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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Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
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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 21, 2025.
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The Example.
I Haue receued the letters which it ple∣sed
you to write vnto me (my singular
& perfect frend) by the which I perceiue
the desire, affection, & confidēce that you
haue in me, concerning the guiding of
your cause, & the matter of the allowing
of the kings letters, obteyned for you a∣gainst
such a one &c. I aduertise you, that
not onely for the good & iust action yt you
haue in this mater, wherunto euery ver¦tuous
man ought to shew fauor: but also
for the singular loue frō the time of our
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youth mutually cōsidered, (my dere frēd)
I accord vnto you, not onely for ye which
you require me, but also for all other fa∣uor
& seruice, euen as one frend ought to
do vnto an other. In such sort yt you shall
not perceiue in me any signe of apperāce
to refuse that labour. For I will wholly
& altogether endeuour my selfe for you
in this affaire, euen as for myne owne:
yea you shal vnderstand (God to frende)
that I wil do more & better therein than
I am able presently to speake or write.
Certifying you (my singuler frend) that
I am redy to fulfill your desire & cōman∣dement,
wherevnto soeuer it shall please
you to assigne me, and that nothing shal
more reioyce me, than to perceiue by you
to haue done any thing that doth please
and content you. &c.
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