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A88605	Loveday's letters domestick and forrein. To several persons, occasionally distributed in subjects philosophicall, historicall & morall, / by R. Loveday Gent. the late translator of the three first parts of Cleopatra.	Loveday, Robert, fl. 1655.; Loveday, Anthony.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3225; Thomason E1784_1; ESTC R202761	129,573	303

servant and would discourage a new beginner if I did not supply the defects of my experience with an active pliant resolution I attend him in his chamber and usher his Lady write his Letters and whatever else that unbeseems not his command or my obedience My wages are little enough to make present subsistance circumscribe my gains but I think I have already a greater allowance of his love then his money however I shall make the least serve to keep me afloat without the assistance of my own bladders And now since the careless hand of Fortune has ranged me with strangers that I have not yet begun to read over I can value it at no lower rate then my best recreation to give you the exact story of my actions and imployment by piece-meal as I tear it from my out-worn time which jewel I have used too long like Aesops Cock and am resolved to set an higher value on an hour then formerly of a day Thus having raised the price of my minutes I begin sharply to censure the slight of your proffered aid in the knowledge of Simples for I think I shall bend my studies that way I have hestowed some of my later houres on the French Tongue which I have already half gained and fear not to bring my attempts to a sudden perfection it being familiarly spoken by the best sort of this family That gained the Italian will be but a short stride for my intended industry and both will be serviceable if I meet an occasion for my intended travel Thus you see by this time t is even an inconvenience to be beloved by me since the ardor of that affection makes you liable to the tedious torment of my impertinent Pen and yet I think if my paper were longer I should not so soon shorren your trouble and I am far from mending my fault that you are like notwithstanding my remote removal to be still haunted with these frequent vexations You cannot oblige me more then to be punctual in rescription which will never fail to bring a welcome delight to Your really affectionate Brother to command R. L. LETTER XVII To his Brother Mr. W. Sir IT is none of my worst Reasons why I am glad of my return to London that Letters may walk between me and my friends with less hazard and it is one of my best that thereby I may contract amity with your deserving self which if you think fit to give me under your hand I shall be careful to bid it welcome and return such a cordial exchange as may teach us the way to know before we see one another and make acquaintance precede interview Be intreated that your reply may tell me how my Sister does how her great belly becomes her and when she is like to increase the number of young sinners I dare not promise but if it be possible I will come time enough to taste of the Gossips Cup if we do not make too sudden a retreat into the Countrey You will oblige me to speak my service to my Cousin W. of Laurenset my Cousin H. with the rest that know me Pray tell my Cousin R. aliàs my Sweet-heart that I am still her servant And believe it Sir I can never quit my desires to appear Your faithful Servant and Brother in Law R. L. LETTER XVIII To his Brother A. L. Loving Brother WHat you almost cal'd my neglect I have now repair'd and like some over-provident Caution●sts who finding their bodies prone to one disease do sometimes Antidote themselves into a contrary malady instead of appeasing if I have not cloy'd your appetite good enough If I were sure none none of mine perished by the way it were seasonable to returne you your own words and tell you this is the third sent since any received But letters are travellers and do often dye in a voyage I could almost consent to resigne my being for a month that I might be with you but a week to shew you what kind of Oare it is I tug at with some other apprehensions that I could be content to ease my mind of Man is oft beholding to his sufferings for the calling in of such virtues as otherwise perhaps would never be of his acquaintance and indeed we should not mu●●y against those paines that send us a seeking for such excellent remedies Affliction is like a deep mine that will afford pure gold if we digge for it and calamity well handled does polish with rugged usage and even pinch the soul into perfection By that time the Spring will have done strowing her flowers I shall be able to tell you whether my hopes of a cure do fade or flourish But however Providence deales with me I hope this triviall world hath not charm enough to give me repining by the hand of despaire to enjoy them longer all my fear is that my errant Condition will not suffer me to fit still long enough to let my Physick