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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

reason or any other thing wanting life is ioyned with it as for the example of the fable of the woodes and the housebandman of whom he desired a helue for his hatchet Aucthours doe write that Poetes firste inuented fables the whiche Oratours also doe vse in their perswasions and not without greate cause both Poetes and Oratours doe applie theim to their vse For fables dooe conteine goodlie admonicion vertuous preceptes of life Hesiodus the Poete intreatyng of the iniurious dealyng of Princes and gouernours against their subiectes admonished them by the fable of the Goshauke and the Nightyngale in his clause Ouid also the Poete intreated of diuers fables wherein he giueth admonicion and godly counsaile Demosthenes the famous Oratour of Athens vsed the fable of the Shepeherdes and Wolues how the Wolues on a tyme instauntlie required of the Shepeherdes their bande dogges and then thei would haue peace and concorde with theim the Shepeherdes gaue ouer their Dogges their Dogges deliuered and murdered the shepe were immediatly deuoured So saieth he if ye shall ones deliuer to Philip the king of the Macedonians your Oratours by whose learnyng knowlege and wisedome the whole bodie of your dominions is saued for thei as Bandogges doe repell all mischeuous enterprises and chaunses no doubte but that rauenyng Wolfe Philip will eate and consume your people by this Fable he made an Oracion he altered their counsailes and heddes of the Athenians from so foolishe an enterprise Also the same Demosthenes seyng the people careles slothfull and lothsome to heare the Oratours and all for the florishing state of the kingdome the ascended to the place or pulpet where the Oracions were made and began with this fable Ye men of Athens saied he it happened on a tyme that a certaine man hired an Asse and did take his iourney from Athens to Megara as we would saie frō London to Yorke the owner also of the Asse did associate hymself in his iourney to brynge backe the Asse againe in the voyage the weather was extreame burning hotte and the waie tedious the place also for barenes and sterilitée of trees wanted shadowe in this long broyle of heate he that satte one the Asse lighted and woke shadowe vnder the bellie of the Asse and because the shadowe would not suffice bothe the Asse beyng small the owner saied he muste haue the shadowe because the Asse was his I deny that saieth the other the shadowe is myne because I hired the Asse thus thei were at greate contencion the fable beyng recited Demosthenes descended frō his place the whole multitude were inquisitiue to knowe the ende about the shadowe Demosthenes notyng their follie afrended to his place and saied O ye foolishe Athemans whiles I and other gaue to you counsaill and admoniciō of graue and profitable matters your eares wer deafe and your mindes slombred but now I tell of a small trifeling matter youthrong to heare the reste of me By this Fable he nipped their follie and trapped them manifestlie in their owne doltishenes Here vpon I doe somwhat long make copie of wordes to shewe the singularitee of fables well applied In the tyme of Kyng Richard the thirde Doctour Mourton beyng Bishop of Elie and prisoner in the Duke of Buckynghams house in Wales was often tymes moued of the Duke to speake his minde frelie if king Richard wer lawfully king and said to him of his fidelitee to kepe close and secret his sentence but the Bishop beyng a godlie man and no lesse wise waied the greate frendship whiche was sometyme betwene the Duke King Richard aunswered in effect nothyng but beyng daily troubled with his mocions instigacions spake a fable of Esope My lorde saied he I will aunswere you by a Fable of Esope The Lion on a tyme gaue a commaundement that all horned beastes should flie from the woode and none to remain there but vnhorned beastes The Hare hearing of this commaundement departed with the horned beastes from the woodde The wilie Foxe metyng the Hare demaunded the cause of his haste forthwith the Hare aunswered a commaundemente is come from the Lion that all horned beastes should bee exiled vpon paine of death from the woode why saied the Foxe this commaundement toucheth not any sorte of beast as ye are for thou haste no hornes but knubbes yea but said the Hare what if the i saie I haue hornes that is an other matter my lorde I saie no more what he ment is euident to all men In the time of king Hēry theight a prince of famous memorie