_To the greater ornament whereof, I haue applied a number of |Figures, Schemes|, and |Tropes| in the margent of euery |Epistle|, euen with the places where they are vsed. And at the end of this worke, haue set them altogither, and therein explaned to the Learners view, and for his readier vse, their particular natures and qualities, to the end that they who (being vnlearned,& hauing a pretie conceit of inuention of themselues) haue heretofore vnknowing done well, may see how with skill and discretion hereafter to pursue the same, & the ignorant also hereof whose reach hath not been so ample as others, may be thereby informed what vnto well doing is most consonant and agreeing._ _Now, for the readier finding of those |Epistles|, as each of their kindes are suted forth in sundrie |Examples|: Peruse but the head of euery page and there you shall find what in the same page is contained, |viz.| Where the |Epistles| be, you shall haue them noted in their kindes, as Epistles |Hortatorie|, |Dehortatorie|, |Swasorie|, or |Disswasorie|, &c. And likewise in the admixtions, you shall finde |Places| or |Parts Hortatorie|, |Commendatorie|, |Petitorie|, &c. as they fall out to be handled._ _This booke thus shewing these parts before remembred, I haue termed as you see by the name of |The Secretorie|, being in the consideration thereof nothing ignorant what great perfection is to be required in such a one, by whose title the same is deliuered, neither supposing the matter herein contained to appeare so sufficient, as perfectly thereby to enable what in the same function is to bee required, but because the orderly writing of Letters, being a principall part belonging to a |Secretorie|, is by the |Method|: hereof deliuered to any Learners capacitie whereout the Scholler or any other that is vnfurnished of the knowledge thereof, may gather ayde and furtherance, I haue therefore endeuored to tearme it by the name of |Secretarie|._ _These with my willing minde, and desire of well doing herein, I doo present to the generall and friendly regarde of all, wishing that in courtesie they repute of my trauels, as formost of all other things, I therein respected their benefites. In affoording whereof, they shall doo no more then belongeth to good mindes, and encourage me by whatsoeuer other meanes hereafter, to gratifie their fauours._ The English Secretorie. Of an Epistle, the commodities and vse thereof. Chap. 1.