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A19966	The English secretorie VVherin is contayned, a perfect method, for the inditing of all manner of epistles and familiar letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall tytles. In which is layd forth a path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered. Nowe first deuized, and newly published by Angel Daye.	Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.	1586 (1586)	STC 6401; ESTC S119008	166,059	274

that your pleasure is turned to my pennaunce and your nicenes to my annoyaunce with as much losse as by restraint resteth hetherto vnrewarded I will master my liking til with more vsury I may be repaied in causes of loue Neuertheles not so farre estranged from you but that in anye cause of courtesie I will not forget you are a Gentlewoman and therefore yet be content as before time in such sort to respect you whereof had it not beene your contrary pleasure you needed not as you haue done to make any exception Not meaning heereafter to trouble your remembraunce with anie more of my speaches otherwise then beseemeth a familiar acquaintaunce I hereon doe conclude my laste determination and farewell VPon this resolution was defined all this matter of liking occasioning the seuerall letters hereby in order deliuered the maner whereof both in respect of the pleasure as for the be●ter opening of the occasiō to the ful conceipt of their applications and meaning I haue the more largely layd foorth And for as much as the diuersities already deliuered in this booke doe arise to so grose a volume as se●meth in quantitye sufficient for the firste perusing and that the laying hereunto the residue of the partes Iudiciall and Familiar with such other thinges as thereunto are intended to be added woulde greatlye and more then ●oble haue augmented the bignes of the same I haue thought good in this place to determine this foremost worke Praying the courteous viewers of these my labours to become as friendly censurers as gladly I haue gone abaut herein to publish my indeuours so shall they bind me by their bounty in performing no more then they owe in courtesie Laus Deo domino Iesu. Definition of a letter The longe vse of letters Epistles diuers VVriters of Epistles Three notes to be obserued in Epistles Aptnes bre uity come lines principally required in letters Comelines in deliueraunce Aptnes of words wherin to be cōsidered Ill imitators Horace Satyre The foremost motion in ducing argument Of what validitie the same shalbe Time place and oportunitie Forme of deliuerie Choyce and best kinde of speech Suche the stile as the partie in accounte to whom it goeth VVhat breuitie is Tolleration of continuaunce Breuitie in plentie of deliuerance Necessarie speeche what it is Iterations and superfluitie to be auoyded Ouermuche more tollerable then curtold breuitie Affectation of too much breuitie A pleasaunt conceite Superfluous intrudors vvithout skill or vvit Decorum what it is Person to whome we write and the cause Lightnesse or grauitie of those to whome we write Cause to be considered Horace de arte poetica Decorum indecorum Enblemata Alciat Triall onely maketh difference of wisedom or folly Character of an Epistle generall Epistles distinguished into general and speciall Letters general are familiar Letters speciall le tters whe● in is continuaunce of matter Inuention Disposition Eloquuotin Helpes to Inuention and Eloquution Stile of Epistles speciall Sublime Humile and Mediocre Skilfull vse of writing Parts of an Epistle Exordium Narratio Propositio confirmatio Confutatio Peroratio Foure contents in an Epistle Salutation Maner of salutations VVhere and how vsed Epithetts Varietie of greetinges and farewels Subscriptions Maner and varietie in Subscriptions Acknowledgment of dutye in the Exordium Superscriptions directions of the Romaines Diuersitie of estates Directions to an Archbishop Bishop Duke L. Chauncellor L. Treasorer Earles and in office Lordes Knights of the priuie councell Knight of the priuie Councell Countesses Ladies Gent. of estate L. Maior Re order Iustice of peace Ladies of worshipp Merchaunt Alderman Seruaunt Directions from the Councell thus framed Opportunitie Hurt of rashnesse Reprehension of importunacye of sommer Ill kinde of letters No sortes to be too much importuned His leysure to whome we write His humor and affectation VVant of opportunitie Oportunitie wherein it consisteth Vnused wordes and confused deliuerie to be auoyded VVordes improper and impugning the sence Errors common to the learned as well as the vnlearned A ridiculous maner of writing Aieste Vrbanitie and exasperate vnproperly placed Definition of exasperate Of Vrbanitie Correction Formes of Epistles Foure kinds or titles demonstra●iue Deliberatiue Iudicial and familiar letters Partes Demonstratiue Descriptory Partes Deliberatiue Partes Iudiciall