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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

hee grew into such a frensie and consequently into so rank a madnesse that he sate swearing blaspheming crying cursing and banning and that moste execrablie hys lookes were grimme furious and chaunged hys face terrible his sight fiery and pearsing those that saw him feared it and they that heard of it durst not come nigh him In conclusion some that pitied him more then his deseruing grieued to see that they coulde not redresse in him caused a company to watch him others to prouide warme brothes and in conclusion vsed all meanes possible to comfort him But what can man do to preuent the secret determination of tha'lmightie For loe whylest all men lefte hym and eche one stoode in doubt of hym a companie of rattes vpon a soddayne possest his house hys tables his chimneyes hys chambers yea hys verye bedd and hys lodging vpon which about which they wer so bold as in the sight of the beholders they durst appeare and come before them and beeing stroken abode and wer killed and others come in their places what shal I say the sight became so vncouth as al men shūned ech one feared and none durst abide it whereupon the miser being left alone thus pitifully died The stench of his corps admitted neither dailight nor cōpany wherin to be buried Two only that were the cōueiers of him sickned vehemently and one of them died the other is yet scarcely recouered The matter hereof seemed vnto me so strange therwithal so importunate to warne vs of our actions considering how seuerely God punisheth when he is once bent to correction as I could not but deeply consider of weighing with my self that such as was hs life such was his death the one being hated of many the other not to be tollerated of ●anye The circumstance whereof referring herewith to your deepe consideration I do bid you hearily farewell WE haue not in the former Epictle so much endeuored to praise extol the incōparable worthines of a hie mighty Prince as the argument of this letter hath occasioned vs to discommend the person of a moste vile wicked liuer either of which haue bin the more amply set forth to th'end to manifest therby how much and wherin y e excellency or dignity of one thing may be either iustly aduanced or worthely condemned Now touching the deeds and actions of men In what sort they are to be preferred or disabled is also to be collected out of the places before remembred And herein it shalbe necessarie to call in question whereout the partes therof are to be drawne as from the body wherein is included either plentie or want of strength or actiuitie From the minde as whence ensueth Prudēce Iustice Fortitude or Temperance or y e coutrarieties thereof From fortune as where-fro is deriued Honour Worshippe or Wealth Out of all or some part of these doe proceede the weight and matter of any action as if the state thereof consisteth in bodely force I doe vse thereunto valor and strength if it rest in sway or gouernment I conferre therein Wisedome Iustice and Modestie if it be in causes of common weale bountie estate or liberalitie I herein applie Honour Worshippe Habilitie or Riches The action standing in regard of Pietie reputation Honour or fame for the conseruation whereof any one hath delte worthilie or wonderfully hereunto must we induce Fortitude whose propertie is stoutly to beare in whiche is contayned Magnanimitie to couet and aspire vnto thinges excellent and to contemne thinges base and lesse permanent Longanimitie constantlye and resolutelye to indure Patience meekely and willingly to tollerate Then Temperaunce the partes whereof are Modestye Chastitie Continencie Sobrietie and Meekenesse The Confirmation and Confutation occupyed in all which are gathered of Honestum or Inhonestum as I sayde before Vtilitie or Inutilitie Difficulcie or Impossibilitie Examples of these might be sorted diuersly as in the person of Dauid I coulde commend hys combate agaynst Goliath first ab honecto in that he beeing the seruaunt of God fought against a blasphewer also in his Princes quarrell and the defence of hys Countrey ab aequo because it is meete and conuenient that in causes so perilous the strength of eche one be applyed A necessitate insomuch as thereon depended the sauegard of the Prince and people Ab vtilitate for that he killing such an enemie brought to theyr own countrey peace quiet also braue the other part in subiection to his king and people A Difficili because the vndertaking thereof was so muche the more waightie by howe muche himselfe was as it were an infant agaynst a mightye Gyaunt vnarmed against him that was armed vnfurnished against him that had all maner of complementes of warre weake where the other was strong besides that the terrour of his challenge and hugenesse of stature had before daunted the armie and put them all out of conceite insomuche as the doubt was so generall as no man dared to vndertake the quarrell herein onely is praysed of bodily force his Actiuitie and nimblenesse of Vertues his wonderfull Magnanimitie y e by a couragious desire durst vndertake the same his affiance in Iustice and equitie of the cause His Pietie to God his Prince and country His Fidelitie whose lyfe was not spared when eche one drew back to be brought in hazard for all these Now in causes of sway and gouernement a man might be praysed for his great wisedome wherby in handling of some notable actiō in ambassage or consultation he hath onely by graue aduise industry discreet serch perswasiō or circumspection cōpassed waighty matters to the cōmon weale or thence anoyded huge imminent dangers Cicero in the coniuration of Cateline being a mightie ennemy against his owne city of Rome might herein be an excellent pattern who without stirring the people at al without any maner of bodily resistance or force of armes without passing by any priuate or indirect means did by the sole matter of his Wisedome weightines of speech forcible reasons enforcements rebukes and perswasions driue him cleane out of the Citie and being expulced to the common peace tranquilitie and suretie of the same did afterward by like demeanour industry and circumspection so preuent his purposes so circumuent his pollicies so turne him vpside downe as hee dared not he could not he shamed to perpetrate what so often he hadde sworne and so many wayes intended For some one rare singuler point of Iustice men also might be extolled as besides common expectation executing the same A president hereof might be the L. chiefe Iustice of England in the time of king Henry the fourth who was so strictly bent to the obseruation of Iustice as hauing one of the princes seruauntes arraigned before hym at the kyngs bench barre for a fellonie and being one that the young Prince greatly at that time of his youth fauoured The Prince came to the barre and at the Iudges handes requyred his seruaunt who aunsweared that he was the kinge his fathers prysoner and stood there vpon his triall by law for

