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A16786
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A poste with a packet of madde letters. The second part
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Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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1606
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STC 3691.3; ESTC S237
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low and verie backward by cutting it afore their ful growth and your trees are so wasted that thee is scarce a piece of timber worth the felling your Moor is shrewdly spoyled for lack of draining and your pastures are so ouergrowne with bushes that it wil aske greate cost in stubbing before it be brought to any good passe yet not withstanding for that we haue been vpon speech for it and that you seeme willing to deale with me if you wil pitch a reasonable price your mony shall not bee long deferred I pray you therefore â—f I may haue it as I told you if it be a hundreth pounds more I care not but further indeed I will not goe a penny let me know your mind by this bearer out of hand for I am offered I thinke a better bargaine but for my Records sake and the rather to be your neighbour that we may now and then haue a game or two at Bowles hoping of your good health your bedfellowes I commit you to the Almightie From my house this 13. of Iune 1604. Your very louing friend E. F. A letter to a proud Mistris HOwe beautie will make a foole proude I would your plaster worke did not witnesse but had you witte to helpe wickednesse you would put a Parrat out of countenance your countenance is made after your conceite as ful of merrye tricks as a Monkey and for your foote pace I thinke you haue sore heeles you walke so nicely as vpon Eg-shels your haire is none of your owne and for your steeple tyre it is like the gaude of a Maide-Marian so that had you a foole by the hand you might walk where you would in a Morice daunce Oh fine come to it howe it fiddles like a Hackney that would tire at halfe a mile Wel your Tabacco breath with your tooth lesse chappes will be shorâ—ly such bad ware that you will stand in the Market and no man bid a pennie for you but what doe I meane to spoile paper with such matter and therefore I wil heare abruptlie end wash your face scoure your hands put on a cleane smock get you to your prayers repent youre wickednesse and mourne to death for your soules sake for your carkasse is not worth the carrying to the earth and so hoping that in a good humour you wil doe somewhat better then hang your selfe I leaue you to his mishappe that finds you for the most filthy creature on this earth till you be neuer more seene in the world Your poore friend at a pinch B.T. A vile answere of a perilous wench BEtwixt a railing Knaue and a Rascall what is the difference and from a nitty Rogue what can be lookt for but a Lowse Oh diuell incarnate who euer knew such a villain Your haire I will not meddle with for feare of a fall but I wonder the Iewellers doe not deale with you for a face where a pinne can scarce stand betwixt a pearle and a Rubie Oh the french Rewme bids you keepe out of the winde for fear your suel stakes scarce hold vp a rotten carkasse nowe in steed of a morice dance you know the hey vp Holborn where the Hang-man at the Gallowes stayes to learne you a newe turne but thou wretched worme vnworthy the name of a man get thee to thy knees aske forgiuenes of all the worlde make thy confession in the Cart and commend thy soule to the Lord for thy flesh the dogs will not meddle with and so in hast hoping my letter may come to thee afore the last cast I end in hast Thy charitable friend B. C. A letter of Challenge to a Swaggerer SYrra your swaggering is so foolish that children laugh at you where you goe and for youre valour if your father bee awaie your sworne will doe no hurt your tossing of pots feare none but flyes and for youe braue wordes they are nothing but winde but least I doe you some pleasure in telling you of your faults let this suffice to make an end of al matters Tomorrow in the morning you shall haue mee by eight of the clock in the field beyond your lodging neere vnto the poolâ— where if you dare come alone you shall find me without companie ready to doe more the I will speake till when expecting no other answere then your selfe I rest Your auowed enemy I. T. A dogged Answere DOE you imagine mee a Philistian that you beginne to plaie Goliah in a Letter I assure you if your deedes be like your wordes my father will not abide the winde of you but for my sword it hath a point and therefore cares not a pointe for you if you be not drunke I muse what madnes doth possesse you but the best is I hope nowe you haue spoken you haue done for I will be there where you appoint but I thinke will not performe but as you tell me of my faults I hope to whip you for yours and so sorrie to haue lost so much time about idlenesse I end Yours as I haue reason F. R. To my very good cosen M I.D. at his house in Swandes COsen I vnderstand you are determined to put your younger sonne apprentise to a Merchant beleeue mee I allow of your resolution heerein for I that haue trauailed farre and seene much can speak somewhat of them and theire noble profession I could well giue it a higher title for a righte Merchant is a roiall fellow hee is desirous to see much to trauail much and sometime to gaine a little doth aduenture much though sometime for a little adueÌ„ture he doth gain much but what are the sundrie natures of perils as well at Sea as at land as well of his goods as his person none knoweth but himselfe or like himselfe but hauing trauailed farre and finished his voyage after his safe returne hauing giuen God thankes note what is the course of his life to obserue a comely order in the citty and enrich many poore men by the retailing of his goods who sit at ease and sell in their shâ—ps that he with great â—oil danger fetched out of farre Countries Now say his gain be great let it be answered 〈◊〉 y e desert of his trauaile shall a faire or a fine horse brought out of Barbarie bee heere finely kept well fed and neatly dressed and richly attyred and shall not a Merchant that hath trauailed many Miles beyond Barbarie not bee thoughte worthy of a fine house good land dainty faire and an honorable title for the resolution of his aduenture and the toyle of his trauaile shall a Lute or a Citerne brought out of Italy bee put in a case of veluet and laced with gâ—ld for well sounding and shall not a Merchant that fetcht that Lute and went farre further then that couÌ„trie for better commodities not be thought worthy of his gaine and honoured for his minde shall the Lawyer fâ—ll breath at an high rate and shall the merchant be grudged his price for his wares what