Partes Familier Partes in an Epistle descriptorie Comparison of the writer and painter Painter VVriter Ptolomie and other writers De situ orbis Virgill in his Aeneidos Ouidii Metamorphoseo Example Exordium Narratio Scituation Deckinges Streates Gouernment Habite of the people Conclusio Exordium Narratio Pleasaunt ayre vnfrequented Inuoluntatie abstinence Hard seeding Ill lodging Danger Conclusio Exordium Narratio Sodaine sicknes Declaration of his speeches Mislyke of the world Certaine notice and liking of death His death Conclusion A declaration of the parts comprehended in euery of these letters First Letter Second letter Third letter Demonstration praise dispraise most vsed vnder other titles Places of praise or dispraise Honest which is tied to virtue Vnhonest Necessity Vtilitie Difficulcie Places of Confirmation or confutation These places referred to other kindes Exordium framed of the condicion of the partye to whom we write Narratio Occupatio Synonymi● Propositio● Praise of the prince in generall Praete●●tio Of his discent parentage Parabola Allegoria Obiectio Anthypophora Anadiplosis per Emphasin Of his infancie and childhoode Of his adolescencie Paradigma Hiperbole per interrogationem Parenthesis Transitio Comparatio ab incremento Hypophora His mans estate His outward actions His inward vertues His bounty and great humilitie His modestie Apothegma Eretoma admiratio Pelisindeton nis Eephonesis Metaphora His death Charientisunis Confutatio Prayse of his death Peroratio Epiphonema Hypozeuxis Conclusio Exordium of the cause mouing admiration Narratio Propositio Allegoria Expostulatio Epiphonema Paradoxin Hyperbole His parents Metaphora Hypophora● Apostrophe His childehood Ecphonesis● His Adolescencie Confirmatio Congeries Desperate Miserie His youth and age Incrementum Aporia Transitio ●aronomasia Pathos His inordinary sicknes His death Hipallage Peroratio Homooeteleuton Laus ab honesto Ab aequo A necessitate Ab. vtilitate A dificili Presidents of Bountie Of Liberalitie Courtesie Modestie Chastitie Continencie Patience Sufferaunce Motions spurres vnto Virtue Efficacie of praise Encoragement Hope and feare Loue and hate Commiseration Aemulation Expectation Examples Obtestation or entreaty Exordium● Paranomasia Narratio Of prayse Synonymia Andiplos●s Of example Epiphonema Amplificatio Exhortatio Confirmatio Hypophora Ab aequo Praise of his auncestors A necessitate Of expectation Of Loue. Of hate Hiperbole Intreatie Peroratio Intendmen● oft e last letters Distinguishment of the parts Responsory Epistles A modest admission of praise Dicaeologia Excusatio Assurance of his course taken Answere to his offer of good will VVeight of his expectation Conclusion Exordium ●nsinuation Propositio ●atiotinatio Increme●tum Comparati● Confirmatio Of honest Correctio Of necessarie Theworthines The necessitie Occupatio Confutatio Exhortatio Prayse of the person Loue. Delight Honour Profite Example Epilogus Learning a thing pretious Places of exhortation Mitigation of exhortation Exordium Narratio Propositio Prayse of the person Lenisieng the exhortation Ab exemplo Expostulatio Occupatio Incrementum Amplificatio Epilogus Notes in Epistles Responsorie Briefe repiticions Narratio Propositio Longanimitie performeth the excellencie of vertue Vertue hath three entrances Confirmatio Adhoratio Exhortations mixed with prayse Prayse of the action ab honesto Ab aequo necessario A genere Ab exempl● A pa●●e A spe metu Occupatio Epilogus Exordium Propositio● Distributio● Prosope●● Confirmatio Epiphonema Comparatio Mutius Se●●ola Furius Camillus Transitio Epiphonema VValworth L. Maior of London Synonymia Adnectio Ecphonesi● Apotia Dicaeologia Confirmatio A worthie saying of Camillus Comparatio Finitio Loue of virtue Hate Peroratio Exordium Insinuation by supposion o● the estate of the pa●tie Occupatio Narratio propositio Distributio Confirmatio Ab honesto Prayse of the person Confutatio Vulitie Necessitie Exordium Narratio Propositio Distributio Confirmatio Petoratio Allegoria Natratio Propositio● Distributio Antimetabole Comparatio Amplificati Amplificatio Asynditon Parenthesi● Anthypophara Oc●upatio● Confutatio Epilogus Difference of dehortatorie and disswsisorie perswsion to marriage Disswasion from the same Incommodities of mariage Perswasion to wine Diswasion of the fauour Exordium by iusinuation of mislike of the cause Narratio Propositio Incrementum Distributio Hiperbole The inhonestie Discommodity Inequalitie Ironia Indignitie Confirmatio Intollerable admittance Metaphora Hypophora Epilogus Narratio Propositio Distributio The vnhonesty Indignitie Distributio Inequalitie Confirmatio Antithesis Ill conceipt Discommoditie Parenthesis Ignomie Comparatio Consutatio Epilogu● Narratio Prepositio Incrementum Ecphonesis Distributio Parenthesis Confutatio Finitio Tde vnhonestie Comparatio Confirmatio Amplificatio The difficulcie