A poste vvith a madde packet of letters
Post with a packet of mad letters. Part 1
Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
1602
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A poste vvith a madde packet of letters
Post with a packet of mad letters. Part 1
Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
[46] p.
Printed [by Thomas Creede] for Iohn Smethicke, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Church-yard in Fleetstreet,
London :
1602.
"To the reader" signed: Nicho. Breton.
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A
POSTE
VVITH
a
madde
Packet
of
Letters
.
LONDON
Printed
for
Iohn
Smethicke
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
Shop
in
S.
Dunstons
Church-yard
in
Fleetstreet
.
1602.
To
the
Reader
.
GEntle
if
you
be
,
be
you
so
gentle
Reader
,
you
shal
vnderstand
,
that
I
know
not
whē
,
there
came
a
Post
I
know
not
whence
,
was
going
I
know
not
whither
,
and
carryed
I
knowe
not
what
:
But
in
his
way
I
knowe
not
how
,
it
was
his
happe
with
lacke
of
heed
,
to
let
fall
a
Packet
of
Idle
Papers
;
the
superscription
whereof
,
beeing
onely
to
him
that
findes
it
,
beeing
my
fortune
to
light
on
it
,
seeing
no
greater
stile
in
the
direction
,
fell
to
opening
of
the
enclosure
,
in
which
I
founde
diuers
Letters
written
,
to
whom
,
or
from
whom
,
I
could
not
learne
.
Now
for
the
Contents
of
the
Circumstances
,
when
you
haue
red
them
,
iudge
of
them
:
and
as
you
like
them
,
regard
them
.
And
for
my selfe
,
if
I
heare
you
like
well
of
them
,
when
I
meet
next
with
the
Poste
,
it
may
be
I
will
cast
about
with
him
for
more
of
them
:
till
then
,
fearing
to
be
too
tedious
in
this
Letter
,
lest
you
like
the
worse
of
that
which
followeth
:
I
rest
as
I
haue
reason
.
Your
louing
friend
,
Nicho.
Breton
.
The
Contents
of
this
Booke
.
A
Letter
of
comfortable
aduise
to
a
friend
,
and
his
answere
.
A
Letter
of
aduise
to
a
yong
Cour●er
,
and
his
answere
.
A
mournfull
Letter
to
a
brother
,
and
his
answere
.
A
Letter
of
a
Iealous
husband
to
his
wife
,
and
her
cunning
answere
.
A
Letter
of
kind
Complements
to
a
friend
,
and
his
answere
.
A
Letter
of
loue
to
a
Gentle
woman
and
her
answere
.
A
Letter
of
scorne
to
a
coy
Dame
,
and
her
answere
.
A
Letter
to
a
fowle
Dowde
,
and
her
answere
.
A
Letter
for
the
preferring
of
a
seruant
,
and
the
answere
.
A
Letter
of
counsell
to
a
friend
,
and
his
answere
.
A
Letter
of
comfort
to
a
sister
in
sorrow
,
and
her
answere
.
A
Letter
of
counsell
from
a
kind
Father
.
A
kind
answere
of
a
louing
sonne
.
A
Merchants
Letter
to
his
Factor
,
and
his
answere
.
A
Letter
of
challenge
,
and
the
answere
.
A
merry
Letter
,
or
newe●
of
complaints
.
The
answere
of
the
Laughe
.
A
Letter
to
a
friend
for
newes
,
and
his
answere
.
A
disswading
from
marriage
,
and
the
answere
.
A
kind
Letter
of
a
Creditor
for
mony
.
The
debters
answere
.
A
Letter
of
Newes
,
and
the
answere
.
A
Poste
with
a
mad
Packet
Of
Letters
.
A
Letter
of
comfortable
aduise
to
a
Friend
.
HOnes●
Alexander
,
I
heare
thou
art
of
late
tallen
into
an
extreame
melancholy
,
by
reason
of
the
suddaine
departure
of
Pannella
out
of
this
life
:
for
thy
sake
I
am
sorie
shee
hath
left
her
passage
on
this
earth
,
though
being
too
goo●●or
this
worlde
,
she
be
surely
gone
to
a
better
;
now
,
if
thy
mourning
could
recouer
her
from
death
,
I
could
willingly
beare
part
of
thy
passion
,
but
when
it
doth
her
no
good
,
and
thy selfe
much
hurt
,
let
not
a
wil●ull
humour
leade
thee
into
a
wofull
Consumption
.
Thou
knowest
she
is
senceless●
in
the
graue
,
and
wilt
thou
therefore
be
witlesse
in
the
world
?
Say
thy
loue
is
extreame
,
and
l●t
me
beleeue
it
,
wilt
thou
therefore
depriue
nature
of
reason
?
God
forbid
it
:
well
,
thou
knowest
I
lent
thee
,
and
in
my
loue
let
me
adu●se
thee
,
not
to
goe
from
thy selfe
,
with
an
imagination
of
what
was
,
to
looseth
it
which
is
:
because
she
is
in
heauen
,
wilt
thou
be
in
hell
?
or
if
sh●
be
h●lfe
an
Angell
,
wilt
thou
be
more
then
h●lfe
a
diuel
?
●●
spend
thy
spirit
in
a
better
humour
:
let
not
the
rem●mbrance
of
her
perfection
driue
thee
into
unperfections
:
nor
make
loue
hatefull
to
oth●r
,
by
seeing
the
vnhappinesse
in
thy selfe
.
O●
let
not
sancte
shew
folly
in
thee
,
howsoeuer
vertue
deserued
honour
in
her
:
Leaue
thy
solitary
humor
,
and
come
and
liue
with
me
,
we
will
d●●nse
some
good
meane●
for
the
remoue
of
this
melancholy
:
In
the
meantime
make
not
too
much
of
it
,
least
it
proue
to
a
madnesse
:
Loue
thy selfe
,
and
belee●●
thy
friend
,
and
what
is
in
me
to
too
thee
good
,
commaund
as
thin●
owne
:
glad
I
would
be
to
see
thee
,
as
he
who
defy
entierly
lous
thee
:
and
so
desirous
to
heare
from
thee
,
to
the
Almightie
I
leau●
thee
.
Farewell
.
Thine
as
his
owns
.
D.
F.
His
Answere
.
KInde
Francke
,
I
haue
receiued
thy
friendly
Letter
,
and
note
thy
carefull
loue
:
but
pardon
me
,
if
I
do
not
answere
thee
to
thy
liking
:
Alas
,
how
can
he
truly
iudge
of
life
,
that
neuer
kindly
was
in
loue
?
or
know
how
soundly
to
help
a
sorrow
,
that
neuer
inwardly
felt
it
?
reading
makes
a
scholler
by
rule
,
and
obseruation
I
know
doth
much
in
the
perfecting
of
Art
,
but
experience
is
that
which
toucheth
knowledge
to
the
quicke
;
My
mistresse
beautie
was
no
Moone
shine
,
whose
vertue
gaue
light
to
the
harts
eye
,
nor
her
wisdom
,
an
ordinary
wit
,
which
put
reason
to
his
perfect
vnderstanding
:
and
for
her
Graces
,
are
they
not
written
among
the
vertuous
?
Thou
sai●st
well
,
she
was
too
heauēly
a
creature
to
make
her
habitatiō
on
this
earth
,
&
is
it
not
then
a
kind
of
hell
,
to
be
without
her
in
the
world
?
Imaginations
are
no
dreames
,
where
substances
are
the
obiects
of
the
sences
,
while
the
eye
of
memorie
,
is
neuer
weary
of
seeing
.
Oh
honest
Francke
,
thinke
thou
hast
not
liued
,
that
hast
not
loued
,
nor
canst
liue
in
this
world
to
haue
such
a
loue
to
die
in
:
It
is
a
dull
spirit
that
is
fed
with
obliuion
,
and
a
dead
sence
,
that
hath
no
feeling
of
loue
:
thinke
therefore
what
was
,
is
with
me
:
and
my selfe
as
nothing
,
without
the
enioying
of
that
something
,
which
was
to
me
as
all
in
all
.
Is
not
the
presence
of
an
Angell
,
able
to
rauish
the
sight
of
a
man
?
And
is
not
the
light
of
Beautie
the
life
of
loue
?
Leaue
then
to
burthen
me
with
imperfections
in
my
sorrow
for
her
want
,
whose
presence
was
my
paradise
,
and
whose
absence
,
my
world●
hell
:
thou
doest
misconstrue
my
good
,
in
languishing
for
her
lacke
,
and
knowest
not
my
hurt
,
in
thinking
of
any
other
comfort
:
●o
Francke
,
let
it
suffice
,
though
I
loue
thee
,
I
cannot
forget
her
:
and
though
I
liue
with
thee
,
yet
will
I
die
for
her
:
haue
patience
then
with
my
passion
,
till
time
better
temper
my
affection
,
in
which
most
diuoted
to
thee
of
any
man
liuing
,
til
I
let
thee
,
which
shall
be
as
shortly
as
I
well
can
,
I
rest
.
Thine
as
thou
knowest
.
D.
E.
A
Letter
of
aduise
to
a
yong
Courtier
.
My
good
Cousen
,
I
heare
you
are
of
late
growne
a
great
Courtier
,
I
wish
you
much
grace
,
and
the
continuing
of
your
best
comfort
:
but
for
that
your
yeares
haue
not
had
time
to
see
much
,
and
your
kindnesse
may
hap
to
be
abused
,
let
me
intreat
you
a
little
now
and
then
to
looke
to
that
which
I
tell
you
:
Keep
your
purse
warily
,
and
your
credit
charily
,
your
reputation
valiantly
,
and
your
honor
carefully
:
for
your
friends
,
as
you
finde
them
,
vse
them
:
for
your
enemies
,
feare
them
not
,
but
looke
to
them
:
for
your
loue
,
let
it
be
secret
in
the
bestowing
,
and
discreet
in
the
placing
:
for
,
if
fansie
be
a
wanton
,
wit
will
be
a
foole
:
Scorne
not
Ladies
,
for
they
are
worthy
to
be
loued
:
but
make
not
loue
to
many
,
left
thou
be
beloued
of
none
:
if
thou
hast
a
fauour
,
be
not
proud
of
thy
fortune
,
but
thinke
it
discretion
,
to
conceale
a
contentment
:
goe
neat
,
but
not
gaie
,
left
it
argue
lightnesse
,
and
take
heed
of
lauish
expence
,
left
it
begger
thy
state
:
play
little
,
and
loose
not
much
,
vse
exercise
,
but
make
no
toyle
of
a
pleasure
:
Reade
much
,
but
dull
not
thy
braine
,
and
conferre
but
with
the
wise
,
so
shalt
thou
get
vnderstanding
.
Pride
is
a
kinde
of
coynesse
,
which
is
a
little
too
womannish
,
and
common
familiaritie
,
is
too
neare
the
Clowne
for
a
Courtier
:
but
carry
thy selfe
euen
,
that
thou
maist
fall
on
neither
side
:
so
wil
the
wise
commend
thee
,
and
the
better
sort
affect
thee
:
but
let
me
not
be
tedious
,
left
it
may
perhaps
offend
thee
:
and
therfore
as
I
liue
,
let
it
suffice
I
loue
thee
,
And
so
wishing
thee
as
much
good
,
as
thou
canst
wish
to
be
wished
,
in
praier
for
thy
health
,
and
hope
of
thy
happines
,
to
my
vttermost
power
,
I
rest
,
in
affectionate
good
will.
Thine
euer
assured
:
H.
L.
His
Answere
.
SWéete
Cousen
,
I
thinke
you
haue
either
some
Court
in
the
Country
,
or
else
you
are
much
studied
in
the
Courtier
,
that
you
can
set
downe
such
rules
,
as
are
no
lesse
worthy
the
reading
,
then
obseruing
:
beleeue
me
,
they
shall
be
my
best
leizures
studies
,
and
in
my
daily
courses
my
counsellors
,
my
solicitors
in
loue
,
and
my
Judges
in
honor
,
my
guiders
in
greatest
hopes
,
and
my
admonitions
in
greatest
dangers
:
for
your
paines
in
them
,
I
thank
you
,
and
for
your
kindnesse
,
I
loue
you
:
your
care
of
me
,
I
see
by
them
,
and
wil
not
vnkindly
forget
them
.
I
must
confesse
,
I
finde
Courtiers
close
people
,
and
Ladies
strange
creatures
,
and
loue
so
idle
an
humor
,
that
I
am
afraide
to
loose
time
in
it
:
but
the
better
by
your
aduise
I
hope
to
carry
a
hand
ouer
it
.
For
apparel
,
I
wil
keepe
my
stint
,
and
care
for
no
fond
fashion
:
and
for
exercise
,
nature
is
so
giuen
to
ease
,
that
good
qualities
are
almost
cut
of
vse
:
and
for
vertue
,
poore
Lady
,
she
is
scarce
able
to
liue
with
her
pension
:
but
for
study
,
I
haue
litle
time
,
so
much
company
withdraweth
me●a●d
for
a
booke
,
next
the
Bible
,
your
Letter
shall
be
my
Library
.
