Recommending my selfe vnto your La. in all humblenesse, I take my leaue. At our sorrowfull house of B, this of, &c. Of Epistles Laudatorie and Vituperatorie. _Chap. 9._ [Sidenote: Praise of the person.] [Sidenote: 1] [Sidenote: 2] [Sidenote: 3] [Sidenote: 4] [Sidenote: 5] [Sidenote: 6] =Nowe followeth it next, that after these Letters, meere |Descriptorie| as you see, we doe treate of the other two partes appertaining also to this forme, which are |Laudatorie| and |Vituperatorie|, the vse whereof either solelie or intermixed in any other kind of Epistles, shal of one or more of these causes take their originall, that is to say, of the _Person_, _deeds_ or _thing_ it selfe to bee commended, misliked or dispraysed. The _person_ of anie one is to be preferred or disabled, by his birth, descent, shewe, or abilitie. Secondlie, by his childhoode, or good education from his infancie. Thirdlie, of his youth, in which he is either conuersant in studies of honest life, seriously giuen to the knowledge of letters, affecting alwayes vnto laudable exercises, temperat and sober in demeanour, or otherwise accounted dissolute and wanton, vnhappilie led to the search of whatsoeuer mischiefes, affectionate to the most basest conditions and practises, not tied to anie order, but wholie pursuing an vncontroulled libertie. Fourthlie, of his manly yeares being frequented with ciuill gouernment, or liuing altogether without account. Priuately and publikely in all manlie actions demeaned, or by apparant loosenes in each place discredited. Fiftlie, of his olde age, the course whereof is with ancient grauitie continued, or by al kind of euils most hainously misprised, whose siluer haires are shining in vertuous happines, or miserable estate drowned in lothsomnes. Sixtly, in his ende or departure out of this world, agreeing to the saying of _Solon_, No man may be counted happie before his death|. For that in the expectatiō or attaining therof, as at no time more in all the life of a man, then chiefly appeareth, his vertue, constancy, strength & worthinesse, or otherwise his imbecility, ouerthrow, shame and ignominious filthines. Besides all these, many likelihoods are often taken either to the praise or dispraise of the |person|, by occasion of the nation or soile from whence he came, where hee was borne or trained. From the generall condition or application of himselfe or of the people thereof, by the habite, constitution of the bodie, complexion, looks, fame, or other circumstances thereunto incident, by the actiuitie, strength, swiftnes, nimblenes, fauor or beauty of the body. By the gifts of fortune, as honor, wealth, worship, reputation and kindred. And forasmuch as these demonstrations of persons are wholy occupied either in praise or dispraise of their conditions or behauiours: the chiefest part hereof shall also consist in |Narration|, without peraduenture it falleth out in the life of