=_Antanaclasis_, when we produce a word in a contrary signification to that it commonlie portendeth: as to saie, |For my kindnesse you haue vsed me kindly, meaning indeede you haue vsed mee verie badly. And I can bee contented to pray with you though you pray not vppon me|. Where this worde |kindly| is applied to the worser part, which of it selfe carieth as wee see a far other meaning: and likewise |pray| in one sence being to entreate, is in another sense intended here to spoile. And as another said to a rude fellow, |you are too course to keepe course in our companie|, here is |course| for rudenes, and |course| in another sense for |good order|.=

=_Erotema_ or _Interrogatio_, when by interrogation we sift out anie thing somtimes by demand, as to saie, |But you sir, now frō whence I pray you, deriue you your fancie?| by asseueration, as to saie: |Haue you not in this action behaued your selfe excellent well?| By commiseration, as to saie: |Alas what grounde may holde mee, what lande or shore may possesse mee, circumuented as I am with so many euils?| By vrging, as thus, |What hadst thou to intermeddle in so bad a company? How long shall wee bee thus abused with so fained treachery? Art thou not ashamed seeing thy purposes thus reuealed? Perceiuest thou not thy driftes to bee all discouered?| By indignation, as to saie, |Shall I yet couer thy villanies being at thy handes thus hatefully misused?| or thus, |Wicked and peruerse kinde of people, howe long will you thus hatefully deale with your fauorers?| By admiration, as to saie, |Good Lord, who woulde haue thought so much loosenesse in so chaste a countenance! But what is it that this blind and sottish loue draweth not a man headlong into?| And lastly, by doubting, as thus: |What shall I say, or what further speeches may I vse to withdraw you from these euils?| Or otherwise: |Whither shall I turne me to speake vnto you, or what wordes may I vse whereby to withdraw you from these vanities?|=

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