him4 ,if of the thing or matter it selfe1 the same be to be caried1 we shall shew the value1 godlines1 goodnes1 or common benefit of the same1 that the matter is vnto him easie1 to vs of great importance1 and if without arrogancie it may be done1 we may inforce some occasions of benefit or other contentment thenceforth to happen vnto him4 ,and if any discommoditie do happily sem to appeare in laying open the same 7the liklihood whereof may either alienate his minde1 or withdraw his assistance or other liking from vs7 that shall we either study to extinguish or otherwise1 as much as we may1 to qualifie or auoide2 ,by such kind of meanes1 behooueth we prepare our selues to the deliuery of our petition1 which being in as apt and plaine tearms as may be laid open1 we shal by such inforcements 7as in moouing affections hereunto1 may be deemed pertinent7 with greater facilitie procure the same to be effected4 ,an example of an epistle ,petitorie written on the behalfe of another4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,the studie and great desire wherewith 7sir7 ,i see you bent continually to the vniuersall aid and benefit of al men1 and for which to your great praise you haue generally well deserued1 and deseruedly are euerie where reputed1 hath mooued me in the behalfe of this poore man to become a petitioner vnto you4 ,about two moneths since1 hee had dealings with a neighbour of yours1 touching a farme which he was for tearme of yeares to take at his hands1 and notwithstanding a promise and graunt thereof to this bearer made 7in consideration whereof he paide him then in hand a good parte of his money7 the iniurious cormorant glutting him selfe with extorting from the pouertie of this and manie others1 hath sithence that1 not onelie passed a demise thereof in writing to another1 but goeth about to defraud the poore man of his money1 the sum whereof is the whole patrimonie1 riches1 and stocke of himselfe1 his poore wife and familie4 ,and for so much as without the countenance of some one fauouring the poore mans right1 hee is like to bee ouerborne with the weight of the other1 and so consequently to bee vndone3 ,i haue thought good to make thus bolde to pray your lawful fauour in his furtherance1 that by your authoritie and meanes1 some honest satisfaction or ende may be therein to his behoofe had4 ,you shall doe an act verie charitable1 in dealing for such a one1 for the procuring of whose right1 his heartie praiers for your safety shall witnes wel the comfort you shall do him therein4 ,i am perswaded your speach and aid may herein preuaile verie much1 as a thing which with great facilitie you may cause to bee dispatched4 ,and for my self1 as ,i shal at no time rest vnmindful of my request tendred vnto you herein1 so shall ,i not faile in what ,i may to the vttermost of my power to satisfie you1 by whatsoeuer possible requitall4 ,and euen so with my heartie commendations1 ,i doe bid you farewel4 ,r4 this twelfth of ,aprill4 ,an example petitorie in the nature of ,reconciliatorie1 from a sonne to his displeased father4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,if floods of teares sealed with harde and bitter sighes1 if continuall sorrow and neuer ceasing care1 if consuming griefes not of a diseased bodie1 but of a pestred mind1 might haue rendred sufficient and assured testimonie1 whereby to perswade your laden eares surcharged by this time with the weight of my incessaunt and continuall cries3 the intollerable woes wherein ,i liued1 secluded from the right and name of a sonne1 and barred quite from the sweete and gentle tearme of a louing and kinde father1 hadde ere this time giuen meane of recouerie1 to my daunted and dismayed spirites1 and kindled in mee some wan hope1 one day to haue founde an houre so happie1 wherein by a right conceite conceiued of my vnkindlie pleasures1 or conuinced by the importunity of those who haue pittied my euils1 your naturall care might in some sorte or other haue bin renued1 to the redresse of all my fore wearied and heauie groning mischiefs4 ,but infortunate as ,i am1 that for all the humble suit so manie times presented in these and such like blubbered lines1 so hardened is the mind of him ,i write vnto1 that whilome hauing bin a deare and louing parent1 ,i may not heerein dare to tender1 or so much as once put forwarde vnto him1 the appellation of a gratious and pittifull father4 ,if it haue so pleased vnto your grauitie1 in such seuere manner still to deale with me1 and that the hatefull shewe of my ill desertes1 is yet become of so loathed and detestable recordation1 in this verie season vnto you3 then as 7before time7 eftsoones doe confesse my letters vntimelie to haue approched vnto you3 but if the long detained grace1 by whose heauie want 7your sonne might ,i say87 nay1 the forlorne and despised issue of your aged yeares 7for so ,i am now forced to say7 is perforce driuen almost into a desperate conceite and mislike of his liuing1 may by the least sparke of expectation1 be annexed to the most vehement effects of his prostrate and meekest submission1 then groueling vppon the lowest ground1 and humbling my highest imaginations to the deepest bottome1 wherein your implacable displeasures haue hitherto beene coueted1 as meekely and with as penitent speeches1 as anie grieued and passionate minde can vtter3 ,i do beseech you sir1 that at the last you will receyue 7not into your accustomed fauour7 but to your common and ordinarie lyking1 the most disgraced of all your children1 and pardoning the disobedience wherein hee dared once so far foorth to prouoke agaynst him1 the weight of your knowne anger1 vouchsafe hee may nowe againe bee of your familie1 though not partaking with your children4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,this sole benefite and last request if my burthened soule may obtaine at your handes1 happilie ,i may then liue as comforted by the hope of that whereunto a buzie and carefull endeuour may once peraduenture enable me1 otherwise dying in the ouerflowing of my desperate and continued griefes1 ,i pray at ,gods handes ,i may obtaine that by mercie1 which cruell destinie in my life time could neuer win vnto me1 by all possible intreatie4 ,my submissiue dutie answerable to the regarded place of your fatherlie authoritie compelleth mee to attend with all humblenesse the resolution of your clemencie4 ,in the hope whereof1 resting my decayed and ouerwearied imagination1 ,i liue till the receyt of your knowne lyking do ascertaine1 in what sort may please you to repute me4 ,the stile of this ,epistle is vehement1 because the passions of him from whence it came were vehement1 and is deduced as you see from the nature of ,reconciliatorie1 which aswell for the submissiue lowest tearmes it beareth1 as also for the vrgent petition therin contained1 ,i haue rather chosen to place among y ,petitorie4 ,the part of honest herein deliuered1 is passed in wordes mekest of great obedience1 wherein he studieth by all possibilitie to mittigate towards himselfe1 the too much seueritie of his father4 ,the ,exordium is carried by ,insinuation1 expressing the vehement affects and surcharged conceits of a mind more then ordinarilie grieued4 ,the ,possibilitie resteth in the father1 which commonlie by nature is with some more facilitie then estranged diffcultie1 entreated towards his sonne4 ,the meane to compasse it1 is the mitigation or satisfaction of the iust mislike of a father1 whose charged authoritie affecteth nothing so much as obedience in children4 ,thus are the places required herein1 in sort as you see performed4 ,and for because within any one title1 there is no one thing affoording matter more plentifull1 or with vse more commonlie frequented1 then is this petitorie kinde1 7insomuch as whatsoeuer containeth any speciall request1 is hereunder included7 ,i will sort you downe so many examples of all sorts1 as that there shall not faile herein wherewith sufficientlie to instruct whatsoeuer in the like occasion is or ought to be required4 ,an ,epistle ,petitorie1 wherein is craued trauell and counsell to be assistant vpon vrgent occasion4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,petiti4 ,sidenote3 ,possibilitie4 ,as one greatlie emboldned by the forwardnesse of your woonted courtesie and liking euer bent towards me1 ,i haue dared 7,sir7 once again vpon presumption of the like1 hereby to intreate you1 wherein you may see in what degree of affection ,i do intertaine you1 in that not contented1 ,i haue alreadie so manie and so often times vsed you1 ,i doe by such meanes endeuour solie to make my selfe wholy and to none other so much as beholding vnto you4 ,my man hath returned me from ,london1 how by more then common celeritie ,i haue in my suite beene preuented by my aduersarie1 whereby it is like1 my cause standing vpon so great a hazard1 it will goe verie hard with mee4 ,nowe if your woonted counsell1 and friendly assistance bee not speedilie ayding1 both the hope of benefit1 charge and expense thereof will be lost vtterly8 ,in regard whereof1 these may bee in as earnest maner as is possible to intreate you1 that vpon the attendance of my man1 ,i may 7as woontedlie7 vse you4 ,your counsell ioyned with a little trauell may greatlie profite me1 and now more then at any time else1 exceedinglie pleasure mee4 ,wherein if it may please you to yoke mee further vnto you by the waight of your courtesie3 ,i shall not onelie endeuour by all possibilitie to requite it1 but also your selfe shall not faile at anie time to finde such a one of mee1 as of whose trauaile1 industrie1 or what other abilitie to pleasure you1 you may account of assuredlie4 ,i haue by certaine other ,letters mooued my ,l4 to haue fauourable consideration touching mee1 which as ,i am informed1 his ,l4 hath receyued4 ,what els to bee performed heerein1 my man shall make knowne vnto you4 ,and thus doubting as little of your friendship herein1 as of mine owne thankfull disposition1 prest alwayes to the vttermost to requite you1 ,i doe heartilie bid you farewell1 ,d4 of this1 c4 ,an other of the same4 ,sir1 ,i am so bolde in my great necessitie1 vnder assurance of your forwardnes to do me good1 to entreate your especiall ayde and furtherance in two things1 the one whereof this bearer shall instruct you in1 the other your selfe can best tell1 for that ,i made you at my last speech acquainted with the same4 ,both of which consisting in your labour and deuice1 ,i am of opinion that none then your selfe can fitte the occasion better4 ,and trulie such is the force of imprisonment1 as contrarie to that you haue woontedly knowne in me1 mine vnderstanding is quite decaied1 and forworne with my libertie1 and where the spirits are so distuned1 it must needes follow1 the memorie can sounde nothing but discord4 ,in fine1 sir it is in you to doe me good1 and to make me by this onlie action for euer beholding vnto you1 wherein if ,i may so farre foorth presume of your fidelitie1 assure your selfe1 that if euer ,god giue mee libertie1 ,a4 ,c4 to none so much as to you shall be yoked in courtesie4 ,good ,m4 ,d4 the matter hereof requireth some haste1 wherunto ,i most heartilie entreate you4 ,fare ye well1 this of1 c4 ,a ,letter responsorie to the same4 ,good ,m4 ,c4 needelesse were it you should entreate mee in that1 wherein you haue founde mee alwayes most willing1 and such whome with small perswasions you may induce to a farre greater purpose then what in your last letter is required4 ,the ,messenger ,i haue appointed to morrow morning to returne againe to my lodging1 at which time ,i will not faile to finish1 what in the best sort ,i can conceiue to bee vnto your occasions furthering4 ,hard will it bee for mee to accomplish that1 wherein your selfe seeme so vnperfect1 for that the dullest conceyte forged from the most distempered of your imaginations1 cannot but sounde farre better tunes then the ripest of my inuention is anie wayes able to deliuer4 ,neuerthelesse1 such as it is1 or so much as 7by dislike of your owne7 you haue will to account of1 that will ,i prepare to your view1 and put forward to your good speed1 thinking it better by deliuerie of a grosse deuise to satisfie the demaunde of a friend1 then by concealing the simplicitie therof to bee censured as vncourteous4 ,in conclusion1 it is 7sir7 lawfull for you to vse mee to the vttermost1 and fittest to our confirmed league of amitie1 that 7in whatsoeuer7 you should imploy mee1 wherein ,i desire you conceiue no more1 then such as ,i intend to become1 and you shall assuredly find me1 viz4 yours1 c4 ,here must ,i note vnto you the last of these ,epistles ,petitorie1 in which is neither ,exordium nor ,narration1 but formost of all the petition1 and afterwards the parts folowing1 the like whereof you may perchance finde hereafter4 ,for that where practise and skill hath enabled a man to doe well1 there is no necessitie that such should bee tied to rule1 who being of sufficient knowledge and capacitie are able to discerne what is metest1 and accordinglie to direct the square of their owne doings1 sometimes one way1 sometimes another1 as in the intendment thereof1 may to the present occasion seme most conuenient and readie4 ,and as in this one ,letter1 so may the learner light vpon many others being different also from the obseruation herein deliuered1 somtimes abruptly entring into the matter without any limitation at all1 one other example whereof shall bee next hereunto deliuered1 the first beginning of which1 declareth the meane of accomplishment of the request1 before the petition declared1 whereunto by imitation the vnskilfull may not rashlie enter1 without good aduisement of what in the performance is meete to be considered2 ,the method of which is in this sort pursued4 ,an example ,petitorie1 concluding a briefe request and curteous remembrance of a thing before time promised4 ,nowe is the time 7wherein if your pleasure bee7 you may perfourme what erst you haue promised4 ,i therefore desire you as heartilie as ,i may1 that your intent1 being to doe me good1 you will nowe execute the same4 ,and albeit ,i doubte not of your willingnesse herein1 whose curtesie hath not beene straunge towardes mee3 yet rather enforced by mine owne necessitie and continuall remembraunce of my vnprouided estate then by anie other misgeuing1 ,i prepare these lines1 sollicitours of your expected promise1 which bearing in their fronte a token of oportunitie1 woulde praie you not to let slippe occasion1 but with as much speede as willingnesse to accomplish the same4 ,remembring howe manie waies ,i am beholding vnto you1 ,i remaine in accompt of your curtesies1 rather studious to thinke on them1 then anie waies able to requite them1 c4 ,another example of the like effect4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium1 by comparison4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,even as a bold begger1 the more he is relieued1 the more he still presseth forward vpon the bounty of those1 whom he supposeth to fauor him3 so fareth it with mee1 who hauing eftsoons enioied your trauel to my no small benefit1 am neuertheles so shameles as stil to importune you in the same4 ,i haue1 sir1 ,i cfesse1 by your good means recieued sundrie fauors at the hands of my ,lord1 which ,i cannot1 nor euer shall be able to requite vnto you1 the matter of my suite notwithstanding hetherto depending before his honour1 ,i neither can nor may so farre foorth withdrawe my selfe1 but ,i must needes nowe and then solicite you1 as the ,gentleman by whose onelie curtesie and perseuerance in woonted care and good affection towardes mee ,i do liue1 and so liuing1 continue my daies and yeares with such assured respecte1 as hee that hath sworne and vowed in himselfe neuer to forget you4 ,it doeth sir1 so much stande mee vpon the procuring of his ,l4 letter in my behalfe1 for the indifferente triall and hearing of my cause1 as without 7in speciall and earnest speeches the same be directed for mee to the ,iustices and ,commissioners7 ,i am in greate despaire howe the case will goe with mee4 ,it is you therefore that must helpe mee herein1 and by your onelie meanes ,i must bee warranted in this action1 the intendment whereof furthering so much vnto right and cause of equitie as it doeth1 ,i hope his ,l4 vpon your motion will the easilier condiscende vnto4 ,this is that ,i require at your handes1 and to the speedie dispatch whereof ,i may not cease to importune you4 ,whereon concluding for the present1 ,i doe heartilie bid you farewel1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,commendatorie4 ,chap4 #af4 ,much more might bee handled in this kinde1 the method whereof is one of the most ordinarie of any sortes of ,letters that are indited1 for that the greatest number of directions are commonlie concluded in this matter1 the requests wherof doe either especially concerne the writer1 or are otherwise to be respected in the behalfe of some other4 ,the occasion of which hath caried herein the plentie of so many examples1 that by manifesting the diuersities of their orders and vses1 the learner might not wante wherein to bee directed1 and choice of varietie wherewith to be delighted4 ,now1 besides these hereby alreadie deliuered1 there are letters also y might be suted vnder this forme1 which from ,noble men or others1 are many times written in fauor of sundrie persons1 containing requests in their behalfs to be performed1 which not withstanding the difference of estates in that the same doe for the most part passe vnto their inferiours1 yet semeth the nature thereof to be petitorie1 but in a different order of these to be altogether pursued4 ,insomuch as neither agree-eth it1 to vse like circumstances of humilitie and entreatie1 nor of pleasures or curtesie1 as in the other are required3 but rather a necessarie supposall and assurance of their demandes to be hearkened vnto1 in respect that of their honours1 reputations1 or credites1 it is intended they will require nothing1 but that with reasonable toleration may be liked of4 ,but the vse of such kinde of directions in choise of both1 ,i rather hold pertinent to the title ,cmendatorie1 for that whatsoeuer is therein written1 in fauour eyther of the person or of the cause1 may in respect of the honour or reputation of those from whome they come1 bee better demed in sorte of a curteous recommendation1 then otherwise by or vnder anie title of humilitie or submission3 for these causes ,i haue thought meete to adioine immediatelie hereunto1 the same ,epistles ,commendatorie1 beeing so nearelie combined with those of ,petitorie as they are4 ,the vse whereof are not neuerthelesse so farre forth caried1 but that from an inferiour to his superiour1 in some causes and vpon sundrie accidentes1 the same are deriued4 ,the places appertaining vnto these kindes of ,epistles be as in the ,petitorie are alreadie declared1 chiefely when the same1 intendeth to a cause or person preferred to be fauoured4 ,in which1 when it concerneth the person1 we must beware that in the credible deliuerie of whatsoeuer tending to his praise or preferment1 we doe it either by warrant of our owne knowledge1 or by such certaine report of others1 whose opinion we deeme will not bee misled4 ,and if neither of these doe fall out to be knowne or beleeued1 then shal we shew what information wee haue besides our owne opinion1 or peraduenture no other assurance at all but our owne simple liking4 ,petitions also are frequented in requiring fauour to these causes1 wherein standeth in highest regarde the state1 countenance or authoritie of him1 from whome the letter is framed1 who accordingly thereunto may desire that the rather at his request1 or vpon his sute1 or for his sake1 or in regarde of his liking1 the person may bee accompted of1 or the action furthered4 ,besides1 it may bee added to the increase of a more speedie performance1 the loue1 7if anie be1 or the occasion thereunto sorting7 we owe to him we commende1 or in whose fauour we write1 either solie for himselfe1 or conueyed from his friendes1 his parentes1 the consideration of his charge of wife1 children or seruantes1 the wrong offered1 benefite to be attained1 or whatsoeuer other matter to bee deemed requisite or conuenient4 ,nowe from whence or out of what instigations1 the matter of such commendation is to bee drawne1 you haue in the generall chapters of this booke alreadie at large4 ,the circumstances of which1 and whatsoeuer else hereby forewarned1 shall in the ensuing examples bee more at large deliuered4 ,an example commendatorie1 wherein is recommended to a noble man from his in- feriour1 the conditions and behauiours of a person4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,cmendation of the party4 ,sidenote3 ,petition4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,it may please your ,lordship1 ,this ,gentleman the bearer hereof1 with whome a long time ,i haue beene acquainted1 and of his qualities and good behauiour haue had sounde and large experiment1 hauing beene a good time a sutor vnto mee1 to mooue his preferment vnto your ,lordships seruice3 ,i haue nowe at the last condiscended vnto1 aswell for that ,i know your ,lordship to be now presentlie disfurnished of such a one1 as also that there shall hardlie be preferred vpon a sudden any one so meete as himselfe to supplie that place4 ,and thus much by your pard and allowance dare ,i assure vnto you1 y if it may please you in credit of my simple knowledge and opini to imploy him1 you shal find that besides he is by partage discended from such1 as of whome ,i knowe your ,lordship will verie well accompt of1 hee is also learned1 discreete1 sober1 wise1 and moderate in all his actions1 of great secrecie and most assured trust1 gouerned in all companies accordinglie3 finallie1 a man so meete1 and to this present turne so apt and necessarie1 as ,i cannot easilie imagine howe you may be serued better4 ,pleaseth your ,l4 the rather for the great good will ,i beare him1 and humble duetie ,i owe vnto you1 to accept1 imploie1 and accompt of him4 ,i nothing doubt but your ,l4 hauing by such means giuen credit to my choice1 shall finde him such1 as for whose good seruice1 you shall haue further occasion to thinke well of mee for him4 ,whereof nothing doubting1 ,i doe refer both him and my selfe in all humblenesse to your best and most fauorable opinion1 from my house in ,b4 this of1 c4 ,a ,letter responsorie to the same4 ,after my verie heartie commendations vnto you4 ,sithence the receipt of your last letters and recommendations of ,p4 ,b4 into my seruice1 ,i haue had small occasion either to write or send vnto you till this present4 ,and for so much as vpon your certaine notice deliuered vnto mee in fauour of his preferment1 ,i helde my selfe so well assured in all thinges of his behauiour1 as ,i doubted not thereupon to receiue him in place of greatest fidelitie1 ,i haue thought good heereby to let you vnderstand1 what great pleasure ,i haue taken in his diligent attendance1 assuring you that for manie vnexpected qualities1 which ,i haue prooued to be in him1 ,i doe woonderfullie well like of him1 and that with so good affection1 as ,i intend not to omit anie thing that may tend to his aduauncement4 ,in beholding him oftentimes mee thinkes hee manie wayes dooth resemble his father1 who in sounde troth1 ,i doe suppose1 might haue beene intertained with the best for his well deseruing4 ,this bearer shall enforme you of some especiall causes1 concerning my affayres in the ,countrey1 whom ,i doe pray you to conferre with1 and to affoord your trauell for his present dispatch1 which ,i will not faile heartily to requite vnto you4 ,for your care had of my wants1 and diligent supply of such a one ,i do many times thanke you1 and haue promised in my selfe for the same to become a debter vnto you4 ,and euen so ,i do bid you hartilie fare wel4 ,from the ,court this of1 c4 ,an other ,epistle ,commendatorie of the sort before deliuered4 ,my verie good ,l4 ,i am enformed by this ,gentl4 the bearer hereof1 that by meanes of one of your ,chapleins1 a motion hath beene made of his preferment vnto your ,l4 seruice3 and forsomuch as those his good friendes are not nowe in towne1 who in respect of their account with your ,l4 might stande him in verie good steade3 vnderstanding his well-willing minde1 and greate desire thereunto 7for that ,i wish verie well vnto his aduauncement7 ,i haue taken vpon me heereby to entreate 7albeit ,i may not presume so farre1 as to preferre a man vnto your ,l47 that it may yet please you vpon my speeches to haue the better liking of him4 ,assuring you that both by the credite of my ,la4 ,f4 who vppon verye good conceyte towardes him1 wished his preferment1 with her late deceased brother and last ,l4 ,c4 and also by the knowledge my selfe haue had of him1 and others besides1 whome your ,l4 hath in speciall and chose regarde1 he is one so sufficient1 and euerie way so well furnished to doe seruice to anie honourable personage1 as by tryall and proofe made of whose good parts and behauiour1 your ,l4 shall not reape occasion of ill conceit1 to whome soeuer haue vndertaken to preferre him vnto you4 ,and if it shall notwithstanding seeme farther conuenient vnto your ,l4 to make stay of his acceptaunce1 for some priuate causes hitherto vnsatisfied1 ,i shall yet in his behalfe neuerthelesse become thus farre a suter vnto you1 that this my recommendation may with your ,l4 good fauour become a speedier meane the better 7when it shall happen7 to mooue your ,l4 good lyking towardes him4 ,for which ,i shall thinke my selfe1 as in manie other occasions besides1 vnto your honourable opinion most deepely beholden4 ,in acknowledgement of which1 and respect of my humble and dutifull regarde to the same1 ,i doe nowe and euermore remaine your ,l4 c4 ,these two examples ,commendatorie1 are concluded to one effect1 the formost whereof with little alteration1 may become a president for anie recommendation1 whether it bee to fauour1 friendship1 choyce1 or account1 and not vnto seruice at all1 for that herein is shewed1 in what sort men for their vertues may be recommended4 ,now if there be anie other particular occasion in the person1 besides these1 inducing matter of good liking the same in place and stead of other1 or togither with the other may be then alledged1 and the course herein deliuered at all times indifferently to be obserued4 ,and as these are from inferiour persons directed vnto their superiours3 so will we sort out some others1 that from ,noblemen in like sort haue bene passed to their inferiours1 examples whereof are in like maner hereunto annexed4 ,an ,example ,commendatorie1 from a ,noble man to his inferiour1 wherein one is recommended to an office4 ,after my verie heartie ,commendations vnto you1 where ,i am giuen to vnderstande1 that you are in election1 and it is also verie likelie you shall bee pricked by her ,maiestie1 high ,sheriffe for this yeare1 of the ,countyes of ,sussex and ,surrey4 ,this ,gent4 the bearer hereof1 beeing one whom for manie respectes1 ,i doe greatly fauour1 and for his learning1 skill1 and honest vsage1 haue long time vsed and reputed of1 ,i haue thought good by these 7if it so happen you shall this yeare bee named thereunto7 to recommend to your good allowance to bee receyued as your vnder-sheriffe for that time1 putting vnto you such good and reasonable securitie as appertaineth1 for discharge of the sayde office4 ,and hereby also to pray you1 that the rather for my sake1 and for the especiall choice and reckoning ,i haue made of him1 you will nowe before hand make certaine acceptance of his skill1 by refusall of whatsoeuer other that may bee recommended vnto you for the exercise of the same office1 assuring you1 for that ,i haue well knowne and prooued to be in him1 you shall be so well furnished1 as you would wish4 ,and besides1 in that you shall gratifie me herein1 ,i will not faile in anie sort ,i may to requite you4 ,and euen so ,i bid you heartily farewell4 ,heerein is the honour and nobilitie of the personage greatlie to bee respected who by so much the more his estate1 countenance1 or authoritie requireth it1 by so much the lesse may it be considered1 that in the inditing of these letters hee should with ouer large entreatie bee charged1 but rather with fewer speches1 and lesse circumstances to demaunde what hee purposeth4 ,the conformitie whereof may bee gathered out of the examples ensuing1 according whereunto1 hee in whose fauour such kinde of ,letters are to bee directed1 7especiallie if the inuention beeing of his owne procurement bee brought to bee signed7 ought to take heede that the regard of his honour and calling1 in whose name the ,letter passeth bee not by too great humilitie of tearmes in any sort misprised4 ,an ,epistle commendatorie1 from a noble man1 in prefer- ment of his seruant4 ,after my verie heartie commendations vnto you4 ,this bearer hauing of long time serued mee faithfullie1 and beeing nowe desirous to trauaile4 ,i haue thought good heartilie to recommend vnto you4 ,and forasmuch as by reason of your office of ,lord ,gouernour of ,v4 it is likelie there are manie places of good preferment remayning in your gift1 vppon your followers to bee bestowed1 ,i doe most heartilie pray you1 that you will not onelie for my sake bee contented to receyue him into your seruice1 but that also in fauour thereof1 you will in anie place of preferment about you1 doe him that benefite and furtherance1 as to one whom you wish throughlie well vnto1 you woulde performe4 ,herein if my request may preuaile with you1 ,i shall not onelie bee readie to thanke you1 but in whatsoeuer cause you haue to vse mee1 bee as willing to requite you4 ,and so ,i doe bid you right heartily fare well4 ,at the ,court this day1 c4 ,an other example1 wherein is recom- mended the cause and speedie furtherance of ,iustice4 ,after my heartie ,commendations vnto your ,lordship3 where ,i haue beene informed by this bearer1 beeing a poore ,tenaunt of mine1 of a certaine cause of his depending before you in her ,maiesties ,bench1 and that after manie thwartings and euill practises of his aduersarie1 the matter is nowe driuen to an issue1 and tryall1 from the benefite whereof by corruption of some kinde of persons1 hee hath these three tearmes passed beene alreadie detayned1 to his great hinderance1 and almost vtter vndooing4 ,i haue thought good vppon his humble suite to mooue your ,l4 in his behalfe1 and to pray you that at my instaunce you will at some conuenient leysure examine the state of his matter1 and being informed thereof at large1 doe him that speedie fauour in iustice and right1 as hee may not anie longer time therein bee deferred1 but that notwithstanding anie cauill or obiection thereunto hindering1 hee may before this tearme passed in anie wise haue a tryall4 ,in accomplishment whereof1 besides that you shall greatlie satisfie mee in respect of the poore mans right1 whereunto ,i wish great regard to be giuen1 you shal also performe a deed so charitable1 as whereby you shal perpetually bind him1 his poore wife1 and children continually to pray for you4 ,and albeit ,i nothing doubt herein your great willingnes and voluntarie disposition to ,iustice1 yet that by reason of my request1 the matter wich more diligence may be harkened vnto1 ,i eftsoones pray1 and therwithall hartilie doe bid your ,l4 farewel1 this of1 c4 ,to all these examples ,commendatorie1 belongeth thre especiall sortes of ,letters ,responsorie1 in which is either flatly denied1 absolutely allowed1 or doubtfully accepted of1 what by force of those ,epistles are seuerally commended4 ,of either of these sutes ,i haue thought good to set downe some directions1 the diuersitie whereof1 at the choice of him that searcheth the same1 may according to his present humor be either reiected or followed4 ,an example responsorie1 wherein is denied what in the foremost directions may be recommended4 ,pleaseth your good ,l4 ,i receiued your fauorable ,letters1 and cmendation giuen in the behalfe of ,m4 ,l4 with whom hauing had conference at large1 ,i doe finde nothing lesse1 then what by your ,l4 was of him deliuered1 and in truth it doth not a little discontent me1 that as well in regard of your honourable and earnest demand made in his fauor1 as also that many great and vrgent respects1 ,i stand deeplie charged vnto you ,lord4 ,i cannot neuerthelesse herein perfourme what ,i woulde3 ,for that 7besides it is yet doubtfull whether ,i shall bee to the same place appointed by her ,maiestie or no7 if ,i bee chosen ,sheriffe1 ,i haue two yeares since giuen my worde and assured promise to my ,lord of ,l4 that ,i shall then accept of such a one to the exercise of the vnder ,sherifwick as shall by him to mee bee preferred4 ,according vnto which1 standing nowe in election for this yeare as ,i doe1 ,i am and euer sithence haue beene yearelie sollicited to the selfe same purpose4 ,whereof ,i thought it my duetie to aduertise your ,l4 by these1 most humblie crauing pardon of the same1 in that ,i may not as ,i woulde1 herein satisfie your vrgente and vehemente request4 ,and so with my right humble duetie vnto your ,lordshippe doe take leaue4 ,this x4 of ,nouember4 ,another ,letter responsorie1 where- in consent and allowance is giuen to the matter re- quired4 ,my humble duetie remembred vnto your good ,lord shippe4 ,the ,letters directed vnto mee from the same1 together with the ,gentleman in whose fauor they were assigned1 ,i haue entertained4 ,and so much the more welcome were they vnto mee1 by howe much the more ,i repute my selfe honoured1 in that it hath pleased your ,lordshippe anie waies to require mee4 ,touching the partie recommended1 your ,lordshippe doubteth not ,i hope1 but that of the least of yours1 ,i woulde make especiall accounte1 the effectes whereof you shall in this perceiue1 in that for the regarde ,i beare vnto your ,lordshippe ,i will both repute of1 and fauour him4 ,besides what other aduauncement or prefermente his owne desertes1 or my aide may anie waies bring vnto him1 hee shall bee sure at all times to enioy it4 ,praying your ,lordship in all other thinges as farre foorth to stande my gratious and fauourable good ,l4 as herein ,i shall not faile to accomplish what to the vttermost may bee helde meete and conueniente4 ,and thus beseeching the ,almightie to haue your ,lordshippe in his eternall protection1 ,i doe in all humblenesse take my leaue1 from ,r4 this seuenth of ,august1 c4 ,the third ,epistle responsorie1 where- in is doubtfullie allowed or accep- ted of1 what to the same was recommended4 ,my singular and especiall good ,l4 ,i haue vnderstoode by your last ,letters1 of a certaine fained and vntrue suggestion1 deliuered by one of your ,l4 tenantes1 against the proceedinges to him supposed to bee tendred out of this ,courte1 according whereunto 7albeit ,i was before time1 not altogether vnacquainted with the clamourous condition of the partie7 yet did ,i neuerthelesse1 as by your ,lordship was enioined1 examine at large the circumstances of the cause1 and for the better satisfaction of your ,lordship1 haue determined to set down vnto you the trueth of the same4 ,this ,r4 ,l4 whom your ,lordship tearmeth to bee a verie poore man1 is not 7as in simple shewe hee maketh himselfe apparantlie to bee7 but is rather such a one as from whome 7beeing narrowlie sifted7 your ,lordship might sooner drawe a hundred poundes of his money1 then halfe an inch breadth of his honestie4 ,the argument whereof in nothing so much appeareth as in this one action1 wherin against a poore man indeede1 hee hath verie iniuriously behaued him selfe1 and hauing extorted from him this bonde nowe in suite 7vppon some conclusion1 though no good consideration at all7 of the summe of one hundred pounde1 goeth about vpon a nice quillet in the condition to prosecute the forfeiture of the same1 which indeed by the direct wordes of the writing1 is in lawe forfeited4 ,for reliefe whereof his aduersarie complained in the ,chauncerie1 by reason of the prosecution of which bill1 and notice particularlie thereof giuen to my ,lorde ,chancellor1 the saide ,r4 ,l4 hauing diuers time agreede to comprimit the matter1 and yet greedie as it seemeth to obtaine the forfeiture1 stil crieth on for triall1 whilest the matter is still in debating1 for which cause the same hitherto hath onelie1 and not otherwise been delaied4 ,and for as much assithence your ,lordshippes letters receiued1 my selfe verie earnestlie haue trauelled to make some conscionable and quiet ende betweene them1 yet wil the same in no wise on his parte bee assented vnto1 by occasion whereof the extremitie of the lawe beeing verie like to proceed1 hee is the nexte tearme without further delaie to obtaine a iudgemente1 and so the poore man on the other side1 to bee vtterlie vndone3 ,i thought it not amisse in aduertising the substance hereof vnto your good ,lordshippe to praie that in credite of what here deliuered1 your ,lordship woulde bee pleased to procure the saide ,r4 ,l4 to assent to some reasonable order4 ,so doing1 what in conscience the poore man is then able to pay1 in respect of the other charges1 and purchase of his owne negligences3 ,i holde not too extreame to be out of the saide bond deducted1 because in lawe hee was something charged1 though in equitie otherwise hee ought to haue been clearelie acquited4 ,thus in discharge of my conscience herein1 hauing so much deliuered vnto your good ,lordship1 ,i doe recommend you to the protection of the ,almightie4 ,london this thirteenth of ,maie4 ,nowe after these ,epistles1 let vs enter into one strange commendatorie kinde1 somewhat different from the order of the rest1 being such as wherein the partie directing the same1 beeing somewhat scant in deliuerie of ouer large too credible speches1 thought good to mittigate the force of the same by the verie partes of extremitie it self1 wherein of a merry conceit1 or some other pleasant humor1 he appeareth verie vnwilling to flatter1 in reciting the example whereof1 because with many tedious precepts ,i haue now a good while wearied the reader1 ,i may peraduenture occasion some matter of recreation1 which by the single shewe therein gathered1 appeareth in sort following to haue bene performed4 ,a ,letter commendatorie pleasantly con- ceited in preferring an vnprofi- table seruant4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,hirmos4 ,sidenote3 ,ironia4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sir1 ,i do send vnto your view the bearer hereof 7a man shaped as you see1 as bold in condition as he appeareth in shew7 whome by all the superfluities of summer ale1 that hath wrought in his giddie brain1 ,i haue bin requested to cmend vnto you4 ,and in as much as in putting so vnworthie a worthie in substance of so incredible allowance1 it somthing behooueth ,i hide not the giftes which by great search in many a good hosterie1 tauern1 alehouse1 he hath by long trauell and drowsie experice ere this time gained1 to his insupportable credce4 ,i shall not spare in some sort to signifie vnto you1 what in regard of al these ,i am led to coniecture4 ,trueth is ,sir1 that hee is verie well studied in the mysterie of ,malt-wormes1 and for his peculiar skill in decerning the nappie taste by the nut-browne colour of ,seller-ale in a frostie morning1 hee is become a sworne brother of the rag-mans number1 and thereby standeth enioyned neuer to weare furres or other lyning in the coldest winter1 but onely the warmth of the good ,ale1 which inwardlie must hearten him3 ,besides ,sir1 if you haue occasion to credite him with a small parcell of money in dispatch of a iourney1 do but say the worde that it shall once lie in his charge1 and you may stand assured1 that it shall be laide vp so safe1 as any liquour in the worlde can safe conduct it from his bellie4 ,take no care for your kitchin1 butterie or larder1 for once a day hee loues to see all cleane before him4 ,little apparell wil serue him1 for his leueries ensue weekly1 out of the ,bruers mesh-fat4 ,his lodging hee reckes not1 the ,chimney floore1 and ,billets endes serue for a ,featherbed and ,coueringes4 ,when you haue most neede of him1 you shall alwayes bee sure to go without him3 if you delight in a ,pigs-nie1 you maie by receyuing of him1 be sure of a ,hogshead4 ,great store of small lyking you happily may haue to him1 wee knowe not what woonders the worlde may rende out1 for nothing is impossible where all thinges may bee compassed4 ,it may please you for recreations sake to looke vppon him1 so you be not in case to surfeit1 looke what ill lyking you conceiue1 report backe againe ,i pray you in the inner facing of his chimney ,casket1 ,omnia sua secum portat1 hee is somewhat a foolosopher1 for hee carries all his possessions about him1 for terram dedit filiis hominum he must needes then haue a large dwelling1 ,i pray sir1 giue him good wordes how ill-fauouredlie soeuer you fauour his acquaintance1 for my part ,i request no remuneration for the preferment ,i haue tendred towards him4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,thus much1 would ,i haue done1 and more1 long since to bee rid of him4 ,his old maister beeing dead1 it is necessarie some place to be pestred with him1 hee makes great choyse of your housekeeping1 if you can like to frame with him4 ,much more might bee deliuered in the condemnation of his woorthinesse1 but that ,i leaue to rehearse it1 and nowe sir for your owne appetite1 ,i leaue to your contentment3 ,blame not me1 but him that lead mee1 and so foorth to an ende4 ,commend me1 but not condemne me1 for ,i shall once doe you a better turne1 this is but the first1 the next may be woorse 7better7 ,i woulde say4 ,and so fare ye well1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,consolatorie4 ,chap4 #ag4 ,time is it now1 ,i should leaue this last title of epistles1 as hauing thereof spoken alreadie sufficiently1 giue my selfe to the deliuery of the next1 which are ,consolatorie1 the effects whereof are to bee bestowed on such as are grieued1 according to the weight or qualitie of the matter wherewith they are perplexed4 ,and for that the life of man is circumuented with so manie1 and so vnlooked causes of sorrowe and griefe1 as it many waies nedeth to haue the remedy of comforts to be applied vnto it1 yet the equality of al sorts of minds not such1 as in one and the selfe same degree can accept and beare it3 ,it shall therfore be meete and conuenient1 that in deuising to yelde this swet and gentle remedie to anie troubled conceit1 we doe so moderate the matter1 as that in the ,discouerie therof1 we rather strike not to a far greater impatience or extremitie of vnmeasurable sorrow then before1 vpon vntimely thrusting forward1 or ignorant pursuit of the same1 seeing that the mindes of some1 are of so high incomprehensible stoutnes1 as they shun in themselues and account it a slauerie to be ouerwhelmed with woes4 ,others againe so rife and so abundant in teares1 as the least shewe of repetition in them1 induceth matter inough of continual mourning for which cause1 we will sort these matters of comfort1 into three seuerall orders4 ,the first whereof shall be at choice1 plainelie and simply as occasion serueth to comfort or perswade1 measuring our common calamities by y rule of ,iudges1 seing vnto a wise man1 no one thing can returne cause of disquiet so much as the shrowd of filthinesse and ignominious shame1 neither can hee be hurt of anie one without himselfe4 ,these 7the more sensible they are with whome we deale1 and of greater capacitie7 the more vehemently may we enforce by all sorts of forcible argumentes or examples4 ,the second of these must by insinuation be entred into1 as supposing a person of a high statelie mind1 and in a cause not common to be censured1 the weightinesse of whose griefe suppressed by a kinde of vnconquered fortitude1 we would goe about to comfort4 ,we may not with these deale1 as in a case of ordinarie griefe with the others1 but rather by a more valuable meane1 as who would say1 it appearing to vs the inuincible valour wee see or holde to be resiant in their mindes1 shunning to bee tainted with the least touch of sweltring griefe1 wee doe offer our speeches or ,letters to entertaine time with them1 whose hearts wee knowe cannot yeelde to anie forcible sting thereof4 ,and nowe considering the great validitie of their wisedome1 and a minde in them so vnconquered by anie stormes of ,fortune1 as is apparant1 wee can but encourage them stoutlie to beare1 what others as weaklings doe lie groueling vnder4 ,in which wee shall finde greater cause to reioyce by the woorthinesse of so goodlie a minde1 then otherwise bee occasioned to grieue for their sorrowes4 ,the thirde and last likewise must in another sort bee conueyed1 as finding the passionate and perplexed conceytes of some1 yet fresh bleeding vppon the heauie wounde of their sorrowes1 wee maie not abruptlie enter with them1 into the iust occasion they haue so to be distempered1 but rather for the lenefying of their griefes 7for in sorrowe also to bee accompanied breedeth often some comfort7 seme to take vppon vs one part of their euils1 by declaration how grieuous for some especiall causes the same becommeth vnto vs1 either for vertue or some other praiseable condition in the partie1 by occasion whereof1 wee doe euen participate1 as it were1 with the griefes of them wee goe about to succour4 ,for commonlie it is giuen to vs to mislike such as dissent from our affections1 and loue them againe1 who make themselues partakers of our euilles4 ,it auaileth also verie greatlie sometimes to extenuate or lessen the cause of the griefe1 either by the incertaintie of thinges casuall1 being in some respects subiect to frailtie1 or by the hope of short continuaunce1 or by the necessitie of the action which may not bee withstoode1 or by some comfort or expectation left to mitigate the same4 ,the reputation also of wisedome1 grauitie1 the opposition of permutation of times and seasons1 the diminution of the occasion being nothing so great or vrgent as we deeme it1 the indurance of the thing to be a meane vnto ,vertue1 and finallie1 the common lot and condition of all men1 subiected vniuersallie to mishappe1 to sorrowe1 griefe1 sicknesse1 disquiet1 iniuries1 wrongs1 oppressions1 and all kinde of euils1 the generall recordation whereof1 aboue manie things that may be opposed1 swaieth commonly ouer the passions of the minde1 by a depe regarde of the vniuersalitie of the same1 as that it soonest of all beateth downe1 the weight of all kind of il sorrowes and conceiuings whatsoeuer4 ,herein the quick sentences and pithie sayings of philosophers1 may also be a great spurring1 and finallie1 all possible arguments that maie be1 wherby men are anie waies perswaded or led to forget their euils4 ,in this place it is principallie to be obserued1 that in ministring comfortable speches to the redresse of anie mishaps1 wee doe not by preferring of toies and sporting deuises1 sek to relieue them1 for that albeit in times of pleasure1 the humour of the partie might in some sort1 be therewith greatlie delighted1 yet in causes of such extremitie1 all persons for the most part1 verie hatefullie doe endure the putting forwardes thereof1 as too much impertinent to the heauinesse wherewith by sorrowfull remembrances1 their mindes are commonlie amated4 ,but if the cause be light1 then may it not be much amisse to vse some pleasaunt deliueraunce to such a one1 especiallie whose appetite standeth anie thing towards the same1 but this also in such louing1 sweete1 and gentle sort to bee done1 as that true comforts may seeme to be mingled with those conceited pleasures4 ,neither may we in anie case seeke in vaunting sort1 to thrust into their priuate view1 the present tranquilitie and happinesse wherein our selues repose1 the obiection whereof were too rusticall4 ,for that as societie in miserie it selfe1 lenedeth the force of the greatest griefes1 so the opposition of anothers pleasure and freedome1 is a corosiue or sting to the want of anie one that is sequestred from the same4 ,all these obseruations in causes ,consolatorie are greatlie to be regarded1 whose vses being to be imploied according to their seuerall suppositions4 ,i leaue to the discretion of the writer in what sort hee thinketh mete to haue their efficacies performed4 ,an example consolatorie of the first sort1 wherein a ,gentlewoman is comforted of the death of her sonne4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,good ,mistresse ,p4 ,i am sorie that my selfe must become the vnluckie ,messenger of mine owne infortunitie vnto you1 and that in the fore fronte of my letter is planted such extreame griefe as ,i cannot but extreamelie bewaile1 so often as ,i thinke of it4 ,neuerthelesse1 knowing vnder what motions wee liue1 and that aboue our reach ruleth one1 vnder whose becke the mightiest doe stoope1 and the greatest are made subiecte1 ,i must as my selfe1 so likewise perswade you1 to tolerate all such chaunces whatsoeuer1 as falling from such absolute direction1 to alter anie one iote thereof is impossible1 and to resist the same1 fruitelesse and vtterlie vnauaileable4 ,the care of my selfe 7albeit manie doe knowe howe much ,i tendred that ,i sigh for7 is not so much1 seeing by reason ,i am led to be assured of y necessitie of our decaie1 as the motherlie pitie ,i haue alwaies perswaded my selfe to bee in you1 and that ,i nowe alreadie doe feare least forgetting the directe square of our certaine liuing1 you will runne into such vntimelie sorrowes1 as with manifolde teares will hardlie bee washed1 and with innumberable sighes1 will scarcelie bee wiped awaie4 ,but what shall ,i rehearse vnto you a thinge so sudden and vnlooked for1 as ,i protest by the heauenlie maker and ruler of all thinges1 at the receipte of your last letters ,i neuer mistrusted or once looked for to haue happened8 ,your teares ,i see1 euen nowe awaite what ,i will saie1 and loe1 your imaginations doe alreadie deeme the matter ,i must vtter4 ,at least wise if ,i shoulde seeme further to dissemble the occasion of my griefe1 7and by hiding the summe of all that may breede discontentmente7 to conceale what nowe ,i am inforced to vnfolde vnto you1 the discharged messenger returned vncompleate1 woulde bewraie the effectes thereof before you4 ,it is then your son1 good ,m4,p4 whose want ,i am inforced to tolerate1 and whose presence you must now henceforth determin vtterlie to forbeare4 ,your last presage in commanding him to be seene liuing or dead1 hath now returned his liuing to be discharged1 his earthlie coarse vnlooked for1 to be couered with cinders4 ,had ,i thought it the 7as by the ,almighty ,i least mistrusted it7 had you prepared to haue receiued him1 as then before was required1 you could not more sooner haue assured mee his returning1 then ,i am able now to performe him1 at your present sending4 ,he is commaunded to another1 that before did expecte him1 hee is swallowed in the gulfe1 that from the foremost howre of his birth did hetherto awaite him4 ,nowe if you will say hee was young and might haue liued1 examples doe shewe that younger then hee haue died4 ,if you will say1 you loued him greatlie4 ,god by your patience shall accepte him the more woorthilie4 ,if you will say1 you are sorie for it in that hee was vertuous3 consider the worlde wherein hee liued1 that might haue made him more vicious4 ,finallie1 to answere euerie obiection that by you may bee affirmed1 nothing herein can more fitlie bee auerred1 then that in our life time wee see daylie before our eies to happen4 ,knowe yee not1 that all thinges doe by little and a little growe into ripenesse1 and foorthwith by degrees fall into rottennesse8 ,hath not ,god vnto euerie thing after their greatest perfection1 included such certaine limites1 that by and by they seeme to bee appropriate to their latest confusion8 ,is there anie thinge on earth so assured1 that by vnstaied incertaintie is not continuallie guided8 ,among all fruites and blossomes on the ground1 are there not some that are sooner then others1 euen on their tenderest braunches1 as it were alreadie ripened1 and others againe that by long lying are made rotten and mellowed8 ,al flowers spring not at one instant1 nor all blossoms with one sole blast are scattered4 ,to man is appointed his certaine boundes1 vnto which to bee attained1 and beyonde the which not to passe1 is alreadie limited4 ,your sonne as timelie fruite1 so timelie ripened1 and as fitte for his season was as timelie gathered4 ,it was necessarie by nature hee shoulde bee perfected1 and the perfection attained1 by nature also he was consequentlie to bee depriued4 ,onelie that his sickenesse was naturall1 and that in the continuance thereof hee wanted no attendaunce1 the credite of others as well as my selfe can testifie4 ,if ,physicke coulde haue saued him1 if ,syrrops1 hot potions1 or other necessaries woulde haue cured him1 if teares and praiers might haue kepte him1 you had yet in safetie receiued him4 ,hee is deade1 hee is gone1 wee must after him4 ,of his first sicknesse hee was whole1 and perfectlie recouered1 afterwardes from the ,iaundise1 though somewhat weakned1 yet lastlie deliuered4 ,but the inwarde moath that consumed him1 would not suffer him to liue1 which with extreame gripes assailed him1 that beeing not able anie longer to continue1 at the pleasure of ,god hee died4 ,it is your parte therefore to bee nowe recomforted1 and therein in with patience to referre your selfe to ,gods determinate pleasure and iudgement1 to which intent ,i haue taken in hand this mid nights labour1 after the receipte of your letters1 which were to bee returned the nexte morning earlie1 by reason whereof ,i can no waie satisfie what you write for1 neuerthelesse resting hereafter to my vttermost power to pleasure you1 and recommending my selfe also to your woonted curtesie1 ,i ende this fourteenth of ,ianuarie1 your carefull friend1 c4 ,an ,epistle consolatorie of the same1 wherein one is comforted in case of harde extremitie4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,concessi4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,seeing the instabilitie of worldely chaunces is such1 as permitteth no one thinge liuing to remaine stedfast1 or in assured staie or certaine condition at all times to endure and continue3 no maruaile then 7good ,sir7 if your selfe beeing a mortall man1 framed of the same earthlie substance and qualitie1 incident to terrene frailtie1 and natures imbecilitie1 doe as other creatures alike participate the suddaine euils1 and daielie alterations thereunto annexed3 a proofe whereof resteth chiefelie in your present state and beeing1 then which no one thing may induce a more serious aduertisemente1 of the vile accompte and wretched contempte appropriat vnto your liuing4 ,and albeit diuers are the calamities wherwith not onelie your selfe1 but sundrie others your louing friendes carefull of your presente mishape1 and grieued to see the vncouth and bitter chaunge whereinto you are hapned1 are continuallie afflicted1 in so much as there is not the stoniest and flintiest