The exhortation of a Captaine vnto his Souldiers.
ALthough Nature alwayes appoyn∣teth some puissant person, for ne∣cessarie occasion to gouerne the subiect people in due obseruance of order, yet
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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- Anno 1568.
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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 25, 2025.
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synce the tyme that I haue ben amongst you in the administration of warfare, I do not esteme my selfe your superiour, but equal, for that no exercise hath more néede of skill and counsel, than warfare. You therfore my soueraigne Souldiers enforce your selues with all louing dili∣gence, to subdue and bring downe these barbarous people, not so furious as per∣uerse, at all tymes and in all places our great enimies: For which occasion in this warre shew your selues not onely frendes and defenders of our King, but also tutours and carefull prouiders for your selues, & preseruers of your wiues children, and goods &c.