at what time as the small houses of religiō wer giuen euer to the kinges hand by the Parliament house the bishop of Rochester Doctour Fisher by name stepped forthe beyng greued with the graunt recited before them a fable of Esope to shewe what discommoditee would followe in the Clergie My lordes and maisters saieth he Esope recited a fable how that on a tyme a housebande manne desired of the woodes a small helue for his hatchet all the woodes consented thereto waiyng the graunt to be small and the thyng lesse therevpō the woodes consented in fine the housbande man cut doune a small peece of woodde to make a helue he framyng a helue to the hatchette without leaue and graunt he cut doune the mightie Okes and Cedars and destroyed the whole woodd then the woodes repented them to late So saith he the gift of these small houses ar but a small graunt into the kinges hādes but this small graunt will bee a waie and meane to pull doune the greate mightie fatte Abbees so it happened But there is repentaūce to late no profite ensued of the graunte ¶ An Oracion made by a fable is the first exercise to declame by the other bee these An Oracion made by a A Fable a Narracion Chria Sentence Confutacion Confirmacion Common place The praise The dispraise The Comparison Ethopeia A Discripcion Thesis Legislatio OF euery one of these a goodlie Oraciō maie be made these excercises are called of the Grekes Progimnasmata of the Latines profitable introduccions or fore exercises to attain greater arte and knowlege in Rhetorike and bicause for the easie capacitée and facilitée of the learner to attain greater knowledge in Rhetorike thei are right profitable and necessarie Therefore I title this booke to bee the foundaciō of Rhetorike the exercises being Progimnasmata I haue chosen out the fable of the Shepeherdes and the Wolues vpon the whiche fable Demosthenes made an cloquente copious and wittie Oracion before the Athenians whiche fable was so well applied that the citée and common wealth of Athens was saued ¶ A fable These notes must be obserued to make an Oracion by a Fable ¶ Praise 1. Firste ye shall recite the fable as the aucthour telleth it 2. There in the seconde place you shall praise the aucthoure who made the fable whiche praise maie sone bée gotte of any studious scholer

fell and died violently Cesar likewise caught with ambicion not bearyng the equalitée or superioritie of Pompei was tourned of violentlie frō Fortunes whéele Many princes of like sorte and kingdomes By ambicion onely had the cause of their ruine The glorie of the Assirian Monarchie grewe moste mightie by the ambicion of Ninus kyng of Babilon the offpryng of Ninus whiche were kynges lineallie descendyng to the firste kyngdome of the Medes bothe inlarged their kyngdomes and also had the decate of theim by ambicion Let the Medes also assoriate them selues to thē from Arbactus the first kyng vnto Astiages the laste the beginnyng and falle of the Persian Monarchie The mightie state of Grece the seate Imperiall of Rome by ambiciō first extolled theim selues and also by it their glorie scepter and kyngdome was translated but the falle of Troie came not by ambicion that the Grecians sought But as the Poetes doe saigne the beautie of one women so wounded their hartes that the Grecians did hasarde the perilles of thei●●●untrie The Troians so moche estemed the beautie o●●●●ena as that the state of all their kyngdome perished I alas no glorie nor honour to the Grecians to resiste by armour and to defende the violente takyng awaie of Helena from her housbande nor it was no honour the Grecians to pursue by armour the takyng awaie of Helena beyng a harlotte So that by no meanes it can followe these thynges to bee true of the battaile of Troie ¶ Confirmacion The other part contrary to destruccion or subuersion is called confirmacion Confirmacion hath in it so greate force of argumente to stablishe and vpholde the cause or proposicion as destruccion hath in castyng doune the senten̄ce or proposicion Confirmacion is a certain oracion whiche with a certain reprehension of the persone or facte by order and waie of art casteth doune the contrary propounded As in the other parte called destruccion those proposicions are to bee subuerted whiche are not manyfestlie true with all other notes before specified so in contrariwise this oracion by contrary notes is declaimed by as for example 1. It shall behoue you first for the entring of the oracion to induce a reprehension againste those whiche haue confutid as a truthe that whiche you