office of Consul Of Varro taken from the Shambles to the Consulship Or of Marius the seventh of the Tyrants who one day was made Emperour the next seem'd to Rule and the third was slain by a Souldier who being ready to strike him said This is the sword Sarcasinus that thou thy self mad'st because he had formerly been an Iron-smith Of Servius Tullius who being born a slave died a King with infinite others Anacoenâ—sis communicatio Tell me ô Quintus Coepio didst not thou sufficiently feel the inconstancy of Fortune when after thou hadst been Praetor Consul Pontifex Maximus called the Patron of the Senate and hadst triumpht in the City thy body as of a malefactor was mangled by the hands of the common Executioner a publick and sad spectacle to the people of Rome And thou ô Marius thou most miserable amongst the miserable and most happy amongst the happy didst not thou tast the cruelty of Fortune's inconstancy who after thou hadst subdued Africa drove King Jugurth before thy Chariot defeated the Armies of diverse Enemies of the people of Rome erected two trophies in the City been seven times Consul wast at last proscribed and banished And Alcibiades hadst not thou as great cause as any to exclaim against the inconstancy of Fortune Yes surely if after Nobility Riches Beauty favour of the Hirmos Asyndeton Citizens greatest Command highest Power quickest Wit Condemning Banishment Selling of thy goods Poverty Hatred of thy Country and after all a violent Death can give sufficient cause of complaint But how shall I enough commend thy prudence Philip in considering the inconstancy of Fortune who when much and various felicity happened to thee in one day criedst out Oh Fortune strike me with some misfortune So well didst thou know her inconstancy Prosopopeia Polycrates King of the Samians if he should rise from the dead and appear upon the Stage would thus declame against Fortunes inconstancy Oh Fortune thou blind inconstant and mad goddess what a spectacle of thy inconstancy didst thou designe me how didst thou flatter me that thou mightst deceive me how didst thou allure me with a seeming constancy of thy favour I could not wish what I did not presently obtain all things succeeded according to my desire I was forced to make mine own misfortune which I did by throwing a Ring dear to me into the Sea yet that was brought back again to my Table in the belly of a Fish so that I became the wonder and the envy of almost all the World yet at last didst thou change thy countenance sufferedst me to be taken Prisoner by Orontes one of Darius * Praefectus Commanders and by him to be †Cruci assigi Gibetted on the highest top of the Mountain Mycale where my joynts and members rotted in the aire a joyfull Spectacle to the Samians mine own Subjects Occupatio Anthypophora Subjectio Prolepsis Fortune may some man say is inconstant indeed in some things a few small matters scarce worth the looking after Yea she is inconstant in many in all in the highest things and of greatest Consequence and triumphs most to shew her inconstancy in them Inversio Fortune is constant say some for she keeps a constant course in going about the World taking from some giving to others now smiling now frowning now shining now raigning now building up now throwing down I answer Such a constancy is an argument of greater inconstancy Polysyndeton High and Low and Rich and Poor Kings and Peasants Great and Small Good and Bad Honest and Dishonest are all alike subject to Fortune's inconstancy Paralipsis Fortune is inconstant that I may let pass her other vices Fortune is inconstant I do not tell Apophasis you that she is mad and blind Pleonasmus Who hath not heard with their Ears and seen with their Eies even in a thousand things the inconstancy of Fortune Parenthesis I believ nor is my belief vain that Fortune is the most inconstant thing in the World Parenthesis I hold and judge and why may not I profess it that nothing is more inconstant then Fortune Amplificatio per Impossibile ubi obiter variantur Impossibile Nunquam It is Impossible It is not possible How is it possible It cannot be Can it be How can it be It can by no means be but that Fortune be inconstant All things may sooner be then What cannot sooner be then that Fortune should be constant It is not to be avoided It is not to be refused Can it be avoided refused but that Fortune wil remain inconstant It must needs be It cannot but be How should it otherwise be but that Fortune should be uncertain Paroemia A Wolfe shall marry the Sheep A Locust shal bring forth an Elephant The Sea shall bring forth Vines The Snayl