The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.

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The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
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London :: Printed by T.N. for Humphrey Moseley ...,
1654.
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XLIII. A conceited letter of thanks for favours.

SIR.

YOu know that I (with friendship and affection my sureties) stand already bound to you in an obligation, for requitall of a larger summe of fa∣vours, then my poore abilities can any wayes sa∣tisfy, yet now you make a large addition to the principall debt by— Till fortune better enable mee, I much beg your acceptance of thankfulnes, which I designe in liew of interest, and (for you better

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security) my Bond renewed for the rest, with the addition of another surety, my service, seald with the privy signet of my love, attested by two witnes∣ses, gratitude and acknowledgment, and subscribed by

Sir,

Your faithfull servant, T. B.

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