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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10301	A president for young pen-men. Or The letter-writer Containing letters of sundry sortes, with their seuerall answeres. Full of variety, delight, and pleasure, and most necessary for the instruction of those that can write, but haue not the guift of enditing.	M. R., fl. 1638.	1615 (1615)	STC 20584; ESTC S120927	31,955	64

set it together againe what I cannot doe if I should dye in not doing of it vouchsafe my good Lord to read them and me in them with a few of your golden Angells deliuer me from a world of incarnate Deuills which with siluer daggers seeke to stab the heart of my liberty which beeing a great part of my life doe a Noble deed to saue it God himselfe will requite you and I shall bee bound to pray for you that all the good that the heauens will and the world can giue may befall you So hauing long knowne and euer loued your Honor beseeching the Almightie to blesse the same with encrease of aduancements in the worthinesse of true Noblenesse at the feete of your fauour laying downe the seruice of my hearts loue crauing pardon for my presumption I humbly rest during life Your Honors in all humble deuoted and bounden dutie and seruice W. R. A pleasant conceited Letter to a friend in the Countrey YOu write vnto mee for Newes and mee thinkes it is Newes you write vnto mee For not hauing heard from you thus long I wonder I haue heard from you at last And yet though I am merrie with your silence your Letter is welcome for I rather feared your health then your vnkindnesse but to answere your expectation let mee tell you that the occurents of this time are such as are either false and then vnfit to write or if true not worth the writing onely this I dare tell you that rich men play with the world and make a kinde of paradice vpon earth while the portion of the poore is most held in patience For my selfe I am as you left mee neither beholding to friends nor fearefull of enemies and for the world I am so farre in loue with it that I could wish I were well out of it and for your selfe I wish rather your continuance of your home louing friends then to hunt heere after fortune a day after the faire To conclude if I come neere you I will see you where so euer you are I will loue and so to the Lord I leaue you Yours what mine owne N. B. The Answere OLd wagge of the world I see thou art neuer out of thy humour I am glad to heare from thee not of thy discontents but to see now thou setst them downe which in a manner is as musique when I am sometime melancholy disposed but for the rich let them be proud only of their time for the poore may happen meet with them at their graues and proue better men in an other world For thy selfe I held thy happinesse greater in thy Contemplation then many misers in their large possessions And in briefe when thou art weary of the world come to me and let vs talke of that which all the world shall not heare of so longing for thee till I see thee or heare from thee I rest Thine or not mine owne B. S. A kinde Letter to a friend in the Countrey from the Citie KInde Anthony I am sure thou doest not maruell a little at my long silence I could make sufficient excuse were it not to tedious to write But let this suffice that a troubled minde is not alwaies in temper and the world is at such a passe that the wise are amazed at it and for my selfe such I doe finde it that as I can not get out of it so I scarce know what to doe in it for wisedome is watch't whether her workes bee like her faith and folly is much in fauour because shee pleaseth the common people so that I thinke I must turne foole if I will feed on fat meat and yet it greeth so ill with the nature of my spirit that I had rather liue as a shadow among men then bee the substance of a monster oh my good Anthony how happy a life doe you lead that may heere the Birdes sing in your woods see your Ewes suckle your Lambes in your fieldes catch a fish with a worme a Cony with a Ferret and a hare with your Greyhound and by the way as you come home contemplate more comfort then the earth can giue you for he that hath a heart to lift vp his eyes will bee of Senecaes opinion that the mind of that man is brought into a streight that can bee contented with earth and hee that were in his right wits would hold it the greatest misery in mans life to desire to liue though in misery For mine owne part I wish I were not out of it but so in it that I may not loue it but I will neither hasten my death nor prolong my life in this world but attend his pleasure that will call me out of it and the little time that I haue in it I would I could spend it in thy presence not to ease my charge nor to charge thee but that in true worth I know not a more worthy friend and thus till I see thee which shal hee as soone as I can conueniently in the affection of an honest heart I rest Thine or not mine owne R. B. His Answere HOnest Robin thy silence was not so discontentiue as thy letter was comfortable for thou writest not like the world bare words for matter but alwayes like thy selfe the fruites of true iudgement thou saiest well of the world that it is a strange passe when let the wisest heads haue the most honest hearts yet will the eyes of wickednes be prying into their procéedings while fooles craft is soone seene when they most seeke to deceiue themselues but let the fat Bulies of Bashan feed with Diues in his delicates pore Lazarus will haue a time to bee farre merrier then meat can make them Oh Robin the monsters of this age see not their owne deformities and better bee a shaddow among men then so vumanly a substance while blessed bee the spirit that hates the course of iniquity for my happines I confesse it is more then I am worthy of but most in contemplation aboue possession when the Spirit aboue Nature sees Grace aboue Reason shewing it a better world then this where it liues yet while in this little time wee passe the pilgrimage of a few dayes more pleasure is in the least creature of life then the fairest dead Idoll if I catch a Trout with a flie a Nightingale with a worme the one serues me in my dish the other sings in my Chamber and are not these comforts more contentiue then to hang on friends and hope of fortunes while the witts are dead weary ere trauaile find comfort well bee the world what it will come thou to mee when thou wilt and command what thou wilt for though I say it beleeue it thou hast not a more louing friend that will approue it so longing to so thee that I may haue my fill of discourse with thee with all the happines a heart can wish thee to the Lord of heauen I leaue thee and so rest Thine what mine owne W.

