A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

[Sidenote: Catachresis.] _Abusio_, when for a certeyne and proper worde, we abuse a lyke, or that is nie vnto it, as when we say: longe counsel, lytle talke, smal matter. Here m...

[Sidenote: Eloquucion] _Eloquucion_, which the Greekes call Phrase, whereof also the name of eloquence dothe ryse, as of al partes it is the goodlyest, so also is it the most pr...

[Sidenote: Enumeraciõ of the causes.] Hitherto also apperteineth, wh[en] we expo[un]d a thyng not barely, but repete the causes also sumwhat before, and of what begynnynges it c...

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[Sidenote: Instrument.] Instrument semeth to be a part of facultie: for instrumentes sometyme are cause of oure hablenes to do a thinge: and it is a more mischeuous deede to kyl...