[Sidenote:  Aposiopesis, or the Figure of silence.]
If we doo interrupt our speech for feare, this may be an example, where as one durst not make the true report as it was, but staid halfe way for feare of offence, thus: 
  He said you were, I dare not tell you plaine
  For words once out, neuer returne againe.

If it be for shame, or that the speaker suppose it would be indecent to
tell all, then thus:  as he that said to his sweete hart, whom he checked
for secretly whispering with a suspected person.
  And did ye not come by his chamber dore? 
  And tell him that:  goe to, I say no more.

If it be for anger or by way of manace or to show a moderation of wrath as
the graue and discreeter sort of men do, then thus.
  If I take you with such another cast
  I sweare by God, but let this be the last.

Thinking to haue said further viz.  I will punish you.

If it be for none of all these causes but vpon some sodaine occasion that
moues a man to breake of his tale, then thus.
  He told me all at large:  lo yonder is the man
  Let himselfe tell the tale that best tell can.

This figure is fit for phantasticall heads and such as be sodaine or lacke memorie.  I know one of good learning that greatly blemisheth his discretion with this maner of speach:  for if he be in the grauest matter of the world talking, he will vpon the sodaine for the flying of a bird ouerthwart the way, or some other such sleight cause, interrupt his tale and neuer returne to it againe.

  [Sidenote:  Prolepsis, or the Propounder.]
Ye haue yet another maner of speach purporting at the first blush a defect which afterward is supplied the, Greekes call him Prolepsis, we the Propounder, or the Explaner which ye will:  because he workes both effectes, as thus, where in certaine verses we describe the triumphant enter-view of two great Princesses thus.
  These two great Queenes, came marching hand in hand,
  Vunto the hall, where store of Princes stand: 
  And people of all countreys to behold,
  Coronis all clad, in purple cloth of gold: 
  Celiar in robes, of siluer tissew white
  With rich rubies, and pearles all bedighte.

Here ye see the first proposition in a sort defectiue and of imperfect sence, till ye come by diuision to explane and enlarge it, but if we should follow the originall right, we ought rather to call him the forestaller, for like as he that standes in the market way, and takes all vp before it come to the market in grosse and sells it by retaile, so by this maner of speach our maker setts down before all the matter by a brief proposition, and afterward explanes it by a diuision more particularly.

By this other example it appeares also.
  Then deare Lady I pray you let it bee,
  That our long loue may lead us to agree: 
  Me since I may not wed you to my wife,
  To serue you as a mistresse all my life: 
  Ye that may not me for your husband haue,
  To clayme me for your seruant and your slaue.