CVPIDS
MESSENGER
DELIVERING
SVNDRY
Excellent
Letters
.
A
Letter
inuiting
his
Friend
to
write
to
him
.
THough
the
want
of
your
swéet
societie
my
worthy
Friend
)
doe
occasion
reason
of
griefe
,
yet
it
lies
in
you
euen
by
the
often
mission
of
your
desired
Letters
,
to
mitigate
that
sorrow
:
and
since
the
distance
of
place
doth
denie
vs
our
accustomed
conference
and
orall
communication
,
let
the
passage
and
entercourse
of
our
Letters
supplie
that
defect
.
Now
our
tongues
cannot
be
heard
,
let
vs
be
frequent
in
our
writing
:
and
let
not
the
change
of
places
alter
our
mindes
.
Therefore
that
you
might
not
iudge
mée
negligent
of
our
fore
passed
amitie
,
or
forgetfull
of
our
olde
friendship
,
I
haue
tooke
boldnesse
to
visit
you
with
this
letter
,
desiring
you
to
be
no
niggard
in
this
kinde
of
friendly
remembrance
.
I
wish
to
you
all
prosperous
fortunes
as
to
my selfe
,
and
continue
my
loue
to
you
with
all
sinceritie
.
But
lest
the
proliritie
of
my
Letter
grow
to
the
length
of
an
Oration
,
I
set
bounds
to
my
writing
,
and
remains
Yours
in
boundlesse
affection
,
C.
D.
London
.
Febr.
4.
1629.
The
Answer
.
A
Letter
excusatory
for
not
writing
.
I
Am
afraid
(
iudicious
and
kind
sir
)
that
it
is
with
me
as
it
is
with
that
vnfortunate
Pylot
who
falls
into
the
Gulfe
of
Scylla
,
while
he
indeauors
to
avoid
the
danger
of
Charybdis
.
Incidit
in
Scyllam
cupidus
vitare
Charybdim
.
I
confesse
I
haue
receiued
Letters
from
you
,
and
seeking
by
not
answering
all
this
while
to
conceale
the
rudenesse
of
my
vnpolished
penne
from
the
deepe
discerning
eye
of
your
iudgement
,
I
doubt
whether
I
haue
not
made
shipwracke
of
your
good
opinion
,
who
happely
imputes
my
silence
vnto
my
negligence
of
your
loue
,
or
to
my
obliuion
of
your
passed
kindenesses
:
But
I
beseech
you
(
kindest
Sir
)
to
haue
thus
much
confidence
in
disposition
,
that
no
confused
Chaos
of
cogitations
,
no
fullnesse
of
imployment
,
shall
banish
your
remembrance
out
of
my
thoughts
:
though
I
bee
neuer
so
busie
I
make
answer
to
those
I
little
regard
,
I
dare
scarce
write
to
you
(
I
am
possessed
with
such
a
due
reuerence
of
your
worthinesse
)
when
I
am
most
at
leisure
.
Yet
finding
in
my selfe
how
farre
greater
a
crime
it
is
to
neglect
duty
then
to
lay
open
my
imperfection
to
a
well
wishing
friend
,
I
haue
chosen
the
latter
to
make
tender
of
the
former
:
wishing
that
as
you
equalize
graue
Nestor
in
wisedome
,
so
you
might
parallell
him
in
the
longaeuity
of
a
happy
life
,
I
humbly
surccase
:
At
your
command
.
E
R.
Newcastle
,
Iune
2.
1629.
A
Letter
to
a
friend
vpon
the
death
of
his
wife
.
THe
acquaintance
I
had
with
your
vertuous
wife
(
honest
friend
)
makes
me
feele
the
sense
of
her
losse
,
for
hée
that
can
be
insensible
of
the
losse
of
a
good
woman
,
is
an
alien
to
nature
,
and
a
rebell
to
all
morall
vertues
.
I
may
truly
say
she
was
praise-worthy
for
her
many
good
parts
,
but
they
were
but
good
prouisions
for
the
world
to
come
.
Giue
me
leaue
to
aske
you
why
you
mourne
,
I
meane
not
why
you
mourne
outwardly
;
which
is
an
old
custome
and
a
matter
of
formality
,
but
why
doe
you
mourne
inwardly
,
which
is
the
true
sorrow
:
you
will
say
(
I
say
)
for
the
losse
of
a
companion
.
Indeed
you
doe
well
,
for
as
a
man
was
solitary
before
God
gaue
him
one
,
so
should
he
be
after
God
takes
her
away
:
but
there
is
a
meane
in
all
things
.
To
be
hard
hearted
is
beast
like
,
to
bée
tender
is
effeminate
,
to
be
sensible
is
manly
.
As
for
you
,
you
cannot
offer
a
more
acceptable
sacrifice
to
the
dead
,
then
by
turning
the
loue
you
bare
her
,
into
care
of
her
children
,
to
which
I
know
you
by
nature
so
well
inclined
,
that
I
néed
not
to
instruct
,
but
onely
remember
you
:
but
since
wise
men
in
sudden
accidents
and
in
cases
concerning
themselues
are
sometimes
to
séeke
,
I
am
bold
to
aduise
you
now
,
though
henceforth
I
would
be
glad
to
be
aduised
by
you
:
resting
Your
seruant
,
I.
M.
Arthingworth
.
Iuly
7.
1629.
A
comfortable
Letter
vpon
the
losse
of
a
Husband
.
Madam
:
THough
none
knowes
the
value
of
your
losse
,
nor
féeles
the
want
so
déeply
as
your selfe
.
yet
I
may
take
vpon
me
more
féeling
than
another
man
,
being
for
the
loue
I
beare
you
more
sensible
of
your
misfortune
and
affliction
:
I
my selfe
haue
contributed
many
teares
,
and
I
confesse
there
is
great
allowance
of
griefe
for
good
wiues
for
the
fatall
departures
of
worthy
husbands
,
but
you
were
better
forget
the
dead
then
the
liuing
,
(
your
daughters
I
meane
)
to
whom
(
I
am
opinionated
)
you
would
not
wish
so
sad
an
increase
as
your
death
would
bring
them
,
which
by
this
〈◊〉
c●●●se
of
●●●cating
sorrow
is
too
much
hastened
.
O
let
not
your
vertue
of
patience
die
before
you
,
but
so
magnanimously
behaue
your selfe
in
your
troubles
,
that
your
acquaintance
may
finde
more
cause
to
commend
you
,
then
to
aduise
you
.
Madam
I
beséech
you
hold
me
to
be
Your
Honors
friend
W.
M.
Arthingworth
March
11
,
1629.
A
Letter
of
griefe
for
his
friends
absence
.
OF
such
comfortable
vse
is
the
familiarity
of
a
swéet
companion
,
that
those
houres
of
our
life
séeme
most
happie
which
are
passed
away
in
the
societie
of
a
friend
:
If
we
take
a
iourney
his
companie
is
in
stead
of
a
Coach
;
there
's
not
a
thought
,
nor
a
word
,
of
the
tediousnesse
of
the
way
:
If
we
abide
at
home
,
we
imagine
that
the
sithe
of
Time
too
spéedily
swéepes
away
the
houres
.
But
on
the
contrarie
,
needs
must
his
life
bée
melancholike
that
hath
no
friend
to
sweeten
the
slow
transcursion
of
Time
.
I
wish
my
owne
experience
were
not
too
true
proofe
hereof
,
for
since
your
absence
,
swéetest
friend
,
melancholly
hath
béene
my
concomitant
,
and
your
remembrance
my
greatest
comfort
.
And
as
the
Turtle
pines
away
after
the
losse
of
his
mate
,
so
since
your
departure
my
bosom
hath
admitted
no
consolation
.
I
request
you
by
that
interest
which
I
haue
in
your
loue
,
since
in
person
I
cannot
,
that
I
may
sée
you
in
a
Letter
.
Silence
betweene
absent
friends
incurres
the
censure
of
an
inofficious
and
inciuill
disposition
.
But
I
know
you
will
vindicate
your selfe
from
a
staine
of
so
abhorent
a
nature
.
I
rest
Yours
vnremoueably
,
I.
C.
Frandon
.
Aug.
1628.
A
Letter
for
the
entreaty
of
good
will
to
a
young
Gentlewoman
.
THe
long
and
considerate
regard
by
which
in
déepe
contemplation
I
haue
eyed
your
most
rare
and
singular
vertues
,
ioyned
with
so
admirable
beauty
,
and
much
pleasing
condition
,
graffed
in
your
person
,
hath
moued
me
,
good
mistris
E.
B.
among
a
number
whom
I
know
intirely
to
fauour
you
,
earnestly
to
loue
you
and
therewith
to
offer
my selfe
vnto
you
.
Now
howbeit
I
may
happely
séeme
in
some
eies
,
the
least
in
worthinesse
of
a
number
that
daily
frequent
you
,
yet
may
you
vouchsafe
in
your
owne
priuate
to
reckon
me
with
the
greatest
in
willingnesse
.
Wherein
,
if
a
settled
and
immoueable
affection
towards
you
if
feruent
and
assured
loue
,
grounded
vpon
the
vndecaiable
stay
and
prop
of
your
vertues
,
if
continuall
,
nay
rather
inexterminable
vowes
,
in
all
perpetuitie
addicted
vnto
your
seruices
,
if
neuer
ceasing
and
tormenting
griefe
vncertainlie
caried
by
a
hazardous
expectation
,
closed
in
the
circle
of
your
gratious
conceit
,
whether
to
bring
vnto
the
eares
of
my
soule
a
swéet
murmur
of
life
,
or
seuere
sentence
of
a
present
death
,
may
ought
at
all
preuaile
,
either
to
moue
,
entreat
,
sue
,
sollicite
,
or
perswade
you
,
I
then
am
the
man
,
who
shrining
in
my
inward
thoughts
the
dignitie
of
so
worthie
a
creature
,
and
prising
in
deepest
waight
(
though
not
to
the
vttermost
value
)
the
estimate
of
so
incomparable
a
beautie
,
haue
resolued
liuing
to
honor
you
,
and
dying
neuer
to
serue
other
but
you
,
from
whose
delicate
lookes
expecting
no
worse
acceptance
,
then
may
seeme
answerable
to
so
diuine
an
excellencie
:
I
remaine
Your
most
passionate
,
loyall
,
and
perpetually
deuoted
,
R.
F.
Ianuary
20.
1629.
Her
Answer
.
THat
men
haue
skill
,
and
are
by
sundry
commendable
parts
enabled
to
set
forth
their
meaning
,
there
needeth
no
other
testimony
then
your
present
writing
,
your
eloquence
is
far
beyond
the
reach
of
my
poore
wit
,
and
the
multiplicity
of
your
praises
fitter
for
a
poeticall
goddesse
,
then
to
the
erection
of
any
such
deesse
.
For
my
part
,
I
shall
hold
them
as
the
fancies
and
toyes
of
men
,
issuing
from
the
weakest
of
their
humors
,
and
how
farre
my selfe
can
deserue
,
none
better
then
my selfe
can
conceiue
.
Being
one
of
so
good
sort
,
as
you
are
,
I
could
doe
no
lesse
then
write
againe
vnto
you
,
the
rather
to
satisfie
the
importunity
of
your
messenger
,
wishing
such
a
one
to
your
lot
as
might
paragonnize
those
excellencies
you
writ
of
,
and
answer
euery
way
to
the
substance
of
all
those
inestimable
praises
.
So
hauing
your
loue
and
your
writing
,
(
as
I
take
it
)
be
best
suted
together
.
Yours
as
farre
as
modesty
will
,
to
answer
your
courtesies
.
E.
B.
●●nuary
24.
1629.
Another
Letter
to
his
Mistris
,
desiring
her
loue
.
GOod
mistris
I.
P.
I
am
bold
,
though
a
stranger
,
to
make
these
lines
messengers
at
this
present
of
my
good
meaning
towards
you
,
wherein
I
goe
not
about
by
pretence
of
a
most
entire
and
hearty
good
will
,
which
I
professe
to
beare
you
,
to
make
present
surmise
thereupon
that
on
so
bare
an
assertion
you
should
immediately
credit
mee
,
I
prise
your
worthinesse
at
a
far
greater
value
,
and
weigh
your
good
allowance
so
much
,
as
I
onely
desire
by
your
fauourable
liking
I
may
intreat
to
haue
accesse
vnto
you
,
not
doubting
but
by
being
in
your
presence
,
I
shall
so
sufficiently
by
apparent
proofe
mainetaine
the
efficacie
of
that
I
now
protest
,
and
giue
so
good
occasion
,
to
déeme
well
of
me
,
as
you
shall
haue
no
reason
to
repent
you
,
that
vpon
so
honest
and
louing
a
request
you
haue
condiscended
to
my
entreaty
:
whose
health
and
prosperity
tendring
as
mine
owne
.
I
send
you
with
my
Letter
a
token
of
that
great
affection
I
beare
you
,
which
I
pray
you
most
hartily
to
accept
of
,
and
weare
for
me
.
And
euer
so
doe
continue
,
Yours
if
so
you
please
to
accept
of
me
.
R.
M.
Her
answer
.
SIr
,
your
message
is
to
me
as
strange
as
your selfe
,
who
are
vnto
me
as
stranger
,
and
what
your
good
meaning
vnto
me
is
,
I
know
not
:
for
giuing
of
credit
vnto
your
assertion
,
as
you
seeme
not
to
challenge
it
,
so
was
I
neuer
hitherto
of
my selfe
so
hasty
to
doe
it
,
hauing
oftentimes
beene
taught
,
that
of
fairest
speeches
ensueth
the
foulest
actions
:
I
cannot
condemne
your
purpose
,
because
I
intend
the
best
of
your
dealings
,
and
howbeit
I
am
in
no
point
so
restrained
,
but
that
in
all
reasonable
sort
that
may
bee
,
any
accesse
may
be
granted
,
so
when
you
shall
by
farther
notice
sufficiently
make
apparent
that
with
modesty
I
may
doe
it
,
I
shall
bee
willing
so
farre
forth
as
my
years
and
present
being
may
minister
occasion
,
in
any
thankfull
requitall
that
may
bee
to
yeeld
my selfe
vnto
you
.
Till
which
time
I
returne
your
token
againe
,
and
my
hearty
thankes
vnto
you
by
this
bearer
.
Your
friend
as
one
vnacquainted
hitherto
may
be
.
I.
P.
To
a
beauteous
Lady
vpon
a
long
affection
.