Impossibilitie Concessio Indignitie Consutatio Perill● Epilogus Exordium Propositio● Pleonasmus Epilogns Epistles Petitorie Exordium Narratio cum Propositione Petition Honestie of request The meane to performe the same Remuneration Narratio Propositio Distributio Parenthesis Petitio Peroratio Exordium Narratio Propositio Petitio Meane of performāce Remuneration Peroratio Petitio Meane of performāce Possibilitie Remuneration Meane of accomplishment Petition Acknowledgment of courtesie Remuneration Exordium of a simile Propositio Acknowledgment of courtesie Remuneration Necessity of the matter Peroratio Acknowledgement of courtesie Petition Meane of accomplishment Remuneration Greetinges Secrecie Dispatch Epistles commendatorie Narratio Recommendation Praise of the partie Petitio Peroratio Narratio Propositio Recommendation Petition Peroratio Narratio Propositio Recommendation Petition Peroratio Narratio Recommendation Propositio Petition Remuneration Peroratio Narratio Recommendation Petition Peroratio Epistles Consolatorie Extenuation Common condicion of men Exordium Insinuation Narratio propositio Distributio Confirmatio Epithetum Allegoria Confirmatio Epilogus Exordium Propositio Metaphora Distributio Confutatio Confirmatio Eicon Anthypophora Pathos Peroratio Metonomia Exordium Narratio Proposnio Distributio Mitigation by the common hap of all Confutatio Ab exemplo Finitio Incrementum 〈◊〉 Hypophora 〈◊〉 A similie Transitio● Prosopopoeia Contraria Confirmatio Allegoria Parenthesis Peroratio Epistles Monitorie Exordium Propositio Distributio Monition by the circūstances Allegoria Confutatio Peroratio Exordium Narratio Propositio Monitio Peroratio Exordium propositio Distributio Dicaeologia Finitio Adagium Confirmatio Mitigatio Epilogus

example of aduertisements 56 Places of praise or dispraise 5 9.60 Places of Confirmation and confutation 61.62 An example Lawdatorie solie touching the person 63 An Epistle Vituperatorie touching also the person 73 Praise and dispraise of the deedes of men 79.80.81.82 Of Epistles Deliberatiue 83 Efficacie of Praise 84 Places of Exhortation 85.86 An example of an Epistle Exhortatorie 87 A letter Responsorie to the same 92 Epistle Hortatorie to the studie of Learning 94 Epistle Hortatorie wherein the exhortation is lenefied 100 Aduertisements Responsorie 105 Epistle Hortatorie to the profession of armes 107 Places Dehortatorie or of withdrawyng from anie thing 113 An example Dehortatorie from infidelitie or rebellion 114 Difference betweene Swasorie and Hortatorie Examples 121 An example Swasorie wherein a Gentlevvoman is councelled to mariage 122 Places Svvasori● or of persvvading 126.27.28 Examples Svvasorie to the careful regard of one brother to another 129 A Letter Responsorie to the same Epistle 132 Epistle Svvasorie to perseuerance in learned and profitable studies 135 Places Disvvasorie or counsailing from a thing 138.39.40.41.42 And example Disvvasorie disvvading one from the marriage of his daughter to an old vvelthie miser 143 Epistle Disvvasorie from vices ingenerall 148 Epistle Diswasorie from ent●ing into an action dangerous 151. Places Conciliatorie or meanes to induce fauour 158. Epistle Conciliatorie from one of good accompt to his inferiour 159. Epistle Conciliatorie from one equall to an other 160. Epistle Responsorie annswering the first of these letters 162. Epistle Responsorie to the latter 163. Places reconciliatorie or of reconciliation 164. Example Reconciliatorie from one friend to an other 165. Epistle Reconciliatorie from an inferiour to his better 168. Places Petitorie or of requiring suing or intreating 169.70.71 Example Petitorie in a cause indifferent 172. Exāple Petitorie in the nature of recōciliatiō frō a son to his father 174 Epistle Petitorie for trauell and councell in an vrgent cause 177. An other of the same 178. A letter Responsorie thereunto 179. Epistle Peti torie of an other maner of request 180. An other of the like effect 181. An other Example to the same purpose 167. Places Commendatorie or recommending of persons 185. An example Commendatorie from a mean person to a noble man 186 Letter Responsorie to the same 187. An other Epistle Commendatorie 188. An Example Commendatorie from a noble man to his inferiour 194. An other from a noble man in preferrement of his seruaunt 195. An other from the same in fauour of Iustice. 