=A |Figure| is a certaine meane whereby from a simple and ordinarie kinde of speaking, we growe into a more cunning and excellent deliuerie.=
A Figure is diuided into _Trope_ and _Scheme_.
=A |trope| is as much to say, as a variation of a worde or sentence from the proper & apt signification, vnto another neere vnto the same, sometimes for pleasure, and otherwhile for ornament sake, and there are |tropes| of words, and |tropes| of sentences.=
=A |Scheme| is a certaine new kinde of forme of writing & speaking, and for the excellencie thereof is called the ornament, light and colours of Rhetoricall spéech.=
=Betweene a |Trope| and a |Scheme| the difference is, that the |Trope| changeth the signification, as in these wordes |Generation| of |Vipers|, meaning thereby |homicides| of their owne issue or antecessors, as the |Viper| deuoureth her owne broode. The |Scheme| hath no change of signification, but retaineth the expresse meaning, as, |Can so great anger be in heauenlie mindes?| written of _Iuno_ in the |Aeneidos| of _Virgill_, whereas anger is indéede onelie a humaine passion, yet without alteration is there allotted vnto the heauenlie Gods. And of some there is helde in them small difference, in so much as often times they runne into one anothers meaning.=
=_Metaphora_, which is, when a worde from the proper or right signification is tanasferred to another neere vnto the meaning, as to saie: |We see well|, when wee meane |wee vnderstande well|, or to call them |eaters or deuourers of men and houses|, who vndo the poore, or extort from them their goods or liuings: or to saie, a homelie or rude speaker doth |braie|, which to do belongeth to an Asse, or to attribute vnto thinges the properties they haue not, as if we should say, the ground wanting wet, |doth thirst for raine|, or |fruits| in their growth do |labour|, or |corne| by the statelie length and weightie eare it carrieth, to bee |proude|, or by |Emphasis|, that |by desire, men are enflamed, by anger kindled, fallen by errour:| And lastlie, in prayse of mans ofspring, as to saie, |the beautie of his stocke|, or to call the place of renowne, |the well or seate of glorie|, also to say, |the showers of speech, flouds of eloquence|, onelie for ornament in writing, without anie other proper affinitie, attribution or likelihoode.=
