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A68619	The arte of English poesie Contriued into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament.	Puttenham, George, d. 1590.; Puttenham, Richard, 1520?-1601?, attributed name.; Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 20519.5; ESTC S110571	205,111	267

an impression as a more multitude of words to the purpose discreetely and without superfluitie vttered the minde being no lesse vanquished with large loade of speech than the limmes are with heauie burden Sweetenes of speech sentence and amplification are therfore necessarie to an excellent Orator and Poet ne may in no wise be spared from any of them And first of all others your figure that worketh by iteration or repetition of one word or clause doth much alter and affect the eare and also the mynde of the hearer and therefore is counted a very braue figure both with the Poets and rhetoriciens and this repetition may be in seuen sortes Repetition in the first degree we call the figure of Report according to the Greeke originall Anaphora or the Figure of Report and is when we make one word begin and as they are wont to say lead the daunce to many verses in sute as thus To thinke on death it is a miserie To thinke on life it is a vanitie To thinke on the world verily it is To thinke that heare man hath no perfit blisse And this writtē by Sir Walter Raleigh of his greatest mistresse in most excellent verses In vayne mine eyes in vaine you wast your teares In vayne my sighs the smokes of my despaires In vayne you search th' earth and heauens aboue In vayne ye seeke for fortune keeps my loue Or as the buffon in our enterlude called Lustie London said very knauishly and like himselfe Many a faire lasse in London towne Many a bavvdie basket borne vp and downe Many a broker in a thrid bare gowne Many a bankrowte scarce worth a crowne In London Ye haue another sort of repetition quite contrary to the former when ye make one word finish many verses in sute Antistrophe or the Counter turne and that which is harder to finish many clauses in the middest of your verses or dittie for to make them finish the verse in our vulgar it should hinder the rime and because I do finde few of our English makers vse this figure I haue set you down two litle ditties which our selues in our yonger yeares played vpon the Antistrophe for so is the figures name in Greeke one vpon the mutable loue of a Lady another vpon the meritorious loue of Christ our Sauiour thus Her lowly lookes that gaue life to my loue With spitefull speach curstnesse and crueltie She kild my loue let her rigour remoue Her cherefull lights and speaches of pitie Reuiue my loue anone with great disdaine She shunnes my loue and after by a traine She seekes my loue and saith she loues me most But seing her loue so lightly wonne and lost I longd not for her loue for well I thought Firme is the loue if it be as it ought The second vpon the merites of Christes passion toward mankind thus Our Christ the sonne of God chief authour of all good Was he by his allmight that first created man And vvith the costly price of his most precious bloud He that redeemed man and by his instance vvan Grace in the sight of God his onely father deare And reconciled man and to make man his peere Made himselfe very man brief to conclude the case This Christ both God and man he all and onely is The man brings man to God and to all heauens blisse The Greekes call this figure Antistrophe the Latines conuersio I following the originall call him the counterturne because he turnes counter in the middest of euery meetre Take me the two former figures and put them into one and it is that which the Greekes call symploche the Latines complexio or conduplicatio Symploche or the figure of replie and is a maner of repetition when one and the selfe word doth begin and end many verses in sute so wrappes vp both the former figures in one as he that sportingly complained of his vntrustie mistresse thus Who made me shent for her loues sake Myne owne mistresse Who would not seeme my part to take Myne owne mistresse What made me first so well content Her curtesie What makes me now so sore repent Her crueltie The Greekes name this figure Symploche the Latins Complexio perchaunce for that he seemes to hold in and to wrap vp the verses by reduplication so as nothing can fall out I had rather call him the figure of replie Ye haue another sort of repetition when with the worde by which you finish your verse Anadiplosis or the Redouble ye beginne the next verse with the same as thus Comforte it is for man to haue a wife Wife chast and wise and lowly all her life Or thus Your beutie was the cause of my first loue Looue while I liue that I may sore repent The Greeks call this figure Anadiplosis I call him the Redouble as the originall beares Ye haue an other sorte of repetition Epanalepsis or the Eccho sound otherwise the slow return when ye make one worde both beginne and end your verse which therefore I call the slow