The English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599): With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required — John Shaqi
The English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599): With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein RequiredDay, Angel, active 1575-1595
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The English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599): With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required
Day, Angel, active 1575-1595
English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Letter writing -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
=Acknowledging my selfe deepelie bounde vnto your L. for manie sundrie
fauours: I doe remaine in all humble reuerrence. Finding my selfe manie
wayes beholding vnto your exceeding courtesies, I ende. Remembring
howe much I am indebted vnto your L. for your sundrie benefites: I
conferre the regard thereof to my present imaginations, and doe beseech
thereof at your honourable handes an euerlasting continuance. All
humble loyaltie and seruice protested vnto your honorable calling, I
rest nowe and perpetuallie your L. &c. Fearing in speeches, neuer with
sufficiencie to manifest the conceit I haue of your most honourable
fauours: I solace my selfe with the remembrance, and humblie leaue your
L. to your woonted perseuerance. Praying the Almightie to haue your
L. euermore in his gratious protection, I humblie take my leaue. Your
worship in this, besides manie other occasions hauing perpetuallie
bound mee, how can I but rest such, as you haue expected and shall
euer find me. Eftsoones recording my bounden seruice vnto your worship
and my good Ladie, I remaine as euer before. Not forgetting howe manie
wayes I am charged, in dutifull remembrance towards you, I rest as
I haue protested. More grieued at my mishap and disabilitie, then
wanting either will or liking to doe seruice vnto you: I affix my selfe
euermore vpon the acceptance of your woonted cuʳtesie, and humblie
there withall do take my leaue: Commending the safetie and good estate
of your worship to the Almighties protection, I rest in all dutifull
regard to the same. Rather desirous to shewe my selfe thankful, then
otherwise able in like sort to giue you any requital, I continue, &c.
Binding my self by all possible indeuors, neuer to be fréed from the
charge of so excéeding benefites, I wish I might as I would, be vnto
you in verie deed, &c. Wishing vnto you and yours, as much happinesse,
as my selfe am clogged with carefulnesse, I surcease. Desiring vnto you
no worse successe in these and all other your laudable endeuors, then
my selfe haue eftsoones craued in performance of my chiefest trauels,
I recommend you to the tuition of the Almightie. Not forgetting our
accustomed gréetings and interchangeable welwishings, my hastie Letter
taketh ende. Weighing howe much you are alreadie busied, and not
willing to keepe you further occupied, I ende my long and tedious
discourse, beeing in nothing exempted from woonted salutations, and
accustomed kind of greetings. Thinke not though my haste be such, but
that I remember (notwithstanding all this breuitie) how greatlie I
stand charged both to you and yours, to whome, and all the rest to you
knowne I eftsoones commend me. Reioycing not a little at the health of
you and all other our friends, I hartily bid you fare well. Reiocing
my self on your wel-wishing, and the hope I haue to be returned in
safetie I commend my hap to fortune, and our gouernement to the
Almightie. Rendring vnto you as manie thankes, as I conceiued comfort
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