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A15530	The arte of rhetorique for the vse of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English, by Thomas Wilson.	Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Matrimonii encomium. English.	1553 (1553)	STC 25799; ESTC S111753	195,532	268

our health the sauegard of our bodies but the lawe of a Realme wherby the wicked are condempned and the godly are defended ¶ An Epistle to perswade a young ientleman to Mariage deuised by Erasmus in the behalfe of his frende ALbeit you are wyse enough of your selfe throughe that singulare wisedome of yours most louyng Cosyn and litle needes the aduise of other yet either for that olde fryndshippe whiche hath bene betwixt vs and continued with our age euen from our cradles or for suche your greate good turnes showed at all tymes towardes me or elles for that faste kynred and alliaunce whiche is betwixt vs I thought my selfe thus muche to owe vnto you if I woulde be suche a one in deede as you euer haue taken me that is to saie a man bothe frendly and thankeful to tell you freely whatsoeuer I iudged to apperteine either to the sauegarde or worshippe of you or any of yours and willyngly to warne you of the same We are better seen oftentymes in other mens matters than we are in our owne I haue felte often your aduise in myne owne affaires and I haue founde it to be as fortunate vnto me as it was frendly Nowe if you wil likewyse in your awne matters folowe my counsail I truste it shal so come to passe that neither I shal repent me for that I haue geuen you counsail nor yet you shal forthynk● your self that you haue obeyed and folowed myne aduise There was at supper with me the twelfe daie of Aprill when I laie in the countrie Antonius Baldus a man as you knowe that most earnestly tendreth your welfare and one that hath bene alwaies of great acquaintaunce and familiaritie with your sonne in lawe A heauie feast we had and ful of muche mournyng He tolde me greatly to bothe our heauinesse that your mother that moste godly woman was departed this lyfe your sister beyng ouercome with sorow heauinesse had made her selfe a Nunne so that in you onely remaineth the hope of issue and maintenanuce of your stocke ▪ whereupon your frendes with one consent haue offerde you in Mariage a ientlewoman of a good house and muche wealthe fayre of bodie very well brought vp and suche a one as loueth you with all her harte But you either for your late sorowes whiche you haue in freshe remembraunce or elles for Religion sake haue so purposed to lyue a syngle lyfe that neither can you for loue of your stocke neither for desier of issue nor yet for any entreatie that your frendes can make either by prayeng or by wepyng be brought to chaunge your mynde And yet notwithstandyng all this if you wil folowe my counsaill you shalbe of an other mynde and leauyng to lyue syngle whiche bothe is barren and smally agreeyng with the state of mannes nature you shall geue your selfe wholy to moste holy wedlocke And for this parte I will neither wishe that the loue of your fryndes whiche elles ought to ouercome your nature nor yet myne aucthoritie that I haue ouer you shoulde doe me any good at all to compasse this my requeste if I shall not proue vnto you by moste plaine reasons that it will be bothe muche more honest more profitable and also more pleasaunt for you to marie than to lyue otherwyse Yea what will you saie if I proue it also to be necessarie for you at this tyme to Marie And firste of all if honestie maie moue you in this matter the whiche emong all good men ought to bee of muche weighte what is more honest then Matrimonie the whiche CHRISTE hym selfe did make honest when not onely he vouchesaufed to bee at a Mariage with his Mother but also did consecrate the Mariage feaste with the first miracle that euer he did vpon yearche What is more holie then Matrimonie whiche the creatour of all thynges did institute did fasten and make holie and nature it selfe did establishe What is more praise worthie than that thyng the whiche whosoeuer shall dispraise is condempned streight for an Heretique Matrimonie is euen as honourable as the name of an Heretique is thought shamefull What is more right or m●ete than to geue that vnto the posteritie the whiche we haue receiued of our auncesters What is more inconsiderate than vnder the desire of holinesse to escew that as vnholie which God hym selfe the fountaine and father of al holinesse woulde haue to be counted as moste holie What is more vnmanly