shall out-run the Hare and the Tortoyse the Eagle Brambles shall bring forth Violets and Thorns Roses The Rivers shall be carried towards their Fountains The Fountains themselves shall thirst The Earth shall fly The Beetle shall make honey and the Guat milk The Crabs shall go forward The Nightingale shall cease to Sing before Fortune leave her inconstancy The Owle shall sing like the Nightingale The Heaven shall fall The Earth shall ascend above the Skie Mountains shal be transplaced The Mule shall bring forth Water and Fire shall agree together The Fire shall be kindled with Snow A Tempest shall be calmed with a song The Earth shall be bored thorough The Sun shall change his course The Loadstone shall turn from the North Groves shall grow on the Waves Sea-weeds shall be found on the Mountains The Stars shall fall The motion of each starr shall be irregular The Day shall be turned to night The waters of the Sea shall leave their saltness The Sea shall be plowed A Crop shall be reaped from the Sand when Fortune bids adieu to her inconstancy Past moments shall be recalled The Meddows shall never more have flowers The Heavens shall want their Stars Day shall want Light No sweetness shall be in Roses The Fish shall burn in the Ocean No Joy shall be in Heaven nor Pain in Hell The Flames shall descend The Mountains forgetting their weight shall fly as Atoms through the skie If ever Fortune embrace constancy The Heavens shall rest The Sun and Stars shall shine together The Pibbles shall mount up to the Stars The Earth shall be adorned with Stars The Flocks shall invite the Lions to their folds The Skies shall endure the heavy plough The Water shall give flames and Fire waters The Sun shall rise in the West The Ants shall leave their industry The Bees shall forget to make Honey Maenalian Hounds shall fly from the Hare Nature shall become preposterous No Element shall keep his proper seat Fire shall be cold and Water shall give heat sooner then Fortune shall become constant Summer shall give Snow Does
saucy chaps which dare †Metaphora bark against this Truth Hypothesis Ironica If he be not blind enough make him blinder that doth not see and acknowledge this palpable Truth He must either shut his eies or put them out to whom the light of this Truth doth not clearly shine that self-love is deprived of sight He is hardened against all Truth that denies this manifest Truth Aste ismus Let him go deny Principles that will not confess this Maxim He must have a Forehead of Brass a Brain of Lead and a tongue of Iron that dares oppose so confessed a Truth that self-love is deprived of sight Confirmatio ab Exemplo Narcissus through self-love was so blind that to enjoy himself he drown'd himself to find himself he lost himself Oxymoron Narcissus through self-love was so blind that he doted on his own Image which he beholds in the fountain and while he embraceth himself he is buried in his own embraces Paroemia Because self-love is blind hence Confirmatio à â—estimonio Socrates that Oracle of human wisdome said very well as indeed he did always that The Midwife judgeth better of the Infant then the Mother Hence they say Nothing which a man loves but seems beautiful and Every King pleaseth his Queen And hence the filthy Polypus ab Exemplo on Agna's nose in Horace pleased her lover Balbinus ab exemplo fabuloso And so self-love in the Fable made the Ape bring her ugly ridiculous young ones to Jupiter as the fairest of all living creatures à Testimonio Self-love is so blind that she sees not what reason saith what truth adviseth but assents to what her self judgeth as Stobaeus gathereth excellently out of most grave Authours Self-love attributes more to her self than truth permits and more then she attributes to truth it self as the same Stoboeus testifieth so great is her blindness Ironia Self-love sees all things is very quick-sighted I assure you believe me that will Tapeinôsis Meiôsis Litotes Self-love sees not many things Self-love sees no great things Few are the things self-love sees They must be strange things which self-love sees Climax Incrementum Self-love is not only not clear-sighted not only dimm-sighted not only purblind but down right-blind Self-love self-love alas can nothing Epizeuxis see Anadiplôsis Oh what can be more blind than is self-love Self-love that doting folly of the soul Anaphora Self-love is blind self-love can nothing see Self-love from errours then can not be free Epistrophe All things have eyes compared to self-love Stones seem to see compared with self-love Symploce We through self-love the maze of errours