That parte, whiche is called Ethopœia is that, whiche
hath the persone knowne: but onely it doeth faigne the ma-
ners of thesame, and imitate in a Oracion thesame.
Ethopœia is called of Priscianus, a certaine talkyng to
of any one, or a imitaciō of talke referred to the maners, apt-
ly of any certaine knowen persone.
Quintilianus saieth, that Ethopœia is a imitacion of o-
ther meane maners: whom the Grekes dooe calle, not onelie
Ethopœia, but mimesis, & this is in the maners, and the fact.
This parte is as it were, a liuely expression of the maner
and affeccion of any thyng, whereupon it hath his name.
The Ethopœia is in three sortes.
The firste, a imitacion passiue, whiche expresseth the af-
fection, to whom it parteineth: whiche altogether expresseth
the mocion of the mynde, as what patheticall and dolefull o-
racion, Hecuba the quene made, the citee of Troie destroied,
her housbande, her children slaine.
The second is called a morall imitaciō, the whiche doeth
set forthe onely, the maners of any one.
The thirde is a mixt, the whiche setteth forthe, bothe the
maners and the affection, as how, and after what sorte, A-
chilles spake vpon Patroclus, he beyng dedde, when for his
sake, he determined to fight: the determinacion of hym she-
weth the maner. The frende slaine, the affection.
In the makyng of Ethopœia, lette it be plaine, and with-
out any large circumstaunce.