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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

causes wyth honest quiet and sufficient contentment yet conceauing a delight neuer to be sequestred from some coyle of the worlde will still bee cloyed with many thinges as it were of purpose to occupie themselues and with theyr continuall bayting to inure theyr friendes In the course whereof the burthen of theyr vnprofitable acquaintaunce becommeth so wearisome and tedious that to hym that preferreth his competent quiet before a superfluous vnmeasurable encrochment it might seeme more tollerable to paye out of hys owne pursse for all the aduise countenaunce and pleasure that in a whole yeare might bee reaped for him at the handes of some other then but for the space of one weeke to be pestered with his messages Yea it is a payne but to reade the lettters of suche a one so intricate so importunate so peeuishe so balde and therewithall so endlesse are the progressions of the same whereof not one in a week but foure or fiue in a daye shall sometimes come coursing one after another because ●ee to whome hee writeth may stand the more assured neuer to bee lefte vnoccupied Hath not a man thinke you a fayre iewell of such an acquaintance especially when his nige●ralitie shalbe such as he had as leue for all this see him hanged almost whome hee thus toyleth as he should fare but the value of ten shillings the better by him I meane that of his owne franke will the somme therof should drop out of his own purse to his safegard But such as these standing in the moste worste degree of so detestable and shamelesse importunacy let them rest and wee in the meane tyme may admit this regard that hauing to doe with our betters touchyng oure affayres wee are by duetie estraunged from anye kinde of tediousnesse wherewith to pursue them bee it with our equalles humanitie will not permit it and standing with our inferiours bountie and courtesie wil neuer allow it And when as by anie occasion we are with writing to commend our letters to any one before our selues preferred in greater accompt needful shall it be that measuring the state of our cause with the weight of hys calling we eyther diminishe or amplifie the same as by the one may be vrged and by the other tollerated knitting what we would when leysure may not attend it in as short deliueraunce as may be and hauing scope of allowance to confirme it agayne in as weightie sorte as can be The humor likewise and accompt of the partie to be vnderstoode shall not be a little furthering as whether he be delighted with suche continuaunce of argument or taketh pleasure in shorte sentences whether hee would be sued to with difficultie or commended by entreatie whether he affecteth pleasaunt vtteraunce or is amated wyth grauitie whether he taketh felicitie in well doyng or affoordeth it hardly Requisite it is that whosoeuer taketh vpon him an entraunce into any such endeuour be wel aduised of all these the rather to purchase that opportunitie which otherwise at moste handes hee may perchaunce attayne but very slenderlie For suppose the matter stoode to bee handeled betweene my reasonable acquayntaunce and me beeyng suc● whome perchaunce I hold in some degree of familiaritie it might happe that for the good suppose and credite I haue with hym he would doe much in a cause for me wherein if vnaduisedly I shoulde presse hym by vehement writing without respect of the present oportunitie twentie to one but it might fall out that he woulde vtterly deny me by meanes wherof I should euer after become frustrate of any hope to attayn from hym any courtesie Opportunitie therefore is many times of greater force eyther to commend or vtterly disable the somme of eche mans habilitie wherin care is chiefly to be had that when those to whome our affayres are annexed remayne moste busie we doe prosecute them with lesse vehemencie And in like manner when leysure serueth that a man writing or importuning may bee regarded not to ouerpasse by too muche negligence what with ease and small solliciting may bee obtayned yet this to be done with suche consideration of the matter and partie as that we forget not if occasion so requireth that rather by bountie or other courtesie our request is to bee harkened vnto then by vayn challenge of any other respect tending to an inforced duetie An other thing which I thought good to giue in notice is to admonishe the learner to auoyd in his writing the giuing forth of anie vnused wordes or confused kinde of deliuerie of anie thing the phrase whereof impugneth the meaning of the writer or is impropper to the sence or matter in handling or vnfitting the state of the partie to whome it is directed As for example one that somtimes intended not a little of hys owne inuention tooke vppon hym to write a loue letter to a woman of very meane reputation In which after he hadde drawne God Cupid by the name of the blinded boy from those