107

Of the breaking of your wordes of many sillables, & when & how
it is to be vsed. 108

The Table of the third booke.

Of ornament poeticall and that it resteth in figures. 114

How our writing & speeches publique ought to be figuratiue,
and if they be not doo greatly disgrace the cause and
purpose of the speaker and writer. 115

How ornament poeticall is of two sortes according to the
double nature and efficacy of figures. 119

Of language and what speech our maker ought to vse. 119

Of stile, and that it is of three kindes, loftie, meane,
and low according to the nature of the subiect. 123

Of the loftie, meane, and low subiect. 127

Of figures and figuratiue speeches. 128

Sixe points set downe by our learned forefathers for a generall
rule or regiment of all good vtterance, be it by mouth or by
writing. 129

How the Greekes first and afterwardes the Latines inuented
new names for euery figure, which this Author is also enforced
to do in his vulgar arte. 130

A diuision of figures and how they serue in exornation of language. 131

Of Auricular figures apperteyning to single words and working by
their diuers sounds and audible tunes, alteration to the eare
onely and not to the minde. 134

Of Auricular figures perteyning to clawses of speech, and by
them working no little alteration to the eare. 135

Of Auricular figures working by disorder. 140

Of Auricular figures working by surplusage. 141

Of Auricular figures working by exchange. 142

Of Auricular figures that serue to make the meetre tuneable and
melodious, but not by defect nor surplusage, disorder nor exchange. 145

The names of your figures Auricular.

Eclipsis, _or the figure of default._ 136
Zeugma, _or the single supply._ 136
Prozeugma, _or the ringleader._ 137
Mezozeugma, _or the middlemarcher._ 137
Hypozeugma, _or the re