tread We through self-love are to all errours lead Epanalepsis Self-love is blind a Beetle is self-love Epanodos Self-love is blind what then can self-love see Nought sees self love for blind self-love's eyes be Epiphonêma The most palpable things are unseen to self-love so great â—o incredible is his blindness The most palpable did I say Epanorthosis indeed all things without exception are unseen to Self-love Aposiopesis So blind is self-love that but shame forbids me to utter it Apostrophe Oh Self-love how great is thy blindness Synoeceiôsis Plain things and things that are not plain are alike to self-love Oxymoron The greatest light is darkness to self-love To self-love the clearest day is night The clearest things to self-love are obscure Anacoenosis Communicatiâ— Tell me Narcissus what was it that wrought in thee such an obstinate contempt of so many young men and maids that desired to enjoy thy company What was it that made thee so disdainfully to fly from them till wandring solitarily by thy self thou becamest foolishly the unhappy authour of thine own untimely death Is it not all to be ascribed to the blindness of self-love Paralipsis Self-love is blind not to say any thing of his dotage folly and rashness Pleonasmus I have heard with these Ears and seen with these Eies many men and women confessing too late not without much sorrow the blindness of self-love Parenthesis I believe nor is my belief vain that self-love is the blindest thing in the world I hold and judge and why may I not confess it that nothing is blinder then self-love Aporia Addubitatio Where shall I first begin or what shall I first complain of in the blindness of self-love Shall I tell you it is so blind that it alwaies errs judging all things amiss shall I tell you it is so blind that it cannot distinguish foule from fair good from bad honest from dishonest shall I ascend something higher and tell you plainly it is so blind that nothing either is was will be or can be ever blinder than it This is much and yet not more then truth Anti-Metabole Self-love in its own conceit sees amongst the blind but I am sure in the judgment of all it is blind amongst them that see Me thinks I hear Narcissus pitifully Prosopopoeia lamenting and thus with much grief and despair breathing out his last and most sad complaints against self-love Anaphora O Accursed self-love how great cause have I to exclaim against thee and thy folly thee and thy madness thee and thy detestable blindness Alas it was thy blindness that brought me to such an heighth of pride and disdain Thy blindness lead me or rather seduced me into the Labyrinth of inextricable errours Thy blindness threw me head-long into that deep gulf of doting folly and miserable despair But for thee I had never contemned so many young men and maids that were enamoured on me But for thee I had never so neglected Eccho a Nymph so taken with my beauty that she pined away with grief through my disdain into a mere voyce But for thee I had never killed with pride and contempt so many Nymphs of the woods and fountains But for thee I had never come to that dotage and madness at last to burn and consume with the love of my self to desire what I already enjoyed to seek what I already possessed to pine away for love of mine own Image to burn in the flames which I my self kindle and for love of my self to destroy my self Inversio Self-love is not blind may some man say for it hath eyes as well as those that see Nay therefore is self-love blind because it hath eyes and yet hath no use of them for if self-love never had eyes and so were uncapable of sight it could not properly be said to be blind Amplificatio per Impossibile ubi obiter variantur Impossibile Nunquam It is Impossible It is not possible How is it possible It cannot be Can it be How can it be It can by no means be but that self-love should be blind All things may sooner be than that self-love
