¶ Of the whiche partes mencyon shall be
made herafter in euery kynde of oracions /
for they are nat founde generally in euery
oracion / but some haue moo partes / and
some lesse.
¶ Of the Preamble.
GEnerally the Preamble nat alonly
in an oracion demonstratiue / but al-
so in the other two is conteyned and
must be fetched out of thre places / that is
to say of beneuolence / attencion / & to make
the mater easy to be knowen / whiche the
Rhetoricians call Docilite.
¶ Beneuolence is the place whereby the
herer is made willyng to here vs / and it is
conteyned in the thynge that we speke of /
in them whom we speke to / & in our owne
persone. The easyest and moost vsed place
of beneuolence consysteth in the offyce or
duety of the person / whan we shew that it
is our duety to do that we be about.
¶ Out of this place is fet ye p[re]āble of saīt
Gregory Nazazene / made to the praise of
saynt Basyll / where he saith that it is his
[his] duety to prayse saynt Basyll for thre
causes. For the great loue and frendeshyp
that hath ben always betwene them / and
agayne for the remembraūce of the moost
fayre and excellent vertues that were in
hym / and thyrdely that the chyrch myght
haue an example of a good and holy Bys-
shop. ¶ Trewly by our authours lycence
me thynketh that in the preamble Naza-
zen doth nat only take beneuolence out of
the place of his owne persone / but also out
of the other two / whā he sheweth the cause
of his duetye / for in praysynge his frende
he dyd but his duetye. In praysynge his
vertues / he cam to the place of beneuolēce
of hym that he spake of / as touchyng the
example that the chyrche shulde haue / it
was for theyr profite / and concernyng the
place of beneuolence / taken of them that
he spake to. But our authour regarded
chiefly the principall proposicion / whiche
was that saynt Gregory Nazazene was
bounde to praise saint Basyll.
¶ A lyke example of beneuolence taken
out of the place of office or dutie / is in the
oracyon that Tully made for the Poete
Archias / whiche begynneth thus.
MY lordes that be here iuges / yf there
be in me any wyt / whiche I knowe
is but small / or yf I haue any crafty vse of
makynge an oracion / wherein I denie nat
but yt I haue metely excercysed my selfe /
or yf any helpe to that science cometh out
of other lyberall artes / in whome I haue
occupied al my lyfe / surely I am boūde to
no man more for them than to Archias /
whiche may lawfully if I may do any mā
any profite by them / chalenge a chiefe por[-]
cion for hym therin.
¶ Out of this place dyd this same Tully
fetche the begynnyng of his fyrste epistle /
in whome he wrytethe to one Lentule on
this maner: I do so my deutie in al poyn-
tes towarde you / and so great is the loue
and reuerence that I bere vnto you that
all other men say that I can do no more /
and yet me semeth that I haue neuer don
that that I am bounde to do / eyther to
you or in your cause.
¶ We may also get beneuolence by reason
of them / whome we make our oracion of:
As yf we saye that we can neuer prayse
hym to hyghly / but yt he is worthy moch
more laude and prayse. And so taketh saīt
Nazianzene beneuolence in his sayd ora-
cion for sainct Basile.