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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 fcr 

 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 in 

 thesi. 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 