And
thus
smiling
at
such
G●lls
,
as
think
no
grace
,
but
in
a
gay
coat
,
nor
wit
,
but
in
a
stale
Iest
,
noting
many
a
begger
like
a
king
,
and
many
a
Lord
like
a
poore
gentleman
,
seeing
the
truth
of
Salomon
,
in
his
conclusiō
of
all
earthly
comforts
that
all
vnder
y
t
Sun
is
vanitie
:
meaning
not
to
be
a
seruant
to
a
base
humor
,
nor
to
reach
higher
thē
I
may
hold
〈◊〉
thankful
kindnes
for
thy
carefull
Letter
,
and
faithfull
affection
to
thy
worthy
selfe
,
wishing
thee
so
neare
me
,
that
I
might
neuer
be
from
thee
,
I
rest
.
Thine
what
mine
owne
.
N.
B.
A
mournfull
Letter
to
a
brother
.
GOod
brother
,
the
misery
of
my
home
life
,
the
crosnesse
of
my
cruell
fortune
,
and
the
vnkindnes
of
my
vnnatural
kin
,
haue
made
me
so
weary
of
this
world
,
that
I
long
for
nothing
but
my
latest
houre
,
and
yet
loth
to
dispaire
of
Gods
mercies
,
willing
,
to
take
any
good
course
for
my
commoditie
,
I
haue
of
late
bin
perswaded
by
some
of
experience
in
their
trauailes
into
those
parts
,
that
my
trauaile
into
the
lowe
Countries
would
be
much
to
my
commoditie
,
as
wel
for
my
language
as
my
skil
in
such
traffique
,
as
I
wold
make
vse
of
in
those
places
:
but
my
state
being
so
down
the
wind
,
that
I
know
not
how
to
get
vp
the
weather
,
hauing
no
stock
to
laie
out
,
to
giue
me
hope
to
bring
in
,
I
wil
euen
set
vp
my
rest
vpon
my
resolution
o●sc●une
,
and
thrust
my selfe
into
some
place
of
seruice
,
where
I
will
either
win
the
horse
,
or
loose
the
sad●ell
as
If
J
d●
,
mercie
is
my
comfort
,
if
I
liue
,
desert
is
my
hope
:
but
to
the
h●lping
forth
of
this
my
forlorne
spirit
,
good
brother
put
too
your
hand
,
assuring
your selfe
,
that
I
wil
not
liue
to
be
vngratefull
:
for
as
my
heart
loueth
you
,
my
soule
shall
pray
for
you
,
and
when
I
haue
time
to
see
you
,
I
wil
not
be
from
you
.
And
thus
agreeued
to
charge
you
,
neuer
more
meaning
to
trouble
you
:
beseeching
God
to
enable
me
to
requite
you
,
in
the
true
loue
of
a
naturall
brother
:
I
rest
.
Yours
as
mine
owne
.
N.
B.
His
Answere
.
DEare
brother
,
as
I
grieue
at
your
crosses
,
so
would
I
that
I
could
as
wel
procure
your
comforts
.
But
my
state
much
inferior
to
my
wil
,
makes
me
vnable
to
satisfie
your
expectatiō
:
&
yet
wil
I
hurt
my self
,
rather
then
you
should
perish
:
for
you
shal
receiue
by
this
bearer
,
what
I
am
able
,
and
more
,
as
I
shal
be
better
able
.
But
touching
your
courses
for
the
low
Countries
,
I
fear
your
traffiqu●
wil
be
but
litle
gainfull
,
the
warres
so
eate
vp
the
wealth
of
the
country
:
and
for
your
intent
touching
armes
,
I
feare
your
forwardnes
is
too
great
for
your
experience
.
Yet
do
I
so
farre
allow
of
your
good
mind
herein
,
as
I
should
lesse
grieue
to
heare
of
your
honorable
death
abroad
,
thē
see
your
discōtented
life
at
home
:
and
therefore
for
winning
the
horse
,
or
loosing
the
saddle
,
leaue
that
to
Gods
blessing
,
who
wil
bestow
honor
as
it
shall
please
his
diuine
prouidence
:
but
good
brother
,
haue
patience
with
thy
crosses
,
attend
mercie
for
thy
comforts
,
&
haue
a
care
of
home
,
howsoeuer
thou
farest
abroad
:
I
know
thy
mind
is
great
,
but
take
heed
of
pride
lest
it
be
a
bar
to
all
thy
fortune
,
and
ouerthrow
of
all
thine
honor
:
I
see
thou
art
weary
of
y
e
world
,
make
thē
thy
way
toward
heauē
,
that
God
,
who
hath
tried
thée
with
calamities
,
may
blesse
thée
with
eternall
comforts
.
In
hope
whereof
,
willing
in
all
I
can
to
helpe
thée
,
praying
hartily
for
thee
,
with
my
vnfained
hearts
loue
vnto
thee
,
to
the
Lord
of
heauen
I
leaue
thee
.
Thy
louing
brother
,
D.
S.
A
Letter
of
a
Iealous
husband
to
his
wife
.
WIfe
,
in
as
much
kindnesse
as
I
can
,
I
aduise
you
to
leane
such
courses
,
as
are
neither
to
your
credit
,
nor
my
contentment
:
you
know
,
much
company
,
causes
many
occasions
of
Idle
spéeches
,
and
yong
men
are
not
in
these
daies
,
giuen
to
speak
the
best
of
their
kind
friends
:
trifles
and
toies
,
were
better
refused
,
thē
accepted
,
and
time
i●lely
spent
,
brings
but
beggery
,
or
a
worse
blot
:
of
all
the
birds
in
the
field
,
I
loue
not
a
Cu●koe
in
my
house
:
truly
I
do
not
dissemble
with
you
,
your
light
behauiour
doth
much
dislike
me
,
and
how
glad
I
would
be
to
haue
it
reformed
,
you
shall
know
when
I
s●e
it
:
shall
I
make
you
fine
,
to
please
an
other
,
and
displease
my selfe
?
shall
I
leaue
you
my
house
,
to
make
an
hospitalitie
of
ill
fellowship
?
●it
me
not
so
with
the
foole
,
how
euer
you
feed
your selfe
with
a
foule
humor
:
shake
off
such
acquaintance
,
as
gaine
you
nothing
but
discredit
,
and
make
much
of
him
that
must
as
well
winter
you
as
sommer
you
:
Looke
to
your
house
,
haue
a
care
ouer
your
children
,
set
your
seruants
to
worke
,
and
haue
an
eye
to
the
maine
chance
,
leaue
tatling
gossips
,
Idle
hus
wiu●s
,
vaine
headed
fellowes
and
néedlesse
charge
,
so
wil
God
blesse
you
,
and
the
world
wil
thriue
with
you
,
your
neighbours
speake
well
of
you
,
and
I
shall
truly
loue
you
.
And
thus
,
hoping
that
you
wil
by
this
my
secret
admenition
,
haue
a
care
of
your
good
carriage
,
I
rest
in
hope
of
your
well
doing
.
Your
louing
husband
▪
T.
F.
Her
cunning
Answere
.
HUsband
,
with
as
much
patience
as
I
can
,
I
haue
red
ouer
your
vnwise
Letter
,
wherein
Iealousie
kéepes
such
a
stirre
,
that
loue
doth
but
laugh
at
such
Iolenesse
:
much
company
driues
away
idle
thoughts
,
and
for
fooles
it
is
good
to
be
afraide
of
had
I
wist
:
Ill
thoughts
beget
ill
speeches
,
and
an
olde
dog
bites
sorer
then
a
yong
whelpe
:
for
beggery
,
let
it
fall
vpon
the
slothfull
,
I
know
how
to
worke
for
my
●uing
:
and
for
blots
,
speak
to
scribblers
,
for
I
haue
no
skil
in
writing
.
Now
for
the
Bird
,
to
answer
you
with
the
Beast
:
I
thinke
a
Calfe
in
a
Closet
,
is
as
ill
as
a
Cuckoe
in
a
Cage
:
If
I
were
sullaine
,
you
would
sure
suspect
my
humor
,
and
doo
you
mislike
my
merrie
behauiour
?
wel
,
your
conceit
may
be
deformed
,
in
being
so
wrongfully
informed
,
to
haue
me
so
suddeinly
reformed
.
My
finenesse
,
is
your
countenance
,
and
my
conuersation
,
your
credit
:
and
therefore
do
you
shake
off
your
lowzie
humors
,
I
wil
make
choyse
of
better
company
:
your
house
wil
stand
fast
,
if
it
fall
not
,
and
your
children
be
quieter
then
their
Father
,
your
seruants
earne
their
wages
,
and
the
maine
chaunce
,
is
nicked
w●ll
inough
:
Wemen
must
talke
when
they
méete
,
and
men
not
be
scorned
,
though
not
entertained
:
and
hée
that
kéepeth
a
house
,
must
seeke
to
defraie
the
charge
.
And
so
hoping
that
you
wil
leaue
your
Iealouzie
,
and
thinke
of
some
ma●ter
of
more
worth
,
as
carefull
of
my
carriage
,
as
you
of
your
credit
,
meaning
to
●o
as
well
as
I
can
without
your
teaching
,
and
as
well
,
as
if
you
were
at
home
.
I
rest
.
Your
too
much
louing
wife
.
I
,
F.
A
Letter
of
kind
Complements
to
a
Friend
.
WHere
I
loue
much
,
I
speak
little
,
for
affection
hath
smal
pleasure
in
ceremonies
,
your
kindnesse
I
haue
found
,
my
desert
I
dare
not
speake
of
,
least
it
more
offend
my selfe
to
thinke
on
,
then
you
to
looke
on
,
but
since
you
haue
made
me
happie
in
your
acquaintance
,
let
me
not
too
long
lacke
your
company
,
for
though
I
liue
among
many
good
neighb●urs
▪
yet
do
I
much
want
the
comfort
of
so
good
a
●riend
,
by
wh●m
I
should
not
only
gaine
the
vse
of
Time
,
but
fin●●
the
pr●fi●
of
my
desire
:
which
ioyning
issue
with
your
humors
,
cannot
●ut
so
concurre
with
your
contentment
,
that
if
there
be
a
paradise
on
the
earth
,
I
hope
to
finde
it
in
the
faire
passages
of
our
loues
,
which
grounded
on
vertue
,
and
growing
in
kindnesse
,
cannot
chuse
but
be
blessedly
fruitfull
.
In
briefe
,
til
I
see
you
,
I
will
mourne
,
and
if
not
the
sooner
,
I
shall
languish
:
for
,
my
wishing
and
want
cannot
be
satisfied
with
absence
:
hasten
therefore
your
comming
,
and
make
your
own
welcome
:
for
what
I
haue
or
〈◊〉
,
enter
in
the
●owle
of
your
possession
,
where
in
the
freehold
of
my
loue
,
I
assure
the
substance
of
my
life
.
And
so
leauing
compliments
,
to
t●ngue
spirits
,
in
the
truth
of
an
h●nest
heart
:
I
rest
.
Yours
as
you
do
and
shall
euer
know
me
.
N.
B.
His
Answere
.
S●●
,
I
haue
receiued
your
kind
Letter
,
and
I
finde
you
ver●e
fine
at
your
corner
,
you
wil
speake
,
and
say
nothing
:
be
eloquent
in
plainnesse
,
but
you
must
not
speake
in
the
cloudes
,
to
them
that
are
acquainted
with
the
Moone
:
and
say
what
you
wil
,
I
must
beléeue
of
my selfe
what
I
list
:
for
indeed
,
I
know
mine
owne
vnworthinesse
,
of
your
commendation
,
in
which
,
I
will
rather
beare
with
your
affection
,
then
be
conceited
with
your
opinion
.
Yet
,
not
to
be
either
disdainful
,
or
vngratefull
,
be
not
so
farre
deceiued
in
my
disposition
,
that
wherein
my
presence
may
pleasure
you
,
I
wil
answere
you
with
●ine
absence
,
nor
long
delaie
your
expectation
:
for
excuse
,
is
but
cold
kindnesse
,
and
too
much
haste
is
not
fit
:
therefore
assoone
as
I
conueniently
can
,
I
assure
you
,
you
shall
séeme
,
and
in
full
measure
with
your
affection
finde
me
,
to
the
vtterm●st
of
my
power
,
rather
in
action
then
prot●station
,
during
life
:
in
faire
weather
or
fowle
.
Yours
〈◊〉
mine
owne
.
W.
R.
A
Letter
of
Loue
to
a
Gentlewoman
.
FAire
Mistr●ss●
,
to
Court
you
with
eloquence
,
were
as
ill
as
to
gréeue
you
with
gross●
humors
:
let
it
therefore
please
you
,
rather
to
beleeue
what
I
write
,
th●n
to
note
how
I
speak
,
for
my
hart
being
fired
in
your
eies
,
hath
vowed
my
seruice
to
your
bewtie
:
in
which
,
finding
reasons
admiration
,
can
think
but
of
nature
in
her
perfection
:
in
which
,
being
rauished
about
it selfe
,
cra●eth
of
your
fauour
to
be
instructed
by
your
kindnes
:
I
meane
no
further
then
in
obedience
to
your
commaundement
:
for
if
I
be
any
thing
my selfe
,
it
shall
be
nothing
more
then
yours
:
and
lesse
then
nothing
,
if
not
yours
in
all
.
