The vvife writeth vnto hir Husband
ENtirely beloued Husbande, after a thousand commendations vnto you, wyth the desyre of your health and wel∣fare rather than myne owne. &c.
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 20, 2025.
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Synce your departure hence, God kno∣weth in how many careful cogitations & thoughts I haue lyued: and certainly in all my tribulations through your ab∣sence, I haue found none greater than in one whole yeare with much a doe to haue receiued from you onely two short Letters. It may be yt some great affaires of the Court would not permit you time to write, or peraduenture that no care of vs doeth prick you forwarde. These ve∣rily were not your promises made vnto me at your departure. It may please you to vnderstand, that our two children are in good Health, and encrease in stature, but not in maners, which to them should appertayne: we are riche of substaunce more than otherwise, therfore take heede least couetousnesse doe surmount & ouer∣come you: For riches wil be small orna∣ments for our Children, without the brightnes of some vertues. Besides this, forget you not yt I haue not any lacke of things necessary for lyuing: but know ye that I am a wife, and that yong, not better nor worse than other. Therefore
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I beséech and require you that you will come vnto vs, for we haue great néede of you, & not of money: ••nd thus with gret desyre doe we attend for you: beseching God to blesse you & prosper your affairs.
Your faythfull Spouse. &c.