than that man shoulde go against the lawes of mankynde what is more vnthankfull than to deny that vnto youngelynges the whiche if thou haddest not receyued of thine elders thou couldest not haue bene the man liuyng able to haue denied it vnto theim That if you woulde knowe who was the first founder of Mariage you shal vnderstande that it came vp not by Licurgus nor yet by Moses nor yet by Solon but it was first ordeined instituted by the chief founder of all thynges commended by the ●ame made honourable and made holie by thesame For at the firste when he made man of the yearthe he did perceyue that his lyfe shoulde be miserable and vnsauerie excepte he ioyned Eue as ma●e vnto hym Wherupon he did not make the wyfe vpon the same claie wherof he made man but he made her of Adams ribbes to the eude we might plainely vnderstande that nothyng ought to be more deare vnto vs thē our wyfe nothyng more nigh vnto vs nothyng surer ioyned and as a man woulde saie faster glewed together The selfe same GOD after the generall floude beyng reconciled to mankynde is saied to proclaime this lawe firste of all not that men shoulde lyue single but that they shoulde encrease be multiplied and fill the yearth But howe I praie you could this thyng be sauyng by mariage and lawful comyng together And first least we shoulde allege here either the libertie of Moyses lawe or els the necessitie of that tyme What other meanyng els hath that commune and commēdable reporte of Christe in the Gospell for this cause saieth he shall man leaue father and mother and cleaue to his wyfe And what is more holie than the reuerence and loue due vnto parentes and yet the truthe promised in Matrimon●e is preferred before it and by whose meanes Mary by GOD hym self at what time Forsouth not onely emōg the Iues but also emong the Christians Men forsake father and mother and takes themselfes wholie to their wyfes The sonne beyng past one and twentie yeres is free and at his libertie Yea the sonne beyng abdicated becommeth no sonne But it is death onely that parteth maried folke if yet death doe part them Now if the other Sacramentes whereunto the Churche of Christe chiefely leaneth bee reuerently vsed who doeth not see that this Sacramente shoulde haue the most reuerence of al the whiche was instituted of GOD and that firste and before all other As for the other they were instituted vpon yearthe this was

vertue to eschew vice wherein I vnderstande Horace ¶ Circumlocution CIrcumlocution is a large description either to sette forth a thyng more gorge●uslie or els to hyde it if the eares cannot beare the open speakyng or when with fewe wordes we cannot open our meanyng to speake it more largely Of the first thus The valiaunt c●urage of mightie Scipio subdued the force of Carthage and Numātia Henry the fifte the most puissaunt Kyng of Englande with seuen thousand men toke the Frenshe Kyng prisoner with al the flower of nobilitie in Fraunce Of the seconde When Saule was casyng hymselfe vpon the grounde Dauid toke a peece of his garment tooke his weapon that laie by hym ▪ and might haue staine hym Suche a one defiled his bodie with suche an euill woman For the thirde parte the large commentaries written and the Paraphrasis of Erasmus englished are sufficient to showe the vse therof ¶ Vvhat is an Allegorie AN Allegorie is none other thyng but a Metaphore vsed throughout a whole sentence or Oration As in speakyng against a wicked offendour I might say thus Oh Lorde his nature was so euill and his witte so wickedly bente that he ment to bouge the shippe where he hymselfe sailed meanyng that he purposed the destruction of his owne countrie It is euill puttyng strong wine into weake vesselles that is to say it is euill trustyng some womē with weightie matters The English Prouerbes gatherde by Ihon Heywood helpe wel in this behaulf the whiche commenly are nothyng elles but Allegories and darcke deuised sentences Now for the other fower figures because I mynde hereafter to speake more largely of them and Quintilian thynketh them more meete to be placed emong the figures of Exornacion I wil not trouble the reader with double inculcation and ewyse tellyng of one tale ¶ Of Schemes called otherwyse sentences of a worde and sentence I Might tary a longe tyme in declaryng the nature of diuerse Schemes whiche are woordes or sentencies altered either by speakyng or writyng contrarie to the vulgare custome of our speache without chaungyng their nature at all but because I knowe the vse of the figures in word is not so great