minde of all that euer haue knowne you 7your desperate vowed enemies onelie excepted7 but doe in some sorte or other1 bewaile1 and as it were grieue to see the vnacquainted yoke thereof1 with such extremitie to be cast vpon you3 ,i cannot yet but greatlie commende the inuincible fortitude of your high and noble minde1 who by howe much the more1 the vehemencie of these sorrowes are to you vnknowne1 and therefore the more vnused1 doe not withstanding by so much the lesse permitte1 the mightie power of them to rule or beare swaie ouer you1 neglecting or 7which is greater7 despising the sharp pricking sting thereof1 who by the deepe pearcing force of the same1 is woonted to gall the remembraunce of manie others1 and 7as it were by a forcelesse contempte of such validities7 not onelie not giue anie token or signe at all in their vttermost practises1 but seeme rather to triumphe ouer the strength that thereby they had wrought1 and by an aduised1 sage and woonderfull modestie and discretion1 plainelie to extinguish and put from you the furie of the same4 ,manifoldlie ,i must confesse1 haue you hereby deserued and much more euill1 by the wise and moderate entertainmente of these troubles1 hath to your aduersaries beene tendred1 who in nothing so much do rest vnsatisfied1 as that in subduing your bodie1 they cannot also yoke and bring vnder by whatsoeuer extremitie the courage1 and statelie progression of your high and vnconquered minde4 ,wherein there is lefte in my opinion great cause of comforte euen in the verie greatest of your miserie vnto you1 that in constant indurance thereof1 you haue power to punish them1 that woulde disturbe you1 and that in the perplexed imaginations of their owne wicked and malicious enuie4 ,neither maie this that you sustaine bee rightlie tearmed miserie1 or such a one as your selfe seeme to bee accompted miserable1 whose minde in the verie captiuitie inflicted vppon this your bodie is thus freede1 and accompanied with so ample and sweetened libertie3 ,for these kinde of troubles as they are worldlie1 so haue they power also vpon the worldlie partes of a man1 and therein are cohibitions of such earthlie delighte1 as fauouring more vnto the satisfaction of a sensuall appetite1 then conducing to the excellencie of the inwarde minde1 doe breede that ordinarie restrainte wherewith men mortallie conceited1 are for the most parte troubled4 ,but to the sweete imaginations of a pure and innocent minde1 what is left wherewith to bee discontented1 but onelie to haue committed anie thing vile1 wretched1 or otherwise ill beseeming the vertue and excellencie wherewith the inwarde partes thereof are throughlie indued4 ,how manie waies then are lefte vnto you to reioyce1 vnto whose eies the continuall thirst of vertue it selfe hath long since laide open the momentarie pleasures of this worlde1 the libertie whereof is vnto a woorthie conceite a meere seruage1 in whose fickle and transitorie affections reposeth so slender assurance1 and whose effecacies contemplate no other then vaine and foolish obiectes3 seeing that you haue thereby so well perceiued howe much the instinct of a braue and delicate minde climbeth far aboue the reach of the body1 with a pleasant and vncontroulled libertie4 ,these things impugning ,i must needes say a corporall appetite7 permit you not1 for such losse of riches1 possessions1 children or friendes to become passionate1 or ouercome with extreame greefe1 albeit participating as we doe with such naturall causes1 ,i doubt not but therewith you are sometimes touched1 though at no time conuinced4 ,for which cause as often as you happen to fall into the remembraunce of the same1 suppose with your selfe that in time1 the bitter sting may yet bee repulsed1 and that the lotte that is fallen vnto you heerein1 is no other but the common reward and hatefull disquiet of the worlde1 wherein the most noble and worthie minds are commonlie the most vehementlie assaulted1 and with deepest extremitie by such kinde of meanes pursued4 ,the recordation whereof1 may returne vnto you one principall and great occasion of comfort1 in that by distinction of your woorthinesse1 though you bee partaker of common trouble1 yet are you sequestred from the entertainment of a common opinion4 ,it dooth not a little reioyce mee to see that with such impregnable stoutnesse you doe so farre foorth endeuour to resist your appetites1 wherein 7besides the expectation of that which is incident also to these alterations1 a chaunge1 ,i meane1 and reuocation of woonted pleasures7 you shall in the meane time giue greater glorie to your actions1 in not appearing for anie worldlie estate1 riches1 or contentment to bee surprized in your imaginations4 ,praying the comfort of all comfortes to bestowe vppon you the deawe of his heauenlie grace in assistaunce of your extremities1 ,i take my leaue1 this of1 c4 ,a consolatorie ,epistle of the third sort1 wherein a ,gentlewoman is comforted of the death of her husband slaine in the warres4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,paramologia4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,climax4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,dialisis4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,etiologia4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,albeit my selfe 7hauing receyued the sorrowfull newes of the vntimelie death of my dearest kinsman1 and your deceased louing husband7 was in the first hearing thereof so greatlie troubled1 as by reason of the griefe then presentlie conceyued for the same1 my selfe happilie might seeme to neede that comfort1 which nowe ,i goe about to bestowe vpon others3 ,yet weighing in my minde the state wherein you stande1 and beeing also informed with what great extremitie you haue entertayned the newes of his losse1 ,i cannot but in respect of the great loue ,i ought to him1 and remembraunce of the like care1 wherewith hee principallie entertayned you1 enforce my penne hereby to yeelde vnto you those comfortable speeches1 by the veritie whereof my selfe in so great a storme of griefe1 coulde hitherto as yet bee verie hardlie satisfied4 ,it was deliuered vnto me by my brother ,f4 ,b4 that beeing nowe a ,moneth or somewhat more passed1 since by ,letters out of ,h4 the maner of your husbandes death was vnto you reported1 you immediatelie vppon the reading of the ,letters grewe into so great aboundance of teares1 and to so woonderfull impatience1 as hauing euer sithence continued the same1 you will in no sort thereof bee recomforted4 ,assuredlie my good ,coosen1 ,i must needes conclude with your owne speeches1 and the waight of your interchaungeable likinges1 that there is great cause left vnto you to become sorrowfull1 as hauing lost the chiefe and principall iewell of all your worldlie loue and liking1 the fauoured ,companion of all your pleasant and youthfull yeares1 the entire comfort and solace of your present happinesse1 and such a one1 who aboue all worldes1 or anie earthlie estimation at all1 accounted1 honoured1 and entyrelie receyued and loued you3 but that you haue so great and vrgent cause of extremitie to continue with so hard impacience as you doe1 it befitteth not1 it is vnnecessarie1 yea it is in my iudgement of all others the most insufferable4 ,for when it is not denied vnto you1 that you haue cause to mourne1 that it is fittest vnto the matter of your loue1 to weepe ouer him1 and bewaile him1 it is then thereby intended that there must be a meane therein1 that the force thereof must be limited1 that the appearance beare shew of discretion4 ,doe we not all know ,i pray you1 and are witnesses that he was a mortall man1 that as our selues he was borne1 vnder the selfe same condition1 that hee must once die1 that hee had his time set1 beyond which hee might not passe1 and that ,god who gaue him life thus long to liue with you1 hath nowe called him againe from this earth to leaue you8 ,are we ignorant that ,nature compelleth the wife for her husbande1 the husbande for his wife1 parents for their children1 and kindred for their kinsfolke1 to weepe and lament8 ,but followeth it not also therewith that the losse and want of them beeing layde downe by an immooueable necessitie3 wee can by no meanes afterwardes bee in hope to reclaime them8 ,what great follie doe wee then commit in thus searching after the ghostes of our deceased friendes8 ,or what other thing doe wee therein performe1 but yeeld a plaine demonstration1 that our teares are to none other ende1 but to bewaile them1 because they were mortall8 whome death could neuer haue shunned without they had beene immortall4 ,are wee not eftsoones put in minde by the common casualtie of all thinges1 that there is nothing stable1 that continuallie ,kingdomes decay1 ,prouinces are shaken1 ,countryes destroyed1 ,cityes burned1 townes wasted1 people consumed1 and that it remayneth a thing ordinarie with vs1 daylie to bee conuersant in these euilles1 the losse of all1 or eyther of which1 7if they may bee accounted euilles7 why then doe we giue our selues by vnmeasurable griefe1 to a perpetuall continuance and renouation of those euils4 ,but you will heereunto alledge1 that it is loue that enforceth you vnto the same1 and that such is the continuall remembraunce you haue1 as you cannot forget him4 ,alas1 howe fruitlesse is this loue1 and zealous remembrance in the deliuerance thereof8 ,howe farre sequestred is the vehemencie of the same1 from the searched recompence8 ,why learne wee not rather of the wisest and woorthiest1 how to mitigate the impacience of our owne imperfections8 ,in whose precepts1 examples1 and counsels1 if the immoderate vse or entertainment of anything bee forbidden1 shall wee not then in this1 aboue all others be chieflie reprehended1 when wee enforce our selues by continuall ,meditation of our losses to shedde so manie teares to no purpose8 ,what if your ,husbande had not nowe dyed at this instant1 hee must1 you know1 haue dyed2 hee could not alwayes haue liued4 ,yea1 but hee died you say1 vntimelie1 what call you vntimelie ,i pray you8 ,if in respect of the force preuayling vppon him1 whereby he was slaine1 you name it vntimelie3 then doe ,i graunt vnto it3 ,but if in regarde of the time of his life you affirme it1 ,i denie that the same may then bee sayd vntimelie4 ,for why8 hath not the eternall ,creatour of all thinges ordered by his diuine wisedome each matter to passe his course in sort to himselfe best beseeming and most pleasing8 howe can you then say that to bee vntimelie1 which by his heauenlie moderation was so appoynted8 ,assure your selfe if hee had then beene at home with you1 hee had also died1 you could not haue preuented it1 his houre was come1 so was it determined1 which way could he shun it4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3,brachiologia4 ,sidenote3 ,asindeton4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,what then grieueth you in this action8 ,is it that hee was slaine8 ,consider with your selfe it was in his princes seruice1 his death was thereby the more honourable1 for in so doing1 he died as a man1 as a souldiour1 as a ,gentleman4 ,yea1 but you shall neuer1 you say1 see him more8 ,true in deed1 but what of that8 ,is this death now greater then his absence before8 ,yes forsooth it is indeede1 and whie8 because you had hope then to see him againe1 which by this means is taken away8 verie well4 ,you did then while he was liuing recomfort your selfe with hope1 content your selfe nowe with necessitie1 because it must needes be so1 and you can no wayes amend it4 ,is not this an ende sufficient to determine all sorrowes8 ,if you weepe1 lament1 crie out1 and become grieued1 requisite were it the same should returne to some ende1 that all your care1 sorrow1 griefe1 lamentation1 or what els should not appeare fruitles1 that the intendment and determination thereof shoulde be to some speciall purpose4 ,see you then1 herein is no supply1 the effects are bereft1 the end taken away4 ,be not then so fond1 as to bedew that with your teares1 wherunto belongeth neither redresse1 nor mean of recouerie4 ,who is he that would be so mad1 as to crie out vnto him of whom he might be assured neuer to obtaine remedie8 by cunning art beasts we see1 though they be most fierce1 are tamed1 a meane is found wherewith to breake the ,marble1 the ,adamant howe hard soeuer it be1 may by deuises be mollified3 ,onely death is of such force as no wayes can be conuinced4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,at the least wise1 if neither of these argumentes might mooue you to suppresse your exceeding sorrowes1 you must finally consider that wee are ,christians1 and by the benefite of this corporall death1 doe make exchaunge for an vncorrupted life1 that the withdrawing vs from this vile earthly bodie of ,clay and filth1 is a commutation to a sacred and heauenlie progression1 and that wee haue nothing left vnto vs1 in all the trauelles1 cares1 disquiets1 and heauie turmoyles of this wearisome liuing whereof to reioyce vs1 but the expectation wee haue of happines and euer flourishing gladnesse4 ,suppose the ,ghost of your husbande were heere present to see you in all this extremitie1 what thinke you woulde hee say8 ,howe much disordered imagine you woulde hee thinke you to bee in your affections8 ,sidenote3 ,prosopopia4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,and were it not that so manie coastes had seuered him both by lande and seas peraduenture wearied with your bitter out cries in the conceited image and shape of death1 you might in apparance heare him1 in these like speaches accusing and rebuking such your distemperate actions4 ,and with breathing spirit to crie out vnto you saying1 ,what is it you goe about8 what meane you by teares to search out for a thing so irrecuperable4 ,whie torment you your youthful yeares1 with such vnprofitable1 or rather as ,i may call it1 desperate kinde of mournings8 whie with such vniust complaints accuse you ,fortune1 so often doe appeale death1 and destinie of so hainous trespasse8 ,is it for that you enuie my happie state1 so soone transported from this vntowarde soile1 to a more prosperous felicitie8 thus credit mee1 and in this sorte 7were it possible he coulde speake to you7 woulde hee accuse you1 in which consideration1 were there not iust cause thinke you 7of such intemperance7 whie you shoulde be greatlie ashamed8 ,beleeue mee good ,cosin1 there is neither profite or liking at all1 of this bitter continuance reaped1 you haue alreadie waded sufficientlie in your teares1 you haue mourned for him in earnest loue as beseemed a wife1 it is nowe high time you bee after all this comforted4 ,thinke that the greatest storme is by time at length ouerblowne1 superfluitie of coales encreaseth rather heate then flame1 the ardencie of affection1 with vehemencie sufficient may be expressed1 though not by extremitie enforced4 ,what shuld ,i say vnto you8 ,you may not as other foolish creatures1 that are neither gouerned by wit1 nor ordered by discretion1 make your selfe a spectacle to the world1 but rather with such temperance 7for euen in this extremitie of sorrow1 is also planted a rare patern of modestie7 seek in such maner to demean your selfe1 as the lookers on may rather pittie you1 by insight of your greate discretion1 then in this sorte to tormente your selfe by a needlesse supposition4 ,much more haue ,i considered with my self1 whereby to satisfie my greeued imaginations1 in which beeing recomforted1 and reposed in my secrete thoughtes1 ,i haue deemed it necessarie hereby to imparte the same vnto you1 beseeching that as well in regarde of your selfe1 as the little pleasure your friendes haue to behoulde you in this straunge kinde of perplexitie1 you will enioy the fruites thereof with such sufficient contentment and satisfaction as verie heartilie ,i doe wish vnto you4 ,and euen so tendring my selfe in all thinges to your curteous and gentle vsage1 ,i doe heartily bid you farewell1 ,s4 this of c4 ,touching these ,consolatorie ,epistles4 ,it is to bee intended that ouer and besides the examples formerly deliuered1 their vse is also in causes of banishment1 losse of parentes1 goods1 or friends1 in times of imprisonment1 slander1 persecution1 sicknesse1 in miserable olde age1 or plagued by disobedience1 in ill successe of mariages1 in pouertie1 and finally in whatsoeuer griefe of minde1 trouble1 or aduersitie4 ,in each of all which is as ,i said before1 vsed a great efficacie of perswasion for the mittigation of the same1 by laying the troubles and vncertain state of the world1 with innumerable euils annexed to the turning whele thereof1 the communitie of the mischiefe to all1 who though not with the selfe same1 yet in some sorte or other are alike disquieted1 that the best way to expell the griefe thereof1 is by meditation of our estates1 the condition wherein we liue1 the ineuitable force of that which is befallen vs1 which because wee are worldlinges must nedes in like sorte betide vs1 howe neare thereby wee may bee drawne in contempte of earthlie vanities1 the inticing baites1 whereof are enuenomed with so manie and sharpe poysons1 that troubles are sent vnto vs from ,god1 to call vs thereby home vnto him1 that they are the scourges of our disobedience1 that by such meanes wee are discerned to bee his children1 that by pacient sufferance1 and entertainment of our harmes1 we do nearest approch vnto him1 who beeing in humane shape on earth1 conuersing with men1 was persecuted1 slaundered1 tooke vpon him the most despised estate of pouertie1 and by cruell death was constrained1 that they who are cloyed with most aboundance1 haue therefore the greater charge laide vppon their neckes1 and that no one then they are nearest to destruction1 the height of whose estate1 oftentimes occasioneth their vntimely deaths3 finally1 that it were bootlesse to striue against their forces1 in that we thereby seem ignorant of ,gods pleasure and ordinance1 who working all things vnto the best1 knoweth perchaunce the punishment to be most fittest for vs1 wherewith if we were not entangled1 we might happilie forgette him1 and become carelesse regarders of his high and mightie excellency4 ,so and in such maner may we wade in these actions1 whereof hauing now deliuered sufficient1 wee will adde hereunto one example more1 and therewith of this title conclude4 ,an ,example consolatorie1 pleasantly written to one1 who had buried his olde wife4 ,the posting newes hitherwarde of the late decease of my good old mistris your wife1 hath made me in the verie going away of mine ague fit1 to strain my selfe to greet you by these letters4 ,in the inditing wherof1 ,i manie time praied in my thoughts1 that ,i were as readilie deliuered of this my tertian feuer1 as your selfe are in mine opinion deliuered by such meanes of a hateful and verie foule encombrance4 ,i doubt not sir1 but you doe nowe take the matter heauilie1 being thereby dispossessed as you are of such an intollerable delight1 as wherewith you were continually cloied by the nightlie embracements of so vnweldie a carcase4 ,i haue1 ,i must confesse1 verie seldome known you for anie thing to mourne1 neuerthelesse1 if by such meanes you be happily constrained to change countenance1 ,i haue prepared a golden boxe wherein ,i meane to consecrate all the teares you shed for that accident1 to ,berecynthia the beldame of the ,gods1 as a relique of your great kindship and curtesie4 ,beleeue mee ,t4 ,i am sorie that mine ague had not lefte mee1 and that ,i were not nowe in ,l4 with thee1 were it but to viewe thy lookes and manlike behauiour1 after so harde a bickering and incounter wherein thou was berefte a hearte of golde so daintie1 as ,i promise thee to some graue sober fellowe1 might haue become pretie conceited1 and a verie sweete pigges nie4 ,well ,t4 thou must needes loose her1 ferendum est quod mutari non possit1 bee not sadde ,i pray thee1 wee will finde out a better match wherewith to delghite thee4 ,thou must consider that it is requisite that all thinges shoulde bee done with indifferencie1 shee hath lefte a thousande pounde in goodes1 and a ,c4 markes by yeare vnto thee1 let that content thee3 what though she was not maried a moneth to thee1 thou must be a pacient man1 her long continuance with so much wealth might peraduenture haue glutted thee4 ,the gods haue become more fauourable to thy young yeares1 then thy selfe doest consider of4 ,shee might ,i knowe haue liued longer time for age1 7for foure skore yeares olde ,i graunt is nothing7 the woman also in verie good plight too1 by ,saint ,margerie3 but what of that1 wee must1 as ,i saide before1 beare with necessitie4 ,i praie ,god thou beest not ouercome with sorrowe1 but thou maist take it quietlie4 ,there bee men in the worlde that are so carelesse of their fortune1 and so verie fooles in their wishing1 as they coulde content themselues greatlie to bee in the like predicamente with thee3 but thou ,i assure my selfe art of a cleane contrarie opinion1 sweare no more good ,t4 ,i am perswaded alone that it vtterly discontenteth thee4 ,but hearest thou1 plaie not the madde man for all that1 ,i will rather comfort thee my self1 then that thou shouldest die for sorrow4 ,one thing greatlie misliketh mee1 ,i heard saie thou tookest an othe vpon her death bed neuer to marie againe8 ,see howe loue may leade m8 ,good ,god it is strange8 ,i promise thee ,i could hardly be perswaded thou didst so1 without ,i shuld hear thee swear it4 ,be not so sottish good boy1 rember thy self1 and think on the ,philosophers words3 non nobis solum nati sumus4 ,thou maist haue a wife man1 and become the father of ninetie nine children perchaunce ere thou die4 ,forsweare thou nothing good ,t4 but building of monasteries and entring into religion1 for these my selfe dare vndertake thou neuer wilt nor meantest to doe1 ,i woulde faine talke longer with thee1 but ,i am wearie1 and therefore intende to leaue the expectation of the rest1 till ,i fortune to see thee4 ,fare 7as otherwise thou canst not chuse7 well1 hauing neither olde wife nor feuer1 wherewith to encomber thee4 ,at ,s4 this of c4 ,what answere may be returned to all or any of these ,letters1 is to be expected according to the griefe or presente condition of the partie4 ,the efficacie of the one whereof may bee such1 as endureth small arguing1 and the inclination of the other so plausible1 as beareth with whatsoeuer may sounde vnto them comforting4 ,but for because the labour were endlesse to measure by writing1 the affections of each one in particular1 ,i will onely set downe for this one fourme1 the generalitie wherof may be inferred to the circumstances of any other4 ,a ,letter ,responsorie therefore vnto anie of these ,epistles1 should in the generall parts thereof containe 7as semeth me7 a ,remuneration or friendlie acceptance of their good wils1 that so haue bene imploied in comforting1 and 7if the partie so thinke meete1 or the occasion so standeth7 to commend the wisedome1 learning1 fauour1 care or liking of him that so writeth1 and therein also the good effects1 the same haue wrought1 if some things 7that may bee alledged7 did not impugn it1 shewing his counsel is far lesse vehement then our euill1 and therfore swayeth not in respect therof1 in our minds1 so much as might haue done with many others4 ,in conclusion1 that we acknowledge neuerthelesse his great discretion therin1 that deserued account of his trauell4 ,each of which places1 howe they are to be distributed appeareth in the example following4 ,a ,letter ,responsorie to be conferred to an ,epistle ,consolatorie4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,good brother1 ,i haue receyued your kinde ,letters1 wherein carefullie1 discreetlie1 and effectuallie1 you haue endeuoured to minister sundrie comforts to my diseased minde1 in all which ,i confesse you haue dealt with mee as appertayneth vnto a faithfull1 courteous1 and louing brother1 whereunto as much as possiblie may be expected1 ,i yeelde my selfe vnto you for the same most bounden and assured4 ,neither will ,i wrong you so much as to denie that in perusing the contents thereof1 ,i was not sometimes by the force of your arguments a little withdrawne from the deepe consideration and hard suppose of my present euils1 but entring againe into mine owne estate1 and finding howe mightily the shewe of my forward mishaps swayeth ouer my maistred spirites1 ,i doe imagine the greatnesse of my losse to bee so much1 as in comparison whereof1 whatsoeuer you haue deliuered eyther in the mitigation1 or qualifying of my harmes1 seemeth farre lesse in quantitie1 then the smallest that may be conceyued of all mine euils4 ,follie were it for mee to thinke1 or you to beleeue1 that the pensiue imagination of a thing so neere1 as wherupon concerned erst1 the sum of all my ioyes1 pleasures and happinesse1 could with the vehemencie of a fewe speeches 7more of zeale then equitie deliuered7 bee suddenlie remooued4 ,but 7as hath the adage7 ,omnes quum valemus recta consilia agrotis damus4 ,for cosell is plentifull in euery one whose conceits by freedom are exempted from any passion at all4 ,take it not so good brother1 that ,i thinke you not for mee1 as well as my selfe1 to bee a partaker of my griefe1 for ,i knowe it well you are1 but yet the one proceedeth of charinesse1 the other of extremitie1 you in pitie of my sorrowes1 and ,i in the very touch of mine euils4 ,what time may doe ,i cannot tell1 to weare away what presently ,i feele to be forcible vpon me1 yet feare ,i the woorst1 but will giue my selfe notwithstanding as much as in me lyeth1 to the practise of your counsels4 ,how euer the case standeth1 ,i must acknowledge1 that very waightily you haue dealt concerning me1 and for the same will neuer cease to thanke you4 ,fare ye well1 this of1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,monitorie and ,reprehensorie4 ,chap4 #ah4 ,in this place wee will conclude our ,epistles ,consolatorie1 and passe out of the same title to the next therof1 which are ,monitorie1 and ,reprehensorie4 ,the one part thereof beeing ,monitorie1 consisteth in forwarning to the vnexperienced such matters as hee knoweth not1 in sort as if therewith hee should be throughly acquainted3 the other1 in skilful explaining the offence of a thing faulty1 which standeth vpon to be reformed4 ,and insomuch as there be few men that gladlie like to be supposed ouer much faultie1 or loue much to be rebuked for the greatnes of their errors1 the order therfore of these monitory1 in setting forth what may be counted offensiue1 shall not accuse but admonish from the greatnes or smalnesse of the same1 qualifying the bitternesse of reprehension with a certaine maner of praise1 how euer desert doe affoord to the furtherance thereof4 ,for in a gentle condition or minde1 not altogether bent vnto euill1 to suppose that the greatest part is the better inclined1 and it also in some good measure to commende1 breedeth no small incouragment to do well1 hee to whom the admonition passeth1 hauing mean therby to think that his behauiour is not so far ouergrowne1 but that presumption of his ,vertues do yet sway in mens opinions1 or at the leastwise imagining that men are ignorant altogither of that1 whereof they seeme to take no notice at all1 he will study the rather to hearken to such wholesome directions1 and accordingly to reforme his maners thereunto betimes4 ,and verilie 7as you haue before in the examples ,dissuasorie7 so in this also it would not be amisse where we see an offence but new beginning1 to induce many good conditions of the partie to be opposed against the same1 and to lay before him1 how ill sounding it would be to the due commendation of the other1 to bee touched therewith4 ,or otherwise where wee see an inclination 7though no matter in acion7 to euill1 to say1 that not for that we see him spotted with such offences1 we do warne him from their forces1 but to the intent he may thereby the better be instructed1 in the vilenesse and discommended partes of the same1 or that because wee are for the most part led away and easily sliding into euill1 wee set before his eies therein1 the hazard and inconuenience of such euill4 ,now if the matter be so far forward1 as we find it a plain and open imperfection in him to whom we write1 let vs then consider y weight or inualiditie of the action1 which beeing too monstrous or notorious1 it then needeth not admonition1 but sharpe reprehension1 and is thereby secluded from the partes hereof1 but not being intolerable in his age or estate1 in whom the same is found1 then shall we not aggrauate1 but extenuate the apparance therof1 shewing that it is a thing common for men to fall1 chieflie young men1 who by the furious sting of their youth1 and want they haue of aged experience1 are hastilie led thereunto3 but yet therewithall how manie wayes necessarie it is1 that he be withdrawne from the same1 least happily the long intertainment giuen to a fault1 make it seeme a great offence1 and consequentlie hee be thereby led into far more dangerous euils4 ,hereupon may we manifest vnto him our loue and tender care wee haue ouer him1 compelling vs for such cause to forwarne him1 declaring that our selues falling into the like errours1 would be glad at his hand to find the like1 if the skill and experience of the partie might so much performe4 ,another kinde of admonishment or reprehension there is also1 when men deale with those who are highlie before them in account1 vnto whome either imminent daunger or occasion of great hate or mislike pursuing the same1 forbiddeth in expresse manner to vse anie tearmes1 insomuch as their estate 7beeing peraduenture loftie1 and of power to commaund or sway ouer vs7 will not admit by writing to intermeddle with their actions1 and yet happilie by reason of some hard dealings offered vnto vs1 or our friendes1 might seme much to preuaile in one sort or other to giue them notice of it1 whereby to auoide 7if it be possible7 the expected vehemencie and intolerable support of the same4 ,with such men to deale1 behooueth1 if at least wise we be compelled therunto1 to make a recitall of many vertues1 such as might be commendable beautifying vnto so great estate and authoritie1 and therwithall set forth the worthines to the vttermost of that we wish to be in him planted3 and fainedly also wee may suppose those ,vertues to be insinuate in his person1 and howe much they are furthering to his name and reputation1 by occasion of which1 we may in the contrary haue meane to lay open all those vices1 the insupportable burthen1 vileness1 execrable hatefulnes1 or what bad purpose soeuer is in them concluded1 and shew how much they impugne the state1 rule1 or authoritie of any one1 what blemish they cast vpon him in whom they are frequented1 howe they destroie the good partes for which men mightie and gracious haue desired to be commended1 the conceit whereof1 may be with such facilitie and excellencie caried1 as that he to whom we write1 shall with some insight thereinto1 receiue a speciall view of his owne faultinesse1 yea and by the couertnes of the same1 maie also participate within his owne imaginations1 the particular loue hate generallie attributed to either of both1 wherein what other thing shall we goe about1 but in silence to admonish or reprehend what in each of those ought to be bee refused or followed1 which manner of writing performed to suche ende and example1 without shame and blushing at all1 each one may lawfullie vse1 otherwise palpably to affirme1 those vertues and praises to be in a man in whose actions 7becomming most notorious in al kind of apparance7 no one thing is to be found so plentiful as very wickednes it selfe1 this were a flatterie most detestable1 and of all others most filthie1 to be in anie writer receiued3 yet such kinde of admonishment or reprehension as is before recited1 is pretily alledged to haue bene vsed by a certaine poore man1 who neghbouring nere vnto one worshipfull of great account in calling1 but therewith more practising with vehemencie1 then honestlie vsing his knowledge of the lawes1 had sustained a mishap by an ,oxe of the ,gentlemans1 who being a fierce beast1 had goared a ,cowe of the poore mans4 ,the poore man hauing receiued wrong1 and doubting howe to haue recompence1 by reason that the ,gentleman was of as noted authority as knowne hardnes1 and to whome expresly he durst not complain of the iniurie1 deuised yet this subtiltie wherewith to entrap him4 ,hee commeth to this great mans house1 and being brought to his presence3 ,sir 7said he7 ,i am come to deliuer vnto your ,wor4 who are a ,iusticer in place1 for righting of wrongs done and committed1 a matter very conscionable to be respected1 for which in my opinion there ought to be made a recompence4 ,an ,oxe of mine being a naughtie beast1 through the default of mine own fence hath goared a ,cow of your ,worships1 which is nowe lost and dead by the mishape thereof4 ,saist thou so1 saide this greate man1 by my faith thou must then pay for her4 ,and good reason too1 said the poore neighbour1 for it was a wilfull offence1 but and if it please your ,worsh4 ,i mistook mine arrande1 for in trueth1 it is your ,oxe that by defaulte of your owne fence hath entred my ground1 goared my ,cow4 ,oh then 7quoth the other7 the case is altered1 wee will talke thereof at some more leisure hereafter4 ,nowe howbe it the poore man happely departed without recompence1 yet at the least by this prety deuise he made the ,gentleman to vnderstand his fault1 so far as hee best might1 did both admonish and reprehende his owne harde and iniurious dealing by so witty a conclusion3 for had hee not thus gone about the bush1 it is like he had not onely bene frustrate of recompence1 but also voide of any sentence at all of wrong1 which by this handling the matter1 was by the ,gentlemans selfe clearely on his part adiudged4 ,infinite sortes of these1 as well in the wise sayings of ,philosophers1 as in other written histories are extant1 which for breuitie ,i omit and leaue to the desirous thereof1 for their better satisfaction1 and hence will proceede to the examples of these two seuerall sorts of ,epistles4 ,an example ,monitorie concerning a stayed and well gouer- ned life4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,the execrable force of mischieuous euill1 is such1 and the maleuolente disposition of the heauens to some people so greate1 as that hauing once throughlie planted the fatall sting thereof in the mindes of manie1 it seemeth they bee created to none other ende1 but onelie by daring to perpetrate whatsoeuer matter of villainie cometh in their mindes1 to purchase to themselues with the determination of a shamelesse life1 the limited rewarde of a shamelesse and ignominious death3 ,this inchaunted course1 perceiuing in these dangerous times howe much it hath bewitched the estate of the whole worlde1 and considering with my selfe1 that by reason of your fathers late decease1 you beeing a greene youth1 voide of experience1 bente to the triall of all companies1 richlie possessed1 and wealthilie endued1 are nowe lefte into your owne handes1 and thereby deliuered from the plausible and quiet moderation of a faithfull and louing guide1 vnto the endlesse reach of a youthfull1 carelesse and vncontrouled libertie1 hath mooued mee in respecte of the care that euer ,i erst had of you1 beeing yet but a childe1 and in assured testimonie of the memorie ,i haue otherwise protested to the ghost of your deceased louing parentes1 to admonish you of some few thinges1 for the order and conuersation of your liuing1 beeing a course so important1 as that in the admittance and exercise thereof1 cannot but consist the scope and after fruition of all your happinesse1 and benefit whatsoeuer4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,and first of all1 will ,i call vnto your remembraunce1 that beeing the sonne of so vertuous a father as you are1 howe greatlie it importeth vnto your estate to bee well gouerned1 that as well the precedent vertues1 as auncient possessions of your antecessour1 may in your person bee resiant1 that of your deceased parent 7as well as in corporall shape and fauour7 you beare 7in minde7 the verie true image and portraiture1 that you stand not more in your actions vppon the glorious name or title of a ,gentleman1 then of the verie true and woorthie conditions and behauiours1 that rightlie doe produce and make a ,gentleman4 ,and albeit ,i finde no greate apparante cause 7your youthfull heade and vnstayed state of headestrong libertie onelie excepted7 that may induce anie argument or supposall to the contrarie1 but that you are of such and so worthie regarde1 as that in your life and conuersation1 you deeplie ynough do conceiue of all or anie part of these instructions or admonishmentes1 which ,i nowe goe about to offer and preferre vnto you2 yet knowing howe manie1 and howe sundrie are the euils wherewith our mortall state is endangered1 howe diuers are the motions to wickednes1 and how manie waies we are readie to fall into the crooked paths of the same4 ,i coulde not but warne you that comming euen nowe into the middest of the worlde as you do you shall finde sundrie baites and allurementes drawing you into the worst and most vilest parts thereof1 that vnles you were directlie gouerned with the righte rule and square of an honest and sober life1 twentie to one you would not onelie fall verie deeplie into the inconueniences thereof1 but 7without great and vnexpected matter leading you to the contrarie7 be drowned and ouerwhelmed in the gulf therof for euer4 ,sidenote3 ,moniti4 ,you must call to minde that liuing in a place so ordinarilie frequented as is the ,citie1 wherein you are1 and being in fellowship with so manie and diuers sorts of men as you now be1 conuersing also with the innumerable multitudes of persons1 of all estates1 conditions and faculties1 as you there doe1 it is no difficult thing for a young youth of your birth and qualitie to be led into lewdnes1 of a wanton to become dissolute1 of a spender to bee made a consumer1 or of a towardlie gentleman to be framed to an vntowardlie companion4 ,much may the euill example of some lewdlie giuen1 conduce hereunto1 making you to beleeue1 that to become a roister1 is credit3 to become a swearer1 valiant3 to shewe your selfe a waster1 liberall3 to be a drunkard1 is fellowship3 to maintaine rakehels1 is bountie3 to become fantastical1 is youthful3 and to bee an vnthrift1 is to be counted gentle3 ,but better entring into these things then by common aduisement men in your case ordinarilie doe1 it shall appeare contrariwise1 that in gaining of credite you are to become modest and discreetlie behaued3 in being noted to bee valiant1 you ought to bee a supporter of honour3 shewing your selfe liberall1 it shall bee in rewarding the good3 in maintaining of fellowshippe1 you shall vse sobrietie3 in beeing bountifull1 you shall remunerate seruices3 in manifestation of your youth1 you shall entertaine honest pleasures3 and in beeing gentle1 shewe your selfe therewithall frugall4 ,sidenote3 ,parimia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,antipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,parimia4 ,sidenote3 ,perorasi4 ,the asse goeth out in the morning to carie burthens1 and in the euening receiueth his prouender for aduantage4 ,the ,oxe grazeth all day in the pasture1 and at night is caried to the butchers stal3 their rewarde is their feeding1 and the contentment they require is onelie to fill their bellies3 behooueth that men also who from beastes are sequestred by manie degrees of reason1 should of their continuance and finall determination liue a like carelesse8 ,no verilie1 it is too much vnseemely4 ,such illusions as these are not fitte for a man1 who by the nobilitie of his creation was ordained to swaie ouer1 and not to become subiect to such vilities4 ,you nowe beeing at your owne choice and libertie1 must beware and giue great and diligent aduertisement to all your waies1 you must eschewe and auoide not onelie the verie euils thselues1 but also all occasions inducing or partaking with those euils1 you must imagine1 that to bee in all thinges temperate and discreete1 doeth solie argue a reputation to bee within you1 shun vice as you would doe a serpent1 flie wicked companie as a pestilent infection1 doe alwaies thinges woorthie your selfe1 affecte not so much the vaineglorious title of praise1 as desire how and in what sort to deserue and win praise4 ,esteeme nothing so precious as time1 abandon sloth1 and in all your societie 7as neere as may bee7 accompanie with the best4 ,consider that such as is the tree1 such is the fruite4 ,who toucheth pitch must needes bee defiled4 ,with the good thou shalt bee made good1 and with the euill thou shalt bee peruerted4 ,thinke none so greate an enemie as he that misleadeth you4 ,misdeeme no man willinglie1 and giue occasion to all men to iudge of you indifferentlie4 ,these counsels 7forewarninges of your ruine or happines7 if aduisedlie you will hearken vnto1 and faithfully lay vp among your chiefest secrets1 it shall no waies repent you to haue beene admonished1 nor discontent me in this sort so much to haue counselled you1 in that pursuing the effectes hereof1 you shall become such as ,i with you1 and your carefull father if he had liued wold haue bene glad to haue seene you4 ,the ,almightie giuer and moderator of al our actions1 blesse and keep you4 ,farewel from my house at ,d4 this of1 c4 ,an other ,epistle ,monitorie1 touching the reformation of a ,couetous life4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,metonomia4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,brachiologa4 ,sidenote3 ,metonomia4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,albeit good brother1 ,i knowe the matter of my writing will become offensiue vnto you1 and that ,i am not ignorant what heauie aduersaries you haue1 that daylie doe goe about to suppresse the sod faithful aduise of those1 who without flattery doe wish heartilie wel vnto you1 and studiouslie are busied at al times for and towardes your good4 ,such neuerthelesse is the loue and dutie that ,i owe you1 as seeing you in so great an errour as you are ouerwhelmed in1 ,i cannot in respect of our brotherlie affection1 but ,i must needes warne you of it1 whereof if you become not repentant1 and a renouncer betimes1 ,i doubt1 not onelie the worlde will crie out agaynst you1 but ,god also in high displeasure will bee angrie with you4 ,trulie for mine owne part ,i am ashamed1 and also it greatlie grieueth me euerie where to heare of this extreame couetousnesse and harde dealings1 by you vsed towardes your poore tenants1 and other the inhabitants about you1 who notwithstanding that ,god hath aboundantlie blessed you with ryches more then sufficient1 you bee yet so miserablie bent vpon the worlde1 as you care not by what district and seuere handling you doe attaine vnto your wealth1 onelie so you haue it1 or can come by it1 you holde no conscience or question at all of the winning it4 ,alas what cries doe you procure agaynst you of the poore and wretched people1 who beeing plagued with the harde yoke you laie vppon them1 are not able of themselues to redresse1 but onelie doe pray to ,god that hee will for them reuenge it4 ,the matter is too hatefull1 and so great is the oppression and wrong thereby offered1 as it cannot continue4 ,might my woordes become of weight vnto you1 ,i woulde wish you to leaue it1 and if not for my sake1 or in regard of your owne credite thereby so greatlie blemished and impayred1 and your good name and fame vtterlie by such meanes obscured and defaced1 yet for ,gods sake1 who commaundeth charitie and right to all men1 who willeth that wee doe to euerie one as wee would bee done vnto1 who forbiddeth by such execrable lucre to heape to our selues so vniust and filthie gaine1 you will refraine it1 reforme it1 amende it4 ,in trueth you doe not knowe1 howe much euill thereby you procure vnto your selfe1 the blind desire you haue to heape vp riches will not permit you to see1 what rancour1 mischiefe1 impietie1 terrour and dread1 you crowde so neare togither1 the little care you haue of the world to come1 so quencheth your affections1 as you haue not power to beholde the enormitie wherein you are so vehementlie transported4 ,for shame abstaine and become not the common obloquie of all men1 bee not you the man alone whome so manie shall curse1 and all men for the most part crie vengeance vpon4 ,otherwise if by no admonition you will relent1 assure your selfe1 ,god who is the righter of all wronges1 will in most seuere manner compell you vnto it1 and in the ende by great rigour punish you for it4 ,it little liketh mee that herein1 so iust cause remaineth1 as whereby ,i am forced in this sort to argue with you1 in which action the nature of a brother may giue you to vnderstande in what sort ,i admonish you1 and with what louing care ,i retaine you3 the consideratien of which hath mooued mee 7as my selfe woulde wish in the like of whatsoeuer ,i shoulde haue erred1 to bee dealt withall by you7 to account the sweete rebukes of a friend to bee farre more profitable then the dissembling glozes of a cruell and bitter enemie2 to which end whatsoeuer ,i haue sayde1 may in like maner be conceyued by you4 ,farewell4 ,l4 this of1 c4 ,an ,epistle ,monitorie to a father1 touching the lewd and ill demeanour of his sonne4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,sidenote3 ,prolepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,orismus4 ,sidenote3 ,parimia4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,metonomia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,though it seeme an approoued follie to cast pearles before swine1 or to offer a golden saddle to an ,asses backe3 yet 7not that ,i thinke either the ,sowe worthie of the pearles1 or the ,asse fit for the saddle7 ,i haue written vnto you1 the one cause to manifest vnto you the vile and bad parts of your sonne whereof you will take no notice1 and of which this ,letter herein closed shall beare sufficient testimonie3 the other for charities sake1 to admonish you which are his father1 that by your timelie looking to those matters1 you may winde him from that1 which by small sufferance will breed your woes1 and his irrecuperable destruction1 ,i haue vnderstood that hauing beene found heretofore in the like pilfering with two ,masters that he serued1 and the secrete information thereof beeing brought to your eares1 you misliked his courtesie that tolde you1 iustified the matter to bee false that was deliuered you1 and not so much as examining the action1 7which a good father would haue done by all manner of industrie7 you allowed your sonne for honest1 and affirmed that it was vnpossible hee should enter into anie such theeuerie4 ,if ,i see the childe of such a father come to an euill ende1 ,i will not maruell at all1 seeing that besides the ordinarie inclinations alreadie graffed in his young yeares1 his parentes are content by winking at it1 to giue him furtheraunce1 and in a manner to affirme it shall so bee1 in so much as thereby seemeth1 the sonne hath sworne hee will neuer liue honestlie1 and the father hath promised that hee will set him forwarde to ,tiburne1 for his villainie4 ,is it reason that men 7of zeale and conscience7 should goe about to pittie their misfortunes1 who haue protested neuer by compassion to preuent in themselues1 the iust and appropriate rewarde of their owne euilles8 ,what shall ,i say to the vnhappie father of such a sonne1 or rather vnhappie childe of such a father1 whether shall ,i forewarne him or you1 the one purposing1 the other animating1 to what vnto each of you in the ende muste become a particular desolation8 ,trulie these thinges will not continue1 they can not long holde4 ,well 7not in respect that eyther of you haue deserued so much at my handes7 but for pities sake1 ,i am content to beare with your infirmities1 and 7so you will not vrge mee to your owne harmes1 by your courteous1 though not so much as honest vsage1 for honestie willeth ,i shoulde haue mine owne againe1 or recompence7 will part with my losses3 but yet therewithall warne you 7to which ende ,i haue written this ,letter7 that you preuent your mischiefes betimes1 you doe consider the successe of your owne harmes4 ,so long the potte goeth to the ,riuer1 that at last it commeth broken home1 euerie man will not deale with you as ,i doe4 ,it can not bee1 but you must needes knowe1 nay rather bee a partaker of your sonnes euilles1 howe euer you dissemble with the worlde1 and face out the matter before people4 ,take heede ,i say1 ,god when hee striketh1 smiteth home1 you will else repent it1 for it will none otherwise bee4 ,because ,i haue yet some hope1 that by driuing into your conceyte the enormitie hereof1 and discouering the packe1 which you saide was lockt vp from your seeing1 that at the least wise for the feare of ,god1 and to saue him from the gallowes1 you will endeuour to chastise him4 ,i haue sent this bearer1 who can infourme you of the truth1 time and place1 of that which you goe about to shrowde vp so couertlie1 and if afterwardes you will not bridle him1 ,i protest his shamelesse foreheade must bee corrected by iustice1 and the lawes must further passe vppon4 ,surelie not for enuie of the person1 but for the shamelesse browe hee beareth1 as one that had done none offence1 to prouoke mee by euill vsage to blaze his faultes1 that otherwise by good counsell1 woulde haue couered them3 ,i thinke it a deede meritorious to haue him punished1 if you haue a desire as a father to cherish him1 haue a regarde as a friend betimes to correct him1 otherwise you shall sooner see him come to shame1 then anie waies climbe vnto credite4 ,but for ought ,i can heare1 both father mother are so addicted to the bolstring of his doings1 as that it seemeth they haue alreadie vowed their infamie to the world1 and his life to the gallowes3 good counsell may do much1 and though in taste ,i seeme a bitter enemie1 the proofe in triall shall be better then of a fawning friend4 ,an example reprehensorie wherein a man of wealth sufficient is reprehended for mariage of his daughter1 to the riches of an olde wealthie ,miser4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,metonomia4 ,sidenote3 ,propositi4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sir1 ,i am not a little grieued for the loue ,i owe you1 to see that in these ripe yeares of yours1 wherein men commonly are freight with discretion1 you neuertheles do verie indiscreetlie goe about to compasse a matter so repugnant to reason1 or any maner of considerate and sage aduisement1 as whereat the worlde can but woonder1 and whereof all that know you1 or by any meanes may vnderstand of the match1 will no question greatly accuse for euer condemne you4 ,it is deliuered with vs here for certain1 that you are intended 7vpon the doting affection of a miserable old man1 your neighbor1 whose yeares are as well fraught with diseases1 and his manacled and benummed old ioynts with imperfections1 as his barred coffers with coine7 to marry vnto him my neece your yoongest daughter vpon a suddaine1 and that to the furtherance thereof1 you offered to contribute of your owne store a reasonable and sufficient portion4 ,sidenote3 ,antiphrasis ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,trust mee when ,i heard it at first1 ,i deemed it as a counterfeit ieast1 thinking that the man whom ,i so wel knew before time1 could not on a sudden become such a paragon1 as whereon a maiden of her feature1 youth1 accomplishment1 and fauor1 could so quickly become enamored1 neither thought ,i that howsoeuer the dotage of the olde man stood as a conceit to smile at1 that you for your part would so much as vouchsafe to hearken to it1 especially at any time so seriously to speake of it1 much lesse to open your purse to become a purchaser of it1 or by constraint at all to enforce her fauors1 to giue signe or token anie waies vnto it4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia ,sidenote3 ,hyperbole4 ,alas sir1 was there no one thing more wherein besides you coulde ouershoote your selfe1 but onelie in so bad a purpose1 an action so vnhonest1 an intendment so vile1 a matter so much impugning nature1 as that the verie earth1 or hell it selfe1 coulde not belch out againste the fayre ,virgine1 so huge and so intolerable a mischiefe1 to match ,i say1 the matchlesse fauour of so young and dayntie a peece to the filthie1 tawnie1 deformed and vnseemelie hue of so wretched and ill fauoured a creature8 ,what nature is this1 to worke vnto her1 whome of your owne flesh you haue ingendered1 whome so long you haue nourished1 whome to such and so manie perfections you haue trained1 vppon a suddaine1 naie euen in one moment1 so manifest an occasion to cast her awaie1 not yeelding vnto her heauy censure1 so great a benefit as death1 but ten thousand griefes1 the least of all which is worse then any death that may bee1 wherein comfortlesse she may complaine1 grieue1 and bemoane her selfe without any reliefe at all1 but by the precious price and hazard of her own soule4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,antiphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,antiphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,howe vnequally doe you deale herein1 to render vnto her being scarce sixteene yeares of age1 a husbande enfeebled by fourescore yeares and vpwards1 whose toes are swolne with the gowt1 and legs consumed with the dropsie1 whose leane carcase beareth no apparance but of old scars1 and stifned limmes become vnweldie supporters of his pined corps1 whome furs must fence from the least blast of cold1 dew of nappy ,ale cherish with warme fires1 whose nightcap carrieth more store of heat1 then al his body doth of agility or strgth1 and nose far more fruitful then sauory1 with distilling drops down trilling from thence in freshest spring of the ioliest seasons1 maketh ill fauored refections4 ,what wrong do you tender the poore maiden therin8 ,how vnworthy and far ill beseeming is the same to her1 who hath such a father1 and apparantly shal be known to be such a mans daughter8 shall you not therein bee noted of great folly1 will not all men laugh at it1 pitie it1 crie shame of it1 and her selfe poore soule praie to ,god to reuenge it4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,it is too much intollerable beleeue mee1 that you should endeuour in this sorte by colour of your ,fatherlie authoritie to constraine her1 whome 7albeit shee is your owne childe7 yet maie you not thus forciblie compell vnto so vnnaturall an extremitie3 ,consider with your selfe howe grieuous the thing you goe about to compasse1 may returne vnto her1 and whereas liking and choise is of all other things in case of marriage to bee accounted most dearest1 you not onelie agaynst her will1 do endeuour to induce a breach thereof1 but also do giue her ouer into the handes of such a one1 whose inequalitie so far forth disseuereth fr her appetite as that it cannot otherwise be1 but 7as vnto all others1 