192. An example Responsorie of deniall to any of these 193. An other wherein is allowance giuen to the demaund 19● The third wherein is doubtfull acceptante made of the same 196. A Letter Commendatorie pleasantly conceipted in recommending an vnprofitable ●eruaunt 198. Places Consolatorie or of comforting in distresse 200.201.202.203 An example Consolatorie vpon the death of a sonne ●04 Epistle Consolatorie in causes of hard extremitie 201. Epistle Consolatorie on the death of her husband 211. Partes Consolatorie 217.218 Epistle Consolatorie pleasantly written 219. Epistle Responsorie to be conferred to the Epistles Consolatorie 222. Places Monitorie forewarning or discōmending a thing 223.24.25.26 Example Monitorie to a stated and well gouerned life 227. Epistle Monitorie to the reformation of a couetous life 231. Epistle Monitorie to a father to preuent his sonnes lewd demeanor 229 Partes Amatorie or of loue The discourse whereof including letters s●●●ed vpon diuers sond●ie effectes continueth to the end of the book Almost all of which Epistles before set downe were ●owe sodenly by the Author ordered and inuented to their seuerall examples ¶ THE ENGLISH Secretorie CHAP. I. Of an Epistle the commoditie and vse thereof TOuching an Epistle which usually we terme a letter no other definition needeth therof then that which vse and common experience hath induced vnto vs. A Letter therefore is that wherein is expressye conueied in writing the intent and meaning of one man immediately to passe and be directed to an other and for the certaine respects thereof is termed the messenger and familiar speeche of the absent for that all occurrences whatsoeuer are thereby as faythfully aduertized pursued and debated as firmely might fall out in any personall presence or other wise to be remembred The antient vse wherof is such as from the beginning si●ce characters were first found hath had his continuaunce and euer since as a faythfull and secrete Ambassadour hath remayned of him from whome the foremost title hath had his direction and framing Their diuersities are sundry as whereof ensueth a platforme to euery motion beeing in truth so manifolde as are the imaginations of each mans fantasie seeing that the declaration of euery Letter is no more then what the minde in all occasions willeth to haue perfourmed and according to such instigations wherwith at that instant men are fedde when they write taketh his formall substaunce whether it be to require councell exhort commaund informe commende entreat confirme or whatsoeuer other intent determination or purpose therein had as cause and matter may fall out to be in anye sort required To grow into the particularities of euerye benefite receaued by the common vse hereof and the commoditye thereby ensuing what might be sayde more then that which by due course euery man hath almost in practize If you aske of the learned the vniuersall contentment recerued thereby expressed in sundrytheir authorities will testifie who the rather to aduaunce the efficacie hereof haue by diuers methodes and orders prescribed in wrytinge set downe the perfect instruction vse and meane wherby men the rather may be induced to the skilfull perfection that in a matter of such excellency is to be required For besides that the Epistles of Cicero Lucian Politiaen and others are plentifully extant some also of the thoysest and beste learned of late yeares haue endeuoured by writing to publishe in the Latine tongue their sundry methodes touching the same among whom Erasmus euermore famous for his studies and Macropedius at large Lodouicus Viues and Heg●ndorphimus Learnedlye yet brieflye each of them well approuing the goodnes in that by seuerall rules they haue distingui●hed the diuersities ground and skilful directions thereof To dwell in tedious discourses were but friuolous although others might in like maner be alleadged in examples as copious But now if you will demaund of the vnlearned they then to whom the want hereof breedeth so diuers imperfections as with many wishes they could desire to be amended knowing how greenous it is to participate their moste secreat causes to an other and to laye up their chiefest trust in the affiaunce of an others credite can be wray vnto you And although pregnant wit ensuinge by nature was th● 〈◊〉 cause that firste bred the inuention of letters And that euery man naturallye can speake and set downe his own meaning yet Art preuailing in the cause and by cunning skill marshalling euery thing in his due order proportion and place how much

that the validitie thereof be aunswerable vnto the one the others goodnesse or greatnesse that the intendment be sound lawfull and to no euill purposes that it conteine not matter of scurrilit●e filthie and base kinde of villanie that the very decorum required in all kinde of writers be herein obserued most principallte And finally auoyding all vnseemely and bad kind of deliueraunces erepugnant to ciuilitie that nothing therein be found that may be deemed ill sitting or otherwise than beseemeth a direction so worthie This decorum the very direct square and measure wherof conduceth all thinges with such exquisite performance as whereunto neuer afterward ensueth any iust reprehension willeth as Horace in his booke de arte poetica excellentlie deliuereth that vnto euery thing bee geuen his true nature collour and proportion