HOw
vnpossible
it
is
to
keepe
heat
from
fire
,
being
that
very
nature
of
the
element
,
I
referre
to
your
best
iudgement
,
and
how
neare
a
spirit
of
that
nature
,
is
the
loue
of
the
heart
kindled
by
the
eye
of
beautie
,
I
leaue
to
your
kindnesse
to
consider
:
since
then
such
is
the
force
of
true
loue
,
as
cannot
be
so
smothered
vp
in
silence
,
but
that
it
must
burst
out
into
words
and
actions
,
either
to
gaine
comfort
,
or
to
suffer
death
,
pardon
(
fairest
of
beauties
)
that
Patient
that
in
anguish
séekes
ease
and
deny
not
your
help
in
the
excellency
of
the
cure
:
your
beautie
hath
moued
me
,
your
excellent
teature
your
comely
gesture
,
your
swéet
behauiour
,
haue
all
concurred
to
make
mée
vnhappie
,
vnlesse
your
hand
helpe
me
,
and
though
the
hurt
be
more
felt
then
séene
,
yet
is
it
not
deadly
,
if
you
be
kinde
:
loath
I
am
to
bee
a
begger
without
desert
,
and
yet
loue
will
stoop
a
high
spirit
,
which
,
by
the
bond
of
due
honour
hath
sworne
me
your
true
seruant
:
in
which
Title
,
vnder
heauen
,
shall
bee
my
hearts
greatest
honor
:
and
in
the
honor
of
whose
fauour
,
shall
be
the
height
of
my
worlds
happinesse
:
in
hope
whereof
,
praying
to
the
highest
Power
in
the
heauens
to
blesse
you
with
all
felicitie
on
earth
,
I
rest
Your
deuoted
,
and
not
to
be
remoued
P.
E.
Her
Answer
.
SIr
,
how
easie
it
is
to
quench
a
fire
in
his
first
kindling
,
experience
can
deliuer
;
in
the
diuersity
of
hearts
loue
being
not
the
least
that
is
like
to
doe
much
hurt
,
I
wish
you
to
take
order
with
your
wits
,
lest
it
bring
your
braine
to
an
ill
comfort
.
And
therefore
in
placing
of
affection
,
bee
not
too
far
from
discretion
,
lest
the
perswasion
of
selfe
will
,
be
an
abuse
of
a
better
sense
.
If
I
had
skill
in
Physicke
,
I
would
prescribe
you
helpe
for
your
disease
,
but
being
a
simple
woman
,
you
must
haue
patience
with
my
plainnesse
,
who
not
knowing
how
to
doe
you
good
,
and
vnwilling
to
wish
you
hurt
,
leauing
you
to
a
better
Paradise
then
in
the
torment
of
an
idle
passion
,
I
rest
in
what
I
may
,
Yours
as
kindly
as
I
find
cause
.
A.
N.
To
a
iudicious
Gentlewoman
.
Deare
friend
:
THe
forcible
effect
&
conquest
which
your
beauty
hath
wrought
in
my
heart
constrained
me
in
your
kindnesse
to
place
the
hope
of
my
fortune
:
beséeching
you
so
to
equall
your
outward
excellence
with
an
inward
perfection
,
that
faith
may
not
haue
feare
of
fauour
,
where
humilitie
shall
guide
the
course
of
affection
:
I
should
estéeme
my selfe
the
most
vnhappie
if
I
should
giue
your
eares
any
distast
by
my
suit
but
if
it
light
within
the
line
of
your
liking
,
it
shall
begin
the
garden
of
my
paradise
:
so
vnder
heauen
séeking
no
other
star
,
then
the
guide
of
your
grace
to
lead
my
heart
to
the
ioy
of
my
life
:
I
rest
,
neuer
to
rest
till
I
euer
rest
Yours
all
,
or
mine
owne
nothing
at
all
.
E.
C.
From
Madrid
.
March
26.
Her
Answer
.
I
Am
sory
to
thinke
that
a
shadow
of
dust
should
haue
that
force
(
in
conceit
)
to
rob
reason
of
his
contents
:
for
beautie
is
but
a
shadow
,
which
if
your
eye
hath
found
in
my
face
,
let
it
goe
no
further
lest
it
doe
wrong
to
my
will
in
hurting
your
heart
:
my
inside
I
hope
is
farre
from
disgracing
any
good
in
my
outside
,
and
both
altogether
vnhappy
,
if
they
haue
beene
any
occasion
of
euill
:
but
least
I
may
seeme
discontent
either
at
the
matter
or
manner
of
your
writing
,
I
discharge
you
of
the
burthen
of
that
feare
,
by
the
kinde
acceptation
of
your
affection
,
which
though
I
cannot
answer
as
I
would
,
yet
,
as
in
good
reason
I
may
,
I
will
thinke
and
consider
of
,
which
if
it
fall
out
to
your
liking
,
be
not
vnfaithfull
in
your
loue
,
in
hope
whereof
I
rest
,
Yours
wholly
,
if
at
all
.
A.B.
To
a
Lady
,
with
whom
he
fell
in
loue
seeing
her
at
a
solemne
Triumph
.
WHen
I
saw
you
(
excellent
Lady
)
viewing
the
Triumphs
,
looking
vpon
your
eyes
mee
thought
Heauen
opened
to
discouer
a
greater
glory
,
and
Angells
tylting
there
tooke
from
my
iudgement
all
things
else
done
out
of
that
blessed
compasse
,
but
mine
amazement
became
my
death
,
and
my
death
must
be
your
Triumph
,
for
how
euer
the
conflict
appeared
,
your
glances
which
were
the
wounding
weapons
,
strucke
through
my
weake
sight
,
and
slew
my
heart
,
though
armed
in
the
strongest
sort
of
my
bosome
;
I
am
not
so
happie
as
to
bée
a
prisoner
(
for
there
were
hope
)
but
so
infortunate
to
die
in
despaire
,
that
to
haue
the
monument
of
my
remembrance
erected
in
the
Temple
of
your
pittie
,
is
the
vtmost
aime
my
blisse
lookes
to
,
the
cruelty
of
faire
ones
hath
pronounst
my
iudgment
,
and
saith
,
it
is
impossible
to
affect
where
they
haue
not
séene
?
Oh
see
me
in
this
sorrowfull
paper
,
(
you
fairest
of
adored
beauties
)
and
let
that
sight
moue
affection
,
affection
knowledge
,
knowledge
pittie
,
and
pittie
that
worke
of
the
highest
,
which
is
onely
to
doe
miracles
,
so
shall
crueltie
giue
himselfe
the
lie
,
proue
you
a
goddesse
,
and
make
mee
(
the
happiest
of
men
)
a
trumpet
of
your
renowne
and
glorie
:
My
loue
is
like
your
goodnesse
without
parallel
,
my
faith
shall
goe
beyond
that
loue
,
and
my
seruice
crowne
both
with
an
infinite
merit
.
This
is
my
sacrifice
,
which
if
you
accept
,
(
excellentest
of
faire
beauties
,
and
innobled
with
all
rich
perfections
)
I
liue
,
if
otherwise
,
my
ioy
is
,
I
perish
by
so
excellent
a
creature
.
Prepared
to
suffer
.
I.
S.
From
Dover
Iune
9.
1628.
Her
answer
.
SIr
,
he
that
of
a
light
blow
with
the
eye
,
makes
a
deadly
wound
at
his
heart
,
is
either
too
vnworthily
faint
,
or
much
too
superstitious
in
the
signes
and
planets
;
for
mine
owne
part
,
my
knowledge
assures
mee
I
am
free
from
any
such
malignant
influence
:
I
confesse
a
weake
appetite
vnguarded
with
iudgement
,
nay
oft
stumble
and
receiue
knockes
:
nay
sometimes
fall
to
vtter
ruine
;
and
to
giue
to
that
weaknesse
the
gouernment
of
my
fortune
,
were
to
rob
my selfe
of
all
good
mens
pities
.
In
my
worst
mischances
,
the
ils
I
cause
not
,
reason
cannot
blame
me
,
if
I
cure
not
,
since
what
is
without
me
,
nothing
appertaines
vnto
mee
,
but
you
will
make
my
beauty
guilty
,
poore
nothing
,
how
pittifully
art
thou
slandred
;
which
being
a
meere
Chymera
of
imagination
,
hast
not
any
thing
in
th●●
,
but
the
strength
of
folly
,
and
mans
fancy
;
it
is
not
a
substance
,
for
then
it
might
be
felt
,
let
loose
or
restrained
;
it
hath
no
certaine
shape
,
for
then
all
men
would
like
one
figure
;
nor
hath
it
any
abiding
,
for
then
it
would
euer
bee
found
in
its
owne
mansion
;
it
is
not
compounded
of
perfit
colours
for
then
no
man
would
dote
of
mixt
deformities
,
nor
doth
it
subsist
of
reall
vertues
,
for
then
no
man
would
wed
with
the
vicious
:
to
conclude
,
it
is
nothing
hath
hurt
you
,
and
that
nothing
I
send
to
cure
you
:
rashnesse
shall
not
breed
my
repentance
:
your
loue
is
too
infinite
,
your
faith
too
worthy
,
and
your
seruice
too
rich
;
a
meaner
proportion
will
guard
safest
a
meane
fortune
;
and
so
wishing
your
great
sacrifice
to
a
greater
deitie
,
I
rest
,
Your
best
Counseller
.
A.
N.
Canterbury
.
To
his
Mistris
that
was
of
wanton
and
light
cariage
.
BEcause
my
vow
of
loue
(
my
sometimes
dearly
beloued
mistris
)
hath
made
me
your
friend
,
therefore
the
care
of
your
honour
shall
make
me
your
counseller
;
whether
it
come
seasonably
or
no
,
examine
your
heart
,
that
it
comes
freely
and
with
a
wholesome
intent
,
truth
bée
my
witnesse
.
It
is
told
me
(
mistris
)
that
your
actions
are
publikely
noted
:
for
their
contumelious
leuity
,
and
your
wanton
lightnesse
is
so
marked
by
your
beholders
,
that
contempt
is
become
your
onely
companion
your
apparell
is
like
your
minde
vnconstant
and
vncomelie
,
and
drawes
rather
admiration
then
reuerence
toyes
are
your
studies
,
and
vanities
your
practise
,
so
that
making
your selfe
a
slaue
to
pleasure
,
you
haue
forgotten
the
violence
of
mis-fortune
,
if
this
hee
true
(
my
dearly
beloued
mistris
)
then
in
this
I
must
perish
,
since
liuing
in
you
,
your
least
fall
wounds
both
mee
and
mine
honour
:
I
know
you
are
faire
and
young
:
but
if
you
cloath
them
here
with
vices
,
what
will
you
weare
in
the
graue
,
but
infamie
?
life
runs
without
féet
,
mis-fortune
strikes
without
an
alarme
,
and
the
glorie
of
vanitie
breaks
like
a
bubble
,
and
leaues
nothing
behind
but
the
print
of
disgraces
:
it
is
too
much
to
be
euill
once
,
for
the
euill
is
neuer
forgotten
,
and
it
is
too
little
not
to
be
euer
good
,
since
the
smallest
blot
dashes
all
out
of
remembrance
.
I
would
I
could
as
easilie
excuse
you
,
as
fame
is
apt
to
accuse
you
:
pardon
me
if
I
be
too
hold
in
writing
,
it
is
vrged
by
a
too
much
boldnesse
in
action
the
one
made
good
,
the
other
shall
bee
gracious
beyond
expression
;
till
then
giue
my
pen
leaue
to
kéepe
my
heart
from
breaking
.
Your
griued
friend
,
A.
Z.
Farndon
.
Apr.
1628.
Her
Answer
.
A
Zeale
that
is
kindled
(
my
best
seruant
)
with
the
false
fire
of
mens
reports
,
is
rather
held
a
superstition
then
an
honest
deuotion
;
for
it
both
wrongs
truth
,
and
wounds
an
innocent
reputation
;
and
those
light
beleeuers
,
which
build
faith
on
such
weake
grounds
,
deserue
nothing
but
ignominie
and
contempt
:
if
now
you
accuse
my
life
in
your
absence
,
where
was
your
iudgment
when
I
walkt
in
your
presence
?
O
be
not
so
false
to
the
worth
of
your
owne
truth
,
to
say
you
could
not
see
that
which
all
the
world
hath
discouered
,
or
if
you
did
,
to
be
so
blind
to
affect
a
thing
vnworthy
,
but
it
may
be
,
absence
hath
begotten
new
thoughts
,
those
thoughts
new
affection
,
and
that
affection
must
needs
finde
a
new
quarrell
with
old
friendship
:
if
it
be
so
,
your
owne
course
lead
you
.
I
freely
confesse
I
am
not
such
a
begger
that
can
weare
rags
,
such
a
miser
that
can
eate
roots
,
nor
so
subtile
to
speake
like
a
Iugler
,
with
a
reed
in
my
mouth
:
Truth
I
serue
,
freedome
I
loue
,
and
plainnesse
is
my
condition
.
If
these
haue
tasts
you
cannot
relish
,
you
must
in
some
other
soyle
seeke
new
comforts
,
for
mine
owne
part
I
will
be
no
bondslaue
to
opinion
,
till
I
know
it
constant
,
nor
no
seruant
of
the
time
,
till
it
be
vncorrupt
,
and
more
honest
.
As
for
my
life
,
had
it
for
euery
feather
a
wing
,
and
my
fortune
double
so
many
hazards
,
yet
will
I
bring
the
one
to
my
graue
with
honour
,
and
make
the
other
ashamed
with
my
sufferance
.
I
rest
,
Your
iniured
mistris
.
D.
P.
Maidston
.
May.
7.
A
desperate
Louer
to
his
quondam
Mistris
.
IT
shall
be
vertue
in
you
(
fairest
)
to
receiue
my
despaires
though
you
〈◊〉
no
comforts
,
and
if
in
the
reading
you
vouchsafe
a
sigh
to
my
remembrance
,
it
is
a
dirge
that
shall
make
me
for
euer
sléepe
in
quiet
:
despaire
long
since
gaue
me
iudgement
,
and
obedience
onely
shall
make
my
death
patient
:
●t
is
necessary
I
die
for
you
,
since
fate
denies
me
to
liue
with
you
,
for
my selfe
is
such
an
interposition
betwixt
you
and
your
glorie
,
that
my
griefes
would
kéepe
much
of
your
Sunne
eclipsed
:
I
know
my
wants
,
and
that
there
is
nothing
either
in
my
life
or
fortune
to
deserue
you
,
onely
an
infinite
desire
,
which
but
by
death
can
neuer
bee
lessened
,
then
since
all
things
suit
with
my
despaires
,
be
all
delaies
with
your
loue
(
euer
farre
from
me
)
and
let
the
world
onely
remember
this
in
my
Epitaph
,
that
it
was
not
my
folly
,
but
your
will
;
not
my
despaire
,
but
truth
in
obedience
:
But
O
this
is
that
I
should
doe
,
not
speake
:
and
the
musicke
is
more
vnfit
for
your
eare
,
then
your
loue
for
my
heart
:
pardon
my
tell-tale
sorrow
,
it
rather
speakes
things
fit
to
bée
done
,
then
done
,
and
will
sooner
craue
the
glorie
in
wish
then
action
,
and
yet
the
poison
of
disdaine
is
so
violent
,
I
know
it
will
wast
me
,
and
wast
me
it
shall
,
for
my
comforts
are
alreadie
consumed
,
and
in
that
consumption
let
all
things
but
my
memorie
turne
to
its
first
Chaos
,
and
so
liue
as
happie
as
I
vnfortunate
:
Onely
in
remembrance
.
F.
L.
Northampton
.
Septemb.
6.
Her
Answer
.
