These many wayes may our maker alter his wordes, and sometimes it is done for pleasure to giue a better sound, sometimes vpon necessitie and to make vp the rime. But our maker must take heed that he be not to bold specially in exchange of one letter for another for vnlesse vsuall speach and custome allow it, it is a fault and no figure, and because these be figures of the smallest importaunce, I forbeare to giue them any vulgar name. _CHAP. XII._ _Of Auricular figures pertaining to clauses of speech and by them working no little alteration to the eare._ As your single words may be many waies transfigured to make the meetre or verse more tunable and melodious, so also may your whole and entire clauses be in such sort contriued by the order of their construction as the eare may receiue certaine recreation, although the mind for any noueltie of sence be little or nothing affected. And therefore al your figures of _grammaticall_ construction, I accompt them but merely _auricular_ in that they reach no furder then the eare. To which there will appeare some sweete or vnsauery point to offer you dolour or delight, either by some euident defect, or surplusage, or disorder, or immutation in the same speaches notably altering either the congruitie _grammaticall_, or the sence, or both. [Sidenote: _Eclipsis_ or the Figure of default.] And first of those that worke by defect, if but one word or some little portion of speach be wanting, it may be supplied by ordinary vnderstanding and vertue of the figure _Eclipsis_, as to say _so early a man_, for [_are ye_] so early a man: he is to be intreated, for he is [_easie_] to be intreated: I thanke God I am to liue like a Gentleman, for I am [_able_] to liue, and the Spaniard said in his deuise of armes _acuerdo oluido_, I remember I forget whereas in right congruitie of speach it should be: I remember [that I [doo] forget. And in a deuise of our owne [_empechement pur a choison_] a let for a furderance whereas it should be said [_vse_] a let for a furderance, and a number more like speaches defectiue, and supplied by common vnderstanding. [Sidenote: _Zeugma_ or the Single supply.] But if it be to mo clauses then one, that some such word be supplied to perfit the congruitie or sence of them all, it is by the figure [_Zeugma_] we call him the [_single supplie_] because by one word we serue many clauses of one congruitie, and may be likened to the man that serues many maisters at once, but all of one country or kindred: as to say _Fellowes, and friends and kinne forsooke me quite._ Here this word forsooke satisfieth the congruitie and sence of all three clauses, which would require euery of them asmuch. And as we setting forth her Maiesties regall petigree said in this figure of [_Single supplie._] _Her graundsires Father and Brother was a King Her mother a crowned Queene, her Sister and her selfe._