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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

Kings Custome Reguritie being the puissant Emperours of the large continent of Frugality fearing your Highnesse might by this encouragement entitle your greatnes to their Dominions haue ioyned their forces together and besieged your famous generall within the great Citie of Laughter where partly through the corruption of the ayre of that Citie and partly with the drinke of that soyle which is br●w'd with the wéed Aliquid nimis his souldiors fall continually to disabilitie of seruice so that except your excellency immediately imbarke your selfe with new ●orces to giue him instant reliefe there is no hope but of the vtter desolation both of your great army and Empyre Your army by sea hath fought many ●all fights attained infinite prize and made themselues masters of the whole merry-Dcean But the Admirall hearing of this dangerous besiegement hoping to giue succours by sea dis●mbagde and hoysting saile came in twelue nights before the walles of the besieged but the Nauy of the enemie hauing by a speciall aduiso instant intelligence thrust in betwixt them and the harbour where began a dreadfull and sore fight ●●ll both of doubt and admiration for Dona Vrselina your Highnesse good Ship hauing put vp her fights and being made yare for the nimblest businesse turned her broad side vpon the enemies Uice-admirall and hauing the aduantage of the winde shewing the whitenesse of her vnderlops gaue him a volley of chaine-shot and throwing her ●●rewor●es vpon his maine yarde made him not onely glad to cut his Sayles but also to spend both his Mastes his Boresplyt Dona Catherina your most induring Pynnace held the reare Admirall a fight full as terrible but Dona Cognata a ship for your owne sailing she twice ●oorded the Admirall but for want of good tackling and the ship of a broken anchor she was blowne off and lost the hope of a braue conquest but in conclusion the Armadaes of the enemy wers so Infinite in number that your Excellencies fléete were faine to retrayt vnder the guard of the Cannon of the Citie where they also abide most seuerely besieged so that there is neither hope of their deliuerance nor safetie in your owne gouernement vnlesse personally with the ayde of your honourable Founders being of great name and greater vertues you repayre to the reliefe of your noblest distressed subiects and to the preseruation of your Crowne and Dignitie the consideration whereof leauing to your owne thoughts I humbly kisse your hands Don Bablioso de Wast-time Superscribed To the most high and most mighty Monarch of Myrth Masking and mis-rule D. D. LIII An Epistle of aduise to a friend SYR YOu write vnto me you are determined to leaue off the ●udy of the Lawes and onely betake your selfe vnto the warres and commaund my friendship to deliuer you mine aduice in the course you pretend which motion séemes to mee to carry the face of a little crueltie for hauing fixed downe a resolution how your life shall be continually ●erssed it will hardly come within the power of counsaile to alter that of which our soules are inamored and then my reasons and your thoughts méeting in opposition may stirre fancy in you to be iealous both of my loue and discretion But since I had rather vndergoe that feare of mistaking then by silence or neglect sée you runne into an errour vnauoydable I will boldly giue you mine opinion and afterward referre your owne will to your owne iudgement first for your abandoning the study of the Lawes in my conceit you fortake a friend of your blood to enioy the familiaritie of a stranger or in a worse sence cut off a true féelling member to haue the imployment of a wooden one for if we deriue the actions of our liues to the ends of our advancements what then this study can be more swift more certaine the corruptions of time the ambitions of men hauing made it in al Common wealth● the mayne nerue and sinne of iustice What greater peace can you haue then meditation what ●wéeter warre then disputation whose worst wound is the gaining of knowledge What better accommodation then your Bookes where the whole wisdome of the earth is daily talking vnto you and what scale so easie and certaine to rise by as that which is supported by iustice vertue and the good of all Kingdomes A profession as eternall as the world and as necessary as our recreations an honour not bounded in any strait circumference but so largely left to the vtmust lists of eminence that it walkes one rancke before the greatest nobilitie hauing no acquaintance with danger nor other beholdingnesse then its owne vertue But you will say the study is heauy and vnpleasant why ●o is all things that draw vs to goodnesse Who can well rellish the potion though it bring health or who will not murmure to 〈◊〉 a limbe though it giue cure to the whole body Things which are got with industry are first to continuance when those which issue from chance ●all off a v●nish in their enioyment To conclude then this study of our common Lawes there is nothing more profitable for your estate nor more certaine for your aduancement Now for the warres it is the noblest a 〈◊〉 of mankinde and I must néeds confesse the most auncient of all vertues being honours first begotten and with so equall a hand diuiding right from iniurie that no resistance is able to rebate the edge of his execution yet are his dangers great and not more great in his execution then in his composition For though his principall members may be flowers of much goodnesse yet for 〈◊〉 most part his body or gro●●er substance is 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 corruptions fancy hauing so disguised valour in pyde garments of supposed gallantry that if obseruation were indigent of vices he might store himselfe double and treble in an army anger and boast being the parents of oathes custome and fashion of drunkennesse irreligion of blasphemy These my best friend will be your companions in an ●east and with these of necessitie you must be familiar how such comercement will worke vpon your soule I may doubt though not certainely feare and how the auoyding will be without danger I may wish but not warrant onely my hope is that the vertue you haue euer possessed will so gouerne you that like the kingly prophet Dauid who liued with an idolater yet was cleare from his sin so you may accompany many vices yet be no way your selfe blemisht with their euils in which Religion and Temperance must be such faithfull supporters that ouerawing and kéeping downe the heat of blood all things must but shadow like appeare vnto you which beares not the true liuory of vertue and goodnesse Thus I haue giuen you a prospectiue figure of both their characters the choyse whereof I leaue to your good Angell whilest my selfe will with all faithfulnesse remaine a continuall well-wisher of your happy Fortune D. M. LIIII A merrry-mad-Letter to a merry mad wench chaste