HOw
much
I
stand
diuided
with
the
vnresonablenesse
of
your
affection
,
my
distracted
writing
may
witnesse
;
wherein
I
can
obserue
no
order
,
because
nothing
in
your
desires
holds
good
proportion
,
you
bid
me
loue
,
and
will
not
heare
when
destiny
denies
it
,
and
you
seeke
that
rule
from
me
,
which
is
quite
taken
out
of
my
knowledge
(
deare
Sir
)
awaken
vp
your
first
wisedome
,
and
tye
your
actions
on
prouidence
,
then
shall
you
see
I
haue
lesse
power
to
draw
on
mine
,
then
you
to
withdraw
your
affection
:
will
you
make
beauty
such
a
slaue
,
that
it
must
obey
euery
gaze
,
or
the
poore
owner
so
vnfortunate
,
that
she
must
be
seruile
to
the
desire
of
any
wilfull
longing
,
then
so
,
how
much
safer
were
it
to
be
foule
and
fortunate
?
But
you
will
dye
,
woes
me
that
folly
should
make
you
so
impudent
,
to
boast
you
dare
doe
a
sinne
so
damnable
;
but
I
know
you
will
dye
but
as
actors
dye
,
in
one
scaene
and
reuiue
in
the
next
,
to
make
it
more
glorious
,
thus
to
dye
I
allow
you
,
and
to
such
I
will
giue
a
smile
for
pitty
:
to
any
other
a
charitable
teare
,
to
thinke
that
any
Gentleman
should
become
a
traitor
to
Nature
.
Lastly
,
let
me
win
you
by
the
loue
you
boast
of
,
neuer
henceforth
to
sollicite
me
,
for
as
no
reliefe
can
come
from
such
vaine
labour
,
so
nothing
but
great
disdaine
will
grow
from
my
vexation
:
So
hoping
you
will
make
that
hope
desperate
,
which
is
without
all
hope
of
vertue
,
I
rest
,
Your
chast
friend
.
P.
C.
Rowel
March
7.
A
Letter
of
true
kindnesse
.
IF
dame
Nature
had
béene
pleased
to
haue
made
my
bosome
transparent
,
your
eies
should
see
the
secrets
of
my
heart
,
which
if
it
haue
any
happinesse
in
the
world
,
it
is
in
the
hope
of
your
fauour
:
but
amazed
with
the
admiration
of
your
worth
,
I
know
not
what
to
say
of
your
worthinesse
,
but
onely
this
,
that
finding
the
due
of
your
desert
exceeding
my
capacitie
in
commendation
,
I
wil
leaue
the
excellencie
thereof
to
more
honourable
inuention
,
and
thinke
Fortune
enough
fauourable
,
if
shee
prefer
my
seruice
to
your
commandement
:
presents
I
haue
none
worthy
the
sending
,
but
the
heart
of
my
loue
at
your
emploiment
which
being
nothing
more
then
what
you
will
,
I
rest
,
euer
one
and
the
same
.
Your
seruant
.
W.
W.
Her
Answer
.
IF
your
speeches
be
led
by
your
thoughts
,
it
is
needlesse
to
desire
a
transparencie
in
your
bosome
,
for
when
as
the
heart
and
the
tongue
agree
together
,
then
mens
protestations
are
followed
with
reall
performance
:
words
of
admiration
trouble
discretion
,
in
construction
,
and
eloquence
in
loue
hath
not
the
best
commendation
,
inuentions
are
ready
where
fancy
is
studious
,
but
where
wit
is
vertuous
,
there
is
will
gracious
:
your
present
most
worthy
of
all
acceptance
,
cannot
be
better
requited
then
thankfully
remembred
,
and
if
conceits
meet
in
a
mutuall
content
,
what
comfort
may
follow
,
I
leaue
to
the
heauens
fauour
,
and
so
I
rest
,
Your
friend
.
A.
W.
A
Letter
of
counsell
from
a
discreet
mother
to
her
daughter
newly
maried
.
MY
good
daughter
:
thou
art
now
going
into
the
world
,
and
must
leaue
to
be
a
child
,
and
learne
to
be
a
mother
,
and
looke
to
a
familie
,
rather
then
to
the
intertainment
of
a
friend
,
and
yet
both
necessarie
,
in
their
kinds
:
finde
the
disposition
of
thy
husband
,
and
in
anie
wise
moue
not
his
impatiencie
,
let
thy
kindnesse
bind
his
loue
,
thy
vertue
his
comfort
,
thy
huswiferie
his
commendations
:
auoid
tatling
gossips
,
yet
be
kind
to
thy
neighbours
,
and
no
stranger
to
thy
kindred
:
be
gentle
to
thy
seruants
and
not
ouer
familar
:
haue
an
eie
to
thy
doore
,
and
a
locke
to
thy
chest
:
keepe
a
bit
for
begger
,
and
a
bone
for
a
dog
:
cherish
the
Bée
that
brings
home
honie
,
and
make
much
of
the
Cocke
that
makes
much
of
his
Chickens
,
take
heed
abroad
of
the
Kite
and
within
of
the
Rat
:
pray
to
God
for
his
blessings
on
all
thy
proceedings
,
and
haue
a
religious
care
of
thy
modest
gouernment
;
and
rather
for
charitie
then
praise
,
giue
relife
vnto
the
poore
;
if
at
any
time
thou
hast
need
of
any
good
I
can
doe
thee
,
be
assured
whilst
thou
hast
a
mother
,
thou
hast
a
friend
:
so
hoping
in
thy
kindnesse
,
thou
wilt
take
care
of
thy
counsell
,
beseeching
God
to
blesse
thée
,
that
I
may
euer
haue
ioy
of
thée
,
with
my
hearts
loue
,
to
his
tuition
I
leaue
thée
.
Thy
most
louing
mother
.
R.
S.
Her
Answer
.
MY
good
Mother
:
I
haue
passed
the
yeares
of
a
childe
,
and
know
the
care
of
a
mother
,
and
therefore
for
your
kind
aduise
for
my
cariage
I
thanke
you
,
and
what
benefit
I
will
make
of
your
lessons
,
you
shall
finde
in
the
fruit
of
my
obseruation
,
I
am
but
newly
come
into
the
world
,
and
God
knowes
when
I
shall
goe
out
of
it
;
and
am
yet
scarce
warme
in
my
house
,
and
therefore
hardly
know
yet
how
to
goe
through
it
.
For
me
husbands
humour
,
if
he
alter
not
his
nature
,
I
doe
not
doubt
but
wee
shall
liue
as
Doues
,
while
care
and
kindnesse
shall
continue
content
:
my
seruants
shall
find
me
both
a
mistris
and
a
friend
;
my
neighbours
no
strangers
,
and
idle
gossips
no
companion
.
Thus
in
the
duty
of
loue
,
with
thankes
for
your
motherly
care
,
in
prayer
to
the
Almighty
to
blesse
me
with
his
grace
,
and
to
liue
no
longer
then
in
his
loue
and
yours
:
I
take
my
leaue
,
for
this
time
,
but
rest
during
life
,
Your
most
louing
daughter
,
P.
E.
A
Letter
in
case
of
wrong
supposed
to
be
committed
.
SIr
,
your
Letter
is
more
troublesome
to
my
conceit
then
sauouring
(
as
I
am
credibly
led
to
thinke
)
of
that
your
wonted
most
noble
disposition
vnto
me
I
haue
receiued
.
With
what
supportation
and
vnaccustomed
griefe
I
haue
retained
them
,
I
referre
to
any
one
(
guiltlesse
accused
and
suspended
from
so
high
sauours
,
as
formerly
by
your
bountie
to
me
haue
beene
performed
)
simply
to
bee
coniectured
.
Long
was
it
ere
I
could
satisfie
my selfe
by
any
accesse
that
might
be
,
to
profer
my selfe
or
these
humbled
Letters
vnto
you
,
yet
neuerthelesse
weighing
how
farre
different
those
new
occurrents
were
from
those
your
ancient
fauors
,
I
surmised
with
my selfe
that
the
instigation
procéeded
solely
from
others
,
hardly
perchance
bearing
those
graces
wherein
I
stood
with
you
,
and
becomming
thereupon
my
bitter
enemies
,
the
sinister
deuise
whereof
stood
vpon
me
wholly
to
ouerthrow
or
impugne
.
For
which
hauing
no
other
nor
better
meanes
at
this
time
then
these
submissiue
lines
,
I
purpose
them
vnto
you
as
solicitors
of
your
former
liking
,
confessing
if
in
any
waies
I
haue
erred
vnto
you
,
as
I
will
not
vtterly
seclude
my selfe
from
euery
error
,
it
was
but
as
a
young
man
rather
by
ignorance
then
of
malice
any
way
to
be
intended
:
as
touching
any
other
obiection
,
let
me
but
craue
pardon
to
haue
accesse
vnto
your
presence
,
and
then
iudge
as
you
finde
me
:
two
waies
are
only
left
,
my
accusers
to
my
face
,
or
mine
owne
simplicitie
to
cleare
me
.
This
is
all
I
require
,
and
so
much
I
hope
you
will
not
denie
me
:
wherewith
resting
in
due
acknowledgement
of
that
your
former
bountie
,
I
humbly
surcease
,
this
15
of
Decemb.
1628.
Yours
to
command
.
T.
C.
A
Letter
from
a
Seruant
to
his
Master
.
SIr
,
my
humble
dutie
remembred
,
vnto
you
,
and
to
my
good
mistris
.
You
may
please
to
vnderstand
that
I
haue
dispatcht
the
businesse
vnto
Master
C.
for
the
monie
you
sent
mee
for
,
and
haue
giuen
him
an
acquitance
for
the
same
,
and
according
to
your
good
remembrance
vnto
〈◊〉
,
I
haue
bought
for
you
twelue
gallons
of
the
best
Sacke
,
and
eighteene
gallons
of
Claret
,
and
fifteene
yards
of
fine
Broad
cloath
,
and
thirtie
ells
of
fine
Holland
all
which
I
hope
by
Gods
grace
shall
come
vnto
your
hands
:
I
haue
sent
you
also
here
inclosed
your
Bill
of
parcels
,
and
their
seuerall
prices
.
I
wrote
formerly
vnto
you
for
certaine
commodities
out
of
the
Country
,
which
I
haue
now
receiued
by
the
Carrier
.
Here
is
at
this
present
small
newes
worth
the
writing
vnto
you
:
wherfore
praying
vnto
all
Almighty
God
for
the
health
and
prosperity
of
you
and
all
yours
,
I
humbly
take
my
leaue
,
and
rest
,
Your
faithfull
and
ready
seruant
to
command
,
I.P.
An
answer
of
a
Letter
for
courtesie
and
fauour
receiued
.
MY
good
friend
M.
G.
how
much
I
am
bound
vnto
you
for
multitude
of
fauours
,
and
especially
for
that
you
haue
made
choice
of
me
,
as
to
write
your
kinde
and
friendly
Letters
in
my
befalse
,
I
can
no
other
waies
expresse
,
then
to
continue
your
affectionate
poore
friend
,
and
will
for
euer
acknowledge
it
,
as
of
your
great
kindnesse
beyond
any
merit
of
mine
owne
,
and
as
by
duty
I
am
bound
,
no
day
shall
passe
me
that
I
will
not
pray
to
God
for
your
health
and
prosperitie
,
and
the
redoubling
of
your
daies
:
beseeching
you
to
excuse
me
in
that
in
person
I
cannot
doe
or
performe
what
I
desire
,
by
reason
at
this
time
some
hast
extraordinary
will
not
permit
me
.
I
therefore
most
humbly
take
my
leaue
of
you
,
this
14.
May.
Your
affectionate
poore
friend
,
P.
C.
The
Fathers
Letter
against
the
Sonne
.
THe
sight
of
your
Letters
and
message
receiued
by
your
seruant
,
haue
(
good
Cousen
)
bred
to
me
in
perusing
and
hearkning
vnto
the
same
no
small
matter
of
disquiet
:
not
that
your
letters
or
messages
for
themselues
are
or
haue
béene
at
any
time
ill
welcome
to
my
hands
,
but
in
respect
of
him
for
whom
they
come
,
so
filled
haue
I
beene
long
since
with
the
euils
by
him
committed
.
I
am
nothing
ignorant
that
of
meere
loue
and
good
will
you
framed
your
spéech
vnto
me
in
the
behalfe
of
my
vngratious
Sonne
.
I
neede
not
repeat
here
vnto
you
with
what
fatherly
care
I
haue
brought
him
vp
to
mans
estate
how
likewise
I
sought
both
with
maintenace
and
place
of
credit
to
continue
him
as
a
Gentleman
.
I
placed
him
with
a
right
godly
and
worshipfull
Knight
Sir
T.
H.
who
for
my
sake
loued
him
,
and
I
know
tooke
paines
to
reforme
him
.
Complaints
were
infinite
against
him
.
This
man
could
not
be
quiet
for
him
,
that
mans
seruants
he
misused
:
this
party
hee
deceiued
,
and
others
hi●hly
wronged
.
Since
which
,
too
much
to
be
reuealed
how
stubbornly
in
mine
owne
house
,
how
iniuriously
amongst
mine
owne
people
hath
he
behaued
himselfe
.
And
because
it
was
against
Christmas
,
and
I
would
not
dismisse
him
vnfurnished
,
I
gaue
him
for
himselfe
and
his
man
a
couple
of
good
Geldings
,
and
twentie
pound
in
his
purse
:
he
was
no
sooner
gone
twentie
miles
,
but
spent
his
money
at
Cards
and
Dice
,
pawnd
his
apparell
,
sold
his
Geldings
,
and
in
the
end
comming
to
one
of
my
tenants
to
borrow
money
which
he
denied
to
lend
him
,
hee
fell
vpon
him
and
beat
him
.
Thus
(
louing
Cousen
)
you
see
in
part
his
ill
led
life
,
and
may
thereby
conceiue
my
griefe
.
Sending
in
the
meane
time
my
commendations
and
earnest
thanks
for
your
care
of
my
well
being
,
to
you
and
your
bedfellow
.
This
20
Aug.
1628.
T.
R.
The
answer
.
I
Haue
receiued
your
letter
(
my
kind
vncle
)
in
answer
to
the
last
letter
I
sent
,
which
was
the
businesse
of
your
son
.
I
am
very
sory
that
a
Gentleman
of
your
grauity
and
knowledge
in
the
world
,
and
for
the
good
estimation
that
the
country
hath
of
you
,
that
Master
F.
C.
your
sonne
should
deale
so
vnkindly
with
you
.
I
know
your
fatherly
care
of
him
from
time
to
time
,
and
how
diligent
,
and
not
sparing
any
cost
in
bringing
him
vp
;
and
to
place
him
with
a
gentleman
of
the
best
ranke
in
all
the
country
was
nobly
done
,
yet
with
all
you
might
(
if
so
you
please
)
doe
well
to
consider
he
is
your
owne
sonne
,
and
if
you
looke
into
your
owne
youth
,
you
shall
finde
these
were
your
youthfull
straines
,
and
so
much
the
more
to
bee
borne
withall
,
and
time
and
age
will
tame
all
these
things
in
an
ingenious
and
witty
Gentleman
.
I
desire
you
for
my
sake
retaine
him
kindly
into
your
fauour
this
once
more
,
for
he
hath
(
vpon
the
reputation
of
a
Gentleman
)
promised
neuer
to
doe
the
like
enormities
,
but
to
liue
as
a
most
dutifull
and
louing
sonne
:
and
for
the
same
I
dare
passe
my
credit
.
I
pray
you
entertaine
him
respectiuely
,
and
I
will
euer
remaine
,
Your
louing
kinsman
,
T.
F.