settle I intend to close this Springs course with opening an Issue in my Arme on the contrary side by way of revulsion Did but my health smile upon my designes you should soon view my imployment in a fairer Character Till then my soul must write with a bad pen upon blotted paper and you know how ill tooles will shame the Artificer When I reflect upon my weak hopes of recovery I am sometimes ready to deride my own endeavours and oft urg'd to manumit industry and entertaine supinity till victorious Reason sets the slaves their task again And indeed Desert is never so much her self as when she shuts her eyes upon the reward and thinks it recompence enough to be her self I think we may go safely so far as to call that a mercenary piety that is meerly and abstractedly so because Heaven is got by the bargaine T is true I know morality has not enough to pay that purchase but sure if well apply'd it goes a great way in the account But whither am I wander'd if my staggering discourse does not well keep the path conceive that the feet must sometimes tread irregular steps that are directed by an infirm head If I presum'd lesse upon you I would have sent you my thoughts rank'd in a better method These inclosed you can best direct where they are intended I pray do my due respects to those you think my friends and to your self and interesti believe it I am as zealously devoted as you can wish Your perfectly affectionate brother to command R. L. LETTER XIX To his Brother A. L. Dear Brother GIve me leave to begin my Letter with what I shall never make an end of so long as I can hold a pen in my hand or a heart in my breast I meane my thankes for those bewitching proofes of an entire Love which you lately made me receive with such a beauteous variety both of expression and performance All I am able to say to it is that I am passionately desirous you would apprehend me

till such time as by the perusal of persons of unquestioned judgment they were return'd to my hand highly approved And of these no inducement more impressive nor efficaciously perswasive then the incouragement of a person whose judicious pen has sufficiently discovered his abilities to the world by expressing him without any other additional delineature the master of a rich Fancy being generally known to be not onely an approved Professor but a constant Advancer of all humane and divine learning singularly vers'd in both and whose affectionate intimacy to this Author as it highly obliged him in his life so have his judicious lines conduced no less to the perpetuating of his memory after his death This may appear in the very first Letter which this person of honour was pleased to address to me wherein he has returned with a modest candor the opinion he retained touching this ingenious Author whose blameless repute and fair deportment in the whole progress of hislife mannagement of his affections and current of his actions superseded all censure The Author indeed had a resolution if God had lent him life and enlarged his houres in a parallel line to the apparent progression of his raising hopes to have seen these as they were by him occasionally composed so methodically disposed and completed and to bestow a meriting addition on his Pen in such manner polished and refined as they might have clearly discovered the precious quality of that Mine and purity of his Mind from whence they derived their extraction As for his Pen give me leave to return that opinion of it which all men who with recollected thoughts have seriously read him ingeniously retain'd of it his Stile was such as it knew how to present State without affectation render a modest censure without bitterness and close the period of his Discourse with incomparable sweetnesse Neither were his parts onely deserving his education and descent held an equipage to those Native imbellishments To the surviving reputation whereof I shall give you this account He was well descended his education was in the University of Cambridge where in his greenest years he did not shake off the yoak of discipline and devote himself to the soft blandishments of sensuality but was sedulous to his study and 't is like had atchiev'd some suitable preferment had not martial times occurr'd no friend to Science and disturbed his studies this made him run the same fortune with others who liv'd to study were driven to study to live for as that pure Italian Wit Petrarch sometimes said Mars his Armory and Minerva's Meniey run so much upon divisions as they seldom cloze in a graceful harmony And thus his determinations were forced to a hait but his active soul mov'd in the Sphere of Virtue and in those cloudy dayes was pregnant in something that still witnessed that Virtue was his Mistriss and many ingenious Pieces fell from his Pen which hereafter may see the World and deserve thy perusal if clear Fancies may suit with the constitution of cloudy times He had acquir'd to himself the Italian and French Languages out of the last his Version of