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Cupids messenger: or, A trusty friend stored with sundry sorts of serious, wittie, pleasant, amorous, and delightfull letters. Newly written
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1629
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STC 6122; ESTC S105143
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no seducer you shall finde mee as you haue done a faithfull Cabinet full of your goodnesse E. L. Another to the same purpose Much honoured Mistris THe neuer-ceasing streame of your gratious kindnesses hath by the often thinking on their due deseruings profoundly imbosomed themselues in my gratefull affection which no course of tedious time can extenuate nor the longest absence by distance haue power to diminish But oh most kinde meriter of all respect whose good will I estimate as my greatest enrichment although the condigne requitall of such your rare courtesies lye not in the compasse and precinct of my poore power whose tenuity is not able to pay such and exceeding tribute yet how willing my mind is and how inextinguishable my desires this illiterate Epistle will testifie which deuoid of elegancies yet full fraught with the vnfeigned profession of my loue promiseth the imployment of my vttermost powers in all seruiceable endeauors if all that I can doe may but defray one miâ—e of your inualuable courtesies Command my seruice there is not any thing so great that I will shrinke or so small that 〈◊〉 will disdaine to effectuate for your sake hauing vowed to dye before any word issuing from your lips shall come in vaine But least I should detract too much time from your more serious affaires in all humility I take my leaue Yours vnfainedly P.Q. Her Answer THough I am far from vanity to esteeme my selfe worthey of the style of beauty yet I see not how to excuse your sinister opinion that would thereto annexe so great an inconuenience for it seemes if things might be ordered by your mind you would haue beauty and loue to be inseparable companions oh grosse oh absurd wish and most execrable position against beauty and loue Then any vitious deformed or beggerly creature being but conducted by good fortune to the view of some rare Virgin this vnworthinesse must not onely be entertained but hee that rather deseruâ—d to be hissed away with disdaine must straight bee made the owner and Lord of her loue Nor shall it be in her power to giue a repulse to the presumption of indâ—gâ—eâ—uâ—ers or to make â—â—ee election of a deseruing personage to honour him with her gracious fauour But I hope sir being thus clearly conuinced you will confesse and make recantation of your error I rest as I haue reason Yours not to vse S. M. A Letter of discontent after the falling out of Louers Most discourteous and painted friend IT is the custome of Louers after the breach of their league and amitie to send backe those gratuities which formerly passed as tokens of their naturall affections you haue taken vp the fashion and beléeue mee I abhorre any longer to haue nearnesse with one of your qualification who for méere trifles can dissolue the knot of friendship and shake hands with familiarity For know that your memorie which was sometime deare in my thoughts is now abhorred seeing that the firmnesse and stability of affection then which there is nothing ought by men more religiously to be obserued you haue so causelesly brought to annihilation I may parallel my present condition to the state of the Sunne when pitchy clouds which enuironing him round about séeme to extinguish his splendor but time the perfecter of all terrestriall things may in due season impart a luster correspondent to my hopes and sutable to my disposition till when I will scorne the blasts of aduersity and dead all those who hauing little or no merits are endowed by the dispensation of the owly-eyd goddesse Fortune with large possessions howsoeuer if I can find no better to conuerse and spend my time withall then your selfe I will turne Momus and for euer hate the society of men but hauing a better opinion of the generality for your part I cashiere you with this Vltimum vale and rest A stranger A B. To his angry Mistris AS the declining of the Sunne brings a generall darknesse and discomfort so the deficiencie and absence of your shining and glorious fauours hath ouercouered mee with clouds of care But as the Suns heauenly essence by the course of Nature is daily reuiued so here I humbly sue that your wonted gracious aspect may returne in your countenance to solace the dolefull heart of your seruant with vicissitude of long intermitted alacrity it will redound to your great commendation when the world shall vnderstand that your heart is of waxe not inexorable and of a flinty and adamantine constitution hoping that you will be as ready compassionatly to grant as I doe submissiuely implore the renouation of your loue I rest Yours in vnutterable affection R. S. A Letter from an At prentice in London to his father in the Country MY humble dutie remembred good father vnto you and my mother Hauing the opportunitie of this bearer I thought good to certifie you of my present being giuing you to vnderstand that I am I thanke God and you in good health and very well placed here in London where I am in hope to continue my here being to some profitable and good purpose My Master vseth me in good sort and I want nothing that appertained to such a one as my selfe I trust you shall haue ioy of me and ere a few yeares passe I doubt not but so to be haue my selfe that I shall well deserue this good liking that already I haue of my master and further credit at his hands and employment about his businesse I hope you and my mother and all our friends in the countrie are in good health I pray you that you will write vnto my master as occasion serueth and thanke him for his good vsage and if you can to remember him with some good conuenient token from the countrie Thus desiring your daily blessings and with a recommendation of my humble dutie vnto you both I take my leaue Your louing and obedient son to command D. P. London A Letter from a husband to his wife GOod wife considering my hastie departure from you and my children my hope is that you will haue that louing and respectiue care towards them and your family that appertaineth I haue left manie things raw by reason of the suddennesse of my iourney which standeth vpon your good regard to be ordered as namely the charge of my seruants and the disposition of some other affaires and businesses You shall now shew your selfe a discréet and carefull wife if in my absence you will take vpon you to bée in my place Regard and consider with your selfe that seruants are negligent and carelesse and if the master forget his owne profit they are as readie as others to share with his gaines Your painfull attendance to oure-looke them shall straine their labours to my vsing your desire to see to them shall worke their vsing to my well deseruing You must now a little forget neighbourhood and walking for companie considering the old prouerbe that when the Cat is a way the Mouse will
