shewing that the more excellent the thing is, the more difficult it is
to bee attained, for _Difficilia quæ pulchra_, and yet the difficultie
not so great as the prayse, glorie and recordation thereof, shall
thereby afterwards be returned honourable.=

=Likewise, if the state of the partie doe serue thereunto, it shall
not bee amisse to put him in minde of his parentage, or that fayling,
of his Fortune, Vertue, Nobilitie of minde, Wit, towardnesse, his
great expectation, abilitie, age, and Discretion, all of them no lesse
requiring, but this with great modeste to be deliuered, least in
séeming to preferre the certaintie of those vertues which are of good
account to be in him, we doe not palpably gloze with the partie, and
as it were seeke to drawe from his person, or account, the things that
neuer came neare him.=

=Now as |Prayse|, and the laudable estimate of euerie good action,
together with the iust mislike of thinges euill, spurreth and eggeth
forward to great purposes, so verie much thereunto preuaileth this
other of |Hope|, not that which of a seruile and base humour or
condition ensueth, which expecteth nothing that is frustrate of gain,
and performeth all endeuours by expectation of reward, but that
vertuous kinde of |Hope|, which enableth to the perfection and absolute
summe of all worthinesse, and whose limit is honour, reputation,
estimate and account: A like Companion whereunto is |Loue|, beeing
a zealous affectation of thinges singular, which |Loue| produceth
likewise in it selfe, not a mislike onelie, but a burning |Hate| of
things vile, contemptible, and vnbeseeming.=

=As these in themselues doe each particularlie thrust forwards to
goodnes, so many times |Feare|, or doubt of inconuenience that may
ensue, terrifieth or disswadeth from euils. |Commiseration| of the
lamentable estate of any one, prouoketh also sometimes to pittie, and
disturneth in like sort manie times from reuenge. |Expectatiō|, as wel
of |Loue| as of |Hate|, of good opinion as mislike in compassing of
any thing is not the least. |Shame| & ignomie of the action also, the
dependance whereof is oftentimes occasion sufficient of well doing, and
hindrance alike, and withdrawing from euill purposes. But aboue all is
the spur of |Emulation|, whose force gathered by a certaine kind of
|Enuie|, of others proceedings kindleth flames of regarde to aspire vnto
the like, but not that sluggish and execrable enuie bred of most wicked
and detestable malice, which when it selfe cannot, nor is able to doe
any thing worthie, snatcheth and continuallie gnaweth on the deserts
of others, but that generous and noble kind of enuie which discreete
|Nature| and vertue haue insinuated in our mindes, emulating by a
feruent desire to compasse, or possibly to go beyond what mightily by
others hath béene performed.=

=The authoritie of |Example| is also very weightie, giuing warrant to
any vertuous imitation that may be prescribed, and lastly requests and
intreatie which euer more preuaileth according to the writers credit or
grauity. These being sufficently considered, we will nowe according to
such like directions, endeuour to suite foorth vnto you some particular
examples.=

              _An Example of an Epistle Exhortatorie for
                       the attaining of vertue._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Prosonomasia._]

[Sidenote: _Insinuatiō._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Meiosis._]

[Sidenote: _Synonymia._]

[Sidenote: _Hypotyposis._]

[Sidenote: _Antipophora._]

[Sidenote: _Epiphonema._ Praise of the person.]

[Sidenote: _Paræmia._]

[Sidenote: _Exhortatiō._]

[Sidenote: _Confirmatiō._]

[Sidenote: _Antipophora._]

[Sidenote: _Ab æquo._]

[Sidenote: praise of his ancestors.]

[Sidenote: _A necessitate._]

[Sidenote: Of expectation.]

[Sidenote: Of loue and hate.]

[Sidenote: _Hyberbole._]

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

[Sidenote: entreatie.]

I haue manie times desired with my selfe (good Cosin) to obtaine some
necessarie meanes, whereby to manyfest the greate good will I doe
owe vnto you, and in some sorte or other to giue you to vnderstande,
howe much and howe greatly I haue tendred those good partes, that
manie times I haue seene and prooued to bee in you. And for as much
as _Fortune_ hath denied vnto mee the estate, reputation and wealth,
that manie haue gained, and the most doe couet, whereby I cannot if I
woulde, bestowe vppon you such riches and treasures as might breede
content vnto others: I am determmined to imparte vnto you, that, which
vnto your present condition seemeth most requisite, and wherewith vse
and common experience hath heretofore inured mee, in steede of wealth
to giue you wordes, in steede of golde, good, for riches, reason, and
in lue of liuing, to affoord you a louing and constant hearte. And
whereas I am enfourmed, that contrarie to the expectation of some
(who ouer peremptorily haue heretofore deemed of these your young
yeares to be laden with loosenesse, and led forwarde by libertie) you
haue of your selfe, and of your owne motion and free will, obtained
license and allowance of your father to go to _Cambridge_, in minde to
giue your selfe whollie to studie, and the sole fruition of learning,
I mused with my selfe whether I might more commende the motion, or
attende your perseuerance in the action that thereby you haue taken
in hande, in so much as the memorie of the one cannot bee for the
worthinesse more permanent, thē the glorie of the other, to your
euerlasting commendation, will appeare to be most excellent. It is
reported of the mightie _Alexander of Macedon_, that he was a King,
that he was puissant, that he was warlike, that hee was famous, that
he was a Conqueror, and that hee subdued the whole worlde: but when
he came to himselfe, to the conuincing of his owne appetite, to rule
reason by the square of right he became a meacocke, a childe, an
infant, what should I say? he was no bodie. Howe much greater then
hee was, hadde the woorthie Prince appeared, if as in the conquest
of sundrie mightie kinges, regions and prouinces, so in all other
thinges tending to the suppression of his owne peculiar affectes, he
had bene no lesse or fullie so much as _Alexander_. _Scipio_, the most
renowned amongst the Romanes, and for his sundrie great exploites in
_Affrica_, surnamed _Affricanus_, we doe reade, atchieued many valiant
and incomparable victories, and were it but that sole battell which
hee fought (when _Rome_ was nowe at wracke, her Nobilitie spoyled,
and her glorie trode vnder foote, readie almost vppon any reasonable
condition to bee deliuered into the handes of the enemie) in which hee
then freed his citie, repulsed _Haniball_ by a mightie ouerthrowe,
and thereby daunted so farre foorth his pride for euer, as expelled
from him all hope thence forwarde, at anie time else to become a
Conquerour: It coulde not otherwise bee saide without question, but
herein, yea in this onelie action, hee deserued eternall memorie: But
was hee herein, thinke you, and for this onely matter throughout all
the prouinces recounted so famous? No assuredlie. It was also his
rare and most singular vertues otherwise, that fullie perfected and
polished the glorie thereof. It was his rare _Temperance_, _Modestie_,
_Continencie_, and _Sobrietie_, wherein with woonderfull admiration
hee exceedinglie flourished, and became extolled aboue all others.
This was it, wherein more then Alexander hee became regarded and
famous. The conquestes that by this meanes hee daylie made of himselfe,
returned more glorie to Rome, more firme faith and reuerence, then
the forcible progression of all other his fattall ouerthrowes and
victories: of so greate and woonderfull reputation is Vertue to all
her followers. This beeing so, how can I then say, but in this your
action, you haue of your selfe right wel begun, how can I think, but
aboue many others you haue therein verie well deserued? Wherein shoulde
I augmente your praise if not in that which you haue heereby so well
performed, the force, operation, and effect of all which, hath onely
consisted in subduing your owne appetite? Great commendation haue
you won I must needes confesse, and more then with common worthines
haue you in this thinge demeaned your selfe, but (my good Cosen) it
is not ynough to haue well begun in a matter, without also therein
you doe vse perseuerance. _Hanniball_ knew well how to subdue, but he
knew not howe to entertaine his victories. As you haue alreadie in
this your resolution gotten great good liking, so behooueth both for
the preseruation of what alreadie woone, and to induce a perpetuall
increase to the same, that you doe euermore frequente and by earnest
and zealous prosecution seeke still to entertaine the fruits thereof.
Proceede then a Gods name, and goe on with good lucke in your
enterprise, the more harder and greater you finde the difficulty in
attaining to _vertue_, the more vehemente shall bee your glorie, and
the more honourable the reputation that thereby is pursued. For, what
hath a man of all that may be left vnto him in this worlde, whereof to
vaunt himselfe, but the memorie of that wherein he hath most worthily
trauailed. The rich reape possessions, which when themselues are once
passed away, are immediately distributed to others. The pleasures of
the worlde are momentarie, and after wee are once deade wee perceiue
them no more. Worship, honour and dignitie, perisheth euen in the verie
selfe remembrance. The reuenues of the mightie, when life is once fled,
are no more to be tendred. Shall wee then for a number of fruitelesse
vanities, (the regarde whereof doeth neuer last longer, then whilest
wee are in present vse of them) neglect the search of that which is of
all others most permanent? No surely. So behooueth not such as your
selfe, that of your auncestours haue had so many good encouragements,
beseemeth not the remembrance of their excellencies in you alone to
bee perished. Tis _vertue_, beleeue me, that procureth _Fame_, and
soly _Fame_ that makes men immortall. All other meanes are feeble as
the originall from whence they are deriued is vncertaine. At leaste
wise, it shall many other waies stande you greatly vppon, to continue
this course, in so much as by the æmulation of the vertues of others,
you shall thereunto be constrained, besides the loue and regarde
that all men haue borne, and euer doe beare to the remembrance of
vertue, the expectation of your entirely fauouring and carefull louing
friendes, who with greate longing doe attende the prosequution of your
woorthinesse, the ill conceite, malice and spite that some haue hadde
towardes you, whereby to ouerthrowe the good opinion of your father,
who with greater greedinesse than Woolues themselues, with more enuie
than the Crocodile, and farre more poyson than the serpent, doe lie in
waite but onely to hearken after the newes of your declination, and the
dissolued purpose of your good intention. Finally, my dearest and best
fauoured kinsman, I doe adiure you, pray you, and as earnestly as I
can beeseech you, by the verie pure and entire loue of vertue, whereof
you nowe shall become partaker, by the immortall fame thereunto onely
awarded, by the care you are bounde and ought to haue of your selfe,
by all the kindred that hath tied vs in affinitie together, by all the
loues and possible entreatie that I can, you doe persist, continue and
remaine firme in this your intended purpose. In pursuite whereof you
shall minister vnto your friendes ioy and comforte, to your enemies
shame and reproch, to your selfe praise and eternall regarde, and to
all sortes of your acquaintance occasion to admire you. Preferring many
times my care and earnest affection towards you, with my manifolde
greetings vnto your good selfe. I doe bid you farewell. &c.

                       Of Epistles Responsorie.
                              _Chap. 11._

=For asmuch as the knowledge of letters |Responsorie| are as méete to
bee vnderstoode in the ordinarie occasions hereof as any others: I
deeme it not amisse amongst the passages of these seuerall titles of
Epistles to sorte you foorth also of them some particular Examples,
the better in their disposition to enable yᵉ learner as occasion
may serue. Touching which, it is to bee vnderstoode that the matter
of euerie answere taketh his originall of a letter precéeding, and
dependeth principally on the parts thereof. The ordering whereof
(except in Letters |Excusatorie| or |Defensorie|) is wholy exempted,
the course in those other letters prescribed, and the obseruation in
these, is principally to consider on what partes the letter which ought
to be answered consisteth or is chiefly grounded. Those, howebeit it
behooueth we doe fully answere, yet shall you not (as some ignorant
of weldoing haue done) recite in your answere the whole circumstance
of the matter charged, |verbatim| in a manner as it is written
before you, for that woulde bréede tediousnesse, besides a ridiculous
disorder by such meanes frequented, but you shall (if néede so vrge)
capitulate the principall partes of euerie seuerall matter charged,
and thereupon frame you to answere the points, in sorte as before you,
shall be deliuered. Or sometimes not needing any rehersall at all, if
the pointes be but fewe, you shall answere onely as the matter you haue
in hande is to bée deliuered. Or otherwise in this sorte: |Touching
the pointes in your Letter to bee answered: for the first I say, or it
is thus or thus, &c. In the second, it is so or so. For the thirde,
in this manner or that. Touching the fourth, &c.| And so answere the
partes by their number. By which meanes you shall both drawe your
selfe to a breuitie therein, and become far more pithie in the matters
you haue to write of then otherwise can be expressed. And this béeing
sufficient for all matters hereafter, touching these |Responsorie|
kindes, we will nowe for the first Example set you downe an answere to
the epistle precéeding.=

            _An example Responsorie to the last Epistle be-
                           fore remembred._

[Sidenote: _Prosonomasia._]

[Sidenote: _Dichologia._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

The regard of your exceeding good will, and weight of your aduise and
good exhortations (my verie good Cosen) haue mooued me many times to
thinke on you, and to thank you for the same, I take no litle comfort
of your great good liking of my determination, and that the endeuour
therof beareth so forcible allowance at your handes, as to reckon the
same in so hie and great accompte, as you doe. I did (I confesse) erre
a while, but howe? as a young man, I went astraie I graunt, but not
with perseuerance, for I reclaimed my selfe ere I fell, and stoode
vpright ere by ouer much weight I slided too far in my purposes,
_Errare est humanum, sed persistere belluinum_. The course I haue
taken in hand as it was estranged from the opinion of many: so in
the prosecutiō thereof, I hope to vse such pursuit, as willingly by
declination therein, I meane not to become offensiue to any. Feare you
not sir, the account is alreadie set downe, for notwithstanding my
greene yeares must yet of force continue their note of imbecilitie:
This prerogatiue yet remaineth, that I may as I liste adapt my opinion
to grauitie. You shall (good Coosen) doe mee a great pleasure, if as I
am partner of your loue and entyre affection, so I may sometymes bee
partaker with you of those exercises and sweet pleasures, wherewith
your studie is frequented: I meane that with some discourses of yours
you will nowe and then remember mee. By expectation whereof, you shall
often prouoke mee to aunswere you. Thus assuring my selfe of that I
neuer yet distrusted at your handes, your zeale and fidelitie towardes
mee; I regarde you as faithfull as I haue euer found you, and so will
alwayes account of you, &c.

