Which may imploy rigour and cruelty, than correcteth
it thus.
Not flinte I trowe I am a lier,
But Siderite that feeles no fire.
By which is intended, that it proceeded of a cold and chast complexion not easily allured to loue.
[Sidenote: Antenagoge, or
the Recompencer]
We haue another manner of speech much like to the
repentant, but doth not as the same recant
or vnsay a word that hath bene said before, putting
another fitter in his place, but hauing spoken any
thing to depraue the matter or partie, he denieth
it not, but as it were helpeth it againe by another
more fauourable speach and so seemeth to make amends,
for which cause it is called by the originall name
in both languages, the Recompencer, as he that
was merily asked the question; whether his wife were
not a shrewe as well as others of his neighbours wiues,
answered in this figure as pleasantly, for he could
not well denie it.
I must needs say, that my wife is a
shrewe,
but such a huswife as I know but a fewe.
Another in his first preposition giuing a very faint
commendation to the
Courtiers life, weaning to make him amends, made it
worse by a second
proposition, thus:
The Courtiers life full delicate it
is,
but where no wise man will euer set his
blis.
And an other speaking to the incoragement of youth
in studie and to be
come excellent in letters and armies, said thus:
Many are the paines and perils to be
past,
But great is the gaine and glory at the
last.
[Sidenote: Epithonema, or
the Surclose.]
Our poet in his short ditties, but specially playing
the Epigrammatist will vse to conclude and shut vp
his Epigram with a verse or two, spoken in such sort,
as it may seeme a manner of allowance to all the premisses,
and that wich a ioyfull approbation, which the Latines
call Acclamatio, we therefore call this figure
the surcloze or consenting close, as
Virgill when he had largely spoken of Prince
Eneas his successe and fortunes concluded with
this close.
Tant molis erat Romanum condere gentens.
In English thus:
So huge a peece of worke it was and
so hie,
To reare the house of Romane progenie.
Sir Philip Sidney very pretily closed vp a
dittie in this sort.
What medcine then, can such disease
remoue,
Where loue breedes hate, and hate engenders
loue.
And we in a Partheniade written of her Maiestie,
declaring to what
perils vertue is generally subiect, and applying that
fortune to her
selfe, closed it vp with this Epiphoneme.
Than if there bee,
Any so cancard hart to grutch,
At your glories: my Queene:
in vaine,
Repining at your fatall raigne;
It is for that they feele too much,
Of your bountee.
As who would say her owne ouermuch lenitie and goodness, made her ill willers the more bold and presumptuous.


