sillable or letter) much materiall to the sound and sweetenesse of vtterance. Wherefore beginning first at the smallest alterations which rest in letters and sillables, the first sort of our figures _auricular_ we do appoint to single words as they lye in language; the second to clauses of speach; the third to perfit sentences and to the whole masse or body of the tale be it poeme or historie written or reported. _CHAP. XI_ _Of auricular figures apperteining to single wordes and working by their diuers soundes and audible tunes alteration to the eare onely and not the mynde._ A word as he lieth in course of language is many wayes figured and thereby not a little altered in sound, which consequently alters the tune and harmonie of a meeter as to the eare. And this alteration is sometimes by _adding_ sometimes by _rabbating_, of a sillable or letter to or from a word either in the beginning, middle or ending ioyning or vnioyning of sillibles and letters suppressing or confounding their seueral soundes, or by misplacing of a letter, or by cleare exchaunge of one letter for another, or by wrong ranging of the accent. And your figures of addition or surpluse be three, videl. In the beginning, as to say: _I-doon_ for _doon, endanger_ for _danger, embolden_ for _bolden_. In the middle, as to say _renuers_ for _reuers, meeterly_ for _meetly, goldylockes_ for _goldlockes._ In th'end, as to say [_remembren_ for _remembre_] [_spoken_ for _spoke_]. And your figures of _rabbate_ be as many, videl. From the beginning, as to say [_twixt_ for _betwixt_] [_gainsay_ for _againsay_] [_ill_ for _euill_]. From the middle, as to say [_paraunter_ for _parauenture_] [_poorety_ for _pouertie_] [_souraigne_ for _soueraigne_] [_tane_ for _taken._] From the end, as to say [_morne_ for _morning_] [_bet_ for _better_] and such like. Your swallowing or eating vp one letter by another is when two vowels meete, whereof th'ones sound goeth into other, as to say for _to attaine, t'attaine_] for _sorrow smart, sor'smart_.] Your displacing of a sillable as to say [_desier_ for _desire_] [_sier_ for _sire._] By cleare exchaunge of one letter or sillable for another, as to say _euermare_ for _euermore, wrang_ for _wrong: gould_ for _gold: fright_ for _fraight_ and a hundred moe, which be commonly misused and strained to make rime. By wrong ranging the accent of a sillable by which meane a short sillable is made long and a long short as to say _soueraine_ for _soueraine: gratious_ for _gratious: endure_ for _endure: Salomon_ for _Salomon._