shall fright Lions The Crows shall fly through the Air whiter then Snow Swans shall be as black as pitch Oxen shall cut the Aire with their wings Marbles shall be softer then Wax The Chickens shall prey upon the Kite and Geese upon the Fox The Hare shall chase the Hound and the Dove the Hawk sooner then Fortune shall become constant Confirmatio à perpetuitate veritatis ubi obiter variantur Perpetuò Semper Whilst Sun and Stars shall run their course While Stars shall embellish Heaven and Flowers the Earth Whilst Neptune's arms shall embrace the earth Whilst Cynthia shall renew her Horns Whilst Lucifer foretells th' approaching Morn Whilst Arctos shuns the Sea Whilst Mountains give their shades Whilst Streams their tribute to the Ocean pay Whilst Day hath Light and Night succeeds the Day Whilst the Summer follows the Spring and Autumn succeeds the Summer Whilst the Sun casts light or the Earth shadows Whilst the Land bounds the Sea and Aire the Land Whilst the Rivers carrie Waters or those waters Fishes Whilst the Earth hath Trees Whilst the Bore loves the tops of Mountains Whilst Bees love thy me and Bears honey ever will Fortune be inconstant Till time and memory shall be no more Till time shall have no plumes Till time shall be as bald before as he is behind Till time shall be swallowed up by Eternity Till Lachesis have no more thread to draw †Those Proverbiâ—l speeches which stand for Never may by prefixing Till or Vntil stand for Ever as appear by these Examples Till the Woolfe shall marry the Sheep Till the Sun shall change his Course Till the Sun shall rise in the West Till day shall want his light Till Time that gives all things their end shall have it self an End To the last Syllable of recorded Time Never will Fortune be inconstant I will not trouble you nor my self any longer with so sad and so unwelcome a Subject and therefore though Fortune can never rest yet I here will Sentence V. Labour bringeth forth Glory Synonymia simplex Heterosis Activi Passivo GLory is brought forth by Labour Labour breeds Glory Glory is bred by Labour Labour begets Glory Glory is begot by Labour Labour engenders Glory Glory is engendred by Labour Labour brings Glory Glory is brought by Labour Labour sends Glory into the World Glory is sent into the World by Labour Industry brings forth Glory Glory is brought forth by Industry Study begets Fame Fame is begot by study Painfulness breeds honour Honour is bred by painfulness Vigilancy brings esteem Esteem is brought by vigilancy Care engenders reputation Reputation is engendered by Care Diligence brings praise Amplificatio Metaphorica ex relatis Heterôsis Verbi cum Nomine Heterôsis seu Mutatio Affirm Negat Praise is brought by diligence Labour is parent to glory Glory is the child to labour Labour is the father to Hâ—nour Honour is the son to Labour Industry is the mother to Glory Glory is the daughter to Industry There is nothing brings forth Glory more then Labour There is not any thing that bringeth forth Glory more then Labour Erotâ—sis seu Interrogatio Nothing brings forth Glory but Labour What brings forth Glory Labour What bringeth forth Glory but Labour What bringeth forth Glory if not Labour What doth not Labour bring forth Glory What more brings forth Glory then Labour What can more bring forth Glory then Labour Can any thing bring forth Glory more then Labour How should any thing bring forth Glory more then Labour Is there any thing so bringeth forth Glory as Labour Hath the wide World any thing that bringeth forth Glory more then Labour In what dark and blind corner lyeth that thing that bringeth forth Glory more then Labour What from East to West so bringeth forth Glory as Labour In what secret and unknown region lieth that thing that bringth forth Glory more then Labour What is that at last which bringeth forth Glory like Labour Where shall we find that thing that bringeth forth Glory more then Labour What new found Land doth contain that thing which bringeth forth Glory as Labour is wont What new America not yet discovered hath any thing that bringeth forth Glory more then Labour What unknown Land amongst the Antipodes contains a thing that brings forth Glory more then Labour Ecphonesis seu O the great O the strange Exclamatio O the wonderful O the incredible O the unspeakable O the inexpressible O the inconceivable O the singular Glory that labour brings forth O the innumerable O the infinite Honours that come from Labours Admiratio cum Isodynamia periphrastica Good God! how Labour brings forth Glory Good gods how Labour makes a way to Glory Immortal God! how Labour prepares a way to Glory Immortal gods how Labour paves a way to Glory Good lack how is Labour the high way to Glory O! how doth Labour lay the foundation to Glory O! how true is that old saying Labour is the Foundation of Glory O yee Gods above how doth Labour digg the foundation of Glory Oh ye Gods and Goddesses how doth Labour cast the foundation of Glory Adjuratio Let me not live Let me die Let me not enjoy my health Let me perish miserably If I do not believ it most true that without Labour there is no Glory So let the Muses love me So may the Gods favour me So may the Heavens be propitious to me So may I ever be master of my desire As I think it most true that Labour is