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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06933	Hobsons horse-load of letters: or A president for epistles The first [-second] booke. Being a most exact method for men, of what qualitie soeuer, how to indight, according to the forme of these times, whether it be for serious negotiations, priuate businesses, amorous accomplyment, wanton merryment, or the defence of honor and reputation. A worke different from all former publications, and not vnworthy the eyes of the most noblest spirits.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1613 (1613)	STC 17360; ESTC S104461	33,831	65

a Father whose worthy iudgement is and worthy euer to be so potent ouer me that not onely my person but euen my thoughts are wholy to be desposed by him him if you please to solicite and make his wisedome commend your vertuous desires to my consideration there is no doubt but my easie beliefe may soone be traduced to imagine that there is nothing in your loue but honour and goodnesse The contraries whereof if he shal please to annex with his opinion be then assured it is as impossible to wrest mee from the like thoughts as for the Insant Hyla to take by force the Club from his Master Hercules If the labour of this double paynes bréed in you any discouragement you cannot too earely desist nor too soone giue mee ease of a néedlesse trouble your worth will make you frequent with better choyse my contract with wisedome against passion will euer fortesse me to liue without the knowledge of vnr●lieuing repentance Thus you haue both mine your own resolution in your bosome agrée them or seperate them both are to mee indifferent and charitie shall euer make me your chaste well-wisher A. D. XL. Another answere affirmatiue when friends and all parts are satisfied SYR THis action of marriage which is the last date of a womans libertie being for the dignitie fearefull and for the seriousnesse worthy our carefullest considerations is to me such a bug-beare full of Chymerean shapes that I oft start and tremble at such shadowes onely I am so much fortefied in your noble loue the true constancy of your well setled affection to which your vowes and my friends satisfactions hang as seales that I haue banisht all oppositions and doe now boldly giue my loue and honour into your protection hoping you will as carefully preserue them as I haue dearely and with all stricktnesse of thought nourisht them in which you shall shew a vertue worthy your goodnesse and make me contend in my fayth and seruiceablenesse to excéede the best example of my sexe for being onely conquered by your vertue no tribute is sufficient but this that I will euer liue and dye your faithfullest M. N. XLI An Epistle of Loue from a playne Country-man to any woman his equall BOth report Mary and mine owne cyes haue assured mee of your sufficiency in all those good things which should appertaine to a woman of your place and from thence my loue hath taken such sure roote that it can neyther wither nor perish whiles my life lasts what I am you know or at least may from your neighbours intelligence as for my substance I néed not in this Letter make the audite thereof because when your friends shall call it in account their owne eyes shall giue them the reckoning only it is your benest affection which I intreat to which I will ioyne mine with so good a meaning that howsoeuer any man may enuy mee yet you shall haue cause neuer to accuse my breach of promise more words I would vtter but more substance I cannot tender therefore expecting your answere I rest your euer most assured T. D. XLII An answere of denyall to the former Epistle THomas I am not as you eyther beholden to report or mine eyes for any goodnesse that is contained in you which makes mée doubt if I should séeke to intelligence I should finde nothing to giue me contentment therefore you must know my loue hauing no root it is impossible for you to expect any fruit from my loue as for my knowledge of you it is so little it is not worthy the examination and for my friends calling your liuing to account I will saue them that labour for it is most certaine I neyther can nor will giue you mine affection many circumstances binding me thereunto therefore if you please hereafter both to spare your word● and your wooing you shall both giue mee pleasure and your selfe ●ase making me so much beholden to your little trouble that I will euer liue your friend M. B. XLIII Another answere of graunting to the desire of the Sutor YOU néede not Thomas appeale to these witnesses of your loue séeing both your owne honesty and my beliefe will euer perswade you from mocking