I
could
commend
you
aboue
y
t
skies
,
compare
you
with
the
Sun●e
,
or
set
you
among
the
Starres
,
figure
you
with
the
Phoenix
,
and
imagine
you
a
Goddesse
:
but
I
will
leaue
such
weake
praising
fictions
,
and
thinke
you
onely
your selfe
:
whose
vertuous
beautie
,
and
whose
honorable
discretion
,
in
the
care
of
a
little
kindnes
,
is
able
to
command
the
loue
of
y
●
wife
,
and
the
labours
of
the
honest
,
with
the
best
of
their
endeuours
in
the
happinesse
of
your
imployment
,
to
seeke
the
height
of
their
fortune
:
thinke
not
therefore
I
flatter
you
in
hope
of
f●uour
,
but
honour
you
in
y
●
desert
of
worthinesse
:
in
which
if
you
wil
vouchsafe
to
entertaine
the
seruice
of
my
affection
,
what
you
shall
find
in
my
loue
,
I
wil
leaue
to
your
kindnes
to
cōsider
.
In
the
care
of
which
comfort
,
crauing
pardon
to
my
presumption
,
I
rest
humbly
and
wholy
,
Yours
directed
to
be
commaunded
.
E.
W.
Her
Answere
.
SIr
,
I
haue
heard
schollers
say
,
that
it
is
Art
to
cōceale
Art
,
and
that
vnder
a
face
of
simplicitie
,
is
hidden
much
subtiltie
:
of
which
,
howe
sillie
Women
neede
to
be
afraide
,
I
will
leaue
to
wise
men
to
consider
.
And
though
I
cannot
in
fine
nor
fitte
tearmes
,
aunswere
the
humour
of
your
writing
,
yet
after
a
plaine
and
homely
fashion
,
I
will
entreate
you
to
accept
of
my
writing
:
Perfection
and
corruption
,
cannot
méet●
together
in
one
subiect
,
and
therefore
my
imagined
●●a●tie
,
bring
but
a
shadow
of
deceit
,
beleeue
not
your
eyes
,
til
they
haue
a
better
speculation
:
and
for
the
inward
parts
of
commendations
,
I
am
perswaded
,
that
wit
is
not
worth
any
thing
,
that
is
drawne
into
admiration
of
nothing
:
only
this
,
not
vnkindly
to
requit
your
good
thoughts
of
little
worth
,
leauing
fi●i●ns
●o
idle
fansies
,
let
me
intreat
you
not
to
mistake
your
figures
,
and
to
honour
a
better
substance
then
my
vnworthie
selfe
.
And
yet
,
so
farre
to
assure
your
desert
of
my
contentment
,
that
wherein
I
may
conueniently
counter●aile
the
care
of
your
kindnesse
,
excuse
my
indiscretion
,
if
I
faile
of
my
desire
,
in
which
,
wishing
you
more
happinesse
,
then
to
be
commaunded
by
my
vnworthinesse
,
I
rest
as
I
may
.
Your
louing
poore
friend
.
M.
W.
A
Letter
of
scorne
to
a
coy
Dame.
MIstresse
Fubbes
,
if
you
were
but
a
little
faire
,
I
see
you
would
be
mightily
proude
,
and
had
you
but
the
wit
of
a
Goose
,
you
would
surely
out
hisse
the
Gander
:
but
,
being
with
as
bad
qualities
as
can
be
wished
,
as
rich
as
a
new
shorne
sheepe
,
I
hope
,
fortune
is
not
so
mad
,
as
to
blesse
you
further
then
the
begger
:
It
is
not
your
holy-day
face
put
on
,
after
the
ilfauoured
fashion
,
can
make
your
halfe
Nose
,
but
ougly
in
a
true
sight
:
and
but
that
you
are
exceedingly
beholding
to
the
Taylor
,
you
might
be
set
vp
for
the
Signe
of
the
Sea
Crabbe
.
Now
,
for
your
parentage
,
to
helpe
out
the
hope
of
all
the
rest
,
when
the
Tinkers
sonne
,
and
the
Coblers
daughter
,
met
vnder
a
hedge
at
the
milking
of
a
Bull
,
within
forties
wéeks
after
,
what
fel
out
you
know
.
Now
,
not
too
plainly
to
laie
open
the
●owle
members
of
a
filthie
carkass●
,
but
,
as
patiently
as
I
can
to
kéepe
Decorum
,
in
your
description
,
l●t
me
tell
you
,
that
all
this
,
and
much
more
,
being
true
in
your
disgraces
,
I
cannot
chuse
but
ma●●aile
,
that
you
mourne
not
to
death
in
imagination
:
to
thinke
,
that
a
monster
in
na●ure
,
can
haue
any
grace
in
reason
,
but
,
let
it
be
as
it
is
:
I
haue
●ut
lost
a
little
breath
in
talking
to
a
deaffe
eare
,
for
I
meane
●o
take
no
more
trauell
to
the
subiect
of
so
ill
an
obiect
:
and
therefore
meaning
to
make
my
farewell
and
beginning
with
you
,
both
at
one
instant
,
leauing
you
to
loathe
your self
,
as
one
,
whom
no
creature
can
well
be
in
loue
withall
:
sorie
that
I
euer
sawe
you
,
and
neuer
more
entending
to
trouble
you
.
In
recompence
of
your
course
entertainment
,
I
rest
in
all
vnkindnesse
:
this
present
and
alwaies
.
Yours
as
much
as
may
be
.
T.
E.
Her
Answere
.
MAister
Swash
,
it
is
not
your
hustie
rustie
,
can
make
me
afraid
of
your
bigge
lookes
:
for
I
sawe
the
pla●e
of
Auncient
Pistoll
,
where
a
craking
coward
was
well
cudgeled
for
his
knauery
:
your
railing
is
so
neare
the
Rascall
,
that
I
am
almost
ashamed
to
bestow
so
good
a
name
as
the
Rogue
vppon
you
▪
but
for
modesties
sake
,
I
will
a
little
forbeare
you
,
and
only
tell
you
,
that
a
hanging
look●
,
and
a
hollow
hart
,
a
cunning
wit
,
and
a
corrupted
conscience
,
make
you
so
●●t
a
mate
for
the
diuel
,
that
there
is
no
Christian
wil
desire
your
company
:
now
for
your
state
,
it
is
much
vpon
fortune
,
which
brings
many
of
your
fellows
to
a
deadly
fall
,
when
the
paine
of
their
heads
is
only
healed
with
a
halter
:
and
for
your
linage
,
when
the
Bearewards
Ape
,
and
the
hangmans
Monky
met
together
on
a
hay
mowe
,
what
a
whelp
cam●
of
such
of
such
a
litter
,
let
the
world
iudge
,
I
say
nothing
:
now
for
your
stumpe
feete
,
and
your
lame
hand
,
suting
kindly
with
your
wry
necke
,
who
would
not
make
of
their
eyes
,
that
could
endure
the
sight
of
such
a
picture
?
now
,
your
wealth
being
but
in
a
fewe
words
,
which
you
haue
almost
all
spent
in
idle
humors
,
hoping
that
the
Tortus
wil
not
quarel
with
the
Crabbe
,
and
that
when
you
haue
slept
vpon
your
Al●
,
you
will
get
a
medicine
for
your
madnesse
,
till
the
Woodcocke
do
tell
you
how
the
Dawcocke
hath
caught
you
,
leaning
further
to
thinke
on
you
,
more
then
vtterly
to
●oathe
you
,
glad
that
your
entertainment
was
so
much
to
your
discontentment
:
In
full
measure
with
your
malice
,
I
rest
.
Yours
as
you
see
.
A.
W.
A
Letter
to
a
fowle
Dowd●e
.
MIstresse
,
I
heare
that
you
thinke
your selfe
faire
,
but
you
are
much
deceiued
,
for
the
Curriers
Dyle
,
is
but
a
cours●
kinde
of
painting
:
and
for
wit
,
howe
farre
you
are
from
vnderstanding
,
the
wise
can
tell
you
:
now
,
for
qualities
,
where
you
learned
them
I
know
not
,
but
if
you
could
leaue
them
,
●wer●
well
:
I
wonder
not
a
little
,
what
madnesse
hath
possessed
your
braines
,
that
you
can
make
so
much
of
your selfe
:
are
your
eyes
your
owne
:
or
are
they
so
sealed
they
cannot
sée
?
get
you
to
your
praiers
,
and
leaue
making
of
loue
,
for
age
and
an
euil
fau●ur
,
ha●
néed
to
be
helped
with
a
good
purs●
:
I
heare
you
study
Musique
,
indeed
,
when
an
Owle
sings
,
the
Nightingale
will
hold
her
peace
:
but
for
shame
learne
not
to
dance
,
for
a
barrell
can
but
tumble
:
but
if
you
would
vse
a
medicine
for
your
téethe
,
you
might
be
the
better
to
speake
with
in
a
morning
:
what
ailes
you
to
buy
a
●anne
,
except
it
be
to
hide
your
face
?
and
til
your
hande●
be
whole
,
you
s●ould
weare
but
dogs
leather
for
your
gloues
:
In
truth
you
abuse
your selfe
,
that
you
keep
not
your
chamber
,
for
none
sees
you
but
laughes
at
you
,
or
at
least
loatheth
to
looke
vpon
you
:
be
therefore
content
to
do
as
I
wish
you
,
speake
with
none
but
by
Atturney
,
leaue
the
Painter
to
better
Pictures
,
and
rather
grieue
at
nature
for
framing
of
you
,
then
thinke
of
any
thing
that
may
helpe
you
:
your
goods
bestow
on
me
for
my
counsell
,
and
make
sute
to
Death
for
your
comfort
.
And
thus
hoping
that
being
weary
of
your selfe
,
you
will
hasten
to
your
graue
,
I
end
.
Yours
as
you
see
.
H.
I.
Her
Answere
.
SIr
you
may
thinke
your selfe
wise
,
but
you
do
not
shewe
it
,
for
railing
words
,
are
the
worst
testimonies
of
a
good
wit
:
for
good
qualities
I
thinke
you
know
them
not
,
nor
can
goe
from
the
euil
:
but
for
madnesse
,
I
thinke
it
sorteth
best
with
your
humor
.
For
the
helpe
whereof
,
it
were
good
that
you
were
let
blood
in
the
braine
:
but
for
ill
sight
,
who
is
so
blind
as
bold
ba●●rd
,
that
wil
not
sée
his
owne
folly
?
my
prayers
I
will
not
forget
to
God
,
to
blesse
me
from
such
foule
spirits
on
the
earth
,
and
for
loue
,
more
then
Charitie
,
I
hold
you
the
furthest
off
in
my
thought
:
now
knowing
your
pouertie
,
I
wonder
you
will
speake
of
a
purse
,
and
for
an
ilfauoured
face
,
goe
to
Parish
garden
to
your
good
brother
,
indeed
your
Croidon
sanguine
,
is
a
most
pure
complexion
:
but
for
your
Tabacco
it
is
a
good
purge
for
your
rewine
:
for
my
Fanne
it
keepes
me
sometime
from
the
fight
of
such
a
vizard
,
as
your
good
face
:
and
for
my
hands
I
keepe
my
nailes
on
my
fingers
,
though
you
cannot
keepe
your
hayre
on
your
head
:
now
for
laughing
at
fooles
,
you
are
pr●uided
for
a
Corcombe
,
and
for
loathing
an
ill
countenance
,
let
the
hangman
draw
your
picture
:
be
therefore
contented
to
be
thus
answered
,
speake
wisely
,
or
hold
your
peace
,
and
be
not
busie
with
your
betters
,
least
you
know
the
nature
of
had
I
wist
:
so
,
hoping
that
you
wil
be
so
wearie
of
the
world
,
that
you
will
hang
your selfe
for
a
medicine
,
to
heale
your
wits
of
a
melancholy
,
I
will
bequeath
you
a
halter
vpon
free
cost
,
at
your
pleasure
:
and
so
I
rest
.
Your
friend
for
such
a
matter
.
E.
P.
A
Letter
for
the
preferring
of
a
seruant
.
SIr
,
knowing
your
necessary
vse
of
a
good
seruant
,
and
remembring
your
late
speech
w
t
me
touching
such
a
matter
,
I
thought
good
to
commend
vnto
you
in
that
behalf
the
bearer
hereof
W.
T.
a
man
whose
honest
secrecie
,
and
carefull
diligence
,
vpon
a
reasonable
trial
,
wil
soone
make
proofe
of
his
●ufficiencie
:
his
parentage
is
not
base
,
nor
his
disposition
vile
,
but
in
all
parts
requisite
in
one
of
his
place
,
such
a
one
,
as
I
am
perswaded
will
fit
your
turne
:
if
therefore
at
my
request
,
you
will
entertaine
him
.