aswel with pen as pencill abhorring as monstrous and enemie vnto skill what otherwise vnaduisedly shall be portrayed or described by reason whereof whatsoeuer carryeth wyth it selfe a iust decorum is sayde to be neate apte and comelie the contrarie whereof as altogeather impugned is sayde to be vnmeete or vnseemely And in somuch as this decorum is a worde among sundrye that are vnlearned more often repeated then manye tymes well vnderstoode I will somewhat declare what order the same beareth in thys kinde of proportion It is therefore in an Epistle a singuler Decorum when of a common and meane cause wee yeeld common and playne speeches An indecorum agayne when vppon a grosse conceite a trifling toye a matter of no valewe wee seeke to frame high and loftie sentences To a person of meane condition Decorum willeth in writyng we giue a meane regard and a great Indecorum it shalbe to a persō of greater account not to giue sufficient and due regard A matter of grauity deliuered with weight a matter of sorrow reported with griefe a matter of pastime discoursed with pleasure a matter of follie intermingled with laughter doe eche shewe the decorum therein contained and what agreement falleth out in euery seuerall discription where contrariwise to a person sorrowfull to write of iestes to talk learnedly vnto a clown to salute an olde man with childishe fantasies in causes of common wealth to aduaunce trifles what thing more absurde or greater matter of indecorum canne be founde placed in any writing I doe remember where once I did see an Enbleme of Alciat in counterfeit by a cunning workeman excellently depainted and thus it was A man by his finger on hys mouth remaining mute yet very grauely clav not otherwise deciphered but by hys apparell and countenaunce the inscription thus shewed Cum tacet haud quicquam differt sapientibus amens Stultitiae est index linquaque voxque suae When men stand mute what difference remaynes Twixt mad and those whom wisedome rules at beck The toong it is that yeeldes or els restraines The perfect shew of wit or follies checke And no maruell for that follie her selfe layd forth in wisedomes garmentes who will doubt that heareth no● her vtteraunce but that her speache will sound to great purpose and like to the habite importe matter of great grauitie For this cause seeing before speache hadde which is the true note and testimonie eyther of wisedome or follie all men in theyr seuerall callinges are holden indifferent yet doe wee see that when suche men are discerned by theyr speeche forthwith there falleth a separation and the reuerence that all menne for the moste part yeelde to discretion maketh sufficient apparaunce what regarde skilfull vtteraunce beareth from such hatefull follie And sith common experience according to their effects and conditions giueth almost vnto euerye person what to saye and speake whereby they are not greatlye discerned vntill in matters more waightie they are employed yet how much more in vse of writing the difference thereof shall sooner be made in yeelding foorth a certaine triall of euerye mans discretion according to the seuerall occurrents whereof he shall be occasioned to envite I leaue to euery mans practize to sounde and to the vnderstanding of the grauest to conceaue Now then for somuch as hereby appeareth that onlye tryall yeeldeth difference of eache mans abilitie and what by nature he is most pliable vnto whether wisdome or follye and that by how much the nearer each one for his indeuour seeketh to attaine the perfection by suche means required wherby y e finenes of each wit is the more thoroughly sifted by so much the more he is to be regarded accompted of and especially commended It shall behooue each one in framing his Letters seeing Letters also are but a formall kinde of mutuall talke both speach and writing seruing onely to declare a mans meaning to indeuor according to the waight or lightnes of the cause to contriue his actions that they be such as wherein this decorum both in person and matter may be imbraced and the repugnauncie thereof to be vtterly auoyded the ready meane of which he shall the sooner attaine vnto by diligent regarde had and due obseruation of those three especiall notes heretofore already remembred And now to the residue in the discourse following touching the method of these Epistles to be in order pursued Of the habite and partes of an Epistle SEeing an Epistle hath cheeflye his definition hereof in that it is termed the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friend to an other it seemeth the Character thereof shoulde accor●ing therevnto be simple plaine and of the lowest and meanest stile vtterly deuoyde of anye shadowe of hie and loftye speeches yet neuertheles forsomuch as in the argument of a great many of them whose seuerall distinctions heereafter shall appeare is required a more high and