Cleopatra which he call'd Hymen's Praeludia the first three Parts are extant and gain'd applause how his Letters will arride thy liking I know not do as thou shalt find them So I take my leave Farewel A. L. Vpon Mr. ROBERT LOVEDAY's Effigies LOVEDAY thy feature here by FATHORN drawn Though it display his Master-piece of Art It cannot represent the smallest grain Of those clear rays of thy diviner part The Royal fancies of thy loyal heart For those transcend the Pencil and must be No Objects of the Eye but Memory Upon the Embleme THe Widowed Turtle leaves the flowry Grove To solemnize the Obits of his Love Love day he may but in a secret cave He spends each minute on his Spouses Grave And when the Sun his glorious course has run He addes this Note O must Love lie alone Since Turtles tears such Obsequies do make We should be Niobees all for thy Love-sake For Fame averrs nere any di'd so young In love more richly stor'd in hopes more strong The Emble me explain'd LOok on the radiant splendor of that Sun Look on that Turtle in her Ebon-cave Whose amorous threed of life wov'n up and spun Look how her Spouse bedews his Widdow'd grave And in these Modells you his Embleme have The Turtle of his Bodi 's gone to Earth The Turtle of his Soul to her first Birth Nor must these two divided long remain Eternity shall cement them again Where these Two Turtles with Angelick wings Shall live and love and laud the King of Kings Upon the death of his ingenious and much bemoaned friend Mr. ROBERT LOVEDAY COuld pregnant Fancy Goodness or prompt pen Have here procur'd thee residence with men Thou hadst injoy'd it But Time held it fit With Immortality to perfect it The Law of Nature must give way to Grace And Grace to Glory shown thee face to face If this advantage over-strip not th' rest I shall appeal to those who lov'd thee best But Heav'n and Earth are of a different Clime So must we hold Eternity and Time He who has God has all he cannot want Though Pilgrim here there an Inhabitant Such is thy glorious state Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori Caelo beat Hor. being rankt with those Whom though we lose they gain by what we lose LOVEDAY thy Name did to the World display That all thy * Tota dies opus extat amans mirabitur aetas Si mento juvenis mens foret ista senis Afran Day was Love thy Love all day Both which so joyntly in their Centre meet As they have made Eternity their seat Never did downy chin more sage produce Nor in his youth nurse a maturer Muse None more entirely dear unto his own Nor higher fam'd where He was lesser known Whereof his Cleopatra witness gives In which though dead his rate Translation lives NOr shall you finde in these Perswasives less Then what his rich Romances did express In his perusal he approves them such Whose Brain can judge or he has read too much R. B. LOVEDAY's LETTERS LETTER I. To Sir I. P. Sir IF I sin in troubling you with fruitless lines call it rather the weakness of my judgment then the error of my love which is in too perfect health to lie speechless The thanks I ow you I confess are disparaged by my feeble expressions but could you read their more secret character you should find them drest in a more becoming attire To tell you my best wishes are Pages to your happy success I hope were to Tautologize to your knowledge at least belief and though it be no forlorn hope it shall march in the front of my Prayers For your disposal of me though I totally relinquish my self to your discreet commands yet my humble and earnest desires rather aim at the service of Sir T.B. then the

and unmixt desires from our souls as will not be dawb'd with the clay they are confin'd to I have such to ask and claim your Friendship and thus in spite of all our Leaden frailty we may take a taste of Heaven and relish the joyes we cry up with such impotent expressions in that one word perfect amity I do now begin to be so unweildy to my self and I doubt so troublesom to others though they express not so much that I borrow reasons from my Capitall infirmities to excuse those you may account the Disease of my mind c. But if this trouble be design'd to fetch me from this World I think I shall go without reluctancy I am still here in relation to my dependency like an unskilful Passenger at Sea that knowes not how long to promise himself a calm nor when to expect a storm If I may vant to have pleas'd in any thing 't is my fidelity which amounts to no more than You have done as becomes you I am glad I was not born to stand at the Sterne of an ample fortune to favour my self the best I can I should have abus'd the Divine bounty and perhaps imploy'd it chiefly in paying dearer for my sins than I have done I have receiv'd enough to make me admire the goodness of him that gave it me and indeed did not his grace help me to contrary thoughts 't were enough to make me an unequal Arbiter of mine own imperfections to act such conceptions as these is a business to which we should sacrifice no cold endeavours we live