I
doubt
not
,
but
you
wil
thank
me
for
him
:
for
I
was
glad
to
get
him
for
you
,
and
hope
to
heare
he
will
much
content
you
:
and
thus
loth
to
trouble
you
with
longer
circumstances
,
leauing
his
seruice
to
your
good
regard
,
and
my
loue
,
to
your
like
commandement
in
affectionate
good
will
,
I
rest
.
Yours
euer
assured
.
N.
B.
The
Answere
.
SIr
,
I
haue
receiued
both
your
Letter
,
and
the
bearer
,
both
which
I
wil
make
much
of
for
your
sake
:
for
in
the
one
I
will
often
see
you
,
and
in
the
other
remember
you
:
your
commendatiō
of
him
,
argueth
your
knowledge
,
a
sufficient
warrant
for
his
worth
,
which
I
wil
as
kindly
,
as
thankfully
think
on
:
his
countenance
I
like
wel
,
and
his
speech
better
,
and
for
the
performance
of
my
expectation
,
am
the
better
perswaded
of
his
discretion
:
when
I
see
you
,
you
shall
know
how
I
like
him
,
in
the
meane
time
,
hee
shall
find
that
I
wil
loue
him
:
for
all
things
necessary
for
his
present
vse
,
I
find
him
sufficiently
furnished
:
but
if
I
find
his
want
,
it
shall
be
soone
supplied
.
So
thanking
you
for
sending
him
,
and
wishing
you
had
come
with
him
,
remaining
your
kind
debter
●il
a
good
occasion
of
requital
,
with
my
hartie
commendations
,
I
commit
you
to
the
Almightie
.
Your
verie
louing
friend
.
R.
T.
A
Letter
of
counsell
to
a
friend
.
MY
best
approued
,
and
worthiest
beloued
Philo
,
I
heare
by
some
of
late
come
from
Venice
,
that
seeme
to
be
somewhat
inward
in
thy
acquaintance
,
that
thou
art
of
late
,
fa●nt
into
an
amorous
humor
,
especially
with
a
subiect
of
too
much
vnworthines
:
a
newes
,
that
(
knowing
thy
spirit
)
I
could
hardly
beleeue
,
but
vpon
solemne
affirmation
,
I
was
sorie
to
beare
:
for
,
beautie
,
without
wealth
,
is
but
a
beggerly
charu●e
,
&
honor
without
vertue
,
is
but
a
little
for
a
Title
:
hath
she
a
glib
tongues
it
is
pittie
she
hath
no
better
wit
:
is
she
witti●
,
it
is
a
sorrow
,
it
is
n●
better
best●wed
:
for
the
craft
of
one
woman
,
is
the
confusion
of
many
a
man
:
doth
she
say
she
loues
thee
?
beléeue
her
not
:
nay
,
doth
she
loue
●hee
?
regard
it
not
:
for
it
is
a
Iewell
of
so
little
worth
,
as
wil
giue
but
〈◊〉
in
the
buying
:
I
feared
the
plague
had
taken
hold
of
thy
lod●in●
:
but
thou
art
peppered
with
a
world
of
infection
:
thy
studie
〈…〉
with
●oleness●
,
thy
braine
with
dizinesse
,
and
thy
spirit
with
madnes
:
O●
leaue
these
follies
,
think
loue
but
a
dreame
,
and
beautie
a
shadow
,
and
folly
a
witch
,
and
repentance
a
misery
:
wake
out
of
thy
sleepe
,
and
call
thy
wittes
together
,
be
not
sotted
with
an
humour
,
nor
slaue
to
thy selfe
will
,
leaue
courting
of
a
Curtizan
,
and
keepe
thy
breath
for
a
better
blast
:
saue
thy
purse
for
a
better
purpose
,
and
spend
thy
time
in
more
profit
:
let
not
the
wise
laugh
at
thee
,
and
the
honest
lament
thee
:
for
my selfe
,
how
I
grieue
for
thee
,
I
would
I
could
tell
thee
:
but
let
thus
much
suffice
thee
:
beleeue
nothing
that
shee
saieth
,
care
for
nothing
that
she
doth
,
nor
giue
her
any
thing
that
she
wants
:
see
her
,
but
to
purge
melancholy
,
talke
with
her
,
but
to
sharpen
wit
,
giue
her
,
but
to
be
ridde
of
her
company
,
and
vse
her
but
according
to
her
conditiō
,
so
shalt
thou
haue
a
hand
ouer
those
humors
,
that
would
haue
a
head
,
ouer
thy
heart
:
and
be
maister
of
thy
sences
,
by
the
vertue
of
thy
spirit
,
otherwise
,
Will
hauing
gotten
the
bit
in
his
téethe
,
will
runne
away
with
the
bridle
:
and
Reason
,
being
cast
off
,
may
neuer
sit
well
againe
in
the
saddle
:
but
why
do
I
vse
these
perswasions
for
the
remoue
of
thy
passions
?
If
thou
be
soundly
in
,
thou
wilt
hardly
get
out
:
but
if
thou
be
but
ouer
shoes
,
thou
maist
be
saued
from
drowning
:
well
,
whatsoeuer
I
heare
,
I
hope
the
best
,
but
to
a●●●d
the
worst
,
I
haue
presumed
out
of
my
loue
,
to
send
thee
this
fruit
o●
my
affection
.
In
which
,
if
my
care
may
doo
thee
comfort
,
I
●h●l●
thinke
it
a
great
part
of
my
happinesse
:
howsoeuer
it
〈◊〉
,
I
co●●it
the
consideration
to
thy
kindnesse
.
And
so
till
I
●eare
from
thee
,
which
I
daily
long
for
:
I
rest
.
Thine
as
his
owne
.
N.
R.
His
answere
.
Gentle
Millo
,
I
haue
receiued
thy
most
kinde
and
carefu●●
Letter
,
a
messenger
of
the
most
honest
loue
,
who
hath
tolde
me
no
lesse
then
I
wholy
beleeue
:
that
loue
in
idlenesse
,
is
the
very
entrance
to
madnesse
:
but
yet
,
though
I
will
thinke
on
thy
counsell
,
giue
me
leaue
a
little
,
to
goe
on
along
with
conceit
:
whereof
let
me
tell
thee
my
opinion
.
Beautie
without
wealth
is
little
worth
:
but
being
a
riches
in
itselfe
,
how
can
it
be
poorely
valued
▪
and
honour
,
beeing
but
the
state
of
vertue
,
how
can
you
plucke
a
little
out
of
her
●tytle
▪
the
tongue
is
the
instrument
of
wit
,
and
wit
the
approuer
of
discretion
:
where
it
Reason
b●
grauelled
,
nature
may
bée
admyred
:
now
for
words
they
hau●
their
substance
,
and
loue
is
not
to
bee
abused
:
for
it
is
a
Iewell
well
knowne
,
that
is
worthy
his
price
:
Intrations
are
cuerie
where
,
and
Iealousie
a
most
cruel
plague
,
but
rid
thy selfe
of
that
disease
,
and
feare
not
my
health
in
the
other
:
conceit
is
a
kinde
of
dizinesse
,
which
worse
formented
then
with
idlenesse
,
is
troubled
with
too
strong
a
madnesse
:
but
he
that
is
unwise
had
need
to
be
reformed
:
and
he
that
laughes
at
an
imperfection
,
may
fall
himselfe
vpon
the
foole
:
now
for
a
mad
dreame
,
or
an
imagined
witch
,
a
conceited
sleepe
,
or
an
intreated
waking
,
I
must
confesse
they
are
pr●tie
humours
,
and
will
thinke
of
their
errors
:
now
for
lotting
and
slauerie
,
and
for
courting
in
●nauerie
,
be
perswaded
,
that
time
will
employ
my
purse
to
better
purpose
:
then
grieu●
not
for
mee
,
but
onely
loue
mee
,
and
let
that
suffice
mee
:
and
for
thine
aduice
in
seeing
,
talking
,
and
giuing
,
feare
not
the
had●wist
of
my
folly
:
for
he
that
is
master
of
himselfe
,
shall
not
need
to
his
mistresse
:
and
therefore
hee
that
cannot
ride
,
let
him
leaue
the
saddle
:
for
Reason
hath
a
power
ouer
〈◊〉
,
where
〈◊〉
is
but
a
seruant
to
Nature
:
in
the
certainty
of
which
course
,
intending
so
to
lay
my
hand
on
my
heart
,
that
I
will
feare
no
ho●nes
on
my
head
,
with
many
thankes
for
thy
kinde
perswastons
,
hoping
thou
will
take
no
exceptions
at
my
constructions
,
intreating
thee
to
bel●ue
of
me
no
more
then
thou
needest
,
and
to
loue
me
as
thou
doest
,
in
the
faith
of
that
affection
,
that
holds
th●●
beare
to
my
loue
,
I
rest
:
during
life
.
Thine
obliged
and
diuoted
.
W.B.
A
Letter
of
comfort
to
a
sister
in
sorrow
.
DEare
sister
,
I
heard
lately
of
your
husbands
departure
for
the
Indies
,
when
with
no
little
sorrow
I
considered
your
heauie
case
:
in
which
,
finding
his
wants
to
be
grieuous
,
and
your
friends
colde
in
comfort
,
I
could
not
chuse
,
without
unkindnesse
,
but
remember
these
fewe
lines
of
my
loue
unto
you
:
I
knowe
your
state
is
weake
,
how
faire
so
euer
you
make
your
weather
;
but
the
more
is
your
patience
worthy
honour
,
that
can
so
nobly
conceale
your
discontentments
;
for
my selfe
,
I
would
I
were
able
to
doo
you
good
,
but
what
I
haue
,
or
can
procure
,
shall
not
faile
to
doo
you
pleasure
:
but
if
your
minde
be
too
great
to
stoupe
,
to
be
beholding
,
what
I
am
able
to
doo
,
take
a
dutie
in
my
brothers
loue
:
good
sister
therefore
be
of
good
cheare
,
and
put
your
care
upon
me
,
I
will
soe
you
often
,
and
loue
you
euer
:
for
a
creature
of
your
worthinesse
is
seldome
found
in
your
sere
:
that
for
her
husbands
loue
will
aduenture
the
state
of
her
liuing
:
your
children
are
not
many
,
but
such
as
are
shall
be
mine
,
and
you
to
me
as
myselfe
:
take
therefore
as
litle
thought
,
and
as
much
comfort
as
you
can
,
no
doubt
but
God
that
trieth
his
seruants
,
will
blesse
them
:
hope
then
of
my
brothers
happie
returne
,
and
fill
he
come
,
commaund
me
,
shortly
God
willing
you
shall
see
mee
,
in
the
meane
time
let
me
entreat
you
kindly
to
accept
this
little
token
of
my
greater
loue
,
which
is
but
an
assurance
of
a
beginning
of
my
affections
neuer
ending
,
in
which
predicament
of
true
friendship
,
I
rest
euer
assured
.
Your
very
louing
sister
,
E.W.
Her
answere
.
SWéete
sister
,
I
haue
receiued
your
kinde
Letter
and
louing
token
,
for
both
which
,
I
am
your
thankefull
debtor
;
but
to●ching
which
husband
,
though
his
wants
were
grieuo●s
,
yet
to
want
him
,
is
my
greatest
sorrewe
,
for
in
the
stay
of
his
loue
was
the
state
of
my
liuing
:
I
am
sorie
that
you
know
my
weakenesse
,
and
with
it
but
in
strength
to
●unswere
your
kindnesse
:
but
good
sister
,
though
I
am
willing
to
conceale
my
crosses
,
to
be
beholding
to
so
honourable
a
spirit
,
I
count
i●
not
the
least
of
my
happinesse
,
Therefore
,
though
I
haue
diu●ted
my selfe
to
solitarinesse
in
his
absence
,
your
company
shall
bee
to
me
as
light
in
darknesse
and
no●ing
the
nature
of
your
kindnesse
,
will
euer
be
beholding
to
your
loue
:
come
then
to
me
when
you
will
,
and
commaund
me
what
you
will
,
for
I
will
be
as
goe
and
you
will
:
my
children
are
my
worlds
ioyes
,
and
my
hearts
Iewels
in
whose
faces
I
will
behold
their
father
,
in
whose
loue
I
will
spend
my
life
:
so
in
a
merrie
goe
sorrie
,
grieuing
for
his
ab●ence
,
and
wishing
your
presence
,
praying
for
his
happie
returne
,
your
health
,
and
mine
owne
patience
,
that
in
too
much
passion
of
affection
,
I
fall
not
upon
indiscretion
,
with
most
heartie
thankfull
loue
,
I
commend
my
life
to
your
commaundement
.
Yours
affectionately
bound
.
E.G.
A
Letter
of
loue
to
a
faire
Mistresse
.
