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A10647	A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563.; Foundacion of rhetorike	Rainolde, Richard, d. 1606.	1563 (1563)	STC 20925A.5; ESTC S104585	88,800	132

can not take place to help thē Soche as do folowe the life of the Greshopper are worthie of their miserie who haue no witte to foresée seasons and tymes but doe suffer tyme vndescretly to passe whiche fadeth as a floure thold Romaines do picture Ianus with two faces a face behind an other before which resemble a wiseman who alwaies ought to knowe thinges paste thynges presente and also to be experte by the experience of many ages and tymes and knowledge of thynges to come ¶ The comparison betwene the twoo thynges WHat can be more descritlie doen then the Ante to be so prouident and politike as that all daunger of life necessitie is excluded the stormie times of Winter ceaseth of might honger battereth not his walles hauyng soche plentie of foode for vnlooked bitter stormes and seasons happeneth in life whiche when thei happen neither wisedō nor pollicie is not able to kepe backe Wisedome therefore it is so to stande that these thynges hurte not the miserable ende of the Greshopper sheweth vnto vs whiche maie be an example to all menne of what degree so euer thei bee to flie slothe and idelnesse to be wise and discrite ¶ Of contraries AS diligence prouidence and discrete life is a singulare gift whiche increaseth all vertues a pillar staie and a foundacion of all artes and science of common wealthes and kyngdomes So contrarily sloth and sluggishnesse in all states and causes defaseth destroyeth and pulleth doune all vertue all science and godlines For by it the mightie kyngdome of the Lidiās was destroied as it semeth no small vice when the Lawes of Drac● dooe punishe with death idelnesse ¶ The ende THerefore the diligence of the Ante in this Fable not onelie is moche to be commended but also her example is to bee followed in life Therefore the wiseman doeth admonishe vs to go vnto the Ant and learne prouidence and also by the Greshopper lette vs learne to auoide idelnes lesse the like miserie and calamitie fall vpon vs. ¶ Narratio THis place followyng is placed of Tullie after the exordium or beginnyng of Oracion as the seconde parte whiche parte of Rhetorike is as it were the light of all the Oracion folowing conteining the cause matter persone tyme with all breuitie bothe of wordes and inuencion of matter ¶ A Narracion A Narracion is an exposicion orderlaracion of any thyng dooen in deede or els a settyng forthe forged of any thyng but so declaimed and declared as though it were doen. A narracion is of three sortes either it is a narracion historicall of any thyng contained in any aunciente storie or true Chronicle Or Poeticall whiche is a exposicion fained set for the by inuencion of Poetes or other Or ciuill otherwise called Iudiciall whiche is a matter of controuersie in iudgement to be dooen or not dooen well or euill In euery Narracion ye must obserue sixe notes 1. Firste the persone or doer of the thing whereof you intreate 2. The facte doen. 3. The place wherein it was doen. 4. The tyme in the whiche it was doen. 5. The maner must be shewed how it was doen. 6. The cause wherevpon it was doen. There be in this Narracion iiij other properties belōging 1. First it must be plain and euident to the hearer not obscure 2. short and in as fewe wordes as it maie be for soche a matter 3. Probable as not vnlike to be true 4. In wordes fine and elegante ¶ A narracion historicall vpon Semiramis Queene of Babilon how and after what sort the obtained the gouernment thereof AFter the death of Ninus somtime kyng of Babilon his soonne Nuius also by name was left to succede hym in all the Assirian Monarchie Semiramis wife to Ninus the firste feared the tender age of her sonne wherupon she thought that those mightie nacions and kyngdomes would not obaie so young and weake a Prince Wherfore she kept her sonne from the gouernmente and moste of all she feared that thei would not obaie a woman forthwith she fained her self to be the soonne of Ninus and bicause she would not be knowen to bee a woman this Quene inuented a newe kinde of tire the whiche all the Babilonians that were men vsed by her commaundement By this straunge disguised tire and apparell she not knowen to bee a woman ruled as a man for the space of twoo and fourtie yeres she did marueilous actes for she enlarged the mightie kyngdome of Babilon and builded the same citée Many other regions subdued and