Edward Earle of Oxford a most noble & learned Gentleman made in this
figure of responce an emble of desire otherwise called Cupide which for
his excellencie and wit, I set downe some part of the verses, for example.
  When wert thou borne desire? 
  In pompe and pryme of May,
  By whome sweete boy wert thou begot? 
  By good conceit men say,
  Tell me who was they nurse? 
  Fresh youth in sugred ioy. 
  What was thy meate and dayly foode? 
  Sad sighes with great annoy. 
  What hast thou then to drinke? 
  Vnfayned louers teares. 
  What cradle wert thou rocked in? 
  In hope deuoyde of feares.

  [Sidenote:  Synteiosis, or the Crosse copling.]
Ye haue another figure which me thinkes may well be called (not much sweruing from his originall in sence) the Crosse-couple, because it takes me two contrary words, and tieth them as it were in a paire of couples, and so makes them agree like good fellowes, as I saw once in Fraunce a wolfe coupled with a mastiffe, and a foxe with a hounde.  Thus it is.
  The niggards fault and the unthrifts is all one,
  For neither of them both knoweth how to vse his owne.

Or thus.
  The couetous miser, of all his goods ill got,
  Aswell wants that he hath, as that he hath not.

In this figure of the Crosse-couple we wrate for a forlorne louer
complaining of his mistresse crueltie these verses among other.
  Thus for your sake I daily dye,
  And do but seeme to liue in deede: 
  Thus is my blisse but miserie,
  My lucre losse without your meede.

  [Sidenote:  Atanaclasis, or the Rebounde.]
Ye haue another figure which by his nature we may call the Rebound, alluding to the tennis ball which being smitten with the racket reboundes backe againe, and where the last figure before played with two wordes somewhat like, this playeth with one word written all alike but carrying diuers sences as thus.
  The maide that soone married is, soone marred is.

Or thus better because married & marred be different in one letter.
  To pray for you euer I cannot refuse,
  To pray vpon you I should you much abuse.

Or as we once sported vpon a countrey fellow who came to runne for the
best game, and was by his occupation a dyer and had very bigge swelling
legges.
  He is but course to runne a course,
  Whose shankes are bigger then his thye: 
  Yet is his lucke a little worse,
  That often dyes before he dye.

Where ye see this word course, and dye, vsed in diuers sences, one giuing the Rebounde vpon th’other.