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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

seruaunts that the great zeale and loue you doe beare vnto me is a vehement occasion to kindle in you a desire of wel-wishinge and intendement of assured safetye towardes me wherein I haue more cause to thanke your good willes then meane thereby to imagine the force of my disease to be lesse then long since I expected and exceedinglye in my selfe haue euer doubted what wordes of comfort protraction delayes soeuer haue by the Physitions to the contrary beene vsed One great and exceeding comfort vnto me is that liuing I euer loyally demeaned my selfe dying I shall depart this world in her Maiesties good grace and especiall fauour Next vnto that the loue of you my dearest friendes and entierly beloued seruaunts and followers whose hartes I know doe pursue me and whose affections euen to the last gaspe of death I am perswaded to bee euer firme and fixed towardes me Your desires are I know that I should lyue according vnto which the least mitigation that may be of my griefe you measure by and by to the hope of amendment which is not so For that in all the comfortable speaches that sundrye times I haue receaued from you my self to whom the inward effects thereof haue beene founde most forcible haue euer mistrusted and by many probable circumstances adiudged the contrary Long time endure I can not this know I well happely a day two or three I may yet be conuersaunt among you for my decease that standeth assured the messenger wherof continually knocketh at the doore of my imaginations readye euerye howre to assault my harte and to carry away with him the spoyles of a dying carcase will not permit I shall long time trauell in this sort among you And for my selfe stande yee all asserteined that hauing long since peized in equall balaunce the long continuaunce of a fraile wretched and trauailed life the moste part whereof is carryed awaye in sleepe sorow griefe sickenesse daunger and the residue also neuer freed of care and all maner of disquiet with the hope of an euerlasting ioy happines rest peace and immortall residence I finde no reason why I should at all affect the toyle of such earthlye tediousnesse Insomuch as hauing liued now almost three skhore and thirteene yeares and borne my selfe honourablie I trust in all mine actions and seruices and further in the progression of my ripest yeares yea in this very instaunt more then at any other time am regarded of my prince and esteemed of my country and among my peeres reputed in the highest degree of my fidelitie I shall now die as becommeth my person worthelye and honourably Be you therefore recomforted I praye you as I am and thinke that for all the loue you haue ought me the seruices you haue done me or tender care you do yet in my heauiest panges beare vnto me the chiefest content you can doe vnto me is that you be satisfied herein with me That beeing verilye resolued in my soule of all that I haue heere sayde vnto you and hauing ordered mine actions and prepared my selfe thereto accordinglye I doe willingly and with a right contented mind leaue this transitory worlde so replenished as it is with so manye greeuous casualties and hartely do giue my body to his naturall course my soule into the hands of the Almighty creator for euer in his glory I trust to be eternized This speach ended he continued till after midnight at which time he had about two howres slumber and so beganne his paine to encrease againe In which till wednesdaye following almost in one state he for the most part remained often-tymes accustoming him selfe with those that were about him to prayer many times recording to him-selfe the goodnesse of God and his mercies to him remembred and that with such zeale enteire regarde of his hoped repose as that it still seemed and was euidentlye apparaunt how muche he longed and thirsted for the same In fine drawinge by little and little to an ende euen in the verye last pange ioyning his handes vp to heauen his hart eyes thitherwarde fixed he recommended eftsones him selfe to the mercy of his redeemer and on thurseday last about two in the morning dyed to the lamentable griefe of all that were about him who hartely sorrowing his losse were forced to shed teares aboundauntly The day of the funerall is not yet certaine but the same is intended very honourably Recommending my selfe vnto your La. in all humblenes I take my leaue At our sorowfull house of B. this of c. THese three Letters being all as you see of one suite yet diuersly handled according to the seueral matters in them contained do beare in them two only parts of an Epistle whereof they be solye consisting A briefe Exordium in each and then Narratio throughout Peroratio there is none because by collection there is no inference made of any the matters continued but a Conclusion vsed with breuitie wherein eyther greetinges or farewell to knit vp the Epistle is mentioned The Exordium of the first ariseth from the person of his Unkle whose authority was a charge vnto him to informe the speciall notes of the country The Narration by demonstration of the particulers of the City describeth therof the worthines statelines and the excellencye as firste it is mentioned to bee auncient as builded by Nero. 2. Then pleasauntly scituate by reason of the ayre and fertilitye of woodes and waters 3. Next by the sumptuous and statelye buildinges whose descriptions are extant 4. Fourthly the fashion equalitie and largenes of their streates and houses 5. Fifthlye their Magistrates and long continued gouernement 6. Sixtlye their apparell reteyning yet the monuments of their autient dignities 7. Finallye the goodnes of the soile measured by their complexions The Conclusion knitting vp the state thereof mentioneth a discharge of promise and courteous recommendations c. The seconde Letter hath his Exordium briefe of the freindship betweene both parties each longing to be informed of the others wel-fare The Narration occupieth the description of vnfrequented places As first they haue onely the commodity of the soile which by reason of the ayre is well scituate without any fruite at all thereof because it is not inhabited Secondly there is nothing to encomber them with but the care to defend them-selues which is easie and to get victuals which is impossible Thirdlye nakednesse of the people without ciuilitie and thereby barred from anye common societie Lastly the subtiltie of their disposition to lye in waite beeing men eaters whereby some of their company haue sometimes beene entrapped The Conclusion sheweth a short return Feruēt desire of safty The third caryeth his Exordium of the decease of an honourable peere and the desire of her to whome he wryteth to be aduertised of the same The Narration by circumstaunces inferreth the sodainnes of his death because by some hope of recouery it was at that time vnexpected Then a

