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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

the limittes and this must be the end of this Monitorie kind whereof that in their seuerall partes they maye the better be explaned let us now produce examples to be sorted to some of their purposes An example Monitorie concerning a stayed and well gouerned lyfe THE execrable force of mischieuous euill being such and the maleuolent disposition of the frowning heauens to some kind of people so great as hauing once throughly planted the fatall sting thereof in the inward conceipt of those that with tooth and nayle couet to participate the barreine and accursed fruites of the same it seemeth they be created to none other ende but onely by daring to perpetrate whatsoeuer matter of villanie to purchase to them selues by determination of a shamelesse and wicked lyfe the limitted rewarde of an vnprouided shamelesse and ignominious death The inchaunted course wherof perceauing in these daungerous tymes how muche it hath bewitched the estate and course of the whole worlde and considering there withall that by reason of your fathers late decease you beeing a greene youth voyde of experience bent to the triall of al companies richly possessed and wealthily endued are now left into your own hands and thereby deliuered from the plawsible and quiet moderation of a faithfull and louing guide into the endlesse reache of a youthfull carelesse and vncontrolled libertie hath moued me in respect of the care that euer I erst had of you being yet but a childe and in assured testimonie of the memorie I haue euer protested to the ghost of your louing parente to admonish you of some fewe thinges touching the order and conuersation of your liuing beeing a course so important as in the admittance exercise wherof can not but consist the scope and after fruition of all your happinesse benefite and lawdable continuaunce And first of all will I call vnto your remembraunce that being the sonn of so vertuous a father as you are howe greatly it importeth vnto your estate to be well gouerned that as well the precedent vertues as auntient possessions of your antecessor may in your person be euermore shining and resiant that of your deceased Parent as wel as in corporall shape and fauour you beare the true image and shew of his worthinesse that you stand not more in your actions vpon the glorious title or name of a gentleman then of the verie true and extreme conditions and behauiours that rightly do produce and make a gentleman And albeit I sinde no great apparant cause your youthfull head and vnstaied state of headstrong libertie onelye excepted that may induce any argument or supposall to the contrary but that you are or may be suche and of so worthy and great regard as touching your life and other conuersation deepely inough may bee adiudged to conceiue of all or any parte of these yet knowing how many and how sondry are the euils wherwith our mortall state is endaungered how diuers are the motions to wickednes and how many waies are we readye to fall into the crooked pathes of the same I could not but warne you that comming euen now into the middest of the world as you do you shall finde sondry baites and alurements drawing you into the worste most vilest parts thereof that vnlesse you were directly gouerned with the right rule and square of an honest and sober life twentie to one you not onelye fall very deeply into the inconueniences therof but without great and vnexpected chaunce occasioning the contrarye are like to be drowned and ouerwhelmed for euer You must call to mind that liuing in a place so ordinarilye frequented as is that Citie wherein you are and being in felowship with so many and diuers sorts of men as you now be conuersing also with the innumerable multitudes of persons of all estates condicions and faculties as you there doe it is no difficult thing for a young youth of your birth and qualitie to be led into lewdnes of a wanton to become dissolute of a spender to be made a consumer nor of a towardly Gentleman to be framed to an vntowarde companion Much credit me may the euill example of some lewdly giuen conduce heereunto making you to beleeue that to become a roister is credite to be a swearer valiaunt to shew your selfe a waster liberall that to become a drunkard is felowship to maintaine rakhels is bountie to be fantasticall is youthfull and to be an vnthrift is to be counted gentle but beeing ruled by me you shall giue heede to neither of all these beeing such and none other in deede as solie will breed your destruction but contrariwise in gaining of credit you shall become modest and discreetly behaued in being noted to be valiaunt you shalbe a supporter of honor shewing your selfe liberall it shall be in rewarding the good in maintaining of felowship you shall vse sobrietie in being bountifull