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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

chaunge to leaue the delicacie of his own soile now in his primier ●olity to pursue straunge coas●es and the admirable scituation brauery pleasure noueltie vnknown wonders of other countries needfull shall it be that I do first make a description of the same places their diuersities and pleasures either by skill or experience to be lai● down as near as may be gessed In which if any one thing chance to appeare more excellent more pleasing or more wonderful then the rest that will I set forth at large and according to the worth●●es quantity or admiration therof preferre it to the vttermost the rather to draw him to that wherein I endeuour so fully to haue him perswaded It also I should go about to induce an vntoward sonne to the obediēce of a wel disposed father I must first describe the office and duty wherein as well by the lawes of God as by impression of nature children are tied and bound to an humble and reuerend regard of their parents Next I will by doble example commende and extoll with praise the tendred duty and louing obedience of those who in al memory and accompt are registred to haue well deserued of their elders and then the infamie shame wicked end● and destruction of such as by a secure stubborne and carelesse demeanour haue neglected or attempted the contrarie the generall praise or common mislike of each of the one or the other shall be a meane that our perswasions in such a cause may be deemed the more waighty Perswasion likewise of Friendship of Loue of Conuersation of Gouernment of Honest life beeing subiectes of those great Virtues formerly in our Hortatorie Epistles remembred maye heerein by their seuerall descriptions and praise of their worthinesse bee plentifullye perfourmed As in Friendship the description may be shewed in the efficacie which by nothing so much as example is confirmed and approoued by the common affinitie that each thinge hath with other The prayse also by the sweetnesse of Societie is preferred by the firme trust repose and loyalty thereby assur●d by the equall participation of ioyes of sorowes of euils of losses of discomfortes by a similitude of the same condition the same intendment affection or liking by the somme of ioyes happines and felicity therin contained In Loue likewise charged by nature by dutie by obedience the descriptions and praises are to bee handled in their seuerall arguments As by Nature beeing descending from parents to their children being interchaungeable also betweene sisters and brethren By Dutie which principallye belongeth vnto God to our countrye to our kinsfolke to our benefactors and followers By Obedience to our Prince to our Parents and to our superiours Conuersation also Gouernment and Honest life the descriptions wherof are in the hawnts entertainment of companies moderation in all sortes of common and vsuall exercises chast sober and laudable kinde of liuing of euery one The praises vnto them incident deduced from the estate betternes or nobilitie of any indued withall or the greatest n●mber of these To all which particularities may be added suggestions and diuers inforcements whereby to perswade a man to the acceptaunce and embracing of either of them as wherin the weight of all good counsels are chiefly preferred These and such as these are comprehended in epistles Swasorie by the neat conueyaunce whereof we moue the affects of any one to the allowaunce of our writing For which cause it shall behooue that such reasons of inducement as shall be laid downe do carrie with them their pithines and vali●itie beseeming the argument we haue in handling ●o which end these briefe aduertisementes may be receaued beeing as it were steppes and degrees wherwith the learner may be stayed vp to a more perfect consideration of the purpose and deliuery of whatsoeuer he shal be occasioned to write of by the parts of this or any other example to be the more plentifully ordered Another example of an Epistle Swasorie perswading the carefull acceptance and regard of one brother to an other THe sound and entire familiaritie wherwith your Par●ntes in their life time sometimes entertained me and the neerenes of neighbourhood twixt both our friendes and long education wherein ioyntly we haue conuersed together moueth me at this instaunt somewhat to write vnto you in respect of the reputation credite and accompt that in the world you now beare and also the rather to winne you to the regard of that which to the state of your present being and worthines of your former offspring may be found meetest and conuenient It is giuen me to vnderstand of a younger brother you haue here in London who at the time of your fathers dearh being committed to your charge is for default of maintenance badly inured worse trayned and most perilously by all kinde of likelihoode thorough such sufferance in the loosenes of his liuing already hazarded Trust me I woondered not a little when I heard it and so muche the more was the matter troublesome vnto me in that respecting it was not tolde in secret it seemed vnto me by the lookes gestures of the whole companie that heard it your good demeanour therby was very hardly censured in that standing in suche case of credite as you doe your wealth so aboundant and and your Parentes so well accompted of you would in this sort and in that place of all others suffer him to wander carelesse whome you ought to haue constrayned by any possible carefulnesse How ill beseeming it is both to you and yours that it should so fal out you may by supposes many wayes coniecture For my part it greeued me when I heard it and I was not quiet till I found conuenient time to aduertise you of it And if my opinion may at all preuayle with you you shoulde quickly call him home from hence and see him more better to bee prouided for and more worthily to bee trained vp Consider I pray you the life hee taketh in hand befitteth not suche a one whose originall was so honest is ill beseeming the yonger brother of your selfe vnworthie his birth or name of a gentleman and altogether repugnant to the qualitie of your behauiour or anye part of your liuing You are to remember that he is yet very greene now pliable to whatsoeuer may bee impressed in him as chafed waxe apt to receaue any figure like vnto a new vessell to be seasoned with whatsoeuer licour what he now taketh taste and sauour of that he holdeth what habit you now cast vp on him the same shadowe hee lightly beareth Great cause haue you therefore now to be warie how and in what sort he liueth Your industry your brotherly care your loue your especiall regard and kindnes it is that must be aiding in this you and none other are the same on whome he relieth you are to prouide for him and it is your selfe that must aunswere him Think that Nature Loue Duty yea verie Pietie