retourne otherwise the Eccho sound as thus Much must he be beloued that loueth much Feare many must he needs whom many feare Vnlesse I called him the eccho sound I could not tell what name to giue him vnlesse it were the slow returne Ye haue another sort of repetition when in one verse or clause of a verse ye iterate one word without any intermission as thus Epizeuxis the Vnderlay or Coocko-spel It was Maryne Maryne that wrought mine woe And this bemoaning the departure of a deere friend The chiefest staffe of mine assured stay With no small griefe is gon is gon away And that of Sir Walter Raleighs very sweet With wisdomes eyes had but blind fortune seene Than had my looue my looue for euer beene The Greeks call him Epizeuxis the Latines Subiunctio we may call him the vnderlay me thinks if we regard his manner of iteration would depart from the originall we might very properly in our vulgar and for pleasure call him the cuckowspell for right as the cuckow repeats his lay which is but one manner of note and doth not insert any other tune betwixt and sometimes for hast stammers out two or three of them one immediatly after another as cuck cuck cuckow so doth the figure Epizeuxis in the former verses Maryne Maryne without any intermission at all Ploche or the Doubler Yet haue ye one sorte of repetition which we call the doubler and is as the next before a speedie iteration of one word but with some little intermissiō by inserting one or two words betweene as in a most excellent dittie written by Sir Walter Raleigh these two closing verses Yet vvhen I savve my selfe to you vvas true I loued my selfe bycause my selfe loued you And this spoken in common Prouerbe An ape vvilbe an ape by kinde as they say Though that ye clad him all in purple array Or as we once sported vpon a fellowes name who was

weight then another And as we lamented the crueltie of an inexorable and vnfaithfull mistresse If by the lavves of loue it be a falt The faithfull friend in absence to forget But if it be once do thy heart but halt A secret sinne vvhat forfet is so great As by despite in view of euery eye The solemne vovves oft svvorne vvith teares so salt And holy Leagues fast seald vvith hand and hart For to repeale and breake so vvilfully But novv alas vvithout all iust desart My lot is for my troth and much good vvill To reape disdaine hatred and rude refuse Or if ye vvould vvorke me some greater ill And of myne earned ioyes to feele no part What els is this ô cruell but to vse Thy murdring knife the guiltlesse bloud to spill Where ye see how she is charged first with a fault then with a a secret sinne afterward with a foule forfet last of all with a most cruell bloudy deede And thus againe in a certaine louers complaint made to the like effect They say it is a ruth to see thy louer neede But you can see me vveepe but you can see me bleede And neuer shrinke nor shame ne shed no teare at all You make my wounds your selfe and fill them vp with gall Yea you can see me sound and faint for want of breath And gaspe and grone for life and struggle still with death What can you now do more sweare by your maydenhead Then for to flea me quicke or strip me being dead In these verses you see how one crueltie surmounts another by degrees till it come to very slaughter and beyond for it is thought a despite done to a dead carkas to be an euidence of greater crueltie then to haue killed him After the Auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution Meiosis or the Disabler Whereupon we call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation and this extenuation is vsed to diuers purposes sometimes for modesties sake and to auoide the opinion of arrogancie speaking of our selues or of ours as he that disabled himselfe to his mistresse thus Not all the skill I haue to speake or do Which litle is God wot set loue apart Liueload nor life and put them both thereto Can counterpeise the due of your desart It may be also done for despite to bring our aduersaries in contempt as he that sayd by one commended for a very braue souldier disabling him scornefully thus A ●●●ise man forsooth and fit for the warre Good at hand grippes better to fight a farre Whom bright weapon in shevv as it is said Yea his ovvne shade hath often made afraide The subtilitie of the scoffe lieth in these Latin wordes eminus cominus pugnare Also we vse this kind of Extenuation when we take in hand to comfort or cheare any perillous enterprise making a great matter seeme small and of litle difficultie is much vsed by captaines in the warre when they to giue courage to their souldiers will seeme to disable the persons of their enemies and abase their forces and make light of euery thing that might be a discouragement to the attempt as Hanniball did in his Oration to his souldiers when they should come to passe the Alpes to enter Italie and for sharpnesse of the weather and steepnesse of the mountaines their hearts began to faile them We vse it againe to excuse a fault to make an offence seeme