There neuer was a better bargaine driuen.
My true loue hath my heart and I haue his.
My heart in me keepes him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and sences guides:
He loues my heart, for once it was his owne,
I cherish his because in me it bides.
My true loue hath my heart, and I haue his.
[Sidenote: Paradoxon, or the
Wondrer.]
Many times our Poet is caried by some occasion to
report of a thing that is maruelous, and then he will
seeme not to speake it simply but with some signe
of admiration, as in our enterlude called the Woer.
I woonder much to see so many husbands
thriue,
That haue but little wit, before they
come to wiue:
For one would easily weene who so hath
little wit,
His wife to teach it him, were a thing
much unfit.
Or as Cato the Romane Senatour said one day
merily to his companion that
walked with him, pointing his finger to a yong vnthrift
in the streete who
lately before had sold his patrimonie, of a goodly
quantitie of salt
marshes, lying neere vnto Capua shore.
Now is it not, a wonder to behold,
Yonder gallant skarce twenty winter old,
By might (marke ye) able to do more
Than the mayne sea that batters on his
shore?
For what the waues could neuer wash away,
This proper youth hath wasted in a day.
[Sidenote: Aporia, or the
Doubtfull.]
Not much vnlike the wondrer haue ye another
figure called the doubtfull, because oftentimes
we will seeme to cast perils, and make doubt or things
when by a plaine manner of speech wee might affirme
or deny him, as thus of a cruell mother who murdred
her owne child.
Whether the cruell mother were more
to blame,
Or the shrewd childe come of so curst
a dame:
Or whether some smatch of the fathers
blood,
Whose kinne were neuer kinde, nor neuer
good.
Mooued her thereto &c.
[Sidenote: Epitropis, or the
Figure of Reference.]
This manner of speech is vsed when we will not seeme,
either for manner sake or to auoid tediousnesse, to
trouble the iudge or hearer with all that we could
say, but hauing said inough already, we referre the
rest to their consideration, as he that said thus:
Me thinkes that I haue said, what may
well suffise,
Referring all the rest, to your better
aduise.
[Sidenote: Parisia, or the
Licentious.]
The fine and subtill perswader when his intent is
to sting his aduersary, or els to declare his mind
in broad and liberal speeches, which might breede
offence or scandall, he will seeme to bespeake pardon
before hand, whereby his licentiousnes may be the
better borne withall, as he that said:
If my speech hap t’offend you
any way,
Thinke it their fault, that force me so
to say.