   _An example of an Epistle hortatorie, to the studie of learning._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Insinuatiō._]

[Sidenote: _Propositiō._]

[Sidenote: _Merismus._]

[Sidenote: _Procatalepsis._]

[Sidenote: _Synonymia._]

[Sidenote: _Asyndeton._]

[Sidenote: _Paradigma._]

[Sidenote: _Commoratiō._]

[Sidenote: _Ab honesto._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

[Sidenote: _Synathrismus._]

[Sidenote: _Anthesis._]

[Sidenote: _Etiologia._]

[Sidenote: _Epanodis._]

[Sidenote: _Paramologia._]

[Sidenote: _Epiphonema._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: Dignitie and zeale of others.]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: By example.]

[Sidenote: _Peroratiō._]

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 the precious, and of all other most
delicate and sweete pleasure of learning: the value whereof, is without
all estimate, and the comfort therein conceiued, in no wise to bee
comprehended: the louing regarde of whome, and the most lamentable want
of the other, when I doe see you either with some ill fauouring aspect
not to incline vnto, or with some more then straunge or vnused tearmes
not to account of, I cannot but greeue with my heart, respecting the
linke whereby I stand charged to either of you, in so great apparance
as I doe to behold the same. True it is, that you are a Gent. that you
are heire apparant to large and verie great possessions, that you are
(for the yeares you beare) of comely and goodly personage, that you are
in all things well accomplished, and euerie way as beseemeth: but yet
when I behold this fauour, this comlinesse, these accomplishments, and
know you to bee a Gent. and thinke vpon your large ensuing reuenues
and possessions, me thinkes there should yet be an ornament of all
these, and a thing of farre more goodly shewe, and more surpassing
value wanting to the same, that might if it were well entertained ad
more glorie vnto all the others, then the waight of the rest were euer
able to purchase. For suppose that all these complements of yours are
of large price, and verie necessarie, as they are indeede, and such
wherewith the state of man is greatly beautified, yet are they all but
thinges pertinent vnto the bodie, by force whereof (setting onelie
our shape aside) wee doe communicate in euerie thing with beastes,
for with them wee liue, wee mooue, wee go, wee eate, and enioie the
sensuall appetite of inward or outward abilities. _B_ut by the benefit
of learning, of knowledge, of skill, wee make difference of things, and
are onely thereby in our selues distinguished from beastes. And if man
which is the principal worke of God, was from the beginning a chosen
creature indued aboue any others, and therefore poynted to excell and
go beyond all others, howe much more needefull shall it bee for euerye
one according to such appoyntment to preferre and put forwarde the vse
thereof vnto his owne profite. And seeing as well by the ordinance
of God, as common vse of reason, whereby we are gouerned and ledde,
euerie man is induced to propose vnto himselfe the exercise of thinges
that are good and honest, and that the same also among these, which
maketh a man nearest to his Creatour in perfection, is of all others
the moste to bee desired: howe much auaylable then and importaunt is
it to euerie man to bee frequented with learning, the vse whereof
freeth him of common ignoraunce, and maketh him capable of the high and
loftie mysteries. And if in anie studie whatsoeuer, the reputation of
honest and good is to bee sought for, what I pray you then learning,
may bee iudged more honest, which hauing with it a certaine kinde of
diuine and sacred originall, hath from the beginning of the worlde,
beene with all men in greatest price and estimation. What may bee
deemed more good then that which from verie Asses and blockes, and (if
it were lawfull to say) from bruite men and beastes also themselues
maketh distinction, and without the which, there were left vnto vs from
such, no place at all of difference. What then that can bee sayde to
bee more honest, which draweth a man vppe to the diuine contemplation
of the sacred Maiestie, to the knowledge of high and heauenly thinges,
of woorthie and honourable vertues, and beeing sequestred by the wante
thereof, hee becommeth no otherwise than as a hogge, still groueling
on the earth, searching onely wherewith to fill his bellie, neglecting
in the meane time the expectation or regarde of any other statelie or
eternall Soueraintie. Nowe therefore, if the vse of learning, as the
thinge of greatest accompt and most woorthie, is heere sette downe to
bee so generallie, commended to all sortes of men, howe much more
consonant and agreeing is it then to the reputation of a Gentleman, who
by what distaunce so euer hee is measured in capacitie, minde, order,
state and gouernment from anie other common or ordinarie person, by
so much the more ought hee in all endeuours to aspyre and seek to goe
beyond them. For whereas all other men in their seuerall vocations are
for the most parte, as it were withdrawne from the speciall notice and
eye-marke of all publique administration and gouernement: the Gentl.
contrariwise, the more woorthie and noble that hee is in calling, the
more neerer is hee to that aduauncement whereunto by nothing so much as
learning hee is enabled to bee preferred. For what profitable member
can hee bee in such a place, whose ignoraunce is farre greater then his
witte, and whose knowledge is lesse then the least of that, whereof
hee ought to take notice and experience. And seeing learning is of all
other thinges, a store-house so plentifull and precious, as whereof
the wiseman maketh his treasure, the poore man his riches, and the
wealthy one his pastime and pleasure, shall the Gentleman who in all
other thinges, by Nature striueth to bee excellent, bee in the greatest
action of all others so carelesse and negligent? Admit that you will
heere alledge the tediousnesse of studie, and a certaine impossibilitie
almost to attaine thereunto, I must aunswere vnto you againe, that
this commeth not of the labour thereof, which to those that willingly
aspire to the delicate taste of the same, yeeldeth great facilitie with
pleasure to bee receyued: but to a slouthfull and sluggish endeuour and
disposition. Far be it therefore (good Sir) that you beeing a Gentleman
in all other thinges so towardly, and the sonne of such a one as you
are, shoulde with the touch of so great a blemish, bee so throughly
stained. So woorthie a discente as whereof you are deriued, such
infancie and child-hoode wherein so worthily you haue beene trained,
so great loue and charge of parents wherewithe you may bee animated,
doe inuite you farre otherwise, and to a more excellent purpose. Let
the sweete and yet vnknowne delight thereof prouoke you, the praise and
commendation solye to vertue appropriate and belonging, once prick you
forward, the honour and aduancement thereby continually happening egge
you. And if none of all these preuaile, yet the riches and rewarde
farre greater then anie earthly treasure, which are therunto incident,
tie you to a desire thereof. Thinke of the worthines of those, who
by howe much the more noble they were in birth, by so much the more
zealouslie they haue trauelled, not shunning any labour, sweate,
tediousnesse, scorning, yea bondage it selfe, whereby to compasse vnto
themselues the glorie and rewardes annexed to the dignitie heereof.
And if no other remembrance may be sufficient to establish you, regard
yet your liuing father and grandfather, the one of whom neglecting his
ease and quiet at home, trauailed all Fraunce, Germanie, and Italie,
to the intent to attaine vnto the greatnesse of that whereunto you are
so hardly perswaded. Neither thinke I that you in whome all other good
actions do so plentifully flow, wil herein alone with a little labour
be terrified: Wherefore my good N. I eftsoones entreate you againe, and
againe, by all the loue you haue ought to your name, fame, parentage
and stocke, and by all the expectation that in them, or anie of them,
is of your happinesse conceiued, you will proceede in this purpose: the
weight whereof besides the commoditie and pleasure redounding to your
selfe, shall vnto your parents and all others returne most comfortable
and pleasing. All which recommending to your courteous consideration to
bee entertained, I doe herewith take my leaue, &c.

     _An other example Hortatorie, wherein an honourable Gentleman
       is egged forward in the profession of Armes, and seruice
                      of his Prince and Country._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

Sithence the time of my little abode heere in London being scarce
twentie dayes, vnderstanding of the being in town of my La. your
mother, I repaired thereupon to her presence to visite her: there did I
receiue notice of your being in Ireland, and that vpon your honourable
behauiour, and good seruice there done: The L. D. did not onely
testifie the same by his owne hand-writing vnto diuers of the priuie
Counsell, but also in especiall letters besides commended the weight
thereof, vnto the regard of her most excellent Maiestie.

[Sidenote: _Insinuatio_ by praise of the action.]

[Sidenote: _Parenthesis._]

[Sidenote: _Epitheton._]

[Sidenote: _Metaphora._]

I did not a little reioyce to see that in such young yeares wherein
commonlie falleth out a contempt of all excellencies, and a
fantasticall desyre of counterfeyte vanities, you coulde (besides the
common trade and custome of the worlde) addict your selfe wholie vnto
so weightie and honourable an exercise, as by laboursome trauaile in
the seruice and honour of your Prince and countrie, to put forwarde
your selfe so timely. Credite mee, it is not a little pleasing vnto mee
to thinke thereon, neither standeth my affection so slender vnto your
fathers off-spring, but that I must euer holde the reputation of their
weldoing, an aduauncemente to my imaginations, and the sounde of their
good successe the verie harmonie of mine inwarde soule.

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

It is no newe thing I confesse, euen in these dayes to see a Gentleman
honourablie descended as your selfe, and of like worthie education, to
attaine vnto learning, to become practised in Armes, to put forward
themselues in seruice, but to continue with resolution, to performe it
with labour, to atchieue it with valour, to beare it with honour, here
is the excellencie, this is the rarenesse, hence springeth the noueltie.

[Sidenote: _Hypotyposis._ vertue hath three entrances.]

[Sidenote: Fortitude.]

[Sidenote: Magnanimitie.]

[Sidenote: Longanimitie.]

_Vertue_ retaining yet her ancient Maiestie, though not pursued as
in olde time, with such woonted vehemencie, hath three entraunces,
leading directly vnto her beautifull passage, by the portes whereof,
whosoeuer is desirous to attaine her, in her purest and most glorious
estate, must of necessitie enter. First, _Fortitude_, whereby hee must
be enabled to endure whatsoeuer labour and trauell to be imposed,
accounting nothing difficult, to the end and sweet rewarde whereof her
excellencie is appropriate. Next, _Magnanimitie_, which by a vehement
and haughtie desire, reacheth vnto thinges most excellent & of highest
and stateliest value, not regarding the hard, tough, & maine force of
the passage, with what pursuit soeuer it must bee followed, so be it
by such meanes it may be wonne, and the glorie thereunto due, may at
last be attained: the reach wherof, tending to the last end and scope
of al his determinatiōs, sweetneth all maner of trauel, and induceth
therewithal a contempt of whatsoeuer lesse valued or hindering, to
the worthines of the same. Then _Longanimity_, enabling by greate
constancie with rare and accustomed patience, to awaite and endure the
end, neuer giuing ouer vpon whatsoeuer assaults, til the determined
scope be by all kind of industry fullie and perfectly furnished.

[Sidenote: _Etiologia._]

For this cause, the most renowmed parte of _vertue_ is saide to bee
excellent, for that manie doe contemplate her a far off, but few or
none at all doe almost come so nigh her, as perfectly to see and
discerne her, in so much as some, nothing regarding the singularitie of
that, whose sweetnesse they neuer tasted of, become forcelesse of the
pursuit of so diuine an excellencie: and some other fauouring a litle
the daintines thereof, yet ouer-reached with the tediousnes of the
enterprise, and hindered by the opposition of a thousand vanities, are
so astonished in the first onset, as being therewith ouercome, doe by
and by giue ouer their purposes.

[Sidenote: Adhortation to vertue.]

Now therefore my C. if you will bee a right fauourer of _vertue_
indeede, it behooueth that by these possibilities you doe (as a
faithful regarder of her diuine & sacred essence) only seeke to pursue
her, and that with such and none other respectes, and to no other ende
and purpose, but for the sole fruition of her stately and immortall
deitie.

[Sidenote: _Merismus._]

The time now calleth you forth, your Countrie and soyle wherein you
were borne and nourished inuiteth you, your praise alreadie gotten, and
hope of renowne euer after to followe, perswade you, the honour of your
house and parentage constraineth you, yea euerie of these solie and
altogether doe exhort and commaund you, that becomming the selfe same
you vowed, and they long since haue looked for, you doe nowe shewe your
selfe such as was promised, and wherein the expectation first conceiued
of you, may in no wise bee frustrated.

[Sidenote: _Clymax._]

[Sidenote: _Antistrophe._]

Consider I pray you, that the rewarde of _vertue is honour_, the
guerdon of _honour_, _Fame_, the scope of _Fame_, _Eternity_, the
seat of _eternity_, immortall and euerlasting glory. In liuing in the
seruice of your Prince and countrie, the profession you haue taken in
hand is honourable, the charge honourable, the purpose honourable, and
the ende and successe thereof must needes be honourable: behooueth then
that your continuance therein and your owne deserts be also deemed
honourable.

[Sidenote: _Metaphora._]

[Sidenote: _Commoratio._]

Thinke when you tooke vpon you to beare Armes, you then receiued the
full cognizance of _Vertue_, you were entertained with _honour_, you
became apprentise to _fame_, and it was assured (that beeing with
loyaltie demeaned) you shoulde at length receiue the rewarde of euer
flourishing glorie. It is (beleeue me) no small matter, that being
a particular member, you are put foorth as a piller, vpon the prop
whereof reposeth one parte of the weight of the common-weale, that
the ioyes of your whole countrie are fixed vpon your wel-doing, that
in pursuite hereof your priuate cause is not your owne, (the secrete
reuenge whereof may happelie turn to an infamed mischiefe) but the
cause of the _common good_, the publike matter of al, and that where
the scope is of all others most famous and honoured.

[Sidenote: Of right and meet.]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

Being entertained in a sorte as you are, you shoulde highly wrong the
opinion of a greate manie, in drawing backe from that wherein you haue
beene alreadie so worthilie behaued, and in becomming lesse than that
whereunto in your cradle you were at the beginning so principally
ordained: for vnseemelie were it that you shoulde not haue beene
hereunto at the first committed, vnlawfull not to haue persisted, and
dishonourable (in due sorte) not to see it accomplished.

