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checke hym sharpely, and you winne hym. Let hym haue his will, and he will flie in thy face : kepe him short, and you shall haue hym at commaundement 1.

By contraries set together, thynges oftentymes appere greater. As if one should set Lukes Veluet, againste Geane Veluet, the Lukes will appere better, and the Geane will seme worser. Or set a faire woman against a foule, and she shall seme moche the fairer, and the other moche the fouler. Accordyng whereunto, there is a saiyng in Logique : Contraria inter se opposita magis elucescunt. That is to saie. Contraries beyng set, the one against the other, appere more euidente. Therefore, if any one be disposed, to set foorthe Chastitie, he maiïe bring in, of the contrary parte, whoredome, and shewe what a foule offence it is, to liue so vneleanly, and then the deformitie of whoredome, shall moche set forthe Chastitie : or if one bee disposed to perswade his fellowe to learnyng, and knowledge, he maie shewe of the contrary, what a naked wretche man is, yea, how moche à man is no man, & the life no life, when learning ones wanteth ?.

Similiter desinens, similiter cadens. Then the sentences are saied to ende like, when those woordes dooe ende in like sillables, whiche dooe lacke cases. Thou liues wickedly, thou speakes naughtely. The rebelles of Northfolke (quoth a moste worthie manne, that made an inuectiue against them) through slauerie, shewe nobilitie: in deede miserably, in fashion cruelly, in cause deuillishly. Sentences also are saied to fall like, when diuers wordes in one sentence, ende in like cases, and that in rime. By greate trauaile, is gotte moche auaïle, by earnest affection, men learne discrecion.

These 1j kindes of Exornacion, are then moste delitefull, when contrarv thinges ar repeated together : when that ones again is vttered, which before was spoken : when sentences are turned, and letters are altered. Of the first, this maie be an example : where learning is loued, there labour is estemed : but where slouthe is thought solace, there rudenesse taketh place... He is a meter man to driue the carte, then to serue the