you shall remunerate seruices in manifestation of your youth you shall entertaigne honest pleasures and in being counted gentle approue therewithall frugall The Asse goeth out in the morning to carry burthens and in the euening receiueth his prouendar for aduauntage The Oxe grazeth all daye in the pasture and at night is carried into the butchers stall their rewarde is their feeding and the contentment they require is onely to fill their bellies behooueth that men also who from beastes are sequestred by many degrees of reason should of their continuance and final determination liue a like careles No verilye it is too much vnseemly Such illusions as these are not fit for a man who by the nobilitie of his creation was ordained to sway ouer and not to become subiect to such vilities You therefore being now at your owne choice and liberty must beware and giue great and diligent aduertisement to all your wayes you must eschew and auoid not onely the very euils them selues but also all occasions inducing or partaking with those euils you must imagine that to bee in all thinges temperate and discreet argueth solie your reputation shunne vice as you would do a serpent flie wicked company as a pestilent infection doe alwaies thinges worthy your selfe affect not so much the vaineglorious title of praise as desire how and in whar sort to deserue and winne praise Esteeme nothing so precious as time abandon slouth and in all thy societie as neare as thou canst accompany with the best Consider that such as is the tree such is the f●uit Who toueheth pitch must needes be defiled With the good thou shalt be made good and with the euill tthou shalt be peruerted Thinke none so great an enemy as he that misledeth thee Misdeem no man willingly giue occasion to all men to iudge of thee indifferently These counselles forewarninges of thy ruine or happines if aduisedly thou wilt heaken vnto and faithfully lay vp among thy chiefest secreates it shall no waies repent thee to haue beene a man nor discontent me in this

affections inclinations or any other qualitie substaunce or vertue incident to lyfe or humayne gouernement tending to the prayse or disprayse of them or any of thē The sorts wherof vnder this kind contayned are Descriptorie in which is described any thing whatsoeuer Laudatorie resting in prayse Vituperatorie whiche hath in it the dispraise of a thing The Deliberatiue kind cōcludeth Epistles Hortatorie Debortatorie Swasorie Disswasorie Concilatorie Reconcilatorie Petitorie Commendatorie Consolatorie Monitorie and Amitorie Iudiciall comprehendeth Accusatorie Excusatorie Expostulatorie Purgatorie Defensorie Criminatorie Exprobatorie Comminatorie Deprecatorie Inuectiue and Complayning Now those that be Familiar haue these seuerall kyndes Epistles Narratorie wherein wee expresse to those that are farre from vs the affayres that presently are in hand with vs. Nuntiatorie wherein wee aduertise the newes of any publike or priuate matters vnto our friendes Gratulatorie in whiche wee testifie our gladnesse for the recouerie returne benefites aduauncement good happe or likyng of our friendes Remuneratorie whereby wee giue thanks for courtesies benefites or good turnes receaued or care or other liking had or shewen vnto vs. Collawdatorie by meanes whereof we recommend the name person vertue worthinesse actiuitie valure or what soeuer of any one to preferment or other seruice to be adapted Iocatorie wherewith by a pleasant and sweet kind of deliuerie of some prettie ieste or delicate conceite we recreate the mynds of them to whome we write Prestolatorie Wherin vppon consideration of the honour valure worthynesse or vertue of some one we tender vnto hym our seruices and attendaunce Obiurgatorie In whiche we rebuke the ill demeanours of oure Children seruauntes kindred friendes or acquayntaunce To these are manie letters Responsorie and other Applications the titles whereof are not certayne but examples and occasions plentifull All whiche I referre to theyr seuerall places eche one as they followe in hys kinde to be successiuely deliuered CAP. X. Epistles Descriptorie and the partes thereof FOrsomuche as in Descriptions are onely declared and set foorth at large the manner order state gouernement proportion goodnesse or value of anye thing the epistles consisting solie therof be cōmonly without additiō at al ei ther of praise or mislike or any other intendmēt in respect wherof they might in any one iote vary from that title of Descriptorie The force hereof comprehendeth chiefly a narration thorough out in which is contayned by laying out the seueral partes therof a perfect and playn demonstration or description of any thing In these sorts of Epistles the excellencie of the writer and paynter concurreth in one who the more that eche of them studieth by perfection to touche all thinges to the quicke by so muche the more