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A01403	The secretaries studie containing new familiar epistles: or directions, for the formall, orderly, and iudicious inditing of letters. ... By Thomas Gainsford, Esq.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?	1616 (1616)	STC 11523; ESTC S102834	84,541	142

your selfe and those vowes you haue conttacted remember mee and that affection you haue inflamed remember vertue and that goodnesse which you haue commended and remember loue with that honesty you haue professed and so I expect that as you are my chiefest content your next Letter shal confirme me your choisest delight None but yours To the Honourable Lady T.G. HONORABLE and worthily honoured Lady Although fame hath set open the enclosure of your praises whereby Honour and Vertue remaine exposed to the world as you see a rich Diamond augmented in his lustre by the cunning of the workeman yet is misfortune so tyrannous vnto me that I am necessited to an vntimely banishment euen when there appeared life in your patronage and delight in your louelinesse so that now to sequester my selfe is an absolute walking in darknesse and a miserable staggering without supportation Yet againe when I consider with whom I haue encountred and that I am falne into the hands of a generous spirit and heroicke worthinesse I conceiue great pleasure in my confidence and I begin to grow prowd that I may publish your vertue I dare say loyall Constancie Be therefore then your selfe great Lady and let the opinion I conceiue of my fortunes encourage my endeuor that al the actions my industry shal vndertake may receiue life frō the beams of your name Then though I might raise my glory equal with the Sun I would not faile to lay it prostrate to your high acceptatiō so I request you giue me leaue to diuulge to the world that the sphere in which I moue is gouerned by your influence that I cannot liue without your fauour that I will not loue except you vouchsafe it that I haue no other Lady but your selfe no other world then the place of your residence And thus I bid you fare as vvell as vvishes can enlarge leauing my soule in your tuition vvhich if you preserue for her ovvne yours or my sake Oh hovv happy shall I bee and vvith glad tidings vvill it returne vnto me and I hope command me to returne vnto you and so I rest in the best expectation and bascia la honorata manu Your Honors deuoted To the Honorable and his highly respected Lady B. S. RIght honorable Lady I cannot deny but a Diamond is a pretious stone though imbased in lead but excellently polished and set out to the best becomming it must needs constraine a farther praise and admiration so fareth it vvith Vertue vvhich no question is allovvable in the meanest persons but vvhen there is a vniting of many graces as beauty generous minde noble birth setled vvisedome affable demeanour and such like it not onely approcheth absolute perfection but bindeth vs to high and strict obseruation of all vvhich I must dare publish you a instāce so that it is the pride of my life to iustifie my soules desire to serue you and the glory of my bondage that I am made seruile to such vvorthinesse command therefore great Lady but vvith all command me to loue for I cannot liue except I loue nor care to die so I may loue you onely vvho are vvorthy of all loue Yet my dearest happinesse I beseech you mistake me not for hovvsoeuer I haue subiected my selfe I like a Soueraigne can indure no cōpetitor although it cannot be chosen but the very starres ouervvatch you and therefore many eyes on earth looke tovvard you many hearts vvish you vvel yet shall I neuer endure anothers claime much lesse a daring hand to take you in possession be therefore thus circumspect for humanities sake not betray your vertue to corruption nor my poore valor to ineuitable danger For if you frustrate my hopes either by vvillingnesse or vvantonnesse I renounce the vvorld all vvomen and my selfe But if the high strongest arme stretch it selfe tovvard you vvith inhumanity or compulsion my rest is vp to make it shrinke backe again or cut it off in the extension Yours in death it selfe To the Noble and truely vertuous Lady F.M. MOst worthy Lady had not my loue receiued life from the breathing heate issuing from your gracious acceptation it might vvell haue recoyled vvith the first violent reiection and taken out a nevv lesson of restraint vvith a ciuill acknovvledging your greatnesse and confessing that the starres are onely to be looked vpon vvith an abasing reuerence but you knovv and none but you shall knovv that vvhen I made my selfe a stop as afraide to go further then either my strength or policie