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 48 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE

But yet let not the reder deceyue hym felfe/and thynke that the very perfyght knowlege is 1 fhewyd hym 2 here / what 3 hath bene fhewyd now is f ome what general! anjd brefe.

More lure and exacte knowledge is conteyned in Logyke / to whome I wyll aduife them that be ftudyoufe to reforte and to fetche euery thyng in his one prvper faculte. 4

^[ Of a Theme compounde.

Euery theme compounde eyther it is prouyd true or falfe. Nowe whether thou wylt proue or improue any thinge it mufte be done by argument. And any theme compounde be it Logycall or Rhetor- ycall / it mufte be referryd to the rules of Logike by them to be prouyd true or falfe. For thys is the dyfference that is betwene thefe two fciencis / that the Logy cyan in difputynge obleruythe certayne rules for the fettynge of his words [,] beynge folycytous that ther be fpokyn no more nor no les then the thynge requirith / and that [A viii b] it be euew as playnly fpoke as it is thought. But the Rhetoricyan feketh abought and boroweth when he can afmuche as he may for to make the lymple and playne Logycall argumentes gay and delectable to the acre. 5 fo then the lure Judgement of argu- mentes or reafons mufte be lernyd of the Logicyan but the crafte to fet them out with plefauntefygures and to 6 delate the matter longith 7 to the Rhetorycian / as in Myloes caufe of 8 whom was made me^cyon afore.

^f A logician wolde bryefly argue / who fo euer violently wyll flee an other / may lawfully of the other be flayne in his defence. Clodius wolde vyolently haue flayn Milo / wherfore Clodius might lafully be flayne of Milo in Milous owne defence. And this argu- ment the logiciens call a Sillogifme in Darii / which Tully in his ora- cion extendeth that in foure or fyue leues it is fcant made an end of / nor no man can haue knowlege whether Tullies argument that he maketh in his oracyon for Milo / be a goode argument or nat / and howe it holdeth / excepte he can by Logyke reduce it to the

1 A. reads it. SB. eare.

2 B. inserts all after hym. 6 B. supplies to.

3 B. And that whiche hath ben. 7 B. belongeth
 * B. proper facultie. 8 B. supplies of.

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