Farre
Mistresse
,
to
trouble
you
with
a
long
circumstance
,
●
might
perhaps
feare
you
with
the
losse
of
time
,
and
to
make
an
end
ere
I
begin
,
might
argue
little
care
in
my
conceit
;
but
to
auoyd
both
suspitions
,
let
me
a
little
entreat
with
your
patience
,
to
peruse
in
a
fewe
words
,
the
summe
of
a
long
tale
,
in
which
,
the
truth
of
loue
,
to
the
latest
houre
of
death
,
protesteth
the
ioy
of
●i●
life
,
but
in
the
fruite
of
your
fauour
,
of
which
the
thought
of
his
unworthinesse
,
toth
too
much
shewe
his
unhappinesse
.
Time
makes
me
too
briefe
,
but
in
your
wisedome
is
my
hope
of
understanding
,
that
in
my
tryall
you
may
trust
me
,
and
by
desert
esteem
me
:
in
which
,
if
I
deceiue
your
expectation
,
let
me
die
in
the
misery
of
your
disdaine
.
Thus
not
to
flatter
you
with
a
faire
●●le
in
the
state
of
your
worthie
commendation
,
beseeching
to
be
commaunded
by
the
kinde
care
of
your
discretion
,
in
the
handes
of
avowed
seriuce
,
I
humbly
rest
.
Yours
alwaies
assured
,
R.O.
The
Answere
.
SIr
,
as
I
would
be
loth
so
be
thought
proud
,
I
would
as
v●willingly
be
found
idle
:
either
to
beleeue
too
well
of
my selfe
,
or
,
not
to
haue
a
respect
of
other
:
Truthe
is
sildome
marked
with
smoothe
words
,
and
loue
is
not
bredde
,
but
upon
great
contentment
:
your
lyking
may
be
greater
then
my
desert
,
and
so
alter
vpon
a
better
consideration
:
but
mistake
not
your
happinesse
,
in
my
fauours
unworthinesse
,
where
the
best
of
my
commaundement
,
may
be
the
least
of
your
contentment
.
Your
consideration
of
time
may
excuse
my
shortnesse
of
writing
,
where
in
a
word
you
may
understand
,
that
in
deed
I
intend
:
that
Truthe
in
honourable
in
loue
,
and
vertue
the
fairest
ioy
in
affection
:
in
which
,
it
I
not
misconstrue
your
conce●●
,
I
will
answere
the
care
of
your
kindnesse
:
in
which
,
according
to
the
due
of
desert
,
you
shall
finde
the
effects
of
your
desire
.
And
so
for
this
time
I
rest
.
Your
poore
friend
.
A.T.
A
Letter
of
counsaile
from
a
kinde
Father
.
MY
deare
sonne
,
you
must
not
from
your
father
looke
for
a
flattering
loue
,
no●
take
it
unkindly
,
that
I
suspect
your
●ll
courses
:
for
I
haue
passed
the
dangereus
tune
y
●
you
now
are
in
,
and
haue
hardly
go●e
through
the
briers
:
and
therfore
in
a
iealous
feare
,
from
an
inward
care
,
I
cannot
●h●se
but
giue
you
w●rning
of
what
may
pre●●dice
your
good
.
Beautie
is
a
bewitching
obied
,
and
●anto●nes
is
the
ruine
of
wit
:
prodigality
quickly
makes
a
poore
man
,
and
he
is
only
rich
that
liues
contented
.
But
my
good
sonne
,
aboue
all
things
serue
God
,
and
keep
a
cleane
conscience
,
passe
not
the
limits
of
allegeance
,
nor
build
Castles
in
the
aire
,
take
h●●d
of
extremities
,
for
they
are
out
of
the
course
of
discretion
,
and
the
fruite
of
Ignorance
,
yeelds
but
the
sorrow
of
repentance
:
young
men
may
be
wittie
,
but
●●ldome
wise
:
and
sometime
,
though
●rt
be
a
great
perfecter
of
Experience
,
yet
obseruation
,
is
better
then
conceited
●unning
.
●rpence
is
necessary
upon
occasion
,
and
hope
,
is
not
amiss●
upon
desert
:
but
Reason
sometime
is
more
regarded
,
then
rewarded
,
where
●ill
is
too
powerfull
to
be
resisted
.
I
heare
that
you
are
much
giuen
to
Alch●mistry
,
it
is
a
studie
of
great
charge
to
many
,
and
profiteth
●ewe
:
yet
I
forbid
you
no
good
labour
,
so
that
you
loose
not
by
the
bargaine
:
●●e
therefore
a
care
in
the
imployment
of
your
time
,
and
wherein
my
helps
may
further
your
good
,
seeke
no
other
friend
for
your
comfort
.
For
though
I
would
not
wish
you
to
disda●ne
any
kindnesse
,
yet
would
I
haue
you
as
litle
as
you
may
to
be
beholding
to
any
man
:
for
the
prodigall
are
commonly
talkatiue
,
and
the
couctous
negatiue
:
and
what
a
griefe
it
is
to
want
,
●
pray
God
you
neuer
knowe
.
Any
qualitie
in
a
mediocritie
,
●
g●●dly
allow
you
,
but
let
not
your
loue
be
carried
away
with
ang
i●le
imagination
.
I
haue
sent
you
a
hundreth
Crownes
,
w●●
may
you
vse
them
,
and
when
you
need
any
moe
,
send
to
me
for
them
:
for
your
affection
touching
marriage
,
I
would
it
were
bestowed
as
I
could
with
it
:
howeuer
it
be
,
it
shall
be
much
amisse
,
it
I
mi●k●ke
●
.
I
haue
sent
you
likewise
a
Horse
,
now
and
than
to
manage
in
a
morning
,
but
I
pray
you
forbeare
to
use
him
as
a
●ackney
to
ride
up
and
downe
the
streetes
in
idle
humors
.
Conuerse
with
no
fooles
,
for
you
shall
loose
time
with
them
:
and
take
heede
of
knaues
,
for
there
is
much
to
be
feared
in
them
.
Long
not
after
newes
,
least
you
be
gu●d
with
a
●east
:
and
take
heed
of
drunkennesse
,
for
it
is
a
healthy
humor
.
Make
much
of
thy
money
,
and
abuse
not
thy
friend
:
be
carefull
of
thy selfe
,
and
forget
not
thy
Father
,
whose
earthly
ioy
is
but
in
the
hope
of
thy
happinesse
,
and
whose
deadly
sorrowe
would
be
to
soe
thee
〈◊〉
amisse
.
What
shall
I
say
more
to
thee
●
thou
knowest
I
loue
thee
,
and
only
in
my
loue
am
I
thus
carefull
ouer
thee
.
Accept
then
my
admonitions
,
and
ponder
vpon
the
constructions
,
they
may
happe
to
〈◊〉
thee
good
,
but
harme
they
can
doo
thee
none
:
●se
them
therefore
for
thy
best
auaile
.
After
the
Terme
,
the
bacation
will
call
thee
into
the
Countrey
,
where
knowing
thy
Fathers
house
,
thou
maist
make
thine
owne
welcome
.
●ill
when
,
and
alwaies
,
I
will
pray
for
thee
,
that
God
will
so
blesse
thee
,
that
I
may
haue
ioy
in
thee
.
Your
louing
Father
,
H.
W.
A
kind
Answere
of
a
louing
sonne
.
My
deare
Father
,
as
I
wil
not
flatter
myselfe
with
your
loue
,
so
can
I
not
but
ioy
in
your
kindnes
:
whose
carefull
counsell
within
the
compasse
of
so
fewe
words
,
I
will
lock
up
in
my
hart
,
as
the
best
iewel
of
my
life
:
for
to
serue
God
,
is
the
dutie
of
a
Christian
,
and
no
longer
let
me
line
,
then
in
the
care
of
that
comfort
.
A
cleane
conscience
I
finde
like
a
cleane
paire
of
sheetes
,
where
the
soule
after
labors
may
take
a
safe
place
of
rest
:
to
passe
the
limits
of
allegeance
,
merits
the
losse
of
life
,
and
he
is
borne
●●
happie
that
is
unnatural
to
his
country
:
and
a●ery
castles
,
are
but
mad
mens
imaginations
:
I
know
extremes
are
not
durable
,
nor
often
prefitable
:
and
repentance
,
a
paiment
,
that
pincheth
the
●art
of
understanding
.
I
finde
the
instruction
of
the
aged
to
be
the
best
direction
of
the
youthfull
,
and
obseruation
with
Experience
to
make
the
perf●ction
of
Art
:
the
necessitie
of
Experience
cannot
be
a●yed
,
but
the
hope
of
desert
may
be
deceiued
:
for
,
while
will
standes
for
iudgement
,
there
is
no
holding
of
argument
:
touching
Al●hamistry
,
I
heare
much
,
but
beleeue
little
:
and
for
the
charge
,
I
will
not
waste
your
Lande
,
to
make
a
new
mettall
:
but
if
by
my
industry
I
can
doo
good
,
I
will
take
the
benefite
of
Time
:
for
qualities
,
I
thanke
your
large
allowance
,
the
best
meanes
with
labour
to
attaine
them
,
for
Teachers
,
are
worthie
their
rewards
:
to
be
beholding
I
loue
not
,
and
hate
to
be
ungratefull
:
But
as
I
follow
not
the
prodigall
,
I
haue
little
pleasure
in
the
courtous
:
and
for
idle
imaginations
,
I
can
vse
them
as
fictions
:
for
your
Crownes
,
I
humbly
thanke
you
,
and
hope
to
bestow
them
to
your
〈◊〉
.
Your
●orse
will
doo
me
much
pleasure
,
and
cause
me
to
see
you
the
sooner
.
For
gallopping
the
streets
,
it
is
like
children
upon
●obby
horses
,
but
gi●●ie
heades
haue
such
humours
,
that
God
knoweth
what
will
become
of
them
:
for
mariage
,
though
the
course
be
honourable
,
yet
could
I
be
content
to
forbeare
it
,
though
in
the
●●re●ion
of
my
affection
,
I
wi●l
be
much
ruled
by
your
discretion
:
Fooles
c●nnot
understand
mee
,
and
knaues
wil
but
trouble
me
:
but
from
the
company
of
〈◊〉
conditions
,
the
Lord
of
heauen
deliuer
mee
:
good
newes
come
neuer
too
soone
,
nor
badde
too
late
,
and
therefore
as
they
are
,
I
wil
est●●me
them
:
For
drunkennesse
ne●er
doubt
mee
,
for
it
is
most
l●athsom●
to
my
nature
:
and
for
my
mony
,
though
it
being
seruant
,
I
will
hold
it
as
my
good
friend
:
for
my
friend
he
shall
be
my selfe
;
but
my
father
my
hearts
loue
,
and
my
lifes
comfort
:
in
whose
carefull
admonitions
,
how
kinde
I
f●●de
the
ininstructions
,
the
obedience
of
my
dutie
,
shall
make
knowne
to
your
contentment
:
the
vacation
is
neare
,
and
I
will
not
be
long
from
you
:
where
finding
you
well
,
shall
be
my
best
welcome
:
so
thinking
my selfe
bless
in
the
heauens
,
to
haue
so
good
a
Father
on
the
earth
,
beseeching
God
to
make
me
ioyfull
in
your
eyes
,
by
the
graces
of
his
mercies
,
in
praier
for
your
long
health
,
with
your
hearts
euer
happinesse
;
In
all
humble
thankes
,
I
take
my
leaue
.
Your
obedient
sonne
,
T.W.
A
Merchants
Letter
to
his
Factor
.
As
I
haue
reposed
trust
in
your
care
,
I
looke
for
your
performance
of
my
credit
:
your
abilitie
in
managing
such
matters
as
I
haue
committed
to
your
charge
,
I
make
no
doubt
of
:
and
therefore
hoping
in
your
discretion
to
heare
of
my
expected
contentment
,
I
will
looke
by
your
next
Letters
to
heare
of
the
summe
of
my
desire
:
in
the
meanetime
,
let
me
tell
you
,
that
I
haue
sent
you
ouer
foure
score
broad
cloathes
,
and
thirtie
Car●ies
,
with
such
other
commodities
as
I
thinke
fit
for
your
use
in
those
parts
,
I
pray
you
make
your
best
market
,
and
take
heed
of
your
Creditors
:
for
I
heare
there
are
men
reputed
of
great
wealth
,
in
suspition
to
play
banquerup●s
,
haue
therefore
a
care
of
your
businesse
,
your
trauels
shall
not
bee
unconsidered
:
your
French
Wines
I
heare
this
yeare
are
very
small
,
and
your
Gascoigne
Wines
very
deare
,
Prunes
cheape
,
but
you
know
your
markets
,
and
so
I
hope
you
will
haue
care
in
disbursing
your
money
,
for
it
is
hardly
come
by
,
and
as
this
world
goes
,
●ooth
much
in
great
matters
:
if
there
boe
any
Newes
of
woeth
,
acquaint
me
with
them
,
and
in
any
wise
,
doo
not
trouble
me
with
untruthes
:
your
Cou●en
telles
mee
that
you
are
in
good
regard
with
the
Gouernour
for
certaine
cloathes
that
you
lately
bestowed
on
him
,
hee
tolde
mee
the
cause
,
and
therein
I
commend
your
discretion
:
for
sometime
it
is
better
to
giue
then
to
saue
,
when
it
turneth
to
aduantage
.