so vnto her chiefly7 it must become vnsufferable4 ,haue you no more care of her that is your daughter1 but when nowe you haue brought her to the passe1 wherein shee should participate the vertuous and modest vse of that1 whereunto her yeares haue adapted her1 and for which ende and purpose1 marriage was by ,gods sacred ordinance at the first ordayned1 in steede of a louing and contented husbande1 to giue her a withered olde ,truncke1 in lue of sweete and mutuall societie1 to wedde her to sorrowe and euerloathed griefe1 to endow her with larger profite then with honest contentment1 thinke you that shee is a stone1 that her senses from others are different in their right operation and qualities1 that shee more or lesse1 or in stranger sort then anie others1 can become therein more forcible1 or lesse iniuried8 ,no sir1 assure your selfe1 you must needes heape vp no other but extremities vppon her1 it cannot bee but if you proceed herein1 you must of force vndoo her1 the ende and conclusion is so vtterlie bad1 as it cannot be remooued4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,returne then vnto your selfe1 and thinke herein what best beseemeth your daughter1 remember that what you take in hande in that action is vngodlie1 iniust1 seuere1 and vnnaturall1 that in giuing such a husband1 you shall giue her 7without the greater grace of ,god7 and him both to the diuell4 ,consider1 that you are with pietie1 and to a ,christian purpose and ende1 to moderate your authoritie1 weigh with your selfe that the couetousnes wherwith you are ouercome is no purchase to her of safety4 ,and ballancing all these in the waight and cords of equalitie1 withdraw your selfe1 and by such meanes become disswaded from so great an absurditie4 ,so may you the more easilie performe that vnto her belongeth1 as a kinde and louing father1 and for the profite by this trauell reaped at your hands1 bind her and all vs with greater feruencie1 to loue you4 ,whereon concluding the scope of all my former desires1 ,i end1 c4 ,an ,epistle reprehensorie to a young ,gentleman4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,about seuen dayes passed1 ,i receyued ,letters from my ,brother ,n4 the long expectation whereof1 and desire ,i had to bee infourmed of your well dooing1 made mee inwardly reioyce at the first viewe of them1 supposing that as ,i deliuered you out of my handes1 ,i should still haue found you in the same predicament1 without alteration1 or so much as anie surmize of that wherof ,i haue beene thereby aduertised4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,it is long since indeede that you were with mee1 at which time you were in manner a childe1 neuertheles in those tender yeares so towardlie giuen1 and of so milde and gentle disposition1 as there was great cause whie then ,i should esteeme of you1 and much matter offered to all others that knewe yee1 whereupon to commend you3 ,but nowe if it bee true as ,i am informed1 your actions are turned quite contrarie1 you are become a chaungeling1 you are no more the same1 but another in qualitie1 minde and operation4 ,if this bee so1 you haue surelie taken a wrong course1 in exchaunge of vertue1 to make choise of vice3 in steede of laudable exercises1 to admit a number of lewd qualities3 in place of good and honest vsage1 to enter into a life vnciuill1 lewde and sauage3 your companie keeping is 7as is reported7 without anie order1 your studies are carelesse1 your pastime recklesse1 your tabling drunkennesse1 your liuing vnthriftinesse3 finallie1 blushing before time at all thinges1 for their noueltie1 you dare boldlie nowe to aduenture anie thing bee it with neuer so great infamie4 ,these things1 my good ,coosen1 ,i must tell you are vnfit for a ,gentleman1 and much ill beseeming that education of yours1 whereunto they were neuer accustomed4 ,from these1 if you will doe aright1 you are nowe to weld your speedie course1 and quicklie to depart1 calling to your remembrance1 that what approcheth the condition of euerie ordinarie person is not meete for your credite1 and what in men of common account appeareth to bee no blemish is in your reputation helde to be a great and notable faultinesse4 ,sidenote3 ,hirmos4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,when men desire to bee well famed1 and by true renowne to rise vnto worthinesse1 they flie sloath1 and giue themselues to auoyde all occasions of ,idlenesse1 they endeuour to become painefull and industrious to couet thinges of highest accompt1 and to bee in companie with the most vertuous4 ,their credite hath no supporte by vanities1 they seeke not their reputation among raunnagates1 they conuerse not with ,tauerne-haunters1 and bibbers1 they liue not with men of vilde accompt1 dissolute and vngratious1 such kinde of meanes 7as insufficient to glorie7 they deeme wretched and opprobrious4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,you nowe if you would bee such as you ought to bee1 must also pursue the tracte of these1 the sweetenesse and delicacie whereof 7if but a little you will pierce into the sowre and harsh taste of the other7 you shall quicklie conceiue1 marke but the praise1 benefites1 estimate and good reporte1 entertained with the one2 and on the other side1 the discredite1 shame1 discommoditie1 and vile reckoning alwaies made of the other1 and then iudge by your owne decernement1 howe much and howe greatlie you are ledde awrie1 in thus careleslie roaming vppon others vilities1 and concluding with your selfe vppon the ill conceipt that all good men haue of such hatefull and disorderlie kinde of liuing1 returne betimes1 ere too late1 for want of good aduisement1 you foolishlie begin to crie out of your winning4 ,principiis obsta1 sero medicina paratur1 ,cum mala per longas conualuere moras4 ,first stop the cause1 too late doth phisicke come1 ,when euils smal1 to great 7by sufferance7 run4 ,credite me 7whome euer you haue knowne to fauour you7 the disgrace that quickly you shall sustaine1 if betimes you relent not these euils1 wil to a good mind become so vile and so odious as not without great sorow and griefe1 may bee wiped away4 ,i disguise not with you in that ,i saie1 for you shall finde it and proue it to be true4 ,it is a shame for any man in those yeares1 wherin of al others his towardnes should chiefly be effected1 to be accompted then bad1 vilde1 lewd1 and ill demeaned1 much more for a ,gentleman1 whose education was so good1 whose infancy so well trained1 whose adolescency so formerly with al kind of vertues indued1 to become1 now when most discretion should swaie in him1 worse then before1 more disordered then when hee was to be corrected1 lesse commended in his owne gouernment then when he was vnder anothers intertainment4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,the loue that ,i beare vnto you1 maketh mee the more largelye heereof to enfourme you1 which for that ,i deeme not of anie ill seede sprong out of your owne nature1 to bee growne vppe into such kernels1 ,i doe thereby adiudge1 that with more facilitie they maie be disseuered1 the braunches ,i knowe are of others wearing1 which ,i neuer wish to bee so farre foorth lyked1 as to become of your owne gathering4 ,from the inconuenience whereof1 ,i hitherto haue studyed thus much to withdrawe you1 as hee that most of all desireth aboue anie other to enioie you4 ,the haste of the messenger1 and wearinesse of writing enforce mee to leaue4 ,god1 who is the conductor of all happie endeuours1 blesse you1 and till ,i heare from you againe1 my selfe will exspect the best reformation that any good opinion may induce in mee1 as yet to conceyue of you4 ,fare you well1 this of4 c4 ,of ,epistles ,amatorie4 ,chap4 #ai4 ,diuers other patternes of sundrie occasions concluded vnder this ,tytle1 might besydes these heere bee put downe1 whereof because ,i haue so largelie spoken in the discourse before these ,epistles1 ,i thinke the examples alreadie proponed to bee sufficient4 ,and nowe the last of all these diuisions yet vnspoken of is ,amatorie1 whereof because the humours of all sortes with loue possessed1 are so infinite and so great an vncertaintie in them remaineth1 as that perchance euen in y verie writing of his letter1 the louer himself is somtimes scarce certain of his own intended purpose therein1 the lesse must of necessitie be the precepts of the same1 for that in some of them wee require and entreate in others expostulate the matters and occasions falling in the necke therof1 other times complaine1 another while fawne and speake faire1 then purge or cleare an accusation supposed agaynst vs4 ,finallie1 innumerable are the deuises wherewith the reynes of loue are conducted4 ,but in as much as ,i haue heretofore giuen vnto all other titles their seuerall preceptes1 ,i will somwhat also in this place speake to the purpose thereof3 ,in which ,i must first referre the writer vnto the consideration of the honestie of the action by him pretended to be written of1 and then for the places of request1 complaint1 expostulation1 or auoydance of anie thing therein happening to the waight of his owne affection1 which how vehemently1 or slenderly it weigheth1 himselfe can best testifie1 and lastly1 for the well ordering of either of these1 to the examples ,petitorie1 ,expostulatorie1 ,defensorie1 and ,excusatorie in this booke plentifullie deliuered1 wherein howbeit the matter of loue is no wayes expressed1 yet to anie capable or wel disposed conceit1 the conueyance thereof cannot in the selfe exchange of the subiect be without some import vnto them4 ,in this place there might also bee made a distinction of loue where in a ,sympathie of minds from man to man aswell vniteth togither by an indissoluble league of amitie their hearts in one1 as betwene man and woman1 and that for the most part by a far more waightie league1 and more inuiolable discretion4 ,but sith the alteration thereof1 as it much differeth in qualitie from the other1 is also alike exchaunged by title1 that one tearmed by the name of ,friendship1 and this other chalenging onelie to be deciphered by ,loue1 these amours in this definition shall onely be intended such1 as are modestly tendered from men vnto women1 and so accordingly herein to be exampled and written vpon4 ,and howbeit the little experience ,i haue had of some conuersing in this kinde of studie1 hath sufficientlie taught mee to knowe1 that the verie instinct or setled impression of this kinde of fantasie is such a ,schoolemaister to inuention1 and so cunning a refiner of any well disposed conceit1 as that with very small help1 it thereby commonlie performeth much more then well could bee otherwise intended4 ,to the helping and putting forwardes whereof1 a number of excellent penned discourses onelie pertinent and seruing to the efficacie of those amours1 are with the greatest singularitie that may bee deliuered1 yet in so much as this booke taking vpon it to set foorth of euerye the tytles therein distinguished1 some one or other particular example1 may not by the defect of these1 seeme to haue anie want of that1 which by it hath bin formerlie promised4 ,i haue thought good for order sake1 to pursue also in this place1 the effect of this ,methode4 ,the circumstances whereof by the examples following shall bee tendered4 ,an example of an ,epistle1 for the first entreatie of good will4 ,the long and considerate regarde1 by which in deepe contemplation ,i haue eyed your most rare and singular vertues1 ioyned with so admirable beautie1 and much pleasing condition graffed in your person1 hath mooued me good ,mistresse ,e4 among a number whome entirely ,i knowe to fauour you1 earnestlie to loue you1 and therewith to offer my selfe vnto you4 ,nowe howbeit ,i may happilie seeme in some eyes1 the least in woorthines of a number that daylie frequent you1 yet may you vouchsafe in your owne priuate to reckon mee with the greatest in willingnesse1 wherein1 if a seded and immooueable affection towardes you1 if feruent and assured loue grounded vpon the vndecaiable stay and proppe of your vertues1 if continuall1 nay rather inexterminable vowes1 in all perpetuitie addicted vnto your seruices1 if neuer ceasing and tormenting griefe vncertainlie carried1 by a hazardous expectation1 closed in the circle of your gracious conceyte1 whether to bring vnto the eares of my soule a sweet murmure of life1 or seuere sentence of a present death1 may ought at all preuaile either to mooue1 entreate1 sue1 solicite1 or perswade you1 ,i then am the man1 who shrining in my inwarde thoughts1 the dignitie of so woorthie a creature1 and prising in deepest weight 7though not to the vttermost value7 the estimate of so incomparable a beatie1 haue resolued liuing to honor you1 and dying neuer to serue other but you1 from whose delicate looks1 expecting no worse acceptance1 then may seeme answerable to so diuine an excellencie1 ,i remaine4 ,your most passionate1 loyall and perpetually deuoted1 c4 ,this example seeming to be in the superlatiue degree1 it is intended that the direction thereof or the like1 shoulde passe vnto such a one1 whose birth1 education1 or other complements1 maie sufficientlie answere the greatnesse and efficacie thereof1 otherwise to one meanlie demeaned1 or farre lesse enabled1 to indite or offer the like1 it might seeme vnto the writer1 a great indignitie1 as well in iudgement1 as by an apparant want of some other sufficiencie4 ,for which ,i thought good to admonish thus farre in this place1 howbeit in the seconde ,chapter of this booke1 ,i haue touching a respect in all writing to bee had vnto the partie1 his partes1 place and qualitie1 plentifullie alreadie discoursed4 ,another example to that purpose4 ,good ,mistresse ,e4 ,i am bolde though a straunger1 to make these ,letters1 messengers at this present of my good meaning towards you1 wherein you may please to thinke that ,i goe not about by pretence of a most entire and heartie good will which ,i professe to beare you1 to make present surmise thereupon1 that on so bare an assertion you should immediately credite me1 ,i prise your worthinesse at farre greater value1 and weigh your good allowance so much1 as ,i onelie desire1 that by your fauorable liking ,i may intreate to haue accesse vnto you1 not doubting but by my being in your presence1 ,i shall so sufficientlie by apparant proofe maintaine the efficacie of that ,i now protest1 and giue you so good occasion to deeme well of mee1 as you shall haue no reason to repent you1 that vpon so honest and louing request you haue condiscended to my entreatie4 ,whose health and prosperitie tendering in all things as mine owne1 ,i sende you with my ,letter a token of that great affection ,i beare you1 which ,i most heartilie praie you to accept of1 and weare for mee4 ,and euen so doe continue4 ,yours1 if so you please to accept of me1 c4 ,an answere to the first of these ,epistles4 ,that men haue skill1 and are by sundrie commendable partes enabled to set foorth their meaning1 there needeth1 as ,i thinke no other testimonie then your presente writing1 your eloquence is farre beyonde the reach of my poore witte1 and the multiplicitie of your praises fitter for a ,poeticall ,goddesse1 then to the erection of anie such earthlie ,deesse4 ,for my parte1 ,i houlde them as the fancies and toies of men1 issuing from the weakest of their humours1 and howe farre my selfe can deserue1 none then my selfe can better conceiue4 ,beeing one of good sorte1 as you are1 ,i coulde doe no lesse then write againe vnto you1 the rather to satisfie the importunitie of your messenger1 wishing such a one to your lot as wel might paragonize those excellencies your write of1 and answere euerie waie vnto the substaunce of all those inestimable prayses4 ,so hauing1 your loue and your writing1 might 7as ,i take it7 bee best suted togethers4 ,yours1 as far as modesty will1 to aun- swere your curtesies1 c ,a replie to the same answere4 ,gracious obiect of my pleasing thoughtes1 and mistresse of all my inwarde happines1 sweete were the lines you wrote1 ,god wot vnto mee your seruant howe comfortable1 and how precious1 knowing that their premeditation had issue from those your peerlesse excellencies1 the touch of those letters passed the guidance of your delicat hands1 how sharp or powerful soeuer be the weight of the same1 the lesse shall be the griefe1 in that she whom ,i honour and estimate aboue all others1 hath vouchsafed to wish vnto my lot1 y accplishmt of all those excellencies1 which none but her self can paragonize1 and wherein she onelie goeth beyond all others4 ,vouchsafe 7sweete ,mistris7 that what vnto you is intended to bee pleasing1 may not seeme disgraced1 by the ornamente of ,eloquence1 the ,soueraigne and praise-woorthie ,glorie whereof1 beautifieth both speeches and reasons4 ,too dulle are my senses 7,i confesse7 to blaze foorth the weight of your merites1 your accomplishmentes beeing so manifold1 as whereout 7if euer anie earthlie ,deesse by anie excellencie were deriued7 the same might bee thought to haue alonlie proceeded4 ,you may please of my loue to deeme as of your owne deseuinges the foundation whereof cannot bee so slender1 as whereon so weake a thinge as fancie shoulde bee grounded4 ,but as your vertues are permanent1 so may you iudge of my loue to be perpetuall4 ,let it once more accord with your curteous consent1 that these letters with the first may haue the like fauourable acceptaunce1 whereby you shall kindle in mee no other or greater presumption1 then what best fitteth vnto the woorthinesse both of your vertue and calling4 ,with heartes longing and sighes sending1 my ,letters1 and well wishinges speede them togethers1 crauing that you will euer holde and deeme of me1 as of him that in all protested faith1 loue and loyaltie1 is and will bee alwaies4 ,yours1 c4 ,an answere vnto the second ,letter4 ,sir1 your message is vnto mee as strange as your selfe1 who are vnto me a stranger1 what your good meaning vnto me is1 ,i knowe not1 for giuing of hastie credite to your assertions1 as you seem not to chalenge it1 so was ,i neuer hetherto of my self so hastie to do it1 hauing eftsoones bene taught1 that of fairest speaches ensueth often the fowlest actions3 ,i cannot condemne your purpose1 because ,i entende the best of your dealings1 and howbeit ,i am in no point so restrained1 but that in all reasonable sort that may be1 anie accesse may be granted3 so when you shall by further notice sufficientlie make apparant that with modestie ,i may doe it1 ,i shall bee willing so farre foorth as my yeares and present beeing1 may minister occasion1 in anie thankfull requitall that may bee to yeelde my selfe vnto you4 ,till which time ,i returne your token againe and my hartie thankes vnto you by this bearer4 ,your friend as one vnacquainted hetherto may be1 c4 ,,the ,,second ,,part ,,of the ,english ,secretorie4 ,of ,epistles ,iudiciall4 ,chap #a4 ,as ,i haue already exampled vnto you all sortes of ,epistles1 contained vnder the two titles of ,demonstratiue1 and ,deliberatiue3 ,so by the order and disposition formerlie vsed1 it behooueth 7as nexte in course7 ,i doe nowe come vnto the title ,iudiciall4 ,why this title is so called1 ,i haue in that other booke alreadie deliuered4 ,so that nowe it may seme fit1 that herein as in the other twaine before going1 we deliberate what order and places for the well handling and proper conueyance of ,epistles1 are principallie to be obserued4 ,you shall then vnderstand1 that for so much as the efficacie of this title is wholie caried in cause of ,accusation1 ,inuectiue1 ,charge1 or defence1 the matters whereof are wholie censured by lawe1 by common reputation1 by custome1 by authoritie or by iudgement1 the ,rhetoricians1 for the more excellent setting foorth of the ,oratoriec partes hereof1 haue vnto the generalitie of the same1 allotted thre states or principall heades1 whereout by imitation1 all our ,epistles vnder this title are wholie to be caried4 ,the first is called ,coniecturall1 that is1 where a matter by coniecture onlie of time1 place1 estate1 or condition of the person1 or other likelihoodes to the same agreing1 may be supposed or enforced4 ,the second is ,iuridicial1 wherein not by coniecture1 but by matter in action1 sentence1 lawe1 or iudgemente1 wee aggrauate the cause in question1 in which remaineth the qualitie1 circumstance1 or greatnes to be decided1 and howe vehementlie or slenderlie it hurteth or importeth4 ,the third is tearmed ,legitima1 which by ,lawes1 customes1 common vsage1 or allowance1 defineth a thing to bee good or bad1 tolerable or not to be suffered4 ,out of these heades ariseth the plentie of all our following diuisions1 which also hereafter are in their places to be collected1 the first whereof1 containing matter of ,accusation or ,charge1 may be saide to be ,accusatorie1 ,expostulatorie1 ,exprobratorie1 ,comminatorie and ,inuectiue4 ,the ,second1 beeing ,responsorie to either of these1 may be saide to be ,excusatorie1 ,purgatorie1 ,defensorie or ,deprecatorie4 ,the compasse aswell of the one as the other1 either for matters accused1 obiected1 purged1 excused1 entreated for1 or ,defended1 are simply or wholie included vnder all or one of these heads before remembred4 ,the efficacie of either of these1 aswell for inforcementes1 as for clearing or auoydance of anie matter do seme to be drawne1 per locos absolutes1 places absolute1 and locos assumptiuos1 places assumptiue4 ,loci absoluti are such1 as containe in them enforcementes not to be auoided1 whether it be in charge1 matter inuectiue1 or defence1 for that they are collected of vnauoidable groundes1 that is to say1 of ,nature1 ,lawe1 ,custome1 ,contract1 common allowance1 ,righte1 ,lawfull and ,good ,sentence and ,iudgement4 ,these aswell to the state ,iuridiciall1 as to the other of legitima1 are alike ordinarie and common1 this onely difference1 that in that of ,iuridicial1 they are all enforced to condemnation3 in that of legitima1 censured by their qualitie1 vse or toleration4 ,loci assumptiui1 are only collections by coniecture1 and not matter in certainty1 but such as may be vrged by likelihoods yet greatly enforce to accusation1 and serue alike to mitigate by defence or excusing1 this to the state ,coniecturall1 and this of ,juridiciall doe remaine alike common4 ,the parts and places ,ciectural1 for the heaping of likelihoods1 either to accuse1 excuse1 purge or defend1 haue respect vnto the ,wil1 dispositi1 or ability of any one4 ,the ,wil is searched by the outward quality or condition of a man1 by his readines1 hate1 affection1 or mislike to a thing1 ,dispositi1 by the country or soil wherein one is borne1 as if wee shoulde say at this presente of a forraine aduersarie1 ,hee is a ,spaniard1 how can hee beare good will to ,england8 ,by his ofspring1 as if we should saie1 ,being born1 and bred of lewde parents1 how can the issue be good4 ,by his education1 as thus1 ,he was so looselie trained vp1 and so vilelie inured1 that there is no hope at all to be in him expected4 ,by his studies1 as to saie1 ,consider but the application of his whole manner of liuing1 weigh his continuall practises1 see but into his particular and ordinarie studies1 and then tell mee what you may iustlie suppose of the residue of his beeing4 ,and likewise by sundrie other circumstances4 ,abilitie is vrged by ,oportunitie1 by ,time and ,place1 ,aydes or ,supportes1 and the means of either of these1 measured by the credite1 affection1 want1 companie1 conceit1 or instabilitie of the person we goe about to accuse1 excuse1 purge or defend4 ,thus haue ,i largelie deliuered vnto you1 the sum and scope of what in speciall to be intended vnder this title1 the vse and more particular shew whereof shall bee by their seuerall ,epistles more amplie explaned vnto you4 ,and howbeit ,i could here a little dwel by some continued discourse1 in the commendable aduancement vnto you of the woorthinesse of this present part we haue now in hand of well writing1 wherein not onelie these places alreadie remembred1 but in a manner all other partes of the ,deliberatiue and ,demonstratiue kinde are most plentifullie accited3 ,yet will ,i but remember vnto you howe effectuallie by the well handling of anie the particulars therunto belonging1 and howe farre more singularlie then in anie others1 the excellencie of a good witte and a quicke1 and fine inuention is most fullie deciphered1 feeling that in the occurrents heereof1 the writer is neuer tyed to anie one course in particular1 but hath scope to wade into all things in generall4 ,for that by the verie order of these ,epistles1 hee shall sundrie times haue occasion to vse the partes ,descriptorie1 ,laudatorie1 ,vituperatorie1 ,hortatorie1 ,swasorie1 ,disswasorie1 ,petitorie1 ,monitorie1 ,conciliatorie1 ,reprehensorie1 and at many times diuers or the most part of them altogithers4 ,wherefore leauing any further respect hereof1 vnto the ready conceite of such as thereunto may bee enabled1 we will proceed vnto the rest4 ,the partes for ,disposition required in these ,epistles1 are as in the others before going1 that is to saie3 ,exordium1 ,narratio1 or ,propositio1 ,confirmatio1 ,confutatio1 and ,peroratio4 ,the first of the distinctions vnder this part ,iudiciall to be prosecuted1 appeareth to be ,accusatorie1 which either simplie by coniectures1 or by matter of knowne or verily supposed troth1 as you haue before remembred1 or both wayes at once1 may bee conueyed4 ,whereof the first in sequence which ,i will deliuer vnto you for example1 shall be in the state coniecturall1 which being framed to be questionable betwene a ,merchant and his seruant1 falleth out in sort following to be performed4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,accusatorie in the state ,coniecturall1 from a merchant to the father of his seruant4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sir1 you will perchaunce maruell to see the sudden accesse of these my letters vnto you1 togither with the hastie repaire of my man1 7such as heretofore hath not beene accustomed betweene you and me1 sithence our formost acquaintance7 but to stay that doubt1 and to enforme you at large1 what vrgent occasion ,i haue so to doe1 it may please you with as little discontentment as may bee1 to giue your selfe to the view of these ,letters1 and thereupon to censure on my behalfe the matter of the same accordinglie4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,your sonne sir1 who nowe these three yeares passed to your good lyking hath continued in my seruice1 and whome your selfe doe verie well knowe1 that for the reputation of his parentes and friendes1 ,i alwayes for the most part haue entertayned with especiall trust and regarde1 beeing this last ,summer returned out of ,barbarie1 with an aduenture in a shippe of mine owne1 ,i did vpon great choyce1 immediatelie after his account deliuered1 place in the ouersight1 disposition and rule of all my whole goodes1 stocke1 and ,merchandise4 ,and in expectation and assurance of his especiall and more then ordinarie care and good behauiour therein1 did about ,september last 7vppon a iourney which ,i had to the ,north partes with diuerse of my nearest friendes1 whereby ,i was compelled to bee foorth by the space of two ,monethes7 commit vnto his like credites1 the custodie of diuers summes of money alreadie receyued1 as also the collection and further receyte of sundrie other paymentes of great waight1 at the dayes and times wherein they were payable1 by him to my vse to bee reserued and layde vp1 sithence which1 by what sinister humour ,i knowe not1 nor by what vntoward conceit can ,i yet imagine1 in the time of my absence1 and a little before my returne homewards1 hee is gone away1 no man knoweth whither4 ,vpon the newes whereof being greatly aflighted1 ,i haste to his counting house1 search his bookes of receits and paiments1 and there withall breake open his deske and coffers1 in which after all reckoninges fullie perused and considered of1 ,i find my selfe to bee backewards of diuers allowances1 the certainty whereof ,i cannot yet determine1 but the greatnesse by the likelihoode1 is verie vehemently to be suspected1 by reason that in this sort1 without anie other occasion he is fled1 and from so great a charge without knowledge of anie one about me1 so suddenly departed4 ,what presumptions ,i haue1 and those verie large1 by such kinde of dealing1 whereby ,i may iustly burthen him1 you may heereby coniecture1 as first his disposition1 giuen 7as sithence hath verie crediblie bin reported vnto me7 to be verie prodigall1 of most excessiue expence1 then the occasion offered by such immoderate confidence in him reposed3 next1 the vncontrolled rule hee bare throughout all my dealings3 lastlie the time and secrecie of his departure1 beeing thus hasted in mine absence1 and here withall some such things which are missing1 as whereof none were priuie but himselfe1 and whereunto no accesse could bee without himselfe4 ,insomuch as the losse which ,i reckon of1 and wherefro ,i can yet finde no release1 by reason of this his vnknowne departure1 cannot 7for ought ,i hitherto perceiue7 amount to so little as ,,cc4li4 ,by some fewe that since his going away haue encountred with him1 it appeareth1 that not onelie he is well monied1 but also of his iourneying ,westward1 whereby ,i am led to thinke his resort to be no way so likelie1 as to you which are his father1 or to some other his friends there about you4 ,for which cause ,i haue directed these togither with my man1 as well to referre vnto your consideration what hath passed1 as also to pray that by your due search and examination of the action1 both his person may be answered1 and my suspition of him the better and more manifestly be cleared3 and euen so recommending my selfe and cause to the furtherance of your good direction1 ,i take my leaue4 ,this of1 c4 ,this letter hauing direction from the maister to the father1 in seeming a ,gentleman of some good account1 we will according thereunto frame you an answer1 which in this place according to the nature thereof may be tearmed ,excusatorie4 ,the conueiance of which1 either lesseneth by vehement likelihoods the qualitie of the offence1 or otherwise 7though not clearlie auoydeth7 yet by the naked truth or simplicitie of the action it selfe1 maketh it seeme of farre more slender moment or importance1 then before it might haue bene coniectured4 ,and forasmuch as the father was a by partie to the wrong suggested1 and onely in that it was his son1 and the reformation of the thing opposed1 might by him in some sort bee redressed or recompenced1 wee will suppose herein the ,letter in forme following by him to be answered1 and the residue vnspoken of to be left to the purgation or defence of the other on whome the fault is charged1 and to whome in particular1 it belongeth to se the same answered4 ,an example excusatorie returned to the effects of this coniectural epistle1 from the father to whome the same was written4 ,maister ,r4 ,i haue receyued your ,letter1 to no small griefe 7at the first7 of my priuate conceyts1 but sithence hauing examined the matter am somewhat deliuered of doubt1 by the satisfaction that in search of the cause ,i haue alreadie receyued4 ,my sonne 7as you write7 was here in the ,countrey1 at my brothers house1 not farre from mine owne dwelling1 and yet so newlie come thither1 as he had reposed himselfe but one night ere the sight of your present ,letters and messenger were arriued4 ,to the action wherewith you do charge him1 ,i can say nothing more then that himselfe hath written1 which agreeing with the formost speech1 and first examination had by his ,vncle1 ,i must hold as yet vndetermined till ,i heare your further answer4 ,for the coniectures you haue deliuered1 whereby to induce that you are a greater looser by him then without further grounde ,i can hitherto imagine4 ,i aunswere thus much1 that the alteration were verie strange1 and humour too sudden1 to finde him now so lauish1 whom before time your selfe haue commended to bee so frugall1 and especiallie in whatsoeuer to his charge and gouernment hath by you beene committed4 ,to the residue ,i will be silent1 because himselfe that first bredde the occasion appeareth meetest to answere it4 ,if ,i heare not from you before the middle of this tearme1 my intent is by ,gods grace to bee at ,london1 where your apprentice and my sonne shall be in person forth comming vnto you4 ,at which time if ,i find farther defects1 or more equitie to charge him1 contrarying to that which alreadie haue bin answered by him1 he shal not be mine by anie his ill dealings to be vpholden1 but yours as belongeth in any sort you like to chastise him4 ,and euen so recommending my selfe heartilie vnto you1 ,i do bid you farewell4 ,this of1 c4 ,an example ,purgatorie from the partie chalenged in answer of the ,epistle accusatorie before remembred4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,it may please you sir1 on ,munday last1 beeing the next day after my comming to my ,vncles1 he sending to ,t4 to my fathers house to vnderstand his pleasure1 worde was returned immediatelie1 of a messenger and letters receyued from you1 whereby it was my fathers pleasure to commaund me to his presence1 and to require mine vncle to be there present also in companie4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,at my comming thither1 many things were laid forth as wel by your writing1 as by the mouth of your man1 how grieuouslie you were damaged both by diuers summes wherein you were short in reckoning1 and other thinges by you missing1 vppon my running away 7as you tearme it7 the muchnesse whereof was not so much enlarged by your letter1 as the ouerlauish deliuerie of your man had to the great encrease of ill opinion in my father1 with diuers vnbeseeming tearmes1 augmented the same4 ,and nowithstanding ,i had in mine own conscience sufficientlie1 and with sound appearing trueth to the viewe of others answered the occasion1 yet forasmuch as neither seemed the same a full satisfaction to my father1 nor a matter clearlye auoided towardes you1 till in your plaine and certain notice1 ,i had also confirmed the same1 ,i was commaunded by him to write what ,i there affirmed1 and accordinglie to aduertize you of the state of your busines1 and inualidity of your coniectures1 that by the verity thereof ,i might with more liking be reputed of1 and himselfe haue lesse cause then he supposed whereat to be grieued4 ,to the matter of your letter1 whereby ,i am accused1 and in which you saie you are backward ,i knowe not in what1 it appeareth that for the finding out of the certaintie or likelihoode thereof you entred vpon my desk and coffers1 and searched my books of account and payments1 which beeing so1 if you were as circumspect in my behalfe1 as you were in a rash surmize of your own harmes1 you might haue assured yourselfe1 for to haue found no one penie of any summe wanting at all1 or where any was missing1 either by exchange at your own appointment1 or vpon other good occasions to haue also seene howe the same was bestowed1 or where1 or vpon what it was els where imploied4 ,sidenote3 ,metonimia4 ,for your better assurance wherein 7if hitherto you vnderstande not so much7 my boxe marked with this letter ,a4 lying in the neather parte of my deske1 will confirme the same4 ,and least ,i might be deceiued in ought1 before your comming1 by the sinister practise of some such as had more enuie at my honest credite with you1 than care of your good 7whereof ,i mistake not at all1 if ,i iudge this viper to be one7 ,i not onelie reserued notes of euerie thing1 caused one whome you will beleeue 7though to what purpose ,i protest hee then knewe not7 not onelie to tell euerie summe of money remaining in euerie bagge1 and to see the same sealed vp1 but also to set his hand to my notes1 as witnesse to the same1 so much ,i knowe ,i lefte1 and of the residue the declaration of a trueth shall bee witnesse sufficient of mine owne fidelitie4 ,finallie1 touching the likelihood of my going awaie without knowledge1 and that also in your absence1 to bee a token of some waste or wrg to you offered1 which you value not to be so litle as ,,cc4 pods1 ,i trust sir 7albeit the sum be great where little remaineth1 and if also it were lesse1 it were yet too much to bee lost7 your selfe notwithstanding can tell verie well1 that more then once ,i haue bin credited with ten times the value of that at your handes1 when by great similitude1 ,i could with more facilitie haue benefited my selfe to a farre greater value1 if ,i had bin so disposed1 then what herein to be accompted of1 and 7if so ,i had beene then also minded7 coulde haue been therewith farther out of your reach then euer ,i yet entended4 ,and where you suggest that it is sithence told you of my lauish expence1 ,i can thereunto say nothing more then euerie one knoweth1 that trulie will speake of me1 and so you find not the hindrance in your owne accompte4 ,i trust you will beare equallie what in others opinions maie bee construed of reasonablie4 ,my going away is apparant1 ,i cannot denie it1 wherein if happelie ,i haue done more then beseemeth1 yet none so much as my selfe hath thereby beene wronged1 for that such occasion hath by meanes thereof ensued1 whereby my credite by sinister reports hath so greatly been hazarded1 yet was not y same altogether done without cause1 nor voide of honest excuse1 for if either ,i had beene certaine of your so speedie returne1 or had not had so presumptuous an intruder vppon the trust to mee committed 7as at my comming to ,london ,i shall make more plaine vnto you7 ,i had not done as ,i did4 ,and this assure your selfe sir1 that howe farre soeuer you imagine or are informed1 that mine vncontrouled rule in your house stretched1 if ,i might with performaunce of as honest trust haue discharged the same vnto you1 as ,i alwaies had endeuoured1 ,i neither had lefte your house or stocke1 to haue depended vpon so harde supposed reckoning1 nor lost you one houres commoditie of my seruices1 as you nowe challenge me to haue done4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,my endeuour towardes my self1 my fathers care1 and your woonted good opinion1 hath mooued mee in sort as you see1 to giue items of those whome iustlie ,i am to complaine of1 and to praie you that surceasing all other surmizes vppon our hastie comming to ,london you will more circumspectly in the meane time consider both of your dealings and my writing1 which in as dutifull manner as beseemeth1 eftsoons crauing at your handes1 ,i doe 7as euer ,i haue been7 remaine1 and take my leaue1 c4 ,your seruant confirmed in all fidelity towards you1 c4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,accusatorie in the state ,iuridiciall and ,coniecturall4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium1 ,anadiplosis4 ,iniurious ,r4 iniurious ,i maie iustlie tearme thee1 whose long acquaintance with mee1 and interchangeable good liking passing betweene vs1 bredde yet so little respect in the waight of the same1 as could not forwarne me of an euill so imminent1 by meanes whereof ,i doubt and cannot forbeare to thinke1 but that ,i am vtterly induced to the shipwracke of mine owne estate1 and burthened with such infortunitie1 as ,i shall neuer cease to remember4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,metanoia4 ,but why 7sencelesse as ,i am7 make ,i doubt vnto thee of that1 whereof both the condition1 abilitie1 disposition1 and euerie accident and circumstance of the partie1 whom ,i am forced to accuse1 beareth so sound witnesse1 as if men and ,angels should goe about to countermaunde the same1 not beeing able by a more certaine veritie in open shewe to impugne it1 there is none ,i am sure would beleeue no anie one that in respect of the manifolde likelihoodes thereof1 would almost so much as vouchsafe to hearken vnto it4 ,sidenote3 ,epizeuxis4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,irmus4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,but if in the foremost deliuerie of these thou alreadie musest1 and art desirous to be resolued what it is1 wherein so questionles ,i deeme my selfe thus deepelie to be wronged3 knowe then1 that finding here at ,l4 thy kinsman1 thy vnhappie kinsman1 wandering as a straunger1 conuersant with badde fellowes1 threedbare in apparell1 forsaken of his neerest kindred and friendes1 readie to perish almost for want of foode1 and so pennilesse1 and therewithall estraunged from all good account1 as beeing amongest other lewde persons1 brought before a ,iustice vppon suspition of his wretched liuing1 my selfe beeing in presence1 and taking vppon mee in hearing of his name1 to bee knowing both of his parentes and ,countrey1 had such credite with the ,iustice1 as hee foorthwith discharged him1 wherewith not contented ,i did for thy sake1 and in regarde of thee alone1 take him home to my lodging1 apparelled him1 saued his life1 recouered againe his lost credite1 and restored him3 ,were not these benefites1 thinkest thou sufficient to binde an honest nature1 to thinke himselfe beholding to such a one8 ,happie had ,i then beene1 if neuer more had ,i intermedled with him1 neuer better regarded him1 or at no time after giuen farther credite and liking vnto him4 ,alas1 was it alone my chance among so manie that had cast him off1 euen then to entertaine him1 to relieue him1 to reckon of him1 nay rather beyond all reason 7as thy selfe by the sequell wilt confesse7 so farre foorth to dote of him1 as nourishing my secrete mischiefe1 as it were in mine owne lodging1 vnder the shadowe of mine owne couert1 yea in my verie bosome1 ,i must lead him yet farther along1 in the end to spoile me1 and to meditate nothing so much1 as my intended destruction8 ,sidenote3 ,paradoxon4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,thou maruellest ,i know to heare this 7and strange most strange it is ,i must confesse7 but yet true1 and if not in him true1 then in no other true1 by all likehoodes4 ,but ere ,i farther report vnto thee1 howe and by what accident encreased my griefe1 let mee yet shew thee more what ,i did vnto him4 ,so ordered the vnluckie starres my cruel ,fate1 and in such 7more then disordered maner7 wrought the heauens against mee1 as albeit here at ,l4 7for ,i must needes deliuer a truth vnto thee7 he was greatly desirous and became an earnest suter1 ,i shoulde euen at that time leaue him3 yet pressed by mine one misfortune1 and more then tolerable liking1 nothing regarding1 or so much as once remembring in what worse estate ,i might haue conceiued him1 ,i bethought my selfe he was a ,gentleman1 bredde of good and vertuous parents worshipfullie allied4 ,in their ,countrey whilome well reputed1 and if anie defect had before befallen him1 ,i knewe hee was a yonger brother1 and want of liuing and maintenance might impaire him1 ,i had no sonne of mine owne1 his learning and other qualities 7not to bee despised7 drewe more and more fancie vnto him3 what should ,i say8 ,i rendred vnto him all account and preferment that lay in my possibilitie to procure him3 and shortlie to conclude1 into the ,countrey 7furnished in the best part according to his calling7 ,i took him with me4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,polyptoton4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,if ,i should say to thee1 that his demeanour1 his attendaunce1 his forwardnesse in all thinges to my noted liking1 his outwarde shew in whatsoeuer action vnto mee seeming to bee pleasing1 did not of it selfe appeare to chalenge so much1 ,i shoulde lie vnto thee4 ,but what of that1 howe is falshoode couered1 but by the daintiest glosse1 where lurketh craft1 if not in the shade of most simplicitie8 ,coulde the ,syren deceyue1 if shee had no song8 ,which way should men bee bewitched1 if there were no meane of inchauntment8 ,but did hee in the ende prooue such in deede1 as he seemed1 or hereunto appertained8 ,no1 no4 ,god knowes he failed much therein1 yea1 hee was too farre from it4 ,see then how much beyond my selfe ,i was1 that beeing thus intreated to discharge my selfe of mine owne bane1 would yet allure both ,gods and men1 to bring into my bosome the purport of mine owne secrete and vnknowne mischiefe4 ,sidenote3 ,metalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,christmasse nowe drewe on1 after that a good time we had remained in the ,countrey1 alas that times ordained and sacred to holie purposes1 should become ayders and furtherers to mens vile imaginations4 ,in this time1 whilest all mens mindes were busied and occupied in dauncing1 banquetting and feasting1 as vse and custome1 and season of the yeare had of auncient times induced1 whilest the ,hall was full of all sortes of people1 reuelling1 playing1 and occupyed in pastime1 my daughter 7,o griefe to thinke on1 and heauiest sound to remember7 my onelie daughter was at bed-time missing3 ,search was made heere and there1 inquisition of this partie and that1 this way ranne one1 that waie another1 the house was troubled and filled with all hurlie burlie1 onelie wading further into the matter1 and her ,chamber throughlie perused1 her apparell was missing1 ,chests broken vp1 iewels bereaued1 mine owne lodging spoyled1 and in the ende1 ,i sawe and found my selfe in what cruell sort that might be robbed4 ,sidenote3 ,climax4 ,sidenote3 ,polyptoton4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,auxesis4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,prosopopia4 ,sidenote3 ,epizeuxis4 ,sidenote3 ,parenthesis34 ,sidenote3 ,irmus4 ,hereupon grew suspition1 and of suspition arised matter of likelihood1 and of likelihood at last1 assured and most probable coniectures4 ,one while this man was brought in suspect1 another while that partie chalenged1 then he was misdeemed1 and another againe culpable adiudged1 but all in vaine4 ,for hardly could my mind suppose1 that hee to whom my thoughts were so sincerely tied in all more then common affection1 would so farre forth haue beene estraunged1 as at any time to become weeting of my intended harmes1 neuer a conspiratour1 much lesse an executour4 ,but wicked and vile conceited fraud1 what cannot dissimulation1 in cloake of sugred guile vnder thy title put forward4 ,and yet might my ignoraunce herein verie well haue become excusable1 for a seuen night before that time1 that luckles time in which this action was concluded 7for long before was it purposed7 your kinsman by my allowance and good will had taken leaue1 and seemed to be departed1 to goe into ,n4 to visite his friends1 whose absence besides the little matter that euer in him ,i supposed to be hereunto sounding1 and euerie other circumstance conducing in all his common behauiours1 not so much as in shewe to giue a shadowe of this or any such like pretence1 could neuer haue induced mee to the least imagination at all1 that hee of all others1 would haue offered to be seene in anie such thing4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,expediti4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,but if you will nowe aske mee what presumption ,i haue then to charge him more then another1 in whome so little matter of suspition coulde before time bee conceyued1 ,i will aunswere yee4 ,the presumptions are1 their conuersing together in one place1 besides that1 shee is by his directions at ,l4 and placed at his finding1 that his pretence of going away1 was to depart into ,n4 the deuise whereof appeareth nowe but a plaine colour1 to haue procured this vnhappinesse4 ,of all which ,i am so surelie assertayned by the credible report of a ,gentleman1 so honest1 and of reputation so sufficient1 as whereof ,i need to make no question4 ,for once they being togither1 and in such sort as is deliuered1 argueth the circumstaunce of his going to ,n4 to bee but a meere disguising1 his intent eyther onelie to bee a meane with lesse suspition to compasse her1 and so consequentlie to betraie her1 the stocke whereupon they liue1 to bee my wealth1 and what from mee is robbed and vnkindlie bereaued1 howe can it otherwise choose8 is not the matter plaine and euident8 how else should he see her1 compasse her1 receyue her1 and in such sort entertaine her8 ,sidenote3 ,epitropis4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,if these bee supposes1 then what may bee serious1 if such assured notes as these seeme trifles1 what then can bee sayde to bee certaine8 and yet long was it ,i must needes bewraie1 ere my selfe could conceyue the similitude it bare of trueth1 so harde a matter it is where good opinion is once rooted1 by the veritie it selfe1 almost to driue out the same4 ,but nowe sounding deeper into the action1 ,i finde both will and abilitie in each poynt so furthering1 as without ,i determined to winke still in mine owne blindnesse1 ,i must renounce all fauourable conceyte1 and vtterlie confesse the same to bee but an errour4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,conorati4 ,for hauing waded into euerie deepe conceite1 and imagination of the accident1 well weighing with my selfe also what maner a one the partie hath beene1 how euill vnto mee sithence he hath likewise beene reported of1 how vilelie before my receit of him hee was generally demeaned1 with what base people and men of basest reckoning ,i found him accompanied3 ,i do immediatelie condemne my selfe that was so sottish as to expect any other euent at his handes1 then what hath alreadie succeeded1 seeing where so manie euil dispositions haue bene before time abounding1 it is not easily noted that from such a one any good at all coulde bee at anie season proceeding4 ,but too late nowe to my no small griefe1 doe ,i fall into this reckoning1 which wisedome would before haue preuented1 and more circumspectlie haue intended to4 ,for whence 7if ,i trulie shoulde speake of the action7 ensued this abilitie8 ,was it not the fauour and especiall liking wherewith ,i receyued him8 ,howe could hee else haue presumed on it8 ,howe could he haue sought it8 ,howe could he haue done it8 ,but not for this doe ,i accuse thee my ,r4 as either accessarie1 or fauourer of so badde and vnkinde a purpose1 but for thou knowing his course of life1 weeting of my well deeming1 assured of his beeing with me1 hauing reported vnto thee in what degree ,i did credite him1 woulde notwithstanding not so much as tell mee of him1 nor suffer mee by thy gentle admonition so much as to surmize how ,i might bee deceiued by him4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,let ,i pray thee the sorrowfull demonstration of these my ,letters bee a meane vnto thee1 as thou louest mee1 tenderest mee1 and carest for me1 to search out the truth1 the state and circumstance of the thing1 and yet 7forlorne as ,i am7 seeke ,i therein but mine owne sorrow1 for neuer shall ,i like of him1 care for her1 or hardlie after this in any sort abide her4 ,yet for my minde desireth to be resolued 7though euen in these verie wordes deliuering ,i doe not seeme to doubt7 let me receyue the plentie thereof at large1 bee it that the resolution be a confirmation of mine owne vnhappinesse1 the force whereof beeing past remedie ,i must support as ,i can1 and seeke as ,i may to endure the rest with patience4 ,a ,letter defensorie answering by confutation all the obiections in this former ,epistle surmized4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,it is sir1 accustomed that men in griefe of minde doe often speake diuers things1 for which in respect of their sorow they seeme to deserue many wayes to be pardoned1 according to which1 your selfe hauing of late sustained some aduerse hap1 do what by surmises1 what by misreports1 seeme to be at oddes with your owne liking1 and vpon a sodein to become enraged with your owne fancie4 ,in the course of your whole letter viewing the wrong you haue sustained1 the extreame disquiet wherewith you are perplexed1 ,i pittie your misfortune1 and as a friende doe inwardlie grieue at that wherewith you are troubled1 wishing that either ,i had abilitie to redresse the matter to your liking1 or otherwise that my wordes were of weight to perswade you1 that with the extremity thereof you would not so greatly be moued4 ,sidenote3 ,polyptoton4 ,touching my kinsman1 whome for my sake in such sort as you write you receiued1 and to whome vpon the outward deserte of his behauiour you vouchsafed such entertainement1 and vppon whose absence and departure 7albeit with your good liking7 you seeke to intrude the summe of all your vnhappinesse and misfortune4 ,hee is not indeede at this instant here in the countrey1 but as ,i deeme and you haue informed1 about ,london4 ,neuerthelesse for so much as it seemeth by your writing1 and also by his thankful acknowledgement and deliuery1 both vnto me and others1 how much he hath stoode beholding vnto you1 and that it standeth to bee parcel of a gentle mind1 as wel to recognise a good turne1 as to remoue by a louing censure an ill opinion1 where the same rather of griefe then of malice is vniustlie conceiued 7notwithstanding ,i may not so effectually speake to the purpose1 as if himselfe were personally present7 ,i will endeuour vpon mine owne knowledge as farre as ,i may1 and so much as in truth ,i canne lawfully iustifie1 hereby to satisfie you1 and if it bee possible to expell those causelesse coniectures of him1 that in such sort doe annoie you4 ,sidenote3 ,apostrophe4 ,to the matter therefore wherewith you are grieued1 ,i thus much dare affirme vnto you in his behalfe1 that in all your imaginations you haue greatly misconceiued1 and the reasons leading me thereunto are these4 ,sidenote3 ,answere to the cause of coniecture4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,first1 where your selfe doe confesse that the onely matter you haue in apparance inducing you to accuse him1 is the credible report of a friende of yours1 that sawe him and your daughter at ,london1 and a suppose thereby1 that shee is at his disposition1 and the theft of your goodes to them both an indifferent finding4 ,i saie the validitie of all this is nothing1 for omitting that by diuers casualties men and women at aduenture doe daily meete1 experience whereof is in common vse amongst our selues1 and euen then when we least do thinke of it1 and most woulde woonder at it1 the reason whereof ,i ouerpasse1 because to the accident ,i am but a straunger1 what reason haue you so resolutelie to thinke that the expenses whereon they remaine 7so bee it they doe as you alleadge continue togethers7 must onelie bee drawne out from that part of your lost substaunce1 and so by consequence aggrauate a likelihoode of his stealing your daughter8 ,i neede not ,i trust perswade you of his kindred1 nor abilitie of his friendes1 it resteth not in doubt1 you knowe it3 then vnderstande you sir1 it may also bee as possible1 that some one or other of them might at the length by some more gentle motion then before time tender his good4 ,whereof ,i need make no question1 my selfe can assure you1 for that an ,aunt of his dying of late1 left him possessions to three hundred poundes value1 which beeing at his choise either to accept a diuision or money1 it is like he