The enimie of idlenesse teaching the maner and stile how to endite, compose and write all sorts of epistles and letters: as well by answer, as otherwise. Deuided into foure bokes, no lesse plesaunt than profitable. Set forth in English by William Fulwood marchant, &c. The contentes hereof appere in the table at the latter ende of the booke.
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The enimie of idlenesse teaching the maner and stile how to endite, compose and write all sorts of epistles and letters: as well by answer, as otherwise. Deuided into foure bokes, no lesse plesaunt than profitable. Set forth in English by William Fulwood marchant, &c. The contentes hereof appere in the table at the latter ende of the booke.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Bynneman, for Leonard Maylard,
Anno 1568.
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"The enimie of idlenesse teaching the maner and stile how to endite, compose and write all sorts of epistles and letters: as well by answer, as otherwise. Deuided into foure bokes, no lesse plesaunt than profitable. Set forth in English by William Fulwood marchant, &c. The contentes hereof appere in the table at the latter ende of the booke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68079.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.
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Denys the tyrant, vvriteth to the
Burgesses of Naples.
WHosoeuer denieth his soueraigne
that which iustly to him is due,* 1.1 is
altogether vnexcusable: For the soue∣raigne
Lord may and ought for the af∣faires
of him and his cuntrey demande
ayde of his subiectes, for to cōserue them
in peace, seing that for them he daily ha∣zardeth
him selfe in a thousand perils of
death.* 1.2 Now so it is that I haue deman∣ded
of you an hundreth thousand duc∣kats,
and ten thousand men, for to make
warre vpon the king of Chipre: which
demaund you wold not, or else haue dis∣dayned
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to vnderstand,* 1.3 much lesse to ac∣complish:
1 waying then the othe that
you made vnto me, I thought you wold
haue kept promise and fealtie: 2 & con∣sidering
also that you are not ignorant
of the great necessitie yt I haue bothe of
men & money, for the which I haue oftē
sommoned and required you. Therefore
seing your infidelitie and rebellion,* 1.4 I ac∣compt
you as enimies, and haue deter∣mined
to extend vpon you myne indig∣nation
and crueltie, euen to the abando∣ning
and ransacking of you and your
Citie, by fyer and sworde, and generall
pillage of all your goods without any fa∣uor
or pardō, the which thing you might
haue auoyded by loue, fidelitie, and obe∣dience.