In
summe
,
let
this
suffice
you
without
further
circumstance
,
you
haue
my
loue
,
and
my
purse
,
I
pray
haue
a
care
of
them
both
:
so
till
I
heare
from
you
,
I
rest
.
Your
loving
Maister
▪
W.H.
His
answere
.
S●●
,
I
beseech
you
mistrust
not
your
trust
,
nor
haue
any
fear●
of
my
care
,
for
,
hauing
both
your
loue
and
your
purse
,
how
can
the
one
let
me
forget
the
other
:
●o
sir
,
bee
you
assure●
howsoeuer
banquers
play
banquerou●
,
sure
pawnes
will
dece●ue
no
credite
:
and
touching
such
affaires
as
I
haue
in
charge
,
doubt
not
your
expectation
of
my
dispatch
:
your
cloathes
●
haue
receiued
,
and
like
them
very
well
,
year
Car●ies
are
verie
good
,
I
would
you
had
sent
more
of
them
,
for
they
are
much
in
request
,
and
well
sol●e
.
I
haue
by
good
happe
met
with
a
hundre●
Tunne
of
Gascoigne
Wines
,
upon
a
good
market
,
as
you
may
knowe
by
my
note
.
Prunes
are
good
,
and
good
cheape
,
and
therefore
I
haue
sent
you
the
greater
store
of
them
,
on
the
●a●tes
you
shall
finde
my
marke
,
with
two
letters
of
your
name
.
I
haue
sent
you
likewise
,
a
Tunne
of
Cuchiniles
,
which
I
bought
by
a
great
cha●nce
,
the
price
you
shall
find●
in
my
note
with
the
rest
.
By
the
next
Poste
you
shall
heare
what
I
neede
,
in
the
meane
time
hauing
no
intelligence
of
worth
,
●oth
to
trouble
you
with
●●●tle●
,
glad
to
perform●
that
〈◊〉
that
your
kindnesse
hath
bounde
me
too
,
wishing
to
liue
no
longer
,
then
to
discharge
the
office
of
an
honest
care
,
praying
for
your
long
health
,
and
euerlasting
happinesse
:
I
humbly
take
my
leane
.
Your
faithfull
seruant
▪
C.B.
A
Letter
of
chalenge
.
My
wrongs
are
so
many
,
as
may
no
longer
be
dige●ted
,
and
your
excuses
so
idle
,
as
I
will
beneforth
despise
them
:
for
your
words
are
but
winde
,
and
therefore
I
am
wearie
of
them
:
and
therefore
if
you
bee
not
of
so
cold
a
complexion
that
you
bare
not
maintaine
your
reputation
,
méete
me
to
morrow
early
in
the
morning
in
some
●elds
a
mile
out
of
Towne
,
and
bring
with
you
such
Armes
as
you
doo
ordinarily
carrie
,
assigne
your
place
,
a●d
houre
,
and
fa●e
not
your
appointment
,
that
God
the
Iudge
of
〈◊〉
,
may
determine
of
our
wrongs
,
and
the
point
of
the
sword
may
put
a
period
to
our
discourses
,
Thus
,
hauing
blowne
ouer
an
idle
paper
,
with
a
fewe
last
words
of
my
intent
,
answer●
me
as
I
expect
,
or
●eare
of
me
as
it
will
fall
out
.
●n
haste
.
Your
enemie
to
the
death
.
T.P.
The
answere
.
What
you
haue
written
to
me
,
I
returne
upon
your selfe
,
as
loth
to
loose
time
in
answere
of
such
idlenesse
:
if
you
burst
goe
alone
,
I
would
goe
with
you
,
but
let
it
suffice
you
,
that
I
know
●●u
,
and
therefore
meane
not
to
trust
you
,
but
bring
a
friend
with
you
,
and
I
am
readie
for
you
:
come
to
my
lodging
as
early
as
you
wil
,
and
though
I
would
be
loth
to
breake
a
sleepe
for
you
,
yet
I
will
take
a
little
paine
to
answere
you
:
and
for
the
field
,
wee
will
cast
lo●●es
for
the
place
,
where
God
,
and
a
good
conscience
,
will
quick●y
determine
t●e
quarell
:
but
I
feare
the
point
of
the
sword
will
make
a
comma
to
your
●unning
:
which
if
it
doo
,
you
shall
finde
wh●t
will
follow
,
And
so
leauing
further
w●rds
,
wishing
you
to
be
as
good
as
your
word
,
I
end
.
Yours
as
you
mine
.
H.W.
A
merri●
Letter
or
Newes
of
complaints
.
HOnest
George
,
mine
olde
schoolefellow
,
and
kinde
friend
,
glad
to
heare
of
thy
home
quiet
,
how
euer
I
fare
w●●●●y
farre
trauell
:
whereas
thou
writest
vnto
me
,
for
such
Newes
as
this
place
●eelds
,
let
me
tell
thee
,
that
there
are
so
many
,
and
so
fewe
of
them
true
,
that
I
dare
almost
write
none
;
onely
this
,
vpon
my
knowledge
,
I
dare
deliuer
th●●
:
that
of
late
in
this
Cittie
,
there
are
a
number
of
complaints
,
euery
houre
in
the
day
,
but
all
to
little
purpose
.
The
Souldier
complaines
either
of
peace
,
or
pe●●rie
:
the
Lawier
either
of
lacke
of
Clients
,
or
cold
f●es
:
the
Merchant
of
small
trafficke
,
or
ill
fortune
▪
the
Trades
man
of
lacke
of
Chapmen
:
the
labourers
of
lacke
of
worke
:
the
poor●
men
of
lacke
of
charitie
,
and
the
rich
men
of
lacke
of
money
:
the
th●efe
of
lacke
of
booties
:
and
the
hangman
,
that
his
trees
are
bare
:
in
brief●
,
if
I
should
tel
th●e
of
all
the
complaints
that
I
heare
of
,
as
well
among
the
Feminine
,
as
Masculi●e
gender
,
how
so●e
old
women
crye
out
of
young
vnth●ifts
,
and
some
young
wenches
complaine
●f
olde
misers
:
How
some
complaine
of
their
customers
,
and
some
other
of
their
neighbours
,
it
were
such
a
world
of
idle
sto●●e
,
as
would
but
trouble
thee
in
the
reading
:
but
since
their
complaints
are
all
to
little
purpose
,
for
that
S●uldiers
are
but
for
e●tremities
,
though
honourable
in
their
erploy●●
,
and
Lawiers
are
some
tr●ublesome
,
except
vpon
agreement
of
controue●s●es
,
though
Iudges
are
worthy
honour
in
execution
of
iu●●ice
:
and
Merchants
may
beare
with
fort●ne
,
when
their
Coffers
are
full
of
coyne
,
though
in
respect
of
their
trafficke
,
they
are
the
maintenance
of
the
Common-wealth
:
and
Trades
men
may
sell
cheape
,
when
their
best
wares
are
all
vttered
,
though
it
is
necessarie
,
that
they
bee
set
on
worke
for
the
maintenance
of
the
state
:
and
labourers
may
rest
,
when
their
Haruest
is
in
,
though
it
be
needfull
to
set
them
to
worke
for
the
auoyding
of
idlenesse
:
beggers
m●y
hold
their
peac●
,
when
they
haue
filled
the
patches
of
their
profession
,
though
it
is
not
amisse
to
relieue
them
for
the
exercise
of
charitie
:
now
the
rich
men
may
shrugge
their
shoulders
,
when
they
haue
no
vse
for
their
bagges
,
though
sometim●
it
be
requ●●●t
rather
to
be
sparing
,
then
prodigall
:
and
for
th●
Th●efe
,
let
him
●●gh
till
the
hangman
doo
help●
him
:
and
for
th●
hangman
let
him
mourne
,
for
hee
i●
sure
the
diuell
lie●
in
wait●
for
him
;
and
therefore
let
the
old●
me●ill
munch
,
and
the
young
titte
mourne
,
I
cannot
helpe
them
,
but
as
I
h●are
of
their
complaints
,
I
haue
written
thee
the
contents
,
which
being
scarc●
worth
the
reading
,
I
l●aue
to
thy
worst
vsing
.
And
so
sorrie
that
I
haue
no
matter
of
worth
,
wherewith
better
to
fit
thin●
humor
,
in
as
much
kindnesse
as
I
can
,
I
commend
my
loue
to
thy
com●●●ndement
:
and
so
I
〈◊〉
.
Thine
euer
〈◊〉
his
〈◊〉
.
W.
P.
The
answere
of
the
l●ugh
.
MY
good
wagge
,
I
see
trauell
hath
not
so
altred
thine
humor
,
but
thou
wil●
euer
be
thy selfe
with
thy
●●ien●s
:
for
thy
kind
Letter
I
thanke
thee
,
and
as
kindly
as
I
can
,
will
requi●e
thee
:
as
you
are
there
full
of
sorrow
,
we
are
here
full
of
mirth
:
for
in
euery
place
there
is
nothing
so
cōmon
as
laughing
:
one
laughs
at
an
other
:
the
wise
man
laughes
at
the
●●●le
,
to
see
the
nature
of
his
imperf●ctions
:
and
the
foole
laughes
at
the
wise
man
,
becaus●
nature
lets
him
know
none
of
his
sorrowes
:
the
rich
man
laughes
at
the
poore
,
to
see
the
maner
of
his
life
:
and
the
poore
man
laughe●
at
the
rich
,
to
s●e
the
miserie
of
his
care
:
the
faire
laughes
at
the
sowle
,
to
see
how
they
are
despised
,
and
the
fowle
laugh
at
the
faire
to
see
how
they
are
troubled
:
the
honest
laugh
at
the
knau●
,
to
see
how
he
shifts
with
the
world
:
and
the
knaue
laughes
at
the
honest
,
to
see
how
his
simplicitie
is
abused
;
for
particulars
,
how
any
one
laughes
at
the
other
,
eyther
the
old
at
the
youthfull
,
or
they
at
the
aged
,
I
dare
say
nothing
:
but
w●rt
thou
hare
,
and
had
I
not
the
more
cause
of
sorrow
,
we
would
laugh
a
little
together
to
loo●●
at
the
laugher
of
this
world
:
but
they
say
,
he
may
laugh
y
●
wim●es
,
at
least
till
he
loose
againe
:
but
the
natures
of
their
laughing
are
diuers
and
very
strange
,
for
some
laugh
so
loude
that
they
are
noted
foolish
:
some
laugh
so
wide
,
that
they
shame
their
mouthes
with
lacke
of
teeth
:
and
some
laugh
so
cunningly
,
that
they
●●●ther
it
vp
in
a
smile
:
but
let
them
laugh
till
they
be
wearie
,
it
is
a
good
world
whē
men
are
merry
.
Which
hoping
thou
art
,
or
praying
thou
maiest
be
,
that
when
we
kindly
me●t
,
we
may
commune
better
of
these
conceits
,
wishing
thee
all
contentment
,
and
my selfe
the
pappinesse
of
thy
good
company
,
till
I
see
thee
and
euer
,
I
rest
:
one
and
the
same
.
Thine
as
thou
knowest
.
R.
W.
A
Letter
to
a
friend
for
Newes
.
COuzen
,
I
know
you
that
liue
abroad
in
the
world
,
cannot
but
heare
of
newes
euery
day
,
which
we
here
in
the
Countrey
would
be
glad
now
and
than
to
●ee
acquainted
with
:
your
labour
will
not
be
much
in
writing
,
and
for
your
kindnesse
,
it
shall
not
be
vnrequited
:
we
heare
much
murmuring
of
many
things
,
but
little
truth
of
any
thing
:
but
from
you
that
know
,
I
would
be
glad
to
learne
.
There
i●
a
speech
among
some
idle
Astronomers
,
that
the
man
in
the
Moone
hath
fal●e
in
loue
with
a
Starre
,
and
walking
through
the
cloudes
,
was
almost
●rowned
in
the
water
:
and
that
the
Tomblers
of
y
●
forrest
haue
spoiled
a
number
of
black
Conneys
,
so
that
Rabbots
are
so
deare
,
that
a
poore
man
may
bee
glad
of
a
peece
of
mutton
.
It
is
said
heere
with
vs
in
these
parts
,
that
you
of
the
Citie
are
much
troubled
with
a
new
disease
,
truly
we
haue
reasonable
good
health
,
but
that
there
are
such
plagues
in
diuers
houses
,
what
with
shrewd
wiues
,
and
euill
husbands
,
stubborne
chil●ren
,
and
wicked
seruants
,
that
many
honest
men
cannot
liue
in
quiet
with
their
neighbours
.
Though
the
Spring
be
not
very
forward
,
yet
there
is
great
encrease
of
many
things
,
especially
of
children
▪
which
how
they
may
answere
the
●awe
,
I
will
not
greatly
stan●
vpon
.
