42 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHO&YKE
techars 1 of goddes worde in fuche maner as maye be mofte feniible and accepte to their audience: And finally to all them that 2 haue 2 any thynge to prepofe 3 or to fpeke afore any companye, what Ibmeuer they be. So contraryly I ie no fcyence that is les 4 taught and declared to fcholars 5 / whiche ought chyefly after the knowledge of gramer ones hade to be inftructe in thys facultie without the whiche often tymes the rude vtterance of [A iii a] the aduocate greatly hyndrethe and apeyreth his clyentes caufe. Lykewyfe the vnapte dyfpofycyon of the precher in orderynge his mater con- fundyth 6 the memory of hys herers. And bryefly in declaryng of maters, for lake 7 of inuencyon and order with due elocucyo^, greate tediofnes 8 is engendred to the multytude beynge prefent /by occafyon where of the fpeker is many tymes or 9 he haue endyd his tale eyther lefte almost alone I0 to hys no lytle confufyo/j, or els (whiche is a lyke rebuke to hym) the audyence falleth for werynes of hys ineloquent larigage 11 fafte on flepe. \ Wyllynge therfore for my parte to helpe fuche as ar defyrous of this arte (as all furely ought to be whiche entende to be regarded in any comynaltye) I haue partely traunflatyd 12 out of awerke of Rhethoryke wrytten in the lattyn 13 tongue, and partely compyled of myne owne, & fo made a lytle treadle in maner of an Introduccyon into this aforefaid fcyence, and that in the 14 englylThe tongue. Remembrynge that euery goode thynge, after the fayenge of the Phyloibpher, the more commune 15 that it is the better 16 it is. And further more truftynge therby to do fome pleafure and eafe to fuche as haue by neclygence 17 or els falfe parfuafyons l8 be put to the lernynge of other fcyences or euer [A iii b] they haue attayned any meane knowledge of the latyne tonge. 19
1 B. techers. "B. language.
2 B. hauynge. 12 B. tranflated. 3B. purpoie. '3 B. Latin.
4 B. leffe. '4 B. in our Englyffhe.
5 B. Scolers. *s B. comon.
6 B. confoundeth. 1<5 B. the more better. ?B. lacke. ^B. negligence.
8 B. tedioufnes. l8 B. fals 'perfuacions.
s"B. ere. * B. Latin tongue.
10 B. aloon.
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