[Sidenote: Of example. _Paradigma._]

[Sidenote: _Epiphonema._]

[Sidenote: _Paradigma._]

[Sidenote: _Prosopopœia._]

Proceede then my C. in that whereunto your vertue, your Parentage,
your soile, and your fidelitie haue called you, thinke what, how much,
and how greatlie it importeth you, that hauing had so manie of your
auncestours since their first originall, who haue beene deemed so
woorthie, it fitteth not your selfe alone (in so important actions,
concerning especially the honour of your prince and countrie) to bee
founde otherwise then equall vnto them in the highest qualitie. So
and in such maner, and by such kind of meanes haue the most auncient
and renowned worthies of the world be come to be tearmed honored,
and mightie. So _Epaminondas_ and _Alcibiades_ among the _Grecians_,
_Æmilius Paulus_, _Fabii and Scipiones_ among the Romanes, haue bin
deemed most statelie. For such cause the acts of your predecessors &
nobilitie of your deceased father haue bin registred with the most
worthy. O so sweetly might sound from out his breathing ghost vnto your
liuing eare, that excellent verse of _Virgill_.

    _Disce puer virtutem ex me verumque laborem,_
    _Fortunam ex aliis._
    =Learne vertue (Child) of me and labours true,=
    =But |Fortunes| chaunce, from others do pursue.=

[Sidenote: His Parents.]

[Sidenote: _Sententia._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Dialysis._]

[Sidenote: _Anthypophora._]

The signification whereof, what other thinge may it else importe,
but that betweene them who beeing neuer eternized by anie memorable
action, as hauing confounded their liues with obscuritie, and such as
neuer were borne, there resteth in maner no difference at all. _Ardua
virtutis est via._ T’is labours force that maketh way vnto _Vertue_:
great matters vnto the furtherance of her are but easie, the meaner,
trifles; the lowest of no value. To ouercome others by vertue is a
thinge most honourable, but in pursuite thereof to bee conuinced of
any other, is a thinge most vituperable: You are nowe brought by
Fortune into a straight passage, whereby of necessitie you must either
by reputation of most excelling worthinesse finish the iourney, or
recreant and discomfited, confesse the vttermost of your imbecilitie.
But what doe I conferre vnto your viewe, the notes of such and so
manie doubtes and hazardes, knowing a minde insinuate in your selfe
by nature, that coulde neuer so much as thinke or imagine of thinges
contemptible, or of anie vile or seruile qualitie at all? truelie for
no woorse meane, nor to anie other ende or purpose, but thereby to egge
you forwarde by all kinde of possibilities, to the encrease of your
highest woorthinesse, that by howe much the more you shall goe about to
excell any others, by so much the more greater you may be commended and
extolled aboue others.

[Sidenote: _Parœmia._]

Ease and securitie, are two pernicious enemies of euer flourishing
glorie, and industrie preuenteth all circumuention, which either by
slouth or negligence may bee imposed: the victorie is not any others,
but your owne, nor the honour to any other appertaining but vnto your
selfe. Bee therefore such in continuance, as may fullie bee answerable
to each part of your noblenesse, and God who is the creator of all
thinges, and fauourer of each worthie enterprise, blesse your endeuours
with the sustentation of _Vertue_, which is euer permanent. At B. this
of &c.

                    _An Epistle Swasorie, wherein a
                        Gentlewoman is counsel-
                           led to mariage._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Insinuatiō._]

[Sidenote: _Parenthesis._]

The extreame griefe wherein my selfe was a partaker with you, of the
death of your late husbande, woulde not suffer mee (good Mistresse E.)
at my last beeing with you, to deliuer what then I thought meete for
your estate, & sithence I haue more at large considered vppon to bee
for your profite. And albeit your selfe are, I knowe of discretion
sufficient, and the number of your friendes of regarde compotent,
both to consider and counsell, what vnto your present affayres may
bee deemed most correspondent: yet may it not bee ill accepted, if
my selfe of a great manie, that haue wyshed well to your person, and
fauoured euermore your good condition, doe heerein also among the
rest, put forwarde my meaning, and perswade you thereby vnto that,
which (though not alreadie may bee fitting to your instant lyking) yet
to your present behoofe may returne no question of soundest and best
consideration.

[Sidenote: _Merismus._]

And first, I deeme it not impertinent to referre vnto your knowledge
what I haue throughly conceyued with my selfe of your beeing, _viz._
that you are a widowe, a Gentlewoman of verie worshipfull parentage
and discent, the wife before time of a Gentleman of as good reputation
as liuing, as good alliaunce as credite, that you are knowne to bee
modest, discreete, wise and well gouerned, that you are and ought to
bee warie in your actions, and such as whereof the babling multitude
may reape no aduauntage, and finallie that by reason of the ouerhastie
determination of his life (whose continuaunce might haue ridde you of
innumerable cares) you are pestred with some troubles, the most part
of your liuing in suspence, and that whereof you deeme your selfe
most assured, hanging vppon so manie hazardes, as hitherto remayneth
doubtfull, in what sort you shall compasse it, or with what liking to
your selfe you may happily ouerpasse the same.

[Sidenote: _Narratiō._]

[Sidenote: _Synonymia._]

Touching the first, I warne you not that according to your present
estate, you do minde what you are, what you haue bin, of whom you are
discended, and in what sort you may best prouide with warinesse, to
deale for all these: but drawing to the latter, and weighing on what
tearmes you stande, howe hardly you are bestead, howe slender meanes
to auoid it, I repute him not the worst wel-willer, that coulde aduise
you with contentment and litle hazard, in what sort you might best
endeuour in all effectes to aunswere it. It is reported vnto mee, that
by the procurement of some, fauouring your aduauncement, there is nowe
profered vnto your lyking a young Gentleman, vertuous, discreete, and
well ordered, the sonne and heyre of a worshipfull Knight, on the
choyce and regarde of whose Parents, dependeth the best assuraunce of
your whole portion, in whose condition and behauiour, albeit you finde
no one thing to bee reprehended, yet disclaime you to bee married, you
will heare of no suters, there must bee in your presence no speech at
all of lyking, and you meane not so soone forsooth to set forwarde for
a husband.

[Sidenote: _Merismus._]

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

[Sidenote: _Commoratiō._]

[Sidenote: _Parenthesis._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Procatalepsis._]

[Sidenote: _Vtilitie._]

[Sidenote: Necessitie.]

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

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 require, you forciblie are
endeuoured to make so vndiscreete and setled a resistance: Whie La. doe
you thinke it profiteth at all, the deceased ghost of him that loued
you (a young Gentlewoman as you are, scarce exceeding twentie yeares)
to liue thus solitarie? Hangeth the censuring of your modestie, and
acceptaunce of that which your best friendes doe wish for, and the
wisest doe allowe of, on the tatling humours of common supposes? if it
bee deemed once fit for you to marry againe, and that vpon the warie
and circumspect choyse thereof dependeth a manner of necessitie, and
that nowe, before anie one of yours almost suspected it, the plenty of
that might bee charily wished for, is layde alreadie into your bosome,
behooueth the respect of a little time, which (beeing sooner or later,
so it bee perfourmed with modestie and aunswered with discretion)
mattereth not at all to detaine you so much, as thereby you are not
able to see into your owne profite? Is it not, I pray you, a purpose
honest that is tendered? Is it not a matter lawfull to bee accepted?
Is it a thing vnmeete for your present yeares at this instant to
be reputed? Nay, is it not all in all whatsoeuer, that in the best
sort as the case now standeth, may vnto you be offered? Why then
abstaine you the entertainment of your owne good? Why drawe you thus
backeward from your owne aduauncement? Why cease you to accept that,
whereunto in the ende you must by meere force bee compelled? If you
will beleeue mee in any thing, or doe suppose the waight of my credite
to be auaylable vnto you in ought, I would aduise you in other sort,
considering that by declyning from a selfe-opinion of that whereunto
without anie manifest reason you are induced, you shall doe most good
vnto your selfe, and giue occasion to them that loue you, to thinke
that by so doing, their good counselles haue happely preuailed with you
and wrought such aduauncemente vnto you, I haue thought with my selfe
many times sithence the death of your husbād, howe much imported the
vnsetled reach of your liuing to be renued in match with one of good
calling: see nowe God and Fortune more fauouring your hap, then your
selfe, your owne wel doing, haue sente you such a one, as of whome you
might vaunt, and iustly in all thinges be occasioned to accompt of. It
now appertaineth that either by fond self-wil, or too much vnkindnes,
you shake not off from you the foremost occasion of your succeeding
happines. I reck not what of the cōmon sort (more of ignorance then
wit) may insuppose of the hastie conclusion be in secret alleadged,
their errours like their fancies, are as incertaine as peeuish. Be you
onely herein perswaded, to what most of all beseemeth you, and think
that both in the waightines, and regard attributed to his and your
own worthines, you can for the present frame your selfe to nothing,
that to your estate may returne so cōmodious, whereunto though no
other matter at all enioyned you, it were sufficient that so forced
a necessitie constraineth you, to which the regard of your selfe and
your owne good fortune willeth to obey. Longer coulde I debate vnto you
the greate liking of many, conceiued of the partie, to the deliuerie
whereof by the report of your neerest kinsmen, I doe solie refer you,
onelie studying in this, and whatsoeuer els I may, by all indeuours
to pleasure you, whereof praying you to be most assured, I doe in all
curtesie leaue to detaine you. At B. this of, &c.

          _Another Example of an Epistle Swasorie perswading
                  the carefull acceptance and regard
                           of one brother to
                               another._

[Sidenote: _Exordium_, by insinuation.]

The sounde and entire familiaritie wherewith your parents in their
life time sometimes entertained me, and the neerenes of neighbourhoode
twixte both our friendes and long education wherein iointly we haue
conuersed together, mooueth mee at this instant somewhat to write vnto
you in respect of the reputation credit, and accompt that in the worlde
you nowe beare, and also the rather to win you to the regarde of that,
which to the estate of your presente being, and worthinesse of your
parents, might be found meetest and conuenient.

[Sidenote: _Narratiō._]

It is giuen me to vnderstand of a younger brother you haue here in
London, who at the time of your fathers death beeing committed to your
charge, is for the defaulte of maintenaunce, badly inured, woorse
trained, and most perillously by all kinde of likelihood (through such
sufferaunce) in the loosnesse of his liuing alreadie hazarded.

[Sidenote: _Liptote._]

[Sidenote: _Prosonomasia._]

[Sidenote: _Merismus._]

[Sidenote: _Parabola._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

I woondered not a little when I hearde it, and so much the more was
the matter troublesome vnto mee, in that respecting it was not tolde
in secrete, it seemed by the lookes and gestures of the whole companie
that heard it, your good demeanor thereby was very hardly censured,
for that standing in such case of credite as you doe, your wealth so
aboundant, and your parentes so well accompted of, you woulde in this
sort, and in that place of all others suffer him to wander carelesse,
whome you ought to the contrarie to haue constrained, by any possible
carefulnes. How ill beseeming it is both to you & yours, that it
shoulde so fall out, you may by supposes coniecture. For my parte,
it grieued mee when I heard it, and I was not quiet till I found
conuenient time to aduertise you of it. And if my opinion may at all
preuaile with you, you shoulde quickly call him home from hence, and
see him more better to be prouided for, and more worthily trained.
Consider I pray you, the life hee taketh in hand, befitteth not such
a one, whose originall was so honest, is ill beseeming the younger
brother of your selfe, vnwoorthie his birth or name of a Gentleman, and
altogether repugnant to the qualitie of your behauior or the greatnesse
of your liuing. You are to remember that hee is yet verie greene, nowe
pliable to whatsoeuer may bee impressed in him, as chafed waxe apte
to receiue anie figure, like vnto a newe vessell to bee seasoned with
whatsoeuer liquor, what hee now taketh taste and sauour of, that hee
holdeth, what habite you nowe cast vpon him, the same shadow he lightly
beareth. Great cause haue you therfore now to be warie how and in what
sort he liueth.

[Sidenote: _Congeries._]

[Sidenote: _Emphasis._]

[Sidenote: _Peroratiō._]

Your industrie, your brotherlie care, your loue, your especiall regarde
and kindnesse it is, that must bee ayding in this, you and none but
you are the man on whome hee relieth, you are to prouide for him,
and it is your selfe that must answere for him. Think that _nature_,
_loue_, _dutie_ yea verie _piety_ bindeth you vnto him, who hath none
other left to depend on, but such as by possibilitie your self may
become vnto him. In the consideration of which let (I pray you) my
wordes become thus much regarded vnto you, that herein as in all other
things you performe that beseemeth you. Longer could I occupie my selfe
to trauell in this action with you, but that I deem it (more then
impertinent) any further therein to require you. Greeting your selfe
manie times in my name, I bid you therefore farewell. From my house in
B. this of, &c.

