A COPY BOOK Enriched with great Variety Of the most Useful and Modish Hands.

ADORNED With a whole Alphabet of Great Letters (One before every Example.)

Composed of divers New-devised KNOTS, and beautified with many other curious Shapes and Flourishes.

Fitted for the PROFIT and DELIGHT of INGENIOƲS YOƲTH.

By Thomas Watson, Teacher of a Writing-School in Newport-Pagnell in the County of Bucks.

Note, That to the several sorts of Hands in this Book, there is a Compleat Alphabet peradventure not heretofore practised in any other Copy-Book

A COPY BOOK Enriched with Great Variety Of the most Ʋsefull & Modish Hands ADORNED, With a whole Alphabet of Great Letters, (One before every Exam­ple), Composed of divers New devised Knots, and beautified with many other Curious Shapes & Florishes Fitted for the Profit and Delight of Ingenious Youth BY THOMAS WATSON Teacher of a Writing School at Newport Pagnell in the County of Bucks

London printed for NATHANIEIL PONDER at the Peacock in ye Poultry

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Begin not any thing before good Advisement and mature con­sideration but when thou hast oute begun be carefull speedily to dispatch it; and remember that small faults if not timely prevented in ye beginning will prove great errors in the end

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Bee it knowne unto all men by these presents that I Daniel Manwaring of Limmington in the County of Sommerton Yeoman am holden and firmly bound unto Nathanael Hammond Citizen and Jronmounger of London in ye Sum of One Thousand Six hundred ninety four pounds

C

Consider the shortnese of Life: and the certainty of judg­ment; the great reward of the good, and severe punish­ment of the wicked: there­fore make [...]en with Hea­ven by repentance at the end of every day and so you shall haue but one day to repent of be­fore yo: death

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Converse only with such Persons by whome you may best accomplish your selfe for Vertue never returnes with so with a Cargo as when it sets saile from such Continents; Company being like severall Climates which oftentimes changes young travellers complexi­ons

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D D

Deus est Splendor nunquam deficiens Vita indefessa non moriens, fons semper staturiens seminale vita, seminarium sapientia, Principale Principium, initiale Bonitatis initium.

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Dissimulation is an evill humour of the Mind contrary to all honestie and huma­nitie it is a countenance: evermore disa­greeing from the imagination of ye heart and a most notorious lyer in whatsoever it propoundeth.

Diligence alone is a commendable qualifi­cation, and industry a substantiall durable fortune. Idleness is the spawne of Lust, and waste▪ a man as insensibly as Diligence doth improue him.

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Externall Fortunes may befall most unworthy Persons but a mans owne solid worth is that which will gaine him true titles of Honour and an everlasting Fame.

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Friendship is a sacred thing and deserves our dearest acknowledgments: a Friend is a great comfort in solitude, and a most excellent Assistant in buisness.

Favorinus interrogatus qua ratione potissimum quis assequi posset ut apud homines honestam haberet Famam? Si loquatur inquit qua sunt Optima et faciat qua sunt honestis­sima Quid diu poterat brevius ac rursus quid absolutius si quidem futis parla gloria.

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God makes the Pen his Herauld to proclaime
The splendid Glories of his Workes and Fame
Heavens sacred Oracles the life of Mens
Jmmortall Souls by the conserve of Pens
Haue bin from old Times infancy kept pure
And shall to round Eternity endure
H

H H

Honours may leave their Owners Riches may
Assume swift wings and quickly fly away
Pleasure like lightning but salutes our Eyes
With one bright Flash and then falls sick & dyes
But Learning and the knowledge of rare Arts
That Man the most enjoyes that most imparts
Endeavour therefore that your Breast & Brain
The best of Learnings Treasures may retain

Humilitie is a voluntary inclination of the Mind grounded upon a perfect Knowledge of our own Condition A vertue by which a Man in the most true consideration of his inward Qualities maketh least Account of Himself

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Jn times of Prosperity Friends they are plenty
But in Adversity not One among Twenty

It is a memorable passage of Queen Eli­zabeth whome Bishop Gardiner in her Sisters Reigne designed to put to death being asked the meaning of these words This is my Body whether she thought that was Christs body or no after a little pauze is reported to haue returned this Answer

Christ was the Word that spake it
He tooke the Bread and brake it
And what the Word did make it
That J belieue and take it
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Knowledge and Learning was esteemed of so much vallue by Alexander the great that he [...] himselfe to be more indebted [...] [...]ing him Learning then to his Father [...]

Knowledge imploy'd improves the ingenious mind
And Learnings beames illuminate the blind
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Let it be your Ambition to be wise and your Wisdome to be good Reject Opinion and You are like a Ship rideing at Anchor in a safe Harbour

Learning is the temperance of Youth and the Comfort of old Age standing for wealth to Men in poverty and serving for an Ornament to Riches

Luxuria, est immoderata Carnis Petulantia, dulce Ʋenenum, importuna Lues pernitiosa potio quae humanum Corpus debilitat

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N [...] [...]lan [...]ing Praise nor flowr'd Encomiums prize
the most deser [...]ing are most humbly wise

NEVER undertake any base or unwarrantable Action. Hate nothing but what is dishonest. Feare nothing but what is [...]ordid or ignoble. And love nothing but what is very just and honourable.

Now bend your mind fair Writing to attain
Your present pains will prove your future gain
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Opportunity is providentially presented to every Man which if not immediatly received vanishes in a moment The onely way to raise our for­tunes is to [...]a [...] [...]e d [...] Time

Opinions guide our passions & affections And all our fan [...]ies follow her directions

Observe these Rules & measures whereby you may best preserve your Reputation, if that be once lost you are like a Cancelled Writing of noe use nor vallue

Thy Credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone
Being gott by many▪ be [...]s lost by one
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Poverty is for the most part but a Creature of the Phansie being Imagined and Feared where it really is not. For he is not poorest that posses­seth least but he that wanteth most.

Quiet the troubles of thy mind,
Disturb'd by Crosses, doubts, & fears
With thoughts of heaven wch: thou shalt find
Will pay for all thy sighs and teares
'Tis but a while & suffering saints shal be
With glory crown'd to all Eternity.
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Reckon your Age from the birth of your Vertue

He that lives viciously may write beast but not Man

Religion is the stay of the Weake the Master of the Ignorant, the Philosophy of the Simple, the Oratory of the Devout, the Remedy of Sinne, the Counsel of the just, and the Comfort of the troubled. Aabcdeffghiklmnopqrsstuwxyz

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Serve God and keep his mandements for that is the true Wisdome which will at last [...]rowne your Endeavoures with Eternall Happiness

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The Rich Man lives hap­pily so long as he useth his Riches temperately And the poor man who patienly endur­eth his want is Rich enough

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Vertue is ye queen of labourers opinion the mistress of fools and contention the overthrow of families

Carolus Secundus Dei Gratia Anglice. Scotice Francice et. Hibernice Rex Fidei Defensor &c

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Deo gloria.

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Note that in Writeing Chancery hand Itt is vsuall to make many abreviatōns in Words and to Write them short as for Example ar armiger bre breve dtūs dictus ext extra fris fratris gris gratis And many more

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