And as the Monke we spake of before, wrote a whole Poeme to the honor of _Carolus Caluus_ euery word in his verse beginning with C, thus: _Carmina clarifone Caluis cantate camena._ Many of our English makers vse it too much, yet we confesse it doth not ill but pretily becomes the meetre, if ye passe not two or three words in one verse, and vse it not very much, as he that said by way of _Epithete._ _The smoakie sighes: the trickling teares._ And such like, for such composition makes the meetre runne away smoother, and passeth from the lippes with more facilitie by iteration of a letter then by alteration, which alteration of a letter requires an exchange of ministery and office in the lippes, teeth or palate, and so doth not the iteration. [Sidenote: _Histeron, proteron_, or the Preposterous.] Your misplacing and preposterous placing is not all one in behauiour of language, for the misplacing is alwaies intollerable, but the preposterous is a pardonable fault, and many times giues a pretie grace vnto the speech. We call it by a common saying to _set the carte before the horse_, and it may be done eyther by a single word or by a clause of speech: by a single word thus: _And if I not performe, God let me neuer thriue._ For performe not: and this vice is sometime tollerable inough, but if the word carry any notable sence, it is a vice not tollerable, as he that said praising a woman for her red lippes, thus: _A corrall lippe of hew._ Which is no good speech, because either he should haue sayd no more but a corrall lip, which had bene inough to declare the rednesse or els he should haue said a lip of corrall hew, and not a corrall lip of hew. Now if this disorder be in a whole clause which carieth more sentence then a word, it is then worst of all. [Sidenote: _Acyron_, or the Vncouthe.] Ye haue another vicious speech which the Greeks call _Acyron_, we call it the _vncouthe_, and is when we vse an obscure and darke word, and vtterly repugnant to that we would expresse, if it be not by vertue of the figures _metaphore, allegorie, abusion_, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of _Epithete_. _A dongeon deep, a dampe as darke as hell._ Where it is euident that a dampe being but a breath or vapour, and not to be discerned by the eye, ought not to haue this _epithete (darke,)_ no more then another that praysing his mistresse for her bewtifull haire, said very improperly and with an vncouth terme. _Her haire surmounts Apollos pride, In it such bewty raignes._ Whereas this word _raigne_ is ill applied to the bewtie of a womans haire, and might better haue bene spoken of her whole person, in which bewtie, fauour, and good grace, may perhaps in some sort be said to raigne as our selues wrate, in a _Partheniade_ praising her Maiesties countenance, thus: _A cheare where loue and Maiestie do raigne, Both milde and sterne, &c._