And your figures rhethoricall, besides their remembered ordinarie vertues, that is, sententiousnes, & copious amplification, or enlargement of language, doe also conteine a certaine sweet and melodious manner of speech, in which respect, they may, after a sort, be said auricular:  because the eare is no lesse rauished with their currant tune, than the mind is with their sententiousnes.  For the eare is properly but an instrument of conueyance for the minde, to apprehend the sence by the sound.  And our speech is made melodious or harmonicall, not onely by strayned tunes, as those of Musick, but also by choise of smoothe words:  and thus, or thus, marshalling them in their comeliest construction and order, and aswell by sometimes sparing, sometimes spending them more or lesse liberally, and carrying or transporting of them farther off or neerer, setting them with sundry relations, and variable formes, in the ministery and vse of words, doe breede no little alteration in man.  For to say truely, what els is man but his minde? which, whosoeuer haue skil to compasse, and make yeelding and flexible, what may not he commaund the body to perfourme?  He therefore that hath vanquished the minde of man, hath made the greatest and most glorious conquest.  But the minde is not assailable vnlesse it be by sensible approches, whereof the audible is of greatest force for instruction or discipline:  the visible, for apprehension of exterior knowledges as the Philosopher saith.  Therefore the well tuning of your words and clauses to the delight of the eare, maketh your information no lesse plausible to the minde than to the eare:  no though you filled them with neuer so much sence and sententiousnes.  Then also must the whole tale (if it tende to perswasion) beare his iust and reasonable measure, being rather with the largest, than with the scarcest.  For like as one or two drops of water perce not the flint stone, but many and often droppings doo:  so cannot a few words (be they neuer so pithie or sententious) in all cases and to all manner of mindes, make so deepe an impression, as a more multitude of words to the purpose discreetely, and without superfluitie vttered:  the minde being no lesse vanquished with large loade of speech, than the limmes are with heauie burden.  Sweetenes of speech, sentence and amplification, are therefore necessarie to an excellent Orator and Poet, ne may in no wise be spared from any of them.

And first of all others your figure that worketh by iteration or repetition of one word or clause doth much alter and affect the eare and also the mynde of the hearer, and therefore is counted a very braue figure both with the Poets and rhetoriciens, and this repetition may be in seuen sortes.

  [Sidenote:  Anaphora, or the Figure of Report.]
Repetition in the first degree we call the figure of Report according to the Greeke originall, and is when we make one word begin, and as they are wont to say, lead the daunce to many verses in sute, as thus.
  To thinke on death it is a miserie
  To thinke on life it is a vanitie: 
  To thinke on the world verily it is,
  To thinke that heare man hath no perfit blisse.