For I tooke my leaue and kist her: And yet I
cannot well say whether a man vse to kisse before
hee take his leaue, or take his leaue before he kisse,
or that it be all one busines. It seemes the taking
leaue is by vsing some speach, intreating licence
of departure: the kisse a knitting vp of the
farewell, and as it were a testimoniall of the licence
without which here in England one may not presume
of courtesie to depart, let yong Courtiers decide
this controuersie. One describing his landing
vpon a strange coast, sayd thus preposterously.
When we had climbde the clifs, and
were a shore,
Whereas he should haue said by good order.
When we were come ashore and clymed
had the cliffs
For one must be on land ere he can clime. And
as another said:
My dame that bred me up and bare me
in her wombe.
Whereas the bearing is before the bringing vp. All your other figures of disorder because they rather seeme deformities then bewties of language, for so many of them as be notoriously vndecent, and make no good harmony, I place them in the Chapter of vices hereafter following.
CHAP. XIIII.
Of your figures Auricular that worke by Surplusage.
Your figures auricular that worke by surplusage, such of them as be materiall and of importaunce to the sence or bewtie of your language, I referre them to the harmonicall speaches oratours among the figures rhetoricall, as be those of repetition, and iteration or amplification. All other sorts of surplusage, I accompt rather vicious then figuratiue, & therefore not melodious as shalbe remembred in the chapter of viciosities or faultie speaches.
CHAP. XV.
Of auricular figures working by exchange.
[Sidenote: Enallage, or the Figure of Exchange.] Your figures that worke auricularly by exchange, were more obseruable to the Greekes and Latines for the brauenesse of their language, ouer that ours is, and for the multiplicitie of their Grammaticall accidents, or verball affects, as I may terme them, that is to say, their diuers cases, moodes, tenses, genders, with variable terminations, by reason whereof, they changed not the very word, but kept the word, and changed the shape of him onely, vsing one case for another, or tense, or person, or gender, or number, or moode. We, hauing no such varietie of accidents, haue little or no vse of this figure. They called it Enallage.
[Sidenote: Hipallage, or the Changeling.] But another sort of exchange which they had, and very prety, we doe likewise vse, not changing one word for another, by their accidents or cases, as the Enallage: nor by the places, as the [Preposterous] but changing their true construction and application, whereby the sence is quite peruerted and made very absurd: as he that should say, for tell me troth and lie not, lie me troth and tell not. For come dine with me and stay not, come stay with me and dine not.