euerye man will not deale with you as I doe It can not chuse but you must needes know nay rather be a partaker of your sons euils how euer you dissēble with the world face out the matter before people Take heed I saye God when he striketh smiteth home you will els repent it for it will none otherwise be Because I haue yet some hope that by driuing into your conceipt the enormity hereof and discouering the packe which you said was lockt vp frō your seeing I haue hoped that at the least wise for the feare of God to saue him from the gallowes you wil endeuor to chastise him I haue sent this bearer who can inform you of the truth time place of that which you go about to shrowd vp so couertly and if afterwards you will not bridle him I protest his shameles forhead must be corrected by iustice and the lawes must further passe vpon him Surely not for en●y of the person but for the shameles brow he beareth as one that had don none offence to prouoke me by euil vsage to blaze his faults that otherwise by good coūcel would haue couered thē I think it a deed meritorious to haue him punished If you haue a desire as a father to cherish him haue regard as a friend be times to correct him otherwise you shal soner see him come to shame then any waies climb vnto credit But for ought I can heare both father and mother are so addicted to the bolstring of his doings as that it semeth they haue already vowed their infamy to the worlde and his lyfe to the gallowes Good councel may do much thogh in tast I seeme a bitter enemy the proof in trial shal be better then a fawning friend DIuers other patternes of sondrye occasions concluded vnder this title might besides these be here put downe whereof because I haue so largelye spoken in the discourse before these Epistles and that as well this Monitorie as all other letters passing vnder the Deliberatiue kind do consist chiefly in aduising or disswading whereby the Theame belonging to euerye of them is inlarged I thinke the examples alreadye propone● to be sufficient And now the last of all these deuisions yet vnspoken of is Amatorie whereof because the humors of all sortes therewith being possessed are so infinite and so great an vncertaintie as perchaunce euen in the very writing of his letter the louer him selfe is sometimes scarce certaine of his owne conceipts the lesse must of necessity be the precepts of the same directions for that in some of them we require and entreat in other some expostulate the matters and occasions falling in the neck therof other times complaine an other while fawne and speake fayre then purge or cleare the accusations supposed against vs. Finally innumerable are the supposes wherewith the raynes of loue are conducted For which cause leauing the curious regarder of these to the ordering of his owne imaginations vpon what conceipt so euer the same shal be grounded I will also amongst the rest present vnto the readers choice some small nomber of these in pursuing whereof the seuerall occasions beeing annexed maye giue the more perfect measure vnto the conueiance of their particular meaninges You shall therefore vnderstand for the first of these examples that the writer thereof louing a Gentlewoman whose inward virtues surmounted far the parts of her outward fauour and hauing sondry times receaued at her hands both allowaunce and libertye to declare his mind whereunto she neuertheles gaue a modest courteouz refusal he thereupon deuised to conuay the residue of his imaginations into the melancholy form of this letter following MAdonna when I doe consider with my selfe the sondry casualties and manifolde inconueniences wherwith mortal men are daily afflicted I do suppose that in the chariot of this wearisome life there is more occasion left to beholde our ineuitable miseries then mean sufficient to be founde how and in what sort to preuent their euilles The naked ensamples of others yeelding heereunto but a bare addition might peraduenture seeme of small moment for the confirmation hereof if happelye our selues by crooked mischaunces did not also in some sort participate the common occasion thereunto most chiefly ministred But leauing this generalitie to be applied in the vtmost boundes of my selfe it may fall out that with your fauour and courteous remēbrance of my passed speeches hauing heard also and heerein pondered the iuste accusation of my owne infortunitie you will rather pittie the litle pleasure that I haue in my bountifull penurie then thinke that vnaduised I am led to exclaime vpon the sodaine chance of my late iniuries To decipher you as a friend I can not To make you the choyce occasion of my euill I may not To leaue you as a straunger I dare not And to giue you ouer with silence I must not To wade in all these extreamities were insufficient to anye one mans possibilitie but to be touched with the least of thē breedeth an vnacquainted mysery If I herein speak yet blame me not If I require aide condemn me not If too liberally I do proffer impugne me not And if I stay on hazard enuy me not Thinke good La that if I am attached with liking the choyce was my louing if I prostrate my liberty the cause is your excellency if I pine in extremitie your loue yeeldes a remedye So it might stand with your modesty I could inferre herein many occasions to your reading why and wherefore I loue you and might I not speake the same presumptuously I could shew you also why and how you could and might vouchsafe to requite me What necessitie I haue to vrge me I leaue to knowne experience how farre I am induced by mine owne intended loyaltye I commend to silence Onely if my deserts by your fauour may seeme sufficient I pray that you will vouchsafe such remedy as in triall may be founde expedient I woulde be loath to seeme importunate in cause of demanding least I might seeme vnfortunate that haue bowed my selfe to your commaunding If I might not be deemed partiall I woulde affirme that as I neuer founde you vncourteous so in anye respect you ought not nor in equitie may becomme iniurious vnlesse in transgressing the boundes of loue you wilfully do inferre more cruelty then at an other time maye be wyped away with protested piety Because my letters shal not be tedious I will ende my complaint with this one peticion that if in the greatest of mine affection I may deserue any little remembraunce at your handes you will reward with good countenaunce my protested inuiolable seruices in the depth wherof accompanied with hope and expectation of your assured courtesies and vowing the residue of my liuinge to the contemplation of your surpassing excellencies I seale vp the foldes heereof with the impression of innumerable sighes and bequeath them as hastely as they maye to the touch of your