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.

The Example: vvherein Caesar com∣forteth Appius, touching the content of the letters here before written.

I Haue receiued thy Letters (right re∣dowted Knight Appius) which haue so much greued my heart that I can not expresse it: yea I should haue sustained the iniury which was done vnto thée more paciently, if Tully had done it vn∣to me: & verily I know how vnhonestly

he behaued himselfe in thy cause, before the Senate, who through corruptions, against God and Iustice, caused thée to lose thy matter: which thing semed vn∣to me very strange at the first sight, to think how he ••urst do it, considering the great good dedes that thou hast done vn∣to him. For by that meanes, in y^e iudge∣ment of all good men, he is greatly boūd vnto thée, and therfore they wold scarce beleue that he would offend thée: But when I perceiued through thy Letters his greate mischiefe, I made it manifest vnto most of them, who are very ill con∣tent with him, and are as much displesed and as sory euen as I my self. But Ap∣pius, when I consider the malice and in∣iquitie of Tully, and that therefore in the ende he shall susteyne more dishonor and damage thā the hurt which he hath done vnto thée doth amoūt vnto, I then reioyce and comfort my selfe. For his ingratitude knowē, euery one wil mock him, and will bewayle thy damage, and by that meanes thy honor shall encrease, and in the ende shal haue victory & glori∣ous

triumph my selfe to reduce him to thy seruice, shewing him his fault. And I promise thée that I will not cease, vn∣till such time that I haue reduced thée victorious, and ioyfull: and therefore I pray thée spare me not in any thing that I may pleasure thée.