[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.