lofty deliueraunce partaking many wayes with that kinde accustomed in Orations and is therefore accordinglye to be necessarily furnished with the points therevnto incident we will for the present sort all kind of Epistles onely into these two maner of differences the one part whereof shall bee sayde to be generall and the other speciall Under this title of generall shall bee comprehended all such as eyther for fashions sake custome duty courtesie or other familiaritie doe ordinarilye passe from one part to an other rather of a pleasaunt conceit or some other more district or seuere motion then of any extraordinarye cause forme or substaunce in eyther of them contained Such are those as whom either long acquaintance or auntient familiarity haue caused interchaungeably to haue performed or fatherly reuerence and seruile duetye haue bound by graue authoritye ouer children kindred or seruants accustomably to be continued These for the common and ordinary matter in euerye of them vsed beeing vtterly exempte from anye waight or grauitye at all are rightly termed by the name of familiar letters They now that be speciall are such the matter of whome as I sayd before do admit both higher stile and more orderlye deliueraunce according to the waight of the argument in anye

ill beseeming of the cause the discommoditie inequalitie difficulcie insufficiencie impossibilitie ill conceite or intollerable admittance in the vse or compassing of the same All these notwithstanding in one sole Epistle not at all tymes vsed but eyther admitted or reiected as is in the matter circumstaunce thereof many times to be required As in a cause of wrong the Inhonestie of the thing in handling by ilnesse vnusednesse iniustice oppression detriment or damage thereby ensuing is to be disswaded the Vnworthines by the credite or reputation of him that tendreth the same to bee measured the Il-conceit by the mislike that all men generally doe retaine of the action and high contempt wherwith they are woont to entertaine the memorie therof the Discommoditie by the exclamations of the party iniured calling his honest fame in question the Difficulcie by the stoutnes of him to whom the same is offred and his known ● abilitie to withstand it the Intollerable admittance by the haynous apparance therein deliuered Disswassions also may be vsed to a man not to entermedie in hie or meane oecasions so termed either in respecte of hys owne desertes respecting or regar●ant to farre better or more lower purposes or in weight of his habilitie or disabilitie wherby he is put forward or drawne backe in the acceptance therof either by reputatiō or wealthines Here the insufficiency impossibilitie or difficulcie is to be required the more effectually therby to disswade by what therein coniectured to be hindering or disproouing to the matter intended Now by this alreadie said and by the application of the seueral partes herein debated to anye other lyke occasion in writyng to be ministred it may with more facilitie be adiudged where and in what sorte and to howe muche purpose the whole or greatest number of these in any lyke Epistle may be effected The example inducing the orderly laying out of which in theyr seuerall places now next of all succeedeth An example Disswasorie wherein a man of wealth sufficient is disswaded from the marriage of his daughter to the riches of an olde wealthie Miser SIr I am not a litle greeued for the loue I ow you to see that in these ripe years of yours wherin men commonly are freight with discretion you neuerthelesse doe verie indiscreetlye goe about to compasse a matter so repugnaunt to reason or anie manner of considerate and sage aduisement as whereat the worlde can but wonder and whereof al that know you or by anye meanes may vnderstand of the match wil no question greatly accuse and for euer condemne you It is deliuered with vs here for certain that you are intended vpon the doting affection of a miserable olde man your neighbour whose yeares are as welfreight with diseases and his manacled and benummed olde ioyntes with imperfections as his barred cofers with coyne to marrie vnto him my neece and your yongest daughter vpon a soddain and that to the furtheraunce thereof you offered to contribute of your owne store a reasonable and sufficient portion Trust me when I heard it at first I deemed it as a counterfait iest thinking that the man whome I so wel knew before time could not on a sodain become such a paragon as whereon a mayden of her fewture youth accomplishment and fauour could so quickly become enamored neither thought I that howsoeuer the dotage of the olde man stoode as a conceite to smile at that you for your part woulde so muche as vouchsafe to hearken to it especially at any time so seriously to speak of it muche lesse to open your purse to become a purchaser of it or by constrainte at all to inforce her