       _Of Epistles Dehortatorie, and Disswasorie.    Chap. 12._

=Vnnecessary were it to wade further in either of these titles
|hortatorie| or |Swasorie|, the examples alreadie laide downe being
for them sufficient, wherfore we will now passe vnto the contraries
of these, being |Dehortatorie| and |disswasorie|. The partes and
places |exhorting| or |perswading| hauing as you sée bene drawne from
the qualities of praise, fortified in diuers sortes, as well by the
_person_, by the _action_, as by the _thing_ it selfe, where vnder was
comprehended what might be called _honest_ or good: So these on the
contrarie parte pulling backe or disswading, shall by the vnhonestie
of the action or thing as before hath bin said, and by the indignitie,
vniustnes, wickednes, insufferablenes, hate, mislike, contempt, or
hazard of danger, reputation or good name that thereof ensueth, be
euermore measured.=

=In the handling whereof it is tolerable, by all sortes of arguments,
to infer and obiect any thinge to the diminution or defacing of that
which we go about to impugne. Yea, if need be, to inuert the good
also that in such a person may be supposed vnto a worser sence. As if
in dehorting or disswading a man from infidelity towards his country
I might first touching the action tender vnto him, how |vnnatural|
the cause is he taketh in hand, being against his natiue soile: how
|vnhonest|, by laying out the quality of the offence, how |vniust|, in
respect that it is against his allegiance to his Prince, how |impious|,
in that it retaineth no piety, turneth to the disturbance of a quiet
state, & bréedeth the subuersion of al peaceable gouernment, how
|insufferable|, by reason that good and wholesome lawes are thereby
infringed, all sortes of honest and good men wronged, and consequently
the common wealth by such meanes topsie turuie turned.=

=For the |Person| if he were at any time of worth I might shewe then
the |indignitie|, or ill beséeming of such a thinge vnto him, for that
actions of such kinde are alwaies vnto the noble and best endued mindes
vtterly repugning. And so thereupon if in him there was euer reputed
any wisdome, I might diuert it now vnto follie, his |Fortitude|, I
might challenge to be |Temeritie|, his |moderation| crueltie, his
|stoutnes arrogancie|, his |haughtines pride|, his |Freedome loosnes|,
and consequently, for euerie other |vertue| induce or lay downe vnto
him a contrarie |vice|, respecting that by committing of actions so
|vile & contemptible|, all properties whatsoeuer of former esteemed
worthines doe vtterly loose the partes they haue of |good|, and
immideately are disturned there withall vnto euill.=

=And as in Epistles |Exhorting| or |Perswading|, the intended vertue of
goodnesse of euerie thing is more amplie set foorth by the |opposite
euil|: So in these of |withdrawing| or |disswading| the intended
|euil| by the |opposite good|, is euer made more |hatefull|. Besides,
as there bee some thinges that are expresly good in themselues or
expresly euil, so are there some thinges that for themselues are helde
indifferent. In these, to perswade or withdrawe, there is a prettie
skill to be vsed, in which the discretion of the writer may not passe
vncommended, wherof (for so much as to a learner they may happely passe
vnregarded) I entende in this chapter to affoorde some application. For
in thinges alwaies knowne to be of themselues either good or euill,
there is no great cunning to make a shew of them as they are: but of
things which either by times, by liking, by place, by allowance, by
conuersation may be deemed good or bad, to be commended or disalowed,
in the setting foorth thereof appeareth both skill and discretion.=

=For example, that mariage is a thinge much to be preferred, and to
the increase of man of so greate necessitie, as without which there
could bée no orderlie estate or societie, no man I am sure will denie
mée. And to a man vnwilling to enter thereinto, I might (with intent to
drawe him to a liking thereof) besides a number of necessarie causes
to be alleadged, as the decay of his house, the continuance of a
solitary, loose or bad kind of liuing, the end of his wealth and name
together hauing no issue to succéede him, infer also as much pertinent
to such a perswasion the sacred solemnization thereof in Paradise,
first by the |eternall Wisdome| himselfe thought méet and appointed,
then his pleasure to inioine the same to the worlds increase, then
the care that naturally we haue of issue to succéed vs, the indignity
for a man of value not to haue respect therof, the loue likewise &
mutuall societie betwixt man & wife, being of such mightie efficacie,
as wherunto no liking is to be compared, the swéet pleasures, cares &
delights, interchangeably passing betwéene them, each dearly affying?
them selues in the others contentment, solace or pleasing, the ioy of
procreation, when there shall be a childe produced, whose infancie
tatling with a pleasant lisping sound, shall become an incredible
delight to the parents hearing, with sundrie other like inforcements
and suggestions, all which might certainlie shewe and declare the same
to be as it is a matter of much woorth, and sufficientlie set forth
vnto the partie why it ought to be embraced.=

=Now, as the same is out of all doubt not onelie tollerable, as I
said before, but by the necessitie thereof among many thinges held to
be praise worthy: so in another place, & to another person might I
againe find as much occasion for matter, why the selfe same marriage
should be alike dispraised, as (not reckoning the age of man or woman,
which many times more of dotage then discretion pursueth the same)
there might be opposed thereagainst the swéetnes of libertie, the vse
wherof (nothing more) conduceth principally vnto the estate & life of
man, who naturally coueteth vnrestrained & without controlment to do
that him liketh, the benefit wherof enioying, he may ride, go, walke,
rest, eat, drinke, studie, recreate, solace, and whersoeuer, and in
whatsoeuer companie pleaseth him best, vse the conceit thereof to his
owne appetite.=

=Now, hauing a wife (suppose she haue all the perfections you will
giue her) yet is the delicacie hereof bereft a man: for being once
married, hee thenceforth is no more vnto himselfe, but vnto her, for
her pleasure, to her choyce, at her liking, with her contentment, must
he then order his humours, his houres, his gestures, his companies, his
iourneys, his recreations, and what els he before time might fréelie
haue vsed, his owne liking is quenched, his libertie restrained, and
yet the losse hereof a heauen to that which followeth, if by great
good fortune he bee not the better matched, For imagin the woman
chosen, do prooue a scolde, wayward, self-willed, malicious, frowning,
or suspitious, what a hell is hee then driuen into, whose serpentine
and more then Adderlike disposition shall be such as would terrifie a
thousande Diuelles. If she bee wanton, dissolute, lewde, or loose in
liuing, howe on the other side shall he then be turmoyled: what is it
that she will not presume vpon, & dare to hazarde? how infamous shall
her life then become to his liuing? how little will shee esteeme of
him, in respect of the large account she holdeth of many others? If
she be proude, then may she be vnsupportable: if her wit be more then
his, then arrogant: if she be foolish, then a mocking stocke: if she be
faire, then a spectacle to gaze on: if foule, then a simpring puppet
to wonder on: if shee be rich, presumptuous: if poore, then happilie
odious. But being what shee may bee, or touching her owne person the
best she can bee, what intollerable charge bringeth shee with her, what
cost of apparel, what care of diet, what houshold of seruants, what
expence for attendance, what prouision for children; what furniture for
house, what daily, continual & neuer ceasing cark & toile for her &
hers: in conclusion, what one discommoditie may be reckoned, that with
her or for her is not in short space a thousande times hazarded?=

=Thus doe you see how out of one selfe thing both praise and dispraise
by admittance may be gathered. A like thereunto may be added in the
vsage of wine. To a crazed man of weak disposition, or such a one
whose constitution of bodie for Phisicks sake should require it, I
might, to perswade him to the vse thereof, vrge the necessarie meane,
the goodnesse, propertie, vertue and wholesomnesse of the same, the
operation, howe it recreateth, driueth away heauinesse from the minde,
prouoketh appetite, comforteth, and many wayes (moderatelie taken)
helpeth and relieueth. But now to disswade againe the intermedling
therewith, what might bee imagined that coulde not bee rehearsed: by
manifesting the hurt and manifold inconueniences thereby ensuing, as
that it causeth drunkennes, dulleth the wits, making ill digestion,
ingendreth superfluities, weakneth the spirits, hurteth the braine,
driueth a man to forget himselfe, enforceth to commit that which
many times is filthie and often vnbeseeming, of a reasonable
creature frameth a beast, discouereth counsels, causeth slaughters,
and consequentlie ladeth both the bodie and minde with a thousand
mischiefes, impediments and diseases.=

=As of these twain, so might I stand vpon many others the like, which
for breuitie I omit, holding these applications sufficient for the
present intendment: adding herewithall, that the exhorter, perswader
or withdrawer from any thing, ought touching things indifferent,
specially to haue before his eyes the reputation of the partie to whome
he writeth, considering that some things are lesse meete in one person
then in another, and that which well fitteth and agreeth with the state
or condition of some one, is altogether vnmeet and disagréeing in the
behauiour of another. To consider in like sort this old adage, _ne quid
nimis_, whereby in reprouing the vse of any thing he may prefer the
_moderation_, and inueigh against the _nimium_. Finally, to respect,
that of sundry indifferent occasions not the vse, but the abuse is it
which ought to bee reprehended. These beeing admitted, wee will come to
the |Examples| of both kindes aswell |Dehortatorie| as |Disswasorie|,
and see what therein may be tendred.=

   _An example of an Epistle dehortatorie, wherein a noble Gentleman
             is withdrawne from infidelitie or rebellion._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: By insinuation.]

[Sidenote: _Metaphora._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

My good G. my faithfull louing Countriman, and dearest of account
(whilome all and either of these vnto me, so bee it the frowning
heauens and dispiteful wicked fate had not harboured the contrarie)
what shall I write vnto thee, or by what tearmes may I now salute thee?
Erst woonted were my letters to pursue thee, carelesse in any cost,
and familiarly and boldly to regard thee, now blushing at thy vncouth
hap, and carefull of they carelesse vsage, they cannot without griefe
approch thee, nor once without sorrowe intentiuely behold thee.

[Sidenote: _Ecphonesis._]

Alas, my G. what furie hath ledde thee, what madnes hath bewitched
thee, what hatefull destinie hath pursued thee, that beeing such as
thou wert, on whome Nature and the heauens as it seemed, had powred all
their giftes moste plentifullie, thou wouldest yet be ledde to deface
so many partes of excellencie, with one hatefull, ignominious and
shamefull blott, of wicked, and most heynous treacherie.

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Ecphonesis._]

[Sidenote: _Sinathrismus._]

Diddest thou for this cause take vppon thee the profession of Armes, to
become iniurious to thy Countrey, to bereaue men of their patrimonie,
to bee a destroyer of vnitie, a patterne of infidelitie, the dishonour
of thy familie, and consequently to thy selfe and dearest soile, a
professed and open enemie? Ah happie in all other things, but in this
sole enterprize, in the broaching whereof thou wast put forwarde to bee
made the onelie vnhappie, behooueth with such ingratitude to rewarde
the first Authour of thy familie? Was this the ende of thy birth, thy
parents, education, thy estate, thy wealth, thy possibilitie, to become
a Traytour to thy Prince, and rebell to thy Countrey? No, no, my G.
vilde and too ill beseeming is the drift that hath so ouertaken thee,
and ignorant was he of that became thee, that first thereunto perswaded
thee.

[Sidenote: _Dialogismus._]

When thou liest armed in the fields and (mustering thy ranks in the day
time) beholdest and lookest around about thy Countrey, thinkest thou
not then with thy selfe, in this soyle was I borne, within this land
lieth my patrimonie, heere had I first sucke, and sithence haue the
fruits thereof nourished me, and could I then become so ingratefull
and vnkinde, as for all these benefits to destroy thee? Not so, nor in
such maner haue the vertuous in field beene accounted so woorthie, not
for this cause in such actions, haue men beene said to beare themselues
honourably. _Coriolanus_, thou wast conuinced by the view of the Citie
and mothers intreatie, and shall I vnhappie man for all this, persist
in this crueltie?

[Sidenote: _Anthypophora._]

[Sidenote: _Epanodus._]

[Sidenote: _Paradigma._]

[Sidenote: _Antithesis._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Paradigma._]

[Sidenote: _Etiologia._]

Iustlie and by great occasion credit me, mightest thou thus complaine
of so great an iniurie, and all this being so true, as nothing more
true; can it be said in prosecuting the same, thou maist be freed frō
infamie? What I pray thee hath made men famous, and canonized their
memorie, was it not their munificence and valiant demerits in and for
the good of their country? For in what one thing are we more likened
vnto God himselfe, then in the worthines of our minds, the resolutions
whereof, ought in no wise to be stained with such hatefull obloquie?
The Asse runneth through fire for the safegard of her issue and shall
the valiant man then become negligent to the ayde of his Countrey? Howe
farre more waightilie shall hee bee accused, who not onelie giueth no
ayde at all to his Countrey, but also is therunto an inconsiderate and
most cruell enemie? Howe carelesse are such men of their fame, and howe
vnlike of all others to those memorable woorthies, the precious regard
whereof, vnto them hath beene such, as then goods, possessions, riches,
kingdomes, yea life it selfe hath beene helde most dearest. Peruse but
the auncient hystories of _Rome_, and looke there of _Mutius Scæuola_,
the most inuincible Romane, with what confidence hee went solie into
the Tent of _Prosenna_, his and their Countryes capitall enemie, in
minde onelie to destroie him. The good _Furius Camillus_, who after
manie high and honourable seruices by him done to the Common-wealth of
Rome, was by his owne Citizens vniustlie banished: howe farre off was
hee thinke you, from this your opinion? For the Galles whom before he
had expulsed, hauing in the time of this his banishment assieged the
Citie of Rome, and beeing then verie likely to haue distressed the
same, insomuch as they had alreadie forraged, burnt and destroyed the
whole Countrey round about, hee more sorrowfull at the likely ruine
of his Citie, then grieued at his owne banishment, (mooued thereunto
of verie pietie to his natiue soyle and Countrey) entred counsell
with the _Ardeats_, and by his wisedome, policie, and great manhood,
so perswaded those people, that in feare of their mishap, they were
content to leuie a mightie armie vnder his conduct, wherewith hee not
onely put backe the enemie, but therewith so mightilie pursued them,
as by such meanes he vtterly freed and set at libertie his Citie and
Conntrey.

