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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

THE ENGLISH Secretorie Wherein 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 Altior fortuna Virtus AT LONDON ¶ Printed by Robert Walde-graue and are to be solde by Richard Iones dwelling at the signe of the Rose and the Crowne neere vnto Holburn Bridge 1586. VERO NIHIL VERIVS ¶ To the right Honourable Lord EDWARD de VERE Earle of Oxenford Viscount Bulbeck Lord Sandford and of Badelesmere and Lord great Camberlaine of England all Honour and happinesse correspondent to his most Noble de sires and in the commutation of this earthlie beeing endlesse ioyes and an euerlasting habitation ZEVXES endeuouring to paint excellent lie made Grapes in shewe so naturall that presenting thē to view men were deceaued with their shapes and the birdes with their cullours When Apelles drew Venus though the shew of bewtie seemed woonderful he daunted not in his workmanship because he knew his cunning excellent If in penning I were as skilful as the least of these in painting I should neither faint to present a discourse to Alexander nor to tell a tale to a Philosopher My honourable L. the exceeding bountie wherewith your good L. hath euer wonted to entertaine the desertes of all men and very apparaunce of Nobility her selfe wel known to haue reposed her delights in the worthines of your stately mind warrāteth me almost that I need not blush to recommend vnto your curteous vew the first fruits of these my formost labours and to honour this present discourse with the memorie of your euerlasting worthinesse And albeit by the learned view and insight of your L. whose infancy frō the beginning was euer sacred to the Muses the whole course heereof may be found nothing suche as in the lowest part of the same may appeare in any sort answerable to so greate and forward excellence and that the continuaunce of this slender substance is in no point matchable to manie thinges of greater science passing vnder your honourable countenaunce yet may your L. please to consider that presentes not out of the riche store and plentye a lone of the wealthiest are alwaies receiued as testimonies of regarde in the reputation of the mightiest but sometimes trifles also ensuing of lesse habilitie not honoured or reputed of by theyr valew but by the generous estate and surpassing bountie of the receiuer are accompted of moste especially For the shrowd of my defence that haue so much dared vpon presumption of your accustomed fauor to infixe your honoured name in the forefronte of this my traueile I can propoze no one in exāple vnto your L. more worthie then your selfe who not vnacquainted with the speciall partes and aeternized memorie of them all haue long since endeuoured your self to become a noble patterne of them all the exemplifieng of whose praise cannot by anie speeches of mine be herein more greatlye put forwardes then the same long since hath bene published by the renowme of your own proper vertues My humble request vnto your L. is that your gentle acceptance hereof may be an encouragement to my after endeuours for whose sake I knowe the same shalbe of many regarded and the insufficiency thereof the better protected In which besides the continuall manifestation of your owne worthinesse your L. shall binde me to honor you in al duetie and humblenes praying the eternall creator and guid of all your stately enterprises to haue the same with your L. in his fauorable protection Your L. most deuoted and loyally affected Angel Daie The Epistle to the courteous Reader IT is now sixe yeeres passed courteous and gentle Reader since importuned by the earnest requestes of diuers my especiall friendes more presuming on that they conceiued to be in me than of the veritie it selfe that thereunto might induce me I tooke vppon mee in satisfaction of their great importunitie roughlie to laie out a platforme or Methode for the inditing and framing of all maner of Epistles and Letters insomuch as for the confirmation of the necessitie of the worke the matter of their demaund they had then shewed me manie likelihoods and reasons howe much the same might profite and how well of diuers fortes of people the trauaile might be accepted The worke beeing then superficiallie begun without additiō either of any regard or industrie to the performance therof my self hauing greater desire to learne of others then to become a speciall eye-marke to be noted of all others as times and seasons altered so the fancie and conceit therof in me quicklie changed and the continuance of other exercises for the present more auailable made me to forget what therein I had before time promised whereby the deuise lay dead and as matter of noe account was euer sithence turned in obliuion Neuerthelesse about one moneth afore Michaelmas last the vacation hauing been long little to doe I ransacking diuers bundels of olde papers among the rest found out this formost for worne beginning and the Printer as then being by and perusing what it was told me also his opiniō of the matter that he deemed the trauaile thereof to be more then thanks-worthie therewithall assured me would approue verie necessarie whereupon his desire perswasion was as one greatlie affecting the benefite of his coūtrie that I would proceed on so good a ground and so roundlie went the progression of our arguments forwarde that it was at length concluded I faithfullie promised to finish some part thereof to bee published in this instant terme But considering afterwards of the labour and well perusing what before time I hadde therein done the order therof so far misliked me as that I altogether resolued to alter the forme thereby cōtinued by such resolution enforced my self to begin anew by occasion of which the latter grew greater then before and I was compelled by my faithfull worde and promise now to finish vp that in hast which before I coulde not frame my selfe to compasse vpon long continued leysure Manie no doubt shal you find the imperfections herein which aswel my self by ouer-great hast not hauing so well as I might and would if leisure had serued me perfectly perused the same haue happily omitted by lack of foresight in setting the Printer a work wherby I was I protest forced as fast as I could to scrible out the coppy and to deliuer it to presse least therby he should be compelled to stay and hinder his worke as also by like default of ouer speedie dispatch in the Printer therby misplacing diuers figures quoted in the magent where they are either mistaken or sometimes not vsed in those places at all In occurrence whereof I desire the learned Reader as