fauors to giue signe or token anye wayes vnto it Alas sir was there no one thing more wherin besides you could onershoot your selfe but onely in so bad a purpose an action so vnhonest an intendment so vile a matter so much impugning nature as that the verye earth or hell it selfe coulde not belch out against the fayre Virgine so huge and so intollerable a mischiefe to matche I saye the matchlesse fauour of soe yong and dainty a peece to the filthy tawnie deformed and vnseemely hue of so wretched and ill fauoured a creature What nature is this to worke vnto her whome of your owne flesh you haue engendred whom so long you haue nourished whom to such and so many perfections you haue trained vpon a sodeyne naye euen in one moment to manifest an occasion to cast her away not yeelding vnto her heauye censure so great a benefit as death but tenne thousand griefes the least of all which is worse then anye death that maye be wherein comfortlesse she may complaine grieue and bemone her selfe without any reliefe at all but by the precious price and hazard of her owne soule How vnequally do you deale herein to render vnto her beeing scarce sixteene yeares of age a husband enfeabled by foure skore yeares and vpwardes whose toes are swolne with the gowt and legges consumed with the dropsie whose leane carkase beareth no apparance but of olde scarres and stiffened limmes become vnweldie supporters of his pined corpes whom furres must fence from the least blast of cold and dew of nappy ale cherish with warme fiers whose night cap carieth more store of heat then all his bodye doth of agilitie or strength and nose farre more fruitfull then fauorie with distilling drops down trilling frō thence in freshest spring of the ioliest seasons maketh ill fauored refections What wrong do you tender the poore maiden therein How vnworthye and farre ill beseeming is the same to her who hath such a father and apparantly shalbe known to be such a mans daughter shall you not therein be noted of great follie will not all men laugh at it pittie it crie shame of it and her selfe poore soule pray to God to reuenge it It is too muche intollerable beleeue me that you should endeuour in this sorte by collour of your fatherly aucthoritie to constraine her whome albeit she is your childe yet may you not thus forciblie compell vnto so vnused and vnnaturall extremities Consider with your self how greeuous the thing you goe about to compasse maye retourne vnto her and whereas lyking and choyce is of all other thinges in case of mariage to be accompted most dearest you not onely against her wil doe endeuour to induce a breach thereof but also doe giue her ouer into the handes of such a one whose inequalitie so far foorth diffeuereth from her appetite as that it can not otherwise but as vnto all others so vnto her chieflye becomme insufferable Haue you no more care of her that is your daughter but when now you haue brought her to that passe wherein shee should participate the virtuous and modest vse of that whereunto her yeares haue adapted her and for which ende and sole purpose mariage was by Gods sacred ordinaunce at

fithence continued the same you wil in no sort therof be recomforted Assuredly my good coosin I must needes conclude with your owne speeches and the weight of your interchaungeable likings that there is great cause left vnto you to become sorrowfull as hauing lost the chief and principall iewell of all your worldly loue and liking the fauored companion of all your pleasaunt and youthfull yeares the entire comfort and solace of your present happinesse and suche a one who aboue all worldes or any earthly estimation at all accompted honoured and entirelie more then anie others receiued and loued you but that you haue so great and vrgent cause of extremity to continue with so hard impatience as you do it befitteth not it is vnnecessarie yea it is in my iudgement of al others the most insufferable For whē it is not denied vnto you that you haue cause to mourn it is not fittest vnto the matter of your loue to weep ouer him and to bewaile him it is then thereby intended that there must be a meane therein that the force thereof must bee limitted that the apparaunce beare shewe of discretion Doe we not all know I pray you and are witnesses that he was a mortall man as our selues hee was borne vnder the same condition that hee must once die that he had his time set beyond whiche hee might not passe and that God who gaue him life thus long to liue with you hath now called him again from this earth to leaue you Are we ignoraunt that nature compelleth the wife for her husband the husband for his wife parentes for their children and kindered for their kinsfolke to weepe and lament but followeth it not also therewith that the losse and want of them being layd downe by an immooueable necessity we can by no meanes afterwardes be in hope to reclaime