| { | A Fable, a Narracion. Chria, | } | |
| { | Sentence. Confutacion, | } | |
| An Oracion made by a | { | Confirmacion. Common place. | } |
| { | The praise. The dispraise. | } | |
| { | The Comparison, Ethopeia. | } | |
| { | A Discripcion. Thesis, Legislatio | } |
F euery one of these, a goodlie Oraciō maie be made
these excercises are called of the Grekes Progimnas-
mata, of the Latines, profitable introduccions, or fore
exercises, to attain greater arte and knowlege in Rhetorike,
and bicause, for the easie capacitée and facilitée of the learner,
to attain greater knowledge in Rhetorike, thei are right pro-
fitable and necessarie: Therefore I title this booke, to bee the
foundaciō of Rhetorike, the exercises being Progimnasmata.
I haue chosen out the fable of the Shepeherdes, and the
Wolues, vpon the whiche fable, Demosthenes made an elo-
quente, copious, and wittie Oracion before the Athenians,
whiche fable was so well applied, that the citée and common
wealth of Athens was saued.
The firste
exercise.
¶ A fable.
These notes must be obserued, to make an Oracion by a
Fable.
¶ Praise.
1.Firste, ye shall recite the fable, as the aucthour telleth it.
2.There in the seconde place, you shall praise the aucthoure
who made the fable, whiche praise maie sone bee gotte of any
studious scholer, if he reade the aucthours life and actes ther-
in, or the Godlie preceptes in his fables, shall giue abundant
praise.