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A president for young pen-men. Or The letter-writer Containing letters of sundry sortes, with their seuerall answeres. Full of variety, delight, and pleasure, and most necessary for the instruction of those that can write, but haue not the guift of enditing.
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M. R., fl. 1638.
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1615
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A PRESIDENT FOR YOVNG PEN-MEN OR THE LETTER-WRITER CONTAINING LETTERS of sundry sortes with their seuerall Answeres Full of Variety Delight and Pleasure and most necessary for the instruction of those that can write but haue not the Guift of enditing LONDON Printed by G. Eld for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at his shoppe at Grayes Inne Gate 1615. To the Reader IN these latter times euery Ballad-maker will be a Poet as if euery Pedler would seeme a Merchant and euery Pettifogger a Lawyer so hee that can scarce endite a Letter will take vpon him to be a Secretarie For my selfe I dare not be so sawcy as to put such a Title to my Booke onely this I haue heere written a few Letters which I hope are so composed as will be presidents for yong pen men and not displeasing to elder yeeres such as they are I put them out into the world to the censure of all entreating the best to correct what is amisse and the rest not to discommend that they cannot mend and rest as I haue reason Your well-willing friend M. R. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull and my most worthy esteemeed Kinsman ANTHONY HOBART of Hales Hall in the County of Norffolke Esquire all happinesse on Earth and the ioyes of Heauen hereafter IN reading of Epistles written in diuers languages I finde them dedicated to such Patrones as could iudge of their worth and would accordingly accept them Some to men of great account other to men of lower Titles of honour but in higher esteeme of their loue Now finding great men so busie in great Matters that I should haue great adoe with their patience in troubling their leisures from imployment in more serious affaires and yet knowing my labours in my Letters worth the looking on I haue bethought me of such a Patron as in his kindnesse will vnderstand my work and regard my loue which hauing found in your many fauours giue me leaue with my seruice to present my Book to your Patronage Each Letter hath his Answer the Subiects are diuers so is the manner of their enditing Hatefull I know they will not be to any good they may do to many that can aptly make vse of them and for your selfe and perhaps yours after you it may be no hurt to peruse them howsoeuer at your idle leisure they will saue time and perhaps yeelde you pleasure in reading them but loth to bee tedious in needlesse Eloquence I will leaue them to your kind acceptance and my loue to your like command and so rest Your most louing Kinsman M. R. ⧠A Table of all the Letters in this Booke A Letter of request for a kindnesse The Answer to the same A Letter of counsell to a friend in distresse The Answer to the same A Letter from a Nephew to his vnckle from the Vniuersity The Answer to the same A Letter of Loue to a Gentlewoman of good worth Her Answer to the same A Letter of kindnesse from a louing Father to call horne an vnthrifty sonne His Answere A Loue letter to a faire Gentlewoman Her Answer A Letter of discontentment to a Gentlewoman of incontinency Her Answer A Letter of reprehension of suspected vnthankfulnesse His Answere A Letter of counsell from a discreete Mother to her Daughter newly married Her Answer A kind letter of a Father to a prodigall sonne His Answer A Letter in a kinde of challenge vppon report of a great abuse His Answere A Letter to a Kinsman a yong man towards a Wife His Answer A discontentiue Letter vpon the deniall of friendship His answer A letter from a friend to a fantasticall conceited madcap His answer A byting Letter to a clamorous Gentlewoman The Answer to the same A discontentiue Letter of a coy Mistresse Her answere A letter written to a friend in time of great affliction His answer A kind of quarrelsome Letter vpon a frowne of a friend His Answere A Letter to an Vnckle to borrow a horse His Answere A Letter from an old man to his adopted Sonne going from the Vniuersity to trauaile His answer A letter of Counsell not to be precise The answere A letter from a Knight of great place to a Gentleman to attend him His answere A Letter to a Knight for the entertainment of a Steward into his seruice A thankfull Letter vpon the tryall of his Seruant A Letter of counsell from a Brother to his Sister vpon her going from the Country to the Court. Her answere A kind letter to a scholler going from the Vniuersitie to a benifice in a Cittie A letter to a worthy Knight beyond the Seas His Answer A letter of counsail to a friend going to trauaile His Answere A Letter written to a Nobleman by a Gentleman in distresse A pleasant conceited letter to a friend in the Country The Answer A kind letter to a friend in the Country from the Citty His Answere A melancholy discontentiue Letter vpon a frowne of a Kinsman A discontentiue letter of a louer The Answer A comfortable letter to a kinsman vpon the buriall of a young Sonne The answere A Letter to an Hypocrite vpon betraying of a Friend His answere A Letter of aduice to a friend that was to be married His answere A Letter of vnkindnesse to a Kinsman vpon a report of his abuse His answere A Letter of kindnesse from a Gentleman to his loue from beyond Seas Her answere A most kind letter from a Lady to her Seruant of good worth His answer FINIS A Letter of Request for a kindnesse IF you knew my néed you would not deny me specially knowing the good you may doe me Your excuse may proue more wit then loue and my want more gréeuous then I hope your good will would me that which will hurt you little will help mee much and what my remembrance shall be of your kindnes shall rest in my thankfulnes If protestations be not idle you will performe the part of a friend to put your will to your power to pleasure him once that will loue you euer In Summe leauing my hopes comfort to your kinde answere I rest Yours or not mine owne W. H. The Answere I Will not deny you though I cannot help you in that measure of comfort that may answere your expectation for my purse is not euen with my Credit though I will not complaine of pouertie Come therefore to me and know me that Truth hath no Trickes and I will not falter with a Friend as I know my estate I must manage my affaires if I hurt my selfe I can not help my Friends but since bare words yéeld little comfort you shall finde better fruits in my affection I know you are wise and hope to find you kinde in being perswaded of my loue to be as ready as able to performe more then I will protest so expecting your presence in assurance of your patience till I see you and alwaies I rest Your faithfull louing friend H. W. A Letter of Councell to a Friend