hath the coine and let the lande goe1 and therupon is the better enabled to do what is reported vnto you both for her and himselfe4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,dichologia4 ,sidenote3 ,anthipophora4 ,sidenote3 ,pleonasmus4 ,hereupon you begin to call in reckoning his life1 and ,i knowe not what late reportes and informations of his liuing1 to coniecture thereupon his common disposition and ill vsage1 with abilitie to doe you a displeasure1 performed by your owne countenance4 ,alas sir1 why shuld you be so far led awry by these vncertainties8 ,know ye not that reportes are manie times slaunders8 and that men for the most parte speake generallie when they find a man in any sort to be iniured particularlie8 ,hee is my kinsman ,i confesse1 but not for that would ,i yet defende him in his treacheries1 but for mine owne knowledge of him from the beginning1 canne ,i witnesse the contrarie1 ,i must tell you to conclude thereupon1 you do him small equitie4 ,what if hee fell into your notice by a little penurie8 ,manie an innocent and good man by want hath beene driuen to ill companie1 yet themselues vnknowing1 and not weeting at all of their facultie1 and so truelie may ,i herein deeme of him1 gladlie in the meane time thanking you1 and himselfe eftsoones confessing the weight hee then receiued of your curtesie4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia4 ,and if we shall aunswere likelihoodes againe by coniectures1 why may not 7,i pray ye7 the carefull endeuor and diligent aduerting1 your selfe doe confesse in all his continuance to haue remained in him towards your liking1 be as well a testimony of his honest affection1 and glad indeuor to recompence by any seruice your kindnes1 as vpon his naked sole information1 you would goe about to wrest it as a token of dissembled iniurie8 ,nay rather why may not the suppose thereof bee forcible to quench any other conceipt to the contrarie1 seeing in the reuolution of the same1 you also doe graunt1 that in all his behauiour you neuer sawe so much as one suspect1 whereby so farre as you are gone1 in such sort to induce you8 ,for my part if we shal studie to measure the conditions of men aright1 ,i am of opinion that wee ought rather to credit the vse and practise daily seene before our eies1 then by any misreport or vnseemely coniecture to giue scope vnto our owne imagination or a selfe willed fantasie4 ,sidenote3 ,anthithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,dialysis4 ,sidenote3 ,confutati4 ,honest gratuity and dissembled trechery1 seldom in my conceipt1 do drawe in one line togethers1 thankefull ,i doe know him vnto you for any benefite1 for ,i haue seene him more then once1 and that most feruentlie to professe it1 how he should halt with you by nature ,i finde not1 as whereunto ,i neuer saw him addicted3 besides1 thus much can ,i yet say more to ascertaine you1 that about the time mentioned in your ,letter1 hee came hither to visite vs1 sithence which till within this fortnight he remained with vs4 ,after about the receipt of his money1 and for the conclusion of that agreement1 hee was disposed to ,london4 ,there what hath betided him ,i cannot rightlie enforme you1 yet may the apparance hereof bee sufficient1 by good reason to assure you1 that beeing thus continued1 as ,i haue declared1 hee coulde verie hardly and almost without possibilitie1 haue beene so forwardes in the matter as hath beene suggested by you4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,in respect of your ancient amity and acquaintance1 ,i doe yet pray you1 that you wil be recomforted of your griefes1 opposing vnto your selfe this one assurance1 that by some strange euent your daughter is happened to his knowledge1 and this fixed hope that by beeing with him1 she is retained to her best safegard1 who as well in respect of the accompt he beareth vnto you1 as of the curteous regard it is most like he carieth vnto her1 hath vpon some vrgent businesse beene compelled to stay her1 determining in some conueniuent time1 ,i warrant you to your comforte and his credite and good opinion to be encreased1 to returne her vnto you4 ,not being vnmindfull howe much ,i haue heretofore beene staied1 both to thinke woorthilie of you1 and to thanke you1 ,i doe for the present bid you most hartile farewell4 ,t4 this of1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,expostulatorie4 ,chap4 #b4 ,with these expressed examples1 ,i thinke good to conclude this passed title1 and thenceforth to goe to the next1 which is ,expostulatory4 ,this worde seemeth to haue his definition of reasoning1 debating or arguing a cause1 thereby to find the depth1 weight1 certaintie or qualitie of the same1 and according thereunto to lessen1 qualifie1 or enforce the substance of griefe or mislike by such meanes conceiued4 ,and albeit iniuries1 mislikes and discontentments are ordinary to all men1 yet do they for the most part1 fall principallie to be receiued among friendes1 among kindred1 great acquaintance and familiars1 by occasion whereof1 this title in writing is but 7as it were7 the first matter of challenge1 before anie vile reproch bee performed4 ,and this also not where there is a resolute malice alreadie conceiued1 but where men aduisedlie and consideratlie do deliberate of their and other mens actions according to reason to bee considered4 ,by which aduisement being led1 without anie hairebraine or brainsicke deuise or humor at all1 they sometimes mildlie1 and in curteous and louing tearmes according to the state of the writer1 and the condition of those to whome he writeth1 expostulate the iniurie1 desirous rather that the trueth by circumstances might be knowne1 then anie quarrelsome matter to bee obtruded4 ,otherwhiles more roughly and peremptorily they deale1 and yet not vnfittinglie nor badlie4 ,but if the effect of your writing be not determined in anie of these two sortes1 but falleth otherwise to a manner of reproching of benefittes1 or to an exclamation or bitter enforcement of euils1 then may not the same bee said to be ,expostulatory1 but rather to bee exprobratorie1 or inuectiue1 of which both twaine hereafter shall be further declared4 ,and as this kind of expostulating falleth most with persons of equalitie1 for that it is scarse thought good maners1 and sometimes helde perillous to dispute of offences with one far aboue vs in authoritie1 and with our inferiour so to doe1 it turneth more often to bee ,reprehensorie then otherwise3 yet is the force thereof manie times caried from an inferiour to his better1 neuerthelesse with a kinde of aunswerable submission alwayes respectiue to the others reputation or greatnes4 ,and so may a man with his inferiour also in good sort sometime expostulate an iniurie1 wherin if he shall vouchsafe so to doe1 the partie lesse in abilitie hath the more reason to recognize his courtesie3 for a man of good sort and greatlie reputed of1 to offer as it were an imparlance vnto his inferiour1 whereby to argue with him a matter in suspence to bee noted an iniury1 cannot be but much to be praised1 and so adiudged in that betternesse1 as to procede of a most singular bountie4 ,so be it he do it not by insultation1 nor anie pricke of vainglorie1 for so doing it looseth a great part of the vertue therein praysed1 vnlesse the desert of the partie be such1 as may well merite that or a greater euill to be tendered4 ,by all these means as aforesaid may iniuries be expostulated1 the vsage whereof as well in matter of accusation as defence1 is indifferently to be carried1 considering that onely by varietie of allegations and not otherwise those questionable causes are to be sifted4 ,and so here out will we wade into their seuerall examples4 ,an example of an ,epistle expostulatorie touching certaine iniuries betweene two friends4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,maister ,l4 there passed if you doe call to minde1 twixt you and mee certaine speeches of great secrecie1 vehementlie concerning the state and good support of my brother4 ,and for as much as ,i had then great suppose1 both of your honest courtesie and great fidelitie 7as ,i thought7 sufficient to the matter then spoken of1 ,i did 7the extremitie of the cruell creditours requiring it7 not sticke to reueale vnto you the conceiued maner and means how the same might be redressed4 ,i do verie perfectly remember1 that but to one other besides your selfe1 ,i did communicate the cause1 of whose rare and singular honestie ,i doe so much assure my selfe1 that if hee should reueale the same1 ,i could despaire for euer to find any man secret1 or that with whatsoeuer matter of friendship might hereafter be credited4 ,but to be briefe with you1 the secret is discried1 and therewithall so fully laide open1 as the whole maner of the same in sort as it was determined by one of the parties whom it specially concerned1 hath been to my brothers owne eares deliuered4 ,the other partie to whome ,i reuealed it hath chaunged his lodging1 and hitherto ,i haue not sent vnto him3 whose approoued fidelitie for that it remaineth of no small record to my certaine knowledge1 ,i will presume to verifie4 ,it resteth then that ,i must needes expostulate with you touching the iniurie1 of whome ,i haue more cause to doubt1 being thereunto led not without manie and those verie absolute coniectures4 ,for first it is generallie knowne1 that you are verie needie1 and to be plaine with you1 there be those that will iustifie that by such meanes you do shift now and then verie cunninglie4 ,it is master ,l4 a verie base kinde of shift for a ,gentleman in anie treacherous manner to deale with his friend so vnkindlie4 ,and ,i can prooue besides1 that sithence my trust reposed1 you haue entred speciall conference with the partie4 ,the time likewise dooth somewhat assure me1 in which no one but your selfe coulde so suddenlie preuent mee4 ,there want not to giue scope hereunto1 the speeches also which the next day you deliuered mee after ,i had spoken with you1 which was1 you feared least my man ouerheard1 and might possiblie descrie mee1 whom your selfe knewe an houre before our conference1 to haue beene discharged our companie4 ,againe1 the person and place where he remaineth1 enforce something1 whereunto vnaccustomed you haue accesse1 and therefore for some speciall policie4 ,and notwithstanding all these vehement likelihoodes1 yet will ,i not condemne you1 till ,i see how you will confute mee4 ,albeit my censure hitherto passeth that verie hardlie you may answere it1 without especiall note of infamie2 which being so1 the displeasure may returne such as ,i can tell you1 will not be maistered verie easilie4 ,the haste of the messenger forbiddeth me longer delay1 by reason whereof1 ,i am compelled to leaue you4 ,b4 this of4 c4 ,an answere defensorie vnto the effects of the same ,epistle4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,sidenote3 ,excusati4 ,sidenote3 ,parmia4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,procatalepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,paramologia4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,charientismus4 ,maister ,h4 ,the manner of your writing seemeth vnto mee verye straunge1 and the circumstaunce such1 as ,i promise you1 wherewith ,i was neuer acquainted4 ,i am not a little greeued to thinke that you shoulde in that peremptorie sort you doe1 attribute vnto mee the name of so base and vnfitte a dealing4 ,i would well you and your informer vnderstoode3 that it is not my practise to vse that cunning1 which you like to tearme by the name of shifting1 neither 7by whatsoeuer necessitie constrained7 doe ,i inure my selfe vnto the same4 ,it is an olde ,prouerbe1 ,where the hedge is lowest1 there euerie man is readie to goe ouer4 ,the verifying whereof appeareth in you1 who hauing no more certaintie then your meere imaginations to suspende mee1 doe iniuriouslie obiect my necessitie1 as beeing the onelie meane wherewith to disgrace me4 ,whie1 maister ,h4 dooth it therefore followe because ,i want1 that my minde must of force become maimed with such treacherie8 ,you are deceyued1 and they guesse much awrie1 that in such hatefull manner doe go about to abuse mee4 ,what argument call you that1 that for because you reuealed your counsell to vs two1 and it liketh you to preferre by certaine allowaunce the others reputation and abilitie before mee1 that therefore ,i haue deceyued you8 ,whie if you list to suppose a trueth on my side 7as lawfullie you might doe7 were there not as much reason that ,i for mine honestie1 as hee for his brauerie shoulde as indifferentlie bee censured8 ,but your probable coniectures you will saie doe entice you1 the one whereof is the time wherein none coulde preuent you4 ,was not ,i pray you that other in ,towne as well as ,i1 though hee altered his lodging8 ,and suppose that euerie daie wee were both heere since1 may it bee vnpossible that another might endammage the matter as well as we8 ,but ,i had speciall conference with the partie1 and the place and person without that occasion1 of no likelihoode by mee to bee frequented4 ,had ,i conference8 ,is that a thing so maruellous8 ,am ,i so farre estraunged from honestie1 that ,i may not haue speech with a man1 but to worke my friend villanie8 ,alacke man1 whie1 ,i was neuer so fearefull of mine one keeping secretes1 that ,i woulde haue denied it if you had asked mee1 neither doe ,i much force if your owne eyes doe witnesse the cause when ,i next speake with you4 ,in saying the place and person was before time by mee vnused1 you speake iniuriouslie1 for your owne selfe doe knowe1 that both he and the rest1 were to mee knowne before time1 and that verie familiarlie4 ,to conclude1 ,i wish you to bee perswaded1 that in rewarding mee with such conceytes as these1 you shall doe mee but small courtesie1 and ill requite my faythfulnesse by vpbrayding mee with my necessitie1 that woulde haue endeuoured all meanes possible to pleasure you4 ,and as touching anie infamie to me redounding herein1 ,i woulde ,i could as well cleare all my offences to ,god-warde1 as ,i can free my selfe of this suspition1 and that with as great honestie1 as others most maliciouslie haue sought to defame mee1 and then no doubt my account should be a great deale lesse then it is1 when euer the ,almightie by his eternall summons should call me4 ,in resolution whereof1 ,i ende this answere4 ,the of4 c4 ,a reply to the said answere ,defensorie1 wherein the matter of the ,epistle is more firmlie maintained4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,of ancient time it hath often beene sayde1 that it is euill halting before a ,cripple1 faithfull dealing and flourishing glosing are two contraries4 ,among true friends indeede1 and such as doe make more account of their credite and honestie1 then of the base acquiring of a sleight commoditie1 ,i doe confesse it is not of small moment to builde vpon the rock of their assurance1 and to make reckoning of their word1 to the vttermost1 but where ,gentilitie is not alonelie spotted1 but in a manner couered and debased alreadie with vnhonestie1 and men hold it for a ,maxime to shrowd their lauish and euer emptied expence1 by whatsoeuer kinde of lucre1 bee it neuer so filthie1 it is not necessarie that repose bee in such place stablished1 least the vntimelie rooting thereof1 doe make men banne their winnings1 and lament the bitternesse of their losse1 when too late they are out of hope1 for euer to haue the same recouered4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,it seemeth ,maister ,l4 by the continuance of your ,letter1 that the censure of my former direction1 you haue passed ouer very sleightlie1 conceiuing that by a number of od speeches 7which in maner of a racket you haue vsed1 to tosse my coniectures as tennis balles1 being at your deeming not much materiall1 whether by order of the game you returne them into the court1 or banding them in the aire1 suffer them to flie at all aduentures7 you do yet suppose to haue wrought a masterie1 and of whatsoeuer to bee saide agaynst you1 to haue discharged your selfe verie soundlie4 ,you must thinke ,m4 ,l4 ,i am no babie1 neither do you deale with such a one1 that notwithstanding in a plaine and honest vsage hee accordeth to all simplicitie1 is yet of so meane conceyte but hee is able to vent your vttermost actions1 deale you in the handling of the same neuer so cunningly4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,confutati4 ,the maner of your vsage1 being peraduture deliuered in some place where you were lesse knowne1 might make a flourish for your credit1 and for the present1 in one sort or other auaile you1 but vnto me it is but matter to smile at1 and occasion 7to deale plainlie with you7 the more to mislike you1 who not contenting your selfe to haue dealte more vnfriendlie then befitteth1 haue determined belike in your reasons to make me beleeue1 that ,i haue offered you the iniurie1 and when you haue stung mee to the quicke1 perswade me that the violence of the mischiefe lighted vpon your owne body4 ,but the course herein you take1 is too far wide from the censure of any honest opinion4 ,what tell you me you were acquainted before time with the partie1 and of ,i know not what businesse you had to do1 which at the next sight you care not to shew mee8 and then forsooth that the others ability and my suppose must bee preferred before you1 in respecte of your necessitie8 with such other friuolous repetitions without substance or honestie8 and after that some ,robin the deuil1 or ,i wot not what spirit of the aire must besides impossibility be supposed to reueale the accident4 ,what vanity is this8 what matter of reason therein1 that as before ,i might not assure my selfe of your infidelity8 to what end proceedeth al the other circumstances1 vpon what conceipt doe they cleare you8 ,tush1 tush1 deceiue not your selfe1 nor thinke you go so couertly but that men of discretion can and do daily see you4 ,somwhat more th you think ,i haue sithence heard how the world goeth with you1 you thought it very much at the beginning ,i shoulde expostulate with you1 but if ,i should stir you with this item that ,i can tell you where1 when1 and vpon what expectation you descried mee1 you might thinke ,i did not then disguize with you4 ,i study not to capitulate your iniuries1 as confessing my selfe also not to bee vnburdened with offences3 ,but good ,i deeme it were ,m4 ,l4 that by some meanes you tooke notice of your owne infirmities4 ,to aggrauate the wrong that you haue done me1 ,i list not1 and more then ,i intended haue ,i spoken vpon that you haue answered4 ,being vnwilling to toile my selfe1 or trouble your conceiptes any further1 ,i herewith conclude1 ,more sorie of your ill condition1 then of the abuse you haue done me4 ,a second answere by the like reasons of the replie1 in further defence of the partie4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,parmia4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,as auncientlie it hath beene accustomed 7as in the prouerbe by you alleadged7 ,better it were for some to steale a horse1 then for others to looke on4 ,it is an easie matter to find a staffe to beate a dog1 and to him that list to haue a bad conceipt1 what honest excuse may be alleadged that can drawe him from it4 ,men that are opinionatiue1 doe not for the most part measure thinges as they are1 but commonlie as their mind leadeth them1 and generally to speake of many thinges that in particular are vnnumbred1 what the cceipt giueth in certainty to be adiudged1 there is with diuers persons no question of good and bad afterwardes to be opposed4 ,among friends sundry occasions do happen that meerely for themselues are to bee supported1 the least of which happening among strangers1 would not without great discontentment be carried4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,it is giuen to some to beare much1 because they seeme to bee borne to it1 and to laie their shoulders vnder euerie loade1 because they are inured vnto it3 yet all that carie loades are not ,asses1 not euerie one that supporteth a burden is forthwith a pack-horse4 ,i knowe wel ,m4 ,a4 you are no babie1 nor ,i thinke you do suppose me so sencelesse as to be a foole4 ,i vse no rackets to your reasons1 as vniustlie you conceiue of me1 nor would ,i haue you imagine that bicause you think ill of me ,i must needs be guilty4 ,i tell you againe as ,i told you before1 you highly doe wrong me4 ,and in this one more then any other1 you most vnfriendly do abuse me4 ,why do you so oft inculcate vnto me1 what other haue reported1 and some say they haue seene in me8 ,it is the truth ,i stand vpon1 not the malice of any one whatsoeuer1 that so vilely misdeemeth me4 ,it is not my custome to winke at all thinges as ,i doe vnto you1 so indifferently1 but yet would ,i haue you conceiue howe much the iniury toucheth me4 ,you argue against mee that it is not inough that ,i say it is not so1 so say ,i vnto you1 that you ought not to charge mee without you can proue it so4 ,because there resteth some matter wherby ,i am in good condition tyed vnto you1 it is not seemely for your credit1 nor fit for the honesty wherof you make profession1 to lade me any whit the more with iniury4 ,make what large collection you list of my present state and necessity1 ,i tell you1 ,i deeme my selfe the same man that ,i was in greater prosperity4 ,my request is for the surcease of all this iarre1 your opinion maie stande as you list1 but giue mee conuenient time and accesse to cleare mee4 ,to vrge me as you doe1 maie but breede that which to neither of vs may returne pleasing1 and which in the end ,i knowe will be to you most discontenting4 ,it were good that with lesse resolution you did sway your opinions1 so might you with smaller difficulty decerne1 what with facility in fine you will of your selfe condiscend vnto4 ,my selfe being as loth to disturbe you1 as your self seeme wearied with the former toile doe herewith set my limits1 who worse conceipted of your light beliefe then of the wrong you haue done me1 do not withstanding continue1 ,desirous of your reformed imagination1 c4 ,now after these double thwartinges on either part receiued in expostulating this iniury1 7the like whereof by writing is sundrie times occasioned1 and remaineth in this place onlie for varietie1 to make shew how by well handeling1 matters may on both sides be equally enforced or weakned7 ,i will sort you forth two or three seuerall examples more1 because of the necessary and often occurrence of this title1 daily being accustomed in our writing4 ,the first whereof shall be for matter of vnkindnesse3 ,the second for breach of promise3 ,the thirde from a meane ,gentleman to a personage of great honour1 wherby in cause of betternesse shall be exampled how iniuries may be expostulated or complained of1 and these in sequence shall followe by their examples4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,expostulatory touching vnkindnesse receiued4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,maister ,g4 ,i haue great maruell that remaining hitherto in town as you do1 we can by no possibility heare of your being1 but by such iangling messengers as you make currors for spite1 whereby to abuse your friendes4 ,in which the discurtesie is far more by the vnbeseeming courses dealings therein vsed1 then fitteth either your honestie or our friendship to be tolerated4 ,i doubted not ere this time how apt you were to conceiue 7euen for a verie toie7 in the worst degree that might bee1 of any one that behaueth himselfe neuer so well vnto you1 so ticklish are your humours1 and so vnsteady your censures4 ,and which is worst1 it cannot with you rest in imagination alone1 but in such odde kinde of reportes1 and to such base persons you deliuer it1 as it verelie seemeth1 you little recke what discredit you offer a man in the same1 the least whereof would make you storme to the gall1 if a man should but ouerslip himselfe in giuing any manner of sound of you1 tending to such effect as you proffer4 ,good ,god sir1 are you and ,i of late become such straungers together1 as that neither writing nor request may serue to haue accesse to your presence4 ,trust mee ,i am vnused to these deuises1 nor fit they at all vnto my appetite4 ,either something or no body to me1 but vnto such as more recke of your coynesse then ,i doe1 you may be as you will1 or as their fortunes may beare with you4 ,for my part ,i am too vnapt to weld any such insupportable amity4 ,if you can vse me as your vpright1 honest1 and well meaning friend1 ,i am vnto you as firme as you woulde wish me1 otherwise to encounter so many diuersities1 of vnfrequented fancies1 toyes1 or mislikes1 it aunswereth in no point vnto my propertie1 which hauing thought good of meere well wishing to signifie vnto you by present writing1 ,i leaue you to your best opinion1 this of c4 ,yours in all good sort to be entertained1 c4 ,an example of an ,epistle expostulatory for breach of promise4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,master ,k4 ,i haue abstayned hitherto to come or sende vnto you1 partly weried with importunity1 for that ,i thought two moneths being now passed1 ,i might in this space haue found a season conuenient1 wherein to haue ended with you4 ,hauing taken this cause in hand1 ,i woulde 7as in good reason it seemeth fit7 you should determine with me vpon some conclusion1 wheron resting assured1 ,i might thenceforth know wherunto to trust1 neither waste labour in comming to so small purpose1 nor hinder my certaine busines by the vnsteadie stay of your affaires1 as alreadie ,i haue done4 ,we haue talked manie times1 and set downe certaine limits1 marie to so slender effect1 as ,i neither know when to demaund1 nor you howe to satisfie4 ,so that depending vpon shadowes1 ,i haue passed my time with small benefite1 and you haue gone forward to little purpose4 ,i doe pray you therefore that hence-foorth such honest meaning maie assure vs1 as alreadie betweene vs hath on either part beene performed1 ,to delaie me thus with nifles1 as ,i thinke it farre from a ,gentleman1 so do ,i suppose you not intend it1 considering how many wayes thereby1 ,i am and shall be hindred4 ,this therfore may be the certaine meane to satisfie vs both1 that you will 7as on ,friday last you promised7 come and see the agreement betweene vs performed1 whereof ,i pray you aduertise your full resolution by this bearer4 ,and so ,i bid you heartily fare well1 c4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,expostulatorie from an inferiour ,gentleman to his farre better in degree1 authoritie and calling4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,right ,honourable1 though by the custome and common policie of this vnhappie worlde1 ,i am better warranted with a personage of your greatnesse1 to dissemble1 then to deale plainlie1 yet because ,i finde as well by ,gods owne worde1 as by the euent of mens practises1 that such customes are neither pleasing to his ,maiestie1 nor alwayes profitable to such as vse them1 ,i haue aduentured to manifest that by paper1 which by words 7albeit many times desirous7 ,i neur had heart to vtter4 ,sidenote3 ,propositi4 ,my purpose is to be plaine1 and in honest and dutifull sort to expostulate with your ,l4 wherein ,i finde my selfe greeued1 and vpon what ground this my complaint is framed4 ,i therfore most humblie beseech your ,l4 for ,gods sake and your owne1 to pardon this presumption1 and to admit me fauourable and indifferent construction1 of what ,i shall here vnfolde vnto you by writing4 ,i exclaime of wrong passed1 ,i vrge my miserie present1 and ,i complaine of you to your selfe1 and so doe make you iudge of all that shall be hereafter enformed4 ,your ,l4 did once knowe1 and hath still some cause to remember1 that of all such lande and liuings as my father at his death was possessed1 one onelie poore farme fall to my share4 ,i my selfe doe knowe1 and shall neuer easilie forget1 that after the same was thrust into my handes1 ,i neuer inioyed it without much vnquietnesse1 quarrell and vexation1 nor without the continuall malice and molestation of my vnnaturall ,vncle1 and such his associates1 as by setting him on1 vnderhande1 did afterwardes finde meanes to fasten in the same4 ,this poore liuing 7once in maner lost1 afterwards recouered1 and yet still fearefullie kept1 the rather by meane of a newe trouble1 moued vnto me by maister ,b47 ,i was in fine driuen to offer for a little1 but to sell for lesse4 ,now here begins my iust cause of complaint4 ,for vpon firme hope of your ,l4 fauour towards me1 and that you would according to your honourable promises haue done me an expected good3 ,i was content to yeeld my interest for eleuen hundred and three score pounds1 where sixteene hundred pounds had beene before offered by my kinsman1 and so ,i then told you4 ,this offer of mine1 your ,l4 for the time accepted1 yeelding with some difficultie to paie the odde eight score poundes1 where ,i ought it4 ,howe be it afterwardes1 hauing gotten the ,lease into your hands1 and beeing possessed of the bargaine1 and none nowe daring to take the same from you1 you quarrelled with the ,lease as before you had done with the title1 and made mee a fresh abatement of the odde eight score poundes1 affirming it to bee no part of your charge to paie my debts4 ,to salue this mischiefe1 and to saue my eight score poundes 7your ,lordship hauing reported the former bargaine to your most aduauntage7 ,i laboured without auaile1 to helpe your memorie therein4 ,protesting 7and that most trulie7 that vpon mine earnest and humble petition vnto your ,l4 to leaue mee woorth a thousand pounds1 and to paie my debts1 and in regarde also of the great abatement of what ,i might haue had else where1 your ,lordshippe had condiscended in the former conference to discharge the same4 ,and thereupon willed me1 at my next returne to bring a note of my debts1 with the names of my creditors4 ,this tale ,i well remember with more trueth then good successe vttred 7speciallie the often touch of what my kinsman had offered me7 did greatlie mislike you4 ,whereupon growing in heate 7yet with some regard of honour7 you swore that if anie other bought the same at my handes then your selfe1 you would haue it for lesse then fiue hundred pounds1 yea1 for nothing1 or else it should go hard4 ,marie keeping it my selfe1 you said you would stand my friend3 which hote or colde conclusion1 ,i protest did so appale1 as with feare of further losse1 with griefe and discontentment ,i grewe sicke1 and thereupon resolued to take what you would giue me4 ,your ,lordship hauing thus1 what with countenaunce and choler dismayed mee1 and finding by such peremptorinesse my sense to bee ouercome1 you ranne on still with this wresting course1 and vpon authoritie without cause or colour1 cut me yet thirtie pound shorter4 ,so as in place of one thousand sixe hundred pound offered mee by my kinsman in the ,countrey1 your ,lordship gaue mee nine hundred and seuentie pound1 leauing me out of this to pay a hundred and sixtie pound debt4 ,by these meanes 7right ,honourable7 was ,i then halfe impouerished1 and am now altogither vndone1 hauing neither skill to vse that little you gaue1 nor will to raise my selfe after my fall1 which ,i thought impossible4 ,it was a wholsome caueat giuen mee by your ,lordship1 and a full resolution put downe by my selfe1 rather to stoope and to liue somwhat sparing1 then by anie prodigalitie to impaire my stock3 but being neither ,marchant1 ,artizan1 ,broker1 nor ,vsurer1 nor hauing among manie debtors1 scarce one good payer1 ,i coulde hardly frame to doe what was aduised me1 or be so much mine owne friend1 as at first ,i had determined4 ,my state then brought thus lowe1 my friends decayed and dead1 my liuing sold for little1 and the money spent1 ,i resolued and stil doe with the rest to leaue my ,countrey1 as well to couer my want from mine enemies1 as to seuer my selfe from so vnfortunate acquaintance4 ,find time therefore ,i beseech your honour1 before my going to examine these particulars1 they containe ,i protest nothing but matter of truth4 ,it is a high vertue and most commendable in a man of your state1 to right your inferiour against your selfe1 by this shall you winne him vnfainedlie to loue you1 who now vpon iust cause can do no lesse1 then thinke himselfe wronged by you4 ,and so my good ,l4 this bill exibited into your chamber1 not into any court1 deliuered to your owne handes1 and to no man els1 ,i leaue to your honourable and best consideration1 humblie once againe beseeching your ,l4 to suspend your hardest conceit against mee1 for expostulating my griefs1 in repect my plainnes herein1 passeth not without truth1 nor any wrong enforced1 but vpon iust occasion4 ,of ,epistles ,exprobratorie4 ,chap4 #d4 ,from matter ,expostulatorie1 wee will nowe turne our selues to the next title beeing ,exprobratorie1 vnder which is contained cause indeede of vehement and grieuous disdaine3 chieflie touching offences that impugne a contrarie and laudable merite and desert4 ,for which1 howbeit in all ciuill vsages it be accounted vndecent1 vncourteous1 and vnbeseming anie gentle condition1 to reproch a man in time of mislike1 with good offices or turnes1 that before he hath receiued4 ,so when contrarie to the honest affection vnto him bountifully tendred1 a man shall either vngratefully refuse to recognize the same goodnes1 or impudentlie1 vnciuilly1 or inhumainly go about to reward euil for good1 and to enforce a most vniust vexation1 where himselfe hath receyued most comfort4 ,in such cases to vse this ,exprobratory maner of writing1 to signifie vnto y party so forgetfull of gentlenes1 both what he hath receiued1 and howe much he was charged by all waies1 limits and means that may be enforced1 of humanitie1 pietie1 or gentlenes1 it shall not be amisse1 and to such ende no other is this ,exprobratorie kind of ,epistles to be vsed3 ,of which1 some certaine examples are in this place to be deliuered4 ,an example of an epistle ,exprobratorie touching ingra- titude receiued4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,synathrismus4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,i doe not maruell at your woonted and sundrie delayes in aunswering my requestes1 nor that you breake so manie promises with your friendes for the gratifying of their courtesies3 ,in that beeing thinges by nature annexed as they are to so seruile a condition1 they seeme 7as remedilesse7 in all discreet iudgementes to bee borne withall4 ,but that ,i wonder at1 is1 howe my selfe 7knowing as ,i doe1 and hauing so often tasted of that contemptible and harde disposition of yours towardes mee7 should yet be so assotted1 as to straine my friendes1 to spende my money1 exercise my wits1 yeelde my trauell1 bende my care1 and passe my credite1 to relieue1 vpholde1 nourish and maintaine such a one1 in bringing him from nought to ought1 from the dunghill to the court1 from woe to wealth1 as hath neither honestie to regarde me1 wit to vse me1 will to requite me1 ciuilitie to respect mee1 good nature to thanke me1 nor any one sparke of endeuour whereby so much in good seeming to behaue himselfe towards me4 ,many occasions haue beene giuen mee before time by some other misprizers of my curtesie1 but you of all others haue exceeded and do passe them all in vnhonestie4 ,that ,i shoulde bee occasioned thus to reproch you as ,i doe1 is iwis vnto me no great contentment1 but that at my handes who alwaies haue so manifoldlie deserued of you1 you should so far forth challenge to be reproched1 that certainly is it whereof you ought most to bee ashamed4 ,howe many wayes you haue wronged me1 and howe little cause hereafter ,i haue to entermedle or haue to doe with you1 hauing so ingratefully1 nay rather inhumanelie dealt with me1 let the world iudge betweene you and me4 ,had ,i tried you in much1 or in one halfe of that whereby in very dutie you are charged vnto me1 it had beene somewhat to haue denied me3 ,but in a matter so slender1 so small valued1 and but a trifle1 to delay me1 to stande with mee1 to breake promise with mee1 and which is worst of all1 most vnciuillie therewith to bearde me1 that of all others is the most detested that may bee4 ,sorie ,i am1 not that ,i haue knowne you1 for the knowledge shall keepe mee from you1 but that in nourishing of you1 ,i forgot my selfe so much1 as ,i coulde neuer till this present perceiue nor looke after you4 ,fare as you will for me1 who euer hereafter desire neither to know nor see you4 ,from ,b4 this of1 c4 ,an ,epistle exprobatory1 more largely exampled4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,hyperbole4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,albeit vnto a gentle minde there is nothing lesse proper1 then a reproching of benefittes3 nor any thing more contrarying1 then to bee touched with discurtesies3 yet respecting the weight of the manifold wrongs done vnto me1 most iniurious deuises1 wherein thou hast contrary to all lawes of nature1 vertue1 or honestie1 gone about to abuse mee1 rewarding not euill1 but worse then mischiefe it selfe1 for good1 and doing that which all men hate1 and the most discreet doe abhorre in requitall of that which ,i chieflie deserued of thee1 ,i hold my selfe neither to be touched in gentlenes1 nor deemed at all in discurtesie1 if to such a ,camelion ,i giue his due colours1 of so vile a viper doe bewray the feature1 to so ingratefull a wretch doe blaze forth his picture1 and of so vglie a beast do yeeld his due portraiture1 to the ende that at least it may appeare vnto thy selfe1 howe vnlike to that thou hast euer seemed vnto me1 ,i haue nowe found thee1 and how contrarying to that my selfe haue manifoldly bounde thee1 thou hast now shewed thy selfe vnto me4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,brachiologa4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,anthipophora4 ,to the opening whereof let mee call to remembraunce that beeing here a great while sithence a straunger1 spoiled of that thou haddest1 laden with sicknesse1 pursued of thy foes1 burdensome to thy friends1 subiect to a number of casualties1 of death1 pouertie1 hatred1 penurie1 griefe1 trouble1 and want1 ,i tooke thee1 ,i kept thee1 ,i relieued thee1 ,i prouided for thee1 and that at such time as when forsaken of all others1 thou wast onely compassed with extremitie1 had not this one curtesie1 nay rather vnaccustomed kindnes1 beene sufficient alone1 wherewith to haue bound thee8 ,questionlesse it had1 rested there at al any sparke of good condition within thee1 yet had this been all that ,i had done for thee1 happilie could ,i then haue contented my selfe1 and haue thought that thou haddest therein alone dealt but ingratefullie4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,paradoxon4 ,sidenote3 ,hyperbole4 ,abhorrest thou not in the perusing hereof to thinke howe thou hast vsed mee8 ,well knowest thou that on this hie point of curtesie1 ,i stucke not alone with thee1 for after a recouery by my meanes had1 and restitutions of thine estate1 vnto thy wonted possessions1 health1 freedome and libertie1 ,i not only so setled thee1 but beeing haled thy selfe 7as it were7 out of the ,lions iawes1 ,i made thine aduersaries a praie vnto thee1 ,i fauored thee1 ,i loued thee1 ,i esteemed thee when none would regard thee1 when all men despised thee4 ,were not these benefits sufficient1 to haue yoked any good or honest disposition vnto me8 ,what ,viper may ,i then terme thee8 what monster or hellish imp that not onely hast not vouchsafed so much as to requite1 but scornest in apparance so much as to beare a good opinion towardes me8 ,is it possible that man than a ,serpent1 or than the very ,crocodile it selfe should become more malicious1 yet hast thou in far greater quantitie then these contained thy venome1 the ,hydra was not answerable vnto thy propertie1 the very ,sauages themselues could not equall thee1 thou art infine beyond all1 and there are none beyond thee1 for both men and beasts do abhor thy treachery4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,pleonasmus4 ,sidenote3 ,polyptoton4 ,what then auaileth that of such a one ,i haue merited so highlie8 ,whereto serueth it to haue extended on him so greate and vnused bounty8 ,the dog fawneth by kinde where he is loued1 the ,tyger by gentlenes is from his cruelty disturned1 the ,lion wil not suffer a kindnes vnregarded4 ,but thou 7hatefull of all others7 degenerating from all nature both of men and beasts weighest not of friendship1 reiectest fauors1 hatest all gentlenes1 regardest no kindnes1 contemnest merits1 and kindlesse of all kinds1 or rather sequestred from any kinde1 giuest thy selfe to rewarde the best deseruinges1 with vnauoidable and most destestable villanies4 ,sidenote3 ,epizeuxis4 ,sidenote3 ,anaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,had ,i not too much deserued as ,i haue done at thy handes1 it might in some sort haue sufficed me4 ,had ,i by any known or pretended euill1 euer pursued thee1 had ,i meant at any time badly vnto thee1 it might yet haue ctented me1 that forgetfull of al that before passed1 thou shouldest in this hatefull manner haue dealt with mee4 ,but hauing onely heaped on thy head a multitude of fauors1 receiued thee as ,i haue done with so sundrie curtesies1 imbraced thee as thou knowest with infinite contentmentes1 deliuered thee from death1 and verie hellish tormentors1 what kindnesse could be more1 or what merite so ample8 ,and contrariwise1 what requitall so slender1 what acknowledgement so bad1 or what recompence so euill1 then wherewith besides all course of iustice and equitie thou hast most vnnaturally acquited me8 ,one only comfort resteth1 that of all honest minds thou art hated deseruedly1 and out of all gentle company art excluded perpetually1 wherin hauing the only solace vnto my grieued conceits1 that for the present may be acquired1 ,i liue in hope to see thee once againe to haue neede of mee1 when according to thy demerits ,i shall thinke of thee1 and in the meane while esteeme of thy fashions1 as thou hast giuen me cause to accompt of them4 ,of ,letters inuectiue4 ,chap4 #e4 ,to these ,exprobratorie epistles1 doth next follow the title inuectiue4 ,a sharpe and bitter inueighing against the person1 dedes1 or behauiours of men1 occupied altogether in condemning1 disabling1 and wresting1 whatsoeuer maie bee collected to the reproofe1 diminution1 or impugning of anie one1 and that by all maner of quips1 tauntes1 reproches1 blames1 imputations1 or designmentes that maie bee of euils4 ,and yet this not by a disordered1 malicious or railing humour1 vniustlie and without great and forcible cause to be pursued1 but by a learned1 discreete1 lawfull1 or reasonable toleration to be followed1 which in all maner of directions is principallie to be required4 ,the conueiance is as full of ,art as anie others1 that heretofore haue beene exampled vnto you1 and as well for rife and quicke inuention1 as orderlie disposition1 enforcementes1 and neate deliuerie1 hath his speciall commendation4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,inuectiue of a father against his sonne4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,the sight of your letters1 and message receiued by your seruant haue 7good ,coosen7 bred to mee in perusing and harkening vnto the same1 no small matter of disquiet1 not that your letters or messages for themselues are1 or haue beene at anie time ill welcome to my hands1 but in respect of him for whom they come1 whom in truth ,i neuer recke if ,i heare of1 so filled haue ,i beene long since with the euils by him committed4 ,i am nothing ignorant that of loue and meere good will you beare to mee and mine1 you framed your speeches vnto me1 which with how much tediousnes ,i haue considered of1 and with what willingnes ,i could haue omitted to answere them1 no one can so wel giue testimony1 as the burthen of mine owne sorrow beareth witnes vnto me4 ,sidenote3 ,apostrophe4 ,sidenote3 ,noema4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,but for that ,i see you are ill conceyted at my heauinesse1 and of your owne good nature woulde gladlye finde meane to recouer that vnto mee1 which my selfe am out of hope for euer to compasse1 ,i am content1 though ill pleasing to my remembraunce1 and the rather also that by the extremitie of the euilles your owne minde maie bee disswaded from anie further dealing in the cause1 to shewe vnto you the good conditions of him you sue for1 what manner a sonne hee hath alwayes beene vnto mee1 what reason thereby ,i haue to commaunde him from mee1 and howe farre wide you are1 that in such sort as you declare1 doe conceiue both of him1 and of mee4 ,sidenote3 ,paralepsis ,i neede not repeate heere vnto you1 with what fatherlie care ,i haue brought him vppe to mannes estate1 by what prouident foresight1 ,i sought both with maintenaunce and conuenient place of credite1 to continue him as a ,gentleman1 howe vnwilling ,i was to enter into the search of euerie small offence1 but attributing the force thereof to his tyme of youth1 was content to winke at that manie times1 the sufferaunce whereof ,i doubted would turne to the ruine that it presentlie carrieth4 ,i will but giue you an instaunce of the same1 to the intent that as you shall knowe thereof1 so may you in reuoluing the rest1 consider the better howe vnkindlie1 yea1 more then vnnaturallye ,i maie saie1 hee hath rewarded me1 and therewith will come to the present estate wherein he now remaineth4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,commoratio4 ,it is ,i iudge about three yeares sithence1 to the intent to retaine him in some good order of life1 ,i placed him with a right godlie and worshipfull ,knight1 ,sir ,h4 ,d4 who for my sake both loued him1 and ,i knowe tooke paines to the vttermost to reforme him1 before that time ,i had placed him in an ,inne of ,courte1 where with expences sufficient ,i kept him4 ,in both of these places hee brought mee more then ,i will rehearse indebted1 ranne himselfe on the rockes1 durst not besides 7for that priuilie hee had taken vp7 to shewe his head4 ,complaints were infinite against him1 this man could not bee in quiet for him1 that mans seruant hee misused1 this partie hee deceyued1 that other hee highlie wronged3 what coulde ,i doe vnto these thinges1 but as one desirous to reclaime him whom he knewe to be his owne 7though with a resolute vow neuer to deale with him17 ,i then had cast him off1 yet by intreatie of his friends1 and his earnest submission ,i receiued him againe4 ,sithence which too much it is to be reuealed1 how stubbornlie euen in mine owne house1 how iniuriously among mine owne people1 he hath behaued himselfe1 by reason whereof as compelled for the quiet of mine owne familie1 ,i appoynted him to goe from hence into ,s4 there to remaine with his ,vncle4 ,and because it was against a ,christmasse1 and that ,i woulde not dismisse him vnfurnished of that belonged vnto a ,gentleman1 7besides that1 with a couple of good ,geldings ,i horsed him and his man1 and suted him of apparell1 and what other needfull necessaries7 ,i deliuered him twentie pounds in his purse4 ,hee was no sooner gone to ,d4 beeing not past twentie myles from my house1 but the verie same night hee loste all his money at dice1 pawned his horses for twentie ,nobles1 and was faine of an honest friend of mine to borrow tenne poundes for his expences1 and to redeeme his ,geldings1 one of my poore ,tenants there refusing to supplie his wantes1 hee fowlie beate1 and if companie had not come in to the rescue1 had like to haue slaine him4 ,nay1 what hath hee done more1 but knowing that these his ill demeanours comming once to mine eares1 ,i woulde neuer after repute of him1 hee hath confederated with a wicked rascall that once was his man1 who beeing the verye same night in his companie1 the next day after came to my house and robbed me4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,prolepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,prosopopia4 ,are not these impieties 7thinke you7 verie straunge8 ,what ,nature is in such a sonne1 nay1 where in him are those district lawes of ,nature become1 that commonlie enforceth in all other children1 an awfull loue and reuerent regarde vnto their parents8 ,where is the feare of diuine and humane lawes1 the one threatning a sharpe scourge for such vndutifulnesse1 and the other punishing by penall forfeytures and imprisonments1 the manner of such detestable and disordered loosenesse4 ,to what issue is the auncient right and laudable custome of our forefathers alreadie runne1 that whilome by seuere directions compelled the runnagate vsage of their children to a more district imposition and farre estranged exaction then nowe vsed1 of a most rare and singular obedience8 ,why is the common intendment earst in our predecessours tymes1 of lawfull and good so accustomablie vsed1 thus quite forworne1 and in these our seasons 7filled with all kind of carelesnes7 so far forth disgraced8 who is he that now recketh farther then his owne fantasie1 or what sonne wil for any zeale or dutie once seeke to repell his owne appetite8 ,whither are ye gone yee iust and seuere iudges1 by whose sentence and opinion definitiue sharpe and bitter tortures were laid downe vnto them1 that durst presume by any outward shewe in the world1 but once so much as to countermaund the authoritie of their fathers8 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,orismus4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,o times more iniurious then euill it selfe1 by whose onely sufferance1 mischiefe spreadeth her selfe so highly as it doth1 into such manifold branches4 ,what would you haue me to say in these things8 thinke you not that ,i haue alreadie receiued discontentment inough at such a ones hande8 or would you wish me againe by returning him home weetinglie1 to sucke vp mine owne misfortune1 and by nourishing an expugnable wickednesse1 to see a demonstration of mine owne sorrowe and destruction daylie before mine eyes8 ,no1 no1 coosin1 ,i haue 7,i hope7 taken order sufficient for these thinges1 his presence ,i am resolued shal no more disquiet mee1 by hearing or remembrance of him1 if no friend of mine doe otherwise vexe mee1 for needes a vexation must it bee1 be it but the least suppose1 to conceiue that ,i haue yet remayning vnto mee such a sonne4 ,take heede 7good ,coosen7 that as hee hath deceyued a great manie others1 but mee of all others most especiallie1 he also doe not deceyue you4 ,driue him quicklie from your presence1 and thinke that a greater plague can you not receyue into your familie1 then a person so vile1 and of all others demeaned so wickedlie4 ,this is all that ,i can delyuer you of my present opinion1 but not the least of a thousande other accidents occasioning the same4 ,whereon ,i am determined fullie to repose my selfe4 ,sending in the meane time my heartiest commendations and earnest thankes for the indifferent care had of my being both to you and your bedfellow1 this of1 c4 ,an answere purgatorie of the sonne touching matters ,inuectiue of the former ,epistle4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,were it not sir that my presence might more offend you then ,i wish1 or by anie action of mine owne1 woulde willinglie deserue1 ,i had 7emboldened by the equitie and right of my cause7 in all humble reuerence and dutie1 tendered my self vnto you1 but vnderstanding howe greatly the malice of mine auncient enemies haue preuailed towards mee1 and that without the verie pietie of your selfe1 and equall regarde had to the due information of my cause1 there is no place of fauour left vnto me1 ,i choose as the meetest to abandon for a while the yeelding vnto you 7by my accesse7 of anie such annoyance1 and in the meane time1 to frame these humble lines1 pacifiers of your more then ordinarie discontentments1 that as true aduertisers of the course of that wherwith ,i am charged1 they may plead pardon of your protested mislike1 and winne vnto me 7as ,i hope7 that intertainment againe1 from which hitherto by the vndeserued proceedings of mine aduersaries1 ,i haue iniuriouslie beene detained4 ,sidenote3 ,insinuati4 ,sidenote3 ,paresia4 ,and albeit there is no reason whie1 in the measure of all your actions1 ,i shoulde or ought to deeme1 that you doe1 or enterprise anie thing vnaduisedlie3 yet for so much as the secret sting of malice is such1 as is able to penetrate the wisest1 and that where much is feared1 the least matter inducing thereunto is made occasion to question of1 ,i doe in as lowlie manner as ,i maie1 beseech that but with indifferencie you will see howe and in what sort ,i am wronged1 and giuing credite to what hereby in mine owne defence alledged1 you will censure the rest1 as to the respect of your fatherlie pietie appertaineth4 ,sidenote3 ,propositi4 ,sidenote3 ,anaphora4 ,the weight of that1 for which as ,i vnderstande you are agreeued agaynst mee1 is that heretofore you haue had suggested vnto you that ,i am verie vnthriftie1 that ,i keepe lewde companie1 that ,i consume all at dice1 that ,i am a quarreller1 and lastlie1 that you surmize you were robbed by meane of mee1 or by my assent1 all which to confirme1 mine aduersaries seeme to haue gathered vppon me great aduantage1 in that notwithstanding1 beeing often forewarned the contrarie1 ,i sithence fell into companie1 played at dice1 brake a mans head1 and that my man that robbed you1 was the night before in my companie4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,paramologia4 ,much more euill commonlie carrieth the reporter1 in deliuering an ill suppose of a reasonable conceyted matter1 then oftentimes dooth the action it selfe1 in the most woorst degree of truth that can bee1 beeing equallie considered of1 for example1 was it euer helde a thing insufferable for a ,gentleman to frequent companie or to plaie at dice8 ,may it not sometimes be iustifiable to breake a mans heade8 is it a matter of preiudice that hee who once did mee seruice was seene in my company8 ,your selfe1 sir1 ,i knowe wil aunswere for me to all these1 ,no4 ,then will not ,i1 not only not deny but ,i did all these1 but by your fauour1 iustifie to their faces1 that honestlie1 lawfullie1 without offence against you1 or reasonable mislike of anie other1 ,i haue and might againe at any time enter into the like vsage of all or any of these1 as at that time ,i did1 when they so complained of me4 ,sidenote3 ,commorati4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,sidenote3 ,metonomia4 ,sidenote3 ,epiphonema4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,the company whereof ,i am accused were such onely and none other as ,i found in mine ,inne1 gentlemen ech to you wel known and of all men generallie well reputed1 the plaie that ,i vsed was with them1 the set by agreement not great1 concluded vpon more to passe time1 then whereof to make gaine4 ,hereunto commeth a bad fellowe out of the town accompanied with one of your tenaunts1 who looking on a good while1 craued at last hee might set1 which being granted1 