[Synolephe.] [Delecio], puttynge oute, when .ii. vowels comyng together, the first is as it were put out: as thone and thother, for the one and the other.
[Antisthecon.] [Littera pro littera.] One letter for an other, as akecorne for okecorne.
[Transposicio.] Transposing of letters in wrytynge, as chambre, for chamber.
[ Figure of construccion.]
Figure of construccion is when the order of construccion is otherwyse then after the comen maner.
And the kyndes be these.
[Prolepsis.] [Presumpcio], a takynge before, or generall speakynge of those thynges whych afterwardes be declared more perticulerlye: as, in the meane seasõ that kyng Henry rode royally to Calais on a sumpteous courser, Lewes in a gorgeous chariot was caried to Boloygne.
[Zeugma.] [Iunctio], ioynyng, as Linacer sayeth, is when in lyke sentences a certen comen thyng that is put in the one, and not chaunged in the other is not expressed, but lefte out: as in Vyrgyll. Before I forget Cesar, eyther the Parthian shall drynke of the flud Araris, or Germany of Tigris: here is left out, shall drynke.
Or to define it more playnelye. ¶ [Iniunctio], is when the verbe in diuerse lyke sentences is referred to one: and that thre maner of waies.
[Presozeugma.] Fyrste when it is set before, and is called [preiunctio], as: There dyd ouercome in hym, lechery, his chastitie, saucines his feare, madnesse hys reason.