in this our tōgue I wil run them ouer with asmuche haste as I can ¶ The diuision of Schemes STraunge vsyng of any worde or sentence contrarie to our daiely wont is either when we adde or take away a sillable or a word or eucrease a sentence by chaunge of speache cōtrarie to the commune maner of speakyng ¶ Figures of a worde THose be called figures of a word when we chaunge a worde and speake it contrarie to our vulgare and daily speache Of the whiche sorte there are sixe in nom●er i. Addition at the first ij Abstraction from the first iij. Iuterla●yng in the middest iiij Cuttyng from the middest v. Addyng at the ende vi Cuttyng from the end OF Addition As thus He did all to berattle hym Wherein appereth that a sillable is added to this worde rattle Here is good nale to sel for good ale Of Abstraction from the first thus As I romed al alone I ganne to thynke of matters greate In whiche sentence ganne is vsed for beganne Interlacyng in the middest As. Relligion for religion Cuttyng from the middest Idolatrie for Idololatrie Addyng at the end Hasten your busines for Haste your businesse Cuttyng from the end A faire may for maide Thus these figures are shortely sette out and as for the other Schemes whiche are vtterde in whole sentences and expressed by varitie of sreache I wil set them forth at large emong the coloures ornamentes of Elocution y t folowe ¶ Of coloures and ornamentes to commende and sette forth an Oration NOW when we are able to frame a sentence handsomly together obseruyng number and kepyng cōposition suche as shal lyke best the eare do know the vse of Tropes and can applie them to our purpose than thornamentes are necessarie in an Oratiō sentences woulde bee furnished with moste beautifull figures Therfore to thende that they may be knowne suche as most commende and beautifie an Oration I wil set them forthe here in suche wise as I shal best be able folowyng the order whiche Tullie hath vsed in his Booke made of a perfite Oratour ¶ Restyng vpon a poyncte WHEN wee are earnest in a matter and feele the weight of our cause wee rest vpon some reason whiche serueth best for our purpose Wherin this figure appereth most helpeth muche to set forthe our matter For if we stil kepe vs to our strongest holde and make ofterecourse thither though we be dryuē through by-talke to go from it nowe and than we shall force them at length either so auoide our strong defence or elles to yelde into our handes ¶ An euident or plaine settyng forthe of a thyng as though it were presently doen. THis Figure is called a description or an euident declaratiō of a thyng as though we sawe it euen now doen. An example If our enemies shall inuade and by treason wynne the victorie we al shal dye euery mothers sonne of vs and our Citie shalbe destroied sticke stoone I see our children made slaues our daughters rauisshed our wifes caried away the father forced to kil his own sonne the mother her daughter the sonne his father the sucking child slaine in the mothers bosome one standyng to the kuees in anothers bloude Churches spoiled houses pluckte doune and al set in fier rounde about vs euery one cursy●g the day of their birth children criyng women wailyng and olde men passyng for v●ry thought and euery one thynkyng hymselfe most happy that is first ridde out of this worlde suche will the crueltie be of our enemies and with suche horrible hatred wil they seeke to dispatche vs. Thus where I might haue said we shal al be destroied and saie no more I haue by description sette the euill forth at large It muche auaileth to vse this figure in diuerse matters the whiche whosoeuer can do with any excellent gift vndoubtedly he shal muche delite the hearers The circumstaunces wel considered in euery cause geue muche matter for the plaine opening of the thyng Also similitudes examples cōparisons from one thyng to another apte translacions and heaping of allegories and all suche figures as serue for amplifiyng do muche commende the liuely settyng forthe of any matter The miseries of the Courtiers lyfe might well be described by this kind of figure The commoditie of learnyng the pleasure of plowe men and the care that a Kyng hath And not onely are matters set out by description but men are painted out in their colours yea buildynges are set forth Kyngdomes and Realmes are portured places and tymes are described The Englishe man for feedyng and chaung of apparel The Duytche man for drynkyng The Frenche man for pryde and inconstaunce The Spāyard for nymblenes of bodie and muche disdaine The