to no purpose unless in this life we learn to bid it adieu handsomly Doing well is the only requisite mark of mans Industry and he that aimes at any other mistakes that for a white which is but a spot there are so many examples of such as angle here for happiness and sometimes with ruine to boot as methinks to observe should be enough to take heed how many mount Fortunes ladder and break the staves as they go up so as they have no way to come down but by a Precipice many shoot wide and perhaps hit most happiness by missing what they fancied for it I could mention more mistakers but to close it there is no man studies the other life better than he that studies this enough to despise it It is not my desire to be understood skilful in this Science for I am bound to confesse my self subject to most wicked reluctations and there passe few houres that are not witnesses not only to stumblings but grosse falls from my best resolutions but I want your pardon I thank you for the account of my Friends which I desire you would renew as you are hinted by any extraordinary accidents I have this day wrote the sad newes to Mr. W. but I confess left out some of the Circumstances lest he should chew the bitter Pill too much that he ought to swallow I have presented you to him as you ordered and mentioned your endeavours for his satisfaction I have been so often call'd away while I was writing this as 't is no wonder if my words sit not handsomly upon my meaning when I am forc'd to make so many seames I pray present me to those friends that oblige me with remembrance in a grateful garb and believe it for 't is truth it self you are first in the soul of Your affectionate and most desirous Brother to serve you R. L. LETTER CL. To Mr. W. Dear Friend YOur last I received which by the date I perceive has halted by the way like some of his Predecessors but it had not half done its message to my eyes before I confest an ample amends for the loitering and if there be a word that may speak more then welcome conceive it uttered for indeed it is meant I see you have made use of that which has made you alwayes happy to sustain the shock of what might have stagger'd a resolution less fortified with prudence and I wish my power were as great as my desire to copy that and the rest so long as you compound and apply these soveraign medicines of piety and discretion 't is impossible your better part should grow sickly c. I inclos'd the Note to your Sister in a Letter to my Brother and oblig'd him to be very careful in sending it and to shew her the way to return you an answer of it to my hands If no weighty impediment intervenes I intend to visit my Eastern friends about the beginning of April therefore I pray prepare your commands And now my dear friend I find my health tender'd by your with such an over-flowing of affection as it hath taught me to wish it with the more ardour because I may possible incounter with occasions that may render me able to shew how highly I relish such an indearing kindness But pardon me t is more then I can do when I write to you not to be guilty of too many words so loth I am to come to an end but my comfort is you know me for what I am Yours to perpetuity R. L. FINIS Courteous Reader These Books following with others are printed for Nath. Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Excellent Tracts in Divinity Controversies Sermons Devotions THe Catholick History collected and gathered out of Scripture Councils and Ancient Fathers in Answer to Dr. Van 's Lost Sheep returned home by Edward Chesensale Esquire Octavo 2. Bishop Morton on the Sacrament in Folio 3. The Grand Sacriledge of the Church of Rome in taking away the sacred Cup from the Laity at the Lords Table by D Featly D. D. Quarto 4. The Quakers Cause at second hearing being a full answer to their Tenets 5. Re-assertion of Grace Vindiciae Evangelii or the Vindication of the Gospel a reply to Mr. An●hony Burghess Vindiciae L●gis and to Mr. Ruthford by Robert Town 6. Anabaptists anatomized and silenced or a Dispute with Mr. Tombs by Mr. J. Grag where all may receive clear satisfaction in that Controversie The best extant Octavo 7. The Zealous Magistrate a Sermon by T. Threscot Quarto 8. Britannia Rediviva A Sermon before the Judges Aug. 1648. by J. Shaw Minister of Hull 9. The Princess Royal in a Sermon before the Judges March 24. by J. Shaw 10. Judgment set and Books opened Religion tried whether it be of God or Man in several Sermons by J. Webster Quarto 11. Israels Redemption or the Prophetical History of our Saviours Kingdom on Earth by R. Matton 12. The Cause and Cure of Ignorance Error and Profaneness or a more hopeful way to Grace and Salvation by R. Young Octavo 13. A Bridle for the Times tending to still the murmuring to settle the wavering to stay the wandering and to strengthen the fainting by J. Brinsl●y of Yarmouth 14. The sum of Practical Divinity or the grounds of Religion in a Catechistical way by Mr. Christopher Love late Minister of the