nearer doe they bothe aspire to that exquisite kinde of cunning that in eche of these differences is absolutely to be required The curious paynter in drawyng a perfect peece of Lantskip presenteth many thinges vnto the eye the conceite whereof is marueilous for wyth great admiration we doe there seeme to beholde the most pleas●unt and goodly vallies woodes hye and decked with stately trees some toppes wherof the winde seemeth to wreathe and turne at one side then goodly riuers hye wayes and walkes large situate and hie climing hilles and mountaynes far prospectes of Cities Steeples and towres ships sayling on seas and waues blowne vp aloft the element cleere fayre and temperate with some shining beames shadowing and spreading ouer all these wherein seemeth the delight so rare and climate so perfect as verye desire prouoketh a man to gaze of it as a thing in present life and moste certayne viewe And doe I pray you our excellent writers degenerate at all from any parte of these doth not the learned Cosmographer in acquainting vs with the vnknown delightes situation plentie and riches of countries whiche we neuer saw nor happely may euer approche vnto admire vs oftentimes and bring in contempt the pleasures of our owne soyle and manye tymes a hudge woonder of the vnhard secretes neuer before reported of the incredible operations of diuers thinges and state so high and magnificent such as the very discription and liuely deliuery whereof maketh vs beleeue that our eyes doe almost witnesse the same and that our very sences are partakers of euery delicacy in them contayned But omitting the weight hereof cōsisting in these worlds of such strange accompt w e what fine inuention doth Virgill many tymes in his Aneidos and with how much varietie describe vnto vs the tides of the morning how greatly in his first booke doth he amuse the reader with the lamentable shipwracke and euen then as it were appearing surges and intollerable turmoyles vpon the sea happening to Aeneas ' what darcknes what tempestes what rising and deepest fall of waues agayne what windes what mingling of heauen and earth togeather doth he there relate Then after his arriual on shore and presenting to Queene Dido how is the destruction of Troy in the person of Aeneas to her described In the fourth booke likewise what an excellent description maketh hee of Fame howe she weth hee the banquet by the Queen to Aeneas made how liuely is the state and magnificence thereof deliuered Innumerable of these both from him and the Transformed shapes of Ouid coulde I heere recorde the excellencie of eche being suche as by the forcible vtteraunce thereof breedeth as great delight as astonishment vnto the curious searcher of the same And in asmuch as I haue vndertaken to conduct the learner by example howe to behaue himselfe in some sorte herein we will proceede with our Epistles Descriptorie the first whereof following seemeth to bee sent from a traueller to a friend of his in England the matter whereof ensueth ¶ An example of a letter Descriptorie wherein is particularly described an auntient Citie by laying downe the seuerall partes thereof MY good vncle the remembraunce of your charge geuen me and my promise to you made at my departure out of Englande bindeth mee at my nowe beeyng in quyet and with good leysure setled in Germanie I shoulde returne the same agayne with my accustomed and dutifull regard in sorte as I haue euer in deuoured my selfe to doe vnto you It may then please you that remayning with my L. the Duke but a fewe dayes at Geneua wee hasted thence to a Citie caled Norrumberghe being Imperial situate in the high partes of Germanie where sithence wee haue almoste continually remayned And albeit I coulde somewhat write vnto you of our passages through diuers places of the Country yet insomuch as there is no part therof so memorable as this Citie wherin we now remayn the description thereof at this present may solie content you The Citie therefore as it seemeth is most auntient and as manye doe suppose and affirme at that tyme when the countrey was first in subiection to thempire of Rome was builded by Nero the

Emperour and of him taketh hys name as Norumbergh in signification Neroes Berghe and so much the rather doth it appeare by sundry auntient monuments therin yet remayning The Citie besides that it is situate in a most delicate and pleasaunt soyle wooded and watered moste plentifully on euery side with goodlie trees fayre and delicate riuers and springs is both of great strength in the walls of the same and plentifully builded with high stately towres on euery part The edifices of the Citie are rare of most sumptuous and stately appearance insomuch as there is no one house in any row that exceedeth an other in height but all of them builded leuel by a very geometrical proportion The insides are not more polished with riches