¶ Of the conclusion.
THe cōclusion is made of a brief
enumeracion of suche thynges
that we haue spoken of afore in
the oracion / & in mouynge of affections.
¶ In delectable thinges or suche thinges
that haue ben well done / we moue our au-
dience to reioice thereat / and to do lyke.
¶ In sad thynges and heuy / to be sory for
them. In yll and peruerse act[e]s / to beware
that they folowe nat them to theyr great
shame and confusion.
¶ Of an oracion demonstratiue / wherein
are praised neither persones nor actes /
but some other thynges / as religion /
matrimony / or suche other.
THe best begynnyng wyll be if it
be taken out of some high praise
of the thynge. But a man may
also begyn otherwyse / eyther at his owne
persō or at theyrs afore whom he speketh /
or at the place in the whiche he speketh / or
at the season present / or otherwise / as hath
afore ben specified / and here must we take
good hede that yf we take vpō vs to praise
any thynge that is no praise worthy / than
must we vse insinuacion / & excuse the turpi[-]
tude / either by examples or by argumēt[e]s /
as Erasmus doth in his epistle prefixed a-
fore his oracion made to the prayse of fo-
lisshnes / of the whiche I haue let passe the
trāslaciō bicause ye epistle is sōwhat long.
¶ The narracion.
IN this maner of oraciō is no nar[-]
racion / but in stede therof the Rhe[-]
toriciens all only propose the ma[-]
ter. And this proposicion is in the stede of
the narracion.
¶ A very elegāt example is in the oracion
that Angele Policiane made to the laude
of histories / whiche is this. Among all ma[-]
ner of wryters by whom either the Greke
tongue or the latine hath ben in floure and
excellence / without doubte me semeth that
they dyd moost profyte to mankynde / by
whom the excellent dedes of nacions / prin-
ces / or valiant men haue ben truely descri-
ued and put in cronicles.