a cast fell between him and me of a nber to be decided1 for his opinion he dared me a good time with twenty ,nobles to my geldings1 ,i accepted the wager1 the boorde went with mee1 your tenant excepted1 who against all others stood against me1 and hauing this wager in his custody would not deliuer it me4 ,words by such meanes multiplied1 and they both arose against mee1 whereupon forced to some impatience1 my hand made way to my right1 wherewith ,i quailed their resistance4 ,lo now sir1 the matter thus highly framed against me1 lo here the losse1 the pawning1 the borrowing of money1 and what killing and slaying against mee reported4 ,see here ,i beseech you the vnthriftines1 the misrule1 the il company1 and what else that malice could any waies deuise to ouerthrow me4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,and yet if but truely in their verie supposes they shoulde haue dealte with me1 what conceipt could they then haue found in all this to obiect against me8 ,is it not a thing ordinary among ,gentlemen when they meete together to solace themselues with some one or other reasonable pastime1 in allowance whereof1 no one is ordered by himselfe1 but by common liking of the rest8 ,is it not a thing naturall to man1 after wearisome trauels to vse vnto his minde some honest recreation8 ,is it not accordant to ciuilitie to entertaine times and occasions8 ,affoorded you not therefore the money you gaue mee1 in companie well reputed1 and in their honest exercises1 moderatelie to maintaine mee8 ,agreeth not hereunto your onelie dailie conuersation1 your entertainments1 your continuall vse of companie applied in your owne behauiors1 and in others commended before me8 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,paramologia4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,what then may bee saide to condemne me8 the common name 7perchaunce7 of the plaie1 carying with it a continuall surmize of inconuenience8 ,i need not here lay vnto your wisdome for my defence1 that as well therein1 as in all other demeanors1 there is vse which is allowed1 and abuse1 that in it selfe is insufferable4 ,to commende the moderate vse hereof1 ,i can induce nothing more then custome1 and for the choise of the best obseruation1 the company must cleare mee4 ,nowe in auoiding the enormities1 the charge 7if ,i misconceiue not7 you gaue me1 extended to the fellowship of the worst1 in whose societie nothing is so common as ill vsage1 and in whose pleasures1 no one thing so ordinarie as vnthriftinesse1 each of which occasioning that euill which ,i seeke to shunne1 hath beene herein so far exempted1 as ,i protest there resteth in veritie1 no suspicion at all wherewith ,i may be charged4 ,sidenote3 ,apostrophe4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,polyptoton4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,but if nowe sir1 you will reason of your tenauntes hurte1 what therein may bee obiected that shall not euery waie further mee3 who is hee that by nature could bee so restrained1 but by the verie instinct thereof1 hee will rather kill if neede bee1 then stande to be killed8 ,hath not the ,soueraigne mother of all our earthlie beeing1 armed euen the verie ,beastes themselues to their owne defence8 hath not the ,lyon his clawes1 the ,bull his hornes1 the ,dogge his teeth1 and the ,boare his tuskes8 ,doe not the worthiest sort of mankinde also contemne to be misprized1 and naturallie couet where they bee enforced1 immediatlie to be reuenged8 ,allotteth not the lawe vnto euerie man his right8 ,was it not by ,conuention agreed1 that the winner shoulde haue the wager8 ,and did not the vniuersall sentence of the whole boord1 adiudge it to me8 ,what resteth any waies then to bee alleadged whereby in this action to accuse mee8 ,nay rather what is vnleft herein to condemne him1 that being your tenaunt1 hauing his liuing of you and yours1 beholding as hee is to all yours1 woulde yet be so vile conceipted against any of yours1 as not with ordinary speeches alone1 but with vnfitting tearmes1 with violent force woulde goe about to withstande me1 to hurt mee1 yea desperatelie to confederate with another of my life and money to bereaue me4 ,sidenote3 ,dialysis4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,expediti4 ,sidenote3 ,dichologia4 ,but nowe to drawe vnto the last parte that toucheth my man1 standing as a coniecture for that hee was in my companie the night before1 ,i must conspire with him to rob you4 ,do but csider sir ,i pray you1 what likelihood of truth this beareth3 would any one be so mad as once to harme1 or go about to hurt the possessions that in right is to no one so much as himselfe8 ,woulde ,i euer appeare so vngracious as to confederate with a stranger1 to no benefit but of himselfe1 to rob and spoile my father8 ,alas1 what coulde there be so aduerse vnto ,nature1 as should enforce in me so vnkinde a condition8 ,you must needes ,sir 7by your fauour7 something consider1 what one thing or more might bee in mee occasioning vnto the same1 it must either bee some vehement necessitie 7which neuer hapened7 constraining mee1 some great extremity 7which you know to bee contrary7 wherewith by keeping mee too short of expence or maintenance you might enforce me1 a kinde of wanton prodigality1 whereof no worlde can accuse me1 ill counsell whereunto so far forth ,i neuer could yeelde me1 or a most detestable and vile disposition graffed in my selfe1 which no man euer found in me4 ,these causes as ,i thinke are the most likest of all others inducing to those opinions1 which howe farre they or any of them haue estranged my condition1 let but the verie consciences of my vtmost aduersaries indifferently trie3 me what if hee were in my company1 is not that a thing that without any suspition at all1 might easliest of al others happen vnto me8 ,i am not weeting of mens thoughts1 neither can ,i coniecture of any other but their outward demeanors3 if he were il1 weigh ,i pray you1 the fault proceedeth not from me4 ,sory ,i am that any such conceipt by any one of mine should so much offend you4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,sidenote3 ,dichologia4 ,these things then falling out in such sort as they be1 it may please you sir1 henceforth to allowe of this my iust ,apology1 and by the selfe same nature1 piety1 and louing condition1 wherewith in all duty and obedience ,i seeme firmely charged vnto you1 in like sort to recognize and receiue mee1 who notwithstanding ,i confesse many waies heretofore1 to haue erred1 yet heerein in no one point indifferent rest ,i rightlie to be challenged4 ,the expectation whereof hath made mee presume to the recommendation of these letters1 attending therwithal the newes of your good conceipt1 and happy returne of this bearer4 ,from1 c4 this1 c4 ,to this defence1 we will for the more variety suppose a reply to be made by the ,father1 the reasons whereof shall yet also consist in the selfe same state absolute1 yeelding thereby a more ample demonstration of the diuersitie of constructions incident to those places1 and how by the forcible applications of their special intendmentes1 they are1 or may be caried to diuers seuerall purposes4 ,inasmuch1 as like to their present vse in this defence they haue beene suggested for confirmation and to the clearing of the sonnes faultines1 herein also by the same conueiance they shal be maintained by the confutation of al his former allegations1 the matter whereof1 in sort following may be considered4 ,a replie of the father confuting the allegations of the sonne1 and maintaining the causes of the former inuectiue alleadged4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora ,your wiles 7,sirra7 and sophisticall expositions of your owne misdemeanours1 with sundrie confirmations therein vsed1 whereby to driue me from the verie suppose of that whereunto no one thing hath giuen more euident testimony1 then the course and progression of your whole life1 are either too newlie forged1 to reape at my hands any sound credite1 or the metall so light1 as carieth in the weight thereof verie small substance4 in my conceipt to be beleeued4 ,sidenote3 ,insultati4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,well haue you applied your wits 7no doubt7 and to especiall good purpose haue your studies bin framed1 that can so cunninglie cment as you haue done vpon so bad a text1 but withdraw your measure betimes1 and cease this ouerweening1 least by continuing your selfe in a fools paradice1 and where al things are naught1 supposing nothing to be amisse1 you do 7as by your deserts you haue sundry times endeuored to lose a father7 so in the end frame a desperate meane to lose your selfe1 when you may neuer be recouered4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,parison4 ,sidenote3 ,synathrismus4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,orismus4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia4 ,the shame you haue of your mischiefe done1 and guiltinesse of your owne conscience to come in my sight1 togither with a knowne mislike that you haue receiued from mee1 either to see or heare from you3 you vse as a cloake1 to couer the long pretext you haue made in defence of your euils1 you haue well shewed that paper beareth no other hue but his owne1 and the letters you imprint therupon1 carrie but their proper colour4 ,though they falsifie a thousande actions1 and bolster vp inumerable lies1 it is not seene in their chaunge1 but in a shamefast browe of him that were not past shame1 the least of all these would quickelie bee deciphered4 ,is it not inough you haue done badlie touching your selfe1 vnkindlie demeaned your selfe towardes your fathers friendes1 vnthriftily consumed your time in some one or other badde companie1 run at randon euerie way to your parents and your owne infamie1 but that also in your behauiours1 you will not onelie dare to denie it1 but which is woorse1 in your writing seeke to defende it4 ,it fitteth not that ,i shoulde vse reasoning1 neither meane ,i to contend with your cautels1 but for fashions sake1 or 7if so you list7 to beate that to your remembrance1 whereof hitherto you abandon the notice1 let me aske you this one question4 ,in all your smooth passage and flourish made of your companie1 their reputation1 your ciuilitie1 small play1 my allowance1 and your construction vpon the same1 dooth it not drawe to this ende1 that it was in an ,inne1 in a place filled with all vnthriftinesse1 in a dicing ,chamber1 in a spectacle for all companies8 ,doth not the verie deliuerance of your owne fact condemne you1 dooth not the verie sequell of his entrance1 looking on1 and plaie 7whome you tearme to bee a base fellowe7 impugne you8 ,dooth not your after quarrell and mischiefe done oppose it selfe agaynst you8 ,what if all the information deliuered vnto mee in particular were not true8 ,is not the substaunce true8 ,nature coueting recreation1 is in him that will bee modestlie gouerned1 to be measured as well by time and place1 as by entertainment of companies1 ,custome carrying with it selfe anie secrete insimulation of euill1 is not to bee followed2 ciuilitie is not ciuilitie1 when it shall bee repugnant to a right gouerned modestie3 can that be agreeing to ,law1 which in effect is discordant from anie good order of law8 ,induce you my allowance1 as a confirmed sentence to your vaine opinions8 ,why1 sirra1 frequented ,i euer anie such play in ,innes8 ,nay rather did ,i not euer mislike it1 alwaies spake against it1 and in euerie action condemne it8 ,stood not my conceit that being in the best part it might be1 though young men stoode neuer so much on their light gaming1 and little hinderance1 it was rather an allurements and inurement to vnthriftines then a pastime of any gentlenes1 when it was vsed in a ,gentlemans house1 which is by sundrie defences more tollerable1 and not in an ,inne1 the verie publike intertainer of all kinds of societies4 ,sidenote3 ,synathrismus4 ,at your departing from mee1 your iourney laie to ,s4 you were to trauaile to my friendes house4 ,in respect of the time1 my reputation1 your beeing1 the place1 and the companie1 ,i furnished you with money1 knowing that there1 and with such persons1 and in their seuerall pleasures you were to bee conformed to companies3 ,hereof gaue ,i euer allowance1 the like whereof haue ,i deemed meetest for the expence and societie of anie ,gentleman1 thither shoulde you haue trauelled1 so in the honest distribution of that allowed for your maintenaunce1 you had both auoyded the present mischiefe1 alreadie incurred1 and preuented occasions1 wherby manie times they are aduentured4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,sidenote3 ,antithesis4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,it is not inough1 not to doe euill1 but we ought also to resist the occasions of euill1 what recreation ,i pray you1 after trauell is more natural then rest8 ,who more subiect to casualties1 then they that hazarde themselues to most companies8 ,what custome better1 then to vse our ,inne for repose1 the onelie and sole intent whereunto it was prepared8 ,wherein is ciuilitie more commended then in honest gouernment8 ,what more lawfull for any man then laudablie to beare himselfe8 ,your demeanour is tyed to your own behauiour1 and not to anothers inclinations1 your actions well disposed1 are not offensiue to what by others pleasures to bee continued3 had you vsed the place as it serued for1 who would haue beene discontented8 ,once it appeareth that euill is come of it1 brawlings arise1 men are hurt1 slanders ensue1 and infamy doth guerdon it4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,touching the latter part of your ,letter ,i say little1 till ,i haue more deliberatelie of the circumstaunce considered4 ,some1 hoping more of that you will bee1 then ,i dare intende what you maie bee1 haue manie wayes in this action perswaded mee4 ,where much hath beene ouerpassed1 it is reason that something at length do beare shew to haue well deserued4 ,simplicitie in well doing1 is farre more pleasing then a curious definition of well dooing4 ,when ,i finde proofe of your amendement1 ,i shall then wish to see you4 ,meane while1 it shall behooue you to enter into your selfe1 and more circumspectly to consider what most fittest beseemeth you1 wherewith at this present my directions shall conclude4 ,r4 this1 c4 ,an example of another ,epistle ,inuectiue1 pleasantly written against the humours and conditions of a vaineglorious person4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,sidenote3 ,liptote4 ,were the peeuishnes of my conceits correspondent to those vaineglorious humours of yours1 ,i could before and sithence your exemplified discourse committed to my view1 haue vpon occasion sufficient1 deuised how and wherewith to haue preuented or answered your accustomed cauils4 ,the first whereof not hauing performed1 so could ,i willinglie also haue left the latter vndone by determined speech to haue beene accomplished1 were it not that hauing prooued the arrogancie to bee in you1 wherewith vniustly you charge me1 ,i might by my ouerlong silence giue head to your follies1 and whilest by an outragious well liking of your selfe you become ignorant of your owne mischiefs1 you might vse a scope not necessarie therby more farther to abuse my sufferance1 as heretofore you haue done a great many others by their common negligence4 ,sidenote3 ,ironia4 ,for auoyding whereof1 ,i haue 7as my leisure would induce mee7 thought good to giue place to mine owne determination1 to serue your humour so farre forth as to answere your letter1 not being stung1 as you fondlie and vainlie imagine1 with the venome thereof1 nor galled with the opposed surmises of your munificence1 wealth1 credite1 reputation1 and ,i know not what besides1 all which ,i do suppose either to be so skant1 as no man can substantiallie discerne them1 or otherwise that you would neuer so often as you do1 without a surfeiting follie enduour to obtrude them4 ,sidenote3 ,omiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,sarcasmus4 ,the policies you vse with mee are nothing straunge1 which because they are nowe growne so stale1 bee euerie waie therefore the lesse currant4 ,howe like vnto a shamelesse woman1 or some other base conceyted creature1 you appeare in your wryting1 let but the matter of your ,letter testifie1 if because you haue both manlie shape and countenaunce1 you will admitte neither of these similitudes1 you must bee either a childe1 or a foole1 and so weare a bable1 or take a horne booke at your girdle1 and get you to schoole againe4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,schesis onomat4 ,sidenote3 ,ironia4 ,sidenote3 ,insultatio4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,merismus4 ,sidenote3 ,antiphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,prosonomasia4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,charientismus4 ,sidenote3 ,epitropis4 ,sidenote3 ,asteismus4 ,you complaine that ,i haue done you iniurie1 if ,i haue1 why then doe you not content your selfe to pursue the reuengement thereof1 either with manlike or lawfull extremitie8 ,whie take you for a refuge these cankred foolish vpbraidings1 womanish encountrings1 vnseemlie lyings1 and childish threatnings4 ,if we folow the rule you begin1 we must straight waies bee children1 and then ,i must wrangle why you stole away ,toms bread and butter1 and you must threaten if ,i tell of that1 you will then complaine of mee for eating vp the firmentie that was kept for the childs breakefast1 or how ,i drunke vp my grandams ale and toste1 or lick bread in the dripping panne1 or some such like weightie causes4 ,a soueraigne capacitie no doubt4 ,is this manner of dealing deriued ,i pray you from your ,gentilitie1 or had you it by education1 or haue you won it with your wealth1 or is it incident to your reputation8 ,bee these your incounters8 ,a braue canuisado1 indeede1 when to deface an honest minde1 you haue shot out all the venome of twentie yeares acquaintance that you haue stuffed togethers1 and all not woorth a butterflie1 then to tell to those that accompanie you1 howe brauelie you haue touched mee1 howe with your learned enditing to so manie read and shewed1 you haue quencht mee1 howe manie wayes behinde my backe1 if you were so ill disposed you could kill mee1 and for default of other matter forsooth1 howe they laughed at mee to whome ,i haue spoke somewhat against you1 and howe master ,b4 found ,socrates in my ,letter1 and sent to seeke out your well reputed sconce to expound it1 not without the credit of your owne worshipfoltie to be admitted to the sight hereof3 ,if ,i should for carrying this insight1 not say you were a great ,clearke1 your grauitie ,i knowe would condemne mee1 and it would bee thought in your deeper studies1 that my senses did faile me4 ,but alas sir1 what is it that ,i woulde denie you8 ,it is not ,i1 well ,i wot that haue abilitie1 or if ,i had1 woulde presume so far as to impugne you1 what wold you more sir8 ,i am come to your bow1 and acknowledge your credit1 your worshipful acquaintance1 and all else you haue brought me to4 ,but yet sir1 after all these sporting deuises1 hee is but a ,nidcote1 and that wise man can tell you1 that will glory so much in such fruitles follies4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,sarcasmus4 ,but say ,i tis your vaine glory8 ,no1 not so1 it is but a ,thrasonicall exercise4 ,there bee that affirme ,gentilitie hath no deriuation1 where is neither good nature1 honesty1 nor friendly condition4 ,but what is that to you8 ,a man may sit vnder a stall with credit1 but to be laid on a stal1 smelleth somwhat of beggership4 ,go to1 ,i warrant him he is a proud fellow1 and little of good maner knoweth1 that so rudely wil dare to speake of your maistership4 ,sidenote3 ,apostrophe4 ,sidenote3 ,charientismus4 ,yet nowe we be in1 let vs goe to it by the weeke4 ,in odde sooth ,i must tel you plainly1 your occupations haue beene too manifolde to thriue by your honesty4 ,but perchance the terme is quaint1 and you will saie this matter of honesty is besides your profession8 ,alacke sir1 though it be1 you must pardon the writer1 it was but a mistake in his penning1 by ill noting your pedegree4 ,sidenote3 ,irmus4 ,sidenote3 ,asteismus4 ,tush pedegree1 pedegree1 here is nothing with you in hande but twitting with pedegree4 ,cockes fish1 these proude fellowes that haue nothing to liue vp to see how malapert they be1 if they had ability to take to as you haue1 wherwithal to beare vp their heads in y world as you do1 such credit with honorable worshipfull1 who haue multiplied your praises for noted good parts1 apparantly seen to be in you1 what would then become of their doings8 ,very true sir1 but will not this be sufficient to giue scope to the name of a gentleman8 ,faith sir1 to be plaine with you1 tis but as the wiser sort do hold opinion4 ,sidenote3 ,orismus4 ,sidenote3 ,omoiteleton4 ,sidenote3 ,brachiologa4 ,for in our beliefe it is saide1 that a great deale better shewe doth it make to giue but one certaine true demonstration of a gentleman1 then to yeeld twenty brauados1 and neuer come neare the true meaning of them1 railing1 lying1 backbiting1 slaundering1 facing1 vaunting1 contemning1 cogging1 menacing1 vpbraiding1 taunting1 and proudlie defacing other mens actions1 desertes1 qualities1 behauiours1 and vertues1 are in right reckoning1 in verie trueth but slender partes of a ,gentleman4 ,sidenote3 ,paramologia4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,meiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,sidenote3 ,omiosis4 ,sidenote3 ,apostrophe4 ,sidenote3 ,synonymia4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,epizeuxis4 ,you wil say1 ,i am too far bewitched to tell you of these things1 you will raile at me1 you will storme at me1 you will not beleeue me3 you will alleadge ,i am too different herein from all other opinions1 your acquaintance doe like of you1 praise you1 and magnifie you1 very true indeede1 but they are but a fewe1 and such also as doe it1 haue intent but to laugh at you1 you are but the anuile whereout they hammer their pastimes1 they vse you but as an instrument to bee pliable to their turnes4 ,in this as to ,will ,sommers1 they yeelde to your rages1 they sooth vp your passions1 and cokes vp your humors4 ,but vnto me1 to whom such fashions are loathsome1 and in whose cares those base purposes and surfetting demeanors of yours are most ridiculous and hateful1 they are too intolerable4 ,sidenote3 ,paradigma4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,the ,peacoke when hee spreadeth his tayle1 is glorious of his beautie1 but stooping downe to his feete1 his feathers fall with the selfe sight immediately4 ,woulde you but abase your eyes vnto the lower part of your rising1 you might then recognize your original1 and seeing the simple obiect whereout your prosperity hath beene deriued1 confesse that tenne such glorious plumes as you studie to haue aduanced1 without they were better qualified coulde scarse make a shewe beseeming the lowest part of all that belongeth to a ,gentleman4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,sidenote3 ,hyster proteron4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,for my part it is not the shew you beare1 but the pride wherewith you are caried that despiteth me1 the qualities you haue1 and not the malice you vtter1 that discontenteth me3 whether your opinion stand good or bad to me1 it is not that ,i accompt of1 as beeing such a one whose censure to my knowledge1 neuer stoode in that degree to bee reckoned of4 ,onely doubting least ouerswolne with your humours1 you should consume in your follies ,i haue written that ,i haue done1 leauing the rest to your own correction1 if at least you haue any wit at al whereby to amend them4 ,an example of an other ,epistle inuectiue1 written in cause of great desert against two seueral parties4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,i am sorie it falleth vnto my lot among matters more serious1 that ,i must at this present incomber my pen1 and enforce my labours1 about so needlesse a purpose1 as to decipher a knaue whome the worlde knoweth alreadie by his colours1 and a companion of his that will shortly giue proofe of his facultie by his far spreading titles4 ,and yet the time hath bin when by their shadowes ,i could set them both to viewe1 and hauing cunningly deciphered them1 could laugh at the portraiture1 imagining that there were more heades to carpe at their villanies then honest meaning to excuse their treacheries4 ,sidenote3 ,sententia4 ,it was not amisse said amongst the wise1 that there c be no friendship but amongst the good1 and yet is society so common amongst men1 that there is not the arrantest varlet in the world but he will find a companion1 why8 because therein is a likelihood1 which although it cannot turne to friendship1 yet growing ex similitudine morum1 ,i find no reason but that a coniunction may be of knaues as well as a separation of honest men sometimes4 ,sidenote3 ,paralepsis4 ,leauing your yokefellowe ,m4 whome ,i esteeme so base a fellow as comming out of the very ,cell it selfe of all villanies1 smelleth so strongly of the stench thereof1 that he is not worthy to come within a mile of my paper1 nor neare by a thousande ,yeardes vnto the worst parte of my studie1 ,i will speake two or three words vnto you maister ,f4 which are his aduocate1 and as it seemeth his second selfe1 nay rather incorporated in his bowels1 and become maklenezed1 yea rather ,m4 himselfe1 for he hath taught you to handle his cause so cunninglie1 that he neede not ioine with you to lie for himselfe1 for you will lie for both1 and surelie 7not thinking you haue it by nature1 absit7 ,i iudge it rather y infection of him who hath so transmuted your disposition1 that to boast1 face1 scold1 and lie1 and that without shame1 credite1 or honesty1 you surpasse as ,i heare1 why ,m4 himself 7of whom you are thought but the shadowe7 cannot go beyond you4 ,you haue deliuered forth in publique speaches1 that ,i and my companions abused your ,client with a false ,lease1 that we led him by degrees into a deceiptful marriage1 that ,i wil come with my hat in mine hand to craue your ,clients fauor1 that you know me well1 and thereupon demaunded whether ,i was not once master ,l4 his man1 and being answered yea1 you paused1 and then said1 belike you knew me then4 ,sidenote3 ,sarcasmus4 ,remembring that you are become a ,m4 7whom alwaies ,i note for a shameles liyng knaue7 ,i wonder the lesse at your impudencie1 marie if you were an honest ,gentleman1 that did rather stande vppon your credit1 th vpon such base respects to get money1 by bolstering whatsoeuer villanies you care not1 ,i would then saie1 tota erras via4 ,but not shewing you such fauour1 ,i must needes tell you in shorte conclusion 7,you lie47 ,and so much the rather because in the deliuerie thereof you make not a matter of information of it1 but rather as it seemeth a thing of your owne knowledge4 ,sidenote3 ,charientismus4 ,sidenote3 ,allegoria4 ,and because the lie seemeth rather a word of course1 then commonly of substance1 without proofe added to manifest the certaintie1 ,i further affirme that ,i will bring halfe a score1 honester knowne then either you or your ,client1 to whome he hath confessed the contrarie himselfe1 and made knowne the same most amplie vnto their owne vnderstanding1 who by the iustifying thereof1 will proue him a shamelesse lying knaue in his slaunders1 and you a prating foolish dolt in the rash deliuery of the same vpon so sleight a grounde1 to defame an honest man of more accompt then your selfe1 and that without occasion4 ,and because you take vpon you to know me so well1 and are yet of opinion that ,i wil stoop to your ,client1 ,i must tel you therein your wisdom greatly mistaketh both my nature and condition1 for that ,i can neuer bee so disparaged in conceipt1 but that ,i coulde alwaies find an ,asse by his braying1 and scorne a rascall though he were neuer so full of vaunting4 ,my dwelling with ,mayster ,l4 continued euermore with reputation and credite sufficient euen to this present daie1 ,i desire to be informed without pausing1 what you canne say to impugne the same1 and albeit ,i knowe a slaunderous mouth neuer wanteth whereof to gather1 yet taking mee at that present state1 you shall finde mee such in trueth as all your malice shall neuer bee able to disgrace me4 ,sidenote3 ,asteismus4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,you saie ,i dare not walke abroade1 that ,i cannot bee seene at ,westminster as your ,clyent is4 ,it is indeede spoken like a ,tinker1 and sauouring somewhat of a ,coblers stall1 what betwixt choler and lying1 your ,client and you haue taken order1 to speake nothing honestlie4 ,and ,i woonder not of it1 for you haue not so much as a sauour of honesty about you4 ,vile malicious deuourers of men1 do you thinke it an easie thing1 or matter of sleight purpose1 so villainouslie to derogate a mans good name 7then which to a generous minde nothing is more precious7 or do you deeme all men of so base contempt as your selues1 that they can willingly suffer all things to bee benefited by any thing8 ,and when you haue shamefully vttered your lies in place of audience1 dare not for your breeches stand to the lest word of smallest moment1 that you let fall out of your ouerflowing venemous mouthes4 ,sidenote3 ,aposiopesis4 ,sidenote3 ,synathrismus4 ,but de his taceo1 the best is1 you are both well knowne1 for the one of you1 seeke all ,london for a cogging1 brabling1 boasting1 rayling shamelesse and lying knaue1 ,m4 is the man1 and hee shall doe it4 ,he seeking all the towne ouer for a facing ,aduocate1 one that coulde handle the matter like himselfe1 ,f4 was the man3 ,yee are both well met together1 continue your purpose1 and see the ende1 for you meane so1 nay you will do it4 ,i vse not ,f as he vsed me1 to brabble1 and to lie of him to strangers4 ,but hauing drawne his portraiture1 ,i send the first counterfeite to himselfe1 that seeing it hee may shunne his lewdnesse1 which yet lieth in secret1 and if hee continue shall quickelie bee published1 and that to his shame openlie4 ,i leaue you both as ,i found you1 my paper and present matter for this time taking end4 ,in apparant hast1 hauing otherwise more weightilie to imploy my selfe1 this last of ,februarie1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,comminatorie4 ,cap4 #f4 ,this ,inuectiue seemeth to haue bene ouer sharp in the matter1 but not in the maner1 for the occasions thereunto inducing might peraduenture merite that and greater4 ,and howbeit both the termes and conueyance are somewhat hard1 yet is it in such cases verie tolerable1 when either the vilenesse of the action1 or base demeanour of the partie doth require it4 ,and in this point there is a great ,decorum principallie to be obserued1 to vse a bad person with termes correspondent to his behauior qualitie1 as in any other laudable purpose to entertaine another party according to his calling or dignitie4 ,and as this title of ,inuectiue1 and that of ,exprobratorie before going1 are nerely affianced togither3 so also is the next heereunto1 which is called ,comminatorie4 ,the ,etimologie or signification whereof1 is by menaces to threaten4 ,insomuch as participating with a kinde of ,accusation for iniuries committed1 it expostulateth not1 nor reasoneth of anie circumstance1 obiection or qualitie1 but protesting a due desert in the partie challenged1 menaceth thereupon a speedie and answerable reuengement4 ,this1 of this title is the substance and propertie4 ,and so will we proced to the examples4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,comminatorie4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,prolepsis4 ,sidenote3 ,antanaclasis4 ,sidenote3 ,perorati4 ,master ,d4 ,i see well by some experience had of your dealings1 that you haue small regarde of your honestie1 or welfare1 two things in mine opinion1 whereof each one should bee charie4 ,your honestie1 in respect that you keepe no promise3 ,your welfare1 in that you neglect the oportunitie1 for releasment of that1 which in the ende must lie vpon your owne shoulders4 ,but seeing your inconsideration is so great1 and the like respect you carrie of your owne good growne to be slender1 blame not other men that breake with you vpon desert1 nor mislike at all their want of pittie1 that haue no meane to pittie your selfe4 ,for my part looke for it1 and you shall surelie finde it1 that ,i will prosecute all meanes possible to arrest you1 and beeing so arrested1 ,i will not bee moued with intreatie1 prayer1 or other submission to release you1 till you haue payed the whole debt1 charges and penaltie4 ,and whereas you sent mee worde by my man1 that you could not accustome your selfe1 with one that trusted you to deale treacherouslie1 ,i answere againe1 that if you make it so nice to bring him foorth to bee arested for whome you are suretie3 paie then the debt your selfe1 and satisfie me1 and that speedilie3 for if you doe not ,i vow ,i will meet with you and that verie shortlie1 when to your little content you shall perceyue that in so vsing mee1 you haue dealt most vnaduisedlie4 ,thinke of it as you list1 and deale with me accordinglie3 and so to your best consideration of your owne safetie1 ,i leaue you4 ,this ninth of ,iune1 c4 ,an other example ,comminatorie containing a greater vehemencie in the deliuerie4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,sidenote3 ,aporia4 ,sidenote3 ,emphasis4 ,sidenote3 ,metonoia4 ,sidenote3 ,erotema4 ,sidenote3 ,ecphonesis4 ,sidenote3 ,aphorismus4 ,sidenote3 ,anthypophora4 ,sidenote3 ,epizeuxis4 ,sidenote3 ,asyndeton4 ,sidenote3 ,epitheton4 ,sidenote3 ,periphrasis4 ,sidenote3 ,synecdoche4 ,sidenote3 ,pleonasmus4 ,sidenote3 ,polyptoton4 ,sidenote3 ,insultatio4 ,sidenote3 ,aposiopesis4 ,sidenote3 ,metaphora4 ,vngracious ofspring of hellish brood1 whome heauens permit for a plague1 and the earth nourisheth as a peculiar mischiefe1 monster of mankinde1 and deuourer of men1 what maie ,i tearme thee8 ,with what ill sounding titles maie ,i rayse my selfe vpon thee8 ,thou scorne of the worlde1 and not scorne1 but worldes foule disdaine1 and enemie of all humaine condition1 shall thy villanies scape foreuer vnpunished8 ,will the earth yet support thee1 the cloudes shadow thee1 or the aire breath on thee8 ,what lawes be these1 if at least wise such may be tearmed lawes1 whereout so vile a wretch hath so manie euasions8 ,but shalt thou longer liue to become the vexation and griefe of men8 ,no1 for ,i protest1 though the ,lawes doe faile thee1 my selfe will not ouerslip thee1 ,i1 ,i am hee that will plague thee1 thou shalt not scape me1 ,i will be reuenged of thee4 ,thinke not thy iniuryes are so easie1 that they are of all to be supported1 for no sooner shall that partched withered carkasse of thine1 sende foorth thy hatefull and abhorred lookes into anie publike shew1 but mine eyes shall watch thee1 and ,i will not leaue thee1 till ,i haue prosequuted that which ,i haue intended towardes thee1 most vnwoorthie as thou art to breath amongst men1 which art hated and become lothsome euen in the verie bowels and thoughtes of men4 ,triumph then in thy mischiefes1 and boast that thou hast vndone mee1 and a number of others1 whom with farre lesse despight thou hast forced to bende vnto thee4 ,and when by due desert ,i shall haue payed what ,i haue promised thee1 vaunt then 7on ,gods name7 of thy winnings4 ,for my part3 but ,i will saie no more1 let the ende trie all1 liue wretchedlie1 and die villainouslie1 as thou hast deserued1 whome heauens hencefoorth doe shunne1 and the world denieth longer to looke vpon4 ,of ,epistles deprecatorie4 ,cap4 #g4 ,the menaces of this last ,epistle you may well deme to haue issued from a hot enraged ,spirit3 of which though the stile bee vehement1 yet vnto men alike humorous1 the same may stand for a president4 ,such kinde of inuentions and men so affected with such estranged passions1 are as we se diuerslie found1 wherof ,i thought good to giue foorth this example to bee considered1 the waight neuerthelesse to bee measured as in the others before to the person and matter occurrent4 ,and nowe will we to the last of all this state ,iudiciall1 which are the ,epistles ,deprecatorie4 ,the title of these ,epistles carrieth a name1 accordant to the submissiue matter in them contayned1 for their efficacies are onlie carried by entreatie1 request of fauour1 good opinion1 allowance or pardon of anie iniurie or offence conceyued or committed4 ,in good natures1 it is a thing proper to weigh with themselues1 howe much anie waies they stand charged1 whether by respect of person1 dutie1 friendship or soueraigntie1 accordinglie thereupon to frame their speeches or writings4 ,yet is not the matter hereof ,supplicatorie1 as growing by waie of petition4 ,but rather an honest and gentle submission to the good liking1 estimate or friendlie respect of such1 vnto whome1 or by whome we are either accused1 tied1 charged1 or constrained1 clearing1 if it may be1 or honestly otherwise mitigating or auoyding what sinisterly1 or vpon some intended conceit1 may be drawne to be against vs1 and of the vse hereof to be spoken let this now be sufficient4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,deprecatorie1 where the partie is charged in good opinion4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,hypotyposis4 ,when a ,phisiognomer by chaunce 7hauing beene famous in other places7 came into the forum of ,athens1 hee declared by the view of diuers mens faces the diuersitie of their conditions1 whereupon 7for better triall of his ,arte7 hee was demaunded what 7,prima facie7 he thought of ,socrates1 he answered1 by his countenance1 to be a man of verie euill condition4 ,the people which knew the contrarie1 growing thereby into great rage1 were readie to driue him out of the forum4 ,but ,socrates comming forth4 ,be not angrie 7quoth he7 for such a one might ,i haue beene1 if by ,philosophie ,i had not corrected my maners4 ,by this might bee inferred 7right ,woorshipfull7 that at the first shewe1 it is not good to giue rash iudgement of anie man1 for the ,phisiognomer beeing able to iudge what men might bee1 was not able to say iustlie such they are3 ,in like manner1 your ,worship hauing beene led by misreports1 are able to say1 thus it is spoken1 but not so it is4 ,sidenote3 ,narrati4 ,to my great griefe it is informed vnto mee1 that by the sinister report of mine aduersaries1 you thinke hardly of me4 ,and so much the rather haue ,i cause to bee grieued1 for that in the mouth of an ignorant person1 ,i am not therby iudged of1 but by the sentence and opinion of the wise1 held a man badly demeaned1 careles1 and such a one as beareth small reputation4 ,sidenote3 ,epanodis4 ,beleeue mee sir1 and if it please you to take further notice of me1 you shal find it true1 that it is more euill vnto me to be adiudged loose of a wise man1 then of a thousand base persons to be vtterly condemned1 for that the one speaketh of skill1 and the other of a bad conceipt1 the first wishing all men to bee good1 the other confessing no man to be sufficient1 that is not possessed with euil4 ,my aduersaries haue brought many heauy informations vnto you tending in outward shew to my great disgrace1 naming me as it pleaseth them1 a man 7as they thinke of themselues7 indifferent for all purposes4 ,but because ,i know you to bee wise1 and thinke it a matter of no small accompt to be well thought of at your hands3 ,i am therfore the more carefull to cleare my selfe1 and do beseech you1 that you will hold for firme what ,i do here set down3 assuring your selfe1 that whatsoeuer my aduersaries report of me1 ,i doe make accompt what speeches passe from me3 and those that ,i deliuer vpon credite1 ,i will performe with trust4 ,this then ,i say for aunswere generall1 to whatsoeuer they canne obiect1 that if any parte of that in substaunce they haue deliuered vnto you for certaine bee true1 ,i will loose the credite of a ,gentleman1 and bee regarded as ,i repute them3 and besides1 will repay whatsoeuer is to me paide1 and release what nowe ,i haue in sute against them4 ,besides1 pleaseth it your ,worship for my credit sake to haue the hearing of the cause1 ,i will come face to face1 and 7though ,i knowe the one of them to haue a shamelesse countenance7 of himselfe1 yet let bring what counsell he will with himselfe1 if ,i ouerthrowe not euery matter obiected1 and proue my selfe an honest man1 ,i will loose the debte and my credit too1 which ,i accompt aboue all debts4 ,haue not ,i then had great cause 7hauing beene as vnto you1 so in diuers other places besides verie vniustlie railed at and defamed7 to write vnto these persons1 and inueigh against them for it8 ,behold my letter throughout1 being well considered of1 it shall bee euident that ,i had great cause1 and that very manifold to do it3 for my part ,i knowe not what others deeme1 but touching my selfe1 ,i had rather lose my life then my good name1 then which vnto me nothing is of more regard1 and ,i tell you sir1 if ,f4 or a better man then he maketh no more reckoning1 but to defame me without a cause1 he shal know and vnderstand that my credit is deare vnto me1 and that to maintaine the contrarie he shall find a hard reckoning4 ,i spende not my time in making of ,lybels1 but to write in reproofe of him that abuseth mee1 which ,i take so highlie in griefe1 as namelie1 they shoulde be so shamelesse to report that vnto your ,worship which they cannot stande to1 that ,i holde it a wretchednes therein to be silent1 and a mischiefe for credit sake not to discouer a trueth4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,beseeching your worship of fauour and credite1 to me and my rude lines1 ,i humblie take my leaue1 beeing alwaies ready to auouch what here ,i haue set down1 wherof not failing ,i remaine ,your worships whensoeuer to be commanded4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,deprecatory1 in cause of wrong supposed to bee committed4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,sidenote3 ,dicologia4 ,sidenote3 ,silepsis4 ,sir1 your ,letters more troublesome to my conceipts1 then sauoring 7as ,i am credibly led to thinke7 of that your woonted most noble disposition vnto mee1 ,i haue receiued4 ,with what supportation and vnaccustomed griefe ,i haue retained them1 ,i refer to anie one 7guiltlesse accused and suspended from so high fauours as formerly by your bountie hath been to me performed7 simplie to be coniectured4 ,long was it ere ,i could satisfie my selfe by any accesse that might bee to proffer my selfe or these humble ,letters vnto you3 ,yet neuerthelesse weighing howe farre different these newe occurrentes were from those your auncient fauours1 ,i surmised with my selfe that the instigation proceeded soly from others1 hardlie perchaunce bearing those graces wherein ,i stoode with you1 and becomming thereupon my bitter enemies1 the sinister deuise whereof1 stood vpon me wholy to ouerthrow or impugne4 ,for which hauing no other or better meane at this instant1 then these my submissiue lines1 ,i propose them vnto you1 as solicitors of your former liking1 confessing that if any waies ,i haue erred vnto you1 as ,i will not vtterlie seclude my selfe from any errour1 it was but as a young man1 and rather by ignoraunce1 then of malice anie waies to bee intended4 ,and as touching any other obiection1 let mee but craue pardon to haue accesse vnto your presence1 and then iudge as you finde mee4 ,two waies are onelie left1 my accusers to my face1 or mine owne simplicitie to cleare me4 ,this is all ,i require1 and so much ,i hope you will not denie me4 ,wherewith resting in the due acknowledgement of that your former bounty1 ,i humbly surcease4 ,this fifteenth of ,nouember4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,deprecatory1 pleasantly written to answere a former ,letter4 ,sidenote3 ,exordium4 ,the long sweating paines wherein your good selfe 7my verie good friend ,a7 haue lately trauelled with your weatherbeaten barke1 to aunswere my ,letters1 moueth mee 7howe simply so euer7 to reply a little to the same4 ,wherein1 pardon first craued for so meane a wit1 at a suddaine1 to take vppon it1 to encounter so selected a stile1 wherewith your youthfull yeares are so replenished1 ,i go to the matter4 ,touching the iar you make of my formost writing1 and late inciting you to the tediousnesse of your studying1 which for the causes alleadged1 your curtesie yet vouchsafeth to allow of1 ,i1 with so friendlie a prospect as may be to so respectiue a iudgement1 do right curiously thanke you4 ,the compasse of your writing1 according to the measure it beareth1 being so much mystical1 as that the grossenesse of my wit cannot well conceiue of1 hauing drawne thereinto as it seemeth1 the very quintessence of those well performed partes1 that in your person are resiant1 maketh me post off the answere1 till by a more deepe consideration ,i may better conforme me vnto it4 ,wherein ,i must confesse in very deed1 that all that may be within or without1 ouer or vnder1 or besides master ,b4 you haue to the vttermost strained4 ,for the paines you haue taken1 ,i must pray you pardon though ,i render you no profit4 ,my forgetfulnesse also in prising the simple value ,i beare1 with your worthines1 many other beautified parts of your gentlenes1 you must also let slip1 otherwise ,i am vndone with the griefe1 and so ,i would sir1 your worship did take it4 ,nowe as touching the forgoing complaint you thrust in of your wants1 ,i could hardly beleeue that in the action you beare you could so greatly be distressed4 ,neuerthelesse1 for the little time ,i haue beene of your masterships acquaintance1 ,i haue vnderstoode of some that weare a veluet suite with as small inheritance as your selfe1 who haue vsed the matter as slenderlie as may be1 by any great credit to bee accompted of4 ,sidenote3 ,epilogus4 ,yet must you needes giue me leaue to be gone1 for the tide tarieth no man1 but if you find your selfe in the lurch before ,i returne againe1 the best is1 at my home comming you know where to find me4 ,et sic valeas1 gentle friend ,topas4 ,of ,epistles familiar4 ,chap4 #h4 ,with this pleasant direction ,i thinke meete at this present to conclude these last ,letters ,iudiciall1 and therewith also the verie ende of all our ,letters speciall1 so tearmed by me as aforesaide1 for the speciall matters and conueyance to them seuerallie appropriate4 ,and nowe the next and last in turne1 are those letters familiar1 for the ordinarie causes and matters of handling in them likewise contained1 so formerly named4 ,little informations nede here1 more then the directions alreadie in the ,chapters of the first ,booke that haue beene deliuered1 for their stile and methode4 ,seeing the common matter in them vsuallie frequented1 challengeth no such districtnesse in propertie or conueiance1 as was required in the others1 only they for orders sake as the rest1 are herein to be distinguished 7the better to be found out known by their partes7 vnder their seuerall titles4 ,the first whereof appeareth to bee ,narratory and ,nunciatorie1 both alike in their vsage1 consisting onelie in aduertisementes of affaires1 from friende to friende1 seruant to maister1 or generallie to speake1 from one person to an other1 the examples whereof according to the seuerall properties do plentifullie ensue4 ,a ,letter ,nunciatorie from a sonne to his father or friends1 touching his being in seruice4 ,my humble dutie remembred1 good father1 vnto you and my mother3 ,these are to aduertise you1 that ,i am1 ,i thanke ,god1 in good health4 ,as touching my placing heere with my maister1 ,i doe like verie well of the trade1 but ,i doe not thinke the seruice fit for me1 as well for that it seemeth1 that more for the money that shall bee giuen with mee1 then for any desire to my good1 hee is willing to haue mee4 ,besides1 for ought that ,i can learne1 my maister is verie backeward in the worlde1 so that what minde soeuer you carrie to my placing here1 ,i doubt it will turne to verie small purpose4 ,neuerthelesse1 as my dutie is1 ,i doe gladly submit my selfe to your pleasure1 and am willing as becommeth me1 to do in all things according to your will4 ,and euen so with my heartie commendations to my ,vnkle and ,aunt1 with my brothers and sisters1 ,i leaue further to trouble you3 desirous1 if it may seeme good vnto you1 that ,i may verie shortlie see you4 ,from ,l4 this thirteenth of ,februarie1 c4 ,a ,letter ,nunciatorie in another sort of the selfe same matter4 ,good father1 hauing the oportunitie of this bearer1 ,i thought good to certifie you of my present beeing1 giuing you to vnderstande that ,i am1 ,i thanke ,god and you1 in good health1 and verie well placed heere in ,london1 where ,i am in hope to continue my heere beeing to some profitable purpose4 ,my maister vseth mee in verie good sort1 and ,i lacke nothing that appertaineth vnto such a one as my selfe4 ,i trust you shall haue ioy of mee1 and ere a fewe yeares passed1 ,i doubt not but so to behaue my selfe1 that ,i shall well deserue this good lyking that alreadie ,i haue of my ,maister1 and further credite also at his handes1 and imployment about his businesse4 ,i hope that you and my mother1 and all our friendes in the ,countrey are in good health4 ,i pray you that you will write vnto my ,maister as occasion serueth1 and thanke him for his good vsage3 and if you can to remember him with some conuenient token from the ,countrey4 ,thus desiring your daylie blessings1 and remembring my humble dutie to you and my mother1 ,i take leaue1 ,from ,l4 this of1 c4 99 99 99 99 99 ,these presidents as they are here vsed1 may be applied to any the like purpose1 of what qualitie soeuer the seruant be1 or the seruice1 whence the same is deliuered1 there nedes but change of names1 and contrarie applications1 according to the being of the parties to be vsed1 and this onelie forme to be obserued and continued4 ,and so will we now to the other examples4 ,an ,epistle ,narratorie containing aduertisements from one friend to another4 ,my good ,n4 you shall vnderstande by this bearer what speeches ,i haue had in your behalfe1 with ,maister ,r4 ,f4 whome to tell you trueth1 ,i found at the first time verie strange1 but after wee had a while debated of the cause1 and that ,i had enformed vnto him all those reasons1 which stoode both for your benefite and his owne satisfaction1 he was verie well contented4 ,you haue much to thanke this ,gentleman1 who omitted no part of a friend to deliuer in your absence what he saw meetest to the purpose1 and that in sooth with so deliberate and sound resolution1 as my selfe for your sake must needes also thinke the better of him4 ,i do refer the circumstance to both your leysures to be debated on4 ,and as touching that you willed me to deale for1 with your ,vncle1 it is1 ,i see1 to verie little profite1 for that his suspicious humours are such1 as will not with anie reason whatsoeuer be diuerted4 ,i coulde tell you a ,hystorie of that matter1 but ,i leaue all to our next meeting4 ,my brother ,s4 desired mee heartilie to commend him vnto you1 and so did your olde seruant ,d4 ,you shall by the next ,carrier either heare further of me1 or else verie shortlie thereupon you may expect to see mee4 ,and euen so with my heartiest commendations till then ,i bid you fare well1 ,s4 this fifteenth of ,august1 c4 ,a ,letter of aduertisement from a sonne to his father4 ,my humble duty remembred good father vnto you1 and my mother4 ,it maie please you to vnderstande1 that vpon the receyte of your ,letters sent mee by ,p4 your man1 ,i haue done your commaundement4 ,and whereas you expected an aunswere by the carrier1 for that ,p4 went forwarde ,westwardes in his iourney1 ,i could not till this present write vnto you to anie effect4 ,i haue receiued of ,maister ,n4 the twentie poundes which shoulde haue beene paied at ,easter last1 and for the continuation of my here beeing1 ,i thinke it would turne you to some profite1 so be it ,i may be furnished accordinglie4 ,wools are as yet at high rate1 but ,i thinke shortlie they will fall1 wherefore ,i haue not yet thought meete to laie out anie monie about them4 ,the next weeke you shall receiue by ,c4 the ,carrier fortie poundes4 ,and if it please you then to returne by him those parcels of wares that ,i last wrote vnto you of1 they will now come in verie good time1 respecting that the ,faire at ,f4 is nigh1 and for ought ,i yet perceyue1 they are like to bee well solde there4 ,this is all ,i haue to write vnto you at this present1 sauing my heartie desire of your health1 and likewise of my mother1 with all my brothers and sisters4 ,it is here sayde1 ,g4 hath verie lewdlie demeaned himselfe in his maisters businesse1 whereby maister ,l4 is like to bee much indangered4 ,praying your daylie blessings vnto me1 ,i humblie recommend you to the ,almightie4 ,from ,b4 this thirtie of ,may4 ,accordant vnto this last ,letter maie any seruant frame himselfe to aduertise his master of his affaires1 altering onelie the names of directions1 and the matter as occasion serueth4 ,neuerthelesse forsomuch as in causes of other accidents beyond the seas1 both masters haue occasion to write vnto their seruants or factors1 and likewise the seruant or factor to answer them againe1 whereof perchance some examples in this methode might also be sought for4 ,as nere as my little guesse in those causes will serue me1 ,i wil set you down some directions4 ,noting by the way1 that the infinit number of all occurrents are not herein to be satisfied1 though to as many as bee nedfull examples are intended to bee giuen4 ,onely the learner must consider1 that the true and proper intendment hereof1 is but for an orderly conueiance of euery action to be prescribed1 wherout one direction picked1 must and may well serue for a number in that or the like degre1 vpon other occasions to be suted4 ,neuerthelesse1 that as well in this1 as the former booke1 we haue omitted no trauell for the ease and better instruction of the studious to giue vnto them1 of euery common or nedfull matter1 as manie seuerall directions1 as that the leading along of the same herein1 may be wel iudged to be most plentifull4 ,according whereunto1 of these two last recited partes1 wee will now sort you out some particular examples1 of the first whereof from the maister to the seruant1 you shall expect hereafter vnder the title ,mandatorie1 of the second this example ensuing may be a president4 ,a ,letter from a seruant or factor to his maister4 ,sir1 my humble dutie remembred vnto you1 and my good ,mistresse1 you may please to vnderstand that ,i haue laden for your account in the good ship called the ,r of ,b4 according to your remembrance sent vnto me for the same1 by maister ,s4 ,t4 seuen ,buts of ,secke1 which cost the first pennie seuenteene ,duckats the ,butte3 marked with your accustomed marke in the margent4 ,moreouer1 fiue ,roues of ,cochinelie1 verie excellent good1 and of fine colour3 