the wisedome of the vse of the same to whom at what time most fitting for his Glorie that gaue it and their good that shall receiue it and for labour that you bee not found idle when you shall bee called to account to yeeld vp a reckoning of your Stewardship yet let mee not disswade you from a good worke in respect of your young yeares For Iohn was the yongest of the Euangelists and Timothy was yong in the Church of GOD and therefore I feare not his gracious blessings to thy proceedings In hope whereof and prayer for which I rest Your most louing Vnkle T. W. A Letter to a worthy Knight beyond the Seaes WOrthy Knight I know you expect by this bearer to heare from me to write you newes into a forraine nation I know not how my letters may bee intercepted and then if I should write any thing either false or vnfitting my hand would witnes against my will and yet let me say thus much of my obseruation of the world that in these latter times I find nature in so strange a course almost in the carriage of a world of Creatures that had not the Creator of the earth a hand of mercy ouer it surely the sinnes of the Creatures would call for a new deluge but what shall I say my selfe beeing as a Cipher among figures or a shadow among men to see the world at such a passe as that I hold him happy that is well out of it but the best is when night is past that maskers will be gon and when the Sunne sends forth his beames the Owle will not dare to looke abroad not to trouble you too long with little better then trifles giue me leaue only to Loue you and to wish I were with you which if your returne be not the sooner may hap to bee ere you be aware till when in the seruice of my heartes loue I rest Yours assured at command T. N. His Answere YOu dare not write vnto me in thee sparts for feare either of your own mistaking in your writing or misfortune in the deliuery of your letters but happe what will I haue written to you of the occurents of this time where betwixt the Masculine and Feminine Gender a coniunction copulatiue is of such a force as puts downe all the speaches of the world yea there is such fluttering among these birdes as if euery day were Saint Valentines and touching the wheele of the world it runnes such a whirlegigge that if nature mend not her course she will be quite out of credit in the Courts such enuy betwixt Mars and Apollo that a song somtime puts a seruice out of countenance in the Citty such iealousie betwixt Vulcan and Venus that Mercury hath much to doe to saue Cupids bow and arrowes In briefe all the powers of hell are so busie in the world that if God did not blesse his seruants the Diuell would haue a shrewd day but hee that is gratious hath not to doe with the vitious and he that trusteth in God hath no feare of the Diuell to bee briefe if thy leasure will serue thee make a steppe ouer to mee thou shalt make thine owne welcome and thy charge shall bee nothing so longing to see thee till I heare from thee and alwayes I rest Thine or not mine owne R. D. A Letter of Counsaile to a friend going to trauaile GOod Cosen I vnderstand thou art determined to trauaile let mee intreat thee to take heed to thy way for mountaines are laboursome to clime and a valley may bee of a deadly length woods may bee full of wild beasts and the high wayes haue vnhappy holes the Riuers may haue swift streames the Seas are full of rockes and sandes and the best shippe may haue a leake learne therefore thy compasse before thou runne thy course least if thou light among the Sirens thou bee drownd ere thou swim Fortune helpeth the bold but seldome to a blessed end and what a wo is it to wit when had I wist sees the wheele that threw him headlong from his happinesse I speake not this to disanimat thee for aduentures are honourable so the cause bee according but if immagination bee deceiued how is discretion impaired I would not yet like a Snaile haue thee liue alway in a shell but know thy way and then take thy walke betwixt Scilla and Charibdis the Channell is narrow and hee that lookes not with both his eyes may be decâ—iued on one side but what euer thou doest do all to Gods glory Loue him aboue all and feare nothing at all but from him onely haue all that is necessary in all so loath to make a long booke of a few lines for thy instructions let this suffice that I haue written bee wary in thy passage and passe not wisedome in those limits when thou beginnest to reade in all the letters of the row the Holy Ghost bee thy speed a little token of my loue I send thee and so with my prayers for thee to the Lord of heauen I leaue thee Your faithfull louing Kinsman T. N. His Answere GOod Cosen your kind Letter I take most kindly and let me tell you what answere I make to your admonitions no man knowes his way till hee haue learned it and hee that best knowes his compasse may yet run his course awry when sodaine stormes may wrack the best shippe aduentures and labours are the passages of mans life and mountaines and vallies are the walkes of the world hee that lookes to his feet need not feare a hole in the way and hee that feareth a beast is not fully a man for the riuers strong Oares will goe against swift streames and a cunning Pilot will keepe the channell where the passage is narrow there is the more need of heed and if the shippe be tight there is the lesse feare of her sailing for the songs of Sirens they are the fictions of the Poets but the figures are good warnings to beware the mischeefe of wantonnes hee that will winke when hee should see may blame himselfe for his blindnes and yet the cleerest eye may be deceiued in a coulour Immagination must breed hope before happines bee attempted and where the intent is vertuous the voyage is like to bee gratious all is in the will of God vpon the hand of whose mercy building the hope of my comfort assuring my selfe of your prayers for the prosperity of my trauailes till my returne and alwayes I rest Your most louing Cosen D. T. A Letter written to a Noble-man by a Gentleman in distresse Right Honorable VVHen Lords begge of Kinges I hold it the lesse basenesse to begge of Noblenesse and though this booke begging be a disgrace to learning yet since Paupertas non est vitium and Honos alit Artes I hope your honor will rather releiue afliction then rebuke presumption in the few lines that I héere humbly present your honorable patience I haue written that my heart is burst and yet to