could direct me a louely hand tooke me by the arm and drevv me along to the height of my happinesse vvherein I vvil sit as glorious as the Sunne in his strength in despite of maligne circūstances or maleuolent aspects embrace my fortune vvith gladnesse Therefore I pray you desist frō questioning my presumptuous attēpt or affrighting me vvith your greatnes or tormenting me vvith discouery or murthering me vvith suspition or sending me to hell vvith terror of your losse For I dare vvill thus answer euery particular Concerning my presumption It is easier to reach at a high bough then to stoop to a low straw it is glorious to be busied in honourable designes and he is made famous in the attempt though he faile in the conquest It is a worthy resolution to aime at a wel deseruing obiect and how euer the hazzard be there is a show of a generous spirit sith fortune and loue are painted blind in their portraitures Concerning your greatnesse we haue many instances of Queenes and Princes pulling vp inferior persons to honour nor is loue tyed to such lawes of priuacy but being naked himselfe shewes plainely that flesh and blood lies as naked to the incursions of his passions in high and lowe the lowe not ouer-awed with titular dignities or outward shows nor the preheminence of the hie priuiledged frō amorous affecting the lowe For my selfe I am in blood generous and in affection fully contracted to loyalty concerning discouery who shall betray vs but our selues nay who dare whisper against vs but iealousie and in that lies the secret of our prosperitie For what is difficult to get is carefully preserued and where there is danger in the aduenture there is sweetnesse and ioy exceeding other ioyes when the perill is ouerpassed therefore be you reposed and let me bustle with mischance for I am resolued to loue you against all ouerwatchings Concerning suspition Oh giue not wings to my feares that some other will intrude and participate my immunities or doe you it onely to make a triall of my spirit Beleeue it before I will consent to such basenesse I will pray for Sampsons strength to pull downe the house on all our heads together And concerning your losse Oh there is death in the verie sound and it cannot bee raised out of any other circle then enuy at my prosperitie or your owne desire of a more worthy seruant whereat I am now strucke silent and

passions nor can any man come vnto them at any time but diuers shall bee found afore him who challenge a dispatch of their businesse according to the priority of their suites therfore your honor must lay no such burthen of the state to thinke if there were such an interposition that any mans priuate malice could preuayle with the authoritie grauitie and wisedome of the rest Besides it may be there is a further policie to draw out the thred of this cloth of businesse at the greatest length to keep you from a further suite or troubling the king with other matters of importance till this be dispatched and hung on the file of assurance in your behalfe This I presumed to write vnto you because you commanded but in regard there bee some things you will not command nor I can iustisie in the answer I meane to reserue them till I haue opportunitie to present my dutie vnto you as you haue shewed a generous minde to manifest your good opinion toward me Your Honours deuoted To his well experienced friend and noble minded Gentleman G. P. NOble Sir Whereas at your last conference you told me comming from Germany to Antwerpe you saw no watch set and a kinde of fearefull stilnesse amongst the souldiers wherein I could not resolue you so suddenly because you spread no larger cloth of nouelties and peraduenture durst not in that place raise any suspition by demanding many questions I haue now thought good to adde to your experience some intelligences of my owne whereby as you well sayd then I doe gather the occasion of that defection and desisting from their martiall ceremonies You must then vnderstand that the Garrisons haue newly mutined and from insolent attempts drawne a fearefull execution on some principall offendors the Gouernour of the towne and citadell did put in practise an ancient vsance and policie of martiall discipline to command a cessation from orderly watch and souldier-like seruices And this was an absolute custome euen amongst the Romans that when insolent and tumultuous souldiers had looked with grimme and traiterous visages on the face of good order and made a repugnant disobedience against all law and restraint the Captaines presently prohibited any calling to the watch any preparation to the Parado beating the drums attending the colours or to vse