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A19966	The English secretorie VVherin is contayned, a perfect method, for the inditing of all manner of epistles and familiar letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall tytles. In which is layd forth a path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered. Nowe first deuized, and newly published by Angel Daye.	Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.	1586 (1586)	STC 6401; ESTC S119008	166,059	274

chaunge to leaue the delicacie of his own soile now in his primier ●olity to pursue straunge coas●es and the admirable scituation brauery pleasure noueltie vnknown wonders of other countries needfull shall it be that I do first make a description of the same places their diuersities and pleasures either by skill or experience to be lai● down as near as may be gessed In which if any one thing chance to appeare more excellent more pleasing or more wonderful then the rest that will I set forth at large and according to the worth●●es quantity or admiration therof preferre it to the vttermost the rather to draw him to that wherein I endeuour so fully to haue him perswaded It also I should go about to induce an vntoward sonne to the obediēce of a wel disposed father I must first describe the office and duty wherein as well by the lawes of God as by impression of nature children are tied and bound to an humble and reuerend regard of their parents Next I will by doble example commende and extoll with praise the tendred duty and louing obedience of those who in al memory and accompt are registred to haue well deserued of their elders and then the infamie shame wicked end● and destruction of such as by a secure stubborne and carelesse demeanour haue neglected or attempted the contrarie the generall praise or common mislike of each of the one or the other shall be a meane that our perswasions in such a cause may be deemed the more waighty Perswasion likewise of Friendship of Loue of Conuersation of Gouernment of Honest life beeing subiectes of those great Virtues formerly in our Hortatorie Epistles remembred maye heerein by their seuerall descriptions and praise of their worthinesse bee plentifullye perfourmed As in Friendship the description may be shewed in the efficacie which by nothing so much as example is confirmed and approoued by the common affinitie that each thinge hath with other The prayse also by the sweetnesse of Societie is preferred by the firme trust repose and loyalty thereby assur●d by the equall participation of ioyes of sorowes of euils of losses of discomfortes by a similitude of the same condition the same intendment affection or liking by the somme of ioyes happines and felicity therin contained In Loue likewise charged by nature by dutie by obedience the descriptions and praises are to bee handled in their seuerall arguments As by Nature beeing descending from parents to their children being interchaungeable also betweene sisters and brethren By Dutie which principallye belongeth vnto God to our countrye to our kinsfolke to our benefactors and followers By Obedience to our Prince to our Parents and to our superiours Conuersation also Gouernment and Honest life the descriptions wherof are in the hawnts entertainment of companies moderation in all sortes of common and vsuall exercises chast sober and laudable kinde of liuing of euery one The praises vnto them incident deduced from the estate betternes or nobilitie of any indued withall or the greatest n●mber of these To all which particularities may be added suggestions and diuers inforcements whereby to perswade a man to the acceptaunce and embracing of either of them as wherin the weight of all good counsels are chiefly preferred These and such as these are comprehended in epistles Swasorie by the neat conueyaunce whereof we moue the affects of any one to the allowaunce of our writing For which cause it shall behooue that such reasons of inducement as shall be laid downe do carrie with them their pithines and vali●itie beseeming the argument we haue in handling ●o which end these briefe aduertisementes may be receaued beeing as it were steppes and degrees wherwith the learner may be stayed vp to a more perfect consideration of the purpose and deliuery of whatsoeuer he shal be occasioned to write of by the parts of this or any other example to be the more plentifully ordered Another example of an Epistle Swasorie perswading the carefull acceptance and regard of one brother to an other THe sound and entire familiaritie wherwith your Par●ntes in their life time sometimes entertained me and the neerenes of neighbourhood twixt both our friendes and long education wherein ioyntly we haue conuersed together moueth me at this instaunt somewhat to write vnto you in respect of the reputation credite and accompt that in the world you now beare and also the rather to winne you to the regard of that which to the state of your present being and worthines of your former offspring may be found meetest and conuenient It is giuen me to vnderstand of a younger brother you haue here in London who at the time of your fathers dearh being committed to your charge is for default of maintenance badly inured worse trayned and most perilously by all kinde of likelihoode thorough such sufferance in the loosenes of his liuing already hazarded Trust me I woondered not a little when I heard it and so muche the more was the matter troublesome vnto me in that respecting it was not tolde in secret it seemed vnto me by the lookes gestures of the whole companie that heard it your good demeanour therby was very hardly censured in that standing in suche case of credite as you doe your wealth so aboundant and and your Parentes so well accompted of you would in this sort and in that place of all others suffer him to wander carelesse whome you ought to haue constrayned by any possible carefulnesse How ill beseeming it is both to you and yours that it should so fal out you may by supposes many wayes coniecture For my part it greeued me when I heard it and I was not quiet till I found conuenient time to aduertise you of it And if my opinion may at all preuayle with you you shoulde quickly call him home from hence and see him more better to bee prouided for and more worthily to bee trained vp Consider I pray you the life hee taketh in hand befitteth not suche a one whose originall was so honest is ill beseeming the yonger brother of your selfe vnworthie his birth or name of a gentleman and altogether repugnant to the qualitie of your behauiour or anye part of your liuing You are to remember that he is yet very greene now pliable to whatsoeuer may bee impressed in him as chafed waxe apt to receaue any figure like vnto a new vessell to be seasoned with whatsoeuer licour what he now taketh taste and sauour of that he holdeth what habit you now cast vp on him the same shadowe hee lightly beareth Great cause haue you therefore now to be warie how and in what sort he liueth Your industry your brotherly care your loue your especiall regard and kindnes it is that must be aiding in this you and none other are the same on whome he relieth you are to prouide for him and it is your selfe that must aunswere him Think that Nature Loue Duty yea verie Pietie