Thus
hauing
no
matter
of
moment
wherwith
at
this
time
to
trouble
you
,
entreating
you
that
I
may
●●ortly
heare
from
you
,
I
●est
,
in
much
aff●ction
.
Assuredly
yours
.
R.
T.
His
Answere
.
MY
good
Cousen
,
to
answere
your
kinde
Letter
,
if
there
were
any
thing
heere
worth
the
writing
,
I
would
not
haue
beene
so
long
silent
,
but
such
are
the
occurrents
in
these
places
,
as
are
either
not
worth
the
noting
,
or
better
vnspoken
the●
written
:
for
loue
in
youth
is
●o
full
of
idleness●
,
and
malice
in
age
so
malicious
,
that
vertue
is
so
hid
vp
in
corners
,
that
there
is
little
or
nothing
spoken
of
her
account
.
For
the
man
of
the
Moone
,
I
leaue
him
to
waite
on
the
Sunne
,
but
if
he
haue
a
mind
to
any
Starre
,
I
leaue
him
to
follow
his
owlight
:
for
his
watery
element
,
since
it
is
all
in
cloudes
,
let
it
hang
in
the
Ayre
,
I
will
not
meddle
with
his
louing
Astronomy
.
For
Connies
,
I
am
no
Warrener
,
and
therefore
let
them
that
haue
the
keeping
of
the
groundes
,
looke
to
their
game
:
I
haue
small
sport
in
such
idlenesse
:
but
for
a
peece
of
mutton
,
a
young
lambe
is
worth
fiue
old
Connies
,
and
he
that
is
not
glad
of
such
a
feast
,
let
him
fast
for
his
dinner
.
For
our
new
disease
,
it
is
with
many
men
in
the
head
,
●
women
in
the
tongue
,
seruants
grow
great
libertines
,
and
children
are
sicke
of
the
parents
:
and
for
neighbours
,
there
is
so
much
loue
in
the
streets
,
that
there
is
almost
none
in
the
houses
:
and
therefore
besides
other
ordinarie
diseases
,
we
want
no
plagues
to
make
vs
looke
into
our
sinnes
.
But
God
amend
all
,
for
one
s●arc●
mend
an
other
:
and
therefore
entreating
you
to
haue
patience
with
me
till
the
next
weeke
;
when
you
shall
heare
of
the
best
Newes
that
come
to
my
hands
,
I
rest
:
in
bounden
good
will.
Yours
as
mine
owne
.
N.
R.
A
disswading
from
marriage
.
SWeete
Cousen
,
I
am
sorie
to
heare
,
that
being
so
well
at
ease
,
you
wil
coosin
your self
of
your
quiet
:
and
for
want
of
a
worlds
hell
,
you
will
put
your selfe
into
a
purgatorie
with
a
wife
:
but
if
it
may
be
that
I
speake
in
time
:
heare
what
I
s●y
,
〈◊〉
shee
be
faire
,
it
may
b●eed
iealousie
:
if
foul●
,
dis●ike
,
●nd
chau●ge
:
if
rich
,
take
h●●d
of
prid●
:
if
poore
,
mis●rie
:
if
young
,
bew●re
the
w●nt●●
:
if
●l●
,
take
heed
of
the
●eldame
:
if
wise
,
sh●●
will
gouern●
thee
:
i●
foolish
,
she
will
fret
thee
:
how
deare
soeuer
she
loue
thee
,
she
will
sometime
or
other
,
either
crosse
or
fl●tter
thee
:
and
therfore
,
if
thou
wilt
be
ruled
by
a
friend
,
let
neither
old
nor
young
,
faire
nor
●eu'●
trouble
thee
:
beleeue
me
,
as
I
haue
read
,
these
are
y
e
properties
of
most
wiues
:
to
weaken
strrin●th
,
to
trouble
wit
,
to
e●ptie
purses
,
and
to
breed
humors
:
but
if
I
be
deceiued
in
my
reading
,
or
mine
Author
in
his
writing
,
either
in
altering
your
course
,
or
prouing
your
comfort
,
tel
me
your
minde
when
we
meete
.
Till
when
,
wishing
you
continuance
of
that
quiet
,
wherein
you
now
liue
,
or
the
true
contentment
of
the
best
loue
:
leauing
to
your
discretion
,
the
mannaging
of
your
affection
,
I
commit
you
to
the
Almightie
.
Thine
euer
●s
his
owne
.
T.
W.
The
answere
.
GOod
Cou●●n
,
I
find
your
kindnesse
aboue
your
knowledge
,
in
mistaking
paradice
for
purgato●ie
:
for
,
a
wife
is
y
●
wealth
of
the
minde
,
and
the
welfare
of
the
heart
:
where
the
best
iudgement
of
Reason
findes
Discretions
contentment
.
May
b●
is
a
●oubt
:
but
what
is
,
must
be
regarded
,
in
which
●ence
I
an●
pleased
:
where
youth
with
beautie
,
and
wit
with
●ert●●
,
haue
power
to
command
,
where
kindness●
must
obey
.
Pouertie
I
feare
not
,
and
wealth
I
seeke
not
:
but
it
sufficeth
●e
to
seeke
no
other
fortune
●o
:
the
summe
of
my
worlds
happinesse
:
where
the
auoyding
of
euill
,
and
the
hope
of
good
,
makes
me
know
more
comfort
then
you
are
able
to
cōceiue
,
till
you
enter
into
that
course
,
wher●
in
the
●oy
of
loue
is
the
second
blessednesse
of
this
life
.
What
shall
I
say
,
but
that
I
know
not
what
to
say
,
to
expresse
the
perfection
of
this
pleasure
,
that
puts
downe
all
idle
imaginations
:
from
which
,
hoping
to
see
thee
remoued
,
when
I
next
see
thee
.
Till
then
and
●uer
I
rest
.
Thine
as
thou
knowest
.
B.
D.
A
kinde
Letter
of
a
Creditor
for
mony
.
SI●
,
I
pray
you
take
it
not
vnkindly
,
that
I
write
thus
earnestly
vnto
you
,
for
more
necessitie
,
then
will
hath
v●ged
me
vnto
it
:
my
m●ny
is
not
much
,
and
you
well
able
to
discharge
it
,
the
day
of
paiment
is
past
,
and
I
haue
great
occasion
to
vse
it
,
my
losses
by
sea
,
and
ill
Creditors
by
land
,
make
me
strain
curtesse
with
my
friends
,
for
their
good
helpe
in
an
extremitie
,
yet
d●●
I
desire
nothing
but
my
due
:
but
as
I
was
readie
to
lend
,
I
would
be
glad
to
receiue
,
with
that
fulnesse
of
good
will
,
that
may
continue
our
kindnesse
.
I
write
not
this
,
as
doubting
your
discretion
,
but
t●
intreat
your
patience
,
if
your
purse
be
not
in
tune
:
for
were
I
as
I
haue
bene
,
and
hope
to
be
,
I
had
rather
beare
●oo
long
,
then
as●●
too
soone
,
especially
of
so
good
a
friend
,
as
I
haue
alwaies
found
of
your selfe
.
Consider
therefore
of
my
case
,
and
in
your
kindnes
answere
me
:
Time
is
pretious
,
and
therfore
least
by
disapointment
,
I
be
disfurnished
,
and
so
perhaps
discredited
,
I
pray
you
speed●
your
answere
:
which
,
howsoeuer
,
shall
be
welcome
:
and
therfore
,
●arnestly
intreating
you
,
to
helpe
me
now
,
that
I
may
the
better
●uil
your
kindnesse
hereafter
,
with
many
thankes
for
your
great
fauours
,
which
cannot
be
forgotten
to
be
deserued
:
I
take
my
leaue
further
at
this
time
to
trouble
you
,
but
will
rest
in
what
I
shall
be
able
euer
to
pleasure
you
,
to
make
you
know
how
much
I
loue
you
.
Your
louing
friend
at
commaund
.
T.
R.
The
debters
Answere
.
SIr
,
your
request
is
so
reasonable
,
and
your
kindnes
so
much
,
that
for
a
greater
matter
then
your
demand
,
if
my
purse
were
not
in
tune
,
I
would
strain
my
credit
very
farre
for
you
:
●eare
then
with
my
a
little
forgetfu●●es
of
my
day
,
and
thinke
it
●o
trouble
to
my
patience
,
to
be
put
in
minde
of
my
credit
:
your
sea
losses
I
am
sor●●
for
,
and
wish
your
recouery
by
land
.
Debters
that
will
not
pa●e
,
make
Cred●●ors
they
cannot
lend
:
but
for
my selfe
,
to
make
you
know
,
how
much
interest
you
haue
in
my
affection
,
let
me
tell
you
,
that
though
by
some
inexpected
expences
,
I
am
short
of
my
hoped
reckoning
,
yet
vpon
the
receit
of
your
Letter
,
I
haue
bene
th●s
carefull
for
you
:
your
money
I
haue
sent
you
,
and
as
much
more
for
so
long
time
,
I
will
lend
you
,
which
you
shall
rec●i●e
of
this
bearer
:
and
in
my
Letter
,
the
day
of
paiment
,
which
if
it
may
pleasure
you
so
much
as
I
wish
you
,
I
am
glad
I
had
it
for
you
:
how●oeuer
it
fall
out
,
vse
it
to
your
owne
discretion
:
and
so
far
be
alwaies
assured
of
my
loue
,
that
my
word
and
deed
shall
be
all
one
in
your
comfort
.
And
so
leauing
ceren●on●ous
complements
,
in
vnfained
good
will
,
I
rest
;
Alwaies
to
my
vttermost
power
.
Yours
as
mine
owne
.
D.
W.
A
Letter
of
Newes
.
TO
performe
my
promise
in
my
last
Letter
,
my
kinde
,
and
best
Couzen
,
you
shall
vnderstand
,
of
such
occurrents
,
as
I
heare
goe
currant
for
truth
:
I
heare
there
are
certaine
olde
people
,
that
speake
much
of
Prophecies
,
where
they
set
it
down●
for
a
certaine
rule
,
that
this
yeare
,
and
many
to
come
,
he
that
wants
mony
in
his
purse
,
and
a
friend
in
the
Court
,
may
walke
into
the
Country
,
and
picke
strawes
for
his
comfort
:
for
the
lawe
is
verie
daungerous
for
begging
,
and
Charitie
is
so
cold
,
that
the
poore
must
starue
,
rather
then
the
rich
will
want
.
Old
men
shall
neuer
be
young
againe
in
this
world
,
and
beautie
in
a
young
woman
,
will
not
let
her
know
her selfe
.
Honestie
without
wit
,
will
die
on
the
foole
,
and
craft
without
credit
,
will
labour
to
little
purpose
.
In
summe
,
there
will
be
a
great
plague
among
the
poore
with
lacke
of
mony
,
among
fooles
for
lacke
of
wit
,
and
knaues
,
for
lacke
of
honestie
:
but
it
may
be
,
Nature
may
alter
her
course
in
many
things
,
and
Prophecies
may
fall
out
in
contrarieties
.
Howsoeuer
it
be
,
welcome
that
comes
on
Gods
name
:
and
so
,
hoping
thou
louest
no
legerdemaine
,
nor
wil●●e
led
away
with
blind
Prophecies
,
writing
this
only
for
exercise
of
a
merry
humor
,
I
rest
.
Thine
what
mine
.
P.
R.
The
Answere
.
SUch
idle
Prophets
as
you
méete
with
,
haue
such
kind
of
matter
as
you
write
of
:
but
let
the
world
wagge
as
it
list
,
there
is
not
a
truer
wagge
in
the
worlde
then
thy selfe
:
and
were
it
not
,
that
I
feare
my
Letter
would
come
to
light
,
I
would
answer
you
in
your
kinde
.
But
to
be
short
,
let
me
tell
you
,
that
lawes
are
good
to
take
order
with
such
outlawes
,
as
after
prodigalitie
,
put
themselues
vpon
Charitie
.
And
yet
to
crosse
your
rule
of
little
experience
,
old
men
may
haue
young
humors
,
faire
wenches
,
put
wise
men
to
their
wittes
,
and
honestie
,
may
thriue
with
a
mean
trade
,
when
a
craftie
knaue
may
loose
by
his
c●●●ing
broking
.
As
for
the
plague
,
I
feare
me
it
is
neuer
from
you
:
for
if
neighbors
agree
,
yet
their
wiues
may
fall
out
:
and
while
the
poore
fret
,
and
the
riche
frowne
,
there
is
little
hope
of
health
,
where
the
world
is
so
out
of
quiet
.
And
therefore
hoping
that
you
haue
wit
inough
,
to
beware
the
knaue
and
the
foole
,
and
to
make
your
choise
of
best
company
:
wishing
your
continuance
of
your
good
humor
,
with
thankes
for
your
waggish
Letter
,
I
rest
,
in
our
old
league
.
Yours
as
mine
〈◊〉
.
R.
W.
A
Letter
of
perswading
to
marriage
.