which cost after ,duckats the ,kintall4 ,all which ,i hope by ,gods grace shall safelie come vnto your hands1 ,i send you also herein inclosed your bill of lading3 ,i wrote formerlie vnto you for certaine commodities out of ,england by maister ,d4 ,l4 who came alongst in the ,fleete of ,l4 and is as ,i vnderstand1 safely arriued from ,lyons againe4 ,here is at this present small newes worth the writing vnto you1 wherefore1 praying ,almightie ,god for the health and prosperitie of you and all yours1 ,i humbly take my leaue4 ,from ,l4 this of1 c4 ,your faithfull and readie seruant at command4 ,of ,epistles ,remuneratorie4 ,chap4 #i4 ,in the writing of this last ,letter1 there was shewed mee by the ,printer1 a booke called the ,marchants ,auiso1 helping1 and in mine opinion most fully amplie suffizing to this instruction4 ,and for as much as the conuieance of these letters1 bee rather matters priuate to ,merchantes aduenturers1 then resting in publique for anie other vsers1 ,i haue determined herein for that sorte1 vnder this ,narratorie or ,nunciatorie title to laie downe my limits1 referring the desirous of further direction1 vnto the writer of that ,booke1 whose labour for that purpose1 not without his speciall desert1 cannot be by me or anie other to such end better furnished or deliuered1 his tearmes being most currant to those kind of dealinges1 and his methode also best answering vnto the true passages thereof4 ,for which in supplement of the residue of the required examples yet vnfitted to this my ,secretorie1 ,i will proceed vnto the next title of these familiar letters1 which appeare to be ,remuneratorie4 ,this title serueth to a ,remuneration or thankfull acknowledgement of benefits receiued1 and to such end is by the examples thereof to be imploied4 ,and in so much as vnto euerie one well conditioned1 or of good and liberall education1 it is a thing pertinent1 not to omit the respect of euerie benefit without some thankefull consideration1 it shall behooue that according to the estate or qualitie of the partie1 from whome we receiue the same1 we do frame our letters of thankes1 which to our betters1 equalles and inferiours are in sundrie sortes to be deliuered1 and according to the dignitie and worthinesse of euerie one1 excelling or going before vs1 are euer to be measured1 and with the more or lesse submissiue and humble acknowledgment is alike to be caried4 ,neuerthelesse1 that according to the efficacie of speech in each of them deliuered1 the greatnesse and weightie respect of euerie good turne1 is by the considerate and respectiue regarde thereof1 the more amplie to be perceiued4 ,an example of an ,epistle ,remuneratorie from an inferiour1 to one far his better in reputation and calling4 ,to recognize 7,sir7 in multitude of wordes1 howe much charged ,i stande vnto your bounteous and euer curteous regard towards mee1 were vnto your wisdome ,i knowe but friuolous1 who better respecteth the inwarde seruice intended of anie one1 7whereof ,i humblie beseech you on my parte to stande assured7 then an outwarde behauiour1 the validitie whereof maie manie waies bee doubted4 ,yet neuerthelesse1 in that the thoughts of men are only in word or action to bee deciphered1 let it ,i beseech you stande with your good fauor that ,i may by these few lines confesse my selfe bound vnto you4 ,and for the residue1 when it shall seeme good vnto your ,worship to command me1 ,i will not haue life or abilitie that shall not be yours1 in al that it may please you to vse me4 ,a ,letter remuneratory from a ,gentlewo- man of good sort to a noble man her kinsman4 ,my good ,l4 howe much ,i am bounde vnto your ,l4 for multitude of fauours1 and especially that it pleased you to thinke so well of me1 as to write your fauourable letters in my behalfe3 ,i can by no other waies expresse1 then to continue your ,l4 most humbly affectionate poore kinswoman1 wil for euer acknowledge it as of your great goodnes1 beyond any merit of mine owne4 ,and as my bounden duty is1 no day shal passe me that ,i will not pray to ,god for your ,l4 health and prosperitie1 and the redoubling of your daies4 ,beseeching your ,l4 to excuse this my boldnes1 and to pardon me that in person ,i cannot do my humble duty1 but by writing1 my ,lady making such haste away1 as so much time wil not be permitted me4 ,i most humbly therefore take my leaue of your ,l4 ,from ,s4 this eleuenth of ,nouember4 ,a ,letter remuneratory from one friend to another4 ,good ,m4 ,d4 my breach of promise in not hauing visited you with deserued requitall1 sithence my departure1 maie breede suspicion and doubt of ingratefulnesse1 but ,i hope1 and by hope presume1 that of your owne good disposition towards all your acquaintance1 you will yeelde vnto an approoued trial before you condemn4 ,for my part1 if ,i should not owe vnto you all honest minde and fidelitie1 ,i shoulde much contrary your great curtesie1 and deseruedlie incur the shame of ingratitude4 ,you knowe that hauing swaied1 as ,i haue done1 out of the limits of a comptrolled rule1 and displeased so much thereby as my case hath bewraied vnto you1 those whome by nature and duty ,i ought to be awed vnto1 it is reason that by a more district obseruance ,i make amendes for the residue4 ,my father it seemeth though not yet by me1 hath otherwise vnderstoode how much ,i stand yoked vnto you1 and thinketh himselfe for all his sons vnthriftines somwhat therein to be tied vnto you4 ,his meaning is one of these daies to intreat your paines hitherwards4 ,but how euer deserts be noted1 or care by nature doth binde1 assure your selfe whilest life leadeth along this earthly coarse1 ,i am and will bee alwaies most vnfainedlie yours4 ,to whom1 and your good bedfellowe1 ,i most hartily and often commend me4 ,from ,b4 this of1 c4 ,a ,letter remuneratorie from a ,better to his inferiour4 ,t4 ,f4 ,i haue vnderstoode by my seruaunt ,p4 howe much ,i am beholding vnto you for your paines taken in my behalfe1 about such busines as ,i sent him1 for which ,i not onlie thanke you for the present1 but will remaine your willing friende to requite you in anie thing that ,i maie4 ,it was tolde mee you had occasion to trauell this way verie shortly1 ,i pray you if you doe1 let mee see you4 ,and looke you faile not to vse me as your good friende1 if at anie time you fortune to haue neede of me4 ,wherein doubt you not but you shall finde my readinesse as great as your forwardnesse hath beene already in my businesse4 ,and so doe bid you hartily farewell4 ,from ,t4 this of1 c4 ,your louing friend1 c4 ,of ,epistles ,iocatorie4 ,chap4 #aj3 ,thus haue wee deliuered vnto you of euerie of these sutes their seuerall examples1 wherein you must note1 that if you write to your better a letter ,remuneratorie1 you maie not promise vnto him your gratefulnes with the verie word of requitall1 but rather by the proffer of seruice or other affectionate meaning in you1 to the answering of such curtesies as haue beene receiued4 ,and next hereunto will we passe vnto the title ,iocatorie4 ,the letters of this sute are such as of some pleasant conceipted vain1 do proced from one familiar friend or acquaintance to another1 rather of some sporting deuise then of anie important matter4 ,the vse is common among pleasant heades1 and rather suted forth according to their present vaines1 then vpon anie prescribed order4 ,such whereof is at the end of our ,epistles ,commendatorie1 one other vnder the title ,consolatorie mentioned in the former of these bookes1 and likewise a third vnder the title ,deprecatorie1 written in this last part of letters1 a like whereunto was once written by my selfe1 and three or foure other of a merie acquaintance1 to a parson beeing our familiar1 and one of good nature and disposition in the country1 wherein each one wrote a line of a seueral hand1 and as occasion fel out1 inserted his sporting deuises1 with many odde quips meriments1 wherwith the good ,parson thought himselfe greatlie wronged1 till he knew from whence it came4 ,but in so much as to an inuention onlie naturallie to be expected1 no method can be well prescribed1 ,i leaue the ,epistles of this sort to the discretion of the writer1 as his fantasie serueth to be pursued4 ,and goe to the next1 which are called ,gratulatorie4 ,for as the one is a pleasant1 merie and sporting vaine1 so is this a kind of reioicing1 but in a more modest and curteous maner1 ouer the good healths1 fortune1 or other good partes or preferments1 of our friendes1 kindred1 or acquaintance1 whose examples to their proper purposes are nowe next to be deliuered4 ,an ,epistle ,gratulatorie from one friend to another4 ,sir1 ,i was verie sorie to vnderstand by the common report of our neighbours of your great sicknes1 as of such a one whom our countrie should misse1 and ,i promise you as much as anie poore welwiller of yours1 ,i grieued thereat1 but being certainlie againe assured of your good recouerie1 ,i praise ,god in my thought for the same1 and do reioice it hath pleased his goodnes to bring you to your former strength4 ,whereof hauing no better nor more apparant token at this present1 then my heartie well wishing1 ,i thought it parcell of an honest purpose to signifie the same vnto you by writing1 especiallie hauing therunto so good and fitte oportunitie1 as this bearer1 whome entirelie ,i knowe to loue and regard you4 ,and euen so with my heartie commendations to your selfe1 and my good ,coosen your wife1 ,i heartilie bid you farwell1 ,from ,b4 this of1 c4 ,a ,letter ,gratulatorie from a wife to her husband4 ,good husbande1 ,i am glad that you haue at the last remembred your selfe by this bearer1 to write vnto me1 who haue thought it verie long to heare from you4 ,i doe greatlie reioice of the good and prosperous successe of your iourney1 and chieflie that you haue endured your trauel so well1 being in so good plight and strength of bodie1 as ,i vnderstand you are by your ,letter4 ,we are much beholding vnto our good friends in the ,countrie1 that haue giuen you so great and good entertainment4 ,and ,i heartilie pray you to commend mee vnto them4 ,your businesse heere at ,london goeth well1 thankes bee to ,god1 and wee haue no want of any thing but your presence1 which if you would once hasten hitherward1 it were a comfort vnto vs all to see you1 hauing beene as me seemeth verie long absent4 ,but maister ,c4 and his friendes where you are1 vseth you so kindlie1 that ,i thinke you cannot well tell howe to winde your selfe out from your good companie4 ,yet good husbande remember that at the last you must come home1 and the sooner the better4 ,i referre all to your good discretion1 and so commend mee most heartilie vnto you4 ,from ,l4 this of1 c4 ,a ,letter ,gratulatorie from one to his kinsman seruing in ,london4 ,good ,coosen1 ,i am glad to heare of your good preferment in ,london1 and that1 as ,i heare by your father and mother1 you are so wel placed there1 and with so good a ,maister4 ,it is no little comfort vnto mee to vnderstande1 that you doe so resolutelie1 and with so good a minde dispose your selfe to your businesse1 which ,i gladlie wish you would continue4 ,you must nowe remember that your friends with great charge1 care and industrie haue brought you vp1 and that their intent and meaning therein was1 that in expectation thereof1 they should haue ioy and comfort of you in your elder yeares4 ,for which1 as you haue now bequeathed your selfe to this place of seruice1 so must you for any feare of hard vsage1 bitternesse of speech1 or other mislike of tauntes or rebukes1 make account to endure and continue4 ,it may be1 being yet vnacquainted with the customs and vsages of ,london1 you doe now at the beginning thinke well of that1 which hereafter maie turne to a discontentment3 but good ,coosen1 so be it you haue no want of things needfull and necessarie1 frame your selfe to forbeare all other crosse matters whatsoeuer1 and giue you wholie on ,gods name1 to the benefite of your seruice4 ,you shall want therein no helpe1 furtherance1 or incouragement on mine and your friends behalfe1 who reioycing in that alreadie to see you so well behaued1 doe daylie praie to ,god to prosper and blesse you4 ,and thus with my heartie commendations ,i bid you fare well4 ,b4 this of1 c4 ,your ,vnkle carefull of your well doing1 ,t4 ,b4 ,of ,epistles ,obiurgatorie4 ,chap4 #aa4 ,these three examples may bee sufficient to serue to anie matter of this title3 seeing in eyther of them is required but an alteration of the cause whereupon wee frame our ,letter to reioyce vpon3 the forme of conueyance is all one4 ,for which we will hence proced to the next in course being ,obiurgatorie1 or a rebuking of the ill vsages1 demeanors or parts of any one4 ,it sauoreth somewhat of the ,monitorie and ,reprehensorie kindes before going1 but in a different maner3 for that the efficacy of those ,epistles do beare force in matters publike or notorious1 and these in vsages priuate and of lesse importance4 ,the order whereof by the examples following maie be the better perceiued4 ,a ,letter ,obiurgatorie from a maister to his seruant4 ,among some other causes that latelie haue beene aduertized vnto me from my good and louing friends1 it is made knowne vnto me1 that you in my absence1 as well towards your ,mistresse1 whom in my place ,i haue appointed ouer you1 as among others your fellowe seruants1 doe take much vpon you4 ,you runne and goe at your pleasure1 wade into vnseemelie courses1 and giue your selfe vnto some other matters1 neither fitting the trust on you reposed1 nor answering vnto my seruice4 ,the newes hereof1 you must thinke pleaseth me not verie well1 neither can ,i with patience digest1 that a companion of your being1 to whom by my sole fauour ,i haue giuen place of direction in my house1 should be so imperious ouer my wife and her due command in mine absence4 ,your wide wandring common haunts at your liking1 cannot by all coniecture be vnto mine estate profitable4 ,wherefore in signification that ,i am nothing well pleased with these so lauish demeanors1 if by the next report ,i hear not that they are better amended1 you are shortlie thereupon likelie inough to find how ill contenting they be vnto my humours3 with which priuate rebuke1 if priuatelie so it may bee considered1 being at this present resolued to conclude1 ,i attend the redresse of these euils3 and so giue my selfe to my further trauels4 ,from ,b4 this of1 c4 ,your maister to requite you as you shall deserue4 ,of ,epistles ,mandatorie4 ,chap4 #ab4 ,the force of these ,epistles1 mingled1 as ,i said before1 with the other ,titles in the last ,chapter declared1 may for further matter or other occasions therin required1 draw y plenty of their examples from those reprehensorie and ,comminatorie1 kindes alreadie specified1 this1 for any other like direction being thereunto for this place sufficient4 ,and now the last of these familiar titles ensueth1 which is called ,mandatorie4 ,these ,letters haue their titles of such directions1 matters in charge1 or other instructions1 as by writing from one person to another are deliuered1 and are the most ordinarie in vsage of all other letters that are amongste vs frequented4 ,the conueyance whereof in these following ,examples shall be tendered4 ,a ,letter mandatorie from a maister to his seruant or factor1 being beyond the seas4 ,my heartie desire of your good sucesse and wel-fare intended1 which ,i hope ,god will blesse1 ,i maruell that ,i haue receyued no ,letters from you since the fourth of ,march last1 ,i hope you doe neuerthelesse continue your good care and trust in mine affaires1 whereof ,i nothing doubt4 ,i wrote by maister ,n4 in the good ship called the ,p4 of ,london vnto you1 which will shortly by ,gods grace arriue at ,b4 and is bound for ,l4 vnto my coosen ,t4 ,r4 for all your necessities to giue you ayd as well in counsell as money3 howbeit ,i hope you haue no great want of either1 considering those trusty friends ,i haue remaining where you are1 and your owne allowed diligence which formerlie ,i haue proued4 ,i do now send you by a bill of lading in the good ship called the ,s4 of ,d4 those commodities you last wrote vnto mee of1 viz4 one packe of verie fine broad cloathes1 twentie ,tuns of ,lead3 the broad cloathes stand me with all charges in sixteene pounde a cloath4 ,i hope you will haue regarde to the selling of these commodities to my best aduauntage1 wherein ,i pray you do your best endeuour as the market serueth4 ,and for the money arising thereof1 ,i would haue you to employ on these commodities there1 which are here most vendible1 wherof ,i principally wrote vnto you in my last letters1 which ,i doubt not by this time you haue receiued4 ,otherwise ,i would haue you to confer with my coosen ,t4 ,r4 there abouts4 ,and thus desiring ,almighty ,god to blesse and prosper you1 whom ,i desire you in all your actions and dealings to remember1 ,i bid you heartily farewell4 ,l4 this last of ,maie4 ,your maister willing in all things to requite your seruices1 c4 ,another ,letter mandatory from a maister to his seruaunt4 ,albeit ,i haue manie occasions to write vnto you by this bearer1 which time will not suffer me to doe3 ,neuerthelesse such as are most needfull ,i will hereby remember you of4 ,at my departure from ,n4 ,i gaue order for certaine wares to bee sent vnto you from thence by the carier of ,c4 and thereof did then write vnto you at large in a ,letter1 and sent inclosed in that letter a bill of the parcels4 ,now hauing sithence considered with my selfe of the matter1 my desire is that you do not transporte them as ,i was determined1 but let them rest vntill my home comming1 for that there is a shippe shortly going for ,b4 of ,m4 ,alderman ,h4 with whome ,i am determined to ioine in the whole freight1 and meane by ,gods grace therein to passe both those and some other commodities4 ,about thursday next1 there is one ,t4 ,b4 appointed by my coosen ,l4 ,p4 to come vnto you for fiftie pound1 if he do come let him haue the money1 and take his note for the receipt1 and this shall be your warrant4 ,i would haue you to looke to the waters side if the wind continue ,southward1 for it is now serueth wel1 and ,i doubt not but to heare from ,lisbon1 for gladly would ,i vnderstand of our shipping1 and of such letters as shall be sent ,i wish you to take notice1 and if ,i returne not before1 vse circumspection ,i pray you to prouide for their returne accordingly4 ,the haste of this bearer wil not suffer me to write more1 only looke to my businesse1 haue care of the trust in you reposed1 and commend me to your mistrisse1 tel her ,i will hasten homewards1 as fast as ,i can4 ,and so to ,god ,i commit you4 ,r4 this of1 c4 ,your louing maister1 c4 ,a ,letter mandatory from a man to his wife4 ,good wife1 considering my hasty departure from you and my children1 my hope is that you wil haue that louing and respectiue care towards them and your familie1 that appertaineth4 ,i haue left many things raw by reason of the suddennes of my iourney1 which standeth vpon your good regard to be ordered1 as namely the charge of my seruantes1 and disposition of some other affaires and businesse4 ,you shall nowe shewe your selfe a carefull and discreete wife1 if in mine absence1 you will a little take vpon you to be in my place4 ,regard and consider with your selfe1 that seruants are negligent and carelesse1 and if the maister forget his owne profit1 they are as readie as others to share with his gaines4 ,your painfull attendance to ouerlooke them1 shal straine their labours to my vsing1 your desire to see into them1 shall worke their vsage to my well seruing4 ,you must now a little while forget neighbourhood1 and walking for company1 considering the old prouerbe3 ,that when the ,cat is away the mouse wil go play3 ,if master and dame haue both continued absence1 seruants fall a wasting1 and do what they list4 ,you know good wife1 ,i haue now taken a great charge of late vpon me1 which with some carefull looking to1 may turne to good1 let it not be grieuous vnto you1 nor thinke it hard1 that ,i thus make you partaker of my charge1 as ,i do of my profit4 ,for we are yoke fellowes you know1 and the charge is equall betwixt vs to be borne and supported4 ,if as louing mates and companions wee drawe forth togethers1 we doubtlesse shall by ,gods blessed goodnes see the fruits of our labours4 ,our children shall participate with vs of our trauels1 and ,god shal prosper our endeuours4 ,and howbeit good wife1 ,i haue alwaies found you such1 as of whose care to my well doing ,i neede haue no doubt1 yet if by the importance of my charge ,i bee driuen thus much to write vnto you1 thinke that in great trust of your modesty1 respect of your loue1 zeale to both our goods ,i haue done the same4 ,and though no mistrust remaine of any one about me3 yet doe ,i put you in minde what youth by too much sufferance and neglegct of libertie may be inclined to4 ,this is al ,i would1 and so much ,i hope as you gladly will yeelde vnto4 ,commend mee manie times to your selfe and likewise to all our friendes4 ,from ,r4 this third of ,maie1 c4 ,your assured louing husband1 c4 ,a ,letter ,mandatory from one friend to another4 ,my harty commendations remembred vnto you1 good maister ,r4 ,these are to certifie you that ,i haue presumed so much on your friendship1 as to put ouer certaine causes of mine in your name1 for so much as for many respects ,i find my selfe too far insufficient to deale with the parties1 ,i must therefore desire you to receiue some instructions which ,i haue herwith sent you by this bearer1 and therein to vse such needfull furtherance as in like cases of friendship you may commaund at my handes4 ,i pray you also that you will take so much more further paines for me1 as at conuenient leisure to walke towards ,s4 and there to confer with my brother ,p4 and vpon sight and hearing of such matter as by him shall bee shewed and set forth vnto you1 to deale accordingly4 ,thus with my earnest desire to see you here at ,l4 where you shall most hartily finde your selfe welcome1 ,i take leaue this of1 c4 ,your very louing friend1 c4 ,thus haue ,i led along1 as you se1 this promised ,methode by varietie of directions and examples1 fitting to euery purpose ,i hope to the pleasing and content of all the indifferent readers3 and here as a limit sufficient to that determined labour1 doe ,i laie downe my rest4 ,if anie faultes happen1 as no doubt there will 7for what from fault maie bee fre7 let the learned ,i beseech them winke at it1 the curteous ouerpasse it1 and the considerate and well practised in such like trauels fauour me in it1 seeing my endeuour therein was done for the best4 ,and so doe ,i conclude my ,methode4 ,,finis4 ,a ,,declaration of al such ,tropes1 ,figures or ,schemes1 as for excellencie and ornament in wri- ting1 are speciallie vsed in this ,methode4 ,collected and explaned togithers1 according to their applications1 vsages1 and properties4 ,by ,angell ,day3 ,illustration ,imprinted at ,london by ,p4 ,s4 for ,cuthbert ,burbie4 #aeii4 ,to the courteous ,reader4 ,as in the two bookes before going 7gentle ,reader7 my mind and purpose was to set foorth vnto the learner1 how much the phrase of our daylie speech by well ordering and deliuerie is graced with ,figures and other ornaments of ,art1 and to such end and purpose1 haue ,i in the margent of euerie ,epistle1 directlie against the places where they are vsed1 quoted them to be seen4 ,i haue now for better supplement of the learners knowledge1 determined in this place to make a collection of them all1 remembring with my selfe1 that vnto such as are vnexperienced in their particular applications1 they shall be but of verie slender moment in their quotations1 without also they may be instructed by example1 how1 where1 and in what tearmes1 wordes or cariage1 they are vsed1 and wherein1 and by what conueyance their efficacies are explaned4 ,for which cause1 these briefe instructions following1 conteining1 as in the title before going1 a demonstration of their true seueral qualities1 properties and natures1 are to such ende deliuered3 wherein my purpose is to omit nothing1 which in my poore opinion may seeme vnto this deuised ,methode anie wayes furthering4 ,and howbeit my selfe in the writing of these collections1 doe well consider the want ,i haue of other perfections1 whereby to ornifie the matter hereof1 with examples correspondent1 yet shall it by such meanes appeare vnto all fauourers of science1 what will and desire ,i haue to deserue with the best1 confessing 7as by due proofe ,i haue found7 no speech to be accounted valuable or of weight1 that is not graced with these parts4 ,thus hauing at large expostulated my true meaning herein1 ,i commit the rest to your curteous censures1 and my selfe to your good opinions4 ,yours1 ,a4 ,d4 ,,of ,,figvres1 ,,tropes1 and ,schemes4 ,a ,figure is a certaine meane whereby from a simple and ordinarie kinde of speaking1 we growe into a more cunning and excellent deliuerie4 ,a ,figure is diuided into ,trope and ,scheme4 ,a trope is as much to say1 as a variation of a worde or sentence from the proper apt signification1 vnto another neere vnto the same1 sometimes for pleasure1 and otherwhile for ornament sake1 and there are tropes of words1 and tropes of sentences4 ,a ,scheme is a certaine new kinde of forme of writing speaking1 and for the excellencie thereof is called the ornament1 light and colours of ,rhetoricall spech4 ,betweene a ,trope and a ,scheme the difference is1 that the ,trope changeth the signification1 as in these wordes ,generation of ,vipers1 meaning thereby homicides of their owne issue or antecessors1 as the ,viper deuoureth her owne broode4 ,the ,scheme hath no change of signification1 but retaineth the expresse meaning1 as1 ,can so great anger be in heauenlie mindes8 written of ,iuno in the ,aeneidos of ,virgill1 whereas anger is indede onelie a humaine passion1 yet without alteration is there allotted vnto the heauenlie ,gods4 ,and of some there is helde in them small difference1 in so much as often times they runne into one anothers meaning4 ,the ,tropes of wordes1 are ,metaphora1 which is1 when a worde from the proper or right signification is tanasferred to another neere vnto the meaning1 as to saie3 ,we see well1 when wee meane wee vnderstande well1 or to call them eaters or deuourers of men and houses1 who vndo the poore1 or extort from them their goods or liuings3 or to saie1 a homelie or rude speaker doth braie1 which to do belongeth to an ,asse1 or to attribute vnto thinges the properties they haue not1 as if we should say1 the ground wanting wet1 doth thirst for raine1 or fruits in their growth do labour1 or corne by the statelie length and weightie eare it carrieth1 to bee proude1 or by ,emphasis1 that by desire1 men are enflamed1 by anger kindled1 fallen by errour3 ,and lastlie1 in prayse of mans ofspring1 as to saie1 the beautie of his stocke1 or to call the place of renowne1 the well or seate of glorie1 also to say1 the showers of speech1 flouds of eloquence1 onelie for ornament in writing1 without anie other proper affinitie1 attribution or likelihoode4 ,synecdoche1 when by one particular we vnderstand a number1 as to saie1 the braue ,english was conquerour1 as much to saie1 ,englishmen were victours1 or when by a part wee vnderstande the whole1 as to say1 a blade for a sworde1 a ,hall for a house1 or when by one thing we vnderstand another1 as to say1 the highest fall for the deepest fall1 the toppe for the bottome1 ,neptunes reigne for the ,sea3 or when we put the matter whereof a thing is made1 for the thing it selfe3 as to saie1 the loftie ,pine did scowre the ,seas1 for the ship made of the ,pine tre1 or thus3 ,with slashing ,iron furious on his foes1 hee rusht amaine1 c4 for with slashing sworde3 ,likewise hee put spurres to his horse1 for hee ranne his horse4 ,they haue liued1 that is1 they are dead1 they flourish1 for they are rich1 braue or happie4 ,metonymia1 or transnominatio1 the putting of one name for an other1 as the inuenter1 for the thing inuented1 so do we call corne by the name of ,ceres1 we put ,bacchus for wine1 ,venus for lust1 ,vulcane for fire1 ,neptune for the sea1 ,mars for warre3 likewise the continent for that which is contained1 as if we should say1 acceptable to the heauens1 meaning to him that dwelleth in the heauens1 a happie soyle1 meaning happie people in the soile1 hee drunke vp the whole cup before him1 for the wine in the cup before him4 ,in like maner when the cause efficient is vnderstood by the effect1 as when we say1 ,pale death1 sorrowfull dread1 headlong rage1 carelesse wine1 vnshamefast night3 wherein is shewed1 that dread causeth sorowe1 death palenes1 wine carelesnes1 and so of the rest4 ,further1 when by her that holdes the ,scepter1 wee signifie the ,queenes ,maiestie1 and likewise by mentioning the ,sword1 ,magistracy4 ,antonomasia1 where to the person of anie one1 wee giue an other name1 then his owne proper1 as in stead of ,christ1 to saie the ,holie one of ,god1 or ,the worlds ,sauiour4 ,or of the ,queenes ,maiestie1 to saie ,the ,virgin ,queene1 ,the ,royall ,maide1 with other like appropriations fitting so great an excellencie4 ,onomatopia1 where to a thing not hauing a proper terme1 wee faine or deuise a name1 as to saie1 the murmure of the waters1 the roring of the cannon1 clashing of armour1 such like3 where neither murmur1 roring nor clashing is by nature to these belonging4 ,catachresis1 where wee accommodate a name to a thing that is not proper1 as to saie1 lend me your hand1 or your aid1 which tearme of lending is more proper to money1 or things that are borrowed1 and to say1 mens powers are short1 or their counsels long1 when in neither of both there is anie such measure4 ,metalepsis1 or ,transumptio1 when by a certaine number of degrees we go beyond that wee intend in troth1 and haue meaning to speake of1 as to saie3 ,accursed soile that bred my cause of woe1 when we might as well crie out on the parties selfe that hath don the wo1 not to go so far off as to the soile that bred him1 or as ,penelope bewaling her husbandes ouerlong absence from her1 exclaimed in her ,epistle to ,vlysses1 on ,paris that had raped ,helena1 wishing that he and all his fleet had perished1 ere the rape had bin committed1 intending that by that rape1 the ,grecians were drawn to the warres1 and so the siege for tenne yeares space continued1 and ten yeeres after that1 her husband forced by many landes and seas to haue wandered4 ,of the originall cause whereof her iust complaint was deriued4 ,tropes of sentences1 are ,allegoria1 a kinde of inuerting or change of sence1 as when we shew one thing in wordes signifie another in meaning1 a ,trope most vsuall amongst vs euen in our common speaking1 as when we saie1 ,bow the ,with while it is greene1 meaning to correct children whilest they bee yong3 or1 ,there is no fire without smoake3 meaning that there is no ill conceipt without occasion3 or1 ,i smell a ,rat1 that is1 ,i know your meaning1 for other applications you haue the same diuerslie quoted in our ,epistles to bee seene in their margents4 nigma1 a darke sentence1 or as we ordinarilie say1 a riddle1 rather vsed in high and depe mysteries1 otherwise conueied sometime in pleasant fancies1 then accustomed in other writings4 ,parmia1 called amongst vs an ,adage or common saying1 as thus3 ,who so toucheth pitch shall bee defiled therewith3 ,it earlie pricketh that wil be a thorn3 many hands make light worke1 c4 ,ironia1 a scoffe or flout1 as when wee saie1 ,alas good man1 or to one that hath set debate or contention1 you haue spun a faire thred3 or to him that hath made a long speach to no purpose1 you haue brought forth a mighty mole-hil1 or to a lewd person1 you are an honest man4 ,sarcasmus1 a bitter bob as wee saie1 or enuious derision1 as of one arraigned for fellonie1 to twit him1 that hee had like to haue knockt his head against the gallowes1 or of one suffering for treason to saie1 that it made him hop headlesse4 ,asteismus1 a smooth1 as we call it1 as when one tels a thing repugnant to the present matter or companie1 to saie1 ,i had as lieue he told me it snew1 when neither the time of the yeare1 or present weather admitteth it snowe4 ,or when one misseth of a number1 to bid him take a sticke and tell it1 or telling a lie1 to bid him take the haire from his lips4 ,antiphrasis1 when a word scornefullie deliuered1 is vnderstoode by his contrarie1 as of a dwarfe1 to saie in iest1 what a gyant haue we here1 or of him that telleth a matter ordinarie for strange1 to saie1 what a wonder telleth he1 or to say1 the man hath a sharpe wit1 when we intend he hath a verie blunt capacitie1 or of a blacke ,moore woman1 to saie1 ,will ye see a faire pigion4 ,charientismus1 as when we scoffe a man in his threatning mood to say1 ,o good words1 ,i pray you1 or kill vs not at the first dash1 or1 ,bite not my nose off ,i pray you1 and such like4 ,hyperbole1 when for the manifestation of a thing vehement or exceeding1 the wordes of our speach doe goe beyonde credite1 as to saie1 ,it woulde haue made a stonie hearte to weepe3 hee wearied the heauens with his clamour3 ,shee was fairer then beautie herselfe1 more cruell then ,nero or ,phaleris3 ,worse then the ,deuill3 ,whiter then snowe3 sighing without ceasing1 and infinite such like4 ,of ,schemes there are two sorts1 that is1 ,grammaticall1 and ,rhetoricall4 ,grammaticall are also deuided into two parts4 that is1 ,orthographicall1 pertaining chieflie to ,poesie3 and ,syntaxicall1 which are to be applied to our vses4 ,schemes ,syntaxicall1 are1 ,eclipsis1 that is a defect of sence in a word or necessarie reason1 aunswerable to the due construction1 as when hauing spoken sufficientlie of a matter1 we close vp the sentence with these wordes1 ,but this for that let be1 and now to the rest1 where after let be1 this worde 7sufficient7 seemeth to be wanting4 ,likewise1 what might be more in the matter8 for what might be more don or spoken in the matter4 ,also to saie1 you are not to aunswere or compare with him1 for you are not meete1 sufficient1 or able to answere or compare with him4 ,or otherwise to say1 ,a man of so rare vertue1 so deeplie to be ouerseene1 for1 is it true that a man of so rare vertue shoulde so deeply be ouerseene4 ,aposiopesis1 when by passing to another matter1 we stop our spech on a sudden1 as it were in an interrupted or discontented mood1 as to say1 ,are these the practises you take in hand8 be these your deuises8 hath your worthy courage endeuored so mighty effectes8 ,but ,i will first tame your courses1 and for the residue1 ,i wil hold you in so bridled a meane1 that my selfe will warrant you henceforth from any such like further proceedings4 ,or thus1 ,vngratefull creature1 hast thou dealt wel with me in thus conspiring my ill that haue euer sought thy good8 ,wel1 ,i wil saie no more1 but for thee thy complices ,i wil take order well inough to stay you4 ,or otherwise by way of a fearful rehearsall thus3 ,what euill was there whereunto we were not subiect8 ,but whie dwell ,i in circumstances8 wee were the men allotted to that purpose4 ,zeugma1 when one or more clauses are concluded vnder one verbe1 as to saie1 ,his loosenesse ouercame all shame3 his boldnesse1 feare3 his madnesse1 reason3 where all these clauses are concluded vnder this one verbe1 ,ouercame4 ,or thus3 ,what auaileth it to shrine so much this vaine beauty1 which either by long sicknesse1 extremity of old age1 infinite sorrowes and cares1 or a thousand mishaps besides1 is euery day in daunger or subiect to bee vtterlie crased3 ,in which all the clauses before going are concluded in this one verbe is in danger1 c4 ,syllepsis1 when one verbe supplieth two clauses1 one person two roomes1 or one word serueth to manie sences1 as thus3 ,he runs for pleasure1 ,i for feare3 where this verbe run1 serueth to both purposes3 also thus3 ,but scorning so to be reproued1 and with a manly resolution by one stroke giuen1 he acquited his shame1 his credit1 and his person1 where this one worde acquite serueth to all clauses aforegoing and following4 ,prolepsis1 where some thing generallie first spoken1 is afterwards drawne into partes1 as thus3 ,let vs take vpon vs one selfe charge1 ,i to direct abroad1 you to order at home4 ,or otherwise3 ,men diuerslie do erre1 some by an ignoraunt simplicitie1 others by a most peruerse follie4 ,pleonasmus1 where with words seeming superfluous1 we do increase our reasons1 as thus3 ,with these eares ,i heard him speake it3 ,or with mine eies ,i behelde him sorrowing1 where we well knowe that without eares or eies1 we cannot wel heare or see1 yet carieth this kind of spech1 a vehemency in enforcing the matter so plainelie1 or throughlie to be hard or sene4 ,macrologia1 where a clause is finallie added to the matter going before1 in seeming more then neded1 as1 ,men of so high and excelling vertue1 let them euer liue1 and neuer die1 here neuer die1 seemeth superfluous1 and yet notable wel adorneth the sentence4 ,anastrophe1 a preposterous inuersion of wordes1 besides their common course1 as when we say3 for faults1 no man liueth without1 when order requireth we should saie3 ,no man liueth without faults3 ,long when he had confusedly thus liued1 for when he had long time thus confusedlie liued4 ,hysteron proteron1 where that which ought to be in the first place1 is put in the second1 as thus3 ,after hee had giuen saile to the winde1 and taken the ,seas1 for after he had taken the seas1 and giuen saile to the wind4 ,also1 ,that which of all others is most sacred and permanent1 honoured1 and euer shining vertue1 chuse vnto your selues3 for chuse vnto your selues honored and euer shining vertue1 which of all others is most sacred and permanent3 or1 as commonly we say in our ,english spech1 ,pull off my bootes and spurs4 ,tmesis of ,diacope1 a diuision of a word compound into two parts1 as1 ,what might be soeuer vnto a man pleasing1 that had he1 for whatsoeuer might be1 c4 ,hither should he haue come to1 when he finished his argument3 for hitherto should he haue come1 c4 ,parenthesis1 an intercluding of a sentence in any reason commonlie set betweene two halfe circles1 as thus3 ,i am content 7not in respect you deserue so much at my hands7 onelie for pitie sake to hearken ynto you1 the knowledge hereof is ordinarie1 and therefore ,i nede speake the lesse of it4 ,hypallage1 when by change of propertie in application a thing is deliuered1 as to saie1 ,darkesome wandring by the solitary night1 for wandring solitarilie by the darkesome night1 or the wicked wound thus giuen1 for hauing thus wickedlie wounded him4 ,the vse hereof in ,poesie is most rife4 ,hendiadis1 when one thing of it selfe intire1 is diuersly layde open1 as to saie1 ,on iron and bit he champt1 for on the iron bitte hee champt3 ,and part and pray we got1 for part of the pray3 ,also by surge and sea we past1 for by surging sea we past4 ,this also is rather ,poeticall then other wise in vse4 ,asyndeton1 when two or thre clauses or more disioyned do follow one another1 as to saie his house1 his land1 his purse1 himselfe1 his life1 were all at his commaund4 ,or thus1 he scapte1 he ran1 he rusht1 and fled away4 ,or otherwise1 thy fame1 thy wealth1 thy friends1 thy kin1 and all hast thou lost togithers4 ,polysyndeton1 when in like sort by many coniunctions sundrie words one following the other are vnited together1 as thus1 ,both sworde and fire and dearth1 three dreadfull scourges of the war were alwayes attendant vpon him4 ,or thus1 with faith and troth and plighted heart1 and loue he made him hers1 c4 ,hirmos1 where a continuance of speech is vsed1 vntill the ende of the clause1 as ,god in the beginning made heauen1 earth1 sea1 firmament1 sunne1 moone1 starres1 and all things in them contained3 where you see all these words1 heauen1 earth1 c4 haue all one continuance vntill the last end of the sentence4 ,epitheton1 when for ornament sake we adde vnto a worde1 or for mislike do attribute somewhat vnto the same1 as when for ornament we say1 ,sweet beautie1 precious loue1 friendlie fortune3 ,or contrariwise in mislike1 vnbrideled lust1 filthie gaine1 wicked guile1 deceitfull fauour1 fond fancie1 c4 ,periphrasis1 when by circumlocution anie thing is expressed1 as when we say1 ,the ,prince of ,peripateticks1 for ,aristotle1 the subuerter of ,carthage and ,numantia1 for ,scipio4 ,a man studious of wisedome1 for a ,philosopher3 ,a man diuerslie enriched1 for one that is wealthie1 c4 ,liptote1 when by the lesse that is spoken1 the more maie bee vnderstood1 as thus3 ,what auaileth it that thou dost not despise me1 which is by the contrarie1 that thou louest mee1 the deliuerie thereof is singular by the negatiue1 for that giueth grace to the ,figure1 as it discontenteth me not to heare of you1 but it griueth me to heare ill of you4 ,we are not so ignorant of things1 but we can perceiue somewhat4 ,that is in the one1 it pleaseth mee well to heare of you1 and in the other1 we haue skill to discerne of things1 and thereby can perceiue somewhat4 ,paradiastole1 when with a milde interpretation or spech we colour others or our owne faults1 as when we call a subtill person1 wise3 a bold fellow1 couragious3 a prodigall man liberall3 a man furious or rash1 valiant3 a parasite1 a companion3 him that is proud1 magnanimous1 and such like4 ,meosis1 a maner of disabling1 as when we saie1 ,alas sir1 it is not in my power to doe it3 or otherwise1 little ,god wot could man doe in such a case4 ,schemes ,rhetoricall1 are ,anaphora1 or ,repetitio1 where by rehearsall of one worde wee make sundrie beginnings1 as to saie1 ,learning bringeth to knowledge1 learning maketh wise1 learning enableth to vertue1 learning is the ornament of the minde1 finallie1 learning is the onelie substantiall proppe and guide of mans life1 without which nothing in a manner can bee pleasant1 nothing sauourie1 nothing of value1 c4 ,or thus1 hauing committed so great euils1 couldest thou yet dare to come in open shewe of the worlde1 couldest thou dare to shewe thy selfe in the face of men1 couldest thou dare to bee seene of anie one1 that hast thus generallie deserued to bee hated of all3 ,or otherwise thus1 ,when death commeth to chalenge his due1 what then shall auaile beautie1 what youth1 what riches1 what strength8 where then shall become thy landes1 where thy reuenue1 where thy possessions8 who shall argue thy cause1 who stande for thee1 who plead for thee8 ,epanalepsis1 when with one selfe word1 we doe both begin and finish a sentence1 the vse hereof is merelie appropriate to ,poesie1 ,much asked he of ,priams state1 of ,hector verie much4 ,epizeuxis1 or a redoubling of a word1 by vehemencie to expresse a thing1 as thus3 ,thou thou art he on whom ,i liue to be reuenged4 ,he1 he it was that wrought all my care4 ,thus1 thus behooueth men of vertue and courage to doe4 ,anadiplosis1 when the last word of a comma or member of a sentence1 is the beginner of another that followeth1 as heauens witnes my fall1 my fall more grieuous then may be well supported by common sorrow3 or thus1 ,fie1 too much vngratefull1 vngratefull to mee of all others1 that so much at thy hands haue deserued4 ,antistrophe1 where manie members are drawne to ende with one and the same worde1 as1 we haue our felicitie of vertue1 our renowne of vertue1 our hope and expectation of vertue4 ,or thus3 men from their errours are reclaimed by loue1 reclaimed by hope1 reclaimed by feare4 ,symploche1 where sundrie members haue one selfe beginning and ending1 as thus1 ,if we shall debate of the times present1 what is ,i pray you the cause of all these euils8 money3 what hath beene the decay of our estimate8 money3 what the ruine of our soules8 money3 what the torment of our conscience8 money3 what the meane of all ambitious aspirings1 treacheries1 and villanies8 money3 ,in fine1 this cursed and wretched title of gaine is it that bewitcheth all ages and seasons1 and that onelie by a seruile regarde and account giuen vnto money3 ,or otherwise thus in contempt4 ,what sillie soule wast thou when ,i beganne first to like thee8 nothing4 ,what when ,i tooke thee8 nothing4 ,what before ,i cherished and regarded thee8 nothing4 ,and now that by me thou hast beene made somthing1 thou esteemest me as nothing4 ,ploche1 when by an ,emphasin1 a worde is either in praise or disgrace1 reiterated or repeated1 as thus3 ,though ,scipio were neuer so much terrified with the ,carthaginians in ,spaine1 with the ,numidians in ,affricke1 with aduersaries abroade1 and with priuie enemies at home1 yet ceased he not to be ,scipio still1 that is1 sui similis1 like vnto himselfe still4 ,polyptoton or ,traductio1 when one worde is often repeated by varietie of cases1 as thus3 ,who hath in his life nothing so much pleasing as the verie life it selfe which he enioyth1 it is impossible that his life with vertue should anie wayes be adorned3 or by translating of one worde into diuers formes1 as thus3 ,what manhoode call you this1 so vnmanlie to deale in those actions1 that speciallie appertaineth to a man8 ,here is this word manhood translated into vnmanlie and to man4 ,membrum1 or ,parison1 when one or moe members doe followe in equall sentences1 as thus3 ,see now by one fault how manie mischiefs thou hast heaped to thy selfe1 thou hast consumed thy patrimonie1 grieued thy parents1 estranged thy friends1 defamed thy stocke1 vndone thy kindred1 and heaped mischiefe a thousand folde to thy selfe more then can be auoided3 or thus with copulation3 neither hast thou herein dealt discreetlie for thy selfe1 nor respected thy frends1 nor regarded thy being1 nor studied of the euill1 nor cared for the good that might happen1 but leauing al at randon1 thou hast done what in thee lieth to worke all our vndoing4 ,omoioteliton1 or similiter cadens1 when words and sentences in one sort do finish togithers1 as thus3 ,weeping1 wailing1 and her handes1 wringing1 she moued all men to pitie her4 ,or thus3 ,thou liuest maliciouslie1 speakest hatefully1 and vsest thy selfe cruelly4 ,or thus3 ,wee find it much better of wise men to be rebuked1 then by filthie flatterie to be fondly deceyued4 ,prosonomasia1 a pleasant kind of collusion in words1 in significations diuers1 only by changing1 detracting1 or adding a letter or sillable in a word1 as to say1 ,no doubt he is a foole wise man1 for a full wise man1 for a ,doctor1 a ,doter1 or otherwise1 thou art no bewraier1 but a betraier of mens counsels4 ,of one religious thou art become prodigious4 ,antanaclasis1 when we produce a word in a contrary signification to that it commonlie portendeth3 as to saie1 ,for my kindnesse you haue vsed me kindly1 meaning indeede you haue vsed mee verie badly4 ,and ,i can bee contented to pray with you though you pray not vppon me4 ,where this worde kindly is applied to the worser part1 which of it selfe carieth as wee see a far other meaning3 and likewise pray in one sence being to entreate1 is in another sense intended here to spoile4 ,and as another said to a rude fellow1 you are too course to keepe course in our companie1 here is course for rudenes1 and course in another sense for good order4 ,erotema or ,interrogatio1 when by interrogation we sift out anie thing somtimes by demand1 as to saie1 ,but you sir1 now fr whence ,i pray you1 deriue you your fancie8 by asseueration1 as to saie3 ,haue you not in this action behaued your selfe excellent well8 ,by commiseration1 as to saie3 ,alas what grounde may holde mee1 what lande or shore may possesse mee1 circumuented as ,i am with so many euils8 ,by vrging1 as thus1 ,what hadst thou to intermeddle in so bad a company8 ,how long shall wee bee thus abused with so fained treachery8 ,art thou not ashamed seeing thy purposes thus reuealed8 ,perceiuest thou not thy driftes to bee all discouered8 ,by indignation1 as to saie1 ,shall ,i yet couer thy villanies being at thy handes thus hatefully misused8 or thus1 ,wicked and peruerse kinde of people1 howe long will you thus hatefully deale with your fauorers8 ,by admiration1 as to saie1 ,good ,lord1 who woulde haue thought so much loosenesse in so chaste a countenance6 ,but what is it that this blind and sottish loue draweth not a man headlong into8 ,and lastly1 by doubting1 as thus3 ,what shall ,i say1 or what further speeches may ,i vse to withdraw you from these euils8 ,or otherwise3 ,whither shall ,i turne me to speake vnto you1 or what wordes may ,i vse whereby to withdraw you from these vanities8 ,anthypophora or ,subiectio1 when to a question asked by vs1 we answere of our selues in our own reasonings1 the maner whereof is accomplished three kinde of waies1 as first when wee obiect vnto our selues that which to others might be obiected1 and answere it againe4 ,secondlie1 when we do 7as it were7 vrge those we speake vnto to answere vs1 and so answering1 do confute their sayinges4 ,thirdlie1 when in a deliberatiue sort we propound diuers things1 and refute them all one after another4 ,example of the first maie bee this4 ,is this a maner of discipline8 ,doe men in such sort deliuer their instructions8 ,had they for this cause the authoritie of tutors to them giuen1 that in vanities and misliked pleasures1 they who are committed vnto their charge1 shoulde consume their youth vnder them8 ,beleeue me ,i am of a farre other opinion1 neither do ,i thinke1 that the reasonable time of young men1 being now fittest of all others for anie vertuous impression1 shoulde thus cautelouslie be deluded of that1 whereunto both their parents and birth do commend them4 ,of the second1 this3 ,nowe after al these proofes of the happie comming and acknowledgement of our true and onelie ,messias3 ,let me speake vnto you againe1 yee ,iewes1 enemies1 and maligners of our sole and onelie ,god and ,sauiour ,christ ,iesus1 with what reasons strengthned doe you persist in your madnes8 ,stande ye vpon the ,oracles of ,prophets8 ,wee haue made plaine vnto you that they are wholie for vs4 ,looke ye after ,moyses8 ,it was only of our ,christ1 and none other that he that written4 ,waite ye on ,types and ,figures8 ,they all in one do agree to bee in him fulfilled4 ,preferre you vnto vs miracles8 ,who could desire more then by him was shewed4 ,bring you against vs a number of consents8 ,alas you onely bring the smallest number1 and lurking as it were in a corner1 are the gainsayers of trueth itselfe1 sith the whole world round about you doth witnes for vs4 ,doth the hope of any euent yet a little detaine you8 ,beholde your temple long since subuerted3 your sacrifices quenched1 your ,citie rased1 your people runnagate and dispersed1 nor anie hope at all left vnto you to be relieued but by the clemencie of the ,christians4 ,of the thirde1 this4 ,tell mee ,i praie1 what or wherein is it1 that a worldlie man hath such meane to glorie in8 wherein shoulde hee bee proude1 or for what cause should he thus puffe vp himselfe in vanitie8 ,is it for his riches8 they neuer make a man either happy or blessed1 so farre off are they many times from anie such euent1 as often wee do see that they are the verie cause of their owners destructions1 they sundrie waies are meanes to inconueniences1 and in our owne sight forsake their maisters in their life times1 but seldome followe them for ought wee see to their graues4 ,is it for children8 ,the keeping of them is then of riches far more vncertaine4 ,is it in respect of a wife1 familie and other such like commodities8 they are vexations1 cares and griefes1 nothing in them stable1 nor such as may induce a man to any hoped tranquility1 c4 ,there is also of this sort another example1 by an immediate answere to euerie question1 as thus3 ,wherfore then is the law8 for transgressors1 wherefore reward8 for wel-doers4 ,or thus3 ,where is now their pride8 vanished4 ,where are their boasts8 deluded4 ,came they to aide vs8 no1 rather to suppresse vs4 ,came they to comfort vs8 no1 but to kill vs4 ,antenagoge1 when hauing spoken as it were in the dispraise or mislike of a thing1 we goe about to helpe the same againe with a new colour to the matter3 ,as to saie1 ,it is a thing difficult to attain learning1 but yet verie commodious4 ,it is tedious to trauell for sundry knowledges1 but vnto our liues it is a thing most necessary4 ,ecphonesis or ,exclamatio1 which hath signification of griefe or indignation of a thing1 as of griefe thus1 ,o cruell and lamentable times wherein wee liue1 subiect as wee are to so manifolde miseries6 ,of indignation thus4 ,o incredible boldnesse1 or rather impudencie of a shamelesse creature3 not fit to bee suffered4 ,neither is this manner speaking1 alwaies framed by the ,interiection ,o1 but rather otherwise1 as thus3 ,vnhappie man1 made vnhappie by so great a misfortune1 what vnkinde destiny droue him to so imminent a perill8 ,howe miserable and vncertaine is the state and condition of man1 subiect to so many and so huge calamities8 ,or otherwise1 ,what kind of people are you to rage in so vile a madnesse8 ,was euer seene a multitude so fierce1 a company so carelesse1 an assemblie so desperate8 ,what inconsiderate dealing do you vse8 ,i shame to see you1 grieue to behold you1 c4 ,insultatio1 when iniuriously1 or by a contumelious reproch we insult vpon a mans doings1 as thus3 ,trudge on with thy mischiefs1 proceed in these thy insatiable cruelties1 and he that hath power ouer al1 wil one day ,i hope correct thee4 ,or otherwise1 ,pursue ,i pray you your glorious enterprise1 you haue1 no doubt1 very waightily begun1 we cannot but expect thereof a notable issue4 ,aporia or ,dubitatio1 when wee make staie or doubt howe to tearme a thing1 or which waie to wade in a matter1 as thus3 ,what shoulde ,i say1 was it anger or an inueterate malice that led him to this mischiefe8 ,shall ,i cal him cunning as cautelous1 that procured it1 and so well could shift himselfe of it8 ,or otherwise thus3 ,may hee bee said to be beloued1 or rather fortunate or blessed1 to haue escaped such daungers8 is it to bee tearmed clemencie or rather piety to vse one so miserable with great curtesie4 ,or thus3 ,i am not well perswaded what course to take in these causes1 shall ,i begin where others haue left8 or of my selfe shall ,i renewe againe vnto you what you haue so often heard8 c4 ,paradoxon1 affined vnto that before1 but with a kinde of maruelling or woondering thereunto added1 as thus3 ,could it possibly bee thought that learning and place of good education might euer haue produced such monstrous effectes8 ,or otherwise3 ,i haue great maruell that men so generous1 should so quickly be diuerted from their honest purposes4 ,or thus4 ,i woulde neuer haue beleeued that such graue and considerate counsels shoulde so easily haue beene subuerted4 ,epitropis1 when by proposing a cause1 wee reason what should bee done therein1 as thus3 ,in times so troublesome and seasons so tempestious1 giue now your aduise what is fit to bee done4 ,if the case were your owne1 what would you doe1 what would you say therein1 tell me ,i pray you1 you that conuerse in these and such like actions1 ,i herein appeale vnto your wisdomes1 your owne consciences1 shewe me but your mindes herein4 ,and this figure is vsed in reasoning1 when as to conclude a matter1 and seeming