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A16734	Conceyted letters, nevvly layde open: or A most excellent bundle of new wit wherin is knit vp together all the perfections or arte of episteling, by which the most ignorant may with much modestie talke and argue with the best learned. A worke varying from the nature of former presidents.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.	1618 (1618)	STC 3637; ESTC S104713	23,257	48

so long as I know a F●lc●n from a Buza●d an Eagle from an Owle and a Nightingale from a Cuckow Let mee alone to iudge of the Natures of Birdes and how they are borne and when I looke into the nature of Honour whether by purchase fauour or desert I note the time with the persons and so goe on with my opinions to the iudgement I keepe to my 〈…〉 Your very louing Kinsman T. D. A Letter of vnkindnesse vpon a conceite of ill carriage in a Friend THere are two ill qualities in a Woman and two worse in a man In the first vnkindnesse and inconstancy in the second vnfaithfulnesse and vnthankefulnesse and will you beare both the imperfections that none may excéede you in euill wha● my deserts haue bin at your hands you know and what your requitall hath bin to me I would I knew not but what shall I thinke is euery man onely for himselfe and let the world go as it li●t hath vertue abandoned the earth and is wisedome so rapt vp in the mistie clouds of concupiscence that she can scarce shew any glimmering of the light of liue grace God forbid for vertue hath her working in all the children of her loue of which I would you were one that I might ioy as much in your conuersion as I feare your confusion Bée notangry though I seeme bitter for I am touched to the quicke yet write I more out of loue then hate for I will suspend my opinion vntill your answere giue me satisfaction that I shall shortly with your presence cleare my thought of your indignities till when and alwayes I rest Yours as you know and shall know T. M. His Answer WHat women are I Know but what mē should be I know and what I am you shall finde alwayes one and the same in i●remoueable affection to an assured friend Uertue I know hath her working in the hea●ts of the honest and I hope you wil not taxe me of a contrarie condition but if a misse report breedes a misse beliefe an vngratious conceit may worke a grieuous vnkindnesse if your deserts and my requitall were weighed together in an euen Ballens I hope there would not bee much in equality but let humours bleed their last and better thoughts wil follow I am content to make a bitter swéet of an angry loue shortly I will see you and then so satisfie you that the old Prouerbe shall come new in proofe The falling out of Louers is the renewing of loue in which I wil rest without all doubts Yours as I haue beene and euer will bee R. D. A fantasticke Loue Letter MIstris if you were not a witch your eyes could not haue so wrought in my heart as to make me thinke of nothing but your loue and if your words were not char●●es they could not so commaund me from my selfe as to seuer me wholy to your seruice but if it be so that you are borne a Creature onely to craci●●e my spirit I must onely pray for patience to mitigate my passion finding your nature as ●arre from pitie as my hope is from happinesse that if there be any spa●ke of grace in you let it kindle a cole in your kindnesse to warme the life of my loue that I may not die in the col● feare of disdaine but reuiuing in the vertue of your fauour I may honor you aboue the whole world so leauing my life to the answere of your owne loue I rest Yours what you will T. R. Her answere SEruant if you were not a foole you would not runne so from your wits as to write you care not how vpon an imagination you know not what mine eyes be mine owne and if your heart be not yours shall I winke because you are wilfull No such matter and my words haue made a metamorphosis of your wit I am sorie my breath should blow away your vnderstanding yet lest you should thinke I am past grace in the pitie of perplexities let me entreate you not to feare your own● shadow walke temperately in the Sunne and the heat will doe you no hurt So wishing you better then you wish your selfe not to trouble your head with idle humours I rest as I haue reason Your louing Mistresse M. T. A Letter of griefe to a faire creature that was separated from her second selfe for playing false with a third person SWeet soule that once was now the most wretchedest creature that is how haue you made a metamorphosts of your selfe when you were vertuous you were faire now you are vitious you are foule when you were w●e you were honored now you are foolish you are scorned when you were gratious you were beloued now you be wicked you are hated Oh strange alteration from vertue to vice from wisdome to folly from grace to ●inne as to make the creature so offensiue to the C●●ator what shall I say vnto you but onely