¶ The conclusion.
HOmere therefore deserueth greate commendacion,
for this one sentence, whiche preferreth a Monarchie
before all states.
¶ The destruccion.
His exercise of [Rhetotike], is called destruccion, or
subuersion, because it is in a oracion, a certain re-
prehension of any thyng declaimed, or dilated, in
the whiche by order of art, the declaimer shall pro-
cede to caste doune by force, and strengthe of reason, the con-
trarie induced.
In this exercise of Rhetorike, those proposicions are to be
subuerted, whiche are not manifeste true, neither it so repu-
gnaunt from reason, as that there can appere no holde, to in-
duce a probable reason to confounde thesame. But soche pro-
posicions are meete for this parte, as are probable in both si-
des, to induce probabilitie of argument, to reason therupon.
1.It shall behoue you firste, for the entryng of this matter,
to adde a reprehension there against those, whiche haue con-
firmed as a truthe, that, whiche you will confute.
2.In thesame place, adde the [exposion], and meanyng of his
sentence.
3.Thirdly, shew the matter to be obsure, that is vncertain[.]