[Sidenote: _Ploche_, or the Doubler.] Yet haue ye one sorte of repetition, which we call the _doubler_, and is as the next before, a speedie iteration of one word, but with some little intermission by inserting one or two words betweene, as in a most excellent dittie written by Sir _Walter Raleigh_ these two closing verses: _Yet when I sawe my selfe to you was true, I loued my selfe, bycause my selfe loued you._ And this spoken in common Prouerbe. _An ape wilbe an ape, by kinde as they say, Though that ye clad him all in purple array._ Or as we once sported vpon a fellowes name who was called _Woodcock_, and for an ill part he had plaid entreated fauour by his friend. _I praie you intreate no more for the man, Woodcocke wilbe a woodcocke do what ye can._ Now also be there many other sortes of repetition if a man would vse them, but are nothing commendable, and therefore are not obserued in good poesie, as a vulgar rimer who doubled one word in the end of euery verse, thus: _adieu, adieu my face, my face_. And an other that did the like in the beginning of his verse, thus: _To loue him and loue him, as sinners should doo._ These repetitions be not figuratiue but phantastical, for a figure is euer vsed to a purpose, either of beautie or of efficacie: and these last recited be to no purpose, for neither can ye say that it vrges affection, nor that it beautifieth or enforceth the sence, nor hath any other subtilitie in it, and therfore is a very foolish impertinency of speech, and not a figure.