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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

cherish it and live since I can relish no felicity without it Indeed Madam I know not what Sacrifice to offer you for such a bounty All hearts are made tributary to your Commands yet none with so much obligation as that of August Madam Your servant E.D. XXXI The Answer Madam YOu may say of mee as a Cavalier once said of the late Synod that they had sate long and at length hatch'd a Monster meaning the Directory So have I bin long in answering yours at length my dull Genius produces this ill-shapd letter Madam if the faculty of my pen were correspondent to the devotion of my heart I could say much when as now I must be silent Yet not silent neither For every cast of my eye upon your lines begets a wonder wonder makes mee break silence I have alwayes had your sweet person and vertues in a reverentiall esteem and now the charmes of your pen have hurld mee into new admirations yet not so as to forget the old nor at any time to be lesset he● October Madam The most humble of your Devotes A.T. XXXII A letter from the Author of a book to the approver Sir N. B. SIR THis hand which hath stood so long before your Barr comes now to accuse it self of a fault by which the Judge must needs have suffered much from the offender since the soulnesse of the Copy is like to have tryed your patience more then the worth of the cause can hope to have recompencd your paines Wherefore these lines come before you to offer satisfaction at least to your civility if they fail of giving it to your judgment and the course of my life qualifies me better for civill discharges then for litterate satisfactions You shall then Sir receive by this a return of much sense of your fair and obliging carriage towards mee in the examination of my papers wherein I must desire you to consider the whole designe which aimes solely at morall regulations and does rather decline then accept any inducements to controversiall doctrines if there bee any point so incident to the subjects as my opinion must needs appeare in some dark light this may well bee connived at by so ingenious a Judge as your self who cannot expect I should dissemble my Principles though in discretion I was forbid to declaime upon them So that I conceive your abilities will make a due difference between what may critically be sifted out and what does litterally professe it self and of this last sort I presume you will find nothing in the whole work that has an open face of contention or offence Wherefore upon your animad versions I have changed the looks of such places as had any apparant features of enmity and have offered you such satisfaction upon the other points I have not altered as I hope your candor and dispassionate temper may admit Upon the opinion whereof I shall conclude that if you have found in these my meditations more matter promising good influencies upon the affections of our Country then projecting any dangerous infusions you will allow them your contribution to that effect I have singly proposed in them In order whereunto my prayers shall intend the suppliment of my pens deficiency which the lesse worthy it is of this exposure to the World the more must it owe your patience and civility for your favour to Your most affectionate servant W.M. XXXIII Vpon the new-New-year SIR MY present Theme is to give you the cerimonies in real wishes of a happy New-year Nor shall I doubt the effect since I cannot your Piety or Prudence No revolution of time can be inauspicious where these fair pair of twin-virtues are fixt and in action Time tells our hours produces change but our happines or infortunes onely from our selves 'T is vain then to accuse deaf fate when we are our own destiny or at least it in our arbitrement Prudence the eye of our life foresees disposes our affaires Piety our selves That discharges our devoirs This guides all events prosperous or adverse to our eternal if it cannot temporall felicity Hence we have a method either to prevent misery or of turning it into better luck by being unhappy Cross chances I grant are but sower friends rather to be entertained then invited yet 't is too visible none are more wretched then those that most court fortune Give mee Indifferency and I 'le bee fortunes fate and fortunate maugre her despight As to time it self the best description of it is to employ it well 'T is a thing of so swift an Essence that 't is gone before we can think what it is 'T is the measure of sublunary beings and proclaimes to us by its height how fast wee our selves fade and dwindle away The past is no more ours then frugall usage has made it so The future is not and so uncertain whether 't will ever be in our power What of it we can own is only the present and this so coy that if not taken by the sore-top 't is vanisht like a Ghost and leaves us nothing but cause to repent and gaze Ah! my friend how pretious our moments on these short Instances depends our whole Eternity Temporall existence is as fickle as temporall happinesse both participate of the nature of time are fleeting● In this casualty then let us fix on what is truely durable above floating incertainties beyond temporall lastingnesse Whilst our minutes fly from us our selves speed faster towards unchangeable permanency so we doe in naturall tendency but let us by virtue's vigours Each hour posts away with it's length of our life The old year is gone if ou● imperfections with it 't was well spent if not there 's the more ne●d we spend the New better And lest we live not to the end let 's take advantage of the begining make that our own that is so Thrift of our dayes is th' only end to make our selves in time eternally happy But I fear by this rude Rhapsody of the initiate yeare I have wasted your hourglass too much rendring my prayer of your prosperous future your present Domage But pardon because my subject time as wel as my distracted capacity fail'd me Suffice it I wish you more then I can utter or need perscribe you the way to and whilst you are blest I patrake 31 Decemb. Sir Your happy friend and joy'd servant W.D. XXXIV To a Lady residing in a Town that had lately bin besiegd Madam AFter the disquiet of your late Alarms I am bold to congratulate the re-enjoyment of your wonted repose which had I bin Generall no cause nor quarrel should have made me hazard since in all things I value your content above my own My regard to your safety had bin in such case motive enough with mee to have suspended the chastisment of that mutinous City Madam If as I hope and pray you are now both free from dis●uietude and from fear I have my hearts wish desiring as you know nothing more

