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tasies, whiche whan I wolde afterwarde reproue and shewe the difference, I might peraduenture seme for the colour of my cause, to haue amended myne owne, upon the sight of theirs1.

b) Allitération accentuant le balancement :

I wel parceyue, the worlde so sette vppon the sekynge of pleasure, that they sette by pleasure much more than by profite ?.

The lesse whyle I Zooke to lyue with you, the more depelye am ÎÏ moued to care in what case I leaue you 3.

Our synnes in respecte of the soule be to it as a pycture or couerynge is to a walle, almyghty god muste nedes fyrst loke vpon our synnes or euer he loke vpon our soules 4.

c) Allitéralions croisées et allitéralions croisées renversées

Nor in dedes that be moste conuenient; nor yet in doctrine that is most commodious?.

Flattery shall haue more place then plaine and /aithfull aduyse 6.

. More, À Dialogue concerning Heresyes, 106.

. More, Richard III, 74.

. Ibid, 38.

. Fisher, Penytencyall Psalmes, 116.

. Elyot, Doctrinal of Princes, 16.

6. More, Richard III, 38-39. — Vers 1553, ces procédés de la rime et de l’allitération étaient employés avec tant d’excès que les gens sensés n’avaient pas assez de sévérité pour les critiquer. Wilson, aux yeux de qui ces procédés paraissent pourtant « pleasaunt and praise worthie », à dit : « Some vse ouermoche repeticion of some one letter, as pitifull pouertie praieth for à penie, but puffed presumpcion passeth not a poinct, pampering his panche, with pestilente pleasure, procuryng his passe porte, to poste it to helle pitte, there to bee punished, with paines perpetuall..…

Some ende their sentences all alike, making their talke, rather to appere rimed Metre, then to seme plain speache, the whiche as it moche deliteth, being measurably vsed, so it moche offendeth, when no meane is regarded. I heard a Preacher, delityng moche in this kynde of composicion, who vsed so often to ende his sentences, with woordes like vnto that, whiche went before, that in my iudgement, there was not a dosen sentences, in his whole Sermon, but thei ended all in rime, for the moste part. Some not beste disposed, wished the Preacher a Lute, that with his rimed Sermon, he might vse some pleasaunte melodie, and so the people might take a pleasure diuers waies, and daunce if thei liste » (Rhetorique, fo 8). Cf. le passage cité page 466.

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