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
=Your L. most deuoted and loyallie affected. Your Honours most assured
in whatsoeuer seruices. Your L. in whatsoeuer to be commanded. The most
affectionate vnto your L. of all others. Hee that hath vowed to liue
and die in your Honourable seruice. Your L. most faithfull and obedient
Sonne. Your La. louing and obedient Daughter. Who but by your L. is
onelie to be commaunded. Whose heart is your Honours, and his life by
your L. to be disposed. He that liueth not but for your worship, and
to doe you seruice. Whose regard stretcheth vnto your Worship more
then vnto anie others. He that vnto your worship hath vowed to become
most assured. Whome none haue euer bound so much, as the deserts of
your L. Your L. in all humblenes. Your Honours euer to be commaunded.
At your worships command. Your La. most bounden and affectionate. At
your honourable direction. Alwaies attendant vpon your L. pleasure.
Your worships in all good account. Yours euer louing and most assured.
To none so much as your selfe. Hee that in all accounts tendereth your
welfare. Whome by your onelie curtesie you haue conuinced. The same
which I accept from you, and not otherwise. Such as I am, or as you
wish to finde me. He that in his liking is onlie yours. Whome you
haue euer knowne, but neuer prooued. Whose liking onelie accounteth of
your worthinesse. Such as you haue euer founde me, and not otherwise.
Yours in what soeuer to bee imploied. More chary of your welfare, then
carefull of himselfe. Yours as you like to haue me. Yours faithfull
and euer assured. Yours or not his owne. He who found you, but neuer
knew you. He that once fauoured you, but sithence hath vowed neuer to
regarde you. Whose liking by your ingratitude hath beene quenched. In
whose account you once were, but now abandoned. Who once wished to
loue, but could neuer hate thee. Whom thy deserts haue made an enemie.
Whom hereby you may win, (if you list) for euer to become a friend.
To each one louing, but to the most charie. Whose heart shall faile
in any thing, sooner then in conceit towardes thee. Hée, whose in
loialtie thou didst protest to be. Who liueth not but to pursue thee.
Who euer looked on, but neuer loued thee. The same as you left me.
Such as you saw when you departed from me. The same and none other,
which I haue euer seemed to be. Whose worde hath bounde him, and faith
shall assure him. Yours most affectionate. Yours deuoted till death.
Yours while life swaieth within me. Yours as far forth as anie others.
&c. with manie other applications, whose |Epithets| are infinite, and
rather vpon the cause suggested then otherwise, to bee euermore added,
altered, or conceiued. These and the others may only suffice for the
present purpose, referring what else to be expected, to the regarde of
a more curious or delicate inuention.=
[Sidenote: Acknowledgemēt of duty in the Exordium.]
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