[Perissologia.] [Sermo superfluus], when a sentẽce is added, ye matter therby made neuer the waightyer, as ye Embassadours obteining no peace, returned backe home, frõ whẽce they came.
[Tautologia.] [Inutilis repeticio eiusdem], is a vayne repeting agayn of one word or moe in all one sentence, whyche faute by takyng lytle heede, Cicero also fell into, as in the oracion for Aulus Cluencius. Therefore that iudgemẽt was not lyke a iudgemẽt O Iudges.
[Homiologia.] [Sermo ubique sui similis], a greater faute then the other, is when the whole matter is all alyke, and hath no varietie to auoyde tediousnes, as: He came thither to ye bath, yet he saide afterwardes. Here one seruaunt bet me. Afterwardes he sayde vnto hym: I wyll consider.
Afterwardes he chyd wyth hym, & cryed more and more when manye were presente. Suche a folyshe tellyng of a tale shall you heare in many simple & halfe folyshe persons.
[Amphibologia.] [Ambiguitas], when thorow faute of ioynyng the wordes, it is doutefull to whych the verbe belongeth, as: Hys father loueth hym better then hys mother.
[Periergia.] [Sedulitas superflua], when ther is in speakyng to much diligence and curiositye, and the sentence ouerladen with superfluous wordes, whiche faute is the same, or verye lyke to that, [Macrologia] that is called Macrologia, whych is when the sentence vpon desyre to seme fyne and eloquent, is longer then it shulde be.
[ Inordinate and his partes.]
Inordinate is, when eyther order or dignitie lacketh in the wordes: and the kyndes ben these:
[Tapinosis.] [Humiliatio], when the dygnitye of the thyng is diminyshed by basenes of the worde: as if we shuld say to a greate prynce or a kynge: If it please your mastershyp.
[Aschrologia.] [Turpis loquutio], when the words be spoken, or ioyned together, that they may be wronge into a fylthye sence. Of thys it nedeth not to put any example, when lewde wanton persons wyl soone fynde inowe.