=_Catachresis_, where wee accommodate a name to a thing that is not proper, as to saie, |lend me your hand, or your aid|, which tearme of lending is more proper to money, or things that are borrowed, and to say, |mens powers are short|, or |their counsels long|, when in neither of both there is anie such measure.=
=_Metalepsis_, or |Transumptio|, when by a certaine number of degrees we go beyond that wee intend in troth, and haue meaning to speake of, as to saie: |Accursed soile that bred my cause of woe|, when we might as well crie out on the parties selfe that hath don the wo, & not to go so far off as to the soile that bred him, or as |Penelope| bewaling her husbandes ouerlong absence from her, exclaimed in her Epistle to |Vlysses|, on |Paris| that had raped |Helena|, wishing that he and all his fleet had perished, ere the rape had bin committed, intending that by that rape, the |Grecians| were drawn to the warres, and so the siege for tenne yeares space continued, and ten yeeres after that, her husband forced by many landes and seas to haue wandered. Of the originall cause whereof her iust complaint was deriued.=
=_Allegoria_, a kinde of inuerting or change of sence, as when we shew one thing in wordes & signifie another in meaning, a |Trope| most vsuall amongst vs euen in our common speaking, as when we saie, |Bow the With while it is greene|, meaning to correct children whilest they bee yong: or, |There is no fire without smoake:| meaning that there is no ill conceipt without occasion: or, |I smell a Rat|, that is, I know your meaning, for other applications you haue the same diuerslie quoted in our Epistles to bee seene in their margents.=
=_Ænigma_, a darke sentence, or as we ordinarilie say, a riddle, rather vsed in high and déepe mysteries, otherwise conueied sometime in pleasant fancies, then accustomed in other writings.=
=_Parœmia_, called amongst vs an _Adage_ or common saying, as thus: |Who so toucheth pitch shall bee defiled therewith: It earlie pricketh that wil be a thorn: many hands make light worke, &c.|
=_Ironia_, a scoffe or flout, as when wee saie, |Alas good man|, or to one that hath set debate or contention, |you haue spun a faire thred|: or to him that hath made a long speach to no purpose, |you haue brought forth a mighty mole-hil|, or to a lewd person, |you are an honest man|.