The _measure_ of sounds is belonging either to poets, with us called rhymers; or orators, with us called eloquent pleaders. The first is the measure of sounds by certain and continual spaces; and it is either rhyme or verse. Rhyme is the first sort, containing a certain measure of syllables ending alike; and these in the mother tongues are most fit for psalms, songs, or sonnets. Verses are the second sort, containing certain feet fitly placed. A foot is a measure framed by the length and shortness of syllables; for the several sorts whereof, as also of the verses of them, because we have no worthy examples in our English tongue, we judge the large handling of them should be more curious than necessary. The measure of sounds belonging to orators, is that which, as it is not uncertain, so it differeth altogether from rhyme and verse, and is very changeable with itself. Therefore in that eloquent speech you must altogether leave rhyme and verse, unless you allege it for authority and pleasure. In the beginning of the sentence little care is to be had, in the middle least of all, and in the end chiefest regard is to be had; because the fall of the sentence is most marked, and therefore lest it fall out to be harsh and unpleasant both to the mind and ear, there must be most variety and change. Now this change must not be above six syllables from the end, and that must be set down in feet of two syllables. And thus much of garnishing of speech by the _measure_ of sounds, rather to give some taste of the same to the readers, than to draw any to the curious and unnecessary practice of it. Now followeth the _repeating_ of sounds. ========== CHAPTER IV. _Repetition_ of sounds is either of the _like_, or the _unlike_ sound. Of the _like_, is either _continued_ to the end of, or _broken_ off from, the _same_, or a _diverse_ sentence. _Continued_ to the end of the _same_ sentence is, when the same sound is repeated without anything coming between, except a parenthesis; that is, something put in, without the which, notwithstanding, the sentence is full. And it is a joining of the same sound, as Rom. i. 29: _All unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness_. And in the prayer of Christ, _My God, my God_. _From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men_, &c. (Psalm xvii. 14.) _Continued_ in a _diverse_ sentence is, either a redoubling, called _anadyplosis_; or a pleasant climbing, called _climax_. Redoubling is when the same sound is repeated in the end of the former sentence, and the beginning of the sentence following. As Psalm ix. 9: _The Lord also will be a refuge to the poor, a refuge, I say, in due time_. Psalm xlviii. 14: _For this God is our God_. But more plain in Psalm xlviii. 8: _As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever_.