To
his
mistris
(
quondam
)
hauing
spent
all
his
meanes
vpon
her
in
prosperitie
,
he
being
imprisond
she
forsakes
him
.
IF
my
paper
were
made
of
the
skins
of
croking
Toades
,
or
speckled
Adders
,
my
inke
of
the
blood
of
Scorpions
,
my
penne
pluckt
from
the
Screech-owles
wings
,
they
were
but
fit
instruments
to
write
vnto
thee
,
that
art
more
venemous
,
more
poisonous
,
more
ominous
,
then
the
worst
of
these
:
for
doe
but
descend
into
the
depth
of
thy
guilty
conscience
,
and
sée
how
manie
vowes
,
promises
,
and
deepe
protestations
,
nay
millions
of
oathes
hast
thou
sworne
thy
fidelitie
vnto
mée
,
which
one
day
will
witnesse
against
thee
.
If
I
should
speake
with
the
voice
of
Mandrakes
,
or
as
loud
as
the
noise
of
the
Summers
thunder
,
yet
could
I
not
proclaime
vnto
the
world
thy
infinite
basenesses
;
I
being
so
firme
and
constant
vnto
thée
when
I
swomme
in
the
golden
flouds
of
prosperitie
,
then
wast
thou
(
as
often
thou
didst
protest
)
firme
and
constant
vnto
mée
.
But
when
the
water
began
to
ebbe
,
and
my
ship
run
on
ground
,
then
(
like
thy selfe
)
thou
forsookest
me
At
first
thy
loue
was
as
hot
to
me
as
an
Italian
to
a
wench
of
fifteene
,
but
when
my
gold
was
spent
and
consumed
,
then
thy
loue
grew
as
cold
to
me
as
a
Fishmongers
fingers
are
in
a
great
frost
.
Doe
not
thinke
I
write
this
vnto
thee
to
bée
a
meanes
to
helpe
me
in
this
my
great
distresse
and
imprisonment
:
for
know
thou
though
all
my
friends
haue
forsaken
me
,
nay
though
death
,
griefe
,
affliction
,
and
all
the
miseries
that
possibly
can
befall
a
miserable
man
in
this
wretched
world
while
he
liueth
here
,
and
all
these
griefes
doe
euerie
minute
torment
me
,
yet
I
had
rather
fall
by
their
force
,
then
rise
by
thy
assistance
,
so
hatefull
,
grieuous
,
so
loathsome
,
so
tedious
and
so
incomparably
abominable
is
thy
very
name
vnto
me
.
Leprosie
compared
to
thée
,
is
all
health
,
and
all
manner
of
infection
but
a
flea-biting
,
and
all
manner
of
diseases
,
though
they
were
fetcht
from
twentie
Hospitals
,
were
but
like
the
fit
of
an
Ague
:
for
thou
art
all
Leprosie
,
all
diseases
,
for
neither
thy
bodie
nor
thy
soule
are
frée
,
thy
body
from
the
disease
of
shame
and
disgrace
of
the
world
,
nor
thy
soule
frée
from
the
sicknesse
of
sinne
.
God
amend
and
pardon
thée
.
Once
thy
friend
.
I.
P.
To
his
friend
lying
long
sicke
.
MY
worthie
friend
Master
Prince
:
though
the
distance
of
place
be
such
,
that
we
cannot
heare
one
another
,
you
in
the
center
of
the
Kingdome
(
London
)
I
at
Yorke
,
yet
you
shall
sée
me
in
my
Letter
,
my
tongue
,
my
penne
,
my
heart
,
are
all
your
seruants
.
You
plainly
perceiue
a
long
lingring
sicknesse
will
draw
you
to
a
long
desired
rest
,
where
long
your
mind
hath
had
his
residence
.
You
now
perceiue
Fame
is
but
smoake
,
metalls
but
drosse
,
pleasure
but
a
pill
with
sugar
.
All
these
earthly
delights
if
they
were
sound
,
how
short
they
are
,
fléeting
euery
day
:
they
are
but
as
a
good
day
betwixt
two
Agues
,
or
like
Sodomes
Apples
,
faire
red
outsides
,
being
handled
are
blacke
dust
.
I
admire
the
faith
of
Moses
,
but
presupposing
his
faith
,
I
wonder
not
at
his
choice
,
that
he
preferred
the
afflictions
of
Israel
to
the
pleasures
of
Aegypt
,
and
chose
rather
to
eate
the
Lambe
with
sowre
herbes
,
then
all
their
flesh-pots
.
That
God
hath
giuen
you
a
vertuous
wife
,
dutifull
children
,
wealth
in
abundance
,
an
honest
esteeme
and
good
repute
amongst
your
neighbours
,
and
the
generall
loue
of
your
countrie
where
you
liue
,
are
fauours
that
looke
for
thanks
.
Who
would
desire
to
liue
,
that
knowes
his
Sauiour
died
,
who
can
be
a
Christian
and
would
not
be
like
him
?
Could
you
be
happy
and
not
die
?
indéed
Nature
knowes
not
what
she
would
haue
.
Our
friends
of
this
world
can
neither
abide
vs
miserable
in
our
stay
,
nor
happie
in
our
departure
.
What
God
hath
giuen
you
on
earth
,
is
nothing
to
that
hée
will
giue
you
in
heauen
:
you
are
a
stranger
here
:
there
at
home
.
There
Saints
and
Angles
shall
applaud
you
,
there
God
himselfe
will
fill
you
with
himselfe
:
haue
patience
in
all
afflictions
,
and
reade
the
troubles
of
Iob
,
and
in
that
exercise
your selfe
both
day
and
night
,
vntill
God
shall
either
mend
or
end
these
your
daies
on
earth
.
To
which
great
God
and
mercifull
Lord
I
commit
you
,
praying
for
your
eternall
rest
.
Remaining
your
friend
;
I.
M.
A
Letter
wherein
is
recommended
to
a
Nobleman
from
his
inferiour
the
conditions
and
behauiour
of
a
person
.
MAy
it
please
your
Lordship
,
this
Gentleman
the
bearer
hereof
,
with
whom
along
time
I
haue
beene
acquainted
,
and
of
his
qualities
and
good
behauiour
haue
sound
and
large
experiment
,
hauing
béene
a
good
time
a
suter
vnto
me
to
moue
this
preferment
vnto
your
Lordships
seruice
,
I
haue
now
at
last
condiscended
vnto
,
as
well
for
that
I
know
your
Lordship
to
bee
now
presently
disfurnished
of
such
a
one
,
as
also
that
there
will
hardly
bee
preferred
vpon
the
sudden
any
one
so
meet
as
himselfe
to
supply
that
place
.
And
thus
much
by
your
pardon
and
allowance
daie
I
assure
vnto
you
,
that
if
it
may
please
you
in
credit
of
my
simple
knowledge
and
opinion
to
imploy
him
,
you
shall
finde
that
,
besides
hée
is
in
parentage
descended
from
such
of
whom
I
know
your
Lordship
will
very
well
account
of
,
he
is
also
learned
,
decréet
,
sober
,
wise
,
and
moderate
in
all
his
actions
,
of
great
secresie
,
assured
trust
,
and
well
gouerned
in
all
companies
.
Finally
,
a
man
so
méet
and
to
this
present
turne
so
apt
and
necessarie
,
as
I
cannot
easily
imagine
how
you
may
be
serued
better
.
Pleaseth
your
Lordship
the
rather
,
for
the
great
good
will
I
beare
him
,
and
humble
duty
I
owe
vnto
you
,
to
accept
,
imploy
,
and
account
of
him
:
I
nothing
doubt
but
your
Lordship
hauing
by
such
meanes
giuen
credit
to
my
choice
,
shall
finde
him
such
as
for
whose
good
seruice
you
shall
haue
further
occasion
to
thinke
well
of
me
for
him
.
Whereof
nothing
doubtting
,
I
doe
referre
both
him
and
my selfe
,
in
all
humblenes
to
your
best
and
most
fauourable
opinion
.
From
my
house
in
Arthingworth
,
this
5
of
Iune
.
The
Answer
.
AFter
my
hearty
commendations
vnto
you
.
Sithence
the
receipt
of
your
last
letters
and
commendations
of
W.
R.
into
my
seruice
,
I
haue
had
small
occasion
either
to
write
or
to
send
vnto
you
till
this
present
;
and
for
as
much
as
vpon
your
certaine
notice
deliuered
vnto
me
in
fauour
of
his
preferment
,
I
held
my selfe
so
well
assured
in
all
things
of
his
behauiour
,
as
I
doubted
not
thereupon
to
receiue
him
into
place
of
greatest
fidelity
;
I
haue
thought
good
hereby
to
let
you
vnderstand
,
what
great
pleasure
I
haue
taken
in
his
diligent
attendance
,
assuring
you
,
for
many
vnexpected
qualities
,
which
I
haue
proued
to
be
in
him
,
and
that
with
so
good
affection
as
that
I
intend
not
omit
any
thing
that
may
tend
to
his
aduancement
.
In
beholding
of
him
oftentimes
,
methinkes
he
many
waies
doth
resemble
his
father
,
whose
sound
truth
I
doe
suppose
might
haue
beene
entertained
with
the
best
for
his
well
deseruing
:
this
bearer
shall
informe
you
of
two
speciall
causes
concerning
my
affaires
in
the
countrie
,
whom
I
doe
pray
you
to
conferre
with
,
and
to
afford
him
your
trauell
for
his
present
dispatch
,
which
I
will
not
fail
:
heartily
to
require
vnto
you
.
For
your
care
had
of
my
wants
,
and
diligent
supply
of
such
a
one
,
I
doe
many
times
thanke
you
,
and
haue
promised
in
my selfe
to
become
a
debter
vnto
you
.
And
euen
so
I
bid
you
heartily
farewell
.
From
the
Court
this
5.
of
May
,
1628.
A
merry
Letter
to
his
friend
in
London
.
Heroicall
spirit
:
I
Haue
receiued
your
Epistle
of
alacritie
and
remaine
much
indebted
to
your
kinde
heart
for
vouchsafing
vs
poore
countrie
Swaines
so
much
of
the
labour
of
your
pen
to
deceiue
slow-footed
time
withall
:
Thankes
vnto
the
Almightie
,
I
haue
had
my
health
indifferent
well
since
my
comming
downe
onely
the
separation
of
my
second
selfe
hath
beene
a
continuall
sicknesse
vnto
me
:
to
remedie
which
I
haue
hitherto
found
out
no
better
way
then
to
call
for
a
cup
of
Rubicular
,
to
helpe
to
exhilerate
and
corroborate
my
fatigated
spirits
.
We
Ruricolars
are
verie
barren
of
anie
noueltie
worthie
the
presenting
to
your
curious
vnderstanding
,
but
doe
presume
out
of
the
bundle
of
your
affection
that
you
that
liue
at
the
wels
head
will
be
pleased
to
vouchsafe
vs
your
poore
friends
a
report
by
your
Letters
,
at
least
of
such
Exchange
newes
as
passeth
currant
amongst
you
,
which
wee
shall
take
as
a
speciall
fauour
from
you
and
studie
how
to
remunerate
We
are
at
this
present
putting
foot
into
the
stirrop
,
and
riding
some
dozen
horse
of
vs
to
a
maritine
coast
,
where
there
will
be
prouided
for
vs
all
the
rarities
for
fish
the
Sea
can
afford
,
where
I
will
not
bee
vnmindfull
to
remember
all
your
healths
in
a
full
ocean
.
In
the
meane
time
commending
my
loue
to
my
louing
sister
your
wife
,
with
your
worthie
selfe
and
all
our
friends
,
I
wish
you
all
true
happinesse
sutable
to
a
braue
disposition
,
and
will
euer
rest
,
Your
assured
l●uing
Brother
.
R.
S.
A
Letter
gratulatorie
.
Good
Mr.
P.
I
Am
yet
to
learne
the
phrase
and
method
how
to
write
to
so
beneficient
a
friend
as
your selfe
,
to
whom
I
stand
obliged
more
by
desert
then
I
can
answer
with
requitall
,
and
more
in
affection
then
I
am
able
to
merit
:
a
predicament
it
is
into
which
I
am
easilie
and
often
(
as
it
were
)
precipitated
,
and
out
of
which
to
raise
my selfe
fortune
only
hath
disabled
me
,
who
if
with
her
gifts
she
had
supplied
my
wants
,
and
giuen
me
competent
wealth
to
the
freedome
of
my
will
my
honest
heart
should
not
be
debtor
to
the
hand
of
any
,
nor
should
my
disabilitie
curbe
the
scope
of
my
affection
:
but
seeing
wishes
are
but
vaine
,
I
pray
you
accept
these
my
lines
as
tokens
of
the
remuneration
of
my
thanks
and
the
acknowledgement
of
the
loue
of
Your
humble
seruant
.
D.
P.
A
Letter
to
his
silent
friend
.
YOu
are
happily
innocent
(
dearest
friend
)
what
paine
I
am
in
,
and
with
what
vnrest
I
spend
my
irksome
daies
,
through
your
parcimoniousnesse
,
and
sparing
of
a
little
inke
and
paper
:
Is
it
not
enough
that
I
am
depriued
of
your
sight
,
but
I
must
be
also
vnsaluted
by
your
Letters
,
one
of
them
alone
doth
too
waightily
oppresse
me
with
sorrow
,
and
ouerwhelme
my
heart
with
disquietnesse
.
As
place
hath
wrought
a
separation
betweene
our
bodies
,
will
your
permit
also
that
a
few
daies
absence
shall
burie
each
others
remembrance
in
the
Lethean
waues
of
obliuion
;
oh
be
not
so
iniurious
vnto
sacred
friendship
,
which
is
the
greatest
ioy
allotted
vnto
mortall
men
in
all
the
vniuerse
:
I
haue
got
the
start
of
you
in
writing
,
but
I
hope
I
shall
not
néed
to
send
you
anie
more
expostulatorie
Letter
for
your
slacknesse
in
this
kind
.
For
the
sound
state
of
my
bodie
I
am
well
,
yet
I
cannot
be
said
to
be
perfitly
well
,
being
(
as
I
am
)
so
solicitous
for
your
welfare
,
and
so
ignorant
of
your
health
,
who
are
animae
dimidium
meae
.
Farewell
.
Animae
dimidium
tuae
.
L.
M.
The
Answer
,
excusing
his
not
writing
.
LEt
the
multitude
of
my
businesses
and
my
want
of
bodily
health
,
and
debilitie
,
plead
my
excuse
with
you
for
my
remissenesse
in
writing
.
The
drift
of
these
present
lines
is
to
apologize
for
that
I
writ
to
you
no
sooner
,
and
to
enquire
of
your
health
and
welfare
.
Compare
not
,
nor
doe
not
thinke
my
loue
as
little
as
my
writing
,
for
I
protest
vnfainedly
,
that
if
I
may
stead
you
in
any
kind
,
or
if
my
meanes
can
procure
any
thing
to
make
a
clearer
manifestation
of
my
manifold
loue
you
shall
assuredly
find
whensoeuer
any
occasion
shall
offer
it selfe
to
you
,
to
make
triall
what
great
interest
you
haue
in
me
and
my
best
affection
,
I
cease
,
euer
resting
Yours
〈◊〉
my
power
.
W.
W.
A
Letter
expostulatory
for
breach
of
promise
.