[Sidenote: _Transitiō._]

[Sidenote: _Parison._]

[Sidenote: _Emphasis._]

[Sidenote: _Periphrasis._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Dialogismus._]

[Sidenote: _Epizeuxis._]

[Sidenote: _Antithesis._]

[Sidenote: _Ecphonesis._]

[Sidenote: _Aporia._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

[Sidenote: _Prosopopœia._]

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 shall euer bee extant, that shall
not euerlastinglie report, the deserued fame of that right woorthie
and verie noble indeede, Sir _William Walwoorth_, Knight, once Lord
Maior of London, the remembraunce whereof (to his perpetuall prayse,
and endlesse confusion of others, who not onely abstaine the putting in
vre of such his memorable vertue, but which is woorse, doe endeuour by
cruell force to tender violence vnto their Sacred Prince and Countrey)
shall yet flourish for euer. Ill doe you example vnto your selfe, or
thinke on the woorthinesse of that good man, who in the time of King
_Richard_ the seconde, when with a most suddaine and strange kinde
of Rebellion the King was troubled, the Realme pestered, and the
strongest of the Kinges subiectes greatlie feared: euen at that time
when the proude fawtour and Captaine of the rebellious and rascallie
multitude, durst hatefullie and most vndutifullie to bearde the King
in his owne presence, and each man shunned to impugne the contrarie.
This valiant, this good, this right noble and woorthie Citizen,
standing by, when the wicked and presumptuous varlet, with so little
reuerence approached the King, and remembring the seruices of manie
worthie men, that by an honourable aduenture and hazarde of their liues
had to their eternall memorie, before time freed their Countrey with
libertie, grieuing that with so high an abuse his soueraigne Lorde
beeing yet as it were a childe, shoulde there in his hearing, bee so
farre amated, couragiouslie stept vnto the Rebell, and taking him by
the gorge, proude varlet (quoth hee) that darest thus contemptouslie
demeane thy selfe vnto thy King and Soueraigne, foule death betide
thee, and shame quicklie consume thee: Whie, aunswered the villaine
in greate disdaine, is it thou that greeuest at that I haue sayde?
Greeue, replyed the stoute couragious Citizen, yea, euen I, I it is
that greeue at thee, and happilie shoulde thinke my selfe accurst,
if thou shouldest escape from mee vnreuenged, wherewith drawing more
closelie vnto him, hee pulled him from his horse by maine force, and
stabbed him to the heart with his dagger. The destruction of whom,
bredde such confusion vnto all the residue of his headstrong armie, and
sight whereof kindeled so great a furie in the residue of the Kings
companie, (who for that present vpon speciall considerations, was there
attended on but meanelie) that the whole rebellious route were by such
meanes euer after discomfited vtterlie: wherewith before that instaunt
the whole Realme had lyke to haue beene turned topsie turuie. Hee and
such as hee laboured not by ambitious pride to arrogate vnto themselues
a lawlesse extremitie, but studyed of meere loue and entire zeale, how
and which way they might performe best seruice to their Prince and
Conntrey. O more then ordinarie affection, and feruencie of high and
statelie woorthinesse, in the regarde whereof, life was not sweete vnto
these men, whose liuing might not redounde to become (for their dearest
soyle) to bee honoured and famous. What then may I say my G. of that
by thee, and thy copartners taken in hande, whether will you be driuen,
what shall become of you, how doe ye behaue your selues, who may
receiue you, in whose inward conceites (not the pietie and regard of
anie of theese) no nor so much as one sparke of their loialtie, coulde
so deepelie bee impressed, as whereby to withdrawe you from these
vnnaturall broiles? What haue you found in your deare prince? what in
your louing countrie? what in this citie? what to anie one of al your
selues in particularitie, that might in such hatefull maner incite you,
& by occasion whereof you should thrust your selues into so great an
enormitie? Beleeue me, & it shal verilie be auowed, the successe hereof
will returne vnto you none other in the ende then the verie reward
of infamie. I haue knowne thee, beeing far lesse in yeares then at
this instant, to haue bene able to rule thy selfe, and with plausible
moderation to bee indued in all things, couldest thou then beeing a
childe performe this in thy selfe, and beeing nowe a man art not able
to endure it? There be I know about thee, that will perswade that all
that thou doest herein is vertue, that herein thou hast great wisdom,
much fortitude, and notable moderation, that the action is haughtie,
the occasion libertie, and the end glorie. But how greatlie they doe
erre in so saying, let this saying of good _Camillus_ stand for you
and vs indifferentlie, whose notable speach sprung vp from those his
inuiolable vertues, spared not this, to affirme in presence of all the
Senate vnto the people. Let others (quoth hee) deeme it a thinge euill
and reprochfull at anie time to bee founde faultie, in not yeelding
ready succors and aid to their country: _Camillus_ for his part is
& shal be of that resolute determination, that it is & ought to be
reputed for euermore a thing detestable and vild, and of all other the
most hatefull and replenished with all execrable miserie. How thinketh
then your gentle mind, of the action by this time. Is it (suppose you)
anie vertue that thereunto preferreth you? _Camillus_ iudged that it
was not reprochfull, but villanous and detestable, so much as to bee
founde failing in ought to his countrie, and may it then bee thought a
thinge honest to become a persecutor of your countrie?

[Sidenote: _Orismus._]

[Sidenote: _Prosonomasia._]

[Sidenote: Loue.]

[Sidenote: Hate.]

[Sidenote: Feare.]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

[Sidenote: _Sententia._]

[Sidenote: _Antithesis._]

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

It is not _Fortitude_, but _Temeritie_, that conducteth your
enterprises, for _Fortitude_ aspireth to far more noble and statelier
purposes. The action and determination, you preferre therein is not
(as fondlie by you is conceaued) _honour_, but _haughtines_, not
_libertie_, but _loosenes_, not _vertue_, but _viciousnes_: why then
continue you in this sorte togethers, vpon so wicked and diuelish a
purpose? Why returnest not thou rather to thy self my G. & hauing
long before striued to emulate the praise of others by an vnstained
gentilitie, wipe nowe quickly off this foule blemish from thee, and
couering the filthinesse thereof by a most incomparable fidelitie,
become once againe like vnto thy self. At the least wise, if the loue
of thy coūtrie, fidelitie towards thy prince, the example of Vertue
her selfe and so many her famous and renowned followers (then which
no one thinge on earth ought more to allure a man) may not herewith
conuince thee, let yet the execrable and immortall hate, that all
good men beare to the practise of such kind of crueltie, the feare
of euer harbouring shame, and erected ignomie, and neuer after hope
(thy credite once consumed) againe to recouer thee, let these I say
constrain thee. Whilst there is yet but one craze or slender flaw in
the touchstone of thy reputation, peece it vp, & new flourish again
by a greater excellēcie, the square of thy workmanship. A fewe daies
are to bee passed in which there is yet time, fame wounded in life
may once bee restored, if death doe preuente thee, thy shame and
destruction is for euer shrowded. The next newes I hear from thee, may
make thee fortunate, or me for thee alwaies vnhappie. My longing would
bee satisfied of this from which I dehort thee. If onelie herein thou
condiscende vnto mee, my selfe am thine, and to none so much as thy
selfe absolutely, I loue thee, I require thee, I pray thee, and pray
for thee, that thou maist as I wish, and wouldest as I bid, bee for,
and to mee. Farewell if thou doest well.

                 An Example of a disswasorie Epistle,
                 _wherin one is disswaded from fruit-
                 les vanities, to more learned & pro-
                           fitable studies_.

[Sidenote: _Narratiō._]

I receiued on Saturday last a letter from your Vncle, wherein amongst
sundrie other matters I was aduertised, that leauing your former
learned studies, whereunto with greate cost and charge of your
parents, you had bene trained, you haue giuen your selfe wholie to
certaine thinges, the regarde whereof albeit in their moderate vses, I
cannot discommende, yet in respecte of your former intendmentes, I can
tearme them none other then meere follies, and verie fruitles vanities.

It is reported with vs for certaine, that you are become an excellent
good dauncer, that you are growne prettilie skilled on instrumentes,
whereon you play reasonablie, that you spende the time limitted for
more profite in the Vniuersitie, in making of songes and exquisite
fine ditties, that you are verie fitlie seated for wantonnesse, and
worthilie behaued in all kind of curious conueyances.

[Sidenote: _concession._]

[Sidenote: _Parison._]

[Sidenote: _Synonymia._]

I woulde for mine owne parte nothing at all mislike what herein you
haue in some sorte frequented, weighing indeede that as they may bee
in sorte entertained, those qualities doe not ill beseeme a Gentleman,
but are in their kinde verie fit and commendable to anie youthfull
reckoning: yet studying them as you doe by them selues, inuring your
selfe whollie to their delighte, abandoning what else might best honour
and beautifie their woorthinesse, in respect of the sole propertie
of them selues and their owne peculiar goodnesse, I say that in such
regarde they are vanities, trifles, thinges of no momente, and in each
sounde opinion to bee helde of farre lesse value and iudgement.

[Sidenote: _Prosonomasia._]

The intendment of your going to the Vniuersitie was for _learning_
sake, to become an excellent scholler, not an exquisite dauncer, a
Maister of Arte not an artlesse maister, a good Rhetorician, not a
conceited Musitian: your Vncles care, was by vilefying his wealth vnto
you, (the weight whereof by imminent perilles wee see daylie perish
before our eies) to purchase for you the endowment of a farre more
greater and assured treasure, and that is by knowledge to teach you
to discerne trifles, to procure in you a minde to despise trifles,
that leauing small riches to inherit, you your selfe might gather
possessions whereby to enrich you.

[Sidenote: _Synonymia._]

[Sidenote: _Parison._]

[Sidenote: _Asyndeton._]

You then are farre misconceiued, to relinquish the hoped reckoning of
that you came for, to applie your selfe to that which fewe doe accompt
of, and the wisest woulde neuer sweate for, you shall therefore vppon
better aduise endeuour if you doe well, to returne your conceite to
a far more better purpose. You shall call to minde that all studies
whatsoeuer, by how much the more excellent ech one appeareth before
the other, by so much the more assured are they in their kinde, and
aboue all the residue, with far greater estimate to bee preferred:
if so? then must you graunt me that no one thing vpon earth (then
_learning_, then precious and high esteemed _skill_, then aboue all
earthly things whatsoeuer, heauenlie _science_) is of so great and
surpassing excellence. To lay out vnto you herein, howe much glorious
is her shining hue aboue all others, howe sugred her plantes, howe
daintie her fruits, howe delicate her pleasures, howe incomparable her
high and statelie reach, how she participateth the skies, the element,
the venerable search and knowledge of high and sacred mysteries: I
need not, you know it, you haue felt & tasted of it. But to shewe howe
much you misprise the force of her vertue, howe ill conceiued, and far
wandring, you are from the due esteeme of her glorie, to make loue to
her handmaides, to professe liking to her seruantes, to become sole
entertainer of her vassals: hereon resteth the iniurie, this is it I
complaine of vnto you.

[Sidenote: _congeries._]

[Sidenote: _Parenthesis._]

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

And if either the sum and type of honestie placed in the weight of
the action, the necessitie, meetnes, and worthines, the vtility and
benefits seuen hundred fold compensing the trauel, may (as earthly
things haue often power to mooue one, aboue things of far higher
estimation) induce you to her most dearest and precious fruition,
search then the fauor of these your louing mistresses, and (seemlie I
grant you may find them) but neuer shall they proue either so wealthy
or beautifull. What then should let you to returne to this glorious
Ladie? Will you because you are an earthlie substance, followe the
common reason of euerie earthlie creature? _humum sapere & alta
spernere_? or saying that the appetites of the one are much pleasanter
for the time, or far lesse tedious then the other, welde your opinion
by a peeuish conceite of ease, to become a creditor to wantonnes?

[Sidenote: _Meiosis._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

These imaginations as they are meerelie bad, so are they ten times
woorse in the pursuite, then they are sweete in the foremost thought.
Peeuish were it, simplie for you to stande vppon these vanities,
thinges wherein children haue delight, and young weaklinges doe roue at
cunninglie: you must suppose and harpe vpon the end that must succeede
vnto your trauaile, and finding the reache thereof pursue it with
feruencie: Such actions as these doe onelie beseeme men, and heerein
alone shall you shewe your selfe such as you may desire to bee, and
your friends doe heartilie wish you to prooue. Alexander restlesse in
the day tyme, gaped for worldles, but in the night season was rocked a
sleepe by the _Muses_, the pleasure hereof appeased his day labours,
and the content of this gaue rest to his trauels.

[Sidenote: _Peroratiō._]

Too much impertinent were it for me to hale you on with arguments,
who onelie go about to perswade you with warrantise: Neither thinke I
in the ende you will declare your selfe otherwise, then euer I haue
expected of you. Much more could I infer, that might greatlie induce
you to that whereunto your owne willingnesse must in the ende, of
necessitie conduce you. Onely, if in the weight hereof my perswasions
may something preuaile: I shall not forget in any woorthie part
thereof, at all times to commend you. In which reposing my selfe for
the present, I ende: this of, &c.

  _An other example disswasorie, wherein the partie is by diuers rea-
          sons disswaded from entring into an action in appa-
                        rance verie dangerous._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Propositiō._]

[Sidenote: _Aporia._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

I haue (good brother) receiued your letters, dated the eight day of
this instant, which were with as great diligence as celeritie, conueied
to my handes, and by the fidelitie of the bearer haue vnderstoode to
the vttermost what you willed, and both of that and your letter haue
at large considered. It seemeth therin vnto mee, that whether through
ignorance of your owne good, or inconsiderate rashnesse of youth, or
voluntarie intrusion of your selfe into your owne harmes, I knowe not,
but the matter and action mentioned and inforced by the whole course
of your letter, is altogither to be misliked, and for the extremitie
thereof to bee by all reason vtterly condemned, as whereunto you
ought not to condescende, much lesse to bee seene in publique to bee
a fauourer of, or, which is more, to appeare to bee, the onelie man
through whose follie and immoderate rashnesse, the same is solie to be
accomplished.

[Sidenote: _Ecphonesis._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

O good God! what blindnes is it that leadeth you? what sencelesse furie
that bewitcheth you? What matter of euill that pursueth you? By the
intollerable force whereof, without anie fore-sight at all, either of
the goodnesse or ilnesse of the action, the lawlesse prosecution, the
matter of your owne reputation, the daunger of lawe wherein you are
intruded, the difficultie whereby it must be attained, the vnhonest
sollicitation of your friends, to so great a hazard, the discommoditie
that thereon is attendant, and perill euerie way that in the execution
cannot be auoyded: you will notwithstanding all this forget your selfe
so much, as in the accomplishment of a purpose so farre different from
the nature (I will not say of a Gentleman) but of an honest man, go
about to put in proofe what in the ende must of necessitie returne to
your owne confusion.

[Sidenote: _Procatalepsis._]

[Sidenote: _Antipophora._]

[Sidenote: _Orismus._]

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Etiologia._]

But you will say it is loue, and extreame lyking that compelleth you
to so forcible an action, as without the obtaining whereof you are no
bodie, you cannot liue. Loue say you? Alas, what loue tearme you this,
that is laden with so manie disordered motions, call you this loue?
Nay rather call it madnesse, for loue is measured by no extremitie,
but in the honest and vertuous encrease thereof, where not by a
harebraine furie, but by a discreete and moderate ascention men by
degrees doe climbe vnto that, the sweete and pleasant force whereof
neuer participateth anie occasion of such vnreasonable badnesse. Why
brother, doe you loue her whome you haue sued for, and because by
desert you cannot attaine her, will you vndertake thereupon to bereaue
her by force? Howe vnhonest I pray you is the purpose of so great a
wrong? Howe vnfit to bee put forwarde in the meaner sort of men? How
intollerable in a Gentleman? For if in the account of things vnhonest,
any action whatsoeuer may appeare to be vile, what then this I pray you
may bee deemed more dishonest, more bad, or more vile?

