of speech is always contemned, with these words, for, because, and such other confirmatiues.  The Latines hauing no fitte name to geue it in one single word, gaue it no name at all, but by circumlocution.  We also call him the reason-rendrer, and leaue the right English word [Telcause] much better answering the Greeke originall. Aristotle was most excellent in vse of this figure, for he neuer propones any allegation, or makes any surmise, but he yeelds a reason or cause to fortifie and proue it, which geues it great credit.  For example ye may take these verses, first pointing, than confirming by similitudes.
  When fortune shall haue spat out all her gall,
  I trust good luck shall be to me allowde,
  For I haue seene a shippe in hauen fall,
  After the storme had broke both maste and shrowde.

And this.
  Good is the thing that moues vs to desire,
  That is to say the beauty we behold: 
  Els were we louers as in an endlesse fire,
  Alwaies burning and euer chill a colde.

And in these verses.
  Accused though I be without desart,
  Sith none can proue beleeue it not for true: 
  For neuer yet since first ye had my hart,
  Entended I to false or be untrue.

And in this Disticque.
  And for her beauties praise, no right that with her warres: 
  For where she comes she shewes her selfe like sun among the stars.

And in this other dittie of ours where the louer complaines of his Ladies
crueltie, rendring for euery surmise a reason, and by telling the cause,
seeketh (as it were) to get credit, thus.
  Cruel you be who can say nay,
  Since ye delight in others wo: 
  Vnwise am I, ye may well say,
  For that I haue, honourd you so. 
  But blamelesse I, who could not chuse
  To be enchaunted by your eye: 
  But ye to blame, thus to refuse
  My seruice, and to let me die.

  [Sidenote:  Dichologia, or the Figure of excuse.]
Sometimes our error is so manifest, or we be so hardly prest with our aduersaries, as we cannot deny the fault layd vnto our charge:  in which case it is good pollicie to excuse it by some allowable pretext, as did one whom his mistresse burdened with some vnkindne speeches which he had past of her, thus.
  I said it:  but by lapse of lying tongue,
  When furie and iust griefe my heart opprest: 
  I sayd it:  as ye see, both fraile and young,
  When your rigor had ranckled in my brest. 
  The cruell wound that smarted me so sore,
  Pardon therefore (sweete sorrow) or at least
  Beare with mine youth that neuer fell before,
  Least your offence encrease my griefe the more.

And againe in these,
  I spake amysse I cannot it deny. 
  But caused by your great discourtesie: 
  And if I said that which I now repent,
  And said it not, but by misgouernment
  Of youthfull yeres, your selfe that are so young
  Pardon for once this error of my tongue,
  And thinke amends can neuer come to late: 
  Loue may be curst, but loue can neuer hate.