IT
had
béene
more
honestie
in
you
to
haue
giuen
mee
a
spéedie
deniall
,
then
not
to
perform
what
you
so
constantlie
promised
me
,
for
then
you
had
not
iniured
mee
,
because
you
had
not
owed
me
any
thing
.
Promise
is
debt
:
for
I
yet
hope
you
are
none
of
the
number
of
those
men
who
thinke
promises
doe
not
bind
them
vnto
performance
:
this
is
my
beleefe
of
you
yet
,
it
is
in
your
power
to
make
mee
hold
or
alter
my
opinion
.
I
onely
desire
thus
much
of
you
,
if
you
will
not
doe
me
that
good
turne
,
yet
leau●e
doing
me
iniurie
:
feed
mee
not
with
improficient
words
,
but
bid
mee
not
trust
any
longer
to
vaine
hopes
.
In
briefe
,
you
shall
much
oblige
me
by
doing
that
kindnesse
,
by
omission
thereof
you
shall
make
me
muse
at
the
lacke
of
your
fidelitie
,
and
at
your
carelessenesse
to
incurre
the
report
and
infamie
of
a
dishonest
man
.
Your
iniured
friend
.
H.
G.
To
his
friend
falne
to
pouerty
.
IF
your
weath
had
béene
the
foundation
of
my
loue
,
I
shou●d
now
cease
to
loue
,
because
you
are
no
longer
rich
,
but
should
I
now
so
erre
,
I
should
shew
my selfe
to
haue
béene
vnto
you
in
your
prosperitie
not
a
friend
,
but
(
like
vnto
the
rest
that
haue
derelinquished
you
in
your
pouertie
)
a
meere
flatterer
:
wee
sée
how
during
the
Summer
time
the
Swallowes
flocke
to
our
houses
,
we
may
obserue
how
Mice
will
be
sure
to
get
into
the
barne
that
is
replenished
with
corne
and
while
the
pot
hath
anie
honie
it
is
hard
keeping
the
flies
away
:
but
rare
is
the
friendshippe
which
fleets
not
in
the
probation
time
of
aduersitie
.
Besides
that
poore
comfort
of
aduersitie
,
pitie
,
I
lend
you
the
summe
of
twentie
pound
,
which
so
long
make
vse
of
till
Time
,
the
mother
of
of
mutations
,
encrease
your
store
with
a
proportion
able
to
make
repaiment
to
Your
friend
to
his
abilitie
.
I.
R.
A
Letter
of
a
Gentlewoman
to
a
Gentleman
with
whom
she
fell
in
loue
.
IF
euer
I
could
wish
my selfe
vnborne
(
most
worthie
sir
)
or
my
well
being
taken
from
mee
,
I
call
truth
and
my
sometimes
modestie
to
witnesse
,
it
is
now
:
not
that
I
haue
found
you
,
but
that
I
am
forced
thus
to
seeke
you
.
Call
to
mind
(
faire
,
and
I
hope
vertuous
Sir
)
some
horrid
and
violent
women
,
taken
with
the
loue
of
their
owne
fathers
,
as
was
Micah
;
or
incestuously
pursuing
their
néerest
brother
,
as
was
Biblis
:
so
my
affection
will
appeare
more
modest
,
and
my
suite
more
pardonable
:
I
dearely
loue
you
,
(
and
in
so
saying
me
thinkes
the
gods
blush
to
heare
me
,
)
who
in
the
strictest
lawes
of
desire
are
most
worthie
to
bee
loued
,
whose
vertues
might
inflame
a
Nunne
,
and
excellentest
qualities
take
the
most
retired
:
If
I
haue
(
as
I
know
too
well
I
haue
)
contrarie
to
the
nature
and
custome
of
Virgins
,
our-shot
my selfe
in
my
violent
passions
,
pardon
her
that
had
rather
die
then
make
it
knowne
,
yet
chuseth
rather
to
make
it
knowne
,
then
not
enioy
you
so
desired
,
and
farre
more
worthie
to
be
desired
.
If
you
were
acquainted
what
afflictions
I
suffer
in
my
discouery
,
yet
fearing
all
well
not
serue
,
you
will
,
I
hope
,
rather
incline
to
pitie
,
then
disdaine
:
little
will
the
death
of
a
silly
mayden
auaile
the
triumph
of
your
beautie
,
and
the
ouerthrow
of
my
credit
lesse
benefit
your
vertue
.
Raise
me
from
the
one
by
your
loue
,
&
assure
me
from
the
other
by
your
secresie
:
whilst
I
will
euer
remaine
a
most
constant
votaresse
to
all
your
perfections
,
blessing
the
parents
that
left
behind
them
such
an
issue
.
Neuer
lesse
her
owne
.
R.
D.
Althorp
.
May
22.
His
Answer
.
HOw
happie
may
I
account
my selfe
(
sweetest
of
creatures
,
and
beautifillest
of
women
)
that
hauing
bound
my selfe
in
the
search
and
pursuite
of
a
iewell
,
haue
it
now
offered
and
giuen
into
my
hands
,
farre
aboue
my
expectation
;
farre
transcending
my
hopes
;
I
accept
it
as
louingly
,
as
you
freely
bestow
it
,
and
will
account
it
no
lesse
deare
and
pertious
,
then
if
much
time
and
long
labour
had
beene
the
purchase
of
it
,
esteeming
it
a
blessing
throwne
vpon
me
,
by
the
appointment
of
the
highest
,
and
sutable
to
my
happy
desires
.
Nor
shall
I
need
to
load
my
memory
with
those
horrid
examples
,
to
giue
your
loue
a
freer
and
welcomer
passage
into
the
very
depth
of
my
loue
and
choisest
desires
:
to
loue
we
were
made
,
and
by
loue
we
are
made
:
they
onely
are
without
being
that
haue
not
the
heauenly
taste
and
enioying
of
it
,
I
onely
deny
those
excellencies
which
you
lay
to
my
vnguilty
charge
,
it
was
the
reflection
of
your
owne
worth
(
strucken
from
me
)
which
hath
Narcissus
like
so
inamoured
you
,
it
was
your
owne
image
showne
in
my
eies
,
which
hath
thus
captiuated
you
:
which
since
you
like
in
so
dim
and
dull
a
myrrour
,
I
will
cherish
,
and
make
much
of
it
onely
for
your
sake
,
that
you
may
the
perfect
lier
see
your selfe
,
and
the
more
loue
me
:
for
your
loue
,
take
all
I
am
;
for
my
secresie
,
I
will
not
breathe
it
to
my selfe
how
I
attaine
this
happinesse
,
but
liuing
and
dying
,
rest
the
true
honourer
and
admirer
of
your
worth
and
vertue
,
Yours
more
then
his
owne
.
H.
H.
A
Letter
from
a
Chapman
in
the
Country
to
a
Tradesman
in
London
.
MY
louing
and
kind
friend
M.
G.
you
haue
done
mée
much
wrong
in
detaining
the
wares
I
writ
for
:
I
haue
disappointed
some
Gentlemen
in
relying
vpon
you
,
whose
custome
hath
much
aduantaged
me
:
my
credit
I
hope
will
euer
be
aboue
that
value
:
and
my
dealing
for
much
more
yearly
betwéene
vs
might
without
other
circumstances
therein
haue
satisfied
you
:
I
must
tell
you
plaine
,
in
the
countrie
there
are
many
good
men
,
whose
estates
are
knowne
very
sufficient
,
which
cannot
raise
money
vpon
their
credit
in
an
instant
:
we
want
a
common
banke
with
vs
which
might
furnish
vs
suddenly
and
thorowly
:
Broakers
trade
not
here
,
nor
Vsurers
take
their
place
,
but
in
Summer
for
their
recreation
:
thinke
,
friend
,
me
an
honest
man
,
and
so
you
haue
much
cause
to
thinke
:
confident
in
which
,
though
my
estate
were
brittle
,
(
as
I
thanke
God
)
I
know
it
is
sure
:
you
may
be
armed
,
I
will
neuer
faile
nor
deceiue
you
.
I
roue
not
beyond
my
compasse
,
neither
make
a
sure
foundation
out
of
other
mens
ruines
,
but
content
with
a
little
leauing
a
blessing
to
my
children
,
and
a
good
memorie
amongst
my
neighbours
.
Let
me
heare
from
you
concerning
the
cause
of
this
breach
,
and
a
note
of
the
reckoning
betwéene
vs
,
which
I
will
make
euen
,
and
rather
rest
honest
then
rich
.
Septemb.
6
,
Your
true
friend
as
you
shall
vse
me
,
L.
M.
The
Answer
.
MAster
M.
truly
it
much
grieues
me
you
were
so
disappointed
,
and
the
negligence
of
my
man
went
not
away
vnpunished
,
by
whose
default
the
Carrier
went
without
them
:
beleeue
me
on
my
word
,
and
I
account
my selfe
happier
in
being
a
master
of
that
,
then
in
much
riches
,
no
fear
of
payment
,
nor
least
doubt
of
your
estate
was
any
hindrance
to
it
:
I
haue
well
knowne
you
by
others
,
and
haue
had
so
much
experience
of
you
my selfe
,
that
you
shall
sooner
want
occasion
for
wares
,
then
I
confidence
to
trust
you
:
your
neighbours
speake
much
good
of
you
,
and
all
men
that
know
you
giue
you
a
faire
report
,
which
makes
me
happie
both
in
your
custome
and
friendship
.
If
sinister
occasions
shall
any
time
happen
(
as
while
wee
are
here
they
are
incident
vnto
vs
)
I
shall
rather
pittie
your
fortunes
then
call
in
question
your
faire
dealings
.
And
know
we
are
all
men
accountable
euery
instant
for
all
our
possessions
.
The
Cartier
this
weeke
brings
those
commodities
,
and
better
and
more
vendable
you
neuer
had
of
me
;
and
I
verily
beleeue
the
Gentleman
will
thinke
themselues
happily
repaid
in
the
stay
with
the
exceeding
goodnesse
and
lastingnesse
of
the
waies
.
For
your
reckonings
at
more
leisure
I
will
peruse
and
send
them
,
in
whose
place
receiue
my
kind
commendations
,
and
entre●ty
for
my
mans
carelesnesse
,
I
bid
you
most
heartily
farewell
.
Your
friend
as
you
know
.
I.
G.
A
Letter
of
thankfulnes
for
kindnesse
shewed
to
his
Sonne
.
SIr
,
the
fauours
you
haue
already
done
me
are
of
such
effect
and
merit
,
that
I
shall
neuer
be
at
quiet
vntill
I
haue
made
some
requitall
of
them
I
am
ashamed
you
should
be
thus
continually
troubled
with
a
sonne
of
mine
,
whom
I
haue
charged
to
obey
you
in
al
things
as
my selfe
,
and
I
pray
you
doe
so
much
as
haue
a
carefull
hand
ouer
him
,
as
if
you
were
his
father
,
or
hée
your
onely
childe
:
I
kindly
and
heartily
th●nke
you
for
the
apparell
you
haue
made
him
l●●ely
which
is
decent
,
comely
,
and
profitable
,
and
the
monie
you
●aue
paid
for
him
:
you
may
accommodate
him
with
the
rest
if
you
thinke
it
fitting
:
for
my
part
I
giue
you
all
power
and
authoritie
ouer
him
,
seeing
you
are
pleased
to
take
the
trouble
vpon
you
.
So
wishing
but
to
meet
with
some
good
occasion
that
may
lie
in
my
poore
power
,
to
acknowledge
how
much
I
am
beholding
vnto
you
,
I
for
this
time
commit
you
to
the
protection
of
the
Almighty
.
Resting
Your
assured
louing
friend
,
D.
B.
The
Answer
.
MAster
B.
I
haue
receiued
your
Letter
concerning
your
son
.
Sir
,
for
any
fauour
I
can
doe
you
,
either
in
this
or
any
other
,
I
shall
be
right
willing
,
knowing
how
much
from
time
to
time
I
and
mine
are
bounden
vnto
you
.
And
assure
your selfe
it
shall
be
no
trouble
vnto
me
to
vse
the
best
of
my
counsell
and
care
ouer
him
.
For
his
apparell
,
it
will
keepe
him
warme
,
I
know
,
which
is
the
principall
thing
I
ayme
at
,
and
I
hope
pleasing
to
him
and
his
friends
.
The
other
money
I
shall
deliuer
him
as
I
shall
see
good
both
for
himselfe
to
vse
,
and
the
credit
of
you
his
father
.
Moreouer
(
Sir
)
he
is
to
me
very
dutifull
and
louing
,
by
which
he
shall
lose
nothing
in
my
care
of
his
welfare
,
and
hee
very
well
spends
his
time
at
Schoole
,
and
to
good
purpose
I
hope
;
wherein
I
doubt
not
you
shall
haue
great
comfort
.
He
behoueth
himselfe
so
well
by
his
good
demeanure
to
all
,
that
he
is
generally
beloued
of
all
my
neighbours
.
For
my
power
and
authority
ouer
him
,
I
will
imploy
my selfe
onely
for
his
good
,
and
your
fatherly
care
committed
to
me
.
And
so
with
a
thousand
commendations
I
commit
you
to
God
.
Your
friend
,
I.D.
A
Letter
to
his
Mistresse
in
the
Country
that
desired
newes
from
the
Citie
.
MOst
excellent
mistris
,
your
command
(
which
is
to
me
a
law
)
binds
me
to
obey
you
,
and
though
the
task
be
infinite
hard
to
containe
so
great
a
beast
in
so
little
paper
yet
for
your
satisfaction
,
I
will
delineate
to
life
the
proportion
of
some
of
his
members
.
It
is
newes
you
desire
,
&
beléeue
me
(
faire
one
)
since
I
came
into
the
Citie
,
I
haue
not
seene
or
heard
any
thing
old
;
euen
from
the
Capitoll
,
to
the
Cottage
,
all
things
are
in
their
new
garments
,
the
Court
hath
new
fauourites
,
the
Citie
a
new
Senate
,
and
the
Common-wealth
new
officers
:
the
first
are
as
great
as
good
,
the
second
are
as
rich
as
wise
,
and
the
third
as
awefull
as
iust
:
Men
are
new
,
for
where
they
should
loue
they
feare
,
women
are
new
,
for
where
they
should
honor
they
subdue
,
and
children
are
new
,
for
where
they
should
reuerence
they
astonish
,
Customes
and
manners
are
new
,
for
the
poore
daily
féed
the
rich
,
the
rich
cozen
the
great
,
and
the
great
make
fooles
of
the
good
ones
.
The
fashions
though
they
were
neuer
old
,
are
now
newer
then
euer
,
for
in
man
and
woman
there
is
not
a
point
to
chuse
betwixt
the
sexes
,
the
one
hath
descended
so
much
downward
,
and
the
other
ascended
so
much
vpward
,
that
met
in
one
circle
they
are
both
now
trussed
vp
together
without
difference
:
Apparell
that
was
made
to
couer
,
is
now
made
to
discouer
folly
and
lewdnesse
,
and
they
are
finest
that
are
nearest
to
the
naked
Anatomie
:
Discourse
is
new
,
for
wise
men
talke
of
their
wealth
,
learned
men
of
their
deceit
,
and
great
men
of
vanitie
,
Old
men
like
old
Wolues
boast
of
their
preyes
past
,
middle
age
like
Lyons
talke
of
that
which
is
in
their
powers
,
and
children
like
dogs
barke
of
the
reuenges
which
shall
be
:
Our
Citizens
like
Asses
are
proud
of
rich
burthens
,
and
like
Apes
,
ioy
in
pyde
trapping
,
and
our
gallants
like
Béere-brewers
horses
bragge
how
much
drinke
they
can
carrie
.
