The art or crafte of rhetoryke

¶ Of a Theme compounde.

EUery Theme compounde: ey∣ther it is proued trewe or fals. Now whether thou wylt pu•…•… or improue any thyng: it must be done by argument. And yt any Theme compounde: be it Logicall or Rhetorycall / it must be referred to the rules of Logike by thē to be proued trew or fals. For this is the dyfference that is betwene these two sciences / that the Lo∣gician in dysputynge obserueth certayne rules for the settynge of his wordes being solicitous that there be spokē no more nor no lesse than the thynge requyreth / & that it be euin as plaily spokē as it is thought. But the Rhethorician seketh about & bo∣roweth where he can asmoche as he may for to make the symple and playne Logi∣call argumentes gaye & delectable to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. So than the sure iugement of argu∣mentes

or reasons must be lerned of the logician / but the crafte to set thē out with pleasaunt figures and to delate the mater belongeth to the Rhetorician. As in Mi∣loes cause / of whome was made mencion afore. ¶ A logician wolde briefly argue / who so euer violently wyll slee an other / may lawfully of the other be slayne in his defence. Clodius wolde vyolently haue s•…•…ain Milo / wherfore Clodius might lau∣fully be slayne of Milo in Miloes owne defence. And this argument the logicians call a Sillogisme in Dar•…•… / whiche Tully in his oracion extendeth that in foure or fyue leues it is scant made an ende of / nor no man can haue knowlege whether Tul∣lies argument that he maketh in his ora∣cyon for Milo / be a good argumente or nat / and howe it holdeth / excepte he can by Logyke reduce it to the perfecte and briefe forme of a Sillogisme / takynge in the meane season of the Rhetorycyans what ornamentes haue ben cast to for to lyght and augment the oracyon / and to gyue it a maiestie.

¶ The places out of whome are founde argumentes for the prouynge or impro∣uynge of compounde Themes / are these folowynge.

• Diffinicion lyke
• Cause contrary
• Partes

OF the places of argumen∣tes shall be spoken hereaf∣ter. For as touchyuge thē in all thynges the Rheto∣rician & Logician do agre. But as concernynge the crafte to fourme argumentes whan thou hast foūde them in theyr places / that must be lerned of the Logician / where he trea∣teth of the fourme of sillogismes / 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…es and inductions.