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

And if it be punished extreamly by the lawe, the taking away of a mans
goods against his will, what may he deserue that bereaueth the person
of anie one, being also a Gentlewoman, such as to whome all humanitie
forbiddeth to proffer wrong, and to the honourable entertainment of
whome, is appropriate onely the nobilitie of a Gentleman, nay, in what
sort may such a one bee censured in the reputation of all honest men,
that in sort so violent, goeth about to rauish her, not onlie offering
iniurie therein to her person, but also to her fame, reputation and
offspring.

[Sidenote: _Anthypophora._]

[Sidenote: _Concessiō._]

[Sidenote: _Synonymia._]

[Sidenote: _Asindeton._]

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

[Sidenote: _Auxesis._]

[Sidenote: _Procatalepsis._]

[Sidenote: _Prosonomasia._]

Thinke you that the intendment heereof can returne credite to your
lyuing? Thinke you that by deliuerie of such fruites you may bee
reputed a Gentleman? No beleeue mee, it cannot bee, but according
to the vnwoorthinesse thereof, it rather shall giue occasion to all
that shall heare or vnderstande of it, to accuse, blame, mislike, and
vtterlie to condemne you. But what if no manner of suppose at all of
dishonestie were left therein, whereby to discourage and withdrawe you
from the action, imagining that the purpose thereof were helde meete
and honourable, and that to euerie one that could winne his choyce by
anie force he might, it were lawfull without discredite or anie censure
of law by what meanes soeuer, to compasse the same, do you thinke it
a matter sleight and easie for you to performe it? No, no sir, you
reckon too wide, you goe beyond the Moone, you are too much deceyued.
Know you not the Gentlewoman is worthilie descended, that she hath
parents, brethren, vncles, and friendes to keepe her, to rescue her, to
defend her? Why sir, is there no more to say, but you will haue her?
You must haue her? and by maine force you will take her? You deale
with no children I can tell you, nor weakelings as you account of,
but men wise, valiaunt, well reputed, and of sound gouernment: who by
so much the more iust and right, the occasion is of their defence, by
so much the sooner will they, and are able to preuaile against you. I
recke not that you haue courage sufficient, that you are hardie, bolde,
and aduenturous (the vse whereof being imployed to good and laudable
purposes, were I confesse much more effectuall) but herein how euer
the case standeth, I see nothing so likelie as an impossibilitie, in
somuch as if you be delighted to become infamous, and in the memorie of
a shamelesse life to hazard your selfe to a shamefull death, then may
you enter into it: once this I knowe, that her can you neuer finde so
slenderlie accompanied, that with small force you can carie her, but
within a moment alwayes, there will not bee wanting a number that shall
bicker for her, from whose insight, you are altogither vnable, if her
selfe consented thereunto, to conuey her.

[Sidenote: _Concessiō._]

[Sidenote: _Congeries._]

[Sidenote: _Epanodis._]

[Sidenote: _Erotema._]

But graunting vnto your wilfull imagination, as much in all things as
you can desire, suppose you might winne her, conuey her, keepe her,
and that the daunger of lawe limited at all no hazarde thereunto, (the
contrarie whereof you well knowe, being guerdoned with no woorse then
losse of life) doe but yet againe returne to your selfe, and call to
minde your birth, your familie, your profession, your maner of liuing:
your birth by your parents who were worshipfull, your stocke by the
reputation yet helde of the same: your profession, which is Armes: your
liuing, a Gentleman. Is it then consonant or agreeing to all or anie of
these, to commit any outrage, and that such an outrage, as to any other
were not so proper, as to a villaine, a wretch, a rascall, such a one
as neither by nature, education, or custome, knoweth to do otherwise?
What would you exercise I pray you on her, if you had her? Once you
confesse she doth not loue you, then no question, would she ten times
more hate you: Your answere I knowe would bee, either by entreatie to
perswade her, or by force to subdue her.

[Sidenote: _Dialysis._]

[Sidenote: _Sententia._]

[Sidenote: _Confutatiō._]

The conclusion is friuolous, if being now her supposed wel-willer, you
can by no meanes allure her, imagine you then by prayers to conuince
her, after you haue once shewed your selfe so extreame vnto her? And
if force be it you pretend, it is repugnant to gentlenes, yet (be
it you neglect what therein to be considered) assure your selfe her
malice neuerthelesse towards you will neuer be quenched. For that of
our selues we cannot freelie accept of, we neuer by compulsion can be
procured to like of. With you now, the case is quite contrarie, for so
imminent euerie way are the perils thereof vnto you, as if her friendes
should abstaine it, yet the lawes will punish it, and if no lawes were
at all, yet God would reuenge it.

If then you will hearken or vnderstand what is right, you must bee
disswaded from these intendments, wherin if my selfe should haue become
so graceles, as to haue set in foote with you, iustly we might haue
both confessed to haue beene drowned in all vnhappines togithers.

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

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 followed, conceyue
that _Vertue_, whose seruaunt you were in your first education,
forbiddeth you to bee ledde by such sensuall appetites, thinke that
honour of Armes which you haue professed, extendeth not it selfe to
the frayle and weake subduing of a Womans condition, who by reason
of her sexe rather chalengeth at your handes a defence, then anie
man-like enforcement: besides, much vnwoorthie should it bee vnto your
reputation by violence to dishonour her, whose estimate and account
by reason of your liking, you oughte to preferre with all honour.
In fine, frame your selfe to doe that vncompelled, which by force
you shall bee constrained to wish once to haue perfourmed, so shall
you euer doe that beeseemeth you, and giue me cause, as my deare and
louing brother euermore to accompte of you. Our former loue and liking
willeth mee euermore to greete you, your sister and mine commendeth her
heartilie vnto you. Fare yee well, B. this thirteenth of Nouember, &c.

                      _Of Epistles Conciliatorie.
                               Chap. 13_

=After these Epistles |dehorting| and |disswading|, followeth nowe the
nexte title |Conciliatorie|, whose vse being preferred in acquiring
vnto our selues the acquaintance, friendship or familiaritie of men
worthie, haue often their directions as well from those of honourable
or worshipfull name or calling, to such as are their inferiours, as
otherwise betweene equals, or those that bee accompted familiars: but
seldome or neuer is frequented to such as are our betters, for then
it looseth the name of |Conciliatorie|, and because of the humilitie
thereof séemeth to be |Petitorie|. Touching the first degree of these
Epistles, it is likelie, that hee who is much our better, will either
of his honour, woorshippe, or gentlenesse, in plainest tearmes alwaies
offer himselfe to his inferiours, whome in such sorte hee desireth
to bee knowne vnto, or otherwise willinglie woulde repute of. For
the others, touching equals or familiars, order therein requireth,
that pithily and plainly wee set downe the cause moouing vs to
take knoweledge of him wee write vnto, and thereupon to mooue his
acquaintance.=

=This, albeit without some assentation, it hardlie falleth with some
in their writing to bee caried, yet shall our learner by all possible
means indeuour to keepe such |Decorum| herein, that hee gloze not too
palpably, least by such means he do incurre a notable suspition of
flatterie.=

=If in our selues we do conceiue or find some one or mo things, that
are vnto such a one pleasing, or whereof wee may coniecture the regarde
to returne vnto him, commodious, or to confirme towards vs a more
speciall liking, that shall we modestlie tender, and deuise without
arrogancy in some conuenient sorte to be signified. These are the
onely precepts in this kind of writing, to be considered, the effectes
whereof are in this sort following by their examples deliuered.=

                   An Epistle Conciliatorie, written
                   _from one of good accompt to his
                              inferiour_.

After my verie heartie commendations vnto you. This bearer and my
seruaunt whome I greatlie credite, hath signified vnto mee manie
matters tending to your great commendation, the reporte whereof, I
haue often sithence hearde confirmed by others. And for asmuch as
touching mine owne condition, I haue alwaies beene a fauourer of artes,
and entirelie accounted of the singularitie of anie one according
to his worthinesse, I haue so much the more greatlie desired your
acquaintance, as one whome willinglie I would doe good vnto. Assuring
you, that if at some conuenient time you will take paines to see mee,
I will not onelie (as occasion serueth) bee well content to imploy
you my selfe, but also in place of further accompt doe the best I
may to recommende you. Meane while I woulde gladlie bee infourmed by
the returne of this Messenger, at what time I may expect to see you,
according to which I will appoint horses, and send some to accompanie
you. And so for this present doe bid you hartilie farewell. From my
house of N. this twentieth of April, &c.

                _An example Conciliatorie, from one e-
                          quall to another._

The vniuersall reporte of your excellencie, each where declared, hath
mooued mee good M. N. not onelie to admire you for the same, but among
a greate manie others, that regarde and especiallie doe accompte
of you, hath induced mee also hereby to praie your acquaintance. I
confesse sir, sithence I first heard of you, I grewe euen then verie
desirous to see and to know you, but being this other daie in companie
with sir T. P. I vnderstood howe much for your singular vertue both of
the good Knight and Ladie, you were hartilie commended and entirelie
fauoured.

This considerate opinion of theirs, hath in my speedie determination
egged mee forwarde, and caused me to salute you by these letters, the
rather for that I haue sundry times bene enformed with what ioifull
and friendlie conceite, you doe entertaine the familiaritie of euerie
Gentleman. Little (God knoweth) resteth in mee to pleasure you, the
worthines whereof I coulde wish, were as well answerable to your vertue
as effectuallie you might haue power in mee to commaunde it. This one
thing can I deliuer of my selfe, that since I had first capacitie to
discerne of mens conditions, I haue alwaies studied to honour the
vertuous, and euermore with reuerence to entertaine their actions. A
fauourer I haue still beene of the learned, and a diligent regarder
of their excellencies, such as in minde more then wealth wuld wish
to be reputed happy, & to my vttermost power gladlie accomplish what
might bee deemed most worthie. Such a one if you vouchsafe to like
of, I wholie yeelde my selfe vnto you, expecting nothing more then at
your conueniente leisure I might finde occasion to see you. Whereunto
referring the residue of all my desires, It doe for the present cease
to detaine you. London this fourth of Iune, &c.

=To these Epistles might be added two seuerall answers: in both of
which there is required a special and wel demeaned modesty, in the one
of humility to bee according to his better, in the other of curtesie
to gratifie his equall, each of them containing, a submissiue executio
of that, in either of their faculties and professions simply to be
attributed, the diuersities of both of them not impertinent to these
our instructions, I haue in sort following put downe to be considered.=

   _An Epistle responsorie answering to the first of these Letters._

It may please your Worshippe, I haue receiued your curteous Letters,
and by the same, as also by your messenger haue fullie conceiued of
your fauour and louing intendment towardes mee, for all which I can
but render vnto you my most humble and duetiful thankes. Touching
my selfe, I verie gladlie wish that there were anie thing in mee,
whereof you might take pleasure, or wherewith I might anie waies bee
enabled to doe you seruice: Such as it is I humblie render vnto your
commaunde, and doe pray that in as good sorte as I tender it, you will
bee pleased to accepte of it. Your man can witnesse, that as yet I
haue some earnest occasions for a while to detaine mee, who otherwise
woulde bee well contented foorthwith to waite vpon you. And were I not
thereunto especiallie enioined by your good fauour, the importunitie of
your seruaunt might happily in such case haue preuailed with mee. It
may therefore stand with your good pleasure to pardon mee, one moneth,
which tearme beeing expired, I thence forwarde will remaine at the
commaunde of none so much as your Worshippe, to whose good acceptaunce
I eftsoones doe recommende my selfe in all reuerente duetie. London
this of, &c.

        _A letter responsorie answering to the latter Epistle._

Sir, I haue vnderstoode by your gentle and friendlie letters, not
onelie howe much I rest beholding to your good opinion, but also to the
curteous Knight, and my especiall good Ladie you write of, to each of
whome I haue founde my selfe indebted exceedinglie. Manie waies might
I aduertise you howe much I haue to thanke both them and you, which
that my desires may appeare answerable to your wishes I doe leaue, till
personallie in as present hast as conuenientlie may bee, I see you. I
am not altogether ignoraunt of the good partes which by some (vnto your
selfe well knowne) hath beene aduertised heretofore vnto me of you,
and for which I do most willinglie embrace you. Assuring you yᵗ you
haue but preuēted me in this one curtesie, which before my going out of
town, I was vehementlie perswaded to haue tendred vnto you, wherein
neuerthelesse I rest satisfied, in that by one so well accomplished as
your selfe, I haue heerein been so farre foorth conuinced. My busines
with his L. resteth I hope vpon a present dispatch, and therefore doe
I reckon (by Gods grace) within these verie few dayes to visite you.
Meane while, confessing howe much I stande charged vnto your selfe for
this sole courtesie, I doe pray that vnto the good Knight, and his La.
you will report my right humble dutie: And euen so doe commit you to
the Almightie. This of, &c.

