82 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE
honefty wyll folowe of his puniff hment. And finally then by comon places to moue the iudge to mercy & pytie vpon hym.
The aduerfary muft (as I haue fhewed afore) vfe for his purpofe contrary places.
Some Rhetoriciens put no mo places of deprecacion than only this that is here laft reherced of Tulli / that is to do our beft to moue the iuitice to mercy and pity.
Remocion of the faute is whan we put it from vs and lay it to another.
Example.
The Venecians haue commaunded certayne to go in ambaffade to Englande / and therupon appointed them what they f hal haue to bere their charges / whiche money affigned : they can nat get of the treafourer : At the daye appoynted they go nat / wherupon they are accufed to the Senate. Here they muft ley the faut from them to the treafourer / which difpatched them nat accordyng / as it was ordeyned that he fhulde.
Tra^flacion of the faut is / whan he that cofefleth his faut fayeth that he dyd it : moued by the indignacion of the malycyoufe dede of an other.
[E vii a] Example.
Kynge Agamenno / whiche was chief capitayne of the Grekes at the fiege of Troye / whan he cam home was f layne of Egiftus by the treafon of Cliteneftra his owne wyfe / whiche murder his fone Oreftes feynge / whan he cam to mannes ftate / reuenged his fathers deathe on his mother/and flewe her/wherupon he was accufed. Here Oreftes can nat deny but he flewe his mother : but he layeth for hym that his mothers abhominable iniury conftrayned him thereto / bycaufe fhe flewe his father.
And this is the handelynge of confyrmacyon in ftate affumptiue.
The conclufions in thefe oracyons are lyke to the conclufions of other.
Of ftatelegitime / and the handelynge therof.
State legitime is whan the controuerfy ftandeth in definicyon or contrary lawes / or doutful wrytynges / or racyocynacyon / or tranflacyon.
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