loath to trouble the auditorie anie further in the same1 we pretend to reserue a great part thereof1 which we would refer to their iudgements4 ,parresia1 or libertie to speake1 when by winning of curtesie to our spech we sek to auoid any offence thereof1 as thus4 ,pardon if ,i be tedious1 the circumstance of the cause requireth it4 ,if my speech seeme vehement1 the matter occasioning the same is vrgent4 ,if what ,i write seeme offensiue vnto you1 you haue to mislike the ill disposition of such as inforce it1 and not with me to be agreeued4 ,apostrophe1 or ,auersio1 when wee turne our speeches from one person or thing to another1 as if one hauing spoken much of the vanitie of the worlde shoulde thereupon turne and saie vnto the worlde1 ,o world1 how sweete and pleasant are the shewes of those things which thou producest3 but in taste1 how full of too much bitternes8 ,or in speaking of the certaintie of death1 and the little respect thereof had1 to turne a mans speach to death it selfe and saie1 ,o death1 how bitter is thy remembrance to a man hauing peace and plenty in his riches1 c4 ,prosopopia when to things without life wee frame an action1 spech or person1 fitting a man1 as if we should saie of vertue1 as of a liuing person1 that her wayes were sweet1 and replenished with all maner of delight1 that she putteth her selfe foorth to the woorthiest to be receyued1 and to the most honoured to be embraced4 ,or faine the ghosts from out their graues to prescribe good examples1 or to rebuke the vices of men4 ,or our countrey to accuse vs of our negligent regard vnto it in these or suchlike speeches3 ,vnkind people and ,citizens whom ,i haue ingendred in my bowels1 nourished with my paps1 fostered with my delights1 why doe you thus vngratefullie not onelie abstaine to tender mee1 but giue mee an open proy to my foes to suppresse mee3 yea1 which is most loathsome of all others1 become proper murtherers and paracides of your owne parentage and familie1 cruell destroyers of your owne patrimonie1 and wretched renders and tearers of your mothers bowels1 without all regard or pitie4 ,synonymia1 when we bring foorth many wordes together of one signification1 or sounding all to one purpose1 as to say1 thou hast spoiled thy ,countrey1 destroied thy ,citie1 and turned the ,commonweale topsie-turuie3 all which do sort but to one purpose1 for the expressing the hatefulnesse of the iniurie3 or otherwise to say1 ,what head hadst thou to deuise such a thing1 where was thy wit when thou wentst about it1 what became of thy minde in purposing the same1 whither was thy discretion caried in the prosequution8 ,here is head1 wit1 minde and discretion1 all sorting to one thing4 ,also1 what desirest thou1 what soughtest thou1 what couldest thou wish or expect in the action4 ,here is desired1 sought1 wish and expect1 being all to one meaning4 ,auxesis or ,incrementum1 where by degrees we not onlie rise to the summe of euerie thing1 but also sometimes go beyond1 as to say1 ,hee first set vpon him with reproachfull wordes1 after assayled him with his weapons1 then wounded him1 and lastlie did moste miserablie murther him4 ,here by degrees is passed to the last exigent4 ,now to the second4 ,it is euill to reproch1 wicked to slaunder1 villanous vnwarilie to strike1 detestable to murther4 ,what shall ,i say to betray a man to all these4 ,here is now vltra summum1 beyond all that was spoken to the vttermost4 ,the excellencie of this ,figure is so much the more1 by howe much euerie degre is still inforced one aboue another1 and goeth beyonde in comparison1 as to say3 golde1 riches1 honour1 estate1 treasure1 kingdomes1 life1 and all he helde of no moment4 ,another kinde of recitall pertaineth also to this figure short in repetition1 but for vehemencie wonderfull1 as to say3 ,thou hast conspired the death of thy ,prince1 and in her the subuersion of a whole kingdome1 what should ,i say thou hast conspired the death of thy ,prince4 ,as who would enforce that no one thing then that could be greater3 ,finallie1 for inforcement of a thing1 to say in reprehension of follies4 ,if thou hadst done or spoken this in a priuate audience1 among men of the ruder and meaner sort1 among such as are lesse capable of skill then a great many others1 thy fault could not haue beene hid3 but to doe it before thy betters1 in the presence of such as are adiudged both honorable and wise1 in the hearing of those of great account of such as haue power to checke1 and authoritie to compell thee1 it was too peeuish4 ,sinathrismus1 a heaping of words diuersly signifying togithers1 as to say1 ,hee was a man wholie malicious1 exceedinglie proude1 vtterlie arrogant1 altogither subtill1 by nature cruell1 and in speeches contentious4 ,or otherwise thus3 ,what should ,i tell thee further of his partes1 how wise1 how sober1 how honest1 howe courteous1 howe friendly1 how choicelie he liued4 ,brachiologa1 when in single wordes without anie coupling togethers1 we proced in a broken kind of deliuerie1 and yet hasten forward as in the other3 ,as to saie1 loue1 hate1 ,ielousie1 frensie1 furie1 drew him from pitty4 ,antithesis1 or ,contentio1 when we amplifie by contraries1 as to say1 ,being in my power to vse as ,i listed1 ,i cared for thee1 and did not destroy thee4 ,thou wast charie vnto me wh no man regarded thee1 and when my selfe also might haue despised thee4 ,or otherwise3 ,if you doe that is good1 you haue the rewarde of praise1 if you prosecute badnesse1 your merite is euill4 ,or thus3 ,to thy enimyes and those that maligne thee1 thou art placable3 to thy friendes1 inexorable4 ,in coole matters thou art hotte3 in the hottest causes1 colde3 ,art thou called8 ,thou art gone4 ,thy absence required8 we cannot be rid of thee4 ,epanodis1 carrieng a reference to the matter preceding1 much like to the figure ,prolepsis1 but that y figure ,prolepsis1 hath relation onelie to the matter1 this to the matter and tearmes therein vsed1 the difference whereof you maie see in some of mine epistles as the same is quoted in the margent where the figure is vsed4 ,comparatio1 which taketh his increase of smaller matters1 which if they may seme great in all opinions1 then that which we seke to amplifie must of necessitie seme greater1 sometimes also by diminution of things great1 to make the residue the greater1 example of the first may bee that saying of ,cicero of ,catiline1 in these wordes1 ,did the famous ,scipio for a little ill gouernment of the common weale1 cause ,tiberius ,gracchus priuatelie to bee made awaie3 and shall wee preferre ,catiline that goeth about to fill the whole worlde with his slaughters8 ,here is ,catiline compared to ,gracchus1 the state of a common wealth to the whole worlde1 a small sliding to an insufferable wasting1 and a priuate man to the whole ,senate4 ,or otherwise thus3 ,tell mee ,i praie thee1 if one had giuen thee but a small summe of money to comfort thy neede withall1 were it not humanitie to thanke him3 ,if hee had giuen thee possessions to liue vppon1 were it not honestie to requite him3 ,if of a slaue hee made thee rich1 shouldest thou not bee bounden vnto him8 ,howe much more then to him that hath not alonelie done all these1 but farre more then these vnto thee1 oughtest thou in the verie bondes of nature and courtesie to bee both thankefull and louing8 ,example of the seconde sort for diminution might bee this3 ,what is it that you propose vnto mee these small matters of vnkindnesse1 as that the man is ingratefull1 that hee hath no good remembraunce of courtesies1 that there is in him not so much as an acknowledgement1 which is a thing farre from requitall1 these ,i must confesse are iniuries to some1 but vnto mee they are trifles1 matters of no moment1 things not to bee reckoned of3 what say you to him that betrayeth his friend1 seeketh his death that hath sought his life1 worketh by all possible meanes his ouerthrow1 his destruction and vndoing8 ,and in this exaggeration of vices1 so also might there bee the like of ,vertues1 as if one should exhort a man to ,pietie1 after hee had set foorth all the commodities thereof1 as the tranquilitie of minde1 peace of conscience1 libertie of spirit1 the communion with ,saints1 from a bonslaue of the diuell to become the childe of ,god1 the comfort of the holie ,ghost which the ,prophet denieth may be by man conceyued3 he might lastlie adde1 what thinges then these in all the worlde could be greater1 what more singular1 what more happie1 and yet if they be conferred vnto that blessed heritage of immortalitie1 if to the life and ioyes to come1 if to that heauenlie ,ierusalem1 which certainlie remaineth for all such as are endued with such a spirit3 they are toies and things of no excellencie or moment4 ,metonoia1 when by a sudden restraint of spech1 wee giue grace or mislike to a person1 or thing1 as to saie1 worthilie atchieued8 nay rather honourablie attained1 a man notable1 we maie rather saie1 singular3 ,ah cruell man1 and no man neither1 but a beast3 ,oh rare clemencie1 or rather most admirable patience4 ,hee is no thiefe1 but a rauener3 no murtherer1 but a tyrant4 ,aphorismus1 a ,scheme1 like vnto the other1 but differing by a maner of reprehension1 as to saie1 ,what lawes bee these1 if at least wise they may be termed lawes1 which beare in them so vile customs1 and not rather firebrands of the citie1 and the plague of the whole common weale4 ,or otherwise3 your counsellers1 if such may be called counsellers1 as draw vnto mischiefe1 are vtterlie vnmeete to such kinde of assemblies4 ,diminutio1 when we goe about to extenuate things difficult1 to make them lesse in seeming1 as to one that would shun learning1 for the tediousnesse thereof in studie3 ,we might shew1 that besides the great necessitie thereof in the life of man1 wee shall in attaining thereof1 take no other nor more laboursome course1 then others before vs haue done3 that the way thereunto is verie plaine and easie1 the labour 7if anie be7 sweet and pleasant4 ,and whereas in all our ordinarie exercises of vanitie1 there redoundeth for the most part in the ende but meere trauaile1 and vnprofitable charge3 in this the commoditie is as great as the delight1 the gaine as ordinarie as the practise1 wherein the studie is but the least part of a mans life1 but the pleasure and commodity infinite4 ,and like as in this1 so in all other things1 conducing to good and laudable exercises1 the labour is still diminished1 by proposing the worthines1 pleasure1 honour1 profit1 and so of euils commonlie1 by mitigation of the fault4 ,climax1 or ,gradatio1 when each member in a sentence ariseth from the other afore going1 beginning with that which endeth the former1 as to say1 ,his industrie bred him vertue3 his vertue1 praise3 his praise1 renowne3 his renowne1 glorie3 and his glorie enuie4 ,or thus3 ,what hope haue we of good1 if what men list1 they may2 and what they may they do1 and what they doe they dare1 and what they dare they prosecute1 and what they prosecute1 they are neuer ashamed of4 ,antimetauole or ,commutatio1 when a sentence by charge is inuerted to the contrarie1 as thus1 ,we must eat to liue1 and not liue to eat3 ,not man for the ,sabboth1 but the ,sabboth for man was ordained4 ,they are happy whose wisdome is answerable to their fortune1 and whose fortune answereth their wit4 ,sinciosis1 when one contrary is attributed to another1 or when two diuerse things are in one put together1 as thus4 ,the prodigal and couetous doe offende alike1 for neither doe liue as they ought4 ,pleasure it selfe is sometimes a labour1 and labour also is often a pleasure4 ,to a couetous man is wanting as well that he hath1 as that hee hath not4 ,etiologia1 a figure like vnto the other beforegoing1 and much resembling to ,orismus1 which defineth a matter by sorting the same into a distinguishment3 but this nowe telleth the cause or reason of that which is before auerred1 and is as a confirmation thereunto giuen for the concluding of the same1 you maie se the examples as the figure is quoted in my ,epistles4 ,paralepsis1 or ,occupatio1 when in seeming to ouerpasse1 omit1 or let slip a thing1 we then chiefly speake thereof1 as thus3 ,i will not here rehearse vnto you how slippery and transitorie this life is1 howe much laden with cares1 exposed to daungers1 and attended with miseries1 for we knowe it and feele it3 ,but ,i will come to speake of the perdurable ioies of the other1 c4 ,or thus1 for my part ,i haue no pleasure to laie open other mens errors1 it is inough vnto me1 that by themselues they are made apparant1 and that the whole worlde may see them4 ,i omit to report vnto you these and such like ordinary matters1 which in comparison of that ,i will shew you are but trifles4 ,i tell you not1 or ,i talke not now of times past4 ,it is not the matter wherein ,i am now occupied4 ,his theft1 his rapine1 his spoile1 and all his whole disorderlie course of life in those daies perpetrated1 ,i nowe omit1 and onely doe come to the times present4 ,his counselling 7,i had almost said concealing7 of good when time was1 if it bee well noted1 was it that procured our mischiefes1 c4 ,procatalepsis or ,proccupatio1 when we doe anticipate vnto our selues that we know wil be obiected1 as thus1 what do you obiect vnto me the times passed1 those seasons ours are vtterly vnlike4 ,but peraduenture you will say that these things are for children fit to bee considered1 nay rather meetest of old men to be followed4 ,you will happely say vnto me herein1 that ,i am too light of credit3 but ,i can tel you the proofe is extant1 and fit to be beleeued4 ,metastasis or ,transitio1 when in briefe wordes we passe from one thing to another1 as thus1 ,you haue hearde by this what you ought to consider1 heare now ,i pray you what you are bounde to remember4 ,these things you will say are pleasant1 but the rest yet vntold are far more delightfull4 ,this already shewed vnto you seemeth to be tolerable1 that which followes is no waies to be suffered4 ,i haue now told you what was done in priuate1 ,i will next shewe you what was handled in publike3 these things he did at home1 that which followeth was abroade in the fielde3 whilst hee was a young man1 hee did this ,i told you1 but the vertues of his age were far more different4 ,you haue vnderstood of maners1 ,i will now speake vnto you of learning3 ,i will not trouble you with many things further1 only this one thing will ,i rehearse vnto you4 ,but of these enough1 we will now go to the rest4 ,i haue somthing beene caried away with these motions1 but we wil now go to the substance4 ,but why stay we so long in trifles8 ,i wil go to the head of the matter3 what he promised ,i haue deliuered1 what he performed you shall vnderstande3 ,i haue thus shewed you how much he was charged vnto me1 you shal now heare againe how gently he requited me4 ,paramologia1 where we graunt one or moe thinges meete to be marked or alleadged1 and forthwith doe infer thereupon sufficient whereby to ouerthrow it1 as thus3 ,i deny not but ,i haue heretofore vsed you in causes secret1 in matters weighty and of counsell1 that ,i haue found you friendly1 faithfull and ready3 but what is all that to the purpose1 when in a thing so important1 and matter neerly concerning me1 as whereon dependeth the safegard of my whole house and familie1 ,i haue founde you in both negligent and vntrustie4 ,or otherwise thus3 ,be it1 or suppose you haue omitted nothing in your owne person1 of a friende to be performed1 that you were no partaker with him of those euill counsels3 that you abstained to accompany him in the execution of his mischiefes1 yet are you not therfore cleared4 ,for it is not sufficient for a man not to doe euill of himselfe1 but that by to too much lenity he become not occasion of an others mischiefe4 ,dichologia1 when by a colour of mitigation wee defende our cause1 as to saie3 ,i fell1 ,i confesse1 but as a young man1 ,i went astray1 but as one willing to be reclaimed3 ,i forsooke my friend indeede1 but constrained by the lawes1 ,i was a companion in their badnesse1 but forced by threatning4 ,orismus1 definitio1 or finitio1 wherein we brieflie laie forth the true properties of euerie thing1 by impugning the contrarie1 as thus3 ,men cannot be said in vertue to exceed1 for in vertue there is euer an excellency1 but neuer an excesse1 sith the excesse is onely appropriate vnto vices4 ,this cannot be said to be care but couetousnesse1 for care hath onely respect to necessary vses1 but in couetousnes1 there is neuer any reasonable suffizance4 ,hypotyposis1 when any thing is described in particular1 or made knowne to the viewe1 as thus3 ,shall ,i tell you what maner a one you haue preferred vnto mee1 for his stature1 a ,dwarfe3 for his person1 a trunke3 for his qualities a dog3 for his countenance1 a foxe3 in behauiour a swine3 in condition1 an ,ape3 in sense1 an ,asse1 and in vsage1 a beast4 ,merismus or ,distributio1 when that as maie bee generallie spoken we distribute for amplification into parts3 as if in generalitie we said3 ,he hath consumed all his substance in riot3 ,by distribution wee might amplifie thus3 ,whatsoeuer patrimony hee had from his father1 what priuate inrichment by his deceased mother1 what large assistance by friends1 whereat the worlde neuer barked1 what dowry soeuer by his wife1 which no doubt was very great1 all this hath he consumed by a most dissolute and wanton liuing3 mony1 plate1 lands1 wealth1 possessions and all1 are gone to the deuil1 his cattel consumed1 his houshold stuffe solde1 his apparell spent1 and the poore miser at this instant hath not left him a farthing4 ,dialisis1 a separation of one thing from another1 both being absolued by a seuerall reason1 in the nature of a ,dilemma1 as thus3 ,when ,i haue preached vnto you all ,i may1 if you bee well giuen it auaileth1 if graceles1 forth you wil not be moued4 ,or thus4 ,what should ,i further set forth vnto you my good will1 if you remember it1 ,i haue said inough1 if not1 my words wil not prouoke you4 ,dialogismus or ,sermocinatio1 an imaginatiue speach1 agreing to the quality of the person it is framed of4 ,whether he be valiant cruell1 young1 old1 or of what other condition1 as if we shoulde saie of the times present4 ,were the ancient ,apostles and olde ,fathers of religion nowe liuing1 which with great innocencie of life1 and true pietie1 shined in their seasons1 and should but beholde the most corrupt and abhominable estate of our times1 subiect as they bee to all kinde of euils1 would they not thinke1 you straight proclaime against vs the vniust name of ,christians1 and challenge vs for the great want we haue of the true profession thereof8 ,would they not rather cry out of vs that deluding ourselues onely with a vaine title or name of ,christians1 we do not so much as seeke in the meane time to followe any part thereof8 ,epiphonema1 or conclusion to a matter before shewed1 as thus3 ,of so woonderfull force was his wisdome1 which was able to compasse that in short time1 which a number haue diuerslie sought for1 and could neuer hetherto obtaine4 ,or thus3 ,such is the force of ,nature which seldome wee doe see is euer chaunged by anie colours4 ,much haue they forsaken that haue cast all from themselues4 ,it is commonlie the conclusion or making vp of a discourse or sentence by some pithie manner of speaking4 ,as if a man shoulde inueigh against drunkennesse1 hee might thus conclude1 ,hee nowe that thinketh it parcell of humanity1 by thrusting on of many cuppes to driue his friend into drunkennesse1 let him also thinke it kindnes1 by a venemous confection giuen1 to driue him into madnesse4 ,expeditio1 or enumeratio1 when many reasons of auerment being numbred togethers1 we make a confutation of them1 each one in particular1 as thus3 ,the goods in question beeing alleadged to bee mine1 it is requisite you prooue1 either that you had them by chance1 that you haue long held or enioied them1 that you bought them with your money1 or otherwise that by some gift you came to them1 or lastly1 in succession that you haue obtained them4 ,that you had them by chance it cannot be1 for they were not lost from my keeping4 ,long haue you not held them1 for they were alwaies till this in mine owne possession4 ,it is plaine you neuer bought them1 for you paide mee no mony for them4 ,by gift you could not haue them1 for the right was in me to giue them4 ,the succession must be void1 for my selfe am yet liuing4 ,it remaineth then if you keep them1 that liuing you doe cast me out of mine own possession4 ,this chiefly appertaineth to the ,iudiciall ,epistles in the state ,coniecturall4 ,cmoratio1 when matters diuerslie enlarged1 are yet staid vpon1 and lastlie brought into one short conclusion1 wherby the reasons are made more weightie1 and of the greater efficacie1 as thus4 ,what will you make of this man1 whom ye seeke in this maner to set free1 you see he is a man prodigall of his owne fame1 a lier in waite for others credits1 one full of guile1 intemperate1 railing1 proude and ambitious1 to his parents most wicked1 ingratefull to his friends1 hated of his owne kinsemen1 stubborne to his superiours1 insolent with his equals1 to his inferiours cruell1 and finallie to all persons whatsoeuer a creature most intolerable4 ,sententia1 ,a recitall of some graue matter by waie of a notable saying or sentence1 either by common custome admitted1 or by some authour deliuered1 examples whereof are plentifullie to bee seene in my ,epistles4 ,exuscitatio1 ,a prouocation or stirring vp of others to the praise or mislike of a thing1 as thus3 ,what one is hee of so slender or contemptible a spirit amongst vs1 or who of all our ,nation woulde bee counted so enuious1 as vpon so great and large a desert had by a man so woorthie1 woulde not willinglie render vnto him all honour and due commendation8 ,likewise of the contrarie for dispraise4 ,doth it not abhorre you to heare and vnderstand of a rabble of so great and vnaccustomed lewdnesse1 a man euerie way so vile1 to goe thus freelie vnpunished8 ,surelie ,i doe thinke no honest minde but would be of this opinion1 that of all creatures liuing hee were most worthie to be extirped4 ,omiosis1 ,the figure of resemblance or similitude1 whereby wee resemble one thing to another1 as thus3 ,like as they greatlie do offend1 who going to a publike well1 whence all a whole citie hath their water1 do infect the same with a most deadly poison3 ,euen so do they most wickedly merit of the common weale1 who deprauing the mind of a ,prince1 doe lade and frequent the same with most mischieuous counsels4 ,or thus3 ,is it seene that men at the blast or byting of a ,viper1 do shrinke1 and forthwith do run for a medicine8 ,how much more ought they th1 for the auoiding of a most horrible shame1 y infamous sting wherof is far worse then all other poisons1 to run to a remedie8 ,icon1 ,an image or artificiall description of that we meane to deliuer1 as if in setting forth our most gratious ,soueraigne1 we shoulde saie1 ,that ,goddesse like adorned with high aspectes1 or statelie grace and maiestie diuine4 ,in ,chariot deckt with ,princelie ornaments shee issued foorth1 c4 ,or thus1 laying out the dreadfulnes of warre1 ,fierce and vntamed warre with eyes sparkling as the flaming fire1 whose face caried in it selfe a terrour to the lookers on1 and his cotenance was as it were a present death4 ,his gesture was as the furious assault of a ,lion1 and his mouth as a deuouring pitte to swallow the bloud of multitudes4 ,armed hee was with fire1 with famine1 and with sword1 crying reuengement on the world1 and persecuting all nations with a ceaslesse dread4 ,paradigma1 a maner of exhorting or withdrawing by example1 as to saie1 the ,elephants engender not1 but in places most remote1 and any that by chance do see them in that time they kill4 ,how much more then behooueth that betweene those of reason1 a shamefastnes be included in executing that action4 ,or thus4 ,the nature of the ,dolphin is not to suffer the yong ones of her kinde to straggle vndefenced1 such care haue they of their frie3 ,how much more beseeming is it1 that our procreation which are men1 should not be suffred to runne at random without either guide or controlment4 ,pareonasis1 or ,digressio1 a spech beside the matter in present spoken on1 as to saie1 ,but heere let mee remember vnto you something of the deserts and eternized memorie of your worthie and most vertuous ,parents4 ,or thus3 giue me leaue a little to digresse from this purpose1 to the ende that by laying out of something yet vnspoken of1 ,i may the better wade into the rest4 ,,finis4 ,of the partes1 place and ,office of a ,secretorie4 ,considering howe many woorthie and excellent men1 not onely in our present age1 but in manie yeares before vs haue liued1 none of all which 7though questionlesse furnished with verie great abilitie7 haue to my certaine knowledge1 euer written ought in our ,english tongue1 touching this title3 ,it maie seeme questionable1 how ,i the most disfurnished of manie others1 and subiect thereby to the insight and correction of all others1 durst take vppon mee to discourse thereupon1 weighing with my selfe the subiect ,i take in hand1 to be of speciall qualitie1 and to none so much fitting as to those that bee greatest learned1 best aduised1 discreetest gouerned1 and worthiest ruled1 to treate vpon4 ,nor doe my selfe by such presumption of mine1 dem the same to be of lesse moment then it is4 ,howbeit1 as one tied by a former promise1 in that my first edition of this present ,methode of ,epistles1 haue nowe taken vpon me 7as you see7 to write thereupon4 ,truth is1 that as ,i am none of those that maie vaunt my selfe of any furniture sufficient to so speciall an end purpose1 yet haue ,i not bin in some time of the yeares ,i haue spent1 altogither excluded from any fauour or tast therof at all4 ,neither haue ,i whollie spent the seasons ,i haue caried1 so vainely1 but that at one time or other ,i haue 7not without some considerate aduerting7 eyed the demeanours1 issues1 and dispositions of sundrie humors1 by insight whereinto1 and some proofe made of that which my selfe haue practised in place of seruice1 ,i am bold in this onelie discourse1 to aduenture the performance of that ,i haue promised4 ,in the discouerie whereof1 my minde is not1 nor shall be to prescribe vnto any one1 but to deliuer what in mine owne opinion1 ,i haue coniectured to be meetest in such a person4 ,wel regarding the number of those who enabled by farre better skill1 or guided by experience1 and their owne proper vertue1 can both search and wade further therein1 then my poore abilitie may anie waies looke into4 ,for which my purpose is1 and shall be in this present discourse1 onlie to set forth vnto such1 whose vnripened yeers1 or want of decernment1 haue not yet made them apt vnto so speciall a beeing1 and qualitie3 what in my plaine conceit1 vnto the place and office of such a one1 meete and fit to be a ,secretorie1 maie be thought most consonant and worthie4 ,to the accomplishment whereof1 as the best and metest induction to such a matter1 it shall not bee to slender purpose1 to speake first of the name thereof1 and to sift out by what meane the partie seruing in such a place1 had the originall title to be called a ,secretorie4 ,you shall then vnderstande1 that as me semeth1 by speciall reason and iudgement1 this name ,secretorie1 importing therein as it doth action of great consequence1 doth beare in it matter of more circumstance1 then by euerie one is considered1 and by howe much the more honourable the place of attendance is1 where such a one doth serue1 by so much the more beseemeth the partie called vnto such seruice1 be a man choice and of worthie estimate1 habilitie and iudgement4 ,so then am ,i not of opinion of the multitude1 who holde that the praiseable endeuour or abilitie of well writing or ordering the pen1 is the matter that maketh the ,secretorie1 7albeit the vse heereof is not the least part of manie other things incident to the same office7 but that carying with it selfe a purpose of much weightier effect1 the person therunto named was as a deriuatiue from that which containeth the chiefest title of credite1 and place of greatest assurance that may be reposed1 in respect of the affinitie they both haue of trust and fidelitie1 each with the other1 by great conceyte and discretion1 tearmed to bee a ,secretorie4 ,and albeit there happily maie be opinions some waies contrarying vnto this my present deliuerie1 touching the originall of this title3 yet standing directly assured that they all being laid togithers1 must of necessitie conclude on the verie ,secrecie1 trust and regarde1 speciallie imposed on him who beareth the same title3 ,i will boldlie for this cause define1 that in respect of such ,secrecie1 trust and assuraunce required at the handes of him who serueth in such place1 the name was first giuen to be called a ,secretorie1 and that by the etymologie of the verie word it selfe1 sounding in true coniecture1 quasicustos1 or conseruator secreti sibi commissi1 a keeper or conseruer of the secret vnto him committed4 ,by this reason1 we do call the most secrete place in the house1 appropriate vnto our owne priuate studies1 and wherein wee repose and deliberate by deepe consideration of all our waightiest affaires1 a ,closet1 in true intendment and meaning1 a place where our dealings of importance are shut vp1 a roome proper and peculiar to our selues4 ,and whereas into each other place of the house1 it is ordinarie for euery nere attendant about vs to haue accesse3 in this place we doe solitarie and alone shut vp our selues1 of this we keepe the key our selues1 and the vse thereof alone doe onelie appropriate vnto our selues4 ,and if we should run but into the nature of things secret1 and consider by the name1 what to such a matter is required1 we shall find that of it owne selfe it chalengeth so much1 wherby with three things most speciallie it is saide to be fortified1 viz4 with couertnes1 that it be closelie kept from the eyes1 eares or vnderstanding of others3 ,safetie1 that securelie it be retained1 and laid vp1 both with choice respect and tendering3 ,assurance1 that by no mistake1 negligence1 or defect of the partie hauing charge of such a secrete1 it may turne to a preiudice4 ,thus then by the concurrence of these1 it appeareth that vnto euerie secrete there is required a ,closet1 and the proper vse of that ,closet1 is onelie for the couertnesse1 saftie and assurance of the secrete3 all which considered1 let vs nowe see1 if you will1 what analogie or proportion they haue with our ,secretorie4 ,it hath beene alreadie before alledged1 that by the verie etimologie of the worde it selfe1 both ,name and ,office in one1 doe conclude vppon secrecie3 ,if so1 then in respect of the couertnes1 safetie and assurance in him reposed1 and not otherwise1 the partie seruing in such place may be called a ,secretorie4 ,the ,closet in euerie house1 as it is a reposement of secrets1 so is it onelie 7as ,i saide before7 at the owners1 and no others commaundement3 ,the ,secretorie1 as hee is a keeper and conseruer of secrets1 so is hee by his ,lorde or ,maister1 and by none other to bee directed4 ,to a ,closet1 there belongeth properlie1 a doore1 a locke1 and a key3 to a ,secretorie1 there appertaineth incidentlie1 ,honestie1 ,care1 and ,fidelitie4 ,and forasmuch as by the concurrence of these twaine1 both ,name and ,office doe seeme in vsage and account to be of so great waightinesse1 and that our ,secretorie1 as wel in title1 as place standeth by such declaration1 ioyntlie tied vnto so district an obseruance3 let vs now a little further enter into the function and place he beareth in such kinde of seruice1 and consider that being in one condition a seruant1 he is at the pleasure and appointment of another to be commanded3 and being in a second respect as a ,friend1 he is charilie to haue in estimate1 the state1 honor1 reputation and being of him whom he serueth4 ,touching the first of these1 in that he is 7,i meane7 a ,seruant1 it is to be intended1 that thereunto belongeth a ,superiour1 by whose absolute direction1 his actions of seruice1 are to bee ordered and commaunded4 ,and notwithstanding the reputation1 credite1 and estate of beeing1 to him giuen and allowed by his ,lorde or ,maister1 hee is yet to consider1 that the weight and summe thereof acrueth from his onelie fauor1 countenance1 and good opinion1 and that by howe much the more1 hee liberallie and of an honourable minde affoordeth vnto him the respectes thereof3 by so much the more seriouslie ought hee by all possible endeuours of seruice and industrie1 as farre forth as in him is1 to studie to conserue and vpholde the same4 ,and herein seemeth it not fruitlesse to oppose vnto such a ones remembrance1 some part of the considerations pertinent and annexed to the state of a seruant1 and what dependancie in common reckoning resteth betwene him1 who beareth in his sway the authoritie and rule of a ,maister1 and the other1 who in account that he is to be commanded1 carieth a maner of subiection to that partie1 who for the time of such seruice1 is at his hands to bee reuerenced and obeyed4 ,in regard of which1 wee are to see1 that by the title and prerogatiue which euerie maister hath generallie ouer his seruant1 there is a certaine linke of dutie1 wherewith each one that serueth is strained to his obeysance4 ,there is also by that very name of seruant a kind of fidelitie and trust required1 more speciall then that betwene the sonne and the father1 and that of so great efficacy1 as whereon 7peraduenture7 may rest not alonely this disposition of the goods1 estate1 principall affairs1 but also oftentimes y life1 hazard or vndoing of the person of his said maister4 ,a ,son cannot be saide to owe fidelitie to his parents1 for which cause there is also no breach of trust on him to be imposed4 ,if he deale contrarie to the condition of a son1 the bond by which he is strained proceedeth of nature1 and so are his actions accordinglie held for vnkind1 or vnnaturall4 ,but the seruant not linked by nature1 is tied in trust1 and by contrarying of such trust1 or not performing thereof1 is held treacherous or vnfaithfull4 ,besides1 so great a predomination hath this name of fidelitie in the harts of a number1 that many haue refused to commit themselues in times of hazard to their ,children1 but rather haue relied themselues wholie on the assurance of their seruants4 ,and howbeit1 most certaine it is1 that ,nature woonderfullie swaieth manie times in her proper features1 yet in this case hath she commonly lesse efficacie then in any others4 ,for as a currant of water loseth his power in being turned backwarde1 from his straightened course1 but hath forcible passage in the waie that it holdeth3 so is ,nature in this action of parentes and children1 which running forwards from issue to issue1 hath mighty operation1 but when it should be returned backwarde1 hath seldome anie power at all4 ,contrariwise1 whether it be the honestie of the name that leadeth it1 or the common reputation that each faithfull vsage carieth in the eares of good men1 or a feruencie of affection1 linked properlie to the place where anie trust is reposed1 ,i will not now dispute vpon1 but questionlesse1 of so charie regarde hath fidelitie alwaies beene accounted1 as immediatlie vpon the name of a seruant taken1 it seemeth not alone to be vnto the selfe title appropriate1 but it is in a manner by the proper allowance thereunto giuen1 seuerelie exacted4 ,now1 albeit this kind of exaction and charge1 seemeth in the deliuerie thereof to bee inded verie great1 yet when hee that serueth hath performed all that in such case is to be required3 he cannot for this or that alledge1 that hee hath effected anie more then whereunto by the verie loyalty of a seruant he was enioyned1 nor can hee rightlie or properlie affirme1 that by an extraordinarie respect more then he ought1 he hath accomplished the same4 ,for that in things whereunto a man is bounde1 there can be no gratuitie opposed3 but where a man aboue that hee is charged hath further endeuoured1 or more worthilie attained1 therein of troth1 and not otherwise1 shineth the greatest praise and glorie vnto him that maie be4 ,for this cause then doe ,i saie of our ,secretorie1 that as hee is in one degree in place of a seruant1 so is he in another degre in place of a friend4 ,a seruant meanlie trained in some ,mechanicall ,science1 sheweth fidelitie to his ,maister1 in an vpright dealing and disposition of his wares or goodes4 ,another in like sort hauing the receyte of his ,maisters reuenewes1 becommeth a faithfull dispenser in his accountes and reckonings4 ,some on the other side haue asmuch or the like fidelitie in keeping of counsels4 ,others againe by a termed zeale vnto their masters1 haue in recognizing their fidelitie died willinglie for their fauours4 ,of all these sortes of ,fidelitie1 the last as ,i am sure it hath lesse seeming of credence or supposition of troth in common beleuing then anie of the others1 so is it 7you will grant mee17 the most assured and most moouing pittie1 prayse and commendation1 in all reckoning aboue anie of the others4 ,and that such are and haue beene1 ,i could recite vnto you sundrie remembrances1 and one but of late yeares1 that in verie sufficient knowledge fell out to be effected1 and thus was the circumstance1 as my vnderstanding could beare it4 ,when sir ,iohn of ,desmond in ,ireland1 some number of years passed1 of a rebellious and cruell minde to the state there being1 and principallie to her ,maiesty1 had solemnly conspired1 and most tyrannously sworne the death and destruction of all ,english men in his ,countrey1 there happened one ,henrie ,dauill an ,english ,gentleman to lie1 at that verie bloudie pretended season1 in the house of the saide ,knight1 and for two causes of him was thought entirelie to bee fauoured1 the one in respect that hee was his ,christian ,gossip1 as they there terme it 7a linke strong inough to haue purchased fauour in that ,countrey1 had it not beene with a most bloudie tyrant7 the other1 in that hee was a ,gentleman both courteous1 bountifull and valiant4 ,this ,maister ,dauill had at that time onelie an ,irish boy attendant vpon him1 the time conspired for this murder was at midnight1 when all men careleslie were sleeping4 ,about the watch whereof1 sir ,iohn and his companie entring the ,chamber of maister ,dauill1 wakened him from slepe1 opened the conspiracie1 and willed him to prepare him to his lot1 assuring him that were it not he had without exception vowed in his heart1 and sworn the death of all ,english men1 he could desirouslie1 aswell for that he was his ,christian ,gossip1 as for other loue he ought him1 haue suffered his life1 but all being appointed to die1 he must go with the rest4 ,the boy hauing receiued into his eares the sound of his masters death1 and therewith sundrie menacing strokes seeing readie to bee proffered1 stirred 7no question7 by a most zealous ,fidelitie1 clasped on his masters breast1 and with such slender resistance as hee coulde1 did beare off the blowes1 receyued vppon his owne bodie diuers and sundrie wounds1 and doe what they could1 no one could pull or remooue him from thence1 till fretting rage kindeled in these mercilesse creatures1 made them kill the ,boy vppon his maister1 and his ,maister vnder the ,boy1 both at one instant togithers4 ,the memorie of this acte1 as it is most pitifull in rehearsall1 so will it of a number bee thought verie strange4 ,if anie ,fidelitie1 haue by feruencie beene accounted off1 this you will iudge of anie others ought chieflie to be embraced4 ,but yet not this1 nor anie of the residue of those partes of ,fidelitie by mee alreadie deliuered are such1 as in this place ,i hold meete to be pursued4 ,for howbeit the seruice of our ,secretorie is properlie by it selfe with all assurance to be caried1 yet doe wee not place him in so meane a degree as that by corruption of coine1 he might be held for distrusted nor on the other side would we haue him of iudgement so disfurnished1 but that touching the difference of counsels1 or tender of his life1 he should make a decernment4 ,in this ,boy voluntarilie as hee did1 in the verie weakenesse of his yeares1 to seeke by death his ,maisters safegarde1 was no doubt1 a thing woorthie to bee admired4 ,but in manifestation of so great loue1 and testimonie of so loyall affection1 had hee beene by yeares more enabled1 it would haue beene thought verie fondlie of to haue done it1 without thereby his ,masters death might haue beene reuenged1 or his life preserued3 ,els to what end is ,fidelitie applied1 or what vse at all in reckoning1 remaineth there of it8 ,by discretion to discerne1 by vertue to iudge1 and by wisdome to resolue1 how and which way the efficacie and assurance of all trust and fidelitie ought to be caried1 is a thing meetest in all reputation principallie to be obserued4 ,how can there otherwise appeare anie worthinesse1 if affections sort to bee equall1 or what distinguishment may there be of spirits when mens iudgementes are common4 ,george ,castrioth1 surnamed ,scanderbeg1 the terrour while hee liued1 and onlie man able to confound the ,turkish forces1 during his infancie1 hauing bin trained vp with ,amurath father to ,mahomet the second ,emperour of the ,turkes 7for that in the conquest of ,epirus by the same ,amurath1 the father of ,scanderbeg being slaine1 and his ,signory subdued vnto the ,turke1 hee was then with others led awaie into ,turky a captiue47 ,when hee arriued to manlie yeares1 and serued with great fortune and valour the saide ,amurath in his warres3 it happened that being in one great battell as generall of the ,turkish ,armie against the ,christians1 and fighting against ,hungarie1 a remorse of conscience tooke him1 in that hee being the sonne of a ,christian ,prince1 professed in ,christianitie1 and vowed to ,god1 should so wickedlie become the confusion of his brethren1 and warre against ,christ and his kingdome4 ,and albeit he was neuer vnfortunate in anie fight1 and at that time likeliest of al other to attaine the victory1 yet regarding the state and maner of the conquest1 he faintinglie withdrew1 with great discouragement vnto his people1 gaue power vnto the enemy to be at that time a conquerour4 ,which done1 himselfe with a few chiefe and principall persons his associates1 tooke themselues together in flight4 ,in this company1 was a noble ,gentleman1 wise in behauiour1 faithfull in counsell1 and secret in trust1 at that time ,secretorie and of counsell to the great ,turke4 ,the place of their residence seruing well to the purpose1 him ,scanderbeg 7being of the others assured7 tooke onlie in hand to acquaint with his enterprize4 ,and forasmuch as his credence with the saide ,amurath was such1 as in the repose of his troth1 rested both ,signet1 and warrant sufficient1 to put forwarde whatsoeuer direction or commaund in anie the ,turkish signories1 vpon paine of death to be obeyed1 ,scanderbeg declaring his wearisomnesse of captiuitie and seruage1 desire to visite his kingdome1 and liking after that to liue at liberty a christian1 and therewithall howe often the ,turke had promised to restore him1 and yet still brake with him1 enioyned the ,secretorie to write letters of command in the ,turkes name1 to the ,deputie or rulers of his fathers kingdome1 that as their lawfull ,prince and gouernour they shoulde then at that instant without more delaie receiue him1 and thenceforth renounce and put from them their wonted charge and authoritie4 ,and albeit the power of ,scanderbeg was in that place great1 and the ,secretorie nothing misdoubted at all his resolution1 and therefore feared too much to contradict him in the same1 knowing also that if he assented to that demaund1 hauing yet libertie to depart1 he might timely inough aduertize the ,turk to the preuention3 yet vsed he neuerthelesse so manie effectuall speeches as for the present he could1 to disswade him3 which not preuailing1 hee assented at last for feare1 and wrote as he required him4 ,the ,letters orderlie signed and sealed1 as to the importance belonged1 ,scanderbeg knowing the great wisedome1 fidelitie and counsell of the ,secretorie1 thought it nowe a matter of no small worth1 if by any facility he could win him also vnto his companie1 to passe in the same iourny1 or otherwise if he refused1 then demed he fit that he should not returne aliue1 to carrie newes to the ,turk of his determined iourney4 ,and therefore first with as manie kinde entreaties and offers of all honour1 fauour1 estimate1 and aduauncement that could be1 he assailed him1 he proposed also the expectation of his own fortune1 valour1 power and strength of the euerliuing ,god whom he serued1 that was able to defende them1 and all possible meanes that otherwise could bee deuised to mooue him4 ,but none of these in fine preuailing1 he lastlie set before his eies1 that vpon such refusall1 hee for his owne best assurance must be enforced to kill him4 ,which maner of spech1 albeit mooued in the ,secretorie diuers alterations1 yet chose he as the most honestest part1 no wayes to defraude the trust in him reposed1 especiallie by assistance in his owne person thereunto giuen4 ,and seeing he could by no meanes escape with life1 aduised suddenlie rather to die in the handes of ,scanderbeg for that he had alreadie done1 then in so manifest an action of disloyaltie1 to be found a principall actor of treason against his ,lord and maister4 ,great is the linke of ,vertue whereby the mindes of men singular are manie wayes bound1 neither falleth it out in those of weake spirite and capacitie to become partakers of the praise due vnto so high and honored excellencie4 ,to men baselie conceyted1 there is neither respect of troth1 loue1 honor1 duty1 or other matter whatsoeuer1 whereby to drawe them from a sensuall appetite or carnall desire of their owne liuing1 safetie and commoditie3 ,but to those who are the sworne schollers of vertue1 to whom true glory is of price1 who solie haue in estimate to make choyce of things worthie3 ,in these it sorteth to be a shame1 what others reckon for laud3 to them a preiudice1 what many hold for gaine1 they contemning by a sole vertue and discrete choice of the minde1 what is besides or lesse then that which accordeth to the true honor and reputation of well deseruing1 cannot content themselues to liue where their credite dieth1 despise wealth1 where honour is to be pursued1 neglect reputation1 where loyaltie is not entertained1 and expect no fidelitie1 where consequently the effects of an honest and woorthie mind1 are not principallie to be caried4 ,as then1 by what vse soeuer applied1 ,i do in al things commend ,fidelitie and ,trust to be performed where by districtnesse it is chalenged3 so nowe doe ,i in the carriage of this our ,secretorie1 sort him forth properlie from the residue by a difference1 for where in persons of lesse conceite1 and lower respect1 some vsages are commendable1 in him they are to bee presumed1 as no wayes to bee doubted of3 neither is it to be expected1 that the mould of such a one should be so subiect to imperfections1 as that in common mean actions he should thinke to be praised3 seing that where any breach of those parts in men lower conceyted might be found1 it woulde in them be helde as in comparison a thing no more then might be doubted1 but in him would it turne to a most vituperable basenes with such intendments to be spotted4 ,and as ,i thus sequester him from the ordinarie vsage of what held to be liked1 so doe ,i againe drawe in him a speciall choice1 of things high1 and worthie beseeming1 aboue others 7lesse considerate7 in all things to bee carried1 and wherein the summe of his fidelitie shall onelie be required4 ,for seeing that by reason of the place wherein hee standeth of imployment1 by reason of his supposed education1 birth1 qualitie1 or other decernment1 by reason of the waight1 more then of common trust1 in him diuersly imposed1 he semeth to be a man euerie way proportionate to a farre other end purpose1 then of euerie ordinarie attendant is commonlie required1 it must neds th be of such a one coniectured1 that by far greater skill measure he be in euery of his actions demeaned1 y with much greater modestie1 care1 respect1 consideration and integritie he doe by such meanes temper all his outward and inward behauiours1 and iudgements1 as beeing himselfe in reputation a ,gentleman1 and conuersing among such as haue discretion to deeme of a ,gentleman1 hee may least of all be touched with anie thing1 that lesseneth or il besemeth anie part of that1 which principallie may appertaine to a ,gentleman4 ,and whereas in any other attendant it is a matter praise worthie1 to be beautified or aduanced by some one or other speciall vertue or qualitie1 in him it is of necessitie1 who by how much the more nerer he is in frequentation of any honorable place or calling1 by so much the more nedefull is it1 that he be accordinglie furnished wherewith in semelie and laudable sort1 to enter and approch the same4 ,and as in the seruice of euery one whatsoeuer1 it is specially required1 to be endued with all parts of dutifull attendance loyaltie3 so is it for him to excell1 and bee different1 because in his imployment1 trust and otherwise1 there is exacted at his hands a far greater scope and efficacie1 then wherewith anie other seemeth to be charged by anie proportion or qualitie4 ,by this measure nowe of ,fidelitie1 trust or loyall credit of a seruant1 in which place our ,secretorie1 as you see standeth bounden by the first degre of his seruice1 it maie secondlie be coniectured1 in what respectiue estate1 he ought for the residue of that which to his attendance appertaineth1 bee accounted a ,friend4 ,the limits of ,friendship 7as it might bee obiected7 are streight1 and there can bee no ,friend where an inequalitie remaineth4 ,twixt the partie commaunded and him that commaundeth1 there is no societie1 and therefore no ,friendship where resteth a ,superioritie4 ,but ,i say and affirme1 that if it bee true1 that the summe of all ,friendship taketh his originall of loue1 and that the true demonstration of loue groweth by a simpathie of affections1 of which affections ,vertue is said to be the whole simple ground1 then may this simpathie of affectis so groded on vertue as aforesaid1 be turned into loue1 notwithstanding y inequality of estate or condition whereby a man vertuouslie disposed1 being seruant to such a one who is honourablie inclined1 may in that place of seruice in which he continueth1 be reputed in processe of time to become as a friend4 ,but if we shall goe to the true definition of friendship1 you will then saie1 that this friendshippe so called and reputed among men1 as it is a simpathie of affections firmlie vnited togithers1 so is it such a vniting1 as wherein what the one coueteth1 the other desireth1 in respect whereof worlds and life1 and all are not desirable1 but despised1 ,i would not here be taken1 that of any sorts of people that run into all or a number of these like effects1 without exception of qualitie1 ,i intend1 that they therfore were also to beare the name of friends1 for so men vtterly vicious and lewdly giuen1 consorting in wickednes1 and other base exercises1 in which each spendeth his life1 or desperatlie dieth one for another1 might be reputed as friends1 ,i haue no such meaning1 nor is my intent herein to so generall a purpose4 ,but speaking of friendship1 ,i only deale with such1 whose actions and sincere desires haue in vertue highest preheminence1 for these1 not by aduenture1 but by a deliberate counsell and choise regard speciallie had1 of things valuable and worthy1 do accomplish their effects by a most honourable purpose4 ,to this then ,i answer1 that if the weight of friendship1 so consisteth in a simpathie of affection1 vniting of hearts1 coueting anothers good1 and despising all that maie be gained1 in respect of the partie befriended3 whie yet maie not our ,secretorie as well as any other1 merit neuerthelesse in this place of seruice at the handes of his ,l4 or master1 the name of a ,friend8 ,why should he not therein aswell as anie other haue that power in him planted1 whereby to become a ,friend8 ,touching the equalitie of affections1 though it is still laid down that therein ought to be no difference1 the commander and the commanded1 do yet alwaies make a discordance3 ,i maie neuerthelesse thus much deliuer thereof1 that by all common likelihood it is assuredlie to be coniectured1 that no one personage of estate1 laieth choice vpon such a one to serue so ner about him1 and to be in place of so great trust as appertaineth to a man of that reckoning1 but ere he long haue vsed him1 he bindeth vnto him at least some good part of his affection4 ,for how can it otherwise be thought1 but that our ,secretorie being one euerie waie so waightilie to be imployed as he is1 partaking as he doeth with so manie causes of importance1 and vndiscouered secrets and counsels1 standing as he must vpon so neere attendance1 as hee that is almost 7as occasion serueth7 euerie minute of an houre to be vsed1 but that to his ,l4 or ,master1 he must of necessitie bee verie charie1 and at the leastwise more particularlie then manie others1 by a great deale to be beloued4 ,he then thus finding in so noble a place1 so honourable an account1 our ,secretorie being as he ought to be1 a man of vertue1 and worth1 cannot chose on y other side1 but frame his vtmost thoughts correspondent in all things to those particular fauours1 his conuersing1 his neerenesse and attendance1 turneth then to an affection1 and this1 heated by the dailie encrease of his ,lord or maisters liking towardes him1 groweth thence to a feruencie1 and so each vertue kindled by the others ,grace1 maketh at last a coniunction1 which by the multitude of fauors rising from the one1 and a thankfull compensation alwayes procured in the other1 groweth in the end to a simpathie vnseparable1 and therby by all intendment concludeth a most perfect vniting4 ,panutius1 the faithfull ,secretorie and counsellour to the great ,emperour and ,philosopher surnamed ,aurelius1 for the high wisdome1 fidelitie1 and counsell by him in all his seruices continued towards the ,prince during his life time1 and euen to the verie entrance of his graue1 deserued before manie others1 7secrete also in aduice to the said ,emperour7 to be termed and called by the name of a friend4 ,insomuch as he onelie daring to speake plainlie1 what in others iudgements might seme to be offensiue1 to perswade faithfullie1 what he saw most agreeing to the present extremitie1 made the ,emperour pronounce himselfe fortunate1 to haue nourished one so discreet in his ,pallace1 and most blessed of all1 in that when each failed him in his dying1 he onely was found assured vnto him1 among all that were liuing4 ,in this friendlie knot of loue1 and that of seruile commaund1 remaineth a most notable difference1 especiallie for this matter of trust and fidelitie1 required in seruice1 for1 quem metuunt odiunt1 whom men feare they hate3 well may they for fashions