the fountain and spring of Glory Commiseratio Alass what Glory could there be if Labour did not produce it Ah! what folly is it to expect Glory without Labour since Glory owes her original to Labour Woe is me how it irketh me to see their ignorance that do not know that Labour is the Authour of Glory Addubitatio I do much doubt whether there be any thing that more procureth Glory then Labour I am not certain whether there be any thing in the World that advanceth Glory as Labour doth It is a thing to me not free from all controversy whether Glory come from any thing but Labour I know not well by what we attain Glory more then by Labour It is a very great question to me whether there be any thing that more excites Glory then Labour Abominatio Fie upon his intolerable blindness that doth not see that Labour layes the first stone in the edifice of Glory Out upon his gross ignorance that doth not know that Labour is the cause of Glory O shame can any be ignorant of this that Glory naturally flowes from Labour Collatio ad simile As the many-colour'd flowers spring from the ground so doth Glory from Labour As you see the light beaning out from the Sun so doth Glory issue forth from Labour Have you not seen a stream deriving it self from the Fountain even so
or the Earth shadows Whilst the Land bounds the Sea and Air the Land Whilst the Rivers carrie Waters or those waters Fishes Whilst the Earth hath Trees Whilst the Bore loves the tops of Mountains Whilst Bees love thyme and Bears honey ever will Glory follow Labour Till time and memory shall be no more Till time shall have no plumes Till time shall be as bald before as he is behind Till Time shall be swallowed up by Eternity Till Lachesis have no more thread to draw †Those Proverbial speeches which stand for Never may by prefixing Till or Vntil stand for Ever as appear◠by these Examples Till the Woolfe shall marry the Sheep Till the Sun shall change his Course Till the Sun shall rise in the West Till day shall want his light To the last Syllable of recorded Time Till Time that gives all things theirs shall have its own End will Glory follow Labour Conclusio Epilogus Peroratio Much more might be said in this point but I have laboured sufficienly I will now sit down and expect what Glory will follow The sixt and last Sentence Synonymia simplex THe losse of Time is most miserable The losse of Time is most lamentable The losse of Time is most sad The losse of Time is most heavy The losse of Time is most mournful The losse of Time is most calamitous The losse of Time is to be bewayled The losse of Time is deplorable Heterosis partium orationis Isodynamia periphrastica To lose Time is to be come most miserable He that loseth Time cannot but be miserable The loss of Time brings with it great misery The way to the greatest misery is the losse of Time There cannot be the losse of Time without the greatest misery The heaviest misery waits upon the losse of Time Give me any losse but the losse of Time There is not any losse deserves the name of losse in comparison of the losse of Time There are very few that have not felt what a misery it is to lose Time Losse of Time is the fore-runner of the greatest misery The losse of Time ends in the greatest misery Greatest misery follows the losse of Time If losse of Time go before extreme misery is not farre behind The greatest misery is in the losse of Time The losse of Time is the cause of the greatest misery The losse of Time gives occasion to unspeakable misery The losse of Time breeds incredible calamity Mutatio Affirmat Negativis No misery to the misery from the losse of Time None can sufficiently bewayle the losse of Time No losse can bring more misery then the loss of Time Nothing can be more miserable then the losse of Time Nothing is miserable if not the losse of Time There is not any thing can be more miserable then the loss of Time There is nothing but is lesse miserable then the loss of Time Nothing is miserable if the loss of Time be not There is nothing so miserable as the loss of Time Heterosis Activi Passivo Nothing surpasseth the loss of Time for misery The loss of Time is surpassed by nothing for misery Erotesis sive Interrogatio What is miserable if not the loss of Time What is miserable but the loss of Time What is miserable The loss of Time What is not the loss of Time miserable What is more miserable then the loss of Time What can be more miserable then the loss of Time Can any thing be more miserable then the loss of Time How should any thing be more miserable then the losse of Time Is there any thing so miserable as the