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most continual use, ready handled in all the variety that 
may be; as that, to speak for the literal interpretation of 
the law against equity, and contrary; and to speak for 
presumptions and inferences against testimony, and con- 
trary. And Cicero himself, being broken unto it by great 
experience, delivereth it plainly, that whatsoever a man 
shall have occasion to speak of (if he will take the pains), 
he may have it in effect premeditate and handled 
thest. So that when he cometh to a particular he shall 
have nothing to do, but to put to names, and times, and 
places, and such other circumstances of individuals. We 
see likewise the exact diligence of Demosthenes; who, 
in regard of the great force that the entrance and access 
into causes hath to make a good impression, had ready 
framed a number of prefaces for orations and speeches. 
All which authorities and precedents may overweigh 
Aristotle’s opinion, that would have us change a rich 
wardrobe for a pair of shears. 
8. But the nature of the collection of this provision or 
preparatory store, though it be common both to logic and 
rhetoric, yet having made an entry of it here, where it 
came first to be spoken of, I think fit to refer over the 
further handling of it to rhetoric, 
9. The other part of invention, which I term sugges- 
tion, doth assign and direct us to certain marks, or places, 
which may excite our mind to return and produce such 
knowledge as it hath formerly collected, to the end we 
may make use thereof. Neither is this use (truly taken) 
only to furnish argument to dispute probably with others, 
but likewise to minister unto our judgement to conclude 
aright within ourselves. Neither may these places serve 
only to apprompt our invention, but also to direct our 
inquiry. For a faculty of wise interrogating is half a 