                     _Of Epistles Reconciliatorie.
                              Chap. 14._

=Nowe after these |Responsorie| Letters, each answering vnto the
others tendered courtesies, I thinke it meet to come to the next
title, being in order |Reconciliatorie|. The matter whereof importeth
a reconciliation to those from whom wee acknowledge in some sort or
other to haue beene disseuered, contrarie to the bonde of friendshippe
or dutie that therein might bee required, whether by our owne default,
or by whose or what defect, as by the circumstance of the action shall
bee tendered. In the framing of these Epistles wee shall recorde with
our selues, in what league, amitie or dutie, wee haue before time
stoode charged or bounde to him to whome wee studie to bee reconciled,
thereupon shall wee according to the district obseruation at that
instant helde of the same, studie eyther to qualifie, adnihilate, or
vtterlie to extinguish the cause of falling of the disseuerance, or
breach. Then shall we desire for the considerations thereunto inducing
vs, to be retained againe in his wonted fauour or friendlie acceptance.
And these as in the examples following may accordingly be suted.=

       _An example reconciliatorie, from one friend to another._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Parenthesis._]

[Sidenote: _Epitheton._]

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

The regarde of our auncient amitie and long continued acquaintaunce,
wherein so firmelie and manie yeares wee haue beene knit togithers,
will not permit (my good D.) that wee for one slender grudge, (rather
by the malice and despite of others enuying our olde friendship, then
by anie occasion of our selues, in ill time suggested betweene vs)
shoulde in this sort bee disseuered. True it is, that before this time
the like breach, or anie thing neare vnto the same was neuer seene
betweene vs, but what (mischiefe) shall I nowe tearme it, or imagine
to bee the occasion, that in so vnlooked time, and vpon so vnexpected
occasion, hath in this vilde sort, giuen meane to vntie vs, betweene
whome so great a league of loue, so long confirmed and approoued
liking, so manie protestations and vowes haue ere this passed, as that
by the force thereof it might well haue seemed wee should neuer haue
fallen to this variance. But what cannot enuie doe? What is it that
cruell, detestable and inueterate malice cannot performe? Credite
mee, my D. for my part I am sorie that euer follie so much maistred
vs, as to hearken in any sort to the stirrers vp of such bitternesse.
And as my selfe was the first that by admittaunce and allowaunce of
those rumours gaue the formost onset, by meanes whereof grewe this
discontenting and vnkinde department betweene vs: so will I bee the
first that shall endeuour to renue againe our friendshippe by a more
iust reconcilement, to the intent the fruites of our vnfained liking
becomming by such meanes the more forcible, may render vnto all the
worlde a sufficient testimonie, how hard and difficult a thing it is
to part those whome (but onelie death itselfe) hath power to disseuer.
Bee onelie contented my D. once againe, to restablish that which being
a little vntwisted, could neuer wholie be broken. Thy knowne good will,
and heartie zeale vnto mee; assureth mee not to distrust the same at
thy handes, which thou shalt euer finde to be graffed within me. This
euening by Gods grace I meane at our lodging to see thee, whither, and
to thy selfe I doe most heartilie commend me.

=This Reconciliatorie being different from that other |Conciliatorie|
Epistle, by reason of the argument thereof tending to renue that,
which formerlie might by the other before bee intreated for, carrieth
the effects thereof as well as it dooth betwéene equals: so from an
inferiour person to one who in reputation is somewhat more then his
better. Upon presumption of whose fauor, or by negligence of his own
dealing, hauing thrown himselfe into some disgrace with such a partie,
he may by meanes herein offred, reconcile himselfe in any sort he list
of humility. To the furtherance whereof, this example following may bee
considered.=

        _An Epistle Reconciliatorie, from an inferiour person,
                      to one that is his better._

[Sidenote: _Narratiō._]

[Sidenote: _Propositiō._]

[Sidenote: _Dichologia._]

[Sidenote: _Antithesis._]

[Sidenote: _Peroratiō._]

Pleaseth my honourable good L. It was giuen me to vnderstand about two
daies passed by M. R. that your L. should very hardly conceiue of me,
in that vpon some vrgent occasion, I delaied to yeeld that testimonie
vnto his cause, which in equitie and reason I ought to doe: and the
rather, for that by your earnest entreatie and request, I was eftsoones
thereunto required. The griefe was not small I sustained thereby, in
that hauing receiued many and sundrie benefits by your honourable
fauour, whereby diuers waies I remaine in dutie and honestie charged
during my life vnto your L. I should stand on so great a hazard, as the
aduenture or losse of your good opinion, onely for a matter sinisterly
suggested vnto you against mee, without anie maintainable reason. Your
L. dooth I hope remember, in my last speeches had with you about the
very same matter (albeit before that time, I stoode on some tearmes,
doubting the malicious dealinges of the aduerse parties agaynst mee, in
reuengment of my plaine and honest testimonie to bee there giuen) yet
at the last I concluded, to gather together all the Notes ministring
furtheraunce to the cause, and thereuppon to deliuer my true and
certaine knowledge according as had beene required. Nowe, what care
I haue sithence vsed in the matter, and vppon intelligence had with
M. R. howe vehementlie in satisfaction of what might anie wayes content
your L. and bee furthering to his right, I haue proceeded therein, I
had rather himselfe shoulde deliuer, then I to become a reporter vnto
you. Insomuch as I well knowe (howeuer any others haue misinformed your
L.) himselfe as a Gentleman, will vppon his woorde assure the truth
and certaintie. I did I must confesse at the first vse some delayes
in immediate dispatch of the thing, but how and in what manner,
and to what end and purpose, let him also relate. Your L. I hope,
will therefore bee pleased to do mee that right, as not to be euill
perswaded towardes mee, in a case wherein I haue vpon your honourable
assuraunce and commaund, entred so farre foorth, as thereby I stande
assured to haue purchased vnto my selfe matter ynough of hatred, and
by those whome (hauing refused to entertaine as my friendes) I haue
inabled sufficiently thereby to become my heauie and bitter enemies.
The hatred of whome cannot vnto mee anie wayes become so iniurious as
the ill conceyte of your L. should redound to bee of all others most
grieuous. For mine owne parte (so much doe I stande on the reuerent
regarde and account I beare vnto your L.) as were it not I rest
perswaded that vpon the equall deliueraunce conceiued of my willing
minde vnto your seruice, you would againe bee reconciled in fauourable
and good opinion towards me, I should so farre foorth bee discontented
in my selfe, as neuer could I bee at attonement with mine actions,
wherein by the least sparke of negligence whatsoeuer, I might thinke
to haue ouerslipped anie thing that shoulde become displeasing, or
otherwise offensiue vnto your honourable liking. Your L. woonted fauour
and bountie giueth mee great expectation of the contrarie, and mine
innocencie and true report of maister R. doth also in some sort assure
me. Whereupon remaining as he that alwaies thinketh his life no better
spent, then for and in your L. vtmost seruice, I humblie surcease, this
day of, &c.

                 _Of Epistles Petitorie.    Chap. 15._

=The manner of these Epistles might in another purpose then herein
expressed, bee also applyed, as being |Reconciliatorie|, in the
behalfe of some other to bee written, as occasion may bee offered, but
forasmuch as they in that sort beeing handled, doe for the most part,
fall into the |Swasorie|, |Disswasorie|, |Defensorie|, or |Excusatorie|
kinde, I deeme it besides necessitie, to write anie further examples
thereof, for that when anie such shall bee brought in question,
the substaunce and conueyance of the state and cause, may readily
thereunto be drawne out of the places before sorted vnto each of those
kindes, as in the discourse formerly set forth are at large remembred.
In manifestation whereof, let it be considered, that if by an epistle
of this title I shoulde endeuour to reconcile a man to his wife, or
a woman to her husband, a seruaunt to his maister, or a maister to
his seruant: the father to the Childe, the friende to a friende, the
neighbour to neighbour, or kinsman to kindred. Needes must I for the
compassing thereof shewe some reasons howe and which way to induce
these, and therefor must I of necessitie run into diuers perswasions,
defences or excuses, in the qualities whereof (by whatsoeuer action
I goe about to transpose them) the effectes yet must néedes be
concluded. Sufficeth therefore that for these Epistles I haue deliuered
sufficiently, and herewith will wee wade vnto the nexte, which in
order hereunto are |Petitorie|. And in asmuch as these Epistles are
so named, for the earnest |petition| or requests in euerie of them
contained, and that the variety of thinges are such to be demanded,
and mens conditions so diuers, at whose handes or from whom the same
are to be receiued: It therefore falleth out by consequence that
according thereunto the maner of the Epistle must needs also be diuers
and variable. For some things ther are which fauorably and with great
indifferencie, are oftentimes to be graunted, required or obtained, as
counsell, aid, patronage, good speeches, natural care and regard, &
such other like. Some also and such semblable persons, as for which,
or to whom, to aske or sue a certain kind of shame, is in a māer tied,
|viz.| in crauing, borrowing, importuning, charging, or to vehement
troubling. The stile, order, and deliuery therefore appertaining to
either of these must needly be different. Touching then the generality
of both, to either of them it is requisite that in the |Exordium|, an
indeuour bee vsed whereby to adhibit vnto vs the good will, fauour, or
good liking of him to whome wee write. Nexte that therein wee procéede
according to our acquaintance with the partie, his estate, credite,
or supporte whereby to pleasure vs. Thirdlie, that the cause we take
vpon vs to preferre, bee iust, lawfull, and honest. Fourthly, that it
be in his ability, or power, counsel, aid, or protection, to prefer
or relieue vs. Fiftly, the order or meanes whereby the same may be
wrought and accomplished. Sixtly, our gratitude and |remuneration|,
worthily tied to the thankefull acknowledgement or requitall of the
same. In the first sorte of these, the cause standing fauourable or
indifferent, we may the more bolder indeuour to produce or lay forth
the aptnes or beseeming therof. In the second, greater modestie, and a
more shamefast deliuerance is to be retained, the preferring whereof
woulde be best by |insinuation|, the better by couert meanes to wade
into the depth of our |petitiō|. In this place a more then ordinarie
bashfulnes would bee admitted, which giueth no small furtherance to
euerie demaund, as audacious and wainscot impudencie on the other side
returneth the greatest impediment in anie thing to be obtained. For
no man willingly would do benefit to such a one who in maner goeth
about as of duety and not of curtesie to exact the same, and rather
as a commaunder then crauer, woulde impudently thrust himselfe to
the obtaining thereof. And because the whole course hereof obserued
by way of euerie |Petition|, is by inference of many circumstances
to be altogither determined, the order as I haue related vnto you
before, must be conueyed by places |Swasorie|, resting very often in
confirmation of the honestie, goodnes, lawfulnes, and needfulnes of
our petition. And if the |Exordium| be happily framed of his person to
whom we direct our letters, it shall not be amisse that therein briefly
wee capitulate some parte of his vertues, curtesies, humanity, bounty,
readines to comfort, pleasure, or doe reliefe vnto any, whereby we
may priuately draw his fauour and good acceptance vnto vs: besides,
if he haue made vs before time beholding vnto him, we shall gladly
acknowledge the same, and declare that being already indebted, we study
more thereby to yoke our selues vnto him. If of our owne persons, then
shall we lay open, with what great expectation and regard we do in
our conceits entertaine the desertes and worthinesse of such a one,
modestly preferring what in fauor of him, and common and equall loue or
regard hath passed between vs. If of the interchangeable loue, liking
and curtesie, whilome resting between our predecessors or auncistors,
then the weight and force thereof we shall put forwards accordingly. If
of the person of our aduersarie against whom we demaund any assistance,
fauor, protection, or remedy, we may infer (if any such be) the common
mislike of both of vs towardes him, and how ill he hath deserued at
eithers handes and thereupon require aid against him. If of the thing
or matter it selfe, the same be to be caried, we shall shew the value,
godlines, goodnes, or common benefit of the same, that the matter is
vnto him easie, to vs of great importance, and if without arrogancie
it may be done, we may inforce some occasions of benefit or other
contentment thenceforth to happen vnto him. And if any discommoditie do
happily séem to appeare in laying open the same (the liklihood whereof
may either alienate his minde, or withdraw his assistance or other
liking from vs) that shall we either study to extinguish or otherwise,
as much as we may, to qualifie or auoide; By such kind of meanes,
behooueth we prepare our selues to the deliuery of our petition, which
being in as apt and plaine tearms as may be laid open, we shal by
such inforcements (as in moouing affections hereunto, may be deemed
pertinent) with greater facilitie procure the same to be effected.=

          _An example of an epistle Petitorie written on the
                         behalfe of another._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Narratiō._]

[Sidenote: _Allegoria._]

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

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 deserued, and deseruedly are
euerie where reputed, hath mooued me in the behalfe of this poore man
to become a petitioner vnto you. About two moneths since, hee had
dealings with a neighbour of yours, touching a farme which he was for
tearme of yeares to take at his hands, and notwithstanding a promise
and graunt thereof to this bearer made (in consideration whereof
he paide him then in hand a good parte of his money) the iniurious
cormorant glutting him selfe with extorting from the pouertie of this
and manie others, hath sithence that, not onelie passed a demise
thereof in writing to another, but goeth about to defraud the poore
man of his money, the sum whereof is the whole patrimonie, riches, and
stocke of himselfe, his poore wife and familie. And for so much as
without the countenance of some one fauouring the poore mans right,
hee is like to bee ouerborne with the weight of the other, and so
consequently to bee vndone: I haue thought good to make thus bolde to
pray your lawful fauour in his furtherance, that by your authoritie and
meanes, some honest satisfaction or ende may be therein to his behoofe
had. You shall doe an act verie charitable, in dealing for such a one,
for the procuring of whose right, his heartie praiers for your safety
shall witnes wel the comfort you shall do him therein. I am perswaded
your speach and aid may herein preuaile verie much, as a thing which
with great facilitie you may cause to bee dispatched. And for my self,
as I shal at no time rest vnmindful of my request tendred vnto you
herein, so shall I not faile in what I may to the vttermost of my power
to satisfie you, by whatsoeuer possible requitall. And euen so with my
heartie commendations, I doe bid you farewel. R. this twelfth of Aprill.