loss of Time Hath the wide World any thing more miserable then the loss of Time In what dark and blind corner lyeth that thing which is so miserable as the loss of Time What from East to West is so miserable as to lose Time In what secret and unknown region lieth that thing whose loss is equall to the loss of Time What region in the earth hath not known the misery from the loss of Time What is that at last which is so miserable as the loss of Time Where shall we find that thing that is more miserable then the loss of Time What un-found Land containes those things from whose loss comes more misery then from the loss of Time What new America not yet discovered hath any thing so miserable as the loss of Time Ecphonesis Exclamatio What unknown Land among the Antipodes hath any thing so miserable as the loss of Time O the miserable loss of Time O the intolerable O the great O the strange O the wonderful O the incredible O the singular O the unspeakable O the unexpressible O the inconceivable O the innumerable O the infinite O the very many miseries that proceed from the losse of Time Amiratio Good God! how miserable is the losse of Time Good gods what losse can be compared to the losse of Time Immortall God! how many thousands of calamities follow the losse of Time Immortal gods what losse to be bemoaned with more tears then the losse of Time Good lack what an incredible misery the losse of Time carries with it Oh! how is the misery from the losse of Time able to break an heart of steel Oh how true is that old saying The loss of Time is above all loss O yee Gods above how is the misery in the losse of Time known only to you alone Adjuratio sive Imprecatio Oh all ye Gods and Goddesses that rule the motions of swift flying Time how well do you know what it is to lose his pretious moments Let me not live Let me die Let me not enjoy my health Let me perish miserably Let me be cast to the Crows Let fortune frown upon me Let me never see a a good day Let an ill Genius wait upon me Let nothing prosper with me If I think any thing more miserable then the losse of Time So let the Muses favour me So let the Gods love me So may the Heavens be propitious to me So may I ever be master of my desire So may all things that I undertake have their wished successe So may fortune ever smile upon me So may good Angels guard me As I think no misery equall to that in the losse of Time Commiseratio Alass the losse of Time is very miserable Ah! how sad is the misery of the losse of Time Woe is me what great calamities tread on the heels of the losse of Time O Grief how are all miseries surpassed in the misery from the losse of Time Dubitatio I do much doubt whether there be any thing more miserable then the losse of Time It is a very great question to me whether any misery be equall to that from the losse of Time I am not certain whether there be any thing from whose losse greater misery can proceed then from the losse of Time I do not
know what I should say whether that the losse of Time is miserable or misery it self It is a thing to me not free from all controversy whether the misery in the loss of Time doth not lighten all other misery Abominatio Fie upon that intolerable misery that follows the losse of Time Out upon all those unlucky things that occasion the losse of Time O shame that men should be so carelesse in the use of Time When such extream misery followes the loss of it Confirmatio Amplificatio per praefationem Hyperbolicam formas generales Who can express What tongue can express No words can express Who can count No Tongue can count No Arithmetick can number The miserie that comes from the loss of Time I am not able to express No Eloquence is able to express It is not to tell It is wonderfull to tell It is not to be believed It is beyond belief It transcends a strong belief to credit It is not to think No man can in mind conceive You can scarce believe How miserable the loss of Time is Even to a Proverb It hath the place of a Proverb It 's instead of a Proverb It is become a Proverb It hath obtained the force of a Proverb It hath crept into the number of Proverbs It is an Adage of a received authority It is a saying as true as old Nothing is more miserable then the loss of Time I will never believe mine own Amplificatio per Asseverationem nor the Judgement of all the Ancients if there be any thing more miserable then the loss of Time â—f the loss of Time be not most miserable I know not what is Cave credas Never believe but that the loss of Time is most miserable It is a Truth approved by the consent of all men It is a Truth manifest