them what great folly do we then commit in thus serching after the ghosts of our deceased frends or what other thing do we therein performe but yeeld a plaine demonstration that our teares are to none other end but to bewayl them because they were mortal whom death could neuer haue shunned without they had bin immortall Are we not eftsoones put in minde by the common casualtie of al thinges that there is nothing stable that daily and hourely kingdomes decaye prouinces are shaken countries destroyed cities burned townes wasted people consumed and that it remayneth a thing so ordinarie with vs dayly to be conuersant in these euils the losse of al or eyther of which if they may be accounted euils why then doe we giue our selues by vnmeasurable griefe to a perpetuall continuaunce and renouation of those euils But you will hereunto alleage that it is loue that inforceth you vnto the same and that such is the continual remembrance you haue as you cannot forget him Alas how fruitles is this loue and zealous remembraunce in the deliueraunce thereof howe far sequestred is the vehemencie of the same from the serched recompence why learne wee not rather of the wisest and worthiest how to mitigate the impatience of our owne imperfections In whose precepts examples and councels if the immoderate vse or enterteygnement of any thing bee forbidden shall we not then in this aboue all others bee chiefly reprehended when wee enforce our selues by continuall meditation of our losses to shead so many teares to no purpose what if your husband had not now died at this instant he must you knowe haue died he coulde not alwaies haue liued yea but he died you saye vntimely what call you vntimely I pray you If in respecte of the force preuayling vppon him wherby he was slaine you name it vntimely then doe I graunt vnto it But if in regarde of the time of his life you affirme it I denie that the same may then bee saide vntimely For why hath not the eternall creator of all thinges ordered by his deuine wisedome each matter to passe his course in sort to himselfe best beseeming and most pleasing howe can you then say that to bee vntimelie which by his heauenly moderation was so appointed assure your selfe if hee had then beene at home wyth you he had also died you could not haue preuented it his houre was come so was it determined which way could she shunne it What then greeueth you in this action is it that he was slaine Consider with your selfe it was in his princes seruice his death was thereby the more honourable for in so dieng he died as a man as a souldier as a gentleman Yea but you shall neuer you say see him more true indeede but what of that is this deathe now greater then his absence before yes forsoothe it is in deede and why because you had hope then to see him againe which by this meanes is taken away verie well You did then while he was liuing recomfort your selfe with hope content your selfe now with necessitie because it must needes be so and you can no waies amend it Is not this an ende sufficient to determine all sorrowes If you weepe lament crie out and become grieued requisite were it the same shoulde returne to some end that all your care sorrow griefe lamentation or what els should not appeare fruitelesse that the intendment determination therof shuld be to some special purpose See you then herein is no supplie the effectes are berest the end taken away Bee not thē so fond as to bedew that with your teares wherunto belongeth neither redresse nor meane of recouery Who is hee that woulde bee so mad as crie out vnto him of whome he might bee assured neuer to obtaine remedie By cunning art beastes wee see thoughe they be most fierce are tamed a meane is found wherewith to breake the marble the Adament how hard soeuer it be may be deuises bee mollified Onely deathe is of such force as no waies can be conuinced At the leastwise if neyther of these argumentes might moue you to suppresse your exceeding sorrows you must finally consider that wee are Christians and by the benefite of this corporall death doe make exchaunge of an vncorruppted life that the withdrawing vs from this vile earthlie bodie of clay and filth is a commutation to a sacred and heauenly progression and that we haue nothing lefte vnto vs in all the trauailes cares disquiets and heauie turmoiles of this wearisome liuing whereof to reioice vs but the expectation wee haue of happinesse and euer flourishing gladnes Suppose the ghost of your husband were here present to see you in all this extremitie what thinke you would he say how much disordered imagine you would he thinke you to be in your affections And were it not that so many costes hadde seuered him both by land and seas peraduenture wearied with your bitter outcries in the conceited image shape of death you might in apparance heere him in these like speeches accusing rebuking such your