DEare
Couzen
,
I
●oo
not
a
little
wonder
at
your
solitary
life
,
and
more
at
your
little
care
to
match
your selfe
in
marriage
with
some
virgin
worthy
your
loue
:
wil
you
leaue
the
world
without
memorie
of
your
name
,
your
inheritance
to
no
issue
of
your
owne
honour
,
and
runne
a
course
of
too
little
comfort●
Me●thinketh
,
that
your
knowledge
of
the
diuersitie
of
●ariet●●s
should
settle
your
content
vpon
some
especiall
vertue
:
what
if
some
women
be
aged
,
some
are
youthfull
,
and
some
fr●war●
,
other
may
be
kinde
:
and
some
wanton
,
there
are
better
stayed
:
and
some
sullains
,
some
are
louing
:
and
is
there
n●n●
can
fit
your
humor
?
God
forbid
:
the
lawe
of
Nature
,
the
lawe
of
Reason
,
the
lawe
of
God
doth
wil
it
,
that
loue
breed
encrease
by
a
vertuous
coniun●tion
,
which
cannot
be
performed
,
without
the
honor
of
this
course
.
Bastards
wil
be
witnesses
of
their
parents
wickednesse
,
when
natural
children
are
the
ioy
of
their
Fathers
:
and
●
a
true
louing
wife
,
is
worth
a
thousand
wilde
walkers
:
her
care
in
the
house
,
her
kindnes
at
the
Table
,
and
her
comfort
in
the
bed
,
are
pleasures
better
conceiued
then
expressed
:
fall
thē
ab●●rd
with
such
a
Bird
,
as
you
may
hold
for
your
Phoenix
,
and
thinke
thy
mind
at
best
libertie
when
it
is
●ree
fr●m
the
bandes
of
folly
.
In
●ne
,
let
me
intreat
thée
to
make
thy
house
a
home
,
thy
wi●e
thy
worldes
loue
,
and
thy
children
thine
earths
ioy
:
which
as
I
hope
●hou
wil●
be
glad
to
haue
,
I
shall
be
glad
to
see
.
For
good
spéede
whereof
,
in
hartie
praier
I
rest
.
Thy
louing
Co●●en
,
R.
W.
His
Answere
.
MY
kinde
Couzen
,
I
sée
you
are
better
redde
then
experienced
:
for
Batchellers
wiues
,
and
Maidens
chi●●ren
,
are
pretie
things
to
plaie
withall
:
but
he
that
knowes
many
daungers
,
wil
take
héed
of
all
.
A
wife
is
an
euerlasting
substance
,
which
if
it
be
not
of
the
better
nature
,
is
a
perillous
thing
to
meddle
●ithall
:
for
if
it
catch
hold
of
the
hands
,
it
may
put
the
heart
to
a
fore
paine
:
and
the
Phoenix
is
such
a
figure
,
as
if
I
must
find
hee
in
a
woman
,
I
feare
me
I
must
séeke
a
great
way
for
her
.
For
the
lawes
that
you
speake
of
,
I
yéeld
to
truth
,
but
loue
is
so
nice
an
humor
,
that
he
●l●ome
settles
in
a
place
:
for
Bastards
,
I
loue
not
the
bréed
:
and
better
children
wil
doo
well
when
they
come
:
For
bed
and
boord
,
and
those
trickes
,
let
them
ioy
in
them
that
haue
them
,
when
I
f●nd
time
I
wil
thinke
on
them
:
in
the
mean
time
,
more
at
quiet
in
my
lodging
with
a
friend
,
then
perhaps
I
may
be
at
home
with
a
wife
,
not
forswearing
marriage
,
nor
peasting
to
purgatory
,
in
stead
of
a
mistaken
paradise
:
wishing
thy
prayers
for
my
better
happinesse
,
then
loues
idlenesse
,
and
if
I
doo
marry
to
be
kindly
matched
:
I
rest
.
Thine
a●
mine
owne
.
D.
L.
A
Letter
of
vnkindnesse
vpon
a
deniall
of
a
Courtesie
.
IF
my
deserts
had
not
excéeded
my
desire
,
I
would
haue
hate●
the
nature
of
my
humor
,
which
loues
nothing
lesse
then
to
be
too
much
beholding
:
my
request
was
not
much
,
and
the
grant
but
easie
:
howsoeuer
for
ill
fashion
,
the
excuse
●ay
be
cunningly
framed
:
but
though
I
conceiue
vnkindnesse
in
this
course
,
I
can
rather
grieue
then
be
angry
:
for
I
wil
mistrust
my
wit
,
til
I
sée
too
much
of
my
sorrow
:
and
loue
my
friend
,
though
I
be
plaine
with
his
patience
:
be
content
therefore
rather
to
let
me
tell
you
of
my
discontent
,
then
to
couer
a
dissimulation
,
and
to
wish
your
better
regard
of
my
affection
,
then
to
giue
me
iust
cause
to
touch
the
care
of
your
discretion
,
which
in
denying
a
triflle
,
may
loose
a
greater
benefit
:
but
not
to
goe
too
farre
in
impatience
,
let
me
thus
grow
to
an
ende
:
Friendship
once
grounded
is
not
easily
remoued
:
and
therefore
being
assured
of
my
loue
,
beare
with
my
dislike
:
and
wherein
I
may
better
pleasure
you
,
doubt
not
the
ill
requi●all
of
vnkindnes
,
for
I
can
chide
and
not
be
angry
,
and
better
loue
you
,
then
tell
you
so
.
And
so
intreating
your
reasonable
answere
for
my
satisfaction
,
I
rest
:
all
displeasure
set
apart
.
Your
louing
friend
.
N.
S.
His
answere
.
YOur
humorous
kind
of
writing
,
puts
me
to
studie
for
an
Answere
:
for
your
anger
without
cause
,
may
moue
caul●
of
anger
:
you
know
you
might
commaund
what
I
am
,
and
will
you
haue
mor●
?
Conce●t
may
be
deceiued
,
and
so
kind●●sse
abused
,
and
suspition
of
impatience
hath
the
least
part
of
dis●r●●on
.
Excuses
are
idle
among
fr●●nds
,
and
therefore
words
shall
be
deferred
till
our
meeting
:
when
s●●ing
your
owne
f●ul●
,
you
will
not
thinke
amisse
of
your
friend
,
grieue
not
then
without
cause
,
nor
be
carried
away
with
conceit
:
and
as
you
know
my
nature
,
commaund
my
loue
,
which
is
farre
from
the
thought
to
make
a
friend
beholding
:
be
not
discontent
with
a
den●all
,
till
you
haue
better
reason
of
displeasure
,
but
measure
me
with
your
●●lfe
,
and
you
shall
finde
smal
cause
of
difference
:
if
there
be
any
,
let
kindnesse
dispute
it
,
reason
confesse
●t
,
an●
patience
b●●re
it
,
so
shall
friends
be
themselues
,
and
you
and
I
shall
not
fall
out
.
So
hoping
that
you
wil
sat●●fie
your selfe
with
this
answer●
,
ti●
we
m●●t
to
talke
further
of
the
matter
,
I
conclude
with
your
kindnes
,
and
rest
euer
.
Yours
,
as
you
kn●w
,
T.W.
A
Letter
to
an
vnthankfull
person
.
I
Haue
heard
that
a
Prince
sometime
ordeining
a
punishment
for
all
offences
,
le●t
Ingratitude
to
the
gods
to
plague
,
as
p●●●
man●
power
to
punish
●●ough
:
the
Tale
may
well
be
true
,
con●●dering
the
vilenesse
of
such
a
nature
,
as
I
thinke
the
●●ke
liueth
not
in
the
shape
of
man.
Couldest
thou
not
only
forget
,
but
abuse
my
kindnesse
,
and
so
make
a
monster
of
a
wicked
shadow
:
I
could
not
haue
beleeued
it
,
had
I
not
too
we●l
proue●
it
:
but
I
wish
you
would
leaue
the
humor
,
least
it
make
a
lo●thsome
nature
:
and
though
I
wil
not
reuenge
a
wrong
vpon
a
〈…〉
to
much
basenesse
,
yet
wil
I
learne
to
know
the
condition
of
so
much
vilenesse
,
and
as
well
warne
my
friends
from
an
enemy
,
as
further
abuse
mine
own
wit
with
so
mistaking
of
a
friend
,
In
briefe
therefore
,
let
me
tell
you
,
as
I
know
you
,
I
regard
you
,
and
as
I
found
you
I
leaue
you
,
as
one
fit
,
if
there
lacked
a
Card
,
to
put
in
the
stock
for
a
wicked
help
.
And
so
sorie
to
haue
lost
so
much
time
to
write
to
you
,
I
wish
all
the
world
that
knowes
you
,
to
hate
you
.
Your
enemy
from
the
heart
.
D.
M.
His
answere
.
HOw
straungely
men
will
write
,
that
impatience
doth
put
out
of
order
?
a
good
turne
is
lost
,
when
it
is
cast
in
the
receiuers
teethe
:
and
abuse
misconceiued
,
can
hardly
be
well
excused
:
consider
better
of
what
is
done
,
then
wrong
the
meaning
of
a
good
minde
,
and
you
shall
finde
without
excuse
,
no
true
cause
of
displeasure
:
If
the
information
of
malice
haue
moued
choller
without
iudgement
,
poore
men
must
endure
the
misery
of
euill
fortune
:
against
my selfe
I
wil
confesse
nothing
,
but
referre
time
to
decide
all
doubts
,
when
Truth
shall
put
the
differences
betwixt
a
shadow
and
a
better
substance
.
So
leauing
ill
humors
to
like
mindes
,
and
good
thoughts
to
better
natures
,
hoping
to
finde
you
your selfe
,
which
wil
be
farre
inough
from
that
you
write
:
In
spight
of
the
diuel
I
commit
you
to
God
:
and
so
rest
.
Your
friend
whether
you
will
or
no●
.
D.
R.
A
Letter
to
laugh
at
,
after
the
old
fashion
of
〈◊〉
:
to
a
Maide
.
AFter
my
hartic
commendations
,
trusting
in
God
that
you
are
in
good
health
as
I
was
a●
the
writing
●●r●o●
,
with
my
Father
and
my
Mother
,
my
bro●hers
and
sisters
,
and
all
my
good
friends
,
thankes
be
to
God.
The
cause
of
my
writing
to
you
at
this
time
is
,
that
E●len
,
I
do
hear
since
my
●●●●ing
from
Wakefield
,
when
you
know
,
what
ta●ke
●re
bad
together
at
the
sign●
of
the
ble●
Cuc●oe
,
and
how
you
did
gi●e
me
your
hand
,
and
swear
that
you
would
not
forsake
me
for
all
the
wo●●de
,
and
how
you
made
me
buy
a
Ki●ng
and
a
●art
,
that
cost
me
right●●●e
pene●
,
which
I
left
with
you
,
and
you
gaue
me
a
Napkin
to
wear●●n
my
●●t
,
I
thanke
you
,
which
I
will
weare
to
my
dying
day●●nd
I
〈◊〉
if
it
be
true
as
I
heare
,
that
you
haue
alt●red
your
minde
,
and
are
made
sore
to
my
neighbour
Hob●ins
younger
sonne
,
truly
Ellen
you
do
not
wel●
in
so
doing
,
and
God
wil
p●a●●e
you
for
it
,
and
I
hope
I
shall
liue
and
if
I
neuer
haue
you
:
for
there
are
mo●e
maides
the●
Maulkin
▪
and
I
count
my selfe
worth
the
whis●ing
.
And
therefore
praying
you
to
write
me
your
answer
by
th●s
bearer
my
friend
,
touching
the
truth
of
all
,
how
the
matter
●t●nd●
with
you
,
I
com●●●
you
to
God.
From
Ca●lo●
gr●●ne
.
Your
true
Lo●er
.
R.
P.
Her
Answere
.
T●uly
Roger
,
I
did
not
looke
for
such
a
Letter
from
your
hands
,
I
would
you
should
know
,
I
scorne
it
:
Haue
I
gotten
my
Father
and
Mothers
ill
will
for
you
,
to
be
so
vsed
at
your
hands
▪
I
p●rceiue
●
you
be
so
Iealous
alreadie
,
you
would
be
somewhat
an
other
day
,
I
am
glad
I
finde
you
,
that
you
can
beleeue
any
thing
of
me
:
but
t
is
no
matter
,
I
care
not
:
send
me
my
Napkin
,
and
you
shall
h●ue
your
King
and
your
Hart
,
for
I
can
haue
enough
and
I
neuer
see
you
more
:
for
there
are
more
Batchelers
then
Roger
,
and
my
peny
is
as
good
siluer
as
yours
:
and
therefore
séeing
you
are
so
lustie
,
euen
put
vp
your
pipes
,
for
I
will
haue
no
more
to
do
with
you
:
And
so
●nsaying
all
that
euer
hath
bene
said
betwixt
us
,
make
your
choyse
where
you
list
,
I
know
where
to
be
loued
:
and
so
I
end
.
From
Wakefield
.
M.
R.
FINIS
.