To
conclude
,
all
things
are
so
new
,
that
euen
vertue
her selfe
is
despised
in
old
garments
,
and
hée
that
kéepeth
any
phrase
of
his
forefathers
,
is
but
a
rude
speaker
,
for
to
say
Hic
mulier
,
is
now
the
purest
and
truest
Latine
.
Thus
(
my
deare
Mistresse
)
you
haue
the
newest
Newes
of
the
season
,
which
I
write
rather
to
keepe
you
in
your
old
way
of
vertue
,
then
to
lose
your selfe
in
the
folly
of
imitation
,
I
know
your
goodnesse
,
and
how
true
a
rewarder
it
is
of
its
owne
merits
,
relie
vpon
it
euer
,
it
will
make
your
end
happy
,
and
my
life
fortunate
,
that
am
the
seruant
of
so
great
a
perfection
.
T.W.
Her
Answer
.
YOu
haue
sent
me
(
worthy
seruant
)
my
desire
backe
with
so
great
an
interest
,
that
I
stand
two
wayes
fearfull
how
to
receiue
it
,
either
to
incurre
the
suspition
of
too
greedy
an
inquiry
,
or
the
enuy
of
a
weake
nature
,
that
is
pleased
with
detraction
:
from
both
which
I
am
free
,
in
as
much
as
my
ayme
is
held
within
the
leuell
of
modesty
.
I
confesse
,
the
parts
you
haue
giuen
mee
may
belong
to
a
beast
,
or
rathers
Monster
,
for
the
shape
hath
little
proportion
:
yet
I
haue
heard
of
excellent
Painters
which
haue
made
curious
peeces
of
perspectiue
,
that
beheld
with
a
liberall
eye
on
the
plaine
Table
,
hath
appeared
vgly
and
most
deformed
,
but
the
sight
straitned
and
drawne
into
a
more
seuere
and
narrow
compasse
it
hath
beene
beautifull
,
and
in
the
glory
of
the
best
perfection
:
such
,
I
feare
,
was
the
picture
from
whom
you
tooke
your
copie
,
and
looking
vpon
it
the
wrong
way
,
you
saw
the
lines
,
but
not
the
beautie
.
I
doe
confesse
,
the
world
is
olde
,
yet
not
so
olde
but
it
may
continue
to
weare
out
many
new
garments
.
Age
makes
it
subiect
to
sicknesse
and
infirmitie
,
and
what
better
defence
then
warme
and
sound
cloathing
?
Sicknesse
brings
corruption
,
and
ill
sauours
,
what
better
preuention
then
much
shift
and
many
new
things
?
so
that
I
conclude
,
these
nouelties
which
you
dislike
are
but
to
cure
something
in
the
world
that
is
vnwholesome
.
Againe
,
I
haue
seene
an
Italian
Comely
,
consisting
of
a
louer
,
a
woman
,
a
zany
or
foole
,
and
a
deuill
;
and
to
it
I
may
fashion
the
world
,
for
that
the
stage
,
the
people
the
actors
,
each
degree
haue
their
zanie
and
their
deuill
;
Now
if
the
zany
will
steale
his
masters
apparell
,
and
make
betweene
vice
and
vertue
no
difference
,
blame
not
the
discretion
of
the
master
,
if
it
deuise
new
fashions
,
till
either
the
foolish
zany
be
tyred
,
or
the
deuill
for
his
pride
fetch
him
away
,
and
conclude
the
enterlude
.
This
(
my
best
seruant
)
you
may
apply
at
your
pleasure
,
for
mine
innocence
hath
taught
me
that
charitie
,
not
to
accuse
any
of
that
crime
I
would
not
my selfe
be
guiltie
;
nor
is
my
defence
an
argument
to
draw
on
your
silence
,
but
rather
a
motiue
to
make
you
more
liberall
,
in
bestowing
on
me
the
rest
of
your
collections
;
in
which
doubt
not
my
constancy
,
since
no
inchantments
can
make
mee
forget
to
preserue
my selfe
euer
worthy
to
be
your
Mistris
.
M.
S.
A
wooing
and
comfortable
letter
to
a
noble
widow
that
had
newly
lost
her
husdand
.
THough
(
my
noble
Widow
)
I
am
the
last
that
send
you
comfort
,
yet
was
I
the
first
that
felt
your
anguish
,
and
will
be
the
readrest
of
all
men
to
serue
you
in
your
trouble
:
you
haue
lost
a
dearly
desired
husband
,
and
sound
an
infinit
way
to
griefe
,
the
one
is
the
act
of
Fate
,
and
cannot
be
preuented
,
the
other
is
the
worke
of
Nature
,
and
by
wisdome
must
be
corrected
:
Remember
(
faire
Widow
)
who
is
gone
(
a
good
man
)
to
whom
he
is
gone
(
to
a
good
God
,
)
and
from
whom
(
from
a
wicked
World
,
and
worse
people
)
and
you
shall
find
more
cause
to
praise
heauen
for
his
happines
then
to
murmure
for
your
losse
of
comfort
;
a
good
man
dies
to
liue
,
there
s
your
ioy
,
an
ill
man
liues
to
die
,
there
s
true
anguish
:
the
ioyes
of
mariage
should
bee
writ
in
Table-bookes
,
not
vpon
paper
,
that
Widowes
might
blot
and
rubbe
out
the
writing
,
for
they
ought
not
to
remember
the
delights
past
,
but
to
meditate
on
pleasures
to
come
,
not
to
marrie
for
eternity
,
but
during
the
will
of
heauen
,
neither
haue
you
lost
any
thing
,
for
hée
was
but
a
treasure
lent
you
,
and
to
grieue
at
the
repayment
were
to
wrong
your
goodnesse
with
ingratitude
.
Beleeue
mée
Madam
,
were
your
cure
in
my
hands
,
as
your
griefe
is
at
my
heart
,
neither
should
your
anguish
hurt
you
,
nor
the
memory
of
your
losse
suruiue
a
moment
,
but
it
is
in
heauen
,
and
your
wisedome
,
couple
them
together
by
yeelding
to
prouidence
,
and
you
shall
sée
your
comforts
flow
vpon
you
in
a
new
tyde
,
you
haue
reputed
mée
your
friend
,
and
shap'd
your
best
actions
by
my
counsels
,
you
were
neuer
more
weake
then
now
because
alone
,
nor
did
you
euer
stand
in
more
néed
,
because
many
assaults
are
prepared
against
you
,
to
kéepe
you
then
in
perfect
safetie
,
please
you
make
mée
of
a
tryed
friend
,
a
true
husband
,
of
a
faithfull
counseller
,
a
profitabe
Ruler
,
and
of
an
able
helpe
a
deuout
seruant
,
I
doubt
not
but
you
shall
finde
that
armor
aganst
all
necessities
.
which
shall
both
guard
you
against
iniuries
,
and
bring
you
much
honour
,
my
character
you
know
best
,
for
I
am
no
stranger
,
and
my
zeale
you
may
iudge
by
my
former
seruices
,
if
they
appeare
faultlesse
before
you
,
there
will
bée
no
let
but
ceremonie
,
which
to
countenance
against
vertue
,
were
to
bee
guiltie
of
soule
superstition
:
you
are
wise
,
and
that
wisedome
I
make
my
aduocate
,
if
he
approue
me
worthy
to
be
yours
,
my
faith
shall
make
me
your
truest
seruant
among
the
liuing
.
F.
R.
Her
Answer
.
SIr
,
had
the
comforts
you
sent
me
comne
in
a
true
wedding
garment
,
pure
and
of
one
intire
stuffe
:
I
could
not
haue
chosen
but
receiued
it
as
the
rest
of
your
chaste
counsels
,
and
feasted
on
it
with
my
daily
meditation
,
but
being
so
disorderly
patcht
,
I
can
neither
beleeue
it
is
yours
,
nor
affect
that
which
is
so
vncomely
,
you
haue
sent
me
delicate
gilt
pills
,
where
though
the
gold
be
more
then
the
poison
,
yet
is
this
poison
enough
to
confound
;
therefore
as
much
as
with
safetie
I
may
retaine
(
for
your
ancient
friendshippe
)
I
will
keepe
and
studie
,
the
rest
pardon
me
to
returne
you
,
not
out
of
malice
to
your
wish
,
but
griefe
at
your
folly
,
you
haue
told
me
so
well
the
excellency
of
my
losse
,
that
it
were
madnesse
in
me
to
runne
into
a
second
hazard
,
and
how
euer
you
would
take
from
widowes
,
the
blisse
of
remembrance
,
yet
deare
Sir
know
that
I
can
neuer
forget
this
maxime
,
that
the
death
of
a
good
husband
ought
not
to
take
away
the
loue
of
a
chaste
wife
.
To
conclude
,
what
you
desire
is
not
in
my
power
to
grant
,
for
all
my
loue
I
haue
sent
with
him
to
the
graue
,
whom
I
haue
lost
,
&
to
hold
me
without
that
portion
,
were
to
grasp
a
cloud
that
would
bring
froth
a
Centaure
;
yet
from
thence
should
either
Fate
,
or
my
follies
deliuer
it
,
I
could
not
finde
any
more
worthy
then
your selfe
to
keepe
it
;
but
the
first
is
too
constant
,
and
the
latter
I
hope
shall
neuer
so
farre
rule
in
me
:
Therefore
being
as
you
were
a
chast
counseller
,
and
no
seducer
,
you
shall
finde
mee
as
you
haue
done
a
faithfull
Cabinet
full
of
your
goodnesse
.
E.
L.
Another
to
the
same
purpose
.
Much
honoured
Mistris
.
THe
neuer-ceasing
streame
of
your
gratious
kindnesses
,
hath
by
the
often
thinking
on
their
due
deseruings
profoundly
imbosomed
themselues
in
my
gratefull
affection
,
which
no
course
of
tedious
time
can
extenuate
,
nor
the
longest
absence
by
distance
haue
power
to
diminish
But
oh
most
kinde
meriter
of
all
respect
,
whose
good
will
I
estimate
as
my
greatest
enrichment
,
although
the
condigne
requitall
of
such
your
rare
courtesies
lye
not
in
the
compasse
and
precinct
of
my
poore
power
,
whose
tenuity
is
not
able
to
pay
such
and
exceeding
tribute
:
yet
how
willing
my
mind
is
,
and
how
inextinguishable
my
desires
,
this
illiterate
Epistle
will
testifie
,
which
deuoid
of
elegancies
,
yet
full
fraught
with
the
vnfeigned
profession
of
my
loue
promiseth
the
imployment
of
my
vttermost
powers
in
all
seruiceable
endeauors
,
if
all
that
I
can
doe
may
but
defray
one
mi●e
of
your
inualuable
courtesies
Command
my
seruice
,
there
is
not
any
thing
so
great
that
I
will
shrinke
,
or
so
small
that
〈◊〉
will
disdaine
to
effectuate
for
your
sake
,
hauing
vowed
to
dye
before
any
word
issuing
from
your
lips
shall
come
in
vaine
.
But
least
I
should
detract
too
much
time
from
your
more
serious
affaires
,
in
all
humility
I
take
my
leaue
.
Yours
vnfainedly
.
P.Q.
Her
Answer
.
THough
I
am
far
from
vanity
to
esteeme
my selfe
worthey
of
the
style
of
beauty
,
yet
I
see
not
how
to
excuse
your
sinister
opinion
,
that
would
thereto
annexe
so
great
an
inconuenience
:
for
it
seemes
(
if
things
might
be
ordered
by
your
mind
)
you
would
haue
beauty
and
loue
to
be
inseparable
companions
:
oh
grosse
!
oh
absurd
wish
,
and
most
execrable
position
against
beauty
and
loue
!
Then
any
vitious
,
deformed
or
beggerly
creature
,
being
but
conducted
by
good
fortune
to
the
view
of
some
rare
Virgin
,
this
vnworthinesse
must
not
onely
be
entertained
,
but
hee
that
rather
deseru●d
to
be
hissed
away
with
disdaine
,
must
straight
bee
made
the
owner
and
Lord
of
her
loue
:
Nor
shall
it
be
in
her
power
to
giue
a
repulse
to
the
presumption
of
ind●g●e●u●ers
,
or
to
make
●●ee
election
of
a
deseruing
personage
,
to
honour
him
with
her
gracious
fauour
.
But
I
hope
sir
,
being
thus
clearly
conuinced
,
you
will
confesse
and
make
recantation
of
your
error
,
I
rest
as
I
haue
reason
.
Yours
not
to
vse
,
S.
M.
A
Letter
of
discontent
after
the
falling
out
of
Louers
.
Most
discourteous
and
painted
friend
:
IT
is
the
custome
of
Louers
after
the
breach
of
their
league
and
amitie
,
to
send
backe
those
gratuities
which
formerly
passed
as
tokens
of
their
naturall
affections
:
you
haue
taken
vp
the
fashion
,
and
beléeue
mee
I
abhorre
any
longer
to
haue
nearnesse
with
one
of
your
qualification
,
who
for
méere
trifles
can
dissolue
the
knot
of
friendship
,
and
shake
hands
with
familiarity
.
For
know
that
your
memorie
which
was
sometime
deare
in
my
thoughts
,
is
now
abhorred
,
seeing
that
the
firmnesse
and
stability
of
affection
(
then
which
there
is
nothing
ought
by
men
more
religiously
to
be
obserued
)
you
haue
so
causelesly
brought
to
annihilation
.
I
may
parallel
my
present
condition
to
the
state
of
the
Sunne
when
pitchy
clouds
which
enuironing
him
round
about
,
séeme
to
extinguish
his
splendor
,
but
time
the
perfecter
of
all
terrestriall
things
,
may
in
due
season
impart
a
luster
correspondent
to
my
hopes
,
and
sutable
to
my
disposition
:
till
when
I
will
scorne
the
blasts
of
aduersity
,
and
dead
all
those
who
hauing
little
or
no
merits
,
are
endowed
by
the
dispensation
of
the
owly-eyd
goddesse
Fortune
with
large
possessions
:
howsoeuer
if
I
can
find
no
better
to
conuerse
and
spend
my
time
withall
then
your selfe
,
I
will
turne
Momus
and
for
euer
hate
the
society
of
men
:
but
hauing
a
better
opinion
of
the
generality
,
for
your
part
I
cashiere
you
with
this
Vltimum
vale
,
and
rest
,
A
stranger
.
A
B.
To
his
angry
Mistris
.
AS
the
declining
of
the
Sunne
brings
a
generall
darknesse
and
discomfort
,
so
the
deficiencie
and
absence
of
your
shining
and
glorious
fauours
hath
ouercouered
mee
with
clouds
of
care
.