lesse then it is by giuing a terme more fauorable and of lesse vehemencie then the troth requires as to say of a great robbery that it was but a pilfry matter of an arrant ruffian that he is a tall fellow of his hands of a prodigall foole that he is a kind hearted man of a notorious vnthrift a lustie youth and such like phrases of extenuation which fall more aptly to the office of the figure Curry fauell before remembred And we vse the like termes by way of pleasant familiaritie and as it were for a Courtly maner of speach with our egalls or inferiours as to call a young Gentlewoman Mall for Mary Nell for Elner Iack for Iohn Robin for Robert or any other like affected termes spoken of pleasure as in our triumphals calling familiarly vpon our Muse I called her Moppe But vvill you vveet My litle muse my prettie moppe If vve shall algates change our stoppe Chose me a svveet Vnderstanding by this word Moppe a litle prety Lady or tender young thing For so we call litle fishes that be not come to their full growth moppes as whiting moppes gurnard moppes Also such termes are vsed to be giuen in derision and for a kind of contempt as when we say Lording for Lord as the Spaniard that calleth an Earle of small reuenue Contadilio the Italian calleth the poore man by contempt pouerachio or pouerino the little beast animalculo or animaluchio and such like diminutiues apperteining to this figure the Disabler more ordinary in other languages than in our vulgar This figure of retire holds part with the propounder of which we spake before prolepsis because of the resumption of a former proposition vttered in generalitie to explane the same better by a particular diuision Epanodis or the figure of Retire But their difference is in that the propounder resumes but the matter only This retire resumes both the matter and the termes and is therefore accompted one of the figures of repetition and in that respect may be called by his originall Greeke name the Resounde or the retire for this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serues both sences resound and retire The vse of this figure is seen in this dittie following Loue hope and death do stirre in me much strife As neuer man but I lead such a life For burning loue doth vvound my heart to death And vvhen death comes at call of invvard grief Cold lingring hope doth feede my fainting breath Against my vvill and yeelds my vvound relief So that I liue but yet my life is such As neuer death could greeue me halfe so much Then haue ye a maner of speach Dialisis or the Dismembrer not so figuratiue as fit for argumentation and worketh not vnlike the dilemma of the Logicians because he propones two or moe matters entierly and doth as it were set downe the whole tale or rekoning of an argument and then cleare euery part by it selfe as thus It can not be but nigardship or neede Made him attempt this foule and vvicked deede Nigardship not for alvvayes he vvas free Nor neede for vvho doth not his richesse see Or as one that entreated for a faire young maide who was taken by the watch in London and carried to Bridewell to be punished Novv gentill Sirs let this young maide alone For either she hath grace of els she hath none If she haue grace she may in time repent If she haue none vvhat bootes her punishment Or as another pleaded his deserts

hearings we may not of Princely courtesie passe by and not honor with our kisse the mouth from whence so many sweete ditties golden poems haue issued But me thinks at these words I heare some smilingly say I would be loath to lacke liuing of my own till the Prince gaue me a maner of new Elme for my riming And another to say I haue read that the Lady Cynthia came once downe out of her skye to kisse the faire yong lad Endimion as he lay a sleep many noble Queenes that haue bestowed kisses vpon their Princes paramours but neuer vpon any Poets The third me thinks shruggingly saith I kept not to sit sleeping with my Poesie till a Queene came and kissed me But what of all this Princes may giue a good Poet such conuenient countenaunce and also benefite as are due to an excellent artificer though they neither kisse nor cokes them and the discret Poet lookes for no such extraordinarie fauours and aswell doth he honour by his pen the iust liberall or magnanimous Prince as the valiaunt amiable or bewtifull though they be euery one of them the good giftes of God So it seemes not altogether the scorne and ordinarie disgrace offered vnto Poets at these dayes is cause why few Gentlemen do delight in the Art but for that liberalitie is come to fayle in Princes who for their largesse were wont to be accompted th' onely patrons of learning and first founders of all excellent artificers Besides it is not perceiued that Princes them selues do take any pleasure in this science by whose example the subiect is commonly led and allured to all delights and exercises be they good or bad according to the graue saying of the historian Rex multitudinem religione impleuit quae semper regenti