An answere vnto the second Letter.
SIr, your message is vnto mee as strange as your selfe, who are vnto me a stranger, & what your good meaning vnto me is, I knowe not, for giuing of hastie credite to your assertions, as you seem not to chalenge it, so was I neuer hetherto of my self so hastie to do it, hauing eftsoones bene taught, that of fairest speaches ensueth often the fowlest actions: I cannot condemne your purpose, because I entende the best of your dealings, and howbeit I am in no point so restrained, but that in all reasonable sort that may be, anie accesse may be granted: so when you shall by further notice sufficientlie make apparant that with modestie I may doe it, I shall bee willing so farre foorth as my yeares and present beeing, may minister occasion, in anie thankfull requitall that may bee to yeelde my selfe vnto you. Till which time I returne your token againe and my hartie thankes vnto you by this bearer.
Your friend as one vnacquainted
hetherto may be, &c.
THE SECOND PART OF
the English Secretorie.
Of Epistles Iudiciall. Chap 1.
S I haue already exampled vnto you all sortes of Epistles, contained vnder the two titles of Demonstratiue, and Deliberatiue: So by the order and disposition formerlie vsed, it behooueth (as nexte in course) I doe nowe come vnto the title Iudiciall. Why this title is so called, I haue in that other booke alreadie deliuered. So that nowe it may séeme fit, that herein as in the other twaine before going, we deliberate what order and places for the well handling and proper conueyance of Epistles, are principallie to be obserued.
You shall then vnderstand, that for so much as the efficacie of this title is wholie caried in cause of Accusation, Inuectiue, Charge, or defence, the matters whereof are wholie censured by lawe, by common reputation, by custome, by authoritie or by iudgement, the Rhetoricians, for the more excellent setting foorth of the Oratoriec partes hereof, haue vnto the generalitie of the same, allotted thrée states or principall heades, whereout by imitation, all our Epistles vnder this title are wholie to be caried. The first is called Coniecturall, that is, where a matter by coniecture onlie of time, place, estate, or condition of the person, or other likelihoodes to the same agréeing, may be supposed or enforced.