haue vnworthinesse: and for _penetrate_, we may say _peerce_, and that a French terme also, or _broche_, or enter into with violence, but not so well sounding as _penetrate_. Item, _sauage_, for wilde: _obscure_, for darke. Item these words, _declamation, delineation, dimention_, are scholasticall termes in deede, and yet very proper. But peraduenture (& I could bring a reason for it) many other like words borrowed out of the Latin and French, were not so well to be be allowed by vs, as these words, _audacious_, for bold: _facunditie_, for eloquence, _egregious_, for great or notable: _implete_, for replenished; _attemptat_, for attempt: _compatible_, for agreeable in nature, and many more. But herein the noble Poet _Horace_ hath said inough to satisfie vs all in these few verses. _Multa renascentur quae iam cecidere cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula si volet usus Quem penes artibrium est et ius et norma loquendi._ Which I haue thus englished, but nothing with so good grace, nor so briefly as the Poet wrote. _Many a word if able shall est arise And such as now bene held in hiest prise Will fall as fast, when vse and custome will Onely vmpiers of speach, for force and skill._ _CHAP. V._ _Of Stile_. Stile is a constant & continuall phrase or tenour of speaking and writing, extending to the whole tale or processe of the poeme or historie, and not properly to any peece or member of a tale: but is of words speeches and sentences together, a certaine contriued forme and qualitie, many times naturall to the writer, many times his peculier by election and arte, and such as either he keepeth by skill, or holdeth on by ignorance, and will not or peraduenture cannot easily alter into any other. So we say that _Ciceros_ stile and _Salusts_ were not one, nor _Cesars_ and _Linies_, nor _Homers_ and _Hesiodus_, nor _Herodotus_ and _Theucidides_, nor _Euripides_ & _Aristophones_, nor _Erasmus_ and _Budeus_ stiles. And because this continuall course and manner of writing or speech sheweth the matter and disposition of the writers minde, more than one or few words or sentences can shew, therefore there be that haue called stile, the image of man [_mentes character_] for man is but his minde, and as his minde is tempered and qualified, so are his speeches and language at large, and his inward conceits be the mettall of his minde and his manner of vtterance the very warp & woofe of his conceits, more plaine, or busie and intricate, or otherwise affected after the rate. Most men say that not any one point in all _Phisiognomy_ is so certaine, as to iudge a mans manners by his eye: but more assuredly in mine opinion, by his dayly maner of speech and ordinary writing. For if the man be graue, his speech and stile is graue: if light-headed, his stile and language also light: if the minde be haughtie and hoate, the speech and stile is also vehement and stirring: if it be colde and temperate, the stile is also very modest: if