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to our purpofe out of tl itenance / and To dothc

Tully argue in hi> Pylb / fayengc on* tbyi* wyfe.'

Sefte' thou nat nowe thou bcfte 1 ? dofte thou nat nowc percevue

what is inclines cowplavnt vfagc ? there i. non

playm-th that 1 wotr nat wh -C be

Imt lu-wl, to honour out of the donghyll is nowe

confull of tin- < UK- Poi ilu-* icruile colour hathe nat dereiucd v nor hery rhcke ha lies / nor rotten and fylthy let he /thyn* eyes / thy browes / forhed / and hole coumenaunce / wl i manor dothe

manifcft mennes ( nndu vons and nature / it hath diceued vs. This done / we mult confyder howe he hathe benc brought \p that we accufe / aiuonge whom he hathe lyucd / and whereby / howe he gouernethe his huui'hold / A : we can pyke out of thefc

ought for our pur pole. A lib of what rtatc he is of / f re or bond/ ryche or pore / bervnge offyre or nat / a man of good name /or otherwife / whcrin he delitcth molt / whiche places do cxprcfVe ma//ncs lyuyn^/and by ln> lyuvn^'c: hi> wyll and mynde/as 1 [ K ii b| wolde declare more fully/ faue that in introductions men inuite labour to be fhort / & agaync they are tu< he that he that hath any perceyuynge may lone knowe what fhall make for his purpofe/ and howe to let it furthe. And therfore this fhall luff vie as touch- ynge the qualitie of the perfon.

If we- bere away this for a general! rule (that what maketh for the accufer, euermore the contrary) is lure ftaye for the defender/ yf he can prone it / or make it of the more lykelyhode. As Tully in defendvnge Milo / layeth to Clodius frendes charges that he had none about hym but chofew me. And for to clcre Milo he fhew- eth the contrary / that he had with hym laddes and women

leruantes that wayted on his wyfe / whiche maketh it of more likely- hod that Clodius wente about to flee Milo: than Milo hym.

The caufe that moueth to the myi :h in two thinges. In

naturall impullyon / and raciocinacion.

Natural impulllon is angre / hatred / couetyfe / loue / or fuche other affections.

So Simo in Therence / whan he had fayd that Dauus (whor he had poynted to wayt vpon his fonne Pamphilus) wolde do all that my i;ht lye in hym bothe with hande and fote/ rather to dyfpleale hym :


 * Omitted in B. B bccrt.

H. ueit. B. Surricn. >MC.

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