The lavviers logike exemplifying the præcepts of logike by the practise of the common lawe, by Abraham Fraunce.

The 16. Chapter. Of Distribution of argumentes after a certeine ma∣ner agreeable.

THe second kinde of Distribution is made of ar∣guments agréeable after a certeine manner, as of subiects and adiuncts.

The Distribution made of the subiect is, when the partes are fet from the subiect.

Hobbinoll in his song of Elysa, diuideth her beauty being the adiunct, into her seuerall subiects, as, face, eye, chéeke, &c.

Tell mee, haue yee seene her angelike face like Phaebe fay re? Her heauenly hauiour, her princely grace can you well compare? The red Rose medled with the white yfeare, In eyther cheeke depaynten Iiuely cheare: Her modest eye, Her maiestie, Where haue you seene the like but there?

M. Plowden Fol. 279. b. Et quant a ceo, troys y sont (come Walshe dit) que ount a intromitter oue les biens del mort, cestassauoir, l'executor, le ordinary, et les administrators &c.

The Distribution of the adiunct is, when the partes are fet from the adiuncts.

Diggon in September.

For either the she pheards bene idle and still, And led of their sheepe what way they will;

Or they bene false or full of couetise: And casten to compasse many wrong emprise: But the more bene fraught with fraud and spite, Ne in God nor goodnes taken delite.

Maister Plowden Fol. 328. Mynes de plumbe sont fertile, on sterile, &c,

Annotations.

PIscator would haue some diuisions to bée of thinges, as those that Ramus hath put downe: and some of woordes, to distinguish the diuers acceptions of ambiguous woordes, as Littleton pag. 51. in this woord Assise, which he saith is equi∣uocum, &c. But that belongeth rather to a Dictionary-maker, then a teacher of Logike, saith one. And, indéede, as another aunswereth, woords bée diuided together with the things: as Liberty and fréedome is eyther bodily or spirituall: where, as well the thing, as the woord is diuyded.

All Logike is generall, and applyable as well to thinges imagined, as things that bée extant in truth: and therefore to woords also, as woordes haue causes, effectes, subiectes, ad∣iuncts, and other arguments to bée considered. Logicus, saith Hottoman, insitam vocum inter se rationem, habitum, respec∣tum, affectionem: Grammaticus tantùm accidentia, & popu∣laris sermonis in ijs iungendis consuetudinem exquirit, &c.

Sith these two last kindes of distribution bée sayde to bée made of argumentes agréeable after a certeine manner; wée are to vnderstand, that neyther the whole héere, is of the es∣sence of the partes, nor the parts of the nature of the whole: so that this is no true distribution indéed, but rather an ima∣gined distinction. And these bée partes, not of any whole, but rather of order, distinction, and particular rehearsall or enu∣meration.

Canons.

Therefore if you affirme or deny, either the adiunct which is the whole, or the subiects which bée the partes, you may contingently affirme or deny the one or the other.

And so in the other of the adiunct, the adiunctes as partes béeing affirmed, the subiect as whole may be also affirmed.

Distrib. in Sub.

Stamford. praerog. reg. cap. 1. For which cause the lawes doo attribute vnto him (the king) all honour, dignitie, prero∣gatiue and preheminence, which prerogatiue dooth not onely extend to his owne person, but also to all other his possessi∣ons, goods, and cattels. As, that his person shall bée sub∣iect to no mans suite, his possessions cannot bée taken from him by any violence or wrongfull disseisin: his goodes and cattels are vnder no tribute, toll, or custome, nor otherwise distreignable.

Elenchs.

If a false adiunct bée diuided into false subiects: as argu∣ments bée eyther affirmatiue or negatiue. Or if a false sub∣iect bée diuided into vnfit adiuncts, as spirits some be white, some blacke.