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A28452	The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

then by continued devotion to your self and service to purchase at length the esteem of Madam Your most faithfull servant T.B. XXXV To his Lady M ri● complaining of her cruelty Madam TYranny as ill becomes a subject as a Prince and cruelty is the natural issue of that Monster To say your Ladyship is guilty of both in some kind is a truth undeniable For ever since fortune made me happy in your knowledge my affection hath had no Centre but your breast my faith no fellow and my constancy such as can never admit a change yet my sighes are unpittied my love unregarded my faith and constancy answered with nothing but your disproportionate denialls Nor can I without wonder consider that your Ladyship should be 〈◊〉 all the world so perfectly charitable to mee so cruell unles 't were ordained by fate That the first fruits of my love which should be the first step to happines must be made abortive by your incompassion Madam the more you deny the more fuel you add to those flames which if not suddenly allai'd by your pittie will consume my very being into ashes of mortalitie These are Madam the reall dictates of a heart that 's wholly ben● To serve you T. B. XXXVI A consolatory letter to a Mother upon the death of her first born Honoured Madam THe sad need a Comforter and a Soul in desolation requires to bee assisted with reasons to bear the cause of its griefs That you are both sad and grieved I can no more doubt then I can be without a share in your passions That you have many comforters because friends many solid considerations from your own pietie and pious wisdome to salve your sorrowes I am as confident Yet as none more tenders your happinesse then my self so could not I alone be silent in this motive of your teares what I would say is Dearest Madam be comforted and this were 't in my power I would effect The reason of your sable thoughts the spring that streames your cheekes rise I know from the sad accident of your childs death It was I confess the first image of your likenes the first bless●●g that heaven honored your body with the first pledge of nature the first title you had to be a Mother And to bee deprived of this almost as soon as 't was given could not but find and afford matter both for teares and grief in a disposition so natural and good But Madam there 's a time for all and a meane also What could not be denied to your sweetness must be moderated by your discretion 'T is true that sweet infant was yours 't was your first 't was dear and you suffered many dolours to give it life But withall you consider as 't was yours so given you by God as the first so more due to him as dear yet could it not be too dear for him that hath it Although of painfull birth yet that your throwes brought forth a Saint that your dolours were endured so soon to enthrone a part of your self among the Angels these dolours these throwes happily suffered Those whom God makes Parents he makes but Nurses of his own children he lends them to be brought up for heaven and if hee hath so soon discharged you of this obligation t is not so much a cross as a blessing Had it lived to mature age perhaps he saw danger both to It and you it might have been more cause of grief to you more loss to it self it might have been unfortunate in life in death unhappy 'T is not the being children of either good or great extract that makes them alwayes either good or happy And this perhaps God that provident Parent of all foresaw Be it so or not certaine it is the bodies but the souls prison wherein 't is no soner breathed from Heaven but 't is maculated by this corrupt Earth and in this as it longer sojournes so is it not only debarred of its true happiness welfare but also offends its great Creator and consequently is miserable Therefore would God make the cradle of yours its death bed that he might hasten its blisse As he breathed a pure soul into it so would he again take it before defiled by the actuall blemishes of sin Had it liv'd it could have afforded no comfort to your piety but being in health prosperity and pious and can it be more pious then in heaven more prosperous then in heavens joyes more healthfull then in the enjoyance of immortality O consider t is now past all danger 't is freed from all misery 't is blessed in blessedness it prayes for you And can there be any sorrow so great that these considerations cannot consolate O what more happy then to be so happy a Mother no sooner a Mother then a Mother to heaven Nor doubt dear Madam but hee that gave you this dear pledge of his love will give you more and as he took this to his own joyes so will he leave in its stead more to your comfort This he took to give it as soon happiness as being and therein to try your virtue and resignation to his will this as I doubt not but he will find so may you be confident he will bee bountifull a sure rewarder of your patience a prosperer of your soul body and its fruitfulness But pardon most honoured Madam my loves redousness and if in this unpolishd Consolatory I have errd let it be as it is loves fault a fault that your nobleness I am certain will remit Thus with humblest respects he takes his leave that will no longer bee then be yours the daily Petitioner to heaven for your most wished comforts of both Worlds Madam Your humble and most affectionate servant D.W. XXXVII To excuse the not answering a letter SIR THat I have committed so great a Solaecisme in good manners as to receive two letters from you without giving you humble thanks for either I beseech you ascribe not to any want of zeal to your service for in earnest you cannot make me more happy then in vouch safing mee the honour of your commands which shall alwayes find as ready an obedience in mee as any thing that most concernes my own interest In the assurance ●●ereof I give you the humble respects of Sir Yours ad nutum T. B. XXXVIII Vpon a Motion of marriage Dear Sir I Give you many humble thanks for your tendring mee a wife and your good advise in that affair I well remember the Counsell of a prudent friend was not to marry till I were 30 years of age and then to have a wife ten years younger then my self because women especially teeming ones sooner decay then men I have also read that there are 3 principall motives to a wedded life Procreatio Prolis Conservatio Domus and Consolatio vitae Now the gentlewoman you write of in stead of being ten years younger I believe is ten years elder then my self and so may be in danger to