even to blind men Paradiastole It is a thing so plain as nothing can be plainer so certain as nothing can be more certain It is a Truth so apparent and evident that it seems writ not with Ink but with the Beams of the Sun It is a matter out of question and needs no dispute It is a Truth approved of by the Judgment and Testimony of the whole World that nothing is more miserable then the loss of Time It is as true as either Jove's or Apollo's Oracle It is as true as the Ammonian Dodonean or Delphick Oracle Apollo never answered any thing truer from his tripos than It is a Truth that requires not many words nor a long Oration to confirm it It appears more clearly then the midday-Sun The Sun needs no otâ—er light that it may be seen nor a Trumpet to proclaim the brightness of his Beams so is it in this evident Truth He lights a Candle in the Sun-shine that goes a bout to explain this Truth It is a Truth than which what can be more certain what more plain That the misery from the loss of Time is the extreamest of misery Asteismus It is a Truth so out of all Controversy that he that would prove it may go tell men The Sun shines when he triumphs in his meridian-Glory Enantiâ—sis He must either be of very great boldnâ—sâ— or very little wit that denies Hypothesis He that seriously considers it is blind if he do not see obâ—linate if seeing he do not confess Amplificatio per Confutationem primò per Interrogationem Who is so blind as not to see Who is so impudent that he dares deny What impudence is it not to confess Who doth not understand Who but a Mad-man would deny Who lives in such Cymmerian darkness that he doth not see and confess Who except he have his Brains in his Heels will deny Who except he have his soul instead of salt will deny Can Impudence her self so put off all shame as to deny That no misery is comparable to the misery from the loss Time Nothing is more frequent in Orators Poets Historians than None but the most impudent man in the World câ—n deny Asteisinus Let him affirm wich that doting Philosopher that Snow is blaâ—k whodenies It were better to deny all things than this one Metaphora He should be cudgell'd into belief and confuted with club-Arguments who denies One Democritus will not suffice to laugh at his Folly who denies Ironia Give him some Hellebore to purge his Brain that will not confess Hyperbole An acre of Hellbore will not cure him that denies He understands little that doth not know Parâ—diastole He doth noâ— speak but bray like an Ass that denies that thousâ—nd miseries follow the loss of Time Allegoâ—ia No man's Nâ—se is so stopt but he easily smels out this Send him to Bedlam as a man that hath a Vertigo in his Brain who denies Collatâ—o They are but as Sibyll's leaves whatsoever are objected against this Truth The Arguments against this Truth are lighter and vainer than the leaves of the Sibylls Metaphora They are but Ropes of sand Towers of Lamia Old-wive's Tales vain Dreams that men prattle against this Truth Metaphora There is neither crumb nor drop of sensâ— or reason in those things that are spoken against this Truth Similitudo As one said of the Nightingal she was a Voyce and nothing else so they Protasis are words and wind and no more that are objected Apodosis against this Truth Paradiastole that no misery is equal to that from the loss of Time It comes not from Apollo's Tripos but the Old-Wive's Trivet whatsoever is muttered against this Truth Epitrope Let him be rich let him be noble let him be great let him be what you will fool he must needs be and fool-hardy too that dares mutter against this Truth Metaphora I could wish my self a Squinancy to stop his saucy chaps which dare bark against this Truth If he be not blind enough make him blinder that doth not see and acknowledge this palpable Truth He must either shut his eies or put them out to whom the light of this Truth doth not clearly shine He is hardened against all Truth that denies this manifest Truth Asteismus Let him go deny Principles that will not confess this Maxim that the loss of Time is the cause of the greatest misery He must have a Forehead of Brass a Brain of Lead and a Tongue of Iron that dares contradict so confessed a Truth Metonymia Adjuncti Rubb over your Forehead Impudence and dare to deny that the loss of Time is the cause of â—he greatest misery Amplificatio per Impossibile ubi obiter variantur Impossibile Nunquam It is Impossible It is not possible How is it possible Can it be pâ—ssible It cannot be How can it be Can it be It can by no means be That any loss should be so calamitous as the loss of Time