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A88605	Loveday's letters domestick and forrein. To several persons, occasionally distributed in subjects philosophicall, historicall & morall, / by R. Loveday Gent. the late translator of the three first parts of Cleopatra.	Loveday, Robert, fl. 1655.; Loveday, Anthony.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3225; Thomason E1784_1; ESTC R202761	129,573	303

till such time as by the perusal of persons of unquestioned judgment they were return'd to my hand highly approved And of these no inducement more impressive nor efficaciously perswasive then the incouragement of a person whose judicious pen has sufficiently discovered his abilities to the world by expressing him without any other additional delineature the master of a rich Fancy being generally known to be not onely an approved Professor but a constant Advancer of all humane and divine learning singularly vers'd in both and whose affectionate intimacy to this Author as it highly obliged him in his life so have his judicious lines conduced no less to the perpetuating of his memory after his death This may appear in the very first Letter which this person of honour was pleased to address to me wherein he has returned with a modest candor the opinion he retained touching this ingenious Author whose blameless repute and fair deportment in the whole progress of hislife mannagement of his affections and current of his actions superseded all censure The Author indeed had a resolution if God had lent him life and enlarged his houres in a parallel line to the apparent progression of his raising hopes to have seen these as they were by him occasionally composed so methodically disposed and completed and to bestow a meriting addition on his Pen in such manner polished and refined as they might have clearly discovered the precious quality of that Mine and purity of his Mind from whence they derived their extraction As for his Pen give me leave to return that opinion of it which all men who with recollected thoughts have seriously read him ingeniously retain'd of it his Stile was such as it knew how to present State without affectation render a modest censure without bitterness and close the period of his Discourse with incomparable sweetnesse Neither were his parts onely deserving his education and descent held an equipage to those Native imbellishments To the surviving reputation whereof I shall give you this account He was well descended his education was in the University of Cambridge where in his greenest years he did not shake off the yoak of discipline and devote himself to the soft blandishments of sensuality but was sedulous to his study and 't is like had atchiev'd some suitable preferment had not martial times occurr'd no friend to Science and disturbed his studies this made him run the same fortune with others who liv'd to study were driven to study to live for as that pure Italian Wit Petrarch sometimes said Mars his Armory and Minerva's Meniey run so much upon divisions as they seldom cloze in a graceful harmony And thus his determinations were forced to a hait but his active soul mov'd in the Sphere of Virtue and in those cloudy dayes was pregnant in something that still witnessed that Virtue was his Mistriss and many ingenious Pieces fell from his Pen which hereafter may see the World and deserve thy perusal if clear Fancies may suit with the constitution of cloudy times He had acquir'd to himself the Italian and French Languages out of the last his Version of Cleopatra which he call'd Hymen's Praeludia the first three Parts are extant and gain'd applause how his Letters will arride thy liking I know not do as thou shalt find them So I take my leave Farewel A. L. Vpon Mr. ROBERT LOVEDAY's Effigies LOVEDAY thy feature here by FATHORN drawn Though it display his Master-piece of Art It cannot represent the smallest grain Of those clear rays of thy diviner part The Royal fancies of thy loyal heart For those transcend the Pencil and must be No Objects of the Eye but Memory Upon the Embleme THe Widowed Turtle leaves the flowry Grove To solemnize the Obits of his Love Love day he may but in a secret cave He spends each minute on his Spouses Grave And when the Sun his glorious course has run He addes this Note O must Love lie alone Since Turtles tears such Obsequies do make We should be Niobees all for thy Love-sake For Fame averrs nere any di'd so young In love more richly stor'd in hopes more strong The Emble me explain'd LOok on the radiant splendor of that Sun Look on that Turtle in her Ebon-cave Whose amorous threed of life wov'n up and spun Look how her Spouse bedews his Widdow'd grave And in these Modells you his Embleme have The Turtle of his Bodi 's gone to Earth The Turtle of his Soul to her first Birth Nor must these two divided long remain Eternity shall cement them again Where these Two Turtles with Angelick wings Shall live and love and laud the King of Kings Upon the death of his ingenious and much bemoaned friend Mr. ROBERT LOVEDAY COuld pregnant Fancy Goodness or prompt pen Have here procur'd thee residence with men Thou hadst injoy'd it But Time held it fit With Immortality to perfect it The Law of Nature must give way to Grace And Grace to Glory shown thee face to face If this advantage over-strip not th' rest I shall appeal to those who lov'd thee best But Heav'n