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A28452	The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

Phisick you must not say Mr. Doctor T.G. nor Doctor T.G. Esq for Doctor both comprehends Master and Esquire and of these the Divine hath first place the Civilian next and the Phisitian last To an ordinary Gentleman thus To my approved friend To my most esteemed friend To my much valued friend To my very much respected friend To my worthy good friend or the like Note that all the younger Sons of Dukes and Marquesses are Lords for their lives only and are called Lord John or Lord William c. by their Christian names The eldest Son of an Earle is a Lord by birth so is not a Viscounts Son till his Father be dead The youngest Sons of Viscounts and Barons are but Esquires yet are honorable and take place of all Baronets and Knights The eldest Son of a Baron is but an Esq during his Fathers life Esquire comes from the French Escuier in latin Armiger or Scutifer i. a bearer of Armes or of a Sheild and is that Degree of Gentry which is next to a Knight It is conceived that at the first these Esquires were bearers of Arms to Lords and Knights and thereby had their name and dignity Now to be true Esquires according to the Law of Armes they must either be Lords younger Sons Baronets or Knights eldest Sons members of Parlement Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Serjeants at Law Barristers at Law yet the late Earle Marshall would not allow Barristers to be Esquires but in the Act for Polemoney they were ranked by the then Parliament as Esquires and paid as Esq or of some ancient family that has it by being heir to a Knight in the right line Though now a dayes I know not by what warrant all Gentlemen that have but some considerable Estate in Lands take that title upon them when as the Estate though never so great adds no title And that the title of Esq should descend from Father to Son as the Estate of Gentry doth is meer fabulous saies Mr. Herne in his Glory of Generosity p. 100. Ladies have for the most part the same attributes as their husbands Both in Letter and discourse we give a Dutches the title Grace But to a Marchioness Countess Viscountess or Baroness right honourable and in discourse your honour and among their equals or in more familiar discourse Madam If you write to any of these the title Madam is very moding both at the beginning and end of your Letter But if the person writing be of much lower Rank then the Lady written unto it will be decent to say May it please your honour or Right honourable All the daughters of Dukes Marquesses and Earles are Ladies by birth and are called Lady Anne Lady Mary c. But the daughters of a Viscount or Baron are but Mistris yet are honorable And their Addition being named in instruments of Law or Conveyances is no more then a Yeomans daughter hath and that is Spinster wherein there seems to be some title wanting And for the better understanding the point of precedency I have thought fit to transcribe an abstract of two Decrees made by King James touching the same in the 10 and 14 years of his raigne which you may read more at large in Mr. Seldens Titles of honour Page 906. That the younger Sons of Viscounts and Barons shall take place and precedence before all Baronets That such Bannerets as shall be made by the Kings Majesty his heirs and Successors or by Henry now Prince of Wales under his or their Standard displayed in an Army Royall in open war and the King or Prince personally present for their lives onely and no longer shall for ever in all places take place and precedence as well before all other Bannerets whatsoever as likewise before the younger Sonnes of Viscounts and Barons and before all Baronets The younger Sons of Viscounts and Barons and all Baronets shall take place before all Bannerets whatsoever other then such as shall be made by the King as aforesaid That the Knights of the Garter Privy Councellors to the King the Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries the Chancellor and under Treasurer of the Exchequer Chanceller of the Dutchy the chief Justice of the Kings Bench the Master of the Rolls The chief Justice of the Common-pleas the chief Baron of the Exchequer and all other the Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts shall have place before the younger sons of Viscounts and Barons and before all Baronets That Baronets and their heires Males shall alwayes have place next unto the younger Sonnes of Viscounts and Barons and their wives shall take place accordingly And in another Decree 14 Jacobi That the eldest sonnes of Baronets and their wives as well during their husbands lives as after And the daughters of the same Baronets following next after the said wives of the eldest sonnes of Baronets shall have place and precedence before the eldest son and the wife of the eldest sonne of any Knight of what Order soever And likewise the younger sonnes of such Baronets and their wives shall take place accordingly before the younger Sons of any Knights c. ERRATA PAge 3. l. 19. r Matter p. 11. l. 10. r Proleptoton p. 38. l. 15. r Jocus p. 43. l. 16. r Periphrasis p. 44. l. 35. r continuance p. 49. l. 19. r my Soul and l. 20 refresh p. 61. l. 10. r astonish p. 63. l. 18. r in Bac. p. 70. l. 15. dele the same p. 71. l. 3. dele in p. 72. l. 18. r hardest p. 69. l. 27. r enclines p. 79. l. 8. r forth teares p. 107. l. 34. r a sleep p. 112. l. 9. r her own p. 124. l. 3. r preterhard p. 128. l. 11. r there p. 134. l. 22. r over p. 138. l. 15. dele p. 142. l 2. r form p. 153. l. 16. r best self p. 170. l. 11.12 r intime p. 197. l. 17. r guift and l. 31. r united FINIS Prov. 16.21 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 H C. Max. 296. | It was a time of great rain