ornaments of great beautie then the outsides with brauerie the very fronts of all which aswell of rich as poore are moste curiously embossed in a hard kinde of substaunce suche I thinke as is oure plaster of Parris with artificiall and liuely pictures containing histories of diuers memorable and strange effectes that with such wonderfull excellencie as any wayes may be conceiued The cost hereof is continually mayntayned repaired enlarged and preserued by a generall contribution of the most worthy and honorable of the city Besides the coullours so freshe so braue and delicate layd in oyle for defence agaynst weather wherewith they are beautified and set forth are very strange The streetes are wide fayre and excellently well paued The stone they vse for the moste part is marble white gray and black wherof is great plentie besides other kinds which very wonderfully they cut and square in diuers small proportions artificially poynted and shaped The houses are not high but backward built and inwardly large This citie retayneth yet the auntient gouernement of the Romains for at this instant they haue their Consuls Tribunes Senators Pretors Quaestors Aediles and other interchangeable offices as sometimes had Rome being in her greatest prosperitie The attire also alyke to their dignities of all sortes of honourable personages accustomed to their callings Playn are their habits for the moste part nothing sumptuous retaining stil one the self same antient fashion The constitution of theyr bodies as well men as women are fayr cleer and of sound cōplection Frugal in diet expence and no thing prodigal My L the Duke is here of great sway entertained with honorable accompt Thus much haue I thought good to aduertise you in discharge of my debt and your desire attending by the returne of this messenger the newes of your good health To whome and all other our friendes in sound and good affection I eftso ones doe recommend me At Norumberge this of c. ¶ An other example wherein the state of a Country is solie described I Dout not N. but that thy hart longeth and minde is yet vnquieted because of my sodayn departure from thee and ignoraunce of my estate and present beeing whereof that thy desires may nowe at full be resolued knowe my good N. that not hauing beene scarce sixe monethes from thee I did long since perceiue my selfe to bee out of Englande and that it maye appeare vnto thee that I haue iuste cause so to saye thou shalt somewhat vnderstand by me the state of this Countrey We liue heere in a soyle delicate I must confesse for the ayre and pleasaunt for the scituation with good leysure I must tell thee may we heere attend our deuotions as hauing no cares wherewith to encomber vs but the needles searche of that whereof we neuer finde likelihoode to annoy vs. As vncompelled by seuere decrees and interdictions wee limit vnto our selues an abstinence thou mightest thinke we do it of zeale but in truth it is of want wherein we haue more fasting daies by● a great many then abilitye to beare them Our conuersation is with elementes with waters with fieldes with trees with valleis with hilles in the generall vse whereof we finde nothinge els but their proper shapes And if by chaunce anye other sortes of creatures doe appeare they are naked shapes formed as men and weomen fierce sauage wilde not capable of anye our reasons nor we of their speaches Our foode is rootes dryed fishes berries and I know not what other harshe kinde of fruictes and sometimes fowles besides a kinde of grayne growinge in great coddes whereby wee sometimes obtaine though not the naturall yet some vse of breade vnlike to that you eate in taste goodnesse or propertye Our lodginges and places of repose are caues entrenched in the grounde the earth our beddes and cloathes our coueringes And these also hard as they are enioye we not in quiet but beeing awaited of the naked multitude whose pollicies insinuate by nature are farre greater then their strength we are faine by much industry to preuent them into whose handes if anie of vs doe chaunce to fall our deade carcases in hastie morsels are conueyed into their entrailes Hereby iudginge of our estate thou maiest accordinglye deeme of our pleasures The next message that thou shalt attende from me shal be my speedy retourne the Seas and windes being not lesse fauourable then they were at my going foorth Meane while recommending my self to thy wel wishing and our safeties to God I ende as thou knowest this of c. An example wherein the death of a Noble man is onely described THE decease good Madame of my L. your brother hath occasioned vnto your Lad. the sight of these Letters wherein I haue rather acquited my self of that whervnto by your honourable commaunde I was enoyned then any waies satisfied the griefe that by my selfe among manye others for his losse is entierly conceaued The maner whereof maye