[Sidenote: _Parison_, or the Figure of euen] Ye haue another figure which we may call the figure of euen, because it goeth by clauses of egall quantitie, and not very long, but yet not so short as the cutted comma: and they geue good grace to a dittie, but specially to a prose. In this figure we once wrote in a melancholike humor these verses. _The good is geason, and short is his abode, The bad bides long, and easie to be found: Our life is loathsome, our sinnes a heavy lode, Conscience a curst iudge, remorse a priuie goade. Disease, age and death still in our eare they round, That hence we must the sickly and the sound: Treading the steps that our forefathers troad, Rich, poore, holy, wise; all flesh it goes to ground._ In a prose there should not be vsed at once of such euen clauses past three or foure at the most. [Sidenote: _Sinonimia_, or the Figure of store] When so euer we multiply our speech by many words or clauses of one sence, the Greekes call it _Sinonimia_, as who would say like or consenting names: the Latines hauing no fitte terme to giue him, called it by a name of euent, for (said they) many words of one nature and sence, one of them doth expound another. And therefore they called this figure the [_Interpreter_] I for my part had rather call him the figure of [_store_] because plenty of one manner of thing in our vulgar we call so. _AEneas_ asking whether his Captaine _Orontes_ were dead or aliue, vsed this store of speeches all to one purpose. _It he aliue, Is he as I left him queauing and quick, And hath he not yet geuen up the ghost, Among the rest of those that I haue lost?_ Or if it be in single words, then thus. _What is become of that beautifull face, Those louely lookes, that fauour amiable, Those sweete features, and visage full of grace, That countenance which is alonly able To kill and cure?_ Ye see that all these words, face, lookes, fauour, features, visage, countenance, are all in sence but all one. Which store, neuerthelesse, doeth much beautifie and inlarge the matter. So said another. _My faith, my hope, my trust, my God and eke my guide, Stretch forth thy hand to saue the soule, what ere the body bide._ Here faith, hope and trust be words of one effect, allowed to vs by this figure of store.