that I am sorie for you but cannot helpe you and onely pray for you that your sin may be forgiuen that your shame may be forgotten and so beseeching the Highest whom you haue offended most in the mercie of iustice to shew the glory of Maiesty in the sorrow of humanitie and Christian charitie with a broken heart to thinke of your wounded soule wishing your true repentance to be a president for the conuersion of all such vnhappy creatures I rest Your friend and no further but in prayer for your soules health T. R. Her answere MY once kinde friend now worthily farre off from the title of such comfort with sigh●s let me write that which I seale with the teares of my heart I now finde the wound of conscience so déepe cut into my heart as comes too neer the danger of my soule and were not Faith the strong hold of Hope Patience would bee too ●ull of feare I confesse shame to be a gentle punishment of ●inne and repentance a true pleader for mercy for none ●ees the angry face of sinne but the repentant sinner For the world I hate it and my selfe most in it for my sinne I loath it and abhorre my selfe for it and for my life I am wearie of it that I care not how soone I were ridde of it but all things to Gods pleasure to whom I beséech you in Christian charity to pray for me that the Enemie of Christ may not preuaile against me that whatsoeuer befall me I may not fall for euer So with a bleeding heart in the bitternesse of griefe as full of sorrow as a sinfull soule can hold I rest Your worthy forsaken friend E. R. A Letter to a friend for his opinion in diuers points of considerations MY honest Ned I pray thée write me word by this ●earer how thou doest thy opinion of the world of life and death honestie and wit and what comes into thy head when thou hast leasure to be idl● I long to heare from thee to reade thy conceits which if they be of the old fashion are better then of the new forme ●ee what will be to me it shall be welcome and thy selfe better whensoeuer I may see thee for dull wits and 〈◊〉 heads so beate about the market in this Towne that I had rather goe a mile wide then kéepe way with such wilde geese and so loth to trouble thée with trifling newes to no good purpose in the affection of a faithfull heart I rest Thine what mine B. W. His answere KInd Henry to answere thy request in a few words let me tell thee for the world I finde it a walke that soone wearieth a good spirit this life is but a puffe and death but an abridge●ent of time Now for some notes I haue taken of the world and diuers things in it let me tell thee that if all the wealth in the world were in one chest it would not buy one howre of life if all the henesty of the world were in one heart it would not buy ●ne bit of bread and if all the wit in the world were in one wicked pate it would not buy one iot of grace and therefore it is meete with death at a meaner price and to carie money with honestie the better to goe to market and to ioyne grace with witte to finde the high way to heauen This is all for this time I haue had leasure to think vpon as more comes in my head I will make you acquainted with it in the meane time marke what I haue written and it will doe thée no hurt in reading Farewell Thine or not mine owne W. F. FINIS

CONCEYTED LETTERS NEWLY LAYDE OPEN OR A MOST EXCELLENT BVNDLE OF NEW WIT WHERIN IS KNIT VP TOGETHER ALL the perfections or arte of Episteling by which the most ignorant may with much modestie talke and argue with the best Learned A WORKE VARYING FROM THE nature of former Presidents LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Samuel Rand and are to be sold at his Shop neere Holborne bridge 1618. To the iuditious Reader THree things Iuditiall Reader make Books and the puplication of Bookes aboue good excellent to wit Necessitie Vtility Implicity where any one of these are figured no doubt but the Image is most comely then how much more where all are contained not Helens thirty perfections can challenge more admiration and though it may sauor of Ostentation to say this Pamphlet hath all yet it shall not be against truth to approue the subiect more then a Master yea euen the soueraigne of all for if writings be the verie soules and eternal substances of Time what writings are so excellent as those which passe from man to man Religion Aduice Familiaritie Courtship and all necessary commercements by which euen the whole state of the world is sustained being in them as it were bound vp to outli●e all time all computation then what more necessary for the profit how shall Kings know and communicate their great actions enlarge their bounds redresse their peoples iniuries how shal the noble know intelligēce to serue his Coūtrie the Merchant trade or to his owne bring the wealth of many Kingdomes or any or all sorts of people speake at a farre distance but by the helpe of Letters only then what to mankinde more rich and beneficiall which Tully