But
as
the
Suns
heauenly
essence
by
the
course
of
Nature
is
daily
reuiued
,
so
here
I
humbly
sue
that
your
wonted
gracious
aspect
may
returne
in
your
countenance
,
to
solace
the
dolefull
heart
of
your
seruant
with
vicissitude
of
long
intermitted
alacrity
,
it
will
redound
to
your
great
commendation
,
when
the
world
shall
vnderstand
that
your
heart
is
of
waxe
,
not
inexorable
and
of
a
flinty
and
adamantine
constitution
,
hoping
that
you
will
be
as
ready
compassionatly
to
grant
as
I
doe
submissiuely
implore
the
renouation
of
your
loue
,
I
rest
,
Yours
in
vnutterable
affection
.
R.
S.
A
Letter
from
an
At
prentice
in
London
,
to
his
father
in
the
Country
.
MY
humble
dutie
remembred
good
father
vnto
you
and
my
mother
.
Hauing
the
opportunitie
of
this
bearer
,
I
thought
good
to
certifie
you
of
my
present
being
,
giuing
you
to
vnderstand
that
I
am
,
I
thanke
God
,
and
you
,
in
good
health
,
and
very
well
placed
here
in
London
,
where
I
am
in
hope
to
continue
my
here
being
to
some
profitable
and
good
purpose
:
My
Master
vseth
me
in
good
sort
,
and
I
want
nothing
that
appertained
to
such
a
one
as
my selfe
.
I
trust
you
shall
haue
ioy
of
me
,
and
ere
a
few
yeares
passe
,
I
doubt
not
but
so
to
be
haue
my selfe
that
I
shall
well
deserue
this
good
liking
that
already
I
haue
of
my
master
,
and
further
credit
at
his
hands
and
employment
about
his
businesse
I
hope
you
and
my
mother
;
and
all
our
friends
in
the
countrie
are
in
good
health
.
I
pray
you
that
you
will
write
vnto
my
master
as
occasion
serueth
,
and
thanke
him
for
his
good
vsage
:
and
if
you
can
to
remember
him
with
some
good
conuenient
token
from
the
countrie
.
Thus
desiring
your
daily
blessings
,
and
with
a
recommendation
of
my
humble
dutie
vnto
you
both
,
I
take
my
leaue
:
Your
louing
and
obedient
son
to
command
,
D.
P.
London
.
A
Letter
from
a
husband
to
his
wife
.
GOod
wife
,
considering
my
hastie
departure
from
you
,
and
my
children
,
my
hope
is
that
you
will
haue
that
louing
and
respectiue
care
towards
them
and
your
family
that
appertaineth
.
I
haue
left
manie
things
raw
by
reason
of
the
suddennesse
of
my
iourney
,
which
standeth
vpon
your
good
regard
to
be
ordered
,
as
namely
the
charge
of
my
seruants
,
and
the
disposition
of
some
other
affaires
and
businesses
.
You
shall
now
shew
your selfe
a
discréet
and
carefull
wife
,
if
in
my
absence
you
will
take
vpon
you
to
bée
in
my
place
.
Regard
and
consider
with
your selfe
,
that
seruants
are
negligent
and
carelesse
,
and
if
the
master
forget
his
owne
profit
,
they
are
as
readie
as
others
to
share
with
his
gaines
Your
painfull
attendance
to
oure-looke
them
,
shall
straine
their
labours
to
my
vsing
,
your
desire
to
see
to
them
,
shall
worke
their
vsing
to
my
well
deseruing
.
You
must
now
a
little
forget
neighbourhood
,
and
walking
for
companie
,
considering
the
old
prouerbe
,
that
when
the
Cat
is
a
way
,
the
Mouse
will
goe
play
:
If
Master
and
Dame
haue
both
continued
absence
,
seruants
fall
a
wasting
,
and
doe
what
they
list
.
You
know
good
wife
,
I
haue
now
taken
a
great
charge
of
late
vpon
me
,
which
with
some
carefull
lookeing
to
may
turne
to
good
.
Let
it
not
be
greuous
vnto
you
,
nor
thinke
it
hard
that
I
thus
make
you
partaker
of
my
charge
,
as
I
doe
of
my
profit
,
for
we
are
yoake-fellowes
you
know
,
and
the
charge
is
equall
betwixt
vs
both
to
be
borne
and
supported
.
If
as
louing
mates
and
fellowes
we
draw
forth
together
,
we
shall
by
Gods
blessed
goodnesse
see
the
fruits
of
our
labours
:
our
children
shall
participate
with
vs
of
our
trauells
,
and
God
shall
prosper
our
endeauors
.
And
howbeit
good
wife
I
haue
euer
found
you
such
,
as
of
whose
care
of
my
well
doing
I
néede
haue
no
doubt
,
yet
if
by
the
importance
of
my
charge
I
be
driuen
to
write
thus
much
vnto
you
,
thinke
that
in
greate
trust
of
your
modestie
,
respect
of
your
loue
,
and
zeale
to
both
our
goods
I
haue
done
the
same
.
And
though
no
distrust
remaine
of
any
one
about
mée
,
yet
doe
I
put
you
in
mind
what
youth
by
too
much
sufferance
and
giuing
of
libertie
may
be
inclined
to
.
This
is
all
I
would
,
and
so
much
I
hope
as
you
gladly
will
yeeld
vnto
.
Commend
mee
many
times
vnto
yourselfe
.
Kisse
my
little
ones
,
and
remember
me
,
and
commend
my
loue
to
all
our
friends
From
Rye
the
3
of
Febr.
1628.
Your
assured
louing
husband
.
F.
G.
Her
Answer
.
GOod
husband
,
I
am
glad
you
haue
at
last
remembred
your selfe
by
this
bearer
to
write
vnto
mee
,
that
haue
thought
it
very
long
vntill
I
heard
from
you
.
I
doe
greatly
reioyce
at
the
good
and
prosperous
successe
,
of
your
iourney
,
and
chiefly
,
that
you
haue
endured
your
trauell
so
well
,
being
in
so
good
plight
and
streng●h
of
body
,
as
I
vnderstand
you
are
by
your
Letter
.
Wee
are
much
beholden
vnto
our
good
friends
in
the
country
that
haue
giuen
you
so
great
and
good
entertainment
:
and
I
pray
you
heartily
commend
me
vnto
them
.
Your
businesse
here
goeth
very
well
,
and
your
seruants
both
dutifull
and
diligent
about
their
affaires
,
and
we
haue
no
want
but
your
presence
,
which
if
you
would
hasten
hitherward
,
it
were
a
comfort
vnto
vs
all
to
see
you
,
hauing
beene
as
to
me
it
seemeth
,
very
long
absent
.
But
Master
Prince
,
and
his
friends
where
you
are
,
vseth
you
so
kindly
,
that
I
thinke
you
cannot
well
tell
how
to
winde
your selfe
out
from
your
good
company
.
Yet
good
husband
remember
that
at
last
you
must
come
home
,
and
the
sooner
the
better
.
I
referre
all
to
your
good
discretion
:
and
so
commend
mee
most
heartily
vnto
you
.
From
London
.
Your
euer
louing
and
loyall
Wife
.
R.G.
A
Letter
from
one
kinsman
to
another
in
London
or
any
other
place
.
MY
good
Cousin
,
I
am
glad
to
heare
of
your
good
preferment
in
London
,
and
that
as
I
heare
by
your
father
and
mother
,
you
are
so
well
placed
there
,
and
with
so
good
a
Master
.
It
is
no
little
comfort
to
mée
to
vnderstand
that
you
doe
so
resolutely
and
with
so
good
a
minde
dispose
your selfe
to
your
businesse
,
which
I
gladly
wish
you
would
continue
.
You
must
now
remember
,
that
your
friends
with
great
care
,
charge
,
and
industrie
haue
brought
you
vp
,
and
that
their
intent
and
meaning
therein
was
,
that
in
expectation
thereof
they
should
haue
ioy
and
comfort
of
you
in
your
elder
yeares
:
for
which
as
you
haue
now
bequeathed
your selfe
to
this
place
of
seruice
,
so
must
you
for
any
feare
of
hard
vsage
,
bitternes
of
speech
,
or
other
mislike
of
taunts
or
rebukes
,
make
a
account
to
endure
and
continue
.
It
may
be
,
being
yet
vnacquainted
with
the
customes
and
vsage
of
London
,
you
doe
now
thinke
well
of
that
which
hereafter
may
turne
to
discontentment
.
But
good
cozen
so
be
it
,
you
haue
no
want
of
things
néedfull
and
necessarie
,
frame
your selfe
to
forbeare
all
those
crosse
matters
whatsoeuer
,
and
giue
your selfe
wholly
on
Gods
name
,
to
the
benefit
of
your
seruice
,
you
shall
therein
want
no
helpe
,
furtherance
or
incouragement
on
my
part
,
and
if
you
performe
it
well
and
honestly
,
you
shall
not
want
when
time
serueth
for
an
hundred
pounds
or
two
,
if
in
the
meane
space
I
may
sée
your
good
care
of
your
masters
businesse
,
and
please
your
mistris
,
for
therein
you
shall
the
better
please
your
master
.
Your
friends
are
all
well
,
who
reioycing
in
that
alreadie
they
sée
you
so
well
behaued
,
doe
daily
pray
to
God
to
prosper
and
blesse
you
:
and
thus
with
my
heartie
commendations
I
bid
you
farewell
.
Farndon
this
18
of
May
1628.
Your
louing
kinsman
,
B.
C.
A
Letter
to
request
the
borrowing
of
an
hundred
pounds
.
SIr
,
I
am
bold
in
my
great
necessitie
,
vnder
assurance
of
your
forwardnesse
to
doe
mée
good
,
to
intreat
your
speciall
aide
and
furtherance
in
two
●hings
,
the
one
whereof
is
to
lend
me
of
your
wonted
fauour
one
hundred
pounds
,
the
other
this
bearer
shall
instruct
you
in
,
both
which
consist
in
your
kinde
and
friendly
care
of
my
well
doing
,
I
am
of
opinion
none
other
then
your selfe
can
fit
the
occasion
,
better
.
And
truly
such
is
the
force
of
imprisonment
,
as
contrarie
to
that
you
haue
wontedly
knowne
in
me
,
my
vnderstanding
is
quite
decayed
,
and
sore
worne
with
want
of
libertie
,
and
where
the
spirits
are
so
distuned
,
it
must
néeds
follow
,
the
memorie
must
néeds
sound
nothing
but
discord
.
In
fine
,
Sir
,
it
is
in
you
to
doe
mée
good
,
and
to
make
me
by
this
onely
action
for
euer
beholden
vnto
you
,
wherein
if
I
may
so
far
forth
presume
of
your
fidelitie
assure
your selfe
if
euer
God
giue
me
libertie
,
to
none
so
much
as
you
shall
I
be
yoked
in
courtesie
Good
master
●
.
A.
the
matter
hereof
requireth
some
haste
,
whereto
I
must
heartily
intreat
you
faile
me
not
.
Fare
yee
well
this
18
of
December
.
1628.
Your
imprisoned
friend
,
I.
S.
The
Answer
.
GOod
Master
I.
S.
needlesse
it
were
you
should
intreat
me
in
that
wherein
you
haue
found
me
most
willing
,
and
such
whom
with
small
perswasion
you
may
induce
to
a
farre
greater
purpose
then
what
in
you
last
letter
is
required
;
the
messenger
I
haue
appointed
to
returne
againe
to
my
chamber
to
morrow
morning
,
at
which
time
I
will
not
faile
to
send
you
your
desired
summe
:
for
the
other
,
hard
will
it
be
for
me
to
accomplish
that
wherein
your selfe
seeme
so
vnperfect
,
for
that
the
dullest
conceit
forged
from
the
most
distempered
of
your
imaginations
,
cannot
but
sound
far
better
tunes
then
the
ripest
of
my
inuentions
any
way
are
able
to
deliuer
.
Neuerthelesse
such
as
it
is
,
or
(
by
dislike
of
your
owne
)
you
haue
will
to
account
of
,
that
will
I
prepare
to
your
view
,
and
put
forward
to
your
good
speed
,
thinking
it
better
by
the
deliuery
of
a
grosse
deuice
to
satisfie
the
demand
of
a
friend
,
then
by
the
concealing
the
simplicity
thereof
,
to
be
consured
vncourteous
.
In
conclusion
,
it
is
lawfull
for
you
to
vse
me
to
the
vttermost
,
and
fittest
to
your
conformed
league
of
amitie
,
that
(
in
whatsoeuer
)
you
should
imploy
me
,
wherein
I
desire
you
conceiue
no
more
then
such
as
I
intend
to
become
,
and
you
shall
assuredly
finde
me
,
Your
faithfull
friend
.
I.P.
A
Letter
to
his
friend
for
breach
of
promise
.
MAster
Iackson
,
I
haue
abstained
hitherto
to
come
or
send
vnto
you
,
partly
being
wearied
with
importunitie
,
for
that
I
thought
,
now
two
moneths
being
passed
,
I
might
in
this
space
haue
found
a
time
conuenient
wherein
to
haue
ended
with
you
.
Hauing
taken
this
cause
in
hand
,
I
would
(
as
in
good
reason
I
thought
it
fit
)
you
should
determine
with
me
vpon
some
conclusions
whereon
to
rest
assured
,
I
might
thenceforth
know
where
to
trust
,
and
neither
waste
labour
in
comming
to
so
small
purpose
,
nor
hinder
my
certaine
businesse
by
the
vnsteadie
stay
of
your
affaires
,
as
alreadie
I
haue
done
.
Wée
haue
talked
many
times
,
and
set
downe
certaine
limits
,
but
to
slender
effect
,
as
I
neither
know
when
to
demand
,
nor
you
how
to
satisfie
.
So
that
depending
vpon
shadowes
,
I
haue
passed
my
time
to
samll
benefit
,
and
you
haue
gone
forward
to
little
purpose
.
I
doe
pray
you
therefore
that
such
meaning
may
assure
vs
,
as
alreadie
betwéene
vs
hath
beene
performed
.
To
delay
me
thus
with
nifles
,
as
I
thinke
is
farre
from
a
Gentleman
,
so
doe
I
suppose
you
not
intend
it
,
considering
how
many
waies
thereby
I
am
and
shall
bée
hindred
.
This
therefore
may
be
the
certaine
meanes
to
satisfie
vs
both
,
that
you
will
(
as
on
Friday
last
you
promised
)
come
and
see
the
agréement
betwéene
vs
performed
,
whereof
so
I
pray
you
aduertise
your
full
resolution
by
this
bearer
.
And
so
I
bid
you
heartily
farewell
.
Your
euer
assured
louing
friend
,
W.
M.
Arthingworth
.
May
7.
1628.
The
Answer
.
GOod
master
W.
M.
my
breach
of
promise
in
not
hauing
visited
you
with
deserued
requitall
sithence
my
departure
,
may
breed
suspition
and
doubt
of
vnthankfulnes
,
but
I
hope
,
and
by
hope
presume
,
that
of
your
owne
good
disposition
towards
all
your
acquaintance
,
you
will
yeeld
vnto
an
approued
tryall
before
you
condemne
.
For
my
part
,
if
I
should
not
owe
vnto
you
all
honest
minde
and
fidelity
,
I
should
much
contrary
your
great
courtesie
,
and
deseruedly
incurre
the
shame
of
ingratitude
.
