CHAP. 17. Of Interrogations, Answers and lests.
THe times wherein tis fit to aske ones Adversary a questi∣on, are chiefely foure.
A briefe of the art of rhetorique Containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three bookes of that subject, except onely what is not applicable to the Engligh tongue.
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- 1. The first is, when of two Propositions that conclude an Absurdity, he has already utte∣red one; and we would by Inter∣rogation draw him to confesse the other.
- 2. The second, when of two Propositions that conclude an Absurdity, one is manifest of it selfe, and the other likely to bee fetcht out by a question; then the Interrogation will be seasonable; and the absurd Conclusion is pre∣sently to be inferr'd, without ad∣ding that Proposition which is manifest.
- 3. The third, when a man would make appeare that his Adversary does contradict himselfe.
- 4. The fourth, when a man would take from his Adversary such shifts as these, In some sort 'tis so; In some sort 'tis not so.
Out of these Cases 'tis not fit to Interrogate. For hee whose
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question succeedes not is tho••ght vanquished.
To Equivocall questions, a man ought to Answer fully, and not to be too breefe.
To Interrogations which wee foresee tend to draw from us an Answer contrary to our purpose, we must together with our An∣swer presently give an Answer to the objection, which is implyed in the question.
And where the question exact∣eth an Answer that concludeth against us, we must together with our Answer presently distin∣guish.
Iests are dissolved by serious and grave discourse: and grave discourse is deluded by Iests.
The severall kinds of Iests are set downe in the Art of Poetry.
Whereof one kind is Ironia, and tends to please ones selfe.
The other is Scurrility, and
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tends to please others.
The latter of these has in it a kind of basenesse: the former may become a man of good breeding.