please you now to be informed of which was thus On tuesday beeing the thirteenth of this instaunt hauing as it then seemed vnto his L. and others beene reasonablye recouered from the wonted force of his long consuming disease beeing importuned by the dispatch of some present affaires as otherwise to haue some conference with her Maiestye he went from his house of B. to the Court where all that day he remained and retourned againe at night not for all this finding him-selfe at all disquieted or the least motion of anye the panges wherewith before time he had so often beene vexed The most part of that night he was very well reposed towards morning the next day he began somwhat to be agrieued but nothing as acustomed in which state the most part of that day he also cōtinued At night againe hauing eaten some small pitance to supper towardes nine of the clocke he began most vehemently to be passioned till which time we all had verye good expectation of his health and recouerie which his L. perceauing after he had beene a while set vp in his bedde he sayde I know my good friendes and faithfull loue

hee grew into such a frensie and consequently into so rank a madnesse that he sate swearing blaspheming crying cursing and banning and that moste execrablie hys lookes were grimme furious and chaunged hys face terrible his sight fiery and pearsing those that saw him feared it and they that heard of it durst not come nigh him In conclusion some that pitied him more then his deseruing grieued to see that they coulde not redresse in him caused a company to watch him others to prouide warme brothes and in conclusion vsed all meanes possible to comfort him But what can man do to preuent the secret determination of tha'lmightie For loe whylest all men lefte hym and eche one stoode in doubt of hym a companie of rattes vpon a soddayne possest his house hys tables his chimneyes hys chambers yea hys verye bedd and hys lodging vpon which about which they wer so bold as in the sight of the beholders they durst appeare and come before them and beeing stroken abode and wer killed and others come in their places what shal I say the sight became so vncouth as al men shūned ech one feared and none durst abide it whereupon the miser being left alone thus pitifully died The stench of his corps admitted neither dailight nor cōpany wherin to be buried Two only that were the cōueiers of him sickned vehemently and one of them died the other is yet scarcely recouered The matter hereof seemed vnto me so strange therwithal so importunate to warne vs of our actions considering how seuerely God punisheth when he is once bent to correction as I could not but deeply consider of weighing with my self that such as was hs life such was his death the one being hated of many the other not to be tollerated of ●anye The circumstance whereof referring herewith to your deepe consideration I do bid you hearily farewell WE haue not in the former Epictle so much endeuored to praise extol the incōparable worthines of a hie mighty Prince as the argument of this letter hath occasioned vs to discommend the person of a moste vile wicked liuer either of which haue bin the more amply set forth to th'end to manifest therby how much and wherin y e excellency or dignity of one thing may be either iustly aduanced or worthely condemned Now touching the deeds and actions of men In what sort they are to be preferred or disabled is also to be collected out of the places before remembred And herein it shalbe necessarie to call in question whereout the partes therof are to be drawne as from the body wherein is included either plentie or want of strength or actiuitie From the minde as whence ensueth Prudēce Iustice Fortitude or Temperance or y e coutrarieties thereof From fortune as where-fro is deriued Honour Worshippe or Wealth Out of all or some part of these doe proceede the weight and matter of any action as if the state thereof consisteth in bodely force I doe vse thereunto valor and strength if it rest in sway or gouernment I conferre therein Wisedome Iustice and Modestie if it be in causes of common weale bountie estate or liberalitie I herein applie Honour Worshippe Habilitie or Riches The action standing in regard of Pietie reputation Honour or fame for the conseruation whereof any one hath delte worthilie or wonderfully hereunto must we induce Fortitude whose propertie is stoutly to beare in whiche is contayned Magnanimitie to couet and aspire vnto thinges excellent and to contemne thinges base and lesse permanent Longanimitie constantlye and resolutelye to indure Patience meekely and willingly to tollerate Then Temperaunce the partes whereof are Modestye Chastitie Continencie Sobrietie and Meekenesse The Confirmation and Confutation occupyed in all which are gathered of Honestum or Inhonestum as I sayde before Vtilitie or Inutilitie Difficulcie or