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cause_n	great_a	love_n	love_v	4,041	5	6.5654	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10301	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.	M. R., fl. 1638.	1615 (1615)	STC 20584; ESTC S120927	31,955	64

honest minde then to runne any course that may giue a wound to the Conscience which while wit would excuse wisedome layes open when if the soule finde grace in Repentance of sinne the heart cannot but bléed in the sorrow of iniquitie but God is all-sufficient in all things and therefore knowing your vertuous disposition to his gracious protection leauing your most happie preseruation in prayer for the same with the encrease of all comfort in the bounden dutie of my loues seruice I humbly take my leaue Your seruant assured in what resteth in my power I. S. A Letter to a Knight for the entertainment of a Steward into his seruice VVOrthy Knight at my last beeing with you you spake vnto mee to doe my best in helping you to a Seruant that you might employ for your Steward Now if it please you at my hands to accept the bearer hereof beleeue it you shall finde his sufficiencie so fitting your content that I dare vndertake you shall not neede to seeke any further I haue knowne him long and such euery way his disposition as may deserue good regard in a very good vnderstanding he is honest and wise and able to liue of his owne yet in donour of your worthinesse desireth to follow your fauour for his Truth you shall not doubt it and for his behauiour I know you will like it for his wages I will leaue it to your wisedome in his desart so with his dutie commending my seruice to the command of your kinde loue till I sée you and alwaies I rest Your very louing Kinsman T. R. A thankefull Letter vpon the tryall of his Seruant MY good Cosen among many courtesies I thanke you most kindely for my man who in my great content hath answered the Contents of your Letter for such hath beene his carriage as hath gotten good will not onely of all my house but of such of my friends as haue occasion to know his seruice lesse vice and more matter worthy loue haue I not seene in a man of his sort yea such hath beene his desert of my loue as except for his better preferment I will not part with him in hast For in earnest in many true Rules of Ciuilitie hee may be an example to good Iudgements In briefe as I neuer found you to faile in any kinde care of my good so in this I haue great cause to thanke you and wherein it may lye in my power to requite you be assured you shall know I loue you in which I rest assuredly Your most affectionate Kinsman and friend R. S. A Letter of councell from a Brother to his Sister vpon her going from the countrey to the Court. SWeet Sister I heare thou art going from home to a high place from the countrey to the Court beleeue it thou wilt finde it a place of danger for the preseruation of thy best comfort for there is honour both to bee got and lost but for a caueat in thy carriage reade what I heere haue written vnto thee and lay it vp in thy memory it will doe thy vnderstanding no hurt Take heed of the Mewing of Muske Cats for they watch but for a Mouse and when they haue their prey they are all gone away Let not the fading glosse of gay clothes dazzle the eyes of thy spirit nor faire tongues rob thee of thy fame for a good name is not like a garment for if it once be broken it will neuer bee set together againe there are many hands that will bee plucking of flowers whose hearts neuer care how the stalkes grow or wither but if you will be your owne friend let no man take the fruit without the Tree beleeue no idle vowes nor vaine protestations for many times the tongue and the heart are farre asunder when the best words haue not the best meanings Nor let ambition bewitch thee for the sinne is all one with the Lord or his Lackey the Ice once crackt will crack more and what is the face that hath lost the beauty of the minde sweet Sister I write not this that I feare thy imperfection but to forewarne thee from euill And what good is to bee gotten seeke it by that vertue that may keepe thy colour without staine when a Maiden blush is the beauty of modestie serue God and hee will blesse thee pray to him and hee will defend thee loue him and hee will keep thee that no hurt shall come neere thee bee constant in thy Religion loyall in thy Allegeance courteous in thy behauiour and vertuous in thy loue so no doubt but the Court will grace thee and the King of Kings will so aduance thee that though she be no Lady on earth thou shalt be an Angell in heauen To which happinesse in prayer for thee to his tuition I leaue thee Thy most louing Brother D. H. Her Answere MY most louing Brother I most kindely take your most louing Letter which I will lay vp for your sake and mine owne good not in my pocket nor my Cabinet but in the inward Chest of my heart and will dayly reade it as the rules of true wisedomes direction but to bee a little merry with the answere of your figures let Muske Cats Meaw where they will I hope to bee no Venizon for Vermine and for the Garden of my fauour there shall no hand plucke aflower except hee take the Roote and stalke to his keeping for the glosse of gay coates they may bewitch Babies eyes but the eye of vertue lookes after no vanitie and for false hearts and faire tongues they are easily discerned they goe so commonly together betwixt pride and basenesse there is a carriage of ciuilitie which I hope to hit on without touch of dishonour so leauing Lords to their Ladies and their Lackeyes to lower Creatures beseeching the Almightie to blesse mee heere with his Grace and hereafter in Heauen to make the least of his Hand-maides rather then the greatest Princesse on the Earth with all the pleasures of the world to which prayer hoping you will say Amen in much thankefulnesse for the care of your kindnesse I rest Your most louing Sister E. B. A kinde Letter to a Schollar going from the Vniuersitie to a Benefice in a Citie GOod Cozen I vnderstand by your Father that you are determined shortly to leaue the Vniuersitie but yet withall that you haue bent your minde onely to the studie of Diuine vnderstanding and leauing the world betake your selfe wholly to the Church and in the Ministerie of the word to doe good vnto Gods people I commend your determination but with you if I might aduise you to spend some few more yeeres in the Vniuersitie for your further hearing and reading for your better confirmation of your resolution not that I feare the blessing of your Spirit but that it is a function of great charge care and labour Charge in regard of the Talent beeing out of the Treasurie of Heauen the riches of the Soule then for care in

