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
of your good intreatings, I leaue to detaine you. Omitting what else
to bee amplified in these or anie other occasions I expect your happie
returne, and in hope thereof doe bid you farewell. Knowing howe well I
loue you, the lesse ceremonies I néede to vse in greeting you, onlie
you shall remember to your parents in most hartie maner to commend mee.
Salute I praie you your friendes in my name, and thinke in my best and
serious wishes I neuer forget you. My father willed me in his behalfe
to salute you, and all the rest of your acquaintance here do most
hartilie greete you. Forget not in what sort I haue heretofore receiued
you, and thinke in the selfe same maner I do still intertaine you. My
gréetings to our friend R. let not bee vnremembred, and deeme that in
all my vowes I haue (vnto you all) most heartilie wished. I had almost
let slip my commendations vnto your brother, which for anie thing I
would not had bene forgotten, vpon whom, as of greatest choic, I will
make my reposing.=
=The liking I haue to N. maketh mee here to remember him whose good
demeanour as your own, I haue in chiefest reckoning. My gréetings and
paper haue all one ende togither, onelie our friendship indissoluble
can neuer be forgotten.=
=Thinke how exceedinglie I haue alwaies well wished vnto you, and
accordinglie thereunto measure the rest of mine affections towards
you. Haste compelleth mee to ende sooner than I would, wherin
notwithstanding I can neuer omit sufficientlie to gréete you, eftsoones
recognizing as behooueth, your especall good liking towards me, &c.=
=Innummerable of these and such like might be imagined both in
greetings and farewels, the course whereof beeing furnished with such
varietie as it is, I haue left the residue vnto the conceit of the
learner, accounting the plentie herein set down, for anie studious
follower to be alreadie sufficient.=
[Sidenote: Subscriptions.]
=And now to the Subscriptions, the diuersities whereof are (as best
they may be allotted in sence) to either of these to bee placed,
forwarned alwaies vnto the vnskilfull herein, that writing to anie
person of account, by howe much the more excellent hee is in calling
from him in whose behalfe the Letter is framed, by so much the lower,
shall the subscription thereunto belonging, in any wise be placed.=
=And if the state of honour of him to whome the Letter shall be
directed doe require so much, the verie lowest margent of paper shall
do no more but beare it, so be it the space bee seemelie for the name,
and the roome fairre inough to comprehend it, which Subscriptions in
all sortes to be handled shall passe in this or the like order or
substance.=
[Sidenote: Maner and varietie of subscriptions.]
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