Methode, methodicall, placation, function, assubriling, refining, compendious, prolixe, figuratiue, inueigle.  A terme borrowed of our common Lawyers, impression, also a new terme, but well expressing the matter, and more than our English word.  These words, Numerous, numerositee, metricall, harmonicall, but they cannot be refused, specially in this place for description of the arte.  Also ye finde these words, penetrate, penetrable, indignitie, which I cannot see how we may spare them, whatsoeuer fault wee finde with Ink-horne termes:  for our speach wanteth words to such sense so well to be vsed:  yet in steade of indignitie, yee haue vnworthinesse:  and for penetrate, we may say peerce, and that a French terme also, or broche, or enter into with violence, but not so well sounding as penetrate.  Item, sauage, for wilde:  obscure, for darke.  Item these words, declamation, delineation, dimention, are scholasticall termes in deede, and yet very proper.  But peraduenture (& I could bring a reason for it) many other like words borrowed out of the Latin and French, were not so well to be be allowed by vs, as these words, audacious, for bold:  facunditie, for eloquence, egregious, for great or notable:  implete, for replenished; attemptat, for attempt:  compatible, for agreeable in nature, and many more.  But herein the noble Poet Horace hath said inough to satisfie vs all in these few verses.
  Multa renascentur quae iam cecidere cadentque
  Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula si volet usus
  Quem penes artibrium est et ius et norma loquendi.
Which I haue thus englished, but nothing with so good grace, nor so briefly as the Poet wrote.
  Many a word if able shall est arise
  And such as now bene held in hiest prise
  Will fall as fast, when vse and custome will
  Onely vmpiers of speach, for force and skill.

  CHAP.  V.

Of Stile.

Stile is a constant & continuall phrase or tenour of speaking and writing, extending to the whole tale or processe of the poeme or historie, and not properly to any peece or member of a tale:  but is of words speeches and sentences together, a certaine contriued forme and qualitie, many times naturall to the writer, many times his peculier by election and arte, and such as either he keepeth by skill, or holdeth on by ignorance, and will not or peraduenture cannot easily alter into any other.  So we say that Ciceros stile and Salusts were not one, nor Cesars and Linies, nor Homers and Hesiodus, nor Herodotus and Theucidides, nor Euripides & Aristophones, nor Erasmus and Budeus stiles.  And because this continuall course and manner of writing or speech sheweth the matter and disposition of the writers minde, more than one or