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CAP. 22. Dislikes.

Q. What are dislikes?

A. Dislikes are comparatives, whose quality is diverse.

Q. What are the proper notes of dislikes?

A. Dislike, different, another,

Q. Give example?

A. Pro Plan. Although the paying of money and thanks be unlike. Aeneid. 1. O ancient house! O how unlike for that Lord to govern. Caes. Pri. Bel. Gal. All these differed in their tongues, instructions, lawes. Agra 2. One is known by his countenance, another by his voice, another by his gate. De Nat. Deo 2. Because I have begun to do otherwise then I had said in the beginning.

Q. Are not dislikes also known by denying the likes?

A. Yes.

Q. Give example?

A. De Orat. 2. Philosophy is not like the other arts. Aeneid. 2. But he was not of that seed wherein thou rememberest Achilles, such was Priamus his enemy. Lor. Epist. 1. There is not the same age, the same minde, Ad frat. 1. So thy ring is not as a certain vessel, but as thy self. Phil. 3. This certain day he is wont to expect not so much of sacrafice as counsel.

Qu. Give some Poetical examples.

A. By this argument the shepherd confesseth his error. Aeglog. 1.

Ah fond friend Melibe, I whilom dempt. That famous city which I now and then, In common chat amongst our countrey-men; Have heard, yea cliped by the name of Rome, Certes for all the world cib to our homely home: and by and by, —so did I dare. Kids liken to their Goats, whelps to their dams, And mole-hills wont to mountains to compare.

Qu. Shew the force of this example?

A. As neither the whelps to the dogs, nor kids to their dams, so neither is Mantua like to Rome.

Q. Be not notes of dislikes sometimes wanting?

A. Yes, oftentimes, and the dislikeness is more clearly explicated.

Q. Give an example out of some Orator?

A. Quint. L. 1. C. 11. Brutus slew the Children of the Tray∣tors: Muntius did punish by death the vertue of his Son.

Q. Give another example?

A. Cut. The Sun sets and riseth again: but when our lit∣tle light setteth, there is a perpetual night.