must with every motion be in a perpetuall change Idem Women are feathers blown in the bluster of their own loose passions and are meerly the dalliance of the flying winds There are that account women onely as Seed-plots for posterity others worse as only quench for their fires Our daily experience teacheth us that there are women very crafty and such as under a pure and delicate skin with a tongue distilling hony often hide the heart of a Panther all spotted over with subtilty as the skin of this beast with diversity of colours H. Court Women are more inconstant then light Whirlwinds trust the Sea with feathers or March winds with dust rather and let their words oaths tears vows passe as words in water writ or slippery glasse Arg. Parth. No Hell so low which lust and women cannot lead unto Her tongue is like the sting of a Scorpion A Woman is the unnecessary Parenthesis of Nature VVorld THis word World called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifi●s as much as ornament or a well dispos●d order of things The exterior luster of the world is but a cloud in painting a petty vapour of water a Fable of Time a Diall c. He that wil now-a-days live in the world must have a veil over his eyes a key on his eare a compass on his lips This world is a chain which setters men to the ●ivel● but rep●ntance is the hand which lifts 〈◊〉 up to God He that is enamored of the world is like one ●hat enters into the sea for if he escape perils men wi●l say he is fortunate but if he perish they will say he is wilfully deceived If it be needfull to shew your self to the world 〈◊〉 then known by your vertues which are Characters of the Divinity Let men know you by your good examples which are the seeds of eternity and of all fair actions Sir B B. I have ever thought the prosperity of the world was a current of ●resh water which looks not back on any thing but hastens to pour it self into the salt sea H.C. The world 's a Theater of theft great rivers rob the smaller brooks and them the Ocean Youth I Have throughly sifted the disposition of youth wherein I have found more bran then meale more dough then leven more rage then reason Eup. Wine Love Play Rashness were the Chariot which drew his youth to downfall Constrained to obey the transport of youthfull fancies Let me call to mind all the violent pleasures of my heady youth let me sum up their extent according to those deceitfull measures I then rated happiness by let me in my fancy chew over again the excessive good I then fondly imagined in them And to all this let me add as much more joy and felicity as in my weak thoughts I am able to fadom or but aim at and then let me say and with rigorous truth I shall say it all this excess of bliss will be resumed will be enjoyed to the full in one indivisible moment of that bliss which a well passed life in this world shall bring me to in the next Sir K.D. in his Treatise of Bodies So as vvhosoever he be to vvhom Fortune hath been a servant and the time a friend let him but take the account of his memory for wee have no other keeper of our pleasures past and truly examine vvhat it hath reserved either of beauty or youth or fore gone delights vvhat it hath saved that it might last of his dearest affection or of vvhat-ever else the amorous spring-time gave his thoughts of contentment then unvaluable and he shall find that all the Art which his elder years have can draw no other vapours out of these dissolutions then heavy secret and sad sighs He shal find nothing remaining but those sorrows vvhich grow up after our fast-springing youth overtake it vvhen it is at a stand and overtop it utterly vvhen it begins to wither c. S. Walt. Rawl in Preface The harvest of his sins yeelded him now more increase of vvoes then the lusts of his youth afforded him pleasures Formulae Minores OR LITTLE FORMS For Style or Speech HE having waded thus far into the depth of his awaked intentions thought good to sound the Foord at full by He took opportunity by the fore-part and imprisoning his worthy resolution within the Closet of his secret thought● did He summon'd his wits together and set them all on the Rack of Invention Violent streams being once run out the mud will appear in the bottom Doubt the Herse of my desires To Seal the Deed of my purchased favour is the Gordian knot I most wish to unloose Who during these tempestuous storms lay at anchor in his own priv●t harbour To weave the web of his own wo and spin the thread of his own thraldom I vvish he vvould repaire hither that the sight of him might mitigate some part of my martyrdom Assure your self I 'le be your finger next your thumb He erected Trophies of his own dishonor and covered his ulcer with a golden veil Like Elia's Chariot all flaming with glory O that the Odors of my Sacrifices might ascend even to thy Altars Your mind 's a shop where all good resolutions are forg'd Our understanding is the steel and our will the flint-stone as soon as they touch one another we see the sparks of holy affection flye out It bloometh in the eyes that it may at leasure blossom in the heart That I may see some sparkles of hope glimmer in my affairs To gnaw the bridle of your impatience He felt fiery arrow● flye from her eyes so sharp that they transfixed his heart with compassion Love anger jealousie suspition drew him with four horses As innocently spoken as treacherously interpreted They murmured as do the waves of a mutinous Sea Exercise the vivacity of your wit In a vast Ocean of affairs he hath liv'd as fishes who keep silence within the loud noyse of waves and preserve their plump substance fresh in the brackish waters He sheltred himself with subtilties as a Hedge hog with his quils To behold as in the glasse of a bright mirror on the one side on the other As soon as break of day drew the Curtain of Heaven Virginity is as redolent Balm which ascends to Heaven in a perpetuall sacrifice Religion is the hive where the hony of good Doctrine is made He put them in the furnace of tribulation to purifie them O what may not depraved love do since sincere amity cannot avoid suspition Comforted with the sweet rays of this bright day-break Which hath been sufficiently declared by the sequell of his deportments She had not so much hony but withall a sting He so breath'd the air of ambition that To as little purpose as to cast chains into the Sea to tie the Ocean in fetters It was but dust he bare in his hands blown away by the wind of presumpti●n She sent it as an earnest of her comma●d He