Impossibilitie Examples of these might be sorted diuersly as in the person of Dauid I coulde commend hys combate agaynst Goliath first ab honecto in that he beeing the seruaunt of God fought against a blasphewer also in his Princes quarrell and the defence of hys Countrey ab aequo because it is meete and conuenient that in causes so perilous the strength of eche one be applyed A necessitate insomuch as thereon depended the sauegard of the Prince and people Ab vtilitate for that he killing such an enemie brought to theyr own countrey peace quiet also braue the other part in subiection to his king and people A Difficili because the vndertaking thereof was so muche the more waightie by howe muche himselfe was as it were an infant agaynst a mightye Gyaunt vnarmed against him that was armed vnfurnished against him that had all maner of complementes of warre weake where the other was strong besides that the terrour of his challenge and hugenesse of stature had before daunted the armie and put them all out of conceite insomuche as the doubt was so generall as no man dared to vndertake the quarrell herein onely is praysed of bodily force his Actiuitie and nimblenesse of Vertues his wonderfull Magnanimitie y e by a couragious desire durst vndertake the same his affiance in Iustice and equitie of the cause His Pietie to God his Prince and country His Fidelitie whose lyfe was not spared when eche one drew back to be brought in hazard for all these Now in causes of sway and gouernement a man might be praysed for his great wisedome wherby in handling of some notable actiō in ambassage or consultation he hath onely by graue aduise industry discreet serch perswasiō or circumspection cōpassed waighty matters to the cōmon weale or thence anoyded huge imminent dangers Cicero in the coniuration of Cateline being a mightie ennemy against his owne city of Rome might herein be an excellent pattern who without stirring the people at al without any maner of bodily resistance or force of armes without passing by any priuate or indirect means did by the sole matter of his Wisedome weightines of speech forcible reasons enforcements rebukes and perswasions driue him cleane out of the Citie and being expulced to the common peace tranquilitie and suretie of the same did afterward by like demeanour industry and circumspection so preuent his purposes so circumuent his pollicies so turne him vpside downe as hee dared not he could not he shamed to perpetrate what so often he hadde sworne and so many wayes intended For some one rare singuler point of Iustice men also might be extolled as besides common expectation executing the same A president hereof might be the L. chiefe Iustice of England in the time of king Henry the fourth who was so strictly bent to the obseruation of Iustice as hauing one of the princes seruauntes arraigned before hym at the kyngs bench barre for a fellonie and being one that the young Prince greatly at that time of his youth fauoured The Prince came to the barre and at

thy byrth thy parentes education thy estate thy wealth thy possibilitie to become a traitor to thy prince and a rebell to thy country No no my G. vilde and too ill beseeming is the drift that hath so ouer-taken thee and ignoraunt was hee of that became thee that firste therevnto perswaded thee When thou liest armed in the feildes and mustering thy ranckes in the daye time beholdest and lookest round about thy country thinkest thou not then with thy selfe in this soyle was I borne within this land lyeth my patrimonie here had I first sucke and sithens haue the fruites therof nourished me and could I then become so farre ingratefull and vnkinde as for all these benefites to destroye thee Not so nor in such maner haue the virtuous in the field beene accompted so worthye not for this cause or in suche actions haue men beene sayde to beare them-selues honourablie Corolianus thou wast conuinced by the veiw of thy Citie and mothers entreatie and shall I vnhappy man for all this persist in this cruelty Iustly and by great occasion credite me mightest thou thus complaine of so great an iniurie and all this beeing so true as nothing more true can it be sayde that in prosecuting the same thou maist be freed from infamy What I pray thee hath made men famous and canonized their memory was it not their munificence and valiaunt demerites in and towardes their countrye For in what one thing are we more likened vnto God him-selfe then in the worthines of our mindes the conclusions whereof ought they at any time to be stained with such hatefull obloquie The Asse runneth thorough fire for the safegard of her issue and shal the valiant man become negligent to the aide of his country How farre more waightely then shall he be accused who not onelye giueth no ayde at all to his country but also is therevnto a confederate and most cruell enemy How carelesse