will confirme 2. In the seconde parte place the exposicion and meanyng of the aucthours sentence 3. Shewe the matter to be manifest 4. Credible 5. Prossible 6. Agreyng to the truthe 7. Shewe the facte comelie 8. Profitable This exercise of Rhetotike doeth contain in it all strēgth of arte as who should saie all partes of Rhetorike maie 〈…〉 ●ee handled in this parte called confirmacion You 〈…〉 matter riseth ioigne twoo notes together as the reason ●● the argumente cometh in place whiche Apthonius a Greke aucthour herein vseth As manifest and credible possible and agreyng to truthe comelie and profitable but in al these as in all the reste the theme or proposicion by itself is to bee placed the reprehension of the aucthour by itself the exposicion of the theme by itself ¶ The theme or proposicion IT is true that is saied of Zopyrus the noble Persian who vētered his life did cause the deformitie of his bodie for the sauegarde of his countrie ¶ The praise Iustinus the Historiographer for worthinesse of fame and wisedome deserueth to the posteritie of all tymes immortall fame by whom the famous actes of Princes and other noble men doe remaine Chronicled Giuyng examples of all valiauntnesse and vertue for bothe the actes and worthie feares of Princes would passe as vnknowen in all ages excepte the worthinesse of them were in monumentes of writyng Chronicled For by the fame of their worthines and vertues cōmon wealthes and kyngdomes doe stablishe and make Lawes the hartes of people are incensed and inflamed to the like nobilitie of actes and famous enterprices Histories of auncient tymes bee vnto vs witnesses of all tymes and ages of kyngdomes and common wealthes a liuely example A light to all truthe and knowledge a scholemaister of maners a memorie of life for by it we se the wisedom of all ages the forme of the beste and florishing common wealthes We learne by the vertues of Princes and gouernours to followe like steppe of vertue to flie and auoide vices and all soche thynges as are to the destruccion and decaie of realme and countrie How brutishe wer our 〈◊〉 if 〈◊〉 knewe no more then we se presently in the state of 〈…〉 wealthe and kyngdome The kyngdome● 〈…〉 and common wealthes that 〈…〉 by the longe experience wisedome pollicy counsaile and godlie lawes of Princes of auncient times no smal praise and commendation can be attributed to all suche as doe trauell in the serching out the veritie of auncient Histories for bi the knoledge of them we are as it were liuyng in all ages the fall of all kyngdomes is manifeste to vs the death of Princes the subuersions of kingdomes and common wealthes who knoweth not the first risyng ende of the Assiriane monarchie the glorie of the Persians and the ruynge of the same the mightie Empire of the Grekes risyng fallyng the Romane state after what sorte florishyng and decaiyng so that no state of common wealthe or kyngdome is vnknowen to vs therefore Iustine and all suche as doe leue to the posteritie the state of al things chronicled deserue immortal commendacions ¶ The exposicion IN the time of Darius kyng of the Persians the Assyriās who ware subiects to him sence the time of Cirus the firste kynge of the Persians rebelled inuaded and toke the myghtie Citie of Babilon whiche beyng possessed with much difficultie and not withoute greate daungers coulde bee attained Darius the kynge hearyng of the treason of the Assyrians and that the mightie Citie of Babilon was taken was very wroth waiynge with himselfe that there by the ruyne of the Persian Kyngdome mighte happen Zopyrus one of the .vij. noble Peres of Persia seing the daunger of the countrie the state of the Prince and the welfare of the subiectes to decaie in the safegarde of his countrie leuyng all priuate commoditie for the behoufe and felicitie of the Persian kyngdome did venter his owne life commaunded his seruauntes at home to 〈…〉 rēte his bodie with whippes to cut of his nose his 〈…〉 his eares these thinges being vnknowen to Darius 〈…〉 ▪ As sone as Darius sawe Zopyrus so torne and deformed bewailed his state being astonished at so horrible a faict but Zopyrus shewed to the kynge his hole intente and purpose that he mynded to go to Babylon whiche the Assyrians dyd traitorouslie possesse complained as that these things had ben don by the tyrannte and crueltie of Darius be wēt to Babilon and there complained of the crueltie of his Kyng whereby purchasyng the fauor and loue of the Assyrians he shewed them how Darius came to be kyng not by worthines not by vertue not by the common