parts of fauour that neuer were in her and shewed himselfe muche passionate for the loue he ought her he concludeth the matter in this sorte Thus crauing your lawfull beneuolence in not me reiecting your aunswere comfortable and not intollerable c. The woman not accustomed to suche hote entertainment and rather bluntly before tyme pursued then daintily entreated began hereupon for sooth to waxe coy and to intend great matter of her selfe and vauntyng her fauour at a higher rate thē he belike semed afterward willing to become a purchaser of remayned as shee was and himselfe at hys more profitable studies The conclusion of his letter was very improper in somuche as requiring liking by the name of beneuolence he both misprised his owne demaund and seemed to induce a worde more sounding to a charitable reliefe or courteous contribution of money then to any such purpose as hee ment it Besides your aunswere comfortable and not intollerable If these had passed in a iest it had bene more conuenient but vsed bona fide it was too too bad especially respecting the partie what shee was from whome one would haue supposed that suche a one as himselfe coulde neuer haue receaued but by too muche tolleration anye discoutentment at all This errour wee see is not onely common to the vnlearned for aswell this one who in his profession as I was informed by hym that shewed me the letter was well reputed of but also some of the forwarder sort onely by affection of wordes whiche they haue vsed ha ue bene misliked and yet learned inough Among which a doctor of phisicke long since intending to bee very eloquent in wordes and suche as euery Carter shoulde not conceaue of began an Epistle to a booke by hym published in this sort Egregious Doctors and maysters of the eximious Archane Science of Phisick of your Vrbanitie exaspe rate not your selues against mee for makyng of thys little volume of Phisicke Considering that my

that your pleasure is turned to my pennaunce and your nicenes to my annoyaunce with as much losse as by restraint resteth hetherto vnrewarded I will master my liking til with more vsury I may be repaied in causes of loue Neuertheles not so farre estranged from you but that in anye cause of courtesie I will not forget you are a Gentlewoman and therefore yet be content as before time in such sort to respect you whereof had it not beene your contrary pleasure you needed not as you haue done to make any exception Not meaning heereafter to trouble your remembraunce with anie more of my speaches otherwise then beseemeth a familiar acquaintaunce I hereon doe conclude my laste determination and farewell VPon this resolution was defined all this matter of liking occasioning the seuerall letters hereby in order deliuered the maner whereof both in respect of the pleasure as for the be●ter opening of the occasiō to the ful conceipt of their applications and meaning I haue the more largely layd foorth And for as much as the diuersities already deliuered in this booke doe arise to so grose a volume as se●meth in quantitye sufficient for the firste perusing and that the laying hereunto the residue of the partes Iudiciall and Familiar with such other thinges as thereunto are intended to be added woulde greatlye and more then ●oble haue augmented the bignes of the same I haue thought good in this place to determine this foremost worke Praying the courteous viewers of these my labours to become as friendly censurers as gladly I haue gone abaut herein to publish my indeuours so shall they bind me by their bounty in performing no more then they owe in courtesie Laus Deo domino Iesu. Definition of a letter The longe vse of letters Epistles diuers VVriters of Epistles Three notes to be obserued in Epistles Aptnes bre uity come lines principally required in letters Comelines in deliueraunce Aptnes of words wherin to be cōsidered Ill imitators Horace Satyre The foremost motion in ducing argument Of what validitie the same shalbe Time place and oportunitie Forme of deliuerie Choyce and best kinde of speech Suche the stile as the partie in accounte to whom it goeth VVhat breuitie is Tolleration of continuaunce Breuitie in plentie of deliuerance Necessarie speeche what it is Iterations and superfluitie to be auoyded Ouermuche more tollerable then curtold breuitie Affectation of too much breuitie A pleasaunt conceite Superfluous intrudors vvithout skill or vvit Decorum what it is Person to whome we write and the cause Lightnesse or grauitie of those to whome we write Cause to be considered Horace de arte poetica Decorum indecorum Enblemata Alciat Triall onely maketh difference of wisedom or folly Character of an Epistle generall Epistles distinguished into general and speciall Letters general are familiar Letters speciall le tters whe● in is continuaunce of matter Inuention Disposition Eloquuotin Helpes to Inuention and Eloquution Stile of Epistles speciall Sublime Humile and Mediocre Skilfull vse of writing