loathed that loues not his Father pardon therefore what is past and feare not what is to come You inuite me to your house that am worthy to be driuen from your doore and will méete me halfe way that merit banishment from your presence and make me a feast that deserues euer to be kept fasting but this shewes loue descends before it ascend God came to Man ere Man could come to God your loue called me to comfort before I could come to receiue it In summe your kindnesse hath bound my loue in an indissoluable duty in which I hope shortly to see you and till then euer to pray for you that all happinesse may befall you and so humbly rest Your obedient Sonne A Loue-letter to a faire Gentlewoman SWéet Creature if the World did not hold thée faire I should thinke my selfe blind and if the wise did not admire thée I should not so much honor thée but since thy worth deserues more honor then I can giue thée giue me leaue onely to pray for thée that no black spot of pride may staine the faire white of thy vertue but that continuing in thy goodnesse thou mayst enioy the fulnesse of thy happinesse and for my selfe that in the desert of thy fauour I may be a Seruant of thy command in which more hoping in thy vertue then presuming of my fortune I rest Thy vnworthy Seruant B. T. Her Answer KInd Sir I would be as loath to be the gaze of the Worlds eye as the subiect of your fiction and for the honor of wisedome it should bee rather in the Heauens then the Earth for your prayers I thanke you though I hope they are more charitable then necessary and for your seruice take it not vnkindlie that I wish you a more worthy Mistris and so intreating you to giue me leaue to leaue you to your selfe whom you haue most reason to make much off I rest Too vnworthy a Mistris of so worthy a Seruant E. M. A Letter of discontentment to a Gentlewoman suspected of Incontinency IF you were as wise as Salomon yet if you were not more honest I would not giue a penny for your wit if you were as rich as Craesus yet if you want grace I would not giue an halfe penny for your wealth and if you were as faire as Venus yet if you want vertue I will not giue a point for your painting Counterfeit modesty is plaine hypocrisie and to flatter for gaine is the common course of the world Babies in gay coats are Childrens sports and fooles Idols For my selfe I haue knowne you long and began to loue you but finding your folly I haue with-drawne my affection and to play faire with you vpon euen tearmes I had rather giue ouer my game with a little losse then haue a bare stake to set my rest vpon so wishing you henceforth to make your best match for your aduantage and not deceiue your selfe with hoping after a fooles fortune meaning as little as I can to trouble my thought with your idle humors As I found you I leaue you and so rest Your Friend as I find cause W. R. Her Answer VVHat you thinke of your selfe I know not and what your estate is I care not it séemes you are well read in names but lack iudgement in applying their natures they that feare not God are worse then the Diuell and they that want grace are in a pittifull taking for vertue it is so rare that thinke Venus better fits your humour for your pence halfe-pence and points they are but Pedlers ware and therefore I haue nothing to doe with such Chapmen Hypocrisie mistaken may take Iealouzie in an idle humor and as good be a painted Baby as a péeuish Bowby for your gaine if you be not pleased you may change your Card or be content with your fortune and for your franke play you are so fresh a gamster that I thinke losse of time will be all that will be gotten by you and so wishing you to keep your money in your purse play with children for Apples that you may eat your part of them if you loose like a white God-sonne I wil leaue you to your mothers blessing and so rest till I sée you which I hope to doe neuer Yours Asse you mine M. T. A Letter of reprehension of suspected vnthankfulnesse COzen how kind you haue found me you know and how vnthankefull I haue found you I would I did not know to be so long from me and in your silence to forget me in the notes of a good nature I finde no such ill disposition but lest I may wrong you and my selfe with a false suspition of vnkindnesse not knowing the cause that may be excusable I pray you write vnto me by this Bearer for if the cause of your silence haue bin sicknes I am sorie for it if your Letters haue béen lost or intercepted we are both wronged howsoeuer it is something is amisse which I wish kindely to be amended not to trouble you with a tedious Letter the Contents perhaps discontentiue till I heere from you which I expect presently in the nature of a kinsman and loue of a friend without great cause to the contrarie I rest Your very louing Cosen R. D. His Answere MY good Vnkle how kinde so euer I haue found you I now finde you contrarie when in the Construction of dispositions exprobation and vnthankefulnesse make a hard Choise which is the greater Cut in vnkindnesse you thinke it long since you heard from me and I heere from you to soone when in your writing I finde you so farre from your selfe for could I not be my selfe I should forget you but if a Carde come crosse shall the game be giuen vp and if there fall out a mischance shall it giue suspition of an ill minde I hope not well the cause knowne of my silence I leaue so the report of this bearer to whom I know you will giue trust and by whom I send you an other written long since how miscarried and returned being tedious to write I will leaue to his deliuerie so hoping that when you finde where the fault is you will there lay the repentance in the true assertion of a Naturall kinsman rather willing to deserue a good turne then to heere of it I take my leaue Your very louing Cosen N. W. A Letter of Counsell from a discreet Mother to her Daughter newly married MY good Daughter thou art now going into the world and must leaue to be a Child and learne to be a Mother and to looke to a family rather then to the entertainement of a friend and yet both necessarie in their kindes finde the disposition of thy husband and in any wise moue not his impatience Let thy kindnesse binde his loue thy vertue his comfort and thy Huswiferie his commendation auoide fatling Gossips yet be kinde to thy Neighbours and no stranger to thy kindred bee gentle to thy seruants but not ouer-familiar haue an eye