the Lambe with sowre herbes then all their flesh-pots That God hath giuen you a vertuous wife dutifull children wealth in abundance an honest esteeme and good repute amongst your neighbours and the generall loue of your countrie where you liue are fauours that looke for thanks Who would desire to liue that knowes his Sauiour died who can be a Christian and would not be like him Could you be happy and not die indéed Nature knowes not what she would haue Our friends of this world can neither abide vs miserable in our stay nor happie in our departure What God hath giuen you on earth is nothing to that hée will giue you in heauen you are a stranger here there at home There Saints and Angles shall applaud you there God himselfe will fill you with himselfe haue patience in all afflictions and reade the troubles of Iob and in that exercise your selfe both day and night vntill God shall either mend or end these your daies on earth To which great God and mercifull Lord I commit you praying for your eternall rest Remaining your friend I. M. A Letter wherein is recommended to a Nobleman from his inferiour the conditions and behauiour of a person MAy it please your Lordship this Gentleman the bearer hereof with whom along time I haue beene acquainted and of his qualities and good behauiour haue sound and large experiment hauing béene a good time a suter vnto me to moue this preferment vnto your Lordships seruice I haue now at last condiscended vnto as well for that I know your Lordship to bee now presently disfurnished of such a one as also that there will hardly bee preferred vpon the sudden any one so meet as himselfe to supply that place And thus much by your pardon and allowance daie I assure vnto you that if it may please you in credit of my simple knowledge and opinion to imploy him you shall finde that besides hée is in parentage descended from such of whom I know your Lordship will very well account of he is also learned decréet sober wise and moderate in all his actions of great secresie assured trust and well gouerned in all companies Finally a man so méet and to this present turne so apt and necessarie as I cannot easily imagine how you may be serued better Pleaseth your Lordship the rather for the great good will I beare him and humble duty I owe vnto you to accept imploy and account of him I nothing doubt but your Lordship hauing by such meanes giuen credit to my choice shall finde him such as for whose good seruice you shall haue further occasion to thinke well of me for him Whereof nothing doubtting I doe referre both him and my selfe in all humblenes to your best and most fauourable opinion From my house in Arthingworth this 5 of Iune The Answer AFter my hearty commendations vnto you Sithence the receipt of your last letters and commendations of W. R. into my seruice I haue had small occasion either to write or to send vnto you till this present and for as much as vpon your certaine notice deliuered vnto me in fauour of his preferment I held my selfe so well assured in all things of his behauiour as I doubted not thereupon to receiue him into place of greatest fidelity I haue thought good hereby to let you vnderstand what great pleasure I haue taken in his diligent attendance assuring you for many vnexpected qualities which I haue proued to be in him and that with so good affection as that I intend not omit any thing that may tend to his aduancement In beholding of him oftentimes methinkes he many waies doth resemble his father whose sound truth I doe suppose might haue beene entertained with the best for his well deseruing this bearer shall informe you of two speciall causes concerning my affaires in the countrie whom I doe pray you to conferre with and to afford him your trauell for his present dispatch which I will not fail heartily to require vnto you For your care had of my wants and diligent supply of such a one I doe many times thanke you and haue promised in my selfe to become a debter vnto you And euen so I bid you heartily farewell From the Court this 5. of May 1628. A merry Letter to his friend in London Heroicall spirit I Haue receiued your Epistle of alacritie and remaine much indebted to your kinde heart for vouchsafing vs poore countrie Swaines so much of the labour of your pen to deceiue slow-footed time withall Thankes vnto the Almightie I haue had my health indifferent well since my comming downe onely the separation of my second selfe hath beene a continuall sicknesse vnto me to remedie which I haue hitherto found out no better way then to call for a cup of Rubicular to helpe to exhilerate and corroborate my fatigated spirits We Ruricolars are verie barren of anie noueltie worthie the presenting to your curious vnderstanding but doe presume out of the bundle of your affection that you that liue at the wels head will be pleased to vouchsafe vs your poore friends a report by your Letters at least of such Exchange newes as passeth currant amongst you which wee shall take as a speciall fauour from you and studie how to remunerate We are at this present putting foot into the stirrop and riding some dozen horse of vs to a maritine coast where there will be prouided for vs all the rarities for fish the Sea can afford where I will not bee vnmindfull to remember all your healths in a full ocean In the meane time commending my loue to my louing sister your wife with your worthie selfe and all our friends I wish you all true happinesse sutable to a braue disposition and will euer rest Your assured lâ—uing Brother R. S. A Letter gratulatorie Good Mr. P. I Am yet to learne the phrase and method how to write to so beneficient a friend as your selfe to whom I stand obliged more by desert then I can answer with requitall and more in affection then I am able to merit a predicament it is into which I am easilie and often as it were precipitated and out of which to raise my selfe fortune only hath disabled me who if with her gifts she had supplied my wants and giuen me competent wealth to the freedome of my will my honest heart should not be debtor to the hand of any nor should my disabilitie curbe the scope of my affection but seeing wishes are but vaine I pray you accept these my lines as tokens of the remuneration of my thanks and the acknowledgement of the loue of Your humble seruant D. P. A Letter to his silent friend YOu are happily innocent dearest friend what paine I am in and with what vnrest I spend my irksome daies through your parcimoniousnesse and sparing of a little inke and paper Is it not enough that I am depriued of your sight but I must be also vnsaluted by your Letters one of them