that the validitie thereof be aunswerable vnto the one the others goodnesse or greatnesse that the intendment be sound lawfull and to no euill purposes that it conteine not matter of scurrilit●e filthie and base kinde of villanie that the very decorum required in all kinde of writers be herein obserued most principallte And finally auoyding all vnseemely and bad kind of deliueraunces erepugnant to ciuilitie that nothing therein be found that may be deemed ill sitting or otherwise than beseemeth a direction so worthie This decorum the very direct square and measure wherof conduceth all thinges with such exquisite performance as whereunto neuer afterward ensueth any iust reprehension willeth as Horace in his booke de arte poetica excellentlie deliuereth that vnto euery thing bee geuen his true nature collour and proportion aswel with pen as pencill abhorring as monstrous and enemie vnto skill what otherwise vnaduisedly shall be portrayed or described by reason whereof whatsoeuer carryeth wyth it selfe a iust decorum is sayde to be neate apte and comelie the contrarie whereof as altogeather impugned is sayde to be vnmeete or vnseemely And in somuch as this decorum is a worde among sundrye that are vnlearned more often repeated then manye tymes well vnderstoode I will somewhat declare what order the same beareth in thys kinde of proportion It is therefore in an Epistle a singuler Decorum when of a common and meane cause wee yeeld common and playne speeches An indecorum agayne when vppon a grosse conceite a trifling toye a matter of no valewe wee seeke to frame high and loftie sentences To a person of meane condition Decorum willeth in writyng we giue a meane regard and a great Indecorum it shalbe to a persō of greater account not to giue sufficient and due regard A matter of grauity deliuered with weight a matter of sorrow reported with griefe a matter of pastime discoursed with pleasure a matter of follie intermingled with laughter doe eche shewe the decorum therein contained and what agreement falleth out in euery seuerall discription where contrariwise to a person sorrowfull to write of iestes to talk learnedly vnto a clown to salute an olde man with childishe fantasies in causes of common wealth to aduaunce trifles what thing more absurde or greater matter of indecorum canne be founde placed in any writing I doe remember where once I did see an Enbleme of Alciat in counterfeit by a cunning workeman excellently depainted and thus it was A man by his finger on hys mouth remaining mute yet very grauely clav not otherwise deciphered but by hys apparell and countenaunce the inscription thus shewed Cum tacet haud quicquam differt sapientibus amens Stultitiae est index linquaque voxque suae When men stand mute what difference remaynes Twixt mad and those whom wisedome rules at beck The toong it is that yeeldes or els restraines The perfect shew of wit or follies checke And no maruell for that follie her selfe layd forth in wisedomes garmentes who will doubt that heareth no● her vtteraunce but that her speache will sound to great purpose and like to the habite importe matter of great grauitie For this cause seeing before speache hadde which is the true note and testimonie eyther of wisedome or follie all men in theyr seuerall callinges are holden indifferent yet doe wee see that when suche men are discerned by theyr speeche forthwith there falleth a separation and the reuerence that all menne for the moste part yeelde to discretion maketh sufficient apparaunce what regarde skilfull vtteraunce beareth from such hatefull follie And sith common experience according to their effects and conditions giueth almost vnto euerye person what to saye and speake whereby they are not greatlye discerned vntill in matters more waightie they are employed yet how much more in vse of writing the difference thereof shall sooner be made in yeelding foorth a certaine triall of euerye mans discretion according to the seuerall occurrents whereof he shall be occasioned to envite I leaue to euery mans practize to sounde and to the vnderstanding of the grauest to conceaue Now then for somuch as hereby appeareth that onlye tryall yeeldeth difference of eache mans abilitie and what by nature he is most pliable vnto whether wisdome or follye and that by how much the nearer each one for his indeuour seeketh to attaine the perfection by suche means required wherby y e finenes of each wit is the more thoroughly sifted by so much the more he is to be regarded accompted of and especially commended It shall behooue each one in framing his Letters seeing Letters also are but a formall kinde of mutuall talke both speach and writing seruing onely to declare a mans meaning to indeuor according to the waight or lightnes of the cause to contriue his actions that they be such as wherein this decorum both in person and matter may be imbraced and the repugnauncie thereof to be vtterly auoyded the ready meane of which he shall the sooner attaine vnto by diligent regarde had and due obseruation of those three especiall notes heretofore already remembred And now to the residue in the discourse following touching the method of these Epistles to be in order pursued Of the habite and partes of an Epistle SEeing an Epistle hath cheeflye his definition hereof in that it is termed the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friend to an other it seemeth the Character thereof shoulde accor●ing therevnto be simple plaine and of the lowest and meanest stile vtterly deuoyde of anye shadowe of hie and loftye speeches yet neuertheles forsomuch as in the argument of a great many of them whose seuerall distinctions heereafter shall appeare is required a more high and lofty deliueraunce partaking many wayes with that kinde accustomed in Orations and is therefore accordinglye to be necessarily furnished with the points therevnto incident we will for the present sort all kind of Epistles onely into these two maner of differences the one part whereof shall bee sayde to be generall and the other speciall Under this title of generall shall bee comprehended all such as eyther for fashions sake custome duty courtesie or other familiaritie doe ordinarilye passe from one part to an other rather of a pleasaunt conceit or some other more district or seuere motion then of any extraordinarye cause forme or substaunce in eyther of them contained Such are those as whom either long acquaintance or auntient familiarity haue caused interchaungeably to haue performed or fatherly reuerence and seruile duetye haue bound by graue authoritye ouer children kindred or seruants accustomably to be continued These for the common and ordinary matter in euerye of them vsed beeing vtterly exempte from anye waight or grauitye at all are rightly termed by the name of familiar letters They now that be speciall are such the matter of whome as I sayd before do admit both higher stile and more orderlye deliueraunce according to the waight of the argument in anye