and Earth are of a different Clime So must we hold Eternity and Time He who has God has all he cannot want Though Pilgrim here there an Inhabitant Such is thy glorious state Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori Caelo beat Hor. being rankt with those Whom though we lose they gain by what we lose LOVEDAY thy Name did to the World display That all thy * Tota dies opus extat amans mirabitur aetas Si mento juvenis mens foret ista senis Afran Day was Love thy Love all day Both which so joyntly in their Centre meet As they have made Eternity their seat Never did downy chin more sage produce Nor in his youth nurse a maturer Muse None more entirely dear unto his own Nor higher fam'd where He was lesser known Whereof his Cleopatra witness gives In which though dead his rate Translation lives NOr shall you finde in these Perswasives less Then what his rich Romances did express In his perusal he approves them such Whose Brain can judge or he has read too much R. B. LOVEDAY's LETTERS LETTER I. To Sir I. P. Sir IF I sin in troubling you with fruitless lines call it rather the weakness of my judgment then the error of my love which is in too perfect health to lie speechless The thanks I ow you I confess are disparaged by my feeble expressions but could you read their more secret character you should find them drest in a more becoming attire To tell you my best wishes are Pages to your happy success I hope were to Tautologize to your knowledge at least belief and though it be no forlorn hope it shall march in the front of my Prayers For your disposal of me though I totally relinquish my self to your discreet commands yet my humble and earnest desires rather aim at the service of Sir T.B. then the

LETTER CXLVII SIR I Must not give you cause to suspect I can forget you by the neglect of so fair an oportunity to kiss your hands with a Letter but I confess I had rather if there were no Remora have taken my Pens employment upon my self how oft have I wisht for a Mercurial Caducaeus to insomniate the Argus-eyes of jealous people that I might safely steal a visit with it the enjoyment of your happy society till when I shall account my self but a slave to that piece of liberty I now am Master of since its narrow limits shut out a large share of my highly-valued happiness The malice of the times extends beyond the suspensation of estates to the separation of friends yet they cannot be truly said to be absent whose free-born souls not inslav'd to the bodies restraint can hold a mutual commerce and an intelligential converse one with another nor can I so much distrust Providence as to suspect this corporal sequestration can prove an utter privation My deceiving fancy sometimes in a slumber strives to make me believe I am at L. yet in the dream it self I suspect it is but a dream I could wish methinks that Plato's year were no fiction so the revolution might be speedy and we again happily revise and live in the Sunshine of our former Halcion dayes Sed jam deserunt ut omnia Mortalium assolent I cannot dart my thoughts so eagerly upon other things as to lose a restraining power of calling them home to the memory of my friends and they are best imploy'd in absence when they help to draw themselves in white and black I am not of that Philosophers opinion who affirm'd Silena could not hurt for too much is a disease in love and helps to intomb friendship in the dark Grove of Oblivion when the dumb Language of a Pen can like the Phaenix remove it from its own ashes and keep it strong and healthful c. By the World those are accounted the onely Cowards which dare not do that which is ill which concludes no such solecism in policy as the intire friendship twixt tongue and heart Honesty is grown ridiculous Integrity scofft at and amity it self never found so few friends Those intentions are contemptibly thought mean and shallow with whose vertuous rectitude Meandrous falshood is inconsistent the Worlds erroneous Estimation has married Vertue to Caution Justice to Self-injury Religion to a Scarcrow Honesty to Self-deceit Faith to Folly for the execution of particular ends Vice filtches Vertues apparel though her want of skill in wearing them often discovers her imposturous deformities whil'st thus Reasons eye is put out or at least blinded the souls mortality forgotten and the Almighty rejected and eternity disrespected this Pigmy statur'd life is the onely Idol we wickedly adore the oblations to which are the many horrid Acheloon shapes our serpentine wills and actions are transformed to still to reserve and encrease our Cornucopia what long-breath'd flatteries perfum'd with fictious Rhetorick we ventilate the warmth of great mens favours in the Sunshine of whose smiles we play like flies buzzing forth our own shames and vertues injuries R. L. LETTER CXLVIII To Mr. W. My dearest Friend I Lately received your last of the sixteenth of November for though our Letters glide nimbly when they are once aboard yet they do but crawl by land and contrary to natural violent motions do make least haste when they are neerest their journeys end and I have nothing to say to your overprizing my barren indeavours in your behalf and undervaling your own but onely to entreat you to call to your own knowledge for the true definition of perfect amity and that will tell you I am the indebted person and the occasions you have given me