Parts of an Epistle Exordium Narratio Propositio confirmatio Confutatio Peroratio Foure contents in an Epistle Salutation Maner of salutations VVhere and how vsed Epithetts Varietie of greetinges and farewels Subscriptions Maner and varietie in Subscriptions Acknowledgment of dutye in the Exordium Superscriptions directions of the Romaines Diuersitie of estates Directions to an Archbishop Bishop Duke L. Chauncellor L. Treasorer Earles and in office Lordes Knights of the priuie councell Knight of the priuie Councell Countesses Ladies Gent. of estate L. Maior Re order Iustice of peace Ladies of worshipp Merchaunt Alderman Seruaunt Directions from the Councell thus framed Opportunitie Hurt of rashnesse Reprehension of importunacye of sommer Ill kinde of letters No sortes to be too much importuned His leysure to whome we write His humor and affectation VVant of opportunitie Oportunitie wherein it consisteth Vnused wordes and confused deliuerie to be auoyded VVordes improper and impugning the sence Errors common to the learned as well as the vnlearned A ridiculous maner of writing Aieste Vrbanitie and exasperate vnproperly placed Definition of exasperate Of Vrbanitie Correction Formes of Epistles Foure kinds or titles demonstra●iue Deliberatiue Iudicial and familiar letters Partes Demonstratiue Descriptory Partes Deliberatiue Partes Iudiciall Partes Familier Partes in an Epistle descriptorie Comparison of the writer and painter Painter VVriter Ptolomie and other writers De situ orbis Virgill in his Aeneidos Ouidii Metamorphoseo Example Exordium Narratio Scituation Deckinges Streates Gouernment Habite of the people Conclusio Exordium Narratio Pleasaunt ayre vnfrequented Inuoluntatie abstinence Hard seeding Ill lodging Danger Conclusio Exordium Narratio Sodaine sicknes Declaration of his speeches Mislyke of the world Certaine notice and liking of death His death Conclusion A declaration of the parts comprehended in euery of these letters First Letter Second letter Third letter Demonstration praise dispraise most vsed vnder other titles Places of praise or dispraise Honest which is tied to virtue Vnhonest Necessity Vtilitie Difficulcie Places of Confirmation or confutation These places referred to other kindes Exordium framed of the condicion of the partye to whom we write Narratio Occupatio Synonymi● Propositio● Praise of the prince in generall Praete●●tio Of his discent parentage Parabola Allegoria Obiectio Anthypophora Anadiplosis per Emphasin Of his infancie and childhoode Of his adolescencie Paradigma Hiperbole per interrogationem Parenthesis Transitio Comparatio ab incremento Hypophora His mans estate His outward actions His inward vertues His bounty and great humilitie His modestie Apothegma Eretoma admiratio Pelisindeton nis Eephonesis Metaphora His death Charientisunis Confutatio Prayse of his death Peroratio Epiphonema Hypozeuxis Conclusio Exordium of the cause mouing admiration Narratio Propositio Allegoria Expostulatio Epiphonema Paradoxin Hyperbole His parents Metaphora Hypophora● Apostrophe His childehood Ecphonesis● His Adolescencie Confirmatio Congeries Desperate Miserie His youth and age Incrementum Aporia Transitio ●aronomasia Pathos His inordinary sicknes His death Hipallage Peroratio Homooeteleuton Laus ab honesto Ab aequo A necessitate Ab. vtilitate A dificili Presidents of Bountie Of Liberalitie Courtesie Modestie Chastitie Continencie Patience Sufferaunce Motions spurres vnto Virtue Efficacie of praise Encoragement Hope and feare Loue and hate Commiseration Aemulation Expectation Examples Obtestation or entreaty Exordium● Paranomasia Narratio Of prayse Synonymia Andiplos●s Of example Epiphonema Amplificatio Exhortatio Confirmatio Hypophora Ab aequo Praise of his auncestors A necessitate Of expectation Of Loue. Of hate Hiperbole Intreatie Peroratio Intendmen● oft e last letters Distinguishment of the parts Responsory Epistles A modest admission of praise Dicaeologia Excusatio Assurance of his course taken Answere to his offer of good will VVeight of his expectation Conclusion Exordium ●nsinuation Propositio ●atiotinatio Increme●tum Comparati● Confirmatio Of honest Correctio Of necessarie Theworthines The necessitie Occupatio Confutatio Exhortatio Prayse of the person Loue. Delight Honour Profite Example Epilogus Learning a thing pretious Places of exhortation Mitigation of exhortation Exordium Narratio Propositio Prayse of the person Lenisieng the exhortation Ab exemplo Expostulatio Occupatio Incrementum Amplificatio Epilogus Notes in Epistles Responsorie Briefe repiticions Narratio Propositio Longanimitie performeth the excellencie of vertue Vertue hath three entrances Confirmatio Adhoratio Exhortations mixed with prayse Prayse of the action ab honesto Ab aequo necessario A genere Ab exempl● A pa●●e A spe metu Occupatio Epilogus Exordium Propositio● Distributio● Prosope●● Confirmatio Epiphonema Comparatio Mutius Se●●ola Furius Camillus Transitio