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 23, 2025.

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To shew thy selfe sorowfull for the misfortune of thy friende.

WE ought alwayes to participate with our frends of euery fortune that hapneth vnto them. Hauing there∣fore within these few dayes had vnder∣stāding, that you were robbed, I receiue such displeasure and griefe, as of dutie ought euery good & perfect frend one for another. But bicause I know yt it is not nedefull to comfort them which are of them selues by wisdome comforted, I will not enlarge any further, but onely desyre you to haue pacience in such mis∣fortune, as requireth your singular pru∣dence: wherunto I commit you &c.

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