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7. Secondly, I do resume also that which I mentioned 
before, touching provision or preparatory store for the 
furniture of speech and readiness of invention, which ap- 
peareth to be of two sorts; the one in resemblance to a 
shop of pieces unmade up, the other to a shop of things 
ready made up; both to be applied to that which is fre- 
quent and most in request. The former of these I will 
call antitheta, and the latter formule. 
8. Antitheta are theses argued pro ef contra; wherein 
men may be more large and laborious: but 
(in such as are able to do it) to avoid prolixity 
of entry, I wish the seeds of the several argu- 
ments to be cast up into some brief and acute sentences, 
not to be cited, but to be as skeins or bottoms of thread, 
to be unwinded at large when they come to be used; 
supplying authorities and examples by reference. 
Pro verbis legis, 
Non est interpretatio, sed divinatio, quz recedit a litera : 
Cum receditur a litera, judex transit in legislatorem, 
Antitheta 
érum, 
Pro sententia legis. 
Ex omnibus verbis est eliciendus sensus qui interpretatur singula. 
9. Formule are but decent and apt passages or con- 
veyances of speech, which may serve indifferently for 
differing subjects; as of preface, conclusion, digression, 
transition, excusation, &c. For as in buildings there is 
great pleasure and use in the well casting of the stair- 
cases, entries, doors, windows, and the like; so in speech, 
the conveyances and passages are of special ornament 
and effect. 
A conclusion in a deliberative. 
So may we redeem the faults passed, and prevent the inconveniences 
future, 
XIX. 1. There remain two appendices touching the 