any ceremonious brauerie whereby the mutiners that were so lusty before seeing what a confusion they had wrought and how they presented a sort of Padlarie reapers in a scattered field beganne to bewaile the want of their honourable customes and to confesse their former rudenesse and ouersight And this was the cause of the stilnesse in Antwerpe at your lodging in the towne And amongst other policies of warre according to the seuerall businesse in hand of which you shall heare more hereafter when we haue further leisure to dispute of other occurrents Yours in terror of death To his well disposed Friend Mr. M.D. GOod Sir Conceiue of me what you please there is not a man in this kingdome shall haue more interest in me then your selfe and that you shall well perceiue by my plain and true satisfaction of your demands although it be somwhat too intricate to deale in such confused questions and dangerous relation of businesse Whereas then you demand the reason why so many great and noble persons haue as it were met with death and destruction in the violent race of their turbulent innouation and insolent wilfulnesse not taking warning by precedent examples nor terrified with the euer-impending reward of treason which is the ouerthrow both of themselues and families I answer that truely I can yeeld you no reason because all they pretend is not onely against reason but many times against policie and at all times against honesty and religion yet can I giue you some false fires and as it were contriue adulterate excuses out of fauour and partialitie You haue read then that the diuell in compassing the earth did consider mens frailties in his progresse and as the principall marke of the world hee most gloriously attempts principallities and powers so that sometimes hee pleadeth the axiomes of Philosohers and reciteth a pestilent position out of Euripides that if faith and loyaltie be to be rent asunder it is excusable in compassing a Diademe and reaching at a Crowne Thus Stephen Earle of Blois vsurped the kingdome of England and made warres on the faction of the Empresse And thus Henrie the fourth in fringed his first vowe to steppe no further then the Dutchie of Lancaster but when hee found no hinderances hee quickely ranged ouer all other territories and iurisdictions Sometimes hee dilates Matchiuilian policies and telleth men that are cruell and ambitious that they which meane to haue a smooth walke to contentment yea to passe the time in any Orchard or Garden of pleasure must not onely remooue the greater blockes stickes and stones but as occasion serues picke out the sharpe pibbles and rowle the same smoother Thus Athaliah destroyed the kings stocke to gaine the Diademe And thus Richard the third first remooued the Queenes kindred after vsurped the persons of the two Princes Sometimes hee whispereth in the eares of moderate kings that they may bee iealous in pointes of soueraigntie and who shall controwle them if they settle their feares and peace though they see the bleeding neckes of such as they feare Thus Adoniah fell vnder his yonger brother Thus Nero put Corbulo and Germanicus to death because they were reputed worthie of the kingdome Thus was Mortimer in Henrie the fourths time as it were banished from the Court Thus was long before that Robert Duke of Normandie depriued of his eyes Thus was Edward Plantagenet Earle of Warwicke imprisoned and destroyed with many such like Sometimes hee maketh the iustifying of a faction and the louing of one another and honest cause of rebellion As you saw in the Barons 〈◊〉 in the beginning of Henrie the fourth when the king should haue bene destroyed at Oxenford and afterward when the Percies maintayned the coadiutements of Worcester and Mortimer Sometimes hee rayseth innouation and treason out of the circle of ambition and vaine-glory vpon any pretence of a title as you saw in the first claime of Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke and in the last tumults of the Earl of Warrewicke in Edward the fourths time Sometimes hee deceiueth honour with couetousnesse and bogges the mindes of generous spirits with hope of increase of liuing and augmentations of titles Thus was the Duke of Buckingham caught in a snare of the Earledome of Hertford and not onely streched his arme out to helpe Richard the third to mount on the throne of Maiestie against all religion and pietie but to spreade the colours of his owne reuenge against the tyrant himselfe whereby hee lost his head Sometimes hee impostures men with the fanaticall hopes of diuellish promises from forcerie and witchcraft As you may reade of Elinor Cobham who well expected the preferment of the