are such men of their fame and how vnlike of all others to those memorable worthies the precious regarde whereof vnto them hath beene suche as then goods possessions riches kingdomes yea life it selfe hath beene helde moste dearest Peruse but the auntient historyes of Rome and looke there of Mutius Scauola the most inuincible Romaine with what confidence went he solie into the tent of Porsenna his and their countries capitall enemie with intent onely to destroy him The good Furius Camillus who after many high and honourable seruices by him don to the common-wealth of Rome was by his own Citizens vniustly banished how farre off was he think you from this your opinion For the Galles whome before he had expulsed hauinge in the time of this his banishment asseiged the Citye of Rome and beeinge then very likely to haue distressed the same insomuch as they had already forraged burnt and destroyed the whole country round about he more sorrowful at the likely ruine of his Citie then grieued at his own proper banishment moued therevnto of verye pietie and loue to his natiue soyle and country entred councell with the Ardeats and by his wisedome pollicie and great manhoode so perswaded those people that in feare of their owne mishap they were content to leuie a mighty armye vnder his conduct wherewith he not onely put backe the enemy but therewith so mightely pursued them as by such meanes he vtterly freed and set at libertye his dearest beloued Citye and countrye What need we search abroade for such forraine examples and why draw we not rather home into our owne soyle of England What Cronicle shall euer remayne or what english historye shall be euer extant that shall not euerlastinglye report the deserued fame of that right worthy and very noble act in deed of Sir William Walworth Knight once L. Maior of this our Citye of London the remembraunce wherof to his perpetuall praise and endlesse confusion of all others who not onely abstayning the putting in vre of suche his memorable virtue but which is worse shall endeuour by cruel force to tender violence vnto their sacred anointed prince and of all others moste fauoured countrye shall yet flourish for euer Ill do you conceaue or think on the worthines of that good-man who in the tyme of king Richard the second when with a most sodeine and straunge kind of rebellion the king was troubled the Realme pestred and the strongest of the Kinges subiectes greatlye feared euen at that time when the proud fawtor and captaine of this rebellious and rascally multitude durst hatefully and most vndutifullye to beard the king in his owne presence and each man shunned to impugne the contrary This valiaunt this good this right noble and most worthy Citizen standing by when the wretched and presumptuous varlet with so little reuerence approched the king and remembring the seruices of many worthye men that by an honorable aduenture and hazard of their liues had to their eternall memorye before time freed their country with liberty greuing that with so hie an abuse his soueraigne Lord being yet as it were a child should there in his hearing be so far forth amated he couragiouslye stept vnto the rebell and taking him by the gorge proud varlet quoth he that darest thus contēptuouslye demeane thy selfe vnto thy king and statelye soueraigne foule death betide thee and shame quickly consume thee why aunswered the vilaine in great disdaine is it thou that greeuest at that I haue said greiue replied the stout couragious Citizen yea euen I t'is I that greeue at thee and haply should think my self accurst if thou shouldest scape frō me vnreuenged wherwith drawing more close vnto him he puld him from his horse by maine force and stabbed him to the hart with his dagger The destruction of whome bred such confusion vnto all the residue of his headstrong army and sight wherof kindled so great a fury in the residue of the kings company who for that present vpon speciall considerations was there attended on but meanly that the whole rebellious rowt were by such means euer after discomfited vtterly wherwith before that instant the whole realme had like to haue beene turned topsie turuie He and such as he laboured not by ambitious pride to arrogate vnto thē selues a lawles extremitie but studied of meere loue and entier zeale how and which way they might performe best seruice to their prince and country O more then ordinary affection and feruencye of hie and statelye worthines in the regard whereof life was not sweet vnto these men whose liuing might not redound to become for their dearest soile to be honoured and famous What then maye I saie my G. of that by thee and thy copartners taken in hande whither will you be driuen what shall become of you how doe yee behaue your selues who may receaue you in whose inward conceiptes not the pietie regard of any of these no nor so much as one sparke of