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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

¶ 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 Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1563. Mens Marcij vj. ¶ Imprinted at London by Ihon Kingston ¶ To the right honorable and my singuler good Lorde my Lorde Robert Dudley Maister of the Quéenes Maiesties horse one of her highes priuie Coun●●●e and knight of the moste honourable order of the Garter Richard Rainolde wisheth longe life with increase of honour ARISTOTLE the famous Philosopher writing a boke to king Alexāder the great and mightie conquerour began the Epistle of his Booke in these woordes Twoo thynges moued me chieflie O King to betake to thy Maiesties handes this worke of my trauaile and labour thy nobilitie and vertue of the whiche thy nobilitie encouraged me thy greate and singuler vertue indued with all humanitie forced and draue me thereto The same twoo in your good Lordshippe Nobilitie and Vertue as twoo mightie Pillers staied me in this bolde enterprise to make your good Lordshippe beyng a Pere of honour indued with all nobilitie and vertue a patrone and possessoure of this my booke In the whiche although copious and aboundaunte eloquence wanteth to adorne and beautifie the same yet I doubte not for the profite that is in this my trauaile conteined your honour indued with all singuler humanitie will vouchsaufe to accepte my willyng harte my profitable purpose herein Many famous menne and greate learned haue in the Greke tongue and otherwise trauailed to profite all tymes their countrie and common wealthe This also was my ende and purpose to plante a worke profitable to all tymes my countrie and common wealthe And because your Lordshippe studieth all singularitie to vertue and wholie is incensed thereto I haue compiled this woorke and dedicated it to your Lordeshippe as vnto whō moste noble and vertuous VVherin are set forthe soche Oracions as are right profitable to bee redde for knowledge also necessarie The duetie of a subiecte the worthie state of nobilitie the preheminent dignitie and Maiestie of a Prince the office of counsailours worthie chiefe veneracion the office of a Iudge or Magestrate are here set foorthe In moste fortunate state is the kyngdome and Common wealthe where the Nobles and Peres not onelie daiely doe studie to vertue for that is the wisedome that all the graue and wise Philophers searched to attaine to For the ende of all artes and sciences and of all noble actes and enterprises is vertue but also to fauour and vphold the studentes of learnyng whiche also is a greate vertue VVho so is adorned with nobilitie and vertue of necessitie nobilitie and vertue will moue and allure thē to fauour and support vertue in any other yea as Tullie the moste famous Oratour dooeth saie euen to loue those whō we neuer sawe but by good fame and brute beutified to vs. For the encrease of vertue God dooeth nobilitate with honour worthie menne to be aboue other in dignitie and state thereupon vertue doeth encrease your Lordshipps honor beyng a louer of vertue and worthie nobilitie Your lordshippes humble seruaunt Richard Rainolde ▪ To the Reader APHTHONIVS a famous man wrote in Greke of soche declamacions to enstructe the studentes thereof with all facilitée to grounde in them a moste plentious and riche vein of eloquence No man is able to inuente a more profitable waie and order to instructe any one in the exquisite and absolute perfeccion of wisedome and eloquence then Aphthonius Quintilianus and Hermogenes Tullie also as a moste excellente Orator in the like sorte trauailed whose Eloquence and vertue all tymes ertolled and the ofspryng of all ages worthilie aduaunceth And because as yet the verie grounde of Rhetorike is not heretofore intreated of as concernyng these exercises though in fewe yeres past a learned woorke of Rhetorike is compiled and made in the Englishe tounguei of one who floweth in all excellencie of arte who in iudgement is profounde in wisedome and eloquence moste famous In these therefore my diligence is emploied to profite many although not with like Eloquence beutified and adorned as the matter requireth I haue chosen out in these Oracions soche questions as are right necessarie to be knowen and redde of all those whose cogitaciō pondereth vertue and Godlines I doubte not but seyng my trauaile toucheth vertuous preceptes and vttereth to light many famous Histories the order of arte obserued also but that herein the matter itself shall defende my purpose againste the enuious whiche seketh to depraue any good enterprise begon of any one persone The enuious manne though learned readeth to depraue that which he readeth the ignoraunt is no worthie Iudge the learned and godlie pondereth vprightly sincerely that which he iudgeth the order of these Oracions followeth afterward and the names of thē ¶ The contentes of this Booke AN Oracion made vpon the Fable of the Shepherdes and the Wolues the Wolues requestyng the Bandogges wherein is set forthe the state of euery subiecte the dignitie of a Prince the honourable office of counsailours An Oracion vpon the Fable of the Ante and the Greshopper teachyng prouidence An Oracion Historicall howe Semiramis came to bee Quéene of Babilon An Oracion Historicall vpon kyng Richard the thirde sometyme Duke of Glocester An Oracion Historicall of the commyng of Iulius Ceser into Englande An Oracion Ciuill or Iudiciall vpon Themistocles of the walle buildyng at Athenes An Oracion Poeticall vpon a redde Rose A profitable Oracion shewyng the decaie of kingdomes and nobilitie An Oracion vpon a Sentence preferryng a Monarchie conteinyng all other states of common wealthe The confutacion of the battaile of Troie A confirmacion of the noble facte of Zopyrus An Oracion called a Common place against Theues The praise of Epaminundas Duke of Thebes wherein the grounde of nobilitée is placed The dispraise of Domicius Nero Emperour of Roome A comparison betwene Demosthenes and Tullie A lamentable Oracion of Hecuba Queene of Troie A descripcion vpon Xerxes kyng of Persia An Oracion called Thesis as concerning the goodly state of Mariage An Oracion con●●●●●g a certaine lawe of Solon ¶ The foundacion of Rhetorike NAture hath indued euery man with a certain eloquence and also subtilitee to reason and discusse of any question or proposicion propounded as Aristotle the Philosopher in his Booke of Rhetorike dooeth shewe These giftes of nature singuler doe flowe and abounde in vs accordyng to the greate and ample indumente and plentuousnes of witte and wisedome lodged in vs therefore Nature it self beyng well framed and afterward by arte and order of science instructed and adorned must be singularlie furthered helped and aided in all excellencie to exquisite inuencion and profounde knowledge bothe in Logike and Rhetorike In the one as a Oratour to pleate with all facilitee and copionslie to dilate any matter or sentence in the