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¶Places to confirme thynges are .iiii.
- Places of confirmacion.
- i. Thynges honest.
- ij. Profitable.
- iij. Easie to be doen.
- iiij Hard to be doen.
MAny learned, will haue recourse to the places of Logique in stede of these .iiij. places, when they take in hand to commende any suche matter. The whiche places if they make them serue rather to commende the matter, then onely to teache men the truth of it, it were wel done & Oratourlike▪ for seyng a man wholly bestoweth his wit to plaie the Oratour, he shoulde chefely seke to cōpasse that whiche he entēdeth, & not do that onely which he but half mynded. for by plaine teachyng, the Logi∣cian shewes hymselfe, by large amplification and beautifi∣yng of his cause, the Rhetorician is alwaies knowne.