You
know
that
hauing
strayed
as
I
haue
done
out
of
the
limits
of
a
controuled
rule
,
and
displeased
so
much
thereby
,
as
my
case
hath
bewrayed
vnto
you
,
those
whom
by
nature
and
duty
I
ought
to
be
awed
vnto
,
It
is
reason
that
by
a
more
district
obseruance
I
make
amends
for
the
residue
.
The
day
appointed
I
will
not
faile
to
meet
to
view
the
writings
,
and
to
make
some
conclusion
to
your
best
satisfaction
.
Wherein
you
shall
perceiue
the
honest
minde
of
a
Gentleman
.
My
father
it
seemeth
,
though
not
yet
by
me
,
hath
otherwise
vnderstood
how
much
I
stand
yoaked
(
in
all
friendly
league
of
amity
)
vnto
you
,
and
thinketh
himselfe
for
all
his
sons
vnthriftinesse
somewhat
therin
to
be
tyed
vnto
you
.
His
meaning
is
,
one
of
these
dayes
to
intreat
your
paines
hitherward
.
But
howeuer
deserts
be
noted
,
or
care
by
nature
doth
binde
,
assure
your selfe
,
whilest
life
leadeth
a
long
this
earthly
coarse
,
I
am
and
will
be
also
yours
most
vnfainedly
and
in
most
intirely
.
To
whom
and
to
your
good
bedfellow
,
I
most
heartily
and
often
commend
me
:
From
Thindon
.
Iune
28.
1628.
Remaining
your
much
bounden
friend
in
all
good
affection
,
I.
R.
To
his
friend
a
Mercer
.
DEare
sir
,
many
salutations
,
&c.
As
my
occasions
fall
out
I
still
presume
to
trouble
you
,
grounding
my
boldnesse
vpon
the
hope
of
your
loue
and
good
will
,
I
request
you
to
send
me
as
much
black
Sattin
as
will
make
me
a
sute
.
I
am
your
debtor
alreadie
,
besides
in
good
will
and
loue
,
a
small
summe
,
which
for
that
it
hath
beene
long
detained
,
you
may
coniecture
it
to
bée
desperate
:
yet
on
my
credit
it
is
as
sure
as
any
money
in
your
purse
:
My
intent
being
honest
,
but
my
store
not
such
as
at
this
time
I
can
satisfie
:
next
Terme
I
expect
the
plenty
of
my
purse
will
be
so
profuse
,
that
God
permitting
without
faile
for
these
and
the
old
debt
you
shall
be
fully
discharged
.
Acknowledging
my selfe
beholding
,
I
rest
Your
thankfull
friend
,
R.
G.
A
Letter
to
an
vnfaithfull
friend
.
SIr
,
I
haue
euer
béene
so
loth
to
thinke
ill
of
you
,
that
I
scarce
allow
mine
owne
witnesse
against
you
,
or
those
strong
presumptions
that
make
mée
thinke
you
meane
to
kéepe
no
promises
nor
no
friends
:
If
you
will
needs
haue
it
so
,
let
our
acquaintance
now
grow
sickly
,
and
die
priuately
,
lest
I
be
blamed
for
trusting
,
and
you
for
deceiuing
so
great
a
trust
.
For
since
our
loue
is
grown
into
so
desperate
a
Lethargie
,
I
will
not
wake
it
,
for
I
had
rather
it
should
passe
away
in
a
trance
,
and
the
remembrance
thereof
neuer
hereafter
to
be
mentioned
.
What
your
friendship
was
I
cannot
tell
,
but
I
am
assured
to
the
view
it
was
fit
for
greater
courtesies
then
I
required
:
what
mine
owne
was
iudge
when
you
haue
most
néed
of
a
friend
.
Neither
will
I
tell
you
what
a
sea
of
misfortune
your
breach
of
promises
hath
let
in
vpon
mée
:
but
I
le
bid
you
now
and
euer
farewell
,
and
with
my
letter
conclude
all
rites
of
loue
betwixt
you
and
me
,
and
rest
No
longer
your
friend
.
I.
B.
A
Letter
for
admittance
into
seruice
.
HOnourable
sir
:
I
haue
euer
béene
so
addicted
to
follow
you
,
that
in
mine
owne
opinion
I
am
an
old
retainer
of
yours
:
so
I
am
within
a
degrée
of
a
houshold
seruant
,
which
is
all
the
promotion
that
by
the
intercession
of
this
Letter
I
striue
to
come
to
.
But
I
sée
so
many
steps
directed
that
way
,
that
I
may
perhaps
come
too
late
,
yet
I
hope
your
number
is
not
full
,
though
it
be
great
,
and
I
supposse
all
are
not
inuited
that
goe
:
but
some
intrude
.
I
will
take
it
for
extreame
bounty
to
bée
admitted
within
your
gates
:
what
I
doe
is
prest
by
no
necessity
,
but
to
saue
my
longing
,
and
to
satisfie
my
desires
,
which
a
far
off
haue
euer
serued
you
Once
I
thought
to
haue
moued
this
suit
by
friends
,
but
that
way
I
was
afraid
it
might
miscary
:
and
I
was
not
verie
willing
it
should
succeed
,
being
loth
to
intangle
my selfe
in
obligations
,
to
other
men
,
when
I
was
to
passe
my selfe
ouer
vnto
you
,
so
I
thought
best
to
write
,
for
to
speake
had
béene
too
bold
.
So
in
hope
at
the
least
of
a
pardon
,
I
rest
as
far
as
in
me
lies
,
Your
humble
seruant
,
B.
I.
To
his
loue
vpon
a
long
and
fruitlesse
affection
.
IT
is
the
propertie
of
none
but
of
a
faint-hearted
souldier
for
receiuing
a
repulse
or
two
to
retire
from
assault
,
and
to
giue
ouer
his
enterprise
:
when
euerie
one
ought
to
vse
constant
perseuerance
,
that
he
may
worke
the
accomplishment
of
his
desires
.
The
long
vnsuccessiuenesse
of
my
suit
hath
not
made
me
wearie
of
your
seruice
,
though
since
I
first
fell
in
loue
with
you
(
O
might
the
examples
incite
you
no
longer
to
retard
your
affection
)
the
Sun
hath
gone
about
the
world
,
and
giuen
a
new
life
to
all
things
which
the
tempestuous
winter
had
left
forlorne
:
the
ioyfull
Merchant
hath
made
a
rich
returne
,
and
the
laborious
husbandman
hath
cramm'd
his
barnes
with
the
plenteous
crop
of
the
euer
fruitfull
earth
:
Euerie
one
hath
his
hope
,
onely
my selfe
more
vnfortunate
then
all
the
rest
,
in
this
reuolution
of
time
haue
not
had
any
successe
.
I
am
you
sée
péerelesse
in
misfortune
:
it
rests
in
you
with
the
sympathie
of
affection
to
make
me
péerelesse
in
felicity
,
of
which
I
will
neuer
despaire
,
there
being
no
heart
that
is
more
infinitely
affected
toward
you
then
the
heart
of
Your
truest
seruant
,
E.
I.
To
his
sweet
heart
in
the
Country
.
Sole
mistris
of
my
affections
:
THough
in
London
where
I
now
am
many
singular
beauties
are
daily
obuious
to
my
sight
,
yet
I
beséech
you
not
to
charge
me
vnfained
lines
with
flatterie
,
if
in
the
iust
collaudation
of
your
owne
vnparalleld
pulchritude
I
prefer
your
vnmatchable
forme
before
the
ratest
of
their
composures
:
Their
formosities
come
as
far
short
of
yours
as
the
splendor
of
the
twinkling
Stars
comes
short
of
the
all-enlightning
radiance
of
the
Sun
beames
,
and
they
all
are
as
far
your
inferiors
in
the
rauishing
gifts
of
Nature
,
as
the
vilipended
pibble
is
inferior
to
the
worth
of
the
most
high
prized
Carbuncle
.
To
which
outward
endowments
when
I
reuolue
in
my
mind
(
and
no
houre
passeth
without
commemoration
of
your
perfections
)
how
swéetly
you
haue
vnited
all
internall
graces
,
then
am
I
distracted
with
griefe
for
my
absence
,
and
though
my
vnrestrained
mind
be
inseparably
with
you
,
yet
I
curse
the
distance
of
place
which
depriues
me
of
all
comfort
,
because
it
disioynes
mée
from
your
presence
,
which
till
I
enioy
,
all
ioy
is
banished
out
of
my
brest
,
and
I
haue
giuen
griefe
a
frée
dominion
in
me
,
I
cannot
say
I
rest
,
but
I
remaine
,
Your
entire
vessall
,
I.
S.
A
young
mans
Letter
to
his
enamoured
mistris
.
Fairest
of
a
thousand
:
IF
you
were
not
absolute
,
I
would
not
be
thus
resolute
:
onely
to
loue
you
whom
I
hold
onely
worthie
louing
:
your
beautie
tels
mine
eye
,
and
your
kindnesse
perswades
my
heart
of
your
goodnesse
;
for
,
if
you
were
proud
,
I
should
disdaine
you
,
and
if
you
were
not
faire
I
would
not
affect
you
:
now
,
if
you
know
the
one
true
in
your selfe
,
beléeue
the
other
in
me
,
and
wrong
not
your selfe
,
in
not
doing
mée
right
:
Modestie
and
vicenesse
are
two
,
and
delayes
are
the
hindrances
of
happinesse
:
to
vrge
your
patience
with
importunitie
I
will
not
,
and
yet
to
giue
ouer
my
suit
I
cannot
:
and
therefore
knowing
your
iudgement
sufficient
to
vnderstand
your
owne
good
,
I
hope
to
finde
your
disposition
not
inclinde
to
hurt
him
,
who
remaineth
,
Your
as
you
will
,
and
when
you
will
,
T.
D.
Her
kinde
answer
.
MY
worthy
friend
,
how
long
I
haue
loued
you
,
was
from
the
first
instant
that
I
beheld
you
:
how
much
I
doe
loue
you
,
I
would
I
could
tell
you
:
how
dearly
I
will
loue
you
,
my
best
endeauors
shall
truly
make
knowne
vnto
you
:
and
if
vnder
heauen
I
may
find
such
happinesse
on
the
earth
as
to
be
regarded
in
your
fauour
,
I
will
thinke
it
idle
that
figures
earthly
felicity
:
for
your
excellence
,
being
almost
without
exception
,
let
my
loue
be
without
comparison
:
and
if
truth
may
haue
beliefe
,
let
my
affection
be
without
suspition
:
and
as
you
haue
won
my
heart
with
your
eyes
,
make
it
happy
with
your
hands
:
so
hoping
that
so
sweet
an
aspect
can
haue
no
sowrenesse
in
spirit
,
in
the
hope
of
your
kinde
answer
,
I
rest
Yours
,
deuoted
to
be
commanded
.
A.
B.
A
Letter
of
Request
.
KInde
friend
:
I
would
entreat
a
kindnesse
,
but
for
feare
of
a
deniall
,
not
out
of
mine
owne
deserts
,
but
rather
your
disposition
,
which
I
doubt
is
too
neare
the
nature
of
the
world
,
rather
to
grant
then
to
gratifie
:
excuses
are
more
trials
of
wit
then
truth
,
and
a
faithfull
heart
hath
no
stop
in
loue
,
and
therefore
,
that
I
may
not
haue
cause
to
wrong
my selfe
in
my
assured
confidence
of
your
worth
doe
right
to
your selfe
in
the
good
of
that
performance
,
that
,
without
parenthesis
may
conclude
in
a
full
point
of
kindnesse
.
The
substance
of
my
suit
I
haue
sent
you
by
word
of
mouth
,
because
my
hand-writing
shall
not
witnesse
my
vnhappinesse
if
my
hope
should
faile
the
expectation
of
my
affection
,
in
which
without
greater
care
of
the
contrarie
,
I
rest
,
Yours
as
you
know
,
D.
S.
A
Letter
of
discontent
,
vpon
deniall
of
a
Request
.
My
small
friend
,
I
Thanke
you
for
nothing
more
then
that
I
haue
nothing
to
thanke
you
for
,
wherein
you
rather
considered
what
I
am
,
then
your selfe
should
be
:
pardon
my
folly
,
in
presuming
aboue
knowledge
,
and
beleeue
mée
no
more
if
I
fall
into
the
like
error
of
opinion
:
you
willed
mée
to
make
account
of
your
vttermost
power
,
in
my
good
:
It
may
bée
it
was
in
wishes
,
which
are
easily
requited
,
but
when
they
are
void
of
effects
,
they
are
but
troubles
to
reason
:
I
cannot
spell
without
letters
,
nor
vnderstand
words
without
substance
,
therefore
loath
to
be
tedious
,
when
I
haue
vnwillingly
béene
troublesome
,
I
pray
you
let
complements
be
without
cost
,
so
shall
kindnesse
continue
,
in
that
condition
of
iudgement
that
shall
make
me
alwaies
readie
to
requite
your
deniall
of
my
request
as
I
finde
cause
,
Your
friend
to
command
,
R.
T.
To
a
Court
Lady
.
IF
Loue
could
dissemble
,
patience
could
haue
no
passion
,
but
truth
is
so
tyed
to
affection
,
that
as
a
sound
limbe
it
cannot
halt
.
If
you
aske
the
reason
of
my
affection
,
looke
into
the
excellencie
of
your
owne
worth
,
and
then
if
there
be
any
extreame
,
take
it
in
the
best
part
,
which
groweth
from
your selfe
:
for
such
is
my
iudgement
of
your
deseruing
,
as
can
be
answered
in
nothing
but
in
admiring
:
for
surely
,
hée
must
be
either
verie
dim
sighted
that
doth
not
preferre
your
beautie
to
all
shadowes
,
or
dull
witted
,
that
vnderstands
not
the
honour
of
your
worthinesse
.
O
〈◊〉
me
leaue
then
,
out
of
the
sight
of
my
best
sense
,
and
sense
of
my
best
sight
,
to
deuote
my
seruice
to
your
command
,
that
may
giue
a
happinesse
in
your
employment
:
and
while
idle
Complements
are
but
Court
fashions
,
let
plaine
truth
haue
such
acceptance
in
your
fauour
,
that
suspition
may
not
wrong
a
true
affection
:
in
which
I
vow
euer
to
rest
,
Yours
all
,
or
mine
owne
not
at
all
,
I.
G.
Her
complementall
answer
.
WHat
words
shall
I
vse
to
win
your
affection
,
holding
vnder
heauen
my
happines
but
in
your
loue
:
if
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
would
please
you
in
your
affaires
,
I
would
neuer
rest
〈◊〉
in
your
fauour
:
if
gifts
might
be
graciously
accepted
,
I
would
giue
you
my selfe
for
your
loue
:
if
pitty
might
moue
you
,
I
would
lay
before
you
my
passion
:
and
if
my
death
might
onely
answer
your
desire
,
I
would
not
liue
to
despaire
of
your
comfort
:
but
loue
being
a
spirit
of
that
nature
,
that
onely
is
pleased
in
being
himselfe
,
I
will
leaue
all
my
hopes
to
that
happy
houre
,
wherein
he
may
in
your
eies
,
cast
those
blessed
beames
of
fauour
,
vpon
the
faith
of
my
heart
,
that
may
make
me
in
the
infringible
bond
of
deuoted
seruice
to
the
last
period
of
my
life
Yours
wholly
and
onely
to
be
commanded
,
E.
N.
FINIS
.