And this written by Sir Walter Raleigh of his greatest mistresse iin
most excellent verses.
  In vayne mine eyes in vaine you wast your teares,
  In vayne my sighs the smokes of my despaires: 
  In vayne you search th’earth and heauens aboue,
  In vayne ye seeke, for fortune keeps my loue.

Or as the buffon in our enterlude called Lustie London said very
knauishly and like himselfe.
  Many a faire lasse in London towne,
  Many a bawdie basket borne up and downe: 
  Many a broker in a thridbare gowne. 
  Many a bankrowte scarce worth a crowne. 
      In London.

  [Sidenote:  Antistrophe, or the Counter turne.]
Ye haue another sort of repetition quite contrary to the former when ye make one word finish many verses in sute, and that which is harder, to finish many clauses in the middest of your verses or dittie (for to make them finish the verse in our vulgar it should hinder the rime) and because I do finde few of our English makers vse this figure, I haue set you down two litle ditties which our selues in our yonger yeares played vpon the Antistrophe, for so is the figures name in Greeke:  one vpon the mutable loue of a Lady, another vpon the meritorious loue of Christ our Sauiour, thus.
  Her lowly lookes, that gaue life to my loue,
  With spitefull speach, curstnesse and crueltie: 
  She kild my loue, let her rigour remoue,
  Her cherefull lights and speaches of pitie
  Reuiue my loue:  anone with great disdaine,
  She shunnes my loue, and after by a traine
  She seekes my loue, and faith she loues me most,
  But seing her loue, so lightly wonne and lost: 
  I longd not for her loue, for well I thought,
  Firme is the loue, if it be as it ought.

The second vpon the merites of Christes passion toward mankind, thus,
  Our Christ the sonne of God, chief authour of all good,
  Was he by his allmight, that first created man: 
  And with the costly price, of his most precious bloud,
  He that redeemed man:  and by his instance wan
  Grace in the sight of God, his onely father deare,
  And reconciled man:  and to make man his peere
  Made himselfe very man:  brief to conclude the case,
  This Christ both God and man, he all and onely is: 
  The man brings man to God and to all heauens blisse.

The Greekes call this figure Antistrophe, the Latines, conuersio, I following the originall call him the counterturne, because he turnes counter in the middest of euery meetre.

  [Sidenote:  Symploche, or the figure of replie.]
Take me the two former figures and put them into one, and it is that which the Greekes call symploche, the Latines complexio, or conduplicatio, and is a maner of repetion, when one and the selfe word doth begin and end many verses in sute & so wrappes vp both the former figures in one, as he that sportingly complained of his vntrustie mistresse, thus.
  Who made me shent for her loues sake? 
      Myne owne mistresse. 
  Who would not seeme my part to take,
      Myne owne mistresse.