sake please1 but this sound kinde of affection is often far from their thought4 ,and yet that there may bee an awed reuerence1 aswel in loue as in feare1 who doubteth it1 yea and that rather far more assured and effectuall then the other4 ,for where this grounded ,loue by vertue once staieth confirmed1 the humilitie and gentlenesse of the mind is it immediatlie that afterwards directeth the thoughtes1 we then doe gladlie honour the more1 by how much the willinger we desire to serue1 and more firmlie obeie1 by how much the more entirelie we stand to be fauored4 ,this friendlie ,fidelitie1 not vrged or constrained by soueraign command1 but of a zeale to weldoing voluntarily embraced2 leadeth the reputation and estimate of our ,secretory to be receiued as a friend4 ,as of ,fidelity1 besides ,credit of counsell and riches1 there are sundrie other branches1 and diuers deserued partes that seriouslie may bee commended1 so are there of ,friendship4 ,the association of both twaine1 combineth and knitteth together all other perfections4 ,which granted1 vndoubtedlie must the partie frequenting so great a place of seruice1 proue then to be a person of right speciall commendation1 of answerable vertue1 and of noted discretion4 ,for that in doing seruice to his ,lorde or maister1 it semeth a matter incident to his accompt1 and to the better effecting the name of a friend1 that in causes vrgent and nedfull1 he be not vnpurueyed in his owne person1 wherewith discreetlie1 as occasion serueth1 both to aduise counsell 7the very efficient matter wherin his enabled discretion may with greatest singularitie be performed7 the assurance whereof1 by credit of most memorable antiquities1 hath not onlie framed that of loyall seruantes1 such haue bin entertained as faithfull friendes1 but also hath not beene slender occasion manie times1 to the preuention of sundrie vehement and dangerous mischiefes4 ,to accompanie the troubles1 miseries1 calamities and infortunities of him to whom we are this waies1 or that waies in our seruice linked or beholding1 or to beare willinglie1 and with a sufferable mind for his sake1 whatsoeuer in declaration of our vertue seemeth to an honest disposition1 to be either incident or appertaining1 no man verely denieth1 but that they are assured notable demonstrations of a verie exquisite performance4 ,but what of that8 the propertie and excellencie of this vertue is not therefore alwaies in that one only sort to bee caried1 neither with the greatest estimate and commendation that thereunto is appropriate1 is the worthinesse hereof whollie to be commended4 ,to preuent mischiefs sometimes1 and by a warie foresight and care had of the honor and reputation of our commander1 to fence 7if need be7 the same by a politicke deuise1 without preiudice1 from any touch of disgrace or dishonour1 to disswade or dehort faithfully1 from things impeaching or offensiue to their estates or nobility to reueale the hurt they know not1 or causes important wherunto they are nothing priuy1 to counsaile deuoid of flatterie1 and to oppose the good that least harmeth1 and the euill that hath neerest remedy3 these things as in their seueral considerations1 they can as sufficientlie as anie others declare a man to be endued1 both with rare knowledge1 and right excellent vertue1 so who doubteth1 but that the most slender of them all1 weigheth as deply as any other in cause of ,fidelity4 ,and yet if anie more speciall liking in one thing then other be to be attributed1 where comonly men do seem to haue generallie well deserued1 then of necessitie must the same greatlie rather insue where euils most preiudicing are foreseene and auoided by politick wisdome1 then where vnskilfullie they are entred into1 carying in their bosomes1 either extreame hazard or ineuitable vndoing4 ,much is the felicitie that the maister or ,lord receiueth euermore of such a seruant1 in the chary affection and regard of whom affying himselfe assuredlie1 he findeth he is not alone a commander of his outward actions1 but the disposer of his verie thoughts1 yea he is the ,soueraigne of all his desires1 in whose bosome hee holdeth the repose of his safety to be far more precious1 then either estate1 liuing1 or aduancement1 whereof men earthly minded are for the most part desirous4 ,of all the abuses that haue beene or at this daie remaineth in the attendance of honorable personages1 there is no euil so secret or pernitious1 as is the venome of flatterie1 the couert seating whereof1 in men of all ages1 humors1 qualities and complexions1 hath for the most part taken so vehement and deep impression1 as it seemeth almost irrecuperable in the greatest sortes and numbers of persons to be auoided4 ,the daliance of this daintie clawback is smooth1 the entrance pleasing1 the progression subtill1 the continuance forcible1 but the ende falleth out euermore to bee deceitfull4 ,men infected with this kinde of scurrilitie1 and basenesse of condition1 being in proper designments ,curri-fauels of the world1 it is no maruell if hauing in common request1 all shewes possible of graffed and sound demeanours1 they slide manie times into the opinions of the most notable and worthiest1 for they haue learned by art to acquaint themselues at the first with all sorts of humors and fashions1 and being of their owne dispositions so placable as they be in all things1 it is with them a maner of sacriledge1 to bee found slacke or contrarious in anie thing1 ,dicunt8 saie they1 ,dico1 aiunt8 aio4 ,finallie1 resoluing trustilie to deale no waie1 they deuise how it may be possible to frame themselues euery way4 ,these and such as these impugning the plaine and simple drifts of honest meaning1 haue alwayes a face of brasse1 wherwith to shooue forward1 and to forestall what by the shamefast entendment of anie other1 seemeth bashfully to bee pursued1 they are still pressing on1 and euermore sliding1 but if they once get handfast1 or happilie be after strained from the hope of that they would1 their loue then and attendance immediatlie thereuppon die at one instant togithers4 ,iniurious me semeth1 and too perillous is the approaching of these priuate whisperers1 whose inward conuersation1 as in the verie first conceit and discouerie thereof1 it appeareth vnto a man vertuously giuen1 to be altogither odious1 so vnto him that intendeth purely of himselfe1 they are in the seruices of ,noblemen euermore most thwarting and malicious1 insomuch as if such a one staied with honestie1 woulde neuer so faithfullie1 simplie and trulie endeuour himselfe by all parts of dutifull care and loialtie1 hee shall yet neuer want of those peruerse crepers1 that by one cautelous suppose or other1 will still be before hand1 wherwith if it be possible to disgrace him vtterlie4 ,that these and such other actions of vilitie1 commonlie handled1 as they are in honorable places1 do become oftentimes barres to good meaning1 and stumbling blockes to plaine dealing1 there needeth 7as ,i thinke7 at this present verie small question4 ,neither would ,i be so misled1 as to deme that there wanteth either insight or iudgment in many noble personages to discerne them1 for they are discerned 1 oftentimes spurned at1 ,i know it right well1 but what of that8 ,this beeing also a common practise and occupation of the worlde1 smoothlie to slide through all thinges1 and to meane trulie in nothing1 it is no maruell if by the too double diligence of such men1 some one or other happen now and then to be deceiued4 ,but forsomuch as it is of necessitie2 that euerie honorable estate must and ought to bee serued1 and that where a multitude good are in attendance1 there ensueth cmonly to be among them some few that are euill1 either of an annexed propinquitie or opposition of good and bad1 vertue and vice1 emulating or rather enuieng as we see the daily progression each of the other1 or else for that the world something addicted to peruerse manners1 sendeth forth often times such imps of her substance1 as become monstrous disturbers of euery honest endeuor4 ,it shall notwithstanding behooue him whatsoeuer1 whose end expectation stretcheth to y sole desert1 that of euerie laudable purpose is rightly to be attained1 either in abstaining from anie occasion of blemish to his vertue that may happen1 to resolue with himselfe neuer to serue at all1 or seruing1 at the least wise so to arme his conceiptes for all maner of such like disgraces as that he maie content himselfe in that being but trulie censured as he ought1 the ende of his determinations are certainlie to be adiudged honest1 albeit his ill hap perchance such1 as therby he attain neither liking nor preferment or if either he stand in present1 or be in possibilitie to attain fauor1 then not to be discouraged in the honest prosequution thereof1 by anie practis or enuie whatsoeuer1 resting in himselfe firmly assured1 that time or the true discernment of him whome hee serueth1 shall at length yeld scope to that1 whereunto by true degrees of vertue he sought to haue aspired4 ,and seing that in all causes of zeale and loue1 where the mind is tied by an entire desire and care of weldoing1 to him whom once in conceipt it seemeth to growe chary ouer1 the force thereof seldom or neuer passeth lightlie at the first1 without some blocke or other laid before it1 whereby to hinder or discourage the proceedings alreadie determined1 and that so farre forth as one while a man supposing the fidelitie of his seruice might at a time be fully effected and discharged in the requisite deliuerie of some present aduise counsell1 yet terrified perchance1 or otherwise disswaded with the resolution1 mightinesse1 or nobility of his ,l4 or ,maister1 or fearing to be argued of presumption1 or else in setting downe the desire he hath of safegard vnkindlie to be mistaken4 ,it shall not therefore be consonant to this our ,secretories place of seruice thereupon immediatly to become silent1 or so to suffer the euill which himself clearly seth1 to passe vnregarded1 especiallie when the case is either weightie1 or neerelie otherwise concerneth his nobilitie whom he serueth1 for so should he by a kind of ,pusillanimitie1 become guiltie of the verie occasion1 how great soeuer the same should happen1 which somtimes lying in his credit or counsell1 to haue impugned1 he of a weak disposition abstained neuerthelesse to see preuented4 ,and yet is it not 7neds must ,i saie and confesse7 a matter altogether vntried1 that men vaingloriouslie minded1 or arrogantlie otherwise intending of their owne proper seruices1 notoriouslie oftentimes do fal into this vain of presumption1 who pricked on with the credit and fauour to them giuen by their ,l4 or ,maister1 and foolishly conceiuing thereof to lead their thoughts in a string1 do ignorantly or peuishlie thereupon1 take in hande manie times to direct them in their serious affaires or counsels1 and controlling in their inward thoughts whatsoeuer is besides or contrarying to their own opinions1 do of seruants become sawcie3 of men modest1 malapert3 of aduisers1 arrogant3 and consequentlie1 running into euerie misprision of others1 and what else appertaining to a regarde of other mens actions1 appeare at length so imperious1 as by the sole default of their owne misdemeanours1 they are turned at the last quite forth by the elbowes4 ,the defect hereof1 so far discrepant as it is1 from the steadie kind of gouernment hereby throughout concluded vpon1 needeth not ,i thinke in the framing of this our ,secretory1 to be anie further forewarned1 who by shaking from his own person anie part of the vilities that in others may seeme chieflie to be discommended1 is herein to be ascertained1 that in nothing so greatly can the excellent vertue or condition of any man shine1 then in not first committing anie action that may appeare vile1 or hardlie to bee borne withall1 and next in suppressing so much as in him is1 whatsoeuer commendation or liking dulie to bee annexed to his owne proper deseruing1 wherein humility frede from all maner of base and seruile purposes1 shall then sufficientlie instruct him1 that curtesie is a vertue1 lowlinesse a thing annexed vnto gentility1 to bee proud is a vice1 to be contemptuous a filthines1 simplicity is found1 deceipt to be abhorred1 ,loyalty a matter in estimation1 ,flattery to be held abhominable4 ,i will not here dispute how much excellent and nedfull it were vnto their estates1 that the neerest attendance of honourable personages1 were with men of such vertue and knowledge in this sort frequented1 neither carping at sundry enormities1 would ,i therby deuise1 to draw forth vnto you a man vnmatchable in qualitie1 and whereof the worlde or anie heauen besides1 scarce yeldeth either shadow or propertie1 but proposing the worthiest partes which of euerie one absolutelie are fittest to be acquired1 ,i do only endeuour to laie down no other matter or ground1 then wherewith men that be speciall are at this date helde to be endued1 and such as in all ages heretofore haue been thought meetest to be followed4 ,what should ,i lade this discourse with numbred examples vnto you of the great estimate and regard of those1 who to kep their faiths inuiolable to their ,lordes1 haue some of them beene so iealous of their honours1 as for the safegard thereof1 haue by great aduisement made a voluntarie aduenture of their dearest liues3 some againe with great loue and fauour1 entertained and reputed of by their ,lordes1 and not able in their seruices as they thought1 during their life times sufficiently to compense the loue and especiall zeale they beare vnto their ,honours1 haue afterwards vnto their children beeing in great disgrace with the state present1 so fully effected the fruits of their welwishing1 as that by the tender accompt1 reuerance and loialty to them proposed1 they haue right well declared that not vnto times alone of estate fortune1 when little regard of such things might be at their hands expected1 their vertues haue been limitted1 but chieflie in extremity and times of want1 wherin their sundry fruitions1 haue bin in most aboundant maner supplied4 ,others likewise charged on the death bed with the secret affaires of their ,l4 to be kept in speciall care and reckoning from the knowledge of other men1 could not by multitudes of fauors1 by threatnings1 or other large offers whatsoeuer1 bee so far seduced1 7as when the dead was quite passed and gone out of the world1 whereby they neded not at all to haue doubted7 they would yet be led in the least iote of al1 to defraud the trust in them reposed1 but haue kept the same inuiolable to their vndoubted commendation1 and further increase afterward of good liking to a far greater credit4 ,infinite are the remembrances that of these1 and suchlike occasions are and haue ben dailie recorded1 the multitude whereof for breuity ,i do omit4 ,contenting my selfe that of these two chief and principall matters of seruice1 ,i haue thus far forth alreadie in generalitie debated1 leauing therefore what els to bee considered therein to the known ability of others1 ,i proced vnto the next part that in the continuance of this discourse was at the first intended4 ,and forsomuch as the exercise of these and such like peculiar vertues and qualities1 appertaineth not1 as ,i haue partly before deliuered1 vnto men that are of meane spirit1 to such as bee naturallie touched with anie bad or vile coercement1 capacities that be insensible or ignorant1 such as haue want of education1 or whose demeanors are to vertue wholie insufficient4 ,let vs then more particularlie if ye will see what maner a one he ought to be touching his person1 habilitie1 and condition1 that to the worthines and reputation hereof semeth a man metest and most allowable to be chosen a ,secretory4 ,for the deliuerie whereof1 and the better to finde our ,secretory1 as neere as either may bee gessed1 or framed1 such and none other indeed as in true and perfect meaning hee ought to be reputed1 we will distinguish the seuerall considerations and respectes of such a one1 in three special points sorting to his office1 solie and fullie in this place to be considered4 ,the first shalbe of the person1 touching his education or being3 the second of his conuersation and order of liuing3 the thirde of his sufficiencie1 by skill1 knowledge1 and abilitie wherewith to discharge the place of his calling4 ,formerlie then touching the regard of his person1 it is requisite1 that hee be descended of honest familie or parents1 the efficacie whereof conduceth not a little to the coniecture of a sound and honest condition3 that he haue also had good education1 whereby the minde well disposed is often times framed to verie good purpose4 ,that he be of shape countenance proportianable to those required vertues1 forsomuch as commonly ensueth1 that ,nature in producing of all her creatures maketh in them effects answerable to their seuerall constitutions1 as to flowers of most exquisit proportion1 she giueth the most excellent fauour2 the dog is not shaped like the lion1 nor the curre as the ,spaniell3 the ,rennet tree is not as the ,crabbe stocke1 the one bearing an ,apple1 wholsome1 delicate and pleasing1 when it commeth to be tasted3 the other putting forth of the knures1 no other then the sappe of ,vertuyes1 when the best of it is inioyed4 ,by the countenance we doe further also iudge of the qualities and disposition of men1 insomuch as the verie markes of fauour haue not too many iudgements proued weak discouerers of some peoples good or vntoward conditions1 wee haue likewise in euident testimonie1 that ill disposed nature confirmed by custom1 seldome degenerates from the kind either whence it is sprung1 or wherein it hath long time beene nourished4 ,to mankinde there happeneth in the bodie manie deformities1 which arising not by the defect of ,nature1 so much as by ill vsage of those1 who haue had charge ouer them1 cannot be amended1 but being produced by ,nature1 doe portend some one or other notable inconuenience3 ,to beautifie such a shape with vertuous and honoured actions1 is vndoubtedlie praise worthie1 but to accord vnto faire lineaments1 portraied with requisite and daintie fauour1 a mind corrupt1 base1 wretched and vile1 that of all others is the most greatest and noted deformitie4 ,diogenes being of one passing by1 rebuked of his preposterous shape1 and hard kinde of fauour1 aunswered1 ,i with my vertues doe ornifie my shape1 but thou with thy lewdnesse disgracest thy fauour4 ,touching the iudgement of nature by the outward face1 many things might be alledged that diuerslie haue beene decerned1 the matter wherof neding small proofe1 more then our owne common experience1 ,i surcease to debate vpon1 seeing my meaning is1 but out of sundrie apparances to drawe forth the greatest likelihoode1 and thence to repose a foundation consonant to y module or compasse of this my present intendment4 ,onely let this be laid down for a certaine1 that the finest ware receiueth the fairest figure1 and purest mettall the brightest colour1 the damaske ,rose carieth the swetest fauour1 and the most pliable part of vertue1 is by greatest obseruance planted in the most proportionate feature4 ,this being then sufficiently spoken of the person1 let vs now go to the ,conuersation4 ,this ,conuersation semeth vnto me in three points1 or speciall notes to be considered3 that is1 in the ,qualitie1 ,disposition and order of companie4 ,touching his ,qualitie1 it is requisite1 that first and aboue all other1 he be a man sequestred from all kind of pride1 arrogancie or vaine conceiuing of himselfe1 for that the infection of these1 are steppes vnto all maner of disorder1 contempt1 malice1 and presumption whatsoeuer3 that he be not litigious in argument1 as one vainlie giuen to contend3 that hee bee no ordinarie scoffer1 or friuolous deluder of other mens speeches1 gestures1 reasons1 or conditions3 that he be no quareler1 lewd speaker1 priuy carper1 slanderer1 or sinister backbiter of other mens actions1 or laudable indeuours3 but contrarie hereunto1 that he be in spech gentle1 in gesture friendlie1 in lookes familiar1 in talke courteous1 in argument not obstinate1 but giuing place to better opinions1 that gladlie of euerie one he do suppose the best1 be readie to excuse infirmities1 and to salue imperfections1 that in ieasting hee become not another ,democritus1 or in carping a ,zoilus1 that his tongue1 eie1 and thoughts1 be indifferentlie framed to iudge trulie and impartiallie of euerie one3 that of all thinges hee abhorre priuate quarels1 and open contentions1 and as the rocks of ,scylla1 doe eschue of anie one absente sinisterlie to speake1 or otherwise to enforme against them1 for that in these qualities and conditions properlie1 each one carieth a decernment of that which nerest appertaineth to a ,gentleman4 ,now touching his disposition1 it is exacted at his hands1 that hee bee not a man gluttonous1 or that he bee not ouer much subiect to drinking1 for drunkennes ouercommeth the mind1 dulleth the memorie1 enfeebleth the wits1 maketh a man forgetfull of himself1 the reputation he beareth1 and the company wherein he sitteth4 ,wine saith ,ouid1 is the discouerer of secrets1 maketh a man often commit1 y which afterwardes turneth to his great preiudice3 in wine the regard of a mans selfe1 and likewise all others vanisheth1 the respect of his credite also and place wherein he serueth3 a man giuen much to wine1 hath no maisterie ouer himselfe1 and is not to be trusted with matters that be important3 a man talkatiue and one giuen to wine are both likened togither in disposition1 for in the one the strength of the liquor inforceth to speake what he ought not1 and in the other the volubility of the tongue1 giueth vtterance many times to what it should not3 ,speech1 saith the wise man1 is a thing naturally giuen to euery man1 but he that ordreth his words by discretion1 seeth the way to wisdome4 ,this vertue of ordring and keping the tongue1 is vnto our ,secretorie not the least of manie other points wherewith he ought especiallie to be charged1 in him that is disposed to speake much1 it cannot but ensue that his often babbling must nedes at one time or other1 giue proofe that hee hath in himselfe as little secrecie as silence4 ,to preuent this inconuenience1 wise men haue obserued in nature a most notable and singular prouidence1 who to the intent that men by her verie instigation1 might be commended to silence1 hath giuen vs two eares to heare1 and an attentiue conceyte1 whereby generallie to debate and consider of all things1 and but one mouth to speake1 giuing vs in testimonie thereby1 that we ought to heare much1 to know much1 to vnderstand much1 and to speake but a little4 ,besides1 that the tongue whereby deliuerance is made1 she hath first closed in with our teth1 and them couered againe with our lippes1 forewarning still thereby1 that nothing ought thence to be discouered in hast1 not without especiall regard and district obseruance4 ,for in this case also discrete ,nature1 after we haue once receyued into our eares the sound of anie thing1 she thence preferreth it immediatelie vnto the minde1 and thence to the heart to be censured or considered vpon3 and last of all vnto the tongue1 to whose lot1 as last of these it befalleth to bee partaker of it1 so ought it from thence carefullie1 and not without especiall cause to be deliuered4 ,the diuine ,philosopher foreseing in man1 the manifolde discommodities oftentimes ensuing by loosenes of the tongue1 where all others were teachers to speake wel1 he only taught his scholers to vse silence1 iudging therby1 that the vertue of the toung consisted not soly in speking1 but how or by what occasion to vse y same1 and vnderstanding first how to restraine the thing1 that of it selfe was plyable ynough to bee vsed without measure1 they might easilier find mean afterward to speake oftentimes to good purpose1 and not to accustome themselues as they did before1 to prattle without order or anie good or reasonable parte belonging to discretion4 ,for this cause ,silence1 as the first gard of all affaires1 beeing either secrete or important1 is 7vnto men seriouslie occupied or imployed in the same7 directly to be commended4 ,which maner of ,silence1 as it fullie instructeth in causes serious and of waight1 to speake nothing more than nedeth1 so conueieth it also into the residue of our behauiours1 a modest and choice kind of gouernment1 in all actions whatsoeuer1 either of question or argument1 to bee with discretion pursued4 ,how much it importeth vnto our ,secretorie1 to haue notice of the true and perfect vse hereof1 who aboue al others ought rightlie to know and discerne1 how1 where1 when1 what1 and to whom hee ought to speak1 and when1 and wherein1 to be likewise silent3 it may by the reasons aforesaid be sufficientlie collected4 ,for ought his speech in troth to be so ordinarie as other mens1 who for the moste part limit themselues neither to time1 place1 occasion1 or company1 the which in our ,secretorie is1 and ought to be farre otherwise4 ,and as touching the affaires1 secrets or counsels committed to his charge3 ,it is in him principallie to aduert and consider that he is but the closet1 wherof another hath both the key1 vse and commandement1 that he ought therein to be as a thicke plated doore1 where through1 without extraordinarie violence no man may enter1 but by the locke which is the tongue1 and that to be of such efficacie1 as whereof no counterfeit key shoulde bee able to make a breach1 without the selfe same instrument that by the director thereof is alwayes to be caried4 ,by reason whereof1 he is of mere trust and fidelitie in him reposed1 to become warie of his wayes1 and to take the course nedfull1 whereby the least occasion of breach thereof may preciselie be auoided4 ,ouer and besides all this1 it shall further appertaine to the disposition of this our ,secretorie1 that in shewing himselfe affable to all1 he doe not either by reason of his birth1 qualitie or estimate that he hath of his ,l4 or maister1 goe about to abuse or wrest the simplicitie of any one to a bad end or purpose1 but rather enforce himselfe gladlie to vnderstande the sutes of the meanest1 and to giue them aide and furtherance to his vttermost3 herein shall hee not a little aduance the honor of his ,l4 or maister in preferring the iust and lawfull petitions or complaints of the poore1 in helping them to y spedie dispatch of that1 wherwith by reason of their simplicitie1 they oftentimes are greatlie incumbred4 ,it behooueth also so much as in him is1 that he auoid all kind of intemperancie1 eyther of choler or too much furie1 that hee dispose not himselfe to vile or vnbeseeming tearmes of basenes or surquedrie1 that hee with the two extreames of couetousnes or prodigality be not touched1 that naturallie he do incline to good1 and hate the badnes of any1 that he abhorre flatterie as a ,toad1 and giue himselfe of anie particular action1 either to be vtterlie silent1 or els to speake trulie4 ,lastlie now1 touching the third point of these thre1 consisting in order1 appertaining to companie3 ,nedfull it is that our ,secretorie haue in speciall remembrance the auncient saying1 that common experience giueth to all men for approoued1 which is1 that ,such as a man of himselfe is1 such alwayes are they with whome he conuerseth4 ,if therefore of his owne mind and disposition a man endeuoureth to bee good1 and so to liue and be accounted of1 him then beseemeth chieflie to haue respect to the companie hee holdeth4 ,for which occasion1 the ,philosopher aduiseth1 that men being good1 doe choose to haue familiaritie with men that are best1 to the intent that by the societie of them1 their ,vertue may haue encrease1 and themselues learne to become better4 ,the corruption of young men1 by nothing so much accrueth1 as by the slender respect they haue of those with whome they do accompanie1 for that it resteth assuredlie out of doubt1 that the euill example and encouragement of one vile and ill disposed person1 hurteth more a great deale oftentymes in one dayes companie keping1 then seuen yeares endeuour afterwards1 maie release by anie good instruction4 ,herein also the rather resteth vnto our ,secretorie1 a most principall regard thereof to be had1 forsomuch as not the conuersation alone1 wherein he is choiselie to be affected1 dependeth therupon1 but the matter also of his ouerthrow and discredit1 for who seth not in often apparance1 that men simply conceited1 and of their owne proper instinct verie well giuen1 are more discredited and condemned many times1 by occasion of the company wherinto they haue aduentured1 then of anie apparant euill that in their owne persons rested publiquelie to be decerned4 ,hereunto accordeth the proofe of all common societie1 wherein men onely of those that know them are iudged as they be1 but in generall reckoning1 are euer censured according to the goodnesse or badnesse of those1 with whom they liue familiarlie4 ,it followeth therefore1 that ,who so will no euill doe1 must doe nought that longs thereto1 for in good men it is not alwayes inough of themselues wittinglie not to haue committed anie euill1 but hee that desireth to be good indeed1 ought not so much as to become an occasion or slander of euill4 ,if men would but throughlie enter into the weight of their estates1 and trulie consider with themselues what of dutie appertaineth to verie reputation indede1 they would not then think it ynough to be in this credite1 or that place1 or thus countenanced1 or that waie enriched1 arming themselues onelie thereby with vainglorious titles1 but therewith would also deepelie imprint1 that them likewise behooued by certaine especiall insight had into their owne wayes1 so to order and direct themselues1 as therby deseruedlie they might beare the selfe same account whole and vnblemished1 which in opinion they haue caried1 the which cannot anie wayes bee1 without in all their outward and inward actions1 they doe beare an especialleie to the matter of their owne credite4 ,and what one thing is there in the world 7to him that by true degres of vertue endeuoureth to be aduaunced7 more charie then the account and estimate had of his name and fame8 ,what one good more exceding1 nay what life can be more precious8 ,much therefore ought the regarde hereof be in choice vnto our ,secretorie1 as that which as an action most singular ,i haue iudged fit to be exposed in this place vnto him4 ,hitherto haue we endeuoured in person and behauiour to find a man met and conuenient to the purpose hereof1 wherein my intent hath bene not to omit anie thing which to that place and calling might anie wayes be adiudged necessarie4 ,now the circumstance of these procedings leadeth vs next to consider of our ,secretories abilitie4 ,in this consideration1 it falleth out1 that for asmuch as his ,office and place1 calleth him altogither1 or for the most part to the handling of deepe and weightie affaires1 wherin his capacitie shall sundrie wayes be exercised1 and his wits throughlie tryed1 it behooueth he therefore be furnished with ,skill and knowledge accordinglie1 whereby the better to be adapted1 vnto the ordinarie vsage and employment thereof4 ,to this end it befitteth that he bee well studied1 especiallie in the ,latine tongue4 ,it is likewise conuenient that herewithall he haue a ripe and quicke conceit1 aptlie to receiue1 what on a sudden shall be to him deliuered1 and that he retaine with himselfe a sound and good memorie1 for the conseruation of those things that vnto his charge shall daylie bee committed4 ,he ought for his owne furniture and instruction to bee a man not altogither vnexperienced1 to be well languaged1 to bee sufficientlie read in ,histories and antiquities of times passed1 to haue notice both by reading and conference1 of the situations1 customs1 maners conditions of men1 cities1 countries1 common weals1 to haue familiaritie with strangers1 and men of diuers nations1 whereby the better to bee ascertained of their humours1 behauiours1 and dispositions3 and wiselie to worke vnto himselfe a peculiar insight into their estates1 counsels and iurisdictions1 being there withall warie that this association with such kind of people1 worke not vnto himselfe1 or the affaires wherewith he shall bee credited anie matter of preiudice4 ,now is it a matter often sene1 and in common vse almost to be found1 that a great many of men otherwise discrete1 learned1 experienced1 and for their seueral callings questionlesse of very good deliuerie1 and euery way to be deemed sufficient1 some also that in the ,greeke and ,latine tongues are verie well studied1 and are also with the vse of forraine languages laudablie indued1 that notwithstanding haue not in themselues the facultie and vse of well writing1 nor can orderly1 vpon a sudden lay down without much adoe1 and that many times also in very preposterous maner when it is done1 what to anie extraordinarie purpose seemeth to bee thought meete and conuenient4 ,some againe in whome there is lesse ,skill1 greater ,ignorance of learned knowledge1 and farre meaner application euerie waie1 wherewith to bee enabled with sufficiency1 haue neuerthelesse a ,conceipt so rife1 and are in wit so prompt and capable of any thing laide before them1 as by and by there wanteth not 7though in truth when they haue done1 they cannot learnedly answere for it7 neither inuention nor imitation1 wherewith in very commendable sort to performe what them seemeth good1 on a sodaine to deliuer in writing4 ,what shoulde be the cause hereof1 ,i cannot else deme1 but onlie a mere instinct of ,nature1 who seuerallie poureth her giftes in their creation vnto euerie one1 whereunto others 7exempted from that proportion7 doe seldome by anie ,art or ,studie reach vnto1 yet is ,exercise no doubt in those that haue any fauour of learning1 hereunto a great furtherance3 ,but he that in this place must bee applyed1 how learned so euer he bee1 must a little giue place vnto his ,schooles1 and frame his penne and order of practise to pursue that forme of writing1 which plainest meaning and aptest speech1 hath in common deliuerie1 the indeuour whereof howe difficult the same will bee to one beeing rife in discourse1 my selfe haue had some priuate testimonie1 notwithstanding ,vse and continuall ,practise ,i knowe1 is that which in time ouermaistreth all things4 ,to the beautifying then of this part of our ,secretorie1 it is nedfull that he be somewhat therein ayded and furthered by ,nature1 to the intent his inuention to euery seueral occasion1 may be the more easie and proper1 and that without any often blurring or enterlining which commonlie happeneth to those1 in whom long studie seemeth so hardly to hew out their labours1 as if by a manner or kinde of inforcement1 the same from a hard rock were violently to be drawne forth and caried1 which ,bluntnesse1 as ,i maie tearme it1 of ,conceite1 is not in this part of seruice in anie wise to be admitted4 ,neither am ,i for all this ignorant1 how manifoldlie it often befalleth vnto diuerse the readiest wittes1 that at some one time more then at another1 they haue lesse abilitie1 and much harder is their deliuerie a great deale1 in matters exquisite to be performed1 then vsuallie otherwise is by ordinarie triall vnto them accustomed3 the occasions whereof may be diuers1 whereby the sences are manie wayes dulled1 as by too much replexion of meates and drinkes excessiuelie taken1 by too great studie and often musing1 driuing therby into a melancholie passion1 by motions too intemperat1 happening vnto the mind3 and finally1 vpon sundrie other instincts and occasions1 which ,i cease to remember1 all which being offensiue as they are1 vnto the necessarie regarde of this our ,secretories attendance1 it standeth him greatly vpon by all possible meanes to represse them1 to the end that his wittes being as nere as by endeuour can be compassed1 alwaies in one self state and readinesse1 he maie not in times suddenlie requiring effectual and present dispatch1 appeare any waies disfurnished1 of that which at his handes1 is and must of necessitie in this place bee required4 ,it is not then learning alone 7as you see7 that is able to make a man meet to this kind of practice and study1 but naturallie to be besides indued both with wit1 vnderstanding1 and memory whereby to lead and conueie those necessarie euents1 that in this place are dailie to be frequented1 and therewith to haue likewise care and regard1 with modest and discreet maners and behauiours to preserue and keepe the same forces1 whereby he may be the more readilie prouided 7as ,i said before7 for all times and purposes4 ,neuerthelesse1 how much needful it is to that place more then ordinarilie to bee learned1 yea with the greatest abilitie and perfection 7if it were possible7 to bee also euerie waie adorned1 ,i haue alreadie sufficientlie laid downe before hande1 and still do propose the waight thereof1 as a respect amongst others to be most especiallie imbraced4 ,in this maner haue we by sundrie degrees endeuoured to lead along our ,secretory vnto his appointed ,place and ,office1 wherein we haue first discoursed largelie of the function hee beareth1 respectiuelie touching his seruice3 next to frame him both in ,person1 ,birth1 ,education1 ,qualitie1 ,disposition1 ,conuersation1 and ,abilitie1 a man meete for that purpose4 ,it now resteth1 that as the finall determination of this labour we deliuer vnto him his office4 ,of this then the parte especiall and intendment most principall1 consisteth1 7as by experience is found7 in the vse and exercise of the ,pen1 the ,wit and ,inuention togethers4 ,the abilitie so exactlie before required1 and discoursed vpon1 is herein nowe to be put in practise4 ,to the execution of this office1 it is requisite the ,secretory1 be for the perfection of his hand1 in the varietie and neat deliuerie of his letters in writing1 singularlie to be commended1 that he haue with himselfe also therein a verie readie vse1 quicke1 and speedie conueyance for dispatch1 that warilie he giue heede to obserue the order1 methode and forme to him from his ,lord or master deliuered3 forasmuch as in discharge hereof he is vtterlie to relinquish anie affectation to his own doings1 or leaning herein to anie priuate iudgement or fantasie4 ,his pen in this action is not his owne1 but anothers1 and for this cause the matter to him committed are to depend vpon the humor of his commander1 and not vpon his own or any others directions4 ,hereof is he excedingly to becom studious1 and a zealous imitator in all thinges1 to the intent that knowing the effects of his ,lord1 with what ends and purposes they are caried1 vnto what forme and maner of writing he is speciallie addicted1 he may the more easilie and with better contentment discharge that part of his seruice1 wherein by continuall occurrents he shall haue occasion daily to be imploied4 ,he is in performance of this charge1 to bee a man watchfull1 diligent1 carefull1 industrious1 not giuen to ease1 to auoid all occasions of slouth1 to the end1 7as ,i said before7 by continuall exercise of his wits1 to retain his spirits apt1 his memory fresh4 ,for ,idlenes of it selfe is the proper nourishment of manie other euils1 the hinderer of each good purpose1 and the deformed monster of al humaine exercises4 ,whilest ,idlenesse attacheth the bodie1 it giueth scope to ill thoughts1 occasioneth distemper1 maketh vnweldie to labour1 breedeth wearisomnes of vertuous exercises1 entiseth to vanities1 corrupteth with pleasures1 and feedeth a man with trifles4 ,if therefore there shall bee anie time vacant of affaires vnto our ,secretory1 7as all seasons are not alike wherein still to be occupied7 the same shall he deuise1 either in pleasant recreation to bee spent or in some other honest exercise or studie1 wherein whatsoeuer is not improper vnto a gentleman1 shall be to him in speciall choise and as an action fittest of all others to be receiued4 ,his office is likewise to entertaine all maner of suters vnto his ,lord1 to conceiue and vnderstand of their seuerall occasions1 and how much or how little1 they or anie of them do import1 to answer the dispatch of the greatest with as much facilitie as he may1 and those of lesse moment with discretion to remooue1 and put backe1 to the ende the walkes and passages of his ,lorde be not with the vaine and friuolous demeanors of fond people too often encumbred4 ,he ought also to haue regard to times and places conuenient wherein to mooue his ,lord vpon anie speciall or vrgent occasion1 or in which he is to prefer vnto his presence or hearing1 the person or cause of any one4 ,to see that the same returne not offensiue vnto his priuate liking1 that the furtherance thereof bee not in times when hee is soly disposed to particular studies1 or that he is otherwise busied in matters of estate or counsell4 ,to consider first of the qualitie of euerie sute1 and condition of the partie as neere as he maie be informed1 ere he take vpon him to acquaint his ,lord with the parts thereof1 and accordinglie1 if he see cause1 in his owne person to answere the same3 for it is not seemelie he should trouble his ,lord vpon euerie light or ill beseming suggestion4 ,to be circumspect in the dispatch of euerie thing to him deliuered1 and in matters of weight and charge1 to be also prouident and wary1 heedfully intending to the safe disposing of whatsoeuer requisite1 from the eyes or knowledge of anie other1 whereunto none so much as himselfe ought to become priuy4 ,he is likewise to auoid all maner of delaies1 and not to accustome himselfe in any wise vnto negligence1 for that the vse hereof in ouerslipping of small trifles1 induceth manie times1 to pretermit things of larger circumstance1 and of farre greater moment4 ,it standeth him vpon in the exercise of his office to bee alwaies as neere and as readie as may bee1 in his ordinarie attendance1 for so much as being vpon a sudden to bee vsed1 it is needfull he be alwaies at hand1 and is intended that his absence cannot therefore anie long time be spared4 ,in conclusion1 it is meetest in all things1 that so far forth he bee addicted vnto his present seruice1 as that in respect thereof hee become vtterlie sequestred from all priuate regarde or affection of anie thing1 sounding to his owne appetite4 ,finallie1 being a man fauored or entirelie reputed of in his office1 hee may not for anie friendship1 corruption or gaine whatsoeuer1 by anie sinister practise1 colour1 or meanes1 go about to abuse the countenance and credite to him giuen1 by his ,lord or maister1 nor couertlie thereby suggest1 or informe any thing1 wherewith the good opinion of himselfe may afterwards be hazarded1 or by the graunt or assent of his ,lorde thereunto giuen1 there maie iust cause acrue1 whereby thereafter a great deale lesse he may deserue to be trusted4 ,in these particularities haue ,i at last concluded1 brought to ende the sum of all my former trauell4 ,the ,secretory is nowe accomplished by all respectes1 circumstances1 and inducements that maie bee1 confirmed both in person and office3 much haue ,i to require of the generall perusers hereof1 that ,i bee not anie wayes therein mistaken1 for that passing immediatelie to the publique notice of all1 there is no doubt but the verie particularities there of1 shall speedilie be therewith censured of all4 ,my request is1 that the skilfull and best experienced1 will of their owne good conditions1 not otherwise misdeeme thereof then what in equall trueth maie bee vnto them tendered1 nor that the wise and discreetlie minded will haue other conceipt of me1 then as my weake abilitie sought herein at their hands to haue at the first deserued4 ,touching any others lesse able to speake or giue sentence in the cause1 as my will and desire is1 fauourablie to be regarded of the whole in generall1 so if anie one more of selfe-liking then of ,skill1 will either carpe at1 or peremptorilie reiect the labour by me vndertaken1 let him first consider with himselfe1 how much easier it is to finde fault with a thing by another alreadie finished and done1 then for himselfe by priuate endeuour to accomplish the like3 so shall he find1 that men at all times see not into all things at once3 and in proofe hereof become assured1 that hee1 as ,i shall sooner in the performance of anie labor1 make our selues obiects of euery common opinion1 then with such account to deliuer our trauels1 as that we may stand ascertained of their own deserts1 that they may be pleasing to all men4 ,and forasmuch as it resteth yet a thing doubtfull1 how well or euill1 till the perusing this slender trifle of mine may of all sortes be measured1 ,i will in the meane time 7as manie others before me haue done7 affie my selfe in the hope and expectation of the best ,glad if in the conueiance hereof1 there may by my willing endeuour1 arise anie pleasure or profite to anie1 which being the intention of me solie desired1 ,i passe foorth this 7as the residue7 of the best and aptest fauourers thereof1 to be entertained4 ,,finis4 ,a4 ,d4 ,illustration ,a ,table shewing the principal mat- ters contained in the first part of this ,booke4 ,of ,epistles1 the commodities1 and vse thereof pag4 #a ,what is chiefly to be respected in framing of an ,epistle4 #b ,of the habit and parts of an epistle4 #h ,of certain contts generally incident to al maner of ,epistles4 #aa ,diuers orders of ,greetinges1 farewels and subscriptions4 #ac ,of ,superscriptions and ,directions4 #ag ,the ,diuisions of ,letters1 and vnder what titles all sorts of epistles are contained4 #bj ,of epistles meerly ,descriptory1 the parts thereof4 #bc ,an example of a ,letter ,descriptorie1 wherein is particularly described an ancient ,citie4 #bd ,an other example wherein the ,state of a countrey is solie described4 #bf ,an example wherein the death of a noble man is only described #bg ,of ,epistles ,laudatory and vituperatory4 #cc ,an example of a ,laudatory epistle solie touching the person4 #ce ,an example of an ,epistle ,vituperatorie concerning also the person4 #db ,of epistles ,deliberatiue4 #df ,an example of an ,epistle exhortatory to the attaining of vertue4 #ej ,of ,epistles ,responsory4 #ec ,an example ,responsory to the last epistle before rembred4 #ed ,an example of an ,epistle ,hortatorie to the studie of learning4 #ee ,an other example ,hortatorie wherein an honourable ,gentleman is egged forwardes to the profession of armes4 #eh ,an example ,swasory1 wherein a ,gentlewoman is counselled to mariage4 #fb ,another example of an epistle ,swasorie1 perswading the carefull acceptance and regarde of one brother to another4 #fe ,of ,epistles ,dehortatory1 and disswasory4 #fg ,an example of an ,epistle ,dehortatorie1 wherein a ,noble gentleman is dehorted from infidelitie or rebellion4 #ga ,an example of a ,disswasorie ,epistle wherein one is disswaded from fruitlesse vanities1 to more learned and profitable studies4 #gf ,an other example ,disswasory wherin the party is by diuers reasons disswaded from entring into an action in apparance daungerous4 #gi ,of ,epistles conciliatory4 #hc ,an ,epistle conciliatory1 written from one of good accompt to his inferiour4 #hd ,an example ,conciliatory fr one equall to another4 ead4 ,an ,epistle ,responsory1 answering the first of these letters4 #hf ,a ,letter ,responsory answering the latter ,epistle4 ead4 ,of epistles ,reconciliatory4 #hg ,an example ,reconciliatorie1 from one friend to another4 ead4 ,an ,epistle ,reconciliatory fr an inferiour person to his better4 #hi ,of epistles ,petitory4 #ij ,an example of an ,epistle ,petitory1 in a cause indifferent4 #ic ,an example ,petitory1 in the nature of a reconciliatory from a son to his displeased father4 #id ,an ,epistle ,petitorie1 wherein is craued trauell and counsell to be assistant vpon vrgent occasion4 #if ,another of the same4 #ig ,a ,letter ,responsorie to the same4 ead4 ,an example ,petitorie1 concluding a briefe request1 and curteous remembrance of a thing before promised4 #ii ,an other example of the like effect4 ead4 ,of ,epistles ,commendatory4 #ajj ,an example ,commendatorie1 wherein is recommended to a noble man from his inferiour1 the conditions and behauiours of a person4 #ajb ,a ,letter ,responsorie to the same4 ead4 ,another epistle ,commendatorie of the sort before deliuered4 #ajc ,an example ,commendatory from a noble man to his inferior1 wherein one is recommended to an office4 #ajd ,an ,epistle ,commendatorie1 from a noble man in referment of his seruant4 #aje ,another example wherein is recommended the cause speedie furtherance of iustice4 #ajf ,an example ,responsory1 wherin is denied1 what in the formost directions was recmended4 #ajg ,another ,letter ,responsorie1 wherin consent and allowance is giu to the matter required4 #ajh ,the third ,epistle ,responsorie1 wherein is doubfullie allowed1 what to the same was recommended4 #aji ,a letter ,commendatorie pleasantly conceited in preferring an vnprofitable seruant4 #aaj ,of ,epistles ,consolatorie4 #aab ,an example ,consolatorie of the first sort1 wherein a ,gentlewoman is comforted of the death of her sonne4 #aad ,an ,epistle ,consolatorie of the same1 wherein one is comforted in case of hard extremitie4 #aag ,a ,consolatorie epistle of the third sort1 wherein a ,gentlewoman is comforted of the death of her husbd slain in the wars4 #aai ,an example consolatory pleasauntly written to one who had buried his old wife4 #abe ,a ,letter responsorie to be conferred to an ,epistle consolatorie4 #abg ,of ,epistles ,monitorie and ,reprehensorie4 ,an example ,monitorie concerning a staied and well gouerned life4 #aca ,an other ,epistle ,monitorie1 touching the reformation of a couetous life4 #acd ,an ,epistle ,reprehensorie to a father1 touching the lewde and ill demeanour of his sonne4 #acf ,an example ,reprehensorie1 wherein a man of wealth sufficient is reprehended1 for marriage of his daughter to the riches of an old wealthie miser4 #ach ,an epistle ,reprehensorie1 to a young ,gentleman4 #ada ,of ,epistles ,amatorie1 #adc ,an example of an ,epistle for the entreatie of the first good wil4 #ade ,an other example to that purpose4 #adf ,an answere to the first of these ,epistles4 eadem ,a replie to the same answere4 #adg ,an answere vnto the second letter4 #adh ,the ,table of the second part of this ,booke4 ,of ,epistles ,iudiciall4 pag4 #a ,an example of an epistle ,accusatorie in the state coniecturall4 #d ,an example ,excusatorie returned to the effects of this ,coniecturall ,epistle4 #f ,an example ,purgatorie1 from the partie chalenged1 in answere of the ,epistle accusatorie before remembred4 #g ,an example of an ,epistle accusatorie in the state ,iuridiciall and ,coniecturall4 #i ,a ,letter ,defensorie1 aunswering by confutation al the obiections in this former ,epistle surmised4 #ad ,of ,epistles expostulatorie4 #ai ,an example of an ,epistle ,expostulatorie1 touching certain iniuries betweene two friends4 #ai ,an answere ,defensorie1 vnto the effects of the same epistle4 #bj ,a replie to the saide answere ,defensorie1 wherein the matter of the ,epistle is more firmelie maintained4 #bb ,a seconde answere to the like reasons of the ,replie in further defence of the partie4 #bd ,an example of an epistle ,expostulatorie touching vnkindnes receiued4 #be ,an example of an epistle ,expostulatory for breach of promise4 #bf ,an example of an ,epistle expostulatorie from an inferiour ,gentleman1 to his farre better in degree1 authoritie and calling4 #bg ,an example of an epistle exprobratorie touching ingratitude receiued4 #cj ,an epistle exprobatorie more largelie exampled4 #ca ,of letters inuectiue4 #cd ,an example of an ,epistle inuectiue from a father to his sonne4 eadem ,an answere purgatorie of the sonne touching the matters ,inuectiue of the former epistle4 #cg ,a reply of the father confuting the allegations of the sonne1 and maintayning the causes of the former ,inuectiue alledged4 #db ,an example of another epistle ,inuectiue pleasantlie written against the humors and conditions of a vainglorious person4 #de ,an example of another epistle ,inuectiue1 written in cause of great desert agaynst two seuerall parties4 #dh ,of epistles ,comminatorie4 #fa ,an example of an epistle ,cminatorie4 #eb ,another example ,comminatorie containing a greater vehemencie in the deliuerie4 ead4 ,of epistles ,deprecatorie4 #ed ,an example of an epistle ,deprecatorie1 where the partie is charged in good opinion4 #ee ,an example of an epistle ,deprecatorie1 in cause of wrong supposed to be committed4 #eg ,an example of an epistle ,deprecatorie1 pleasantlie written to answer a former letter4 #eh ,of ,epistles familiar4 #ei ,a ,letter ,nunciatorie from a sonne to his father or friends1 touching his being in seruice4 ead4 ,a ,letter ,nunciatorie in another sort of the same matter4 ead4 ,an ,epistle ,narratorie1 contayning aduertisements from one friend to another4 #fj ,a letter of aduertisements from a sonne to his father4 #fa ,a ,letter from a seruant or factor to his master4 #fb ,of epistles ,remuneratorie4 #fc ,an example of an epistle ,remuneratorie from an inferiour to one farre his better1 in reputation and calling4 ead4 ,a ,letter ,remuneratorie from a ,gentlewoman of good sort1 to a nobleman her kinsman4 #fd ,a ,letter ,remuneratorie from one friend to another4 #fe ,a ,letter ,remuneratorie from a better to his inferiour4 ead4 ,of epistles ,iocatorie4 #ff ,an epistle ,gratulatorie1 from one friend to another4 ead4 ,a ,letter ,gratulatorie from a wife to her husband4 #fg ,a letter ,gratulatorie from one to his ,kinsman seruing in ,london4 ead4 ,of epistles obiurgatorie4 #fh ,a ,letter ,obiurgatorie from a maister to his seruant4 #fi ,of epistles ,mandatorie4 ead4 ,a ,letter ,mandatorie from a ,maister to his seruant1 or ,factor being beyond the seas4 #gj ,an other ,letter ,mandatorie from a maister to his seruant4 #ga ,a ,letter ,mandatorie from a man to his wife4 ead4 ,a letter ,mandatory from one friend to another4 #gb ,of ,figures1 ,tropes and ,schemes4 #gg ,of the parts1 place1 and office of a ,secretorie4 #aja ,,finis4 ,transcriber's ,notes3 - ,text enclosed by underscores is in italics 7italics74 - ,text enclosed by equals is in blackletter 7blackletter74 - ,text enclosed by #8' is emphasized normal font within an italicized or blackletter paragraph 7normal74 - ,blank pages have been removed4 - ,decorative header formatting is maintained4 - ,decorative art dividers removed from text version4 - ,obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected4 ,examples3 upside down letters 7n for u71 missing letters 7theunto - therunto71 reversed letters7hwoe - howe7 otherwise there were no spelling corrections4 - ,spacing was tight and inconsistent1 many spaced or unspaced words were a judgement call 7beholding_/be holding74 - ,there were many capital first letters that were italicized1 ,i assumed these were only due to typesetter convenience as there was no contextual reason4 - ,there is frequent use of vowels with macron1 per ,wikipedia3 8,in ,old ,english texts a macron above a letter indicates the omission of an m or n that would normally follow that letter404 ,example3 iudgmt - iudgment4