vallauntlie ouerthrowen she entered India to the whiche neuer Prince came sauing Alexander the greate she pa●●ed not onely men in vertue counsaill and valiaunt stomacke but also the famous counsailours of Assiria might not contende with her in Maiestie pollicie and roialnes For at what tyme as thei knewe her a woman thei enuied not her state but marueiled at her wisedome pollicie and moderacion of life at the laste she desiryng the vnnaturall lust and loue of her soonne Ninus was murthered of hym ¶ A narracion historicall vpon kyng Richard the third the cruell tiraunt ▪ RIchard duke of Glocester after the death of Edward the fowerth his brother king of England vsurped the croune moste traiterou●●●e and wickedlie this kyng Richard was s●●ll of stature deformed and ill shaped his shoulders beared not equalitie a pulyng face yet of countenaunce and looke cruell malicious deceiptfull bityng and chawing his nether lippe of minde vnquiet pregnaunt of witte quicke and liuely a worde and a blowe wilie deceiptfull proude arrogant in life and cogitacion bloodie The fowerth daie of Iulie he entered the tower of London with Anne his wife doughter to Richard Exle of Warwick and there in created Edward his onely soonne a child of ten yeres of age Prince of Wales At the same tyme in the same place he created many noble peres to high prefermente of honour and estate and immediatly with feare and faint harte bothe in himself and his nobles and commons was created king alwaies a vnfortunate and vnluckie creacion the harts of the nobles and commons thereto lackyng or faintyng and no maruaile he was a cruell murtherer a wretched caitiffe a moste tragicall tyraunt and blood succour bothe of his nephewes and brother George Duke of Clarence whom he caused to bee drouned in a Butte of 〈…〉 the staires sodainlie remoued wheron he stepped the death of the lorde Riuers with many other nobles compassed and wrought at the young Princes commyng out of Wales the .xix. daie of Iuly in the yere of our lorde 1483. openly he toke vpon him to be king who sekyng hastely to clime fell according to his desart sodainly and ingloriously whose Embassage for peace Lewes the Frenche king for his miseheuous boodie slaughter so moche abhorred that he would neither see the Embassador nor heare the Embassage for he murthered his .ij. nephues by the handes of one Iames Tirrell

of fortune more inferiour or base Vpon a citee praise maie be recited consideryng the goodlie situacion of it as of Paris Venice London Yorke consideryng the 〈◊〉 of the lande the wealthe and aboundaunce the noble and famous gouernours whiche haue gouerned the same The first aucthors and builders of the same the politike lawes and godlie statutes therein mainteined The felicitee of the people their maners their val●aunt prowes and hardines The buildyng and ornatures of the same with Castles Toures Hauens Floodes Temples as if a manne would celebrate with praise The olde famous and aunciente Citée of London shewyng the auncient buildyng of the same the commyng of Brutus who was the firste aucthor and erector of the same As Romulus was of the mightie Citée Rome what kyngs haue frō tyme to tyme lineally descended and succeded bearing croune and scepter therein the valiauntnes of the people what terror thei haue been to all forraine nacions What victories thei haue in battaile obteined how diuers nacions haue sought their amitée and league The false Scottes and Frenche menne truce breakers many and sonderie tymes losyng their honour in the field and yet thei through the puissaunt harte of the kynges of this lande vpholdyd and saued from the mighte and force of other enemies inuadyng theim The twoo famous Vniuersitées of this lande from the whiche no small nomber of greate learned men and famous haue in the comon wealthe sprong with all other thynges to it The praise of a Kyng Prince Duke Erle Lorde Baron Squire or of any other man be maie declaimed of obseruing the order of this parte of Rhetorike This parte of Rhetorike called praise is either a particuler praise of one as of kyng Henry the ●●●te Plato Tullie Demosthenes Cyrus 〈◊〉 Alexander the greate Or a generalle and vniuersalle praise as the praise of all the Britaines or of all the cit●●●in● of London ¶ The order to make this Oracion 〈…〉 Firste for the enteryng of the matter you shall place a exordium or beginnyng The second place you shall bryng to his praise Genuseius that is to faie Of what kinde be came of whiche dooeth consiste in fower poinctes Of what nacion Of what countrie Of what a●●cetours