                  _An example petitorie in the nature
                   of Reconciliatorie, from a sonne
                           to his displeased
                               father._

[Sidenote: _Metaphora._]

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Epitheton._]

[Sidenote: _Ecphonesis._]

[Sidenote: _Periphrasis._]

[Sidenote: _Metanoia._]

[Sidenote: _Antithesis._]

If floods of teares sealed with harde and bitter sighes, if continuall
sorrow and neuer ceasing care, if consuming griefes not of a diseased
bodie, but of a pestred mind, might haue rendred sufficient and
assured testimonie, whereby to perswade your laden eares surcharged by
this time with the weight of my incessaunt and continuall cries: the
intollerable woes wherein I liued, secluded from the right and name
of a sonne, and barred quite from the sweete and gentle tearme of a
louing and kinde father, hadde ere this time giuen meane of recouerie,
to my daunted and dismayed spirites, and kindled in mee some wan hope,
one day to haue founde an houre so happie, wherein by a right conceite
conceiued of my vnkindlie pleasures, or conuinced by the importunity
of those who haue pittied my euils, your naturall care might in some
sorte or other haue bin renued, to the redresse of all my fore wearied
and heauie groning mischiefs. But infortunate as I am, that for all the
humble suit so manie times presented in these and such like blubbered
lines, so hardened is the mind of him I write vnto, that whilome hauing
bin a deare and louing parent, I may not heerein dare to tender, or so
much as once put forwarde vnto him, the appellation of a gratious and
pittifull father. If it haue so pleased vnto your grauitie, in such
seuere manner still to deale with me, and that the hatefull shewe of my
ill desertes, is yet become of so loathed and detestable recordation,
in this verie season vnto you: then as (before time) eftsoones doe
confesse my letters vntimelie to haue approched vnto you: but if the
long detained grace, by whose heauie want (your sonne might I say?)
nay, the forlorne and despised issue of your aged yeares (for so I am
now forced to say) is perforce driuen almost into a desperate conceite
and mislike of his liuing, may by the least sparke of expectation,
be annexed to the most vehement effects of his prostrate and meekest
submission, then groueling vppon the lowest ground, and humbling my
highest imaginations to the deepest bottome, wherein your implacable
displeasures haue hitherto beene coueted, as meekely and with as
penitent speeches, as anie grieued and passionate minde can vtter: I
do beseech you sir, that at the last you will receyue (not into your
accustomed fauour) but to your common and ordinarie lyking, the most
disgraced of all your children, and pardoning the disobedience wherein
hee dared once so far foorth to prouoke agaynst him, the weight of your
knowne anger, vouchsafe hee may nowe againe bee of your familie, though
not partaking with your children.

[Sidenote: _Epilogus._]

This sole benefite and last request if my burthened soule may obtaine
at your handes, happilie I may then liue as comforted by the hope of
that whereunto a buzie and carefull endeuour may once peraduenture
enable me, otherwise dying in the ouerflowing of my desperate and
continued griefes, I pray at Gods handes I may obtaine that by mercie,
which cruell destinie in my life time could neuer win vnto me, by all
possible intreatie. My submissiue dutie answerable to the regarded
place of your fatherlie authoritie compelleth mee to attend with all
humblenesse the resolution of your clemencie. In the hope whereof,
resting my decayed and ouerwearied imagination, I liue till the receyt
of your knowne lyking do ascertaine, in what sort may please you to
repute me.

=The stile of this Epistle is vehement, because the passions of him
from whence it came were vehement, and is deduced as you see from the
nature of |Reconciliatorie|, which aswell for the submissiue & lowest
tearmes it beareth, as also for the vrgent petition therin contained, I
haue rather chosen to place among yᵉ |Petitorie|. The part of |honest|
herein deliuered, is passed in wordes méekest & of great obedience,
wherein he studieth by all possibilitie to mittigate towards himselfe,
the too much seueritie of his father. The |Exordium| is carried by
|Insinuation|, expressing the vehement affects and surcharged conceits
of a mind more then ordinarilie grieued. The |Possibilitie| resteth
in the father, which commonlie by nature is with some more facilitie
then estranged diffcultie, entreated towards his sonne. The meane to
compasse it, is the mitigation or satisfaction of the iust mislike
of a father, whose charged authoritie affecteth nothing so much as
obedience in children. Thus are the places required herein, in sort as
you see performed. And for because within any one title, there is no
one thing affoording matter more plentifull, or with vse more commonlie
frequented, then is this |petitorie| kinde, (insomuch as whatsoeuer
containeth any speciall request, is hereunder included) I will sort
you downe so many examples of all sorts, as that there shall not faile
herein wherewith sufficientlie to instruct whatsoeuer in the like
occasion is or ought to be required.=

     _An Epistle Petitorie, wherein is craued trauell and counsell
                to be assistant vpon vrgent occasion._

[Sidenote: _Exordium._]

[Sidenote: _Narratiō._]

[Sidenote: _Petitiō._]

[Sidenote: Possibilitie.]

As one greatlie emboldned by the forwardnesse of your woonted courtesie
and liking euer bent towards me, I haue dared (Sir) once again vpon
presumption of the like, hereby to intreate you, wherein you may see in
what degree of affection I do intertaine you, in that not contented,
I haue alreadie so manie and so often times vsed you, I doe by such
meanes endeuour solie to make my selfe wholy and to none other so
much as beholding vnto you. My man hath returned me from London, how
by more then common celeritie I haue in my suite beene preuented by
my aduersarie, whereby it is like, my cause standing vpon so great a
hazard, it will goe verie hard with mee. Nowe if your woonted counsell,
and friendly assistance bee not speedilie ayding, both the hope of
benefit, charge and expense thereof will be lost vtterly? In regard
whereof, these may bee in as earnest maner as is possible to intreate
you, that vpon the attendance of my man, I may (as woontedlie) vse you.
Your counsell ioyned with a little trauell may greatlie profite me, and
now more then at any time else, exceedinglie pleasure mee. Wherein if
it may please you to yoke mee further vnto you by the waight of your
courtesie: I shall not onelie endeuour by all possibilitie to requite
it, but also your selfe shall not faile at anie time to finde such a
one of mee, as of whose trauaile, industrie, or what other abilitie to
pleasure you, you may account of assuredlie. I haue by certaine other
Letters mooued my L. to haue fauourable consideration touching mee,
which as I am informed, his L. hath receyued. What els to bee performed
heerein, my man shall make knowne vnto you. And thus doubting as little
of your friendship herein, as of mine owne thankfull disposition,
prest alwayes to the vttermost to requite you, I doe heartilie bid you
farewell, D. of this, &c.

                        _An other of the same._

Sir, I am so bolde in my great necessitie, vnder assurance of your
forwardnes to do me good, to entreate your especiall ayde and
furtherance in two things, the one whereof this bearer shall instruct
you in, the other your selfe can best tell, for that I made you at my
last speech acquainted with the same. Both of which consisting in your
labour and deuice, I am of opinion that none then your selfe can fitte
the occasion better. And trulie such is the force of imprisonment, as
contrarie to that you haue woontedly knowne in me, mine vnderstanding
is quite decaied, and forworne with my libertie, and where the spirits
are so distuned, it must needes follow, the memorie can sounde nothing
but discord.

In fine, sir it is in you to doe me good, and to make me by this onlie
action for euer beholding vnto you, wherein if I may so farre foorth
presume of your fidelitie, assure your selfe, that if euer God giue mee
libertie, A. C. to none so much as to you shall be yoked in courtesie.
Good M. D. the matter hereof requireth some haste, wherunto I most
heartilie entreate you. Fare ye well, this of, &c.

                  _A Letter responsorie to the same._

Good M. C. needelesse were it you should entreate mee in that, wherein
you haue founde mee alwayes most willing, and such whome with small
perswasions you may induce to a farre greater purpose then what in
your last letter is required. The Messenger I haue appointed to morrow
morning to returne againe to my lodging, at which time I will not
faile to finish, what in the best sort I can conceiue to bee vnto your
occasions furthering. Hard will it bee for mee to accomplish that,
wherein your selfe seeme so vnperfect, for that the dullest conceyte
forged from the most distempered of your imaginations, cannot but
sounde farre better tunes then the ripest of my inuention is anie
wayes able to deliuer. Neuerthelesse, such as it is, or so much as (by
dislike of your owne) you haue will to account of, that will I prepare
to your view, and put forward to your good speed, thinking it better by
deliuerie of a grosse deuise to satisfie the demaunde of a friend, then
by concealing the simplicitie therof to bee censured as vncourteous. In
conclusion, it is (sir) lawfull for you to vse mee to the vttermost,
and fittest to our confirmed league of amitie, that (in whatsoeuer) you
should imploy mee, wherein I desire you conceiue no more, then such as
I intend to become, and you shall assuredly find me, viz. yours, &c.

=Here must I note vnto you the last of these Epistles |Petitorie|, in
which is neither |Exordium| nor |Narration|, but formost of all the
petition, and afterwards the parts folowing, the like whereof you may
perchance finde hereafter. For that where practise and skill hath
enabled a man to doe well, there is no necessitie that such should bee
tied to rule, who being of sufficient knowledge and capacitie are able
to discerne what is méetest, and accordinglie to direct the square of
their owne doings, sometimes one way, sometimes another, as in the
intendment thereof, may to the present occasion séeme most conuenient
and readie. And as in this one Letter, so may the learner light vpon
many others being different also from the obseruation herein deliuered,
& somtimes abruptly entring into the matter without any limitation at
all, one other example whereof shall bee next hereunto deliuered, the
first beginning of which, declareth the meane of accomplishment of
the request, before the petition declared, whereunto by imitation the
vnskilfull may not rashlie enter, without good aduisement of what in
the performance is meete to be considered; The method of which is in
this sort pursued.=

    _An example Petitorie, concluding a briefe request and curteous
             remembrance of a thing before time promised._

Nowe is the time (wherein if your pleasure bee) you may perfourme what
erst you haue promised. I therefore desire you as heartilie as I may,
that your intent, being to doe me good, you will nowe execute the same.
And albeit I doubte not of your willingnesse herein, whose curtesie
hath not beene straunge towardes mee: yet rather enforced by mine owne
necessitie and continuall remembraunce of my vnprouided estate then
by anie other misgeuing, I prepare these lines, sollicitours of your
expected promise, which bearing in their fronte a token of oportunitie,
woulde praie you not to let slippe occasion, but with as much speede
as willingnesse to accomplish the same. Remembring howe manie waies I
am beholding vnto you, I remaine in accompt of your curtesies, rather
studious to thinke on them, then anie waies able to requite them, &c.

                 _Another example of the like effect._

[Sidenote: _Exordium_, by comparison.]

[Sidenote: _Insinuatiō._]

[Sidenote: _Peroratiō._]

Even as a bold begger, the more he is relieued, the more he still
presseth forward vpon the bounty of those, whom he supposeth to fauor
him: so fareth it with mee, who hauing eftsoons enioied your trauel to
my no small benefit, am neuertheles so shameles as stil to importune
you in the same. I haue, sir, I cōfesse, by your good means recieued
sundrie fauors at the hands of my Lord, which I cannot, nor euer shall
be able to requite vnto you, the matter of my suite notwithstanding
hetherto depending before his honour, I neither can nor may so farre
foorth withdrawe my selfe, but I must needes nowe and then solicite
you, as the Gentleman by whose onelie curtesie and perseuerance in
woonted care and good affection towardes mee I do liue, and so liuing,
continue my daies and yeares with such assured respecte, as hee that
hath sworne and vowed in himselfe neuer to forget you. It doeth sir,
so much stande mee vpon the procuring of his L. letter in my behalfe,
for the indifferente triall and hearing of my cause, as without (in
speciall and earnest speeches the same be directed for mee to the
Iustices and Commissioners) I am in greate despaire howe the case will
goe with mee. It is you therefore that must helpe mee herein, and by
your onelie meanes I must bee warranted in this action, the intendment
whereof furthering so much vnto right and cause of equitie as it doeth,
I hope his L. vpon your motion will the easilier condiscende vnto. This
is that I require at your handes, and to the speedie dispatch whereof I
may not cease to importune you. Whereon concluding for the present, I
doe heartilie bid you farewel, &c.

                      _Of Epistles Commendatorie.
                              Chap. 16._

=Much more might bee handled in this kinde, the method whereof is
one of the most ordinarie of any sortes of Letters that are indited,
for that the greatest number of directions are commonlie concluded
in this matter, the requests wherof doe either especially concerne
the writer, or are otherwise to be respected in the behalfe of some
other. The occasion of which hath caried herein the plentie of so
many examples, that by manifesting the diuersities of their orders
and vses, the learner might not wante wherein to bee directed, and
choice of varietie wherewith to be delighted. Now, besides these hereby
alreadie deliuered, there are letters also yᵗ might be suted vnder
this forme, which from Noble men or others, are many times written in
fauor of sundrie persons, containing requests in their behalfs to be
performed, which not withstanding the difference of estates in that the
same doe for the most part passe vnto their inferiours, yet séemeth
the nature thereof to be |petitorie|, but in a different order of
these to be altogether pursued. Insomuch as neither agree-eth it, to
vse like circumstances of humilitie and entreatie, nor of pleasures
or curtesie, as in the other are required: but rather a necessarie
supposall and assurance of their demandes to be hearkened vnto, in
respect that of their honours, reputations, or credites, it is intended
they will require nothing, but that with reasonable toleration may be
liked of. But the vse of such kinde of directions in choise of both, I
rather hold pertinent to the title |Cōmendatorie|, for that whatsoeuer
is therein written, in fauour eyther of the person or of the cause,
may in respect of the honour or reputation of those from whome they
come, bee better déemed in sorte of a curteous recommendation, then
otherwise by or vnder anie title of humilitie or submission: for these
causes I haue thought meete to adioine immediatelie hereunto, the same
Epistles |Commendatorie|, beeing so nearelie combined with those of
|Petitorie| as they are. The vse whereof are not neuerthelesse so farre
forth caried, but that from an inferiour to his superiour, in some
causes and vpon sundrie accidentes, the same are deriued. The places
appertaining vnto these kindes of Epistles be as in the |Petitorie|
are alreadie declared, chiefely when the same, intendeth to a cause
or person preferred to be fauoured. In which, when it concerneth the
person, we must beware that in the credible deliuerie of whatsoeuer
tending to his praise or preferment, we doe it either by warrant of our
owne knowledge, or by such certaine report of others, whose opinion
we deeme will not bee misled. And if neither of these doe fall out to
be knowne or beleeued, then shal we shew what information wee haue
besides our owne opinion, or peraduenture no other assurance at all
but our owne simple liking. Petitions also are frequented in requiring
fauour to these causes, wherein standeth in highest regarde the state,
countenance or authoritie of him, from whome the letter is framed,
who accordingly thereunto may desire that the rather at his request,
or vpon his sute, or for his sake, or in regarde of his liking, the
person may bee accompted of, or the action furthered. Besides, it may
bee added to the increase of a more speedie performance, the loue,
(if anie be, or the occasion thereunto sorting) we owe to him we
commende, or in whose fauour we write, either solie for himselfe, or
conueyed from his friendes, his parentes, the consideration of his