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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 formula. 



8. Antiiheta are theses argued pro et contra ; wherein 

 men may be more large and laborious : but 



/. , Antitheta 



(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 interpretation sed divinatio, quae recedit a litcra : 

 Cum receditur a litera, judex transit in legislatorem. 



Pro sententia legis. 

 Ex omnibus verbis est eliciendus sensus qui interpretatur singula. 



9. Formula 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. i. There remain two appendices touching the 