to serve You have instructed me to set so many steps toward my own happiness But now my dear friend I would I could find it fit to leave the rest out and if I had not cause to love you for discretion as well as goodness I confess I should leave you to know this accident from some other Quill but I know you are skilful in all the dictates of wisdom and can ballance mortal accidents without oppressing the scale with too much passion this gives me more confidence to tell you I received a late Letter from my Brother whom I engaged to send me an account of your friends which tells me that your father fell sick upon the sixteenth of September of a Flux and left the World the tenth of October and now I conjure you by all those clear proofs of your prudent temper and to speak something for my own ends as well as yours by my interest in you to preserve us both from the injuries of an over-sad resentment you have all the reason that I can urge and much more why you should not abandon your self to an immoderate sorrow and therefore I will throw no more drops into your Ocean only this do not chew the Pill that will work better if you swallow it c. Your Sister seem'd much to bewail your absence at such a time and desir'd my Brother who presents his affectionate service to you to use some means to let you know this and entreat you would entertain no prejudicial conceit of her self or her Husband Let me intreat you to answer this as soon as you can and tell me what I may do further to serve you if you love your self and me let not sadness shrink your spirits but let us reserve our selves for that same happy meeting you speak of I confess I do more than suspect a Consumption and if that be designed to fetch me from this World I think I shall go without reluctancy for I have already received enough of the Divine hand to make me admire his bounty but I have fair hopes of a recovery Well my dear Friend you know how to be happy in spite of this World and that you would be so is the earnest intreaty of Yours Eternally R. L. LETTER CXLIX To his Brother Mr. A. L. Loving Brother I Think Providence has given a larger Commission to Fortune than formerly for I confess I was nipt with the same Passion you complain of viz. the unkindness of Oblivion now I see 't was caus'd by the stragling of our Letters mine were sent by W. out of Lincolnshire and because they promised a faithful care in their deliverance I thought it a better way for expedition than to send them about by London but it seemes Haste brought forth her blind child Error Yours after my expectations had lost many longings as if they had stayed for one anothers company came almost all together and that 's my Landlords fault for which I shall school him but we have as little cause to lay the injuries of Chance to one anothers charge as to quarrel with a River because some adventitious Dam forbids the freedom of its course If there be a possibility to raise such pure

him that is Sir Absolutely yours R. L. LETTER V. To Mr. R. C. Dear Robin IF variety of new acquaintance and more deserving has not conspir'd with the busie fingers of Time to deface my memory there will not be much toile in the taske to provoke thee to revive our friendly intercourse to which thou art challeng'd by one whose heart has kept the impresse thou left'st upon it as fresh and as able to bid defiance to decay as when our contract was first seal'd Ah Robin whither is fled the beauty of those daies that so oft saw us feed our felicity with the mutuall charesses of our spotlesse amity when the soft whispers of an evening Zephyrus summon'd us to those innocent incounters in Silvanus grove where so oft we unbuttond our soules and talk'd our naked thoughts as if the golden Age had got new birth in our bosomes Sure Heaven was pleas'd with that lovely undrest visage of our heedlesse simplicity Dost remember how the pretty little feather'd minstrels came and gave us three or four of natures choisest Lessons and then how we hung together and have many loth adues it took to part us though the next day we were to meet again How Fortune has us'd thee since our last long Farewell I know not to me her indifferent behaviour neither swel'd my hopes to an opinion that ever she intends to make me her darling nor frown'd them to the neer neighbour hood of cold despaire c. R. L. LETTER VI. To his Nephew A. L. Dear Cosin I Had long since payed the debt of my promise had Fame furnished me with ought but false coine she is growne a new-fashion'd jugler puts tricks upon us with a deceptio auditus various reports here like Canons receive their birth and funerall in the aire and are often shorter-liv'd some voyc'd like Trumpets spread a shrill presage of war others like the soft warbling of the amorous Lute perfume the aire with the aromatick tidings of repeated peace and thus our erroneous soules weakly pay a credulous homage to the alternate dominion of our own hopes and feares Rumour is a cheating lottery from which for one prize of a truth we draw a thousand blanks of falshood I could make this paper look big with the swelling pride of such newes as would be musick to your eares but lest the tune should prove Syrenicall I am loth to deceive you into false joyes That which has most credit with me except the K. c. Thus I have given you probabillties befriended though not defended by the most prudent opinions I could encounter with Could I give you the truth strip'd of all partiality and disguises she were worth the owning but her running through so many relations makes her change attire every step and sometimes lose her self But in this assertion be assur'd she weares her own face without a mask that I am Sir c. LETTER VII To his Brother Mr. A. L. Loving Brother I Am now about to change the Scene and I fear it will be a long time before I shall date my Letters again from London a place I once esteem'd above all the earth could show me but my liking is almost drown'd in those scarlet streames have lately stain'd it I may now be said to be retiring from a crowd to an hermitage for though t is like I shall mingle with much people I shall notwithstanding be alone since t is not the eye but the mind and the affections that create society like Tantalus that stood up to the mouth in water yet could not drink But the armes of amity are long enough to reach a true friend at the greatest distance for though there be a larger piece of earth getting between our heavier parts yet those that have the stamp of immortality need confesse no other limits than what bound the Universe Thus sometimes my pen sometimes my thoughts shal visit you and fancy an intertainment suitable to the love that carries them If Nature had not planted a mutuall affection in our greenest yeares and taught it to swim like a fish in its proper Element in the Crimson sap we borrow'd from the same fruitfull stock I think I should have bidden fair for your friendship with much industry and like a slip that fetch'd his Pedigree from some excellent root set it with much diligence in my triangular Garden But no more As I was revising some scriblings with an intent to pack each in his proper place before my parting I lighted on these Rhymes made about the time I first put on chaines upon that subject I had thrown them by with such a neglect as I use when I treat with such trifles that when I re-met with them they had been so lost to my memory that they prov'd as new to my self as they will be to you I do not send them with a thought they deserve your reading but onely to let you see that when I am weary of better imployment I have not forgot to dally with the Pinkes in Apollo's Garden I wish all accidents events humors and dispositions may conspire to make this your meeting pleasant and delightfull If my fancy could carry my earthy part as nimbly as her selfe I think I should help to feather some glad houres among you But t is not wisdome to desire what we cannot have You see I have much adoe to keep within the bounds of my paper Farewell dear brother and continue to love Your own R. L. TO serve what 's that let me consider stay What comes it to to lease my selfe away What right have I resign'd pray let me see What is' t to let away my liberty Dull purblind soules that have so little wit To value nought but when we part with it T is to unown my self t is to disclaime My will my head my hands all that I am To sell my right in Nature that would have None of her freeborn creatures to turne slave To bow to cringe to stoop and to be still Pliant and supple to anothers will With cheap tame patience quietly to stand And watch th' arrival of some proud command That sets my heels awork or else my hand Thus having basely set my self to sale Time is my Keeper and each place my Jaile The slaves of the same trade are at Argiers Onely my chaine will further reach than theirs But hold proud thoughts the wretch deserves his woe That fancies fetters when they are not so Shew me the man can boast so free a state That is not to some power subordinate What is he that has uncontrol'd intents Seas have their shores and Kings their Parlaments This harmony that smites does chiefly flow From these two fertile words cal'd High Low Were it a sin to serve did it bewray A feeble mind put into mingled clay I 'de throw my fetters at my niggard fate And scorne to eate or live at such a rate But ther 's no slavery but in vice a soul That can

but check his passion can control His loose desires can temper and set right The stragling footsteps of his Appetite Rather than life with base dishonour save Can make a brave retreat into a grave Is free although he helpes to fill the rank And tugs with tann'd companions at the Bank Farewell then sordid Sloth go barren Ease Morning long sleeps adue go try to please Voluptuous soules go dwell upon those eyes Can lend kind lookes to virtues enemies Haile Learning parent of desert to thee My new-rouz'd soul repaires sweet Industry Those sweaty drops set on thy ruddie brow Like virtues gems come and receive my vow Ne're to forsake thee more never to be Sick of thy pleasing sprightly company Thou my best Mistresse art and I will be When I am most alone yet still with thee On deare Companion then let 's make no stay Where reputations Taper leads the way I 'le owe no blush then as a debt to shame Because that I no Independent am LETTER VIII To his brother Mr. A. L. Loving Brother I Was alwaies loth to suffer breach of word to keep company with the rest of my crimes if indispensable necessity did not force the guilt And indeed we should hate false promises for his sake that first hatch'd them deceit of this kind intrap'd mans primitive innocence and made him leave that large Legacy of imperfection to his unhappy heires But to swell this to the usuall stature of my tedious Letters I must imitate those Citizens of the world called younger brothers that are oft forc'd to range far from home to inlarge their narrow fortunes And since I have casually chop'd upon this Simile I think the relation of this kind may prove lesse unpleasant than the word I should otherwise designe to black this Paper It is the Story of the great Cardinal Mazarini that sits now at the stern of the French affairs He is by birth a Scicilian by extraction scarce a Gentleman his education so mean as might have wrote man before he could write but being in Natures debt for a handsome face a stout heart and a stirring spirit he no sooner knew that Scicily was not all the World but his active thoughts were got above his poor condition and made him resolve to dwell no longer with his domestick penury and now being come into Italy his good fortune conducted him to the casual encounter of a Dutch Knight to whose service his debonair behaviour soon preferr'd him This German was well skill'd in the vices of his Nation which he committed with such cunning as though he drank and playd very deep yet his skill in the one maintain'd his debauch in the other This was a lesson which the yong Scicilian deem'd worth his learning and having curiously observ'd how his Master shak'd his Elbow began to practise his Art upon his own Companions in which he thrived so well as daily improving his skill with his stock he began to foster forward hopes which were well befriended by some affaires that called his Master to Rome where taking occasion to step into better company and still following his faculty at play it was not long before he had hoarded a thousand Crowns then good Luck the Dam of Ambition began to hatch some aspiring thoughts which first shewed themselves in a request to his Master thus since Providence had lately thought fit to mend his fortunes he would vouchsafe to do as much to his condition and to entertain him in the quality of a Gentleman to deserve which he promised to maintain himself proportionably without expecting any addition to his allowance This granted he presently commences Gallant and begins to practise such generous qualities as are usually paid with reputation and profit his good clothes and complete shape first admitted him and his pleasant conversation indeared him to the best society and still his play supported him in it At length his Master takes his leave of Rome and therefore he of his Master telling him that he could not forsake that place which he hoped was cut out to be the forge of his fortunes and being now grown intimate with some Gentlemen that attended the Cardinal who steer'd the helm of the Papal Interest he found means to be made known unto him and proffered his service with a behaviour so handsomly composed as at the same time it got him both admission and affection The Cardinal after some tryal of his temper and perusal of his disposition was well pleased with the discovery of a piercing wit woven with a cleer judgment and an active Genius with a capacity apt to receive such impressions as are not usually stamp'd in every brain he was alwayes very careful to fill up those intervals which his businesse and play had left vacant with study of State-affaires in which he prospered with so much felicity that after his Cardinal had worn him a year or two at his ear and distilled his State-Maximes into his fertile soul he thought fit to breathe the Theory he had given him in some action that might let the World take notice of his pregnant abilities he was therefore sent Coadjutor to a Nuntio who was then dispached to one of the Princes in Italy and during that imployment he injoyned his Creature to give him a Weekly account of their transactions which he did with so much vivacity of apprehension and gravity of judgment that the Cardinal began to couple admiration with affection and as if Fate had combined with Nature and Fortune to advance him the Nuntio's sudden death le ts fall the whole weight of the business upon his shoulders which he supported with such a strength of soul managed with such dexterous solidity and accounted for all to his Cardinal with such a winning industry as he wrought it with his Holiness to declare him Nuntio And now as his preferment had made him more conspicuous so his brave heart used the advantage of that new height to distribute longer rayes with a more lively lustre But to contract the Story his Commission expired and the affaires that begot it happily concluded he returns to Rome where he receives besides a general grand repute the dear caresses of his Cardinal and the plausive benedictions of S. Peters Successor About this time the Cardinal Richelieu had gotten so much glory by making his Master Lewis XIII of a weak man a mighty Prince as he grew formidable to all Christendom and contracted suspition and envy from Rome it self this made the standing Conclave to resolve upon the dispatch of some able instrument to countermine his dangerous and give a check to the carriere of his prodigious successes This resolved they generally concurr'd in the choice of Mazarini as the fittest head-piece to give their fears death in the others destruction To fit him for this great imployment the Pope gives him a Cardinals Hat and sends him into France with a large Legantine Commission where being arrived and like his politick self first complying