[Sidenote: _Epithonema_, or the Surclose.] Our poet in his short ditties, but specially playing the Epigrammatist will vse to conclude and shut vp his Epigram with a verse or two, spoken in such sort, as it may seeme a manner of allowance to all the premisses, and that wich a ioyfull approbation, which the Latines call _Acclamatio_, we therefore call this figure the _surcloze_ or _consenting close_, as _Virgill_ when he had largely spoken of Prince _Eneas_ his successe and fortunes concluded with this close. _Tant molis erat Romanum condere gentens._ In English thus: _So huge a peece of worke it was and so hie, To reare the house of Romane progenie._ Sir _Philip Sidney_ very pretily closed vp a dittie in this sort. _What medcine then, can such disease remoue, Where loue breedes hate, and hate engenders loue._ And we in a _Partheniade_ written of her Maiestie, declaring to what perils vertue is generally subiect, and applying that fortune to her selfe, closed it vp with this _Epiphoneme_. _Than if there bee, Any so cancard hart to grutch, At your glories: my Queene: in vaine, Repining at your fatall raigne; It is for that they feele too much, Of your bountee._ As who would say her owne ouermuch lenitie and goodness, made her ill willers the more bold and presumptuous. _Lucretius Carus_ the philosopher and poet inueighing sore against the abuses of the superstitious religion of the Gentils, and recompting the wicked fact of king _Agamemnon_ in sacrificing his only daughter _Iphigenia_, being a yoong damsell of excellent bewtie, to th'intent to please the wrathfull gods, hinderers of his nauigation, after he had said all, closed it vp in this one verse, spoken in _Epiphonema_. _Tantum relligio potuit suadere malorum._ In English thus: _Lo what an outrage, could cause to be done, The peevish scruple of blinde religion._ [Sidenote: _Auxesis_, or the Auancer] It happens many times that to vrge and enforce the matter we speake of, we go still mounting by degrees and encreasing our speech with wordes or with sentences of more waight one then another, & is a figure of great both efficacie & ornament, as he that declaring the great calamitie of an infortunate prince, said thus: _He lost besides his children and his wife, His realme, ronowne, liege, libertie and life._