This maner of speche is had not oonli in comoun vce out of Holi Scripture, but also this maner of colouring speche is ofte and myche had in Holi Scrip|ture. Forwhi bi this colour of speche, which in rethorik is clepid transsumpcioun, Crist seid that he was a vyne, and hise disciplis weren braunchis, and his Fadir was an erthe tilier, and Iohun the Baptiste was Helie.3 And al for this, that he was lijk in wirching to a vyne, and hise disciplis weren lijke to braunchis of a vyne, and his Fadir was lijk to an erthe tilier, and Iohun Baptist was lijk to Helie.
The iiije. reule is this: Whanne oon thing is or|deyned and deputid forto represente and signifie and bringe into mynde or consideracioun an other thing, thilk thing is woned be clepid vndir the name of the other thing so signified or representid. Forwhi in this maner of colourid speche we seien: "This ymage is Seint Peter; and this ymage is Seint Marie; and here stondith Seint Iame; and a laumpe hangith bi|fore Seint Kateryn; and in this steyned clooth ridith Hector of Troie; and here in this steyned clooth King Herri leieth a sege to Harflew; in this dai, which we now in this ȝeer halewen, Crist was born; in this dai, which now is at Mydsomer, Iohun Bap|tist was born." And al for this, that this ymage re|presentith Seint Peter or Seint Marie or Seint Iame or Seint Kateryn, and this ymage representith Hector or King Herry, and this dai in this ȝeer is deputid forto represente and signifie the same dai in which Crist was born, and this other day in this same ȝeer is deputid forto represente the same dai in which Iohun Baptist was born. And not oonli the spechis of this iiije. reule ben vsid out of Holi Scripture, but also in Holi Scrip|ture. Forwhi in Holi Scripture, Genes. xlie. capitulum., vpon [See John xv. 1; Matth. xvii. 12.]
