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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Example of an Epistle of Grauitie.

AN epistle of Grauitie, as is before sayd, must bee of Morall or Ciuill matter, ten∣ding to honour: as to say thus. Sir, seing that the publike weale is to be preferred before particular profit, how can we honestly refuse this com∣bat? And if for the maynteining of

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the faith of Iesus Christe against the Turke, we ought to spare neither bo∣die nor goodes: what may be sayde of the refusall, delay, or suttle rea∣sons, but that we be cowardes, tray∣tours, wicked heretikes, and worthy of perpetuall reproch? For my parte I will rather quite abandone and put all in daunger, than otherwise: The which I also request and counsell you to doe, to the ende that we may gette euerlasting honour, &c.

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