[Sidenote: _Metalepsis_, or the Farreset.] But the sence is much altered & the hearers conceit strangly entangled by the figure _Metalepsis_, which I call the farset, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel & plainer. And it seemeth the deuiser of this figure had a desire to please women rather then men: for we vse to say by manner of Prouerbe: things farreset and deare bought are good for Ladies: so in this manner of speach we vfe it, leaping ouer the heads of a great many words, we take one that is furdest off, to vtter our matter by: as _Medea_ cursing hir first acquaintance with prince _Iason_, who had very vnkindly forsaken her, said: _Woe worth the mountaine that the maste bare Which was the first causer of all my care._ Where she might aswell haue said, woe worth our first meeting, or woe worth the time that _Iason_ arriued with his ship at my fathers cittie in _Colchos_, when he tooke me away with him, & not so farre off as to curse the mountaine that bare the pinetree, that made the mast, that bare the sailes, that the ship sailed with, which caried her away. A pleasant Gentleman came into a Ladies nursery, and saw her for her owne pleasure rocking of her young child in the cradle, and sayd to her: _I speake it Madame without any mocke, Many a such cradell may I see you rocke._ Gods passion hourson said she, would thou haue me beare mo children yet, no _Madame_ quoth the Gentleman, but I would haue you liue long, that ye might the better pleasure your friends, for his meaning was that as euery cradle signified a new borne childe, & euery child the leasure of one yeares birth, & many yeares a long life: so by wishing her to rocke many cradels of her owne, he wished her long life. _Virgill_ said: _Post multas mea regna videns murabor aristas._ Thus in English. _After many a stubble shall I come And wonder at the sight of my kingdome._ By stubble the Poet vnderftoode yeares, for haruests come but once euery yeare, at least wayes with vs in Europe. Thus is spoken by the figure of farre-set _Metalepsis_. [Sidenote: _Emphasis_, or the Renforcer.] And one notable meane to affect the minde, is to inforce the sence of any thing by a word of more than ordinary efficacie, and neuertheles is not apparant, but as it were, secretly implyed, as he that laid thus of a faire Lady. _O rare beautie, o grace, and curtesie_. And by a very euill man thus. _O sinne it selfe, not wretch, but wretchednes_. Whereas if he had said thus, _O gratious, courteous and beautifull woman_: and, _O sinfull and wretched man_, it had bene all to one effect, yet not with such force and efficacie to speake by the denominatiue, as by the thing it selfe.