ill beseeming of the cause the discommoditie inequalitie difficulcie insufficiencie impossibilitie ill conceite or intollerable admittance in the vse or compassing of the same All these notwithstanding in one sole Epistle not at all tymes vsed but eyther admitted or reiected as is in the matter circumstaunce thereof many times to be required As in a cause of wrong the Inhonestie of the thing in handling by ilnesse vnusednesse iniustice oppression detriment or damage thereby ensuing is to be disswaded the Vnworthines by the credite or reputation of him that tendreth the same to bee measured the Il-conceit by the mislike that all men generally doe retaine of the action and high contempt wherwith they are woont to entertaine the memorie therof the Discommoditie by the exclamations of the party iniured calling his honest fame in question the Difficulcie by the stoutnes of him to whom the same is offred and his known ● abilitie to withstand it the Intollerable admittance by the haynous apparance therein deliuered Disswassions also may be vsed to a man not to entermedie in hie or meane oecasions so termed either in respecte of hys owne desertes respecting or regar●ant to farre better or more lower purposes or in weight of his habilitie or disabilitie wherby he is put forward or drawne backe in the acceptance therof either by reputatiō or wealthines Here the insufficiency impossibilitie or difficulcie is to be required the more effectually therby to disswade by what therein coniectured to be hindering or disproouing to the matter intended Now by this alreadie said and by the application of the seueral partes herein debated to anye other lyke occasion in writyng to be ministred it may with more facilitie be adiudged where and in what sorte and to howe muche purpose the whole or greatest number of these in any lyke Epistle may be effected The example inducing the orderly laying out of which in theyr seuerall places now next of all succeedeth An example Disswasorie wherein a man of wealth sufficient is disswaded from the marriage of his daughter to the riches of an olde wealthie Miser SIr I am not a litle greeued for the loue I ow you to see that in these ripe years of yours wherin men commonly are freight with discretion you neuerthelesse doe verie indiscreetlye goe about to compasse a matter so repugnaunt to reason or anie manner of considerate and sage aduisement as whereat the worlde can but wonder and whereof al that know you or by anye meanes may vnderstand of the match wil no question greatly accuse and for euer condemne you It is deliuered with vs here for certain that you are intended vpon the doting affection of a miserable olde man your neighbour whose yeares are as welfreight with diseases and his manacled and benummed olde ioyntes with imperfections as his barred cofers with coyne to marrie vnto him my neece and your yongest daughter vpon a soddain and that to the furtheraunce thereof you offered to contribute of your owne store a reasonable and sufficient portion Trust me when I heard it at first I deemed it as a counterfait iest thinking that the man whome I so wel knew before time could not on a sodain become such a paragon as whereon a mayden of her fewture youth accomplishment and fauour could so quickly become enamored neither thought I that howsoeuer the dotage of the olde man stoode as a conceite to smile at that you for your part woulde so muche as vouchsafe to hearken to it especially at any time so seriously to speak of it muche lesse to open your purse to become a purchaser of it or by constrainte at all to inforce her fauors to giue signe or token anye wayes vnto it Alas sir was there no one thing more wherin besides you could onershoot your selfe but onely in so bad a purpose an action so vnhonest an intendment so vile a matter so much impugning nature as that the verye earth or hell it selfe coulde not belch out against the fayre Virgine so huge and so intollerable a mischiefe to matche I saye the matchlesse fauour of soe yong and dainty a peece to the filthy tawnie deformed and vnseemely hue of so wretched and ill fauoured a creature What nature is this to worke vnto her whome of your owne flesh you haue engendred whom so long you haue nourished whom to such and so many perfections you haue trained vpon a sodeyne naye euen in one moment to manifest an occasion to cast her away not yeelding vnto her heauye censure so great a benefit as death but tenne thousand griefes the least of all which is worse then anye death that maye be wherein comfortlesse she may complaine grieue and bemone her selfe without any reliefe at all but by the precious price and hazard of her owne soule How vnequally do you deale herein to render vnto her beeing scarce sixteene yeares of age a husband enfeabled by foure skore yeares and vpwardes whose toes are swolne with the gowt and legges consumed with the dropsie whose leane carkase beareth no apparance but of olde scarres and stiffened limmes become vnweldie supporters of his pined corpes whom furres must fence from the least blast of cold and dew of nappy ale cherish with warme fiers whose night cap carieth more store of heat then all his bodye doth of agilitie or strength and nose farre more fruitfull then fauorie with distilling drops down trilling frō thence in freshest spring of the ioliest seasons maketh ill fauored refections What wrong do you tender the poore maiden therein How vnworthye and farre ill beseeming is the same to her who hath such a father and apparantly shalbe known to be such a mans daughter shall you not therein be noted of great follie will not all men laugh at it pittie it crie shame of it and her selfe poore soule pray to God to reuenge it It is too muche intollerable beleeue me that you should endeuour in this sorte by collour of your fatherly aucthoritie to constraine her whome albeit she is your childe yet may you not thus forciblie compell vnto so vnused and vnnaturall extremities Consider with your self how greeuous the thing you goe about to compasse maye retourne vnto her and whereas lyking and choyce is of all other thinges in case of mariage to be accompted most dearest you not onely against her wil doe endeuour to induce a breach thereof but also doe giue her ouer into the handes of such a one whose inequalitie so far foorth diffeuereth from her appetite as that it can not otherwise but as vnto all others so vnto her chieflye becomme insufferable Haue you no more care of her that is your daughter but when now you haue brought her to that passe wherein shee should participate the virtuous and modest vse of that whereunto her yeares haue adapted her and for which ende and sole purpose mariage was by Gods sacred ordinaunce at