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 Daughter maketh answere vnto hir Mother.

DEre and welbeloued Mother, after most humble and reuerent commen∣dations with the desyre of your long life &c. Through your last briefe Letters I am become altogither melancholike and sorowful: & that not for the occasiō sprin∣geth of you, but of the vnpappynesse of y^e wicked world. Verily with most-hum∣ble obedience, I receiue al those admoni∣tions which come from you my discret•• mother. Hippolit, as we reade in the auncient histories, bicause he would not consent to Thaedra his horrible Mother, was by hir occasion cruelly put to death,

without deserts: so I by the pestiferous tongues of others, am innocently sclaun∣dered. Wherfore hearkē I pray you my déere Mother, you know Clare very wel, who hath a brother .xxiiij. yeares olde, a dronkard, euill taught, a gamner, and a glutton, these two yeares hath he by let∣ters, gifts and promises gon about disho∣nestly to tempt me, and this doeth he not somuch for his owne desyre, as for the wicked will of his Sister Clare, who being about .xxx. yeares of age and richly maryed, but vnto an olde man, is very li∣berall of hir loue vnto who so euer de∣maundeth it. And bicause that she is my neighbour, she wold gladly haue me ioy∣ned in loue with hir brother: but that shall notwithstanding nothing preuayle him, though mistrustfull persons speake their pleasure. No more at this time, you vnderstande me well. God prosper and preserue you.

Your obedient and lo∣uing Daughter. &c.