similis est And peraduēture in this iron malitious age of ours Princes are lesse delighted in it being ouer earnestly bent and affected to the affaires of Empire ambition whereby they are as it were inforced to indeuour them selues to armes and practises of hostilitie or to entend to the right pollicing of their states and haue not one houre to bestow vpon any other ciuill or delectable Art of naturall or morall doctrine nor scarce any leisure to thincke one good thought in perfect and godly contemplation whereby their troubled mindes might be moderated and brought to tranquillitie So as it is hard to find in these dayes of noblemē or gentlemen any good Mathematiciā or excellent Musitian or notable Philosopher or els a cunning Poet because we find few great Princes much delighted in the same studies Now also of such among the Nobilitie or gentrie as be very well seene in many laudable sciences and especially in making or Poesie it is so come to passe that they haue no courage to write if they haue yet are they loath to be a knowen of their skill So as I know very many notable Gentlemen in the Court that haue written commendably and suppressed it agayne or els suffred it to be publisht without their owne names to it as if it were a discredit for a Gentleman to seeme learned and to shew himselfe amorous of any good Art In other ages it was not so for we read that Kinges Princes haue written great volumes and publisht them vnder their owne regall titles As to begin with Salomon the wisest of Kings Iulius Caesar the greatest of Emperours Hermes Tresmegistus the holiest of Priestes and Prophetes Euax king of Arabia wrote a booke of precious stones in verse Prince Auicenna of Phisicke and Philosophie Alphonsus a king of Spaine his Astronomicall Tables Almansor a king of Marrocco diuerse Philosophicall workes and by their regall example our late soueraigne Lord king Henry the eight wrate a booke in defence of his faith then perswaded that it was the true and Apostolicall doctrine though it hath appeared otherwise since yet his honour and learned zeale was nothing lesse to be allowed Queenes also haue bene knowen studious and to write large volumes as Lady Margaret of Fraunce Queene of Nauarre in our time But of all others the Emperour Nero was so well learned in Musique and Poesie as when he was taken by order of the Senate and appointed to dye he offered violence to him selfe and sayd O quantus artisex pereo as much to say as how is it possible a man of such science and learning as my selfe should come to this shamefull death Th'emperour Octauian being made executor to Virgill who had left by his last will and testament that his bookes of the Aeneidos should be committed to the fire as things not perfited by him made his excuse for infringing the deads will by a nomber of verses most excellently written whereof these are part Frangatur potiùs legum veneranda potestas Quàm tot congestos noctésque diésque labores Hauserit vna dies And put his name to them And before him his vncle father adoptiue Iulius Caesar was not ashamed to publish vnder his owne name his Commentaries of the French and Britaine warres Since therefore so many noble Emperours Kings and Princes haue bene studious of Poesie and other ciuill arts not ashamed to bewray their skils in the same let none other meaner person despise learning nor whether it be in prose or in Poesie if they them selues be able to write or haue written any thing well or of rare inuention be any whit squeimish to let it be publisht vnder their names for reason serues it and modestie doth not repugne CHAP. IX How Poesie should not be imployed vpon vayne conceits or vicious or infamous VVHerefore the Nobilitie and dignitie of the Art considered aswell by vniuersalitie as antiquitie and the naturall excellence of it selfe Poesie ought not to be abased and imployed vpon any vnworthy matter subiect nor vsed to vaine purposes which neuerthelesse is dayly seene and that is to vtter conceits infamous vicious or ridiculous and foolish or of no good example doctrine Albeit in merry matters not vnhonest being vsed for mans solace and recreation it may be well allowed for as I said before Poesie is a pleasant maner of vtteraunce varying from the ordinarie of purpose to refresh the mynde by the eares delight Poesie also is not onely laudable because I said it was a metricall speach vsed by the first men but because it is a metricall speach corrected and reformed by discreet iudgements and with no lesse cunning and curiositie then the Greeke and Latine Poesie and by Art bewtified adorned brought far from the primitiue rudenesse of the first inuentors otherwise it might be sayd to me that Adam and Eues apernes were the gayest garmentes because they were the first and the shepheardes tente or pauillion the best housing because it was the most auncient most vniuersall which I would not haue so taken for it is not my meaning but that Art cunning concurring with nature antiquitie vniuersalitie in things indifferent and