A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike / because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde

by Richard Rainolde

The praise of a Kyng, Prince, Duke, Erle, Lorde, Ba-
ron, Squire, or of any other man be maie declaimed of obser[-]
uing the order of this parte of Rhetorike.

This parte of Rhetorike called praise, is either a particu-
ler praise of one, as of kyng Henry the fifte, Plato, Tullie,
Demosthenes, Cyrus, Darius, Alexander the greate.

Or a generalle and vniuersalle praise, as the praise of all
the Britaines: or of all the citezeins of London.

¶ The order to make this Oracion, is thus declared.

Firste, for the enteryng of the matter, you shall place a
exordium, or beginnyng.

The seconde place, you shall bryng to his praise, Genus
eius, that is to saie: Of what kinde he came of, whiche dooeth
consiste in fower poinctes.

{ Of what nacion.	}
{ Of what countrée.	}
{ Of what auncetours.	}
{ Of what parentes.	}

After that you shall declare, his educacion: the educacion
is conteined in thrée poinctes.

	{ Institucion.	}
In	{ Arte.	}
	{ Lawes.	}