down to their view may be induced to many things For suppose y e a matter exhortatory herein so stood as therby in discourse of liberality to induce agent of great possessions and very good discent to impart some pittaunce of that wealth whiche hee might well spare to cause of a common wealth or contribution for the poore were it amisse hauing both by the prayse goodnesse and worthinesse of the act and by example of some others put him in minde of the well deseruings thereby attayned to suggest some inclination of his own vnto the same either by a surmised report to be deliuered of him or by likelihoode or by some demonstration how farre of so euer the veritie thereof do appeare to aunswere the matter Uerely it seemeth vnto me that if there shoulde be any sparke at all of good condition resident in such a one hee might by like degrees be drawne to some affectation therein And insomuch as the course hereof is not many times vnfrequented I will shew you a like example wherein a gentleman of some accompt is in the selfe same maner induced to the regard of a neere kinseman of his owne remayning in London to whome his allowance was so short and skant and the feare of the other to displease his graundfather so great as by sorrow thereof it had like to haue cost him his life and this was the maner of the same An Epistle Hortatorie wherein the vehemencie of Exhortation is lenified by a more gentle or submissiue kinde of deliuerie SIr I doe not knowe whether by the great affection I doe beare vnto you and yours or by some straunger motion of my selfe friendly wishing to all men or perchaunce supposing it a percell of my duety charitablie to exhorte or what other cause you may deeme that moueth me in sort following to take vpon me to write to you Neuerthelesse intending sufficiently of your courtesie I haue thought meete in the behalfe of the young Gentleman your sonne whome with muche ado I haue entreated home to my house lying there very sickly both in respect of hys sicknesse and for the better remedie thereof hereby to become a meane vnto you And albeit such is his gentle condition as from his own mouth I cannot gather the occasion yet is not the surmise thereof vnsuspected of others nor my selfe by many circumstances am ignoraunt from whence the originall doth proceede For the better opening whereof it shall not be amisse to call in question his owne estate what you are vnto him present and what in tyme to come you both may and in respect of nature wil or ought to become vnto him Principally therefore touching his own state it is yet greene weake and almost of no force and by abilitie so much the lesse by howe muche the more hee hath sundry occasions to be endamaged namely by reason of his sutes in law and otherwise Next drawing to your selfe you are his Graundfather the onely patron of his succession and the principall parte from whence the full remainder of his ioy comfort and happie quiet is drawne to be reposed Lastly you are in present vnto him a seuere gouernour and a districte commaunder In time to come both of your selfe and hys good inclination encouraging you may and shall be a resolute and setled foundation whereupon the life following which it pleaseth God to lend him shall more substantially and with greater maintenance be led and continued And albeit in all present actions and things afterward to be hoped I may not finde meanes to discommend your grauitie who vppon great wisedome auntiet experience and perfect proofe doe best knowe what beseemeth the education of those whom fatherly care chiefly concerneth yet because the conditions of the sonne are nothing such as craueth so hard looking to and that you may not be nimis durus perquam seuerus pater such as in Terence Aedelphus is alleadged that would induce an ill disposed sonne clam patre and as it were in secrete to doe many enormities not so much as the sound wherof should perchaunce euer attaine the curious searche of his fathers hearkening I would be thus bold to say vnto you that being frequēted with so milde a condition as is in your sonne in whome no ill disposition is found at all you should so farre forth yea in all outward shew and common actions being at this state and at these yeares as he is become such vnto him as of whome hee might presume be bould to vaunt and the worlde to take notice and accompt of seeing that libertie neuer turneth to loosnesse that by nature is charged with so many vertuous directions Leauing prophane aucthorities and morall argumentes doe wee not see that in the holye people of God the seed of Israel old Iacob himself hauing happily transported his old age to see the blessed succession of Ioseph how louingly he reioyced vpon them beeing the children of his youngest sonne and accordyng to theyr vertues as bred of his owne loynes tendred and blessed them What made Dauid hauing constrayned the rest of his children whose liues he knew from hys infancy and aboue al other to nourish Solomon and to edopt vnto him hys princely seate in succession but vertue that followed hym What made manye good menne besides whose examples are innumerable to geue libertie to some of theyr of-spring and seuerelie to correcte others but the contrarye suppose conceiued in eyther of them But what doe I inferre hereuppon that to your pupill you are not a lo-Parent no for that I knowe the contrarye What then doe I complayne of woulde you knowe Forsooth for that thys loue of yours is mixed wyth too muche seueritye you keepe hym too shorte you restrayne hym too muche What though when God shall call you hence you leaue hym in succession you mean to do wel and more besides is that inough when hee hathe by sute in lawe whereunto you haue put him forward endaungered hymselfe spent the greatest part of hys lyttle is cros●ed wyth manie euill practises martyred with a thousande cares defectes and wantes and hathe thereunto little or almost no reliefe supplye or good encouragement but perchaunce harde lookes and euill opinion of some who in respecte of nature ought to be more friendly vnto hym besides your selfe is it marueyle if hee be sicke beeyng thus wearyed so greeued and in suche sorte turmoyled I doe promise you Sir it greeueth me to see it and that I haue so muche cause to reporte it supposing your owne condition to be flexible inough towardes hym if it be not peruerted I doe thinke if redresse bee not geuen and that he haue present comforte assistaunce and good encouragement at your hands hee will not be long liued Be therefore good sir fauourable to your owne in respect of your selfe and that you are the originall he is not his fathers but your childe you ought you muste you are bounde