[Sidenote: _Antimetauole_, or the Counterchange] Ye haue a figure which takes a couple of words to play with in a verse, and by making them to chaunge and shift one into others place they do very pretily exchange and shift the sence, as thus. _We dwell not here to build us boures, And halles for pleasure and good cheare: But halles we build for us and ours, To dwell in then whilst we are here._ Meaning that we dwell not here to build, but we build to dwel, as we liue not to eate, but eate to liue, or thus. _We wish not peace to maintaine cruell warre, But we make warre to maintaine us in peace._ Or thus. _If Poesie be, as some haue said, A speaking picture to the eye: Then is a picture not denaid, To be a muet Poesie._ Or as the Philosopher _Musonius_ wrote. _With pleasure if we worke vnhonestly and ill, The pleasure passeth, the bad it bideth still. Well if we worke with trauaile and with paines, The paine passeth and still the good remaines._ A wittie fellow in Rome wrate vnder the Image of _Caesar_ the Dictator these two verses in Latine, which because they are spoke by this figure of _Counterchaunge_ I haue turned into a couple of English verses very well keeping the grace of the figure. _Brutus for casting out of kings, was first of Consuls past, Caesar for casting Consuls out, is of our kings the last._ _Cato_ of any Senatour not onely the grauest but also the promptest and wittiest in any ciuill scoffe, misliking greatly the engrossing of offices in Rome that one should haue many at once, and a great number goe without that were as able men, said thus by _Counterchaunge_. _It seemes your offices are very litle worth, Or very few of you worthy of offices._ Againe: _In trifles earnest as any man can bee, In earnest matters no such trifler as hee._ [Sidenote: _Insultatio_, or the Disdainefull.] Yee haue another figure much like to the _Sarcasimus_, or bitter taunt wee spake of before: and is when with proud and insolent words, we do vpbraid a man, or ride him as we terme it: for which cause the Latines also call it _Insultatio_, I chose to name him the _Reproachfull_ or _scorner_, as when Queene _Dido_ saw, that for all her great loue and entertainements bestowed vpon _AEneas_, he would needs depart and follow the _Oracle_ of his destinies, she brake out in a great rage and said disdainefully. _Hye thee, and by the wild waues and the wind, Seeke Italie and Realmes for thee to raigne, If piteous Gods haue power amidst the mayne, On ragged rocks thy penaunce thou maist find._ Or as the poet _Iuuenall_ reproached the couetous Merchant, who for lucres sake passed on no perill either by land or sea, thus: _Goe now and giue thy life unto the winde, Trusting unto a piece of bruckle wood, Foure inches from thy death or seauen good The thickest planke for shipboord that we finde._