better to expresse made it the crowne of all his labors Lastly in these written Heralds are those imployments and braue implications that whatsoeuer is excellent or good in man is to be seene in them as in a myrror and so to be implyed eyther exemplarily or iudicially according to the vertues and vices in them contained If then these vertues shadowed in these Presidents shall giue thee that benefit which thine expectation hopes or the Authors ayme made his leuell vnto I doubt not but thou wilt loue it reade it and imitate i● so farre as to thy priuate benefit Farewell Thine I. M. CONCEYTED LETTERS NEWLY LAYDE OPEN A LETTER TO A FRIEND to Borowe Money IF borowing of Money be not a breach of Friend-ship let me intreat your pa●tience to open your Purse a present occasion puts me to the aduenture of your kindenesse the matter is not much yet will at this time pleasure me as much as so much may doo the sum fiue pounds the time three moneths my credit the Assurance and heartie● thankes the Interest Thus without troubling the Broker or charging of the Scriuener hoping my Letter shall be of sufficient power to preuaile with your loue I● treating your present answer in the affection of an honest heart I cōmit you to the Almightie Yours or not his owne D. M. His Answere IF your Friendship were a follower of Fortune Loue would haue but little life in this world the contents of your Letter hath put mee to a strict account with my estate how I may helpe you and not hurt myselfe I could make sufficient Excuses but that they taste of sm●ll comfort and therefore knowing Time to be precious and to voyde delayes let this suffise you your Request I haue satisfied and the Money I haue sent you and not doubting your Credite will take your word for a Bond. Now for the Use without abuse I wish but Requitall vpon the like occasion And so glad that in this or any thing in my power I may make proofe of my loue I Rest in the same Yours or not my owne N. R. A Letter to a Kinsman for Newes I Would be glad to heare how you doe how the worlde goes with you what newes are stirring what wherligigges are in the braines of mad men and what rekes Raskals keep among better men what their opinions are that study the starres of the man in the Moone and whether honest men among the multitude be not taxed for their wisedome How farre a mans tongue will goe beyonde his teeth and doe no hurt to his lippes and whether Dalyla be dead that betrayed Sampson to the Philistines How Pride and Patience agree together in vngratious Spirits How the Diuell bestirs him about his villany in the world and whether loue bee not laught at for a m●trie iest of witte especially where the weaker sorte want the strength of vnderstanding many such notes may light in the way of thy obseruation of which what thou hast in memory I pray thee put downe in a few lines which shal not be lost in my loue and the sooner the better for by thy long silence I doubt of thy welfare how euer it be kéepe it not from thy friend who regards not fortune but vertue vpon which my affection grounded can neuer be remoued Fa●ewel Thine or not his owne W. T. GGod C●●zine you write vnto mee to knowe how I doe in a word neuer worse both weak● in bodie and sicke in minde in briefe as neare death as may be to liue if you knew my crosses you would pittie my discomforts the varieti● whereof is so great that I thinke there was neuer Carte so loaden with Wares as my heart is with heauinesse and woes Oh this iron Ag● smells of nothing but Rust whiles the bagges of mettall eates vp the hearts of man where is kindnesse but onely among Children for Apples and Nuts Friendship I thinke is flowen away for feare of abuse and loue is among the Saintes which are onely in Heauen and if the world be at this passe in what case are the people wh●re Men in shape are Monsters in Nature and where Women since the Creation are become straunge Creatures Whiles howling with sinne and wéeping with shame makes such black ghost amongst tormented soules as if the Diuell had licence to make a Hell vpon Earth Some are all for the Church and nothing for GOD other all for CHRIST nothing for Charitie and ●est men for themselues and leaue their Neighbours to the wide worlde Children are weary of their Parents before they bee parence of Children and Parents so couetous and vnkinde that nature hath forgotten her course To conclude the misery of Time is such as puts Patience to the vtmost tryall of her strength and by the course of the Elements the Almanack● makers knowes not what will become of this world now for my selfe I would I were with him that madeit but his Will be done who can mende it at his pleasure vnto whose heauenly tuition vntill I sée you I leaue you Yours or not his owne R. B. A Letter of Challenge IF I thought that you durst answer me I would challenge you yet where the sicke of a Feuer may burue after a shaking I kn●we not how shame may make a