The English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599) / With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required

WITH A declaration of such Tropes , Figures , and Schemes , as either vsually or for ornament sake are therin required.
Also the parts and office of a Secretarie ,
Deuided into two bookes.
Now newly reuised and in many parts cor- rected and amended:
By Angel Day.
AT LONDON Printed by P. S. for C. Burbie and are to be sold at his shop, at the Royall Exchange. 1599.
T is now a fewe yeares passed (Right Honourable, & my very good Lord) since emboldned by your fauour, this booke rudely digested, and then roughly deliuered, I did in the very nonage thereof recōmend vnto your Patronage. And howbeit at that time, very little therin appeared worthy so honourable acceptance: yet pleased it your L. the same should then passe vnder your fauourable countenance.
To answer so great bountie therein shewed, I haue naught but my simple acknowledgement: and in signification of the will I haue to do vnto your Lordship any acceptable seruice, no other matter in shew, then a fresh renouation of the selfe same title by an other presentment, howbeit in far more orderly manner then formerly was deliuered.
Your Lordship may please of your owne ennobled condition to well dooing, in pardoning the presumption of the former, to vouchsafe your liking to this latter, wherein (notwithstanding the title all one) yet shall you finde the worke both in order, habit and shape, to be diuersly chaunged.
To excuse the defecte of the one, or enlarge my paines taken in publishing the other, were on either part needlesse: seeing my desire in both, hath principally sorted to one self meaning: If your L. find ought herein answerable to your iudgmēt, it is inough: and the vsers shall thereby (I hope) finde more cause to be satisfied. The wisest of all ages, haue not at one instant collected their experience: Plato in his first original was nothing so diuine: Socrates in his cradle had no taste of his after wisdome: Hercules past many yeres ere he grew famed by his labors, & onely vse and practize enableth vnto the greatest perfection.