of a simple Mayden whom you may sooner delude with dishonest practise then any way abuance by your best affection But the truth is I know you to be discréete and good which are bonds sufficient to kéepe you from euill doing therefore as you haue wonne me with your loue and discretion satisfied my friends with your meanes and honest behauiour so I pray you couet to kéepe me with the like vertues for though many haue moe words yet none shall haue more loue nor you finde your selfe more deerely estéemed in any bosome then in mine that will euer faithfully loue you and faithfully liue yours for euer M. B. XLIIII An amorous Epistle of an olde Man to a yong Mayd of good parts and parentage IT is but the enuy of youth swéet heart which layeth imputations vpon age making it disable apt to frenzie vnfound vnsauory and vncleanely which indéede are attributes onely appropriate to themselues the first springing from their ungrowne ripenesse the second from heate of blood the third from their lusts the fourth from vnwasted corruptions the last from negletiue carelesnesse all in generall eschewing the comerc● with wisedome in whom age is euer conuersant Beléeue it youth onely imagineth what they would haue vs but we assuredly know what they are who frameth fayre buildings with yong twygs and not with olde Tymber who adorneth himselfe with buds not with full growne Flowers What perfection is in imperfectnesse or what pleasure in distaste It is onely time which makes men wise and yéeres which bringeth forth wisedomes childe truest experience knowledge is the end of our creation for in it onely the highest is glorified and who can rightly know which hath not time for his Tutor These things drawne into your consideration my déerest why should I feare for that which is my best vertue to solicite you with a loue constant and spotlesse two liuories which yet could neuer fit youths backe séeing your wealthiest hopes are confined in such goodnes neyther haue the resolutions of my loue procéeded from mine eyes but iudgement a setled counsaile of wisdome and reason confirming my desire and imboldening my spirit to manifest the chast and honest loue which inflameth me with a noble ardency O then be pleased to know that discretion hath taught mée to loue you intirely that loue compels me to beg from your bosome a loue sutable to its goodnes giuing you this assurance from a minde vnwauering that as farre as honest industry fayth and religions care haue power so far I will euery way contend to make me worthy your enioyment but if all shall be through imiginary feares neglected know you shall but preuent nature a little and bring him to an earely graue who estéemeth your good and aduancement

honour by your words beléeue it neither shall my nature be vnthankefull nor my loue sloathfull to imploy it selfe in all the offices of your seruice to whom I will euer liue a faithfull Kinseman and a perfit friend T. L. XLIX An Epistle complementory to a man of eminence going into the warres in which he preferreth a Souldier vnto him SYR I Was determined hearing of your returne to your lodging to haue come to salute you and amongst others your friends to giue you a hearty well-willing farewell wishing you successe according to your good worth long merit I heartely pray for you all and that is all I can doe but lament my fortune to be tyed to so base a trauell betwixt Court and Court incountring with Parchment Inke and Paper in the time of so noble enterprises I am sodainly called away about great and commanding businesse wherein I pray you excuse me who will euer pray 〈◊〉 you and loue you Syr this bearer whose vtmost ambition is to doe you seruice in this voyage I beséech you let mée entreat you to accept and grace him with your fauour as hee shall deserue it by his cariage his personage you sée I can further by good knowledge of him testifie to you that hee is a right honest man of good courage of good reckoning and hath friends of like qualitie and good worth I doubt not but he will verifie that I haue said by his behauiour then I shall not néede to desire you to loue him for your owne disposition out of your iudgement makes choise of such for your loue therefore I commend him to your honourable fauour and my selfe heartely to your selfe vowing euer to liue your faithfull at all times E. D. L. A Letter from one in prison to his friend for reliefe SYR AMongst all the helpefull offices of vertuous and generous men none is more excellent then that ayde which they afforde the distressed in time of their captiuity and affliction and being perswaded there is as much will as power in you to doe good my loue hauing neuer beene a stranger