pass'd into the soul Thus have you heard the brief but sad story of this good Ladies end and that from Sir Your humble servant T.B. LXXIV LETTER Sir THe punishment that Apollo inflicts of reading Guicciardine is a light one compar'd to this that you impose ●pon your self and yet you will only here play the Stoick in not acknowledging you are in pain Nothing can justify mee but obedience for persuming to offer this tedious Romance to those eyes that should onely look upon Iliads I give verses as Galenists do Phisick which clogs the stomack more then the disease I must confess we may view Cities taken kingdomes ruin'd and new worlds discovered in lesse roome It is a Poem that hath neither height nor profundity yet it has length it overflowes but swells not it wearies without ascents as Promenades do upon a flat In a word I shall think if you do not find fault with it and reprehend me it is because you are angry and will do nothing in Passion however it is a trust I recommend to your secrecy for follies are not things of the least consequence to trust a friend with And having now performed my promise with you I expect you should do the like with Sir Your affectionate servant J.C. LXXV Vpon the New year Sir AS all things sublunary owe their being to the revolution of the upper Spheres so their change And 't is just they should submit to their essentiall Guides Amongst other novelties the first mover had brought about the point of Circular motion that has began us a New year and promises many unwonted effects Whilst these appeare let us be the same we were constant old friends to God heaven and our selves Change though to the better argues imperfection yet not to change to the better were the worst of imperfections As restles rivers hast to their Ocean so ought we to ours which is God that Ocean of bliss repose and Center of aeternity Till here arrived we are in flux and variety Let us be so but hold the right way As Grace is elder then Nature so she first begins her year Astronomers commence theirs with the springs vigour when the Sun 's in Aries the Church is content with Capricorn When her Sun 's in the Cradle that Orient of Justice and mercy the Son of God The signes melancholy yet the forerunner of more propitious So let our sorrows shorten with the nights our joyes with the dayes lengthen This solstice if we follow the conduct of the right Star will fairly move to a brighter height a nearer approach dispell our mists warme our hearts ravish our eyes This rambling prologue is but to bring in the prayer that wishes you a happy New year and that regard of times winged Cariers which in running moments may take hold of the stedfast point of eternity This is the Center of circumference In which who truly fix may be moved but not from it Then as time whirles away the measure of our mortall being it will ha●ten that which shall know no alteration but to be invariable Sir my complex●on suits the dead season at present and yeilds me but a languishing health Hence my pen's as dull You know when the bodies out of order the spirits cannot but flag I must suffer the one you will pardon the other And so to affaires that require no politure but what your patience shall give them c. 2 January W.D. LXXVI ANSWER SIR YOurs I have received read and read again and the more I read it the more I have a a mind to read it such are the incentives of your heaven-inspired lines which as they clearly demonstrate the truth of that Maxime of a modern Author that Eternity is the Port and Sabbath of all humane Contemplations So since my more earthy Soul and lesse heavenly cogitations are not able in due manner to comprehend them I wrap my self in this your learned sheet and say to it with equall wonder As Aristotle once did to Euripus Q●uia ego non capio te tu capias me T B. LXXVII A letter to a friend upon his marriage SIR I Have of late with held from you the Characters of my hand though not the welwishes of my heart conceiving you as close in the pursuit of your fair Daphne as Phabus was of his when the breath of his mouth disorder'd her dissheiveld hair For I perceive you have now ran so as happily to take the Virgin-prize may you be ever mutually happy There now onely remains the metamorphosis not into the Beast with two backs which the knavish Shakespear speaks of but of that more ingenious two into one unus una into unum which you have hinted so modestly in yours Your Daphne I hope before the arrivall of this paper will be converted not onely into Bayes but Rosemary which is one fragrancy due to her perfections if you have as I doubt not given her a true Character more then the Poet gave Apollo's Mistress Let this therefore suffice to give you both the parabien of Hymen's honours and felicities and to let you know I shall both expect and be ambitious to wear a sprig in honour of her nor will I faile heartily to commend you both to the great President of the wedding of Cana in Galilee that he may turn the bitter Waters of your long expectation into the Wine of a happy and contented life made up with the blessing of a good and pious posterity In which devotion I affectionately rest Sir Your humble servant H.T. Superscriptions FOR LETTERS to be addressed to all sorts of persons according to the usage of the present times If to a Duke TO the most Noble and some times Excellent or illustrious Prince And in discourse we stile him Grace If to a Marquess To the right Noble or right honourable And in discourse his attribute is Lordship or Honour If to an Earle Viscount or Baron To the right honourable And to begin a Letter we either say May it please your Honor or Lordship Right honorable My Lord. Which last is used only by Lords to Lords or by Gentlemen of some quality otherwise it is held too familiar If to a Baronet or Knight of the Bath we say To the honourable or much honoured And his attribute in the beginning of a letter may be Much honored Sir The like may be given to a Collonel The usuall attribute of a Knight was of old Right Worshipfull And of an Esquire Worshipful But these are much disus'd unles it be by persons of inferiour rank We say writing to a Knight To my noble or to my much honored friend Sir A.B. Knight these present To an Esquire we say To my much honored or most worthy friend T.G. Esquire Observe that when you write to an Esq you be sure not to say Master T.G. Esq for the Master is ridiculous the Esq including it So if you write to a Doctor of Divinity a Doctor of the Civil Law or Doctor of