The arte of rhetorique for the vse of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English, by Thomas Wilson.

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The arte of rhetorique for the vse of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English, by Thomas Wilson.
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Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.
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[[London] :: Richardus Graftonus, typographus regius excudebat],
Anno Domini. M.D.LIII. [1553] Mense Ianuarij.
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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Oratory -- Early works to 1800.
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¶The circumstaunces in meter.
Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose: Why, how, and when, do many thynges disclose.

THese places helpe wonderfully, to set out any mat∣ter, and to amplifie it to the vttermoste, not onely in praisyng, or dispraisyng, but also in all other causes where any aduisement is to bee vsed. Yet this one thyng is to bee learned, that it shall not bee necessarie, to vse theim altogether, euen as thei stande in order: but rather as tyme and place shall best require, thei maie bee vsed in any parte of the Oracion, euen as it shall please hym that hath the vsyng of them.

Again, if any manne bee disposed, to rebuke any offence, he maie vse the places contrary vnto theim that are aboue re∣hersed, and apply these circumstaunces euen as thei are, to

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the profe of his purpose.

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