and being perswaded that I haue seene somthing in it desirest my counsaile for thy carriage through it to satisfie thy request let this suffice thee in a few wordes that I set thee downe for a caueat in all thy courses if thou bee a Courtier beware of cost if a Lawyer of Conscience if a Marchant of Credit if a Trades-man of craft if a Church-man of error if a Souldier of blood if a Trauailer of thy way and whatsoeuer of thy estate and that the world may not ouergoe thee pray to God so to blesse thee that his grace may euer guide thee and then haue thine eyes about thee feare no hurt to come neere thee but for that all nations are not of one nature nor all men of one mind make vse of thy obseruation according to the place of thy passage auoyd grossenesse and nicenesse least the one may proue as disgratious as the other displeasing cloy not thy selfe with friends and purchase no foes take héed of subtill wittes and smooth tongues for they are the closest pick-pockets in a common-wealth take heed of dead bones in nimble fingers and haue no loue to play with painted pappes least when you looke for your stake you find a bare boord sort with the best spirits practise the best excercises and loue the best people let God bee euer before thee and his blessing bee euer with thee Soe ready in any kindnesse to performe any thing that may doe thee pleasure to the vttermost of my power I rest Thy most louing father D. T. His Answere MY good Father touching your Compendium for my carriage through all courses how kindly I take it you shall know when I am able to requite it in the meane time I will make that vse of it that in much thankfulnes shall make mee thinke of your kindnes for I finde it like Ramus his abridgement of Aristotles Logicke where in a little roome a man may run ouer a world it is a little nose gay but full of swéet flowers and in the sent I finde such comfort that I will like semper viuens haue it euer fresh in my memory While I liue I will keepe it as the Apple of mine Eye and if I liue to haue a Sonne I will learne it him as a good Legacie for my selfe I take it as a portion of much loue which while I liue I hope not to part with In briefe not to vse ceremonious complements with so iudicious an vnderstanding in the thankefull heart of an honest minde till I see you and alwaies I rest Your most louing Sonne T. W. A Letter of Counsell not to be precise GEntle Cosen I feare you are more full of conscience then wit for if you follow your precise course you will proue either a silly Asse or a holy Begger for let mee tell you while we are in the world we must vse the world and neither to wish to be out of it nor to be idle in it bee not of the Family of Loue without a working Faith least while you looke vp to heauen you be shut out of Gods house to be religious I allow you and commend you ●o be zealous but in the musique of the Soule goe not a Note aboue Ela lest you be quite out of tune and when your Braine swimmes in Humors you be drownd in the depth of errors were you a Churchman the commoditie of your Altar might giue you leisure to contemplate but beeing in an other predicament you must looke about you in an other ●…ature In briefe Gods prouidence must be no excuse for idlenesse you are commanded six daies to labour not onely with the mind but all the members heare then the word of God and doe thereafter take h●ed of Hypocrisie it is the high way to hell from which God keep you and leade you in the way of Truth that in the patience of your paines you may see the fruits of your labours in which you shall best please God profit your selfe and bee no charge to your friends So in my prayers for you hoping to heare well of you to the tuition of the Almightie I leaue you Your louing Cosen M. B. The Answere MY good Cosen I feare you haue more wit then conscience to looke more into the world then your comfort aboue the world wee are all Gods Beggers for who hath any thing that hee hath not receiued and better I hold it to bee a silly Asse then a subtill Foxe and a holy Begger then a hellish liuer you wish mee religious and commend my zeale and yet while I am in the world I must bee a worldling how greeth this together wee cannot serue God and Mammon Martha was full of businesse but one thing is necessarie and Mary chose the good part I confesse want may be grieuous and pouertie disgratious in the world but the couetous GOD hateth though I bee no Chaplin shall I not bee of the Church and in Gods house I hope wee loue all one an other Now for the worke of Faith can the Spirit bee better exercised then in hearing of the word of God and when Meditation helpeth memorie may not contemplation be comfortable Good Cozen deceiue not your selfe in misdeeming of mee be you as farre from heresie as I am from hypocrisie and if your Braine swimme in the delight of Truth you will neuer drowne in the depth of error To conclude haue a charitable opinion of my disposition and I wil pray for your perfection so hoping on Gods prouidence that I shall bee no charge to your purse wishing you so cleere a sight that you may haue a most happy séeing in the true Loue of a kinsman I rest Yours what mine owne C. B. A Letter from a Knight of great place to a Gentleman to attend him HOnest Henry now I am come to the place that I haue taken vpon mee I haue many occasions of employments of many seruants among whom I want one of that sufficiencie that I know to bee in thy selfe whom I would willingly proferre to place of good profit For knowing thine insight into the world how to manage businesses in their best Natures thou shouldest ease mee of much trouble and bee a meane of thine owne good Strictnesse of conscience may bee hurtfull in curiousnesse and secrecie with sufficiencie make a great proofe of wit In briefe I know you can vnderstand me and therefore if you bee not otherwise bestowed let mee know by your answere how you like of my offer which howsoeuer shall not dislike me because I know you loue mee So wishing you what you wish your selfe till I heare from you I rest Your affectionate friend M. I. His Answer VVOrthy Knight I reioyce in your aduancement and am assured you can not want fit seruants for your employment more worthy then my selfe of your preferment but in my humble loue giue mee leaue to tell you the truth of my opinion that there is nothing puts more home to the heart of an