The Arte of English Poesie eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 355 pages of information about The Arte of English Poesie.

The Arte of English Poesie eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 355 pages of information about The Arte of English Poesie.

  [Sidenote:  Zeugma or the Single supply.]
But if it be to mo clauses then one, that some such word be supplied to perfit the congruitie or sence of them all, it is by the figure [Zeugma] we call him the [single supplie] because by one word we serue many clauses of one congruitie, and may be likened to the man that serues many maisters at once, but all of one country or kindred:  as to say
  Fellowes, and friends and kinne forsooke me quite.

Here this word forsooke satisfieth the congruitie and sence of all three
clauses, which would require euery of them asmuch.  And as we setting forth
her Maiesties regall petigree said in this figure of [Single supplie.]
  Her graundsires Father and Brother was a King
  Her mother a crowned Queene, her Sister and her selfe.

Whereas ye see this one Word [was] serues them all in that they require but one congruitie and sence.

  [Sidenote:  Prozeugma, or the Ringleader.]
Yet hath this figure of [Single supply] another propertie, occasioning him to change now and then his name:  by the order of his supplie, for if it be placed in the forefront of all the seuerall clauses whom he is to serue as a common seruitour, then is he called by the Greeks Prozeugma, by vs the Ringleader:  thus
  Her beautie perst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart;
  Her presence all the powers of my discourse. &c.

Where ye see this one word [perst] placed in the foreward, satisfieth both in sence & congruitie all those other clauses that followe him.

  [Sidenote:  Mezozeugma, or the Middlemarcher.]
And if such word of supplie be placed in the middle of all such clauses as he serues:  it is by the Greeks called Mezozeugma, by us the [Middlemarcher] thus: 
  Faire maydes beautie (alack) with yeares it weares away,
  And with wether and sicknes, and sorrow as they say.

Where ye see this word [weares] serues one clause before him, and two clauses behind him, in one and the same sence and congruitie.  And in this verse,
  Either the troth or talke nothing at all.

Where this word [talke] serues the clause before and also behind.

  [Sidenote:  Hypozeugma, or the Rerewarder.]
But if such supplie be placed after all the clauses, and not before nor in the middle, then is he called by the Greeks Hypozeugma, and by vs the [Rerewarder] thus: 
  My mates that wont, to keepe me companie
  And my neighbours, who dwelt next to my wall
  The friends that sware, they would not sticke to die
  In my quarrell:  they are fled from me all.

Where ye see this word [fled from me] serue all the three clauses requiring but one congruitie & sence.

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