A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

by Richard Sherry

[Mesozeugma.] Secondlye when it is set in the middes, & is called, [Media iunctio], as bewtye, eyther by age decaieth, or by syckenes.

[Hypozeugma.] Thyrdly whẽ it is put in the end and is called [Postiunctio], as bewtie by syckenes, by sorowe, or by age decayeth.

[Diazeugma.] [Disiunctio], disiunccion, when of those thynges of whych we speake, eyther both, or eche one of them is concluded with their certen verbe, thus: The people of Rome destroyed Numance, ouerthrew Cartage, cast downe Corinth, and raced Fregels. Couetousnes hurteth the bodye, and corrupteth the mynd.

[Silepsis]. [Concepcio], when in vnlike clauses a certeyn cõmon thynge that is put in one of thẽ, can not agre with the other, excepte it be chaunged.

But thys is more playne in the latine because of the concordes, albeit in englyshe for the verbe we may vse this example. The Nobles and the Kynge was taken. Hys head and hys handes were cutte of: In the whyche sentences the verbe agreeth wyth the nexte.

[Epergesis.] [Appositio], when two substãtiues are put together immediatly withoute any verbe betwyxt, the one to declare the other, as in Vyrgyll. ¶ Coridõ loued faire Alexis his masters darlynge.

[Hyperbaton] [Transgressio], when the ryghte order of wordes is troubled, & hath these kyndes.

[Anastrophe.] [Reuersio], a preposterous order of the woordes contrarye to the good order of speakyng, as: He fell from of the wall, for he fel of from the walle.

[Hysterologia.] [Prepostera loquutio], when y^t that is done afterwardes, is set in speaking in the former place, as: plucke of my bootes and spurres.

[Tmesis] [Dissectio], a cutting, when the ioynyng of a compound worde is losed by putting somewhat betwixt, as: Hys saying was true, as here shal appere after, for hereafter. He shal by punyshed what man so euer offẽdeth, for whatsoeuer man.