Of what parentes After that you shall declare his educacion the educacion is conteined in thrée poinctes In Institucion Arte. Lawes Then put there to that whiche is the chief gr●●●de of al praise his actes doen whiche doe procede out of the giftes and excellencies of the minde as the fortitude of the mynde wisedome and magnanimitée Of the bodie as a beautifull face amiable countenaunce swiftnesse the might and strength of the same The excellencies of fortune as his dignitée power aucthoritie riches substaunce frendes In the fifte place vse a comparison wherein that whiche you praise maie be aduaunced to the vttermoste Lasts of all vse the Epilogus or conclusion ¶ The example of the Oracion ¶ The praise of Epaminundas IN whom nature hath powred singuler giftes in whom vertue singularitee in 〈…〉 enterprises aboundeth whose glorie renowne 〈◊〉 to the 〈…〉 immortall 〈…〉 ●n the gra●e their vertues and godlie life tasteth not of Obliuion whiche at the length ouershroweth all creatures Citées and regions Thei liue onelie in all ages whose vertues spreadeth same and noble enterprises by vertue rooteth immortalitee Who so liueth as that his good fame after death ceaseth not nor death with the bodie rutteth of their memorie of use Soche not onely in life but also in death are moste fortunate In death all honor dignitee glorie wealthe riches are taken from vs The fame and glorie of singulare life is then chieflie takyng his holde and roote wise men and godlie in life knowen famous after death remain woste worthie glorious Who knoweth not of Tullie the famous Oratour of Rome Doeth Demosthenes lieth hidden that noble Oratour of Athenes Is not y t fame of Iulius Cesar Octauius Augustus remainyng of Vespasianus of Theodosius of Traianus of Adrianus who by praise minded be left to the ende of al ages Soche a one was this Epaminundas the famous Duke of Thebe whose vertues gane hym honour in life and famous enterprises immortalitée of fame after death What can bee saied more in the praise and commendacion of any peere of estate then was saied in the praise of Epaminundas for his vertues were so singulare that it was doubted he beyng so good a manne and so good a Magistrate whether he were better manne or better Magistrate whose vertues were so vnited that vertue alwaies tempered his enterprises his loftie state as fortune oftentymes blindeth did not make hym vnmindfull of his state No doubt but that in all common wealthes famous gouernours haue been but in all those the moste parte haue not been soche that all so good men and so good magistrates that it is doubted whether thei 〈…〉 or better magistrates It is a rare thyng to be 〈…〉 but a more difficult matter to bee a good Magistrate and moste of all to be bothe a good man and a good Magistrate Honour and preeminent state doeth 〈…〉 whereupon thei ought the more 〈◊〉 to wade● in all causes and with all moderacion to temper their preeminent state The Philosophers ponderyng the brickle and slippere state of fortune did pronunce this sentence Difficilius est res aduersas pati quam fortunam eslantem ferre it is more easie to beare sharpe and extreme pouertie then to rule and moderate fortune because that the wisest menne of all haue as Chronicles doe shewe felte this obliuion that their maners haue been so chaunged as that natures molde in thē had ben altered or nuelie framed in the life of Epaminūdas moderacion and vertue so gouerned his state that he was a honor and renowne to his state nothing can be more ample in his praise then that which is lefte Chronicled of him Of his countrie EPaminundas was borne in Thebe a famous citie in Beotia the which Cadmus the sōne of Agenor builded whiche Amphion did close enuiron with walles in the whiche the mightie and valiaunt Hercules was borne manie noble Princes helde therin scepter the which Citie is tituled famous to the posterity by the noble gouernment of Epaminundas ¶ Of his auncetours EPaminundas came not of anie highe nobilitie or blood but his parentes were honeste and verteous who as it semed were verie well affected to vertue instructyng their soonne in all singulare and good qualities for by good and vertuous life and famous enterprises from a meane state manie haue bene extolled to beare scepter or to attaine greate honour for as there is a begynnyng of nobilitie so there is an ende by vertue and famous actes towarde the common wealthe nobilite first rose The stock of Cesar and Cesars was exalted from a meaner state by vertue onelie to nobilitie Scipios stocke was not alwais noble but his