Whereas ye see this one Word [was] serues them all in that they require but one congruitie and sence. [Sidenote: _Prozeugma_, or the Ringleader.] Yet hath this figure of [_Single supply_] another propertie, occasioning him to change now and then his name: by the order of his supplie, for if it be placed in the forefront of all the seuerall clauses whom he is to serue as a common seruitour, then is he called by the Greeks _Prozeugma_, by vs the Ringleader: thus _Her beautie perst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart; Her presence all the powers of my discourse. &c._ Where ye see this one word [_perst_] placed in the foreward, satisfieth both in sence & congruitie all those other clauses that followe him. [Sidenote: _Mezozeugma_, or the Middlemarcher.] And if such word of supplie be placed in the middle of all such clauses as he serues: it is by the Greeks called _Mezozeugma_, by us the [_Middlemarcher_] thus: _Faire maydes beautie (alack) with yeares it weares away, And with wether and sicknes, and sorrow as they say._ Where ye see this word [_weares_] serues one clause before him, and two clauses behind him, in one and the same sence and congruitie. And in this verse, _Either the troth or talke nothing at all._ Where this word [_talke_] serues the clause before and also behind. [Sidenote: _Hypozeugma_, or the Rerewarder.] But if such supplie be placed after all the clauses, and not before nor in the middle, then is he called by the Greeks _Hypozeugma_, and by vs the [_Rerewarder_] thus: _My mates that wont, to keepe me companie And my neighbours, who dwelt next to my wall The friends that sware, they would not sticke to die In my quarrell: they are fled from me all._ Where ye see this word [_fled from me_] serue all the three clauses requiring but one congruitie & sence. [Sidenote: _Sillepsis_, or the Double supply.] But if such want be in sundrie clauses, and of seuerall congruities or sence, and the supply be made to serue them all, it is by the figure _Sillepsis_, whom for that respect we call the [_double supplie_] conceiuing, and, as it were, comprehending vnder one, a supplie of two natures, and may be likened to the man that serues many masters at once, being of strange Countries or kinreds, as in these verses, where the lamenting widow shewed the Pilgrim the graues in which her husband & children lay buried. _Here my sweete sonnes and daughters all my blisse, Yonder mine owne deere husband buried is._ Where ye see one verbe singular supplyeth the plurall and singular, and thus _Iudge ye louers, if it be strange or no; My Ladie laughs for ioy, and I for wo._ Where ye see a third person supplie himselfe and a first person. And thus, _Madame ye neuer shewed your selfe vntrue, Nor my deserts would euer suffer you._