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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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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 24, 2025.

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Hovv to vvrite by maner of Com∣plaint or lamentation, for an iniury receiued.

IN such a case we must first get the good wil of him vnto whom we write, by reducing to his me∣mory the cause wherefore we are moued and prouoked to let him vnderstād of our estate. Second∣ly,

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we must make honest remon∣stration and reci••all of the wrong that our aduersary hath done vn∣to vs, by reprouing him of ingra∣titude, or some other villanous vice. Thirdly we must require counsayle, comfort, ayde, or de∣maunde his counsayle, offring in lyke maner. &c.

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