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praile worthy / than imiltc we vie infinuacyon / and exctile the tur- l>i tude /either l>\ < vim pies or by argumente* / a* Krai'mus dothe in his epiitlc prefixed afore his oracyo* made to the prayfe of Col nes / of whichc I hauc let paflc the tranllacyon becautc the cpiltlc is lomwhat longe.
on.
In this in.iiier of oracyon is no n.i but ID ftede therof
the Rhetorycyens [( vii 1>| al only propofe the mater. And tin* propMi'iu// ^ in Me Itede of the nan
A very elega//t example is in the oracion that Angele Politiane m.ule to the laude of hiftnrics / whiche is this. Amonge all maner of wry u-rs by whome either the Greke tounge or the latinc hathc bene in floure and excellence / without double me lemeth tha' dyd molt prof vie to ma//kynde / !>. the excellent dedes of
nacyons / prynces / or valyant men haue bene truely defcryued and put in cronicles.
I kewyii- \ t a man prayie peace / and fhewe what a commodi- oule thynge it is lie mavr make lurhe a propofy<
Amonge all the thynvjes whiche perteine to mairnes commoditie / of what fomeuer condycon or nature fo euer they be / non excellent and To worthy to be had in honour and louc / as is peace.
The confyrmacyon.
The places of confyrmacyon be in this orarymi. The lame that were in the other (of whom mencion was made afore / honefiy / profyte / eafynes / or difficulty. Honeity is conlydered in the nature of the thynge / allb in the perlbnes that haue excercyfed it / and the inuenters therof. And in the auctour of it. As in the laude of matrvmony he conlydered the [T viii a| auctour thereof/ whiche was god hym felfe / the antiquite that it was made in the fyrlt besjynnynge of the world / & continued (as reafo// is) to this hour in ijreat honour and reuerewce. The perlbnes that haue vfed it / were bothe patriarches / as Abraham. I'rophetes / as Dauyd / Apoltels / as laynt Peter. laynt Kultache / And coarfef-
Iburs as laynt Edwarde. And (whiche thynge was fyrfte propofed) the nature therof is fuche / that without it : man fhuld be lykc vnto belle / oneles all generacyon f hulde be put aparte. And the com-
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