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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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STC 20584; ESTC S120927
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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
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A melancholy discontentiue Letter vpon a frowne of a Kinsman COsen vppon your last lookes I lookt a little into my selfe where I find it too true that hee that is cursed in the cradle can hardly be blessed in the swaddell and yet God is too strong for the Deuill while Fortune is but the fiction of fooles Patience goes against the heare with Nature but yet where grace guides the Spirit the way is not hard to heauen the fore-horse goes straight because hee sees on either side and the wilde goose rase makes more hast then good speed I know there is a difference betwixt running and creeping and yet who is surest footed may take a fall excuses are more ready then foresights and yet the wisest may be ouertaken ere he be aware In summe he that cannot be himselfe must be subiect to others censures and therefore to conclude with my crosse this shall be onely my comfort that hee that is at warres with the world shall haue peace in Heauen to which ioy after sorrow God send mee and all his seruants among whom hoping to finde your name in the booke of life in more loue then I found in your bookes I rest Your louing kinsman B. S. A discontentiue Letter of a Louer WHen you were faire I loued you for then you were not painted and when you were wise I honoured you for then you were not inconstant but when Art married Nature and varietie shewed but vanitie I was aggrieued at my folly to haue grounded my affection on so little Grace yet when I see all true Birds haue fethers I must let them take their flight but yet rather heare them in the woods then féed them in Cages yet will I not shut them out at my windowes nor hurt them if they come in my house but regard them in their Natures and so hoping that you vnderstand the figure in the honor of your best substance I rest Yours more then you are your selfe S. T. Her Answere GOod Cosen doe not wrong affection with a false iealousie Nature is euer her selfe and I will bee no changeling what my lookes were I know not but what my loue is you may know Curses and Crosses differ much in construction and punishments for sinne are no plagues vnto patience God is euer good and will help his seruants while the fictions of fortune are but the fruits of idlenesse Hee that builds his hope in heauen may the better carry his crosses in the world which bred in the Cradle will be blessed in the Saddle And therefore my good Cosen not a little reioycing in the resolution of your disposition command my loue though I cannot command my lookes and wherin I am my selfe feare mee not to be yours for pouertie is no vice where vertue deserues honor and so wishing thee much good and ready to doe thee any good in the best nature of good will I rest Your very louing Kinsman T. R. The Answer VVHen you were wise I did esteeme you for then you were not humorous and when you were faithfull I did loue you for then you were not iealous but since imagination marde discretion and iealousie ouer-topped loue I will quit you with your owne Carde that I am sory in my affection to be so mistaken in a friend but since beasts are most of a hayre though not all of a hewe I will rather looke on them in a field then leade them in my hands and yet will I not hunt them from my ground nor driue them from their field and so hoping that your skill in Arithmetique will discerne a figure from a Cipher I rest Yours so farre as I may be my selfe M. W. A comfortable Letter to a Kinsman vpon the Buriall of a yong Sonne SWeet Cosen I know you are both religious and learned and therefore hope I shall need the lesse reasons to perswade you to that patience that may best make proofe of your disposition I am sorie for your sorrow and not your losse of your deare and worthy beloued little Sonne For know this hee was but lent you till bee that hath him would send for him yea your selfe are not your own but onely his that lets you haue heere a being till hee will haue you bee in a better place Good Cosen I knowe Nature is of great force yet where Grace gouernes Reason all is referred to the will of God I am assured that you pray dayly that his will may be done and will you grieue that his will is done Farre be it from you you know it is written and I am assured you beléeue it that whosoeuer loueth Father or Mother or Wife or Child more then God is not worthy of his loue Take héed therefore not to offend the Creator with to much louing his Creature and loose not your selfe in loosing his loue that you haue for his loue that you cannot haue he is among the Angels and would you haue him among men Yea he is with God himselfe and are not you glad that he is with him Furthermore if you were alone in your griefe you were the more to bee lamented but when thousands are in your predicament let not passion exceed Reason but humble your will to the will of God to whose heauenly protection leauing your most happy preseruation I rest Your most louing Kinsman H. B. The Answer MY good Cosen I thanke you for your kinde Letter in which I haue receiued no little comfort but let mee tell you that a collop cut out of the flesh puts neere home to the heart and therefore so farre as a man may not offend God giue me leaue to be my selfe but yet I beséech him of his mercie I may not passe the limits of his loue I reade that Iacob sorrowed for the onely imagined death of Ioseph and shal not I grieue to sée my boy in his graue and yet this is my comfort his yeeres were to yong to commit any actuall sinne and in the election of loue I am assured he was a Lambe of the Lords flocke it is written that GOD would haue yong Lambes for his Sacrifice and my boy could not be to good for his Altar No let not my soule liue but in the seruice of his loue though I loued him on earth yet would I not wish him from heauen for there is no Iewell so safely kept as that which is â—aid vp in the Lords Treasurie I haue read it that sorrow may tarry for a night but ioy commeth in the morning then if the night bee long there is a time of mourning till morning and therefore blame not Nature in beeing her selfe though the power of Grace shall worke in her patience In summe I hope so to manage my affecâ—ion as shall not impâ—ach my discretion nor loose his loue that is the ioy of my life to whose gracious blessing leauing our eternall comfort in prayer for that patience that may qualifie vnfitting passion in much thankefulnesse for your carefull kindnesse