Epiphonema VValworth L. Maior of London Synonymia Adnectio Ecphonesi● Apotia Dicaeologia Confirmatio A worthie saying of Camillus Comparatio Finitio Loue of virtue Hate Peroratio Exordium Insinuation by supposion o● the estate of the pa●tie Occupatio Narratio propositio Distributio Confirmatio Ab honesto Prayse of the person Confutatio Vulitie Necessitie Exordium Narratio Propositio Distributio Confirmatio Petoratio Allegoria Natratio Propositio● Distributio Antimetabole Comparatio Amplificati Amplificatio Asynditon Parenthesi● Anthypophara Oc●upatio● Confutatio Epilogus Difference of dehortatorie and disswsisorie perswsion to marriage Disswasion from the same Incommodities of mariage Perswasion to wine Diswasion of the fauour Exordium by iusinuation of mislike of the cause Narratio Propositio Incrementum Distributio Hiperbole The inhonestie Discommodity Inequalitie Ironia Indignitie Confirmatio Intollerable admittance Metaphora Hypophora Epilogus Narratio Propositio Distributio The vnhonesty Indignitie Distributio Inequalitie Confirmatio Antithesis Ill conceipt Discommoditie Parenthesis Ignomie Comparatio Consutatio Epilogu● Narratio Prepositio Incrementum Ecphonesis Distributio Parenthesis Confutatio Finitio Tde vnhonestie Comparatio Confirmatio Amplificatio The difficulcie Impossibilitie Concessio Indignitie Consutatio Perill● Epilogus Exordium Propositio● Pleonasmus Epilogns Epistles Petitorie Exordium Narratio cum Propositione Petition Honestie of request The meane to performe the same Remuneration Narratio Propositio Distributio Parenthesis Petitio Peroratio Exordium Narratio Propositio Petitio Meane of performāce Remuneration Peroratio Petitio Meane of performāce Possibilitie Remuneration Meane of accomplishment Petition Acknowledgment of courtesie Remuneration Exordium of a simile Propositio Acknowledgment of courtesie Remuneration Necessity of the matter Peroratio Acknowledgement of courtesie Petition Meane of accomplishment Remuneration Greetinges Secrecie Dispatch Epistles commendatorie Narratio Recommendation Praise of the partie Petitio Peroratio Narratio Propositio Recommendation Petition Peroratio Narratio Propositio Recommendation Petition Peroratio Narratio Recommendation Propositio Petition Remuneration Peroratio Narratio Recommendation Petition Peroratio Epistles Consolatorie Extenuation Common condicion of men Exordium Insinuation Narratio propositio Distributio Confirmatio Epithetum Allegoria Confirmatio Epilogus Exordium Propositio Metaphora Distributio Confutatio Confirmatio Eicon Anthypophora Pathos Peroratio Metonomia Exordium Narratio Proposnio Distributio Mitigation by the common hap of all Confutatio Ab exemplo Finitio Incrementum 〈◊〉 Hypophora 〈◊〉 A similie Transitio● Prosopopoeia Contraria Confirmatio Allegoria Parenthesis Peroratio Epistles Monitorie Exordium Propositio Distributio Monition by the circūstances Allegoria Confutatio Peroratio Exordium Narratio Propositio Monitio Peroratio Exordium propositio Distributio Dicaeologia Finitio Adagium Confirmatio Mitigatio Epilogus

pretence is for an vtilitie and a common wealthe And this not onely but also I doe it for no detriment but for a preferment of your lawdable science that euerie man shoulde esteeme repute and regard the excellent facultie And also you to bee extolled and highly preferred that hath and doth studie practise and labour this sayd Archane science to the which none inartious persons can nor shall attayne to the knowledge yet notwithstanding fooles and insipient persons yea and manie the whiche doth thinke themselues wise the which in this facultie be fooles in deed will enterprise to smatter c. Was there euer seene from a learned man a more preposterous and confused kind of writing forced with so many and such odde coyned tearmes in so little vttering But surely the man did it of a great conceite for as appeareth by the course of all his Epistle following his wittes were so pestered with an angrye mislike of the bad demeanour of some vnlearned vsers of his science as he thought with himself that euery botcher should not be able to vent him but he should be a man of some reach at least 〈◊〉 Neuerthelesse how wise so euer stoode his imaginations this one thing doe I knowe that diuers to whome I haue shewed the book haue very heartily laughed in perusing the partes of his writing For these egregious eximious vrbanitie and exasperate although the wordes be in some sort tollerable yet because anye of them almost are amonges vs neuer or very rarely vsed and in this writing two of them especially very vnpropperly placed the maner whereof soundeth nothing pleasaunt In so muuhe as exasperate is propperly to sette him in a farther rage that is alreadie furiously bent in a thing and besides by the action of an other manne then himselfe who as it were of a resolute will and meanyng woulde goe about to procure it so that it may be well sayde he did exasperate his furies the more by inducing