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¶ Somtyme diuerse clauses, that is to say, hauynge wordes of diuers gēdre, nōbre, and person, be closed with one verbe: adiectiue or participle: the whiche if it be singuler must euer agre with the next propre or appellatiue, or noīatiue case. as, Tu quos ad studiū, at{que} vsum formabis agrestem.
Vtinam, aut hic surdus, aut haec muta facta sit.
Hic illius arma hic currus fuit.
But if the adiectiue or participle be plurell, it mu••••e agree in gendre and person, with the moost worthy o•• the wordes, in dyuerse clauses.
¶And of gendres the masculyn is more worthy thā ••he ••emynine. And of persons, the first is more wor∣thy than the secūde or the thyrde, and the secunde ••s more worthy than the thyrde.
Pater et mater mortui sunt.
Ego et tu discimus. Tu et ille discitis.
¶And lyke wyse in one clause, in the secūde apposi∣••iue cōstruction, if the noīatiues be of dyuers persōs. the verbe must agre with the more worthy. as, Ego Thomas scribo. And this maner of spekynge is figu∣••ate, and the figure is called syllepsis.
¶ Also many other wayes in .ij. clauses, wordes of the one be wont to be lefte out, the whiche nat with ••••andyng to the supplyeng of perfite cōstructiō, must ••edes be repeted of the other. as, multi mortales pe¦••te perie••e. Plures ferro cecidere, for plures morta∣les. Sol auget ventos et comprimit, for cōprimit vē∣••••s, Est doctior {quam} ego, for {quam} ego sum. Scribit melius {quam} ante, for {quam} ante scribebat or scripsit. But specially 〈…〉〈…〉 a wo••de is vnderstāde, whan clauses be ioyned 〈…〉〈…〉 ••hat answere to gedre. as tantus quan∣•••••• N•• modo sed etiā. Tam. quā. Ita sic. Adeo vt: with 〈…〉〈…〉 other. Examples. Tantū reposui quantum tu, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 tu reposu isti. Non modo nobis inuidet, sed etiam ••••bi, for tibi inuidet. Sic viuit vt ego, for ego viuo. Tam est lactis abundans {quam} pecoris, for pecoris a∣••undans.
And in all these supplyenges, whan the worde that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••derstāde is one in al accidentes with the worde
that is set out in the reasō. the figure is called zeug∣ma. And if it be diuerse gendre, nombre, and {per}son, mode or tense. It is syllepsis.