LXXVII. A letter to a friend upon his marriage.
SIR.
I Have of late with held from you the Characters of my hand, though not the welwishes of my
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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heart, conceiving you as close in the pursuit of your fair Daphne, as Phabus was of his, when the breath of his mouth disorder'd her disshei∣veld hair: For I perceive you have now ran so, as happily to take the Virgin-prize; may you be ever mutually happy. There now onely remains the metamorphosis (not into the Beast with two backs, which the knavish Shakespear speaks of) but of that more ingenious, two into one, unus, una, into unum, which you have hinted so modestly in yours. Your Daphne I hope (before the arri∣vall of this paper) will be converted not onely into Bayes, but Rosemary, which is one fragrancy, due to her perfections (if you have (as I doubt not) given her a true Character) more then the Poet gave Apollo's Mistress; Let this therefore suffice to give you both the parabien of Hymen's honours and felicities, and to let you know I shall both expect and be ambitious to wear a sprig in honour of her, nor will I faile heartily to commend you both to the great President of the wedding of Cana in Galilee, that he may turn the bitter Waters of your long expectation into the Wine of a happy and contented life, made up with the blessing of a good and pious posterity. In which devotion I affectionately rest
Sir,
Your humble servant, H.T.