suche a speache or suche an acte but it cannot bee so properlye required exasperate not your selfe for suche a thing especially when I am not therewith so muche as in anye mislike already which no man can at any time be without he first know an occasion your Vrbanitie likewise being deriued of the latin worde Vrbanus whith is ciuile courteous gentle modest or wel ruled as men commonly are in cities and places of good gouernment whereof that word taketh his originall y e word is not cōmon amongst vs nor so apt to y e sence as if he had said your curtesie your modesty so it might run thus Let not your courtesies bee agreeued agaynst me or Let it not be offensiue to your modesty that for the benefite of a great many I haue published this volume of Phisicke The ground was very good for his intendment was that the cause belonged to a common wealth wherein if anie particuler commoditie seemed to be lessened wise men and suche as were more studious of theyr countries good then of theyr own peculier gain ought not to be offended Then sayth he And this not onely but also I doe it for no detriment c. UUhat confused deliueraunce is this how muche more orderly thus whiche soundeth also more to his meaning And this also respected in that I doe it not for anie detriment vnto you but for a preferment of your lawdable science Then his comming in with arcane science Inartious fooles and insipient persons hadde it not bene lesse improper if hee had sayd profound science and vnskilfull or vnlearned for Inartious and to haue cōtented himself with his fooles without adding to the same insipient persōs Lastly he proceedeth And many the which doth thinke themselues wise the which in this facultie are fooles indeede will enterprise c. Here is the whiche and the which a phrase neuer with vs accustomed nor with any good writer in his tyme whiche was not manie yeares since the sence whereof might in this sorte more plainly be deliuered And many who in theyr own opinion doe seeme verie wise but therein are in truth verie fooles will enterprise c. But of this inough for that I think it now high time to proceede to the rest these two examples being sufficient to admonishe the learner of the congruitie of his speeches and sentences with good phrases that be moste agreeing to the meaning and not improperly to be deliuered whereby he shal auoyd the like error and absurditie in conueyance hereby expressed and already so much reprehended CAP. IX The diuision of Letters and vnder what titles al sortes of Epistles are contayned SOmething haue I digressed in order contrary to that my former determination yet not altogether from the matter or purpose hereby intended in asmuch as the effectes of that I haue deliuered ●● onely to induce the reader into an absolute and ready platforme of sound and perfect inditing and as neere as any diligent foresight may aforde to lay down what eyther best beseemeth or in any wise impugneth the same Herein could I haue discouered vnto you manye other imperfections that sondry times haue appeared vnto me in diuers writinges the circumstaunces whereof I willingly doe omit for that the carefull imitator of well doing shall by this already sayd with good animaduersion easily finde out his owne disabilitie and wherein hee varieth from anye perfection examples in our englishe toong thereunto leading and those of excellent good penning being so plentifull as they are which as it were by a line may conduct him to the reformation or redresse of what soeuer offensiue in anie part of hys writing Now therefore leauing all other by-pathes wee will directly proceede vnto the orderly deliuery and laying out of oure sunory formes of Epistles the number whereof sorting from the varietie of euery seuerall fancie may bee supposed as they are indeede to be infinite Neuerthelesse as farre forth as the most learned discouerers of the chiefest perfection therein haue hetherto left vnto vs wee will by theyr imitation limit our two distinguishmentes before remembred vnder their seuerall titles to be deuided First those Epistles therein mentioned to bee speciall for the speciall vse and obseruation of them contayned wee will deuide vnder y e names perticularities of Demonstratiue Deliberatiue and Iudiciall The others termed generall in respect of the generall matter in them accustomed shall passe as thei did before by y e name of Familiar letters This Demonstratiue kind taketh hys name of Descriptiō maninifestatiō or relation of any thyng Under whiche title are comprehended all manner of Descriptions of Regions Countryes Citties gouernementes states buildinges fieldes gardens riuers vallies parkes hilles walkes prospectes and what soeuer other like pleasures delightes and commodities according to theyr worthinesse goodnesse statelinesse value and store but chiefly and wherin they take theyr greatest force do beare in them all aduertisementes of persons manners conditions applications differences