NOKES. 



Lib. VI. Of the Advancement of Learnim. 21:? 



Now thefe Antitheta which we have propounded, are not perchance 

 fo much worth s but being they were prepared and collected by us 

 long ago, we were loath the diligence of our youth fhould perifh : fpe- 

 cially feeing they are (if one exaftly confider them) Seeds, and not 

 Flowers. But herein they do plainly breath a youthly heat^in that they 

 are fo plentiful in the yl/iyra/ or Demonjirative kind, lb thin and Iparins 

 in the Deliberative and Judicial. 



IV. A third Colleftion which pertains to prepar^torjijiore or Provijion^ * 

 and is Deficient^ is that which we think fit to call FormuU Minores^ Lef- [K" 

 fer Forms or Stiles of Speech. And thefe are fas it werej the Portals '^""""' 

 Poftern-doors, outer-Rooms, back-Rooms, Paflages of Speech, and 

 the like 3 which indifferently may ferve for all Subjefts. Such are Tre- 

 faces, Concliifions, Digrejfions, Tranfitiotis, Promifcs^ ExcufatioKs^and ma- 

 ny of like nature. For as in Building there is great pleafure and ufe ia 

 the weil-cafting of the Frontifpieces, Stair-cafes, Doors, Windows, En- 

 tries, Paflages, and the like ; fo in fpeech if the acceflbry conveyances 

 and interpoiures be decently and skilfully contrived and placed , they 

 are of fpecial ornament and effed, to the whole ftrufture of the fpeech. 

 Of thefe FormuU j\we will pfopole an example or two,and fiay no longer 

 upon them. For although they be Matters of no finall ufe, yet becaule 

 V/e add nothing here of our own, but delcribe the naked Forms only, 

 out of Demo^henes or Cicero^ or fome other feledt Author, they may 

 feem a more trivial and common obfervation 5 than that we lliould 

 wafte much time therein. 



Examples of Minor Forms. 



A Conclufion of a Speech Deliberative, 



" So we may both redeem the fault which is pajfed^and with the fame di- 

 *' ligence provide againji future inconveniences* 



The Corollary of an accurate Partition. 



« That every one may understand that lfee\ not to hal^ any thing by 

 *^ [ilencej or to cloud any thing by words, 



A Tranfition with a Caveat. 



But let usfopafs by thefe^ that refie&ing upon thent^ and peeping them 

 rpithin view, we may leave them* 



A preoccupation againft an inveterate opinion. 



IjJjallfo open the matter as you may underfiand in the whole manage 

 of thebufmefsj what the cafe itfelf hath brought forth -^ what error hath 

 faftned upon it , what envy hath rais'd. And let thefe fuffice for exam- 

 ple, wherewith (annexing two Rhetorical Appendices) which refpeft 

 the Fromptuary Part we conclude. 



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