[Anangeon.] [Necessum], necessitie, when we cõfesse the thynge to be done, but excuse it by necessitye, eyther of ye person or tyme, thus: I confesse that thys I dyd. But the woman that thou gauest me, dyd deceyue me.

Also, somtyme I was in that opinion, but the tyme so required.

[Anaclasis.] [Refractio], that is the turninge backe agayne of a worde into a cõtrary significacion, thus: I knowe kynge Ezechias that all thys lyfe is but bitternes, but I praye thee, gyue me suche bytternes.

[Bomphiologia.] [Verborum bombus], when small & triflyng thynges are set out wyth great gasyng wordes. Example of this haue you in Terrence of the boasting souldiar, & creping smel feast.

[Miosis.] [Diminutio], when greate matters are made lyghte of by wordes, as when he was wel beatẽ bi a knaue, that knaue wyll saye he dyd but a lytle stryke hym.

[Liptote.] [Extenuatio], the makyng lesse of a thynge to auoyde arrogance, thus: If I haue any wit O Iudges, if any exercyse of endyghtyng, al may I thanke Archias the Poete of. ¶ Cicero for Archias.

[Diasirmus.] [Eleuacio], when we make lyghte of, and dyspyse great argumentes brought agaynst vs, whych to aunswer vnto it is labour, and we saye they perteyne not to the purpose, or that they are vnworthy to be answered vnto, or that we kepe them tyll another tyme: Of thys ther nedeth none example.

S oute of lytle springs ariseth greate fluddes: so now these preceptes of grammer finyshed, and the fyrste order of the Rethorical figures: We nowe come vnto that greate declaracion of eloquence, called of Quintilian & Cicero, the ornametẽs of sentence.

[ Figures of sentence.]