[Sidenote: _Metanoia_, or the Penitent.] Otherwhiles we speake and be sorry for it, as if we had not wel spoken, so that we seeme to call in our word againe, and to put in another fitter for the purpose: for which respects the Greekes called this manner of speech the figure of repentance: then for that vpon repentance commonly followes amendment, the Latins called it the figure of correction, in that the speaker seemeth to reforme that which was said amisse. I following the Greeke originall, choose to call him the penitent, or repentant: and singing in honor of the mayden Queen, meaning to praise her for her greatnesse of courage ouershooting my selfe, called it first by the name of pride: then fearing least fault might be found with that terme, by & by turned this word pride to praise: resembling her Maiesty to the Lion, being her owne noble armory, which by a slie construction purporteth magnanimitie. Thus in the latter end of a Parthemiade. _O peereles you, or els no one aliue, Your pride serues you to seaze them all alone: Not pride madame, but praise of the lion, To conquer all and be conquerd by none._ And in another Parthemiade thus insinuating her Maiesties great constancy in refusall of all marriages offred her, thus: _Her heart is hid none may it see, Marble or flinte folke weene it be._ Which may imploy rigour and cruelty, than correcteth it thus. _Not flinte I trowe I am a lier, But Siderite that feeles no fire._ By which is intended, that it proceeded of a cold and chast complexion not easily allured to loue. [Sidenote: _Antenagoge_, or the Recompencer] We haue another manner of speech much like to the _repentant_, but doth not as the same recant or vnsay a word that hath bene said before, putting another fitter in his place, but hauing spoken any thing to depraue the matter or partie, he denieth it not, but as it were helpeth it againe by another more fauourable speach and so seemeth to make amends, for which cause it is called by the originall name in both languages, the _Recompencer_, as he that was merily asked the question; whether his wife were not a shrewe as well as others of his neighbours wiues, answered in this figure as pleasantly, for he could not well denie it. _I must needs say, that my wife is a shrewe, but such a huswife as I know but a fewe._ Another in his first preposition giuing a very faint commendation to the Courtiers life, weaning to make him amends, made it worse by a second proposition, thus: _The Courtiers life full delicate it is, but where no wise man will euer set his blis._ And an other speaking to the incoragement of youth in studie and to be come excellent in letters and armies, said thus: _Many are the paines and perils to be past, But great is the gaine and glory at the last._