impressions on him then an Arrow on a rock of Adamant More impure then the stable of Augaeus H. C As pensive as the night You as cruell as the Duke of Muscovia named Basilides who commanded from his subjects a tribute of Sweat and of Nightingals in the midst of Winter H Court If thou be as hot as the mount Aetna feign thy self as cold as the hill Caucasus carry two faces in one hood As ingenious Cicero could pick gold out of Ennius's dung so may His Fetters like King Agrippa's golden chain more became him then his Imperiall D●adem Ka meka thee As liberall as the Sun which shines on all like Aesops Crow prankt up in borrowed feathers Descriptions HE was even ravished with contentment in beholding th●se goodly P●●aces where was seen an admirable Consort of Art and Nature so many H●lls so well furnished within such rich hangings such most exquisite pict●●es such marbles such guildings and without mountains which make a naturall Theater tapistred without Art to surpasse all workmanship forrests which seem born with the world hedges and knots curiously cut Alleys and Mazes where both eys and feet are lost Rivers which creep along with silver purlings about gardens enameld with most fragrant flowers caverns replenished with a sacred horror grotts and fountains which gently gliding contend with the warble of birds and so many other spectacles which at first sight astonisht spirits and never satiate H.C. There were Hills which garnished their proud heights with tree●s humble valleys whose low estate seemed comforted with refreshing of silver rivers meadows e●ameld with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds each pasture stored w●th sheep feeding with sober security while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams comfort Here a Shepheards Boy piping as though he should never be old there a young She●●●●rdesse knitting and withall singing and her hands kept time to her voyces musick a shew as it were of an accompaniable solitariness and of a civill wildeness Neither are the gardens to be omitted which for their largeness have the face of a forrest for their variety of a Paradise Here Cypres Groves there walks with Statues Here a Sea of fountains there Swans Ostri●hes and other recreative creatures Mer. Ital. It is a place which now humbling it self in fallowed plains ●ow prou● in wel-husbanded hils marries barren woods to cultivated valleys and joyns neat gardens to delicious fountains c. Death DEath is that inconsiderable atome of time that divides the body from the soul c. Scaliger defines Death to be the Cessation of the souls functions When Hadrian asked Secundus what Death was he answered in these severall truths It is a sleep eternall the bodies dissolution the rich mans fear the poor mans wish an event inevitable an uncertain journey a thief that steals away man sleeps father lifes flight the departure of the living and the resolution of all Feltham Death had no sooner absented him from her eyes but forgetfulness drew him out of her heart When we once come in sight of the port of Death to which all winds drive us and when by letting fall that fatall Anchor which can never be weighed again the Navigation of this life takes end Then it is I say that our own cogitations those sad and severe cogitations formerly beaten from us by our health and felicity return again and pay us to the uttermost for all the pleasing passages of our lives past Sir Wa. Rawl Death deprived me of my paradized bliss and not onely made my broken heart the sad habitation of woe but also turned my mind which before was a kingdom to me into a hell of tormenting thoughts Torches made of Aromatique wood cast out their odoriferous exhalations when they are almost wasted So the vertuous A. made all the good odors of her life evaporate in the last instant of her death Tha● he is dead As if she now scorn'd life Death lends her cheeks his paleness and her eyes tell down their drops of silver to the earth wishing her tears might rain upon his grave to make the gentle earth produce some flower should bear his name and memory She prostrated on the body of her Lover sought in his eclipsed eyes and dead lips the remnant of her life I shall not be unwilling to suffer a goal-delivery of my soul from the prison of my body when I am called to it Delivered up to the immortality of another world This deadly sha●t passing through him so wounded me that I my self was arrived within few paces of the land of darkness In his silent marble the best part of that small portion of joy I had in the world but all my hopes are entombed Wats in Baa Preface Drawing neere to the confines of Deaths kingdom Death●rees ●rees a man from misery and wafts him to the haven of his happiness Her As soon as Death hath played the Midwife to our second birth our soul shall then see all truths more freely then our corporall eys at our first birth see all bodies and colours Sir K.D. Desire IF you desire that I make you a picture of the nature and perquisites of Desire I wil tell you It is a strange Countrey whereunto the prodigall Child sailed when he forsook his Fathers house to undertake a banishment a Countrey where Corn is still in Grass Vines in the Bud Trees perpetually in Blossome and Birds always in the Shell You neither see Corn Fruit nor any thing fully shaped all is there onely in expectation It is a Countrey full of Figures Phantosmes Illusions and hopes which are dreams without sleep A Countrey where the Inhabitants are never without Fevers one is no sooner gone but another comes into its place There dwells Covetousness a great woman meager lean starven having round about her a huge swarm of winged boys of which some are altogether languishing others cast her a thousand smiles as she passeth along upon herself she hath an infinite number of Horse-leeches which suck upon her to the marrow Time looks on her a far off and never comes neer her shewing her an inchanted Looking-glass wherein she sees a thousand and a thousand false colours which amuse her and when she hath sported enough she hath nothing to dinner but smoke Holy Court Albeit you can no ways quench the coals of Desire with forgetfulness yet rake them up in the ashes of modesty As Pharaoh longed to know his dream so desired he to Desire the nurse of perseverance gave him wings to make the more speed Thus wishing my deserts still suitable to my desires and my desires ever pleasing to your deserts More ready in desire then able in power to serve you Then which nothing could shoot righter at the mark of my desires And wish you as full of good Fortune as I am of desire She ●●a●d not 〈…〉 desires Desire is