Vnderstanding by this word (Moppe) a litle prety Lady, or tender young thing.  For so we call litle fishes, that be not come to their full growth (moppes), as whiting moppes, gurnard moppes.

Also such termes are vsed to be giuen in derision and for a kind of contempt, as when we say Lording for Lord, & as the Spaniard that calleth an Earle of small reuenue Contadilio:  the Italian calleth the poore man by contempt pouerachio or pouerino, the little beast animalculo or animaluchio, and such like diminutiues appertaining to this figure, the (Disabler) more ordinary in other languages than our vulgar.

  [Sidenote:  Epanodis, or the figure of Retire]
This figure of retire holds part with the propounder of which we spake before(prolepsis) because of the resumption of a former proposition vuttered in generalitie to explane the same better by a particular diuision.  But their difference is, in that the propounder resumes but the matter only.  This [retire] resumes both the matter and the termes, and is therefore accompted one of the figures of repetition, and in that respect may be called by his originall Greeke name the [Resounde] or the [retire] for this word [Greek:  illegible] serues both sences resound and retire.  The vse of this figure, is seen in this dittie following,
  Loue hope and death, do stirre in me much strife,
  As neuer man but I lead such a life: 
  For burning loue doth wound my heart to death: 
  And when death comes at call of inward grief,
  Cold lingring hope doth feede my fainting breath: 
  Against my will, and yeelds my wound relief,
  So that I liue, but yet my life is such: 
  As neuer death could greeue me halfe so much.

  [Sidenote:  Dialisis, or the Dismembrer.]
Then haue ye a maner speach, not so figuratiue as fit for argumentation, and worketh not vnlike the dilemma of the Logicians, because he propones two or moe matters entierly, and doth as it were set downe the whole tale or rekoning of an argument and then cleare euery part by it selfe, as thus.
  It can not be but nigarsdship or neede,
  Made him attempt this foule and wicked deede: 
  Nigardship not, for alwayes he was free,
  Nor neede, for who doth not his richesse see?

Or as one than entreated for a faire young maide who was taken by the
watch in London and carried to Bridewell to be punished.
  Now gentill Sirs let this young maide alone,
  For either she hath grace or els she hath none: 
  If she haue grace, she may in time repent,
  If she haue none what bootes her punishment.

Or as another pleaded his deserts with his mistresse.
  Were it for grace, or els in hope of gaine,
  To say of my deserts, it is but vaine: 
  For well in minde, in case ye do them beare,
  To tell them oft, it should but irke your eare: 
  Be they forgot:  as likely should I faile,
  To winne with wordes, where deedes can not preuaile.