to your familiaritie I am incouraged to pray your fauourable friendly furtherance by such good course and meanes as you will be pleased to vouchsafe me concerning my reléefe the nature and quantity whereof I wish may onely be proportioned by your vertue bountie whose loue will take up into your consideration my present dispayre of all comfort being a man full of the disasters of imprisonment as pouertie hunger ill and most i●fectious ayre bad lodging and to be briefe idlenesse and sloth my hands and industry shut vp from all kinde of courses that may giue reliefe I am onely comforted with hope of your loue which will with a charitable eye behold my wants wherein you shall not onely binde me to you as a resfresher of my de●ected body and minde but as the meanes of mine inlargement and liberty which a small summe of money will effect for which great benefit besides my thankefull acknowledgement of your so speciall fauour and friendship I will striue by my best indeauours to become some way actually deseruing So wishing you all happinesse and con●entment I take leaue and rest to be commanded at your occasion I. B. LI. A merry-mad Letter in Skeltons● rime sent from one Poet to another who had brought baptisme on the Stage Superscribed Aiaci meo Flagellifer● O Thou my Muse Make no excuse But open thy 〈◊〉 To write of some nuse In a vayne profuse Ayde thou my Pen Thou wonder of men Wash thou my brayne With dewe Castalian And make my wits fine With ●onte Caballine If true I doe write I am to indite Of sundry strange matters And diuers odde claters Which chanced of late Not touching the state I like not such prate But if I speake true Then this both ensue Belongs Syr to you Know then for a truth Though to tell I am loath Of that must harme both Without stare or oath Take this for a 〈◊〉 The Summers of London Are comming to Horndon Sublimi flagello To scourge a bad fellow As close as King loure With two whips and no more There to surpryse Your fugitiue carkise Without ●ayle or maineprize There haue béene odde spyes From whom did arise You allowed to baptize Of late on the Stage Know then by your Page That this your soud age The Synode so sage Haue thought to asswage By no pryson nor cage But vnméet of your age Your loynes for to gage By letting you blood For that both most good I sweare by the ●ood For him that is wood There must you be stript And soundly whipt With horrible bashes And terrible clashes With horrible blowes And terrible throwes As true as you are Sacerdos And as we suppose Hea●●tantyme●umenos Diuers of the Cittie Say it is great pittie That so proper a man Doe what they can Will now and than Let his wit run at rann But quid amplius vis Syr As more of this Syr But now extra Iocum With spéed change your locum Bring worke for the Cocum And same guests for the Focum Fundimus haec sine Skeltoni fine numine P●li R. A. LII A merry Letter from an Officer of the twelue dayes to a Lord of Christmas PLeaseth your high Excellency to vnderstand I haue receiued certaine intelligence touching the whole o●●currents of all your forraine businesses as well by Land as by Sea wherein albe Desteny in these latter designes hath béene lesse auspitious then in the precedent times of your former gouernement yet to a Prince of your great spirit and wisedome I know the crosses of Fortune are but onely alarmes to awaken and fortefie your hopes against the worst of chaunces wherefore to procéede to those negotiations with which I haue béene acquainted your great army by Land sent into the high Empyre of of Terra Laetitiae vnder the conduct of Don Regula Modesta ariued most happily fortified most strongly conquered both Townes Castles and the hearts of the best disposed people vntill the thrée Kings of the North parts Hungar Colde and Want vniting their forces together with the ayde and seconds of the states of the base Countries being led by Miserie Vsury and Formallitie ●ad your highnesse generall battaile vpon Christmasse-eue where the fight was excéeding terrible but the vantguard of the enemy being led by Fashion and Fasting two meager enemies were by your Excellencyes first squadrons vnder the conduct of Don Abundantio put to rout and in their slight made the battaile re●yre which giuing the reare a dismay your Souldiers ●ell Pell-mell into the execution in which battaile the three Kings were taken prisoners the whole Gallantry put to flight and the most of the infantry slaine and vtterly disabled for seruice your army onely remaining Masters of the field gaue testimonie of their conquest both by their shouts banquets and bonesters of twelue dayes lasting But sée the inconstancy of the best chances the two