The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.

English Examples of Aenigma.

I consume my mother that bare me, I eat up my nurse that fed me, then I die, leaving them all blind that saw me.

This is meant of the flame of a Candle, which when it hath consumed both wax and wicke, goes out, leaving them in the dark that saw by it.

Ten thousand children beautiful of this my body bred, Both sons and daughters finely deckt; I live, and they are dead. My sons were put to extreme death by such as lov'd them well, My daughters dy'd in extreme age, but where I cannot tell.

By the Mother, understand a Tree, by the sons and daughters understand the fruit, and leaves; by the sons being put to death by such as loved them well, understand those that ga∣thered and eat the fruit; by the daughters death in age, understand the leaves falling off by the returning of the sap to the Root in Autumn, &c.

Anatomie of wonders great I speak, and yet am dead; Men suck sweet juyