The English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599) With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required

=These three examples may bee sufficient to serue to anie matter of this title: seeing in eyther of them is required but an alteration of the cause whereupon wee frame our Lette...

The long sweating paines wherein your good selfe (my verie good friend A) haue lately trauelled with your weatherbeaten barke, to aunswere my Letters, moueth mee (howe simply so...

=_Auxesis_ or _Incrementum_, where by degrees we not onlie rise to the summe of euerie thing, but also sometimes go beyond, as to say, |Hee first set vpon him with reproachfull...

=With these expressed examples, I thinke good to conclude this passed title, and thenceforth to goe to the next, which is |Expostulatory|. This worde seemeth to haue his definit...

=In the discouerie whereof, my minde is not, nor shall be to prescribe vnto any one, but to deliuer what in mine owne opinion, I haue coniectured to be meetest in such a person....

Good Mistresse E. I am bolde though a straunger, to make these Letters, messengers at this present of my good meaning towards you, wherein you may please to thinke that I goe no...

=By this measure nowe of |Fidelitie, trust| or |loyall credit| of a seruant, in which place our |Secretorie|, as you see standeth bounden by the first degrée of his seruice, it...

And nowe good brother, vse I pray you that meanes herein, that with greatest commendation maie beseeme you, weigh with your selfe, that such distemperate motions are not to bee...

Were it not sir that my presence might more offend you then I wish, or by anie action of mine owne, woulde willinglie deserue, I had (emboldened by the equitie and right of my c...

Tush pedegree, pedegree, here is nothing with you in hande but twitting with pedegree. Cockes fish, these proude fellowes that haue nothing to liue vpō to see how malapert they...

The studie and great desire wherewith (sir) I see you bent continually to the vniuersall aid and benefit of al men, and for which to your great praise you haue generally well de...

Though it seeme an approoued follie to cast pearles before swine, or to offer a golden saddle to an Asses backe: yet (not that I thinke either the Sowe worthie of the pearles, o...

=_Syllepsis_, when one verbe supplieth two clauses, one person two roomes, or one word serueth to manie sences, as thus: |He runs for pleasure, I for feare|: where this verbe |r...

This poore liuing (once in maner lost, afterwards recouered, and yet still fearefullie kept, the rather by meane of a newe trouble, moued vnto me by maister B.) I was in fine dr...

The course you doe take herein, seemeth in my opinion verie euill, insomuch as contrarie to that, which both your yeares, your estate, your liuing and present occasions doe requ...

=To mankinde there happeneth in the bodie manie deformities, which arising not by the defect of |Nature|, so much as by ill vsage of those, who haue had charge ouer them, cannot...

My going away is apparant, I cannot denie it, wherein if happelie I haue done more then beseemeth, yet none so much as my selfe hath thereby beene wronged, for that such occasio...

What neede wee search abroade for such forraine examples, and why draw wee not home into our owne soyle of England? What Chronicle shall euer remaine, or what English Hystorie s...

Egregious Doctours and Maisters of the eximious and Archane Science of Physicke, of your Vrbanitie exasperate not your selues agaynst mee, for making of this little volume of Ph...

Nowe if wee shall come to his riper yeares, and howe therein hee profited in the towardlie exercise and vse of armes, beeseeming a Prince of so high and exspected admiration, wh...

=Your L. most deuoted and loyallie affected. Your Honours most assured in whatsoeuer seruices. Your L. in whatsoeuer to be commanded. The most affectionate vnto your L. of all o...

It is now a fewe yeares passed (Right Honourable, & my very good Lord) since emboldned by your faour, this booke rudely digested, and then roughly deliuered, I did in the very n...

Albeit my selfe (hauing receyued the sorrowfull newes of the vntimelie death of my dearest kinsman, and your deceased louing husband) was in the first hearing thereof so greatli...

It is no little pleasure vnto me, to consider with my selfe my good N. the great trauaile, cost, and paine, dayly employed by your dearest beloued parents, to induce vnto you th...

=In this place wee will conclude our Epistles |Consolatorie|, and passe out of the same title to the next therof, which are |Monitorie|, and |Reprehensorie|. The one part thereo...

=The next vnto these laste of this |Demonstratiue| kinds are nowe the |Deliberatiue|, the first titles whereof in order suted forth, appeare to bee |Hortatorie|, |Dehortatorie|,...

My good Vncle, the remembrance of your charge giuen me, & my promise to you made at my departure out of _England_, bindeth me (at my nowe being in quiet, and with good leasure s...

=Time is it now, I should leaue this last title of epistles, as hauing thereof spoken alreadie sufficiently, & giue my selfe to the deliuery of the next, which are |Consolatorie...

My verie good L. I am enformed by this Gentl. the bearer hereof, that by meanes of one of your Chapleins, a motion hath beene made of his preferment vnto your L. seruice: and fo...

=He ought also to haue regard to times and places conuenient wherein to mooue his Lord vpon anie speciall or vrgent occasion, or in which he is to prefer vnto his presence or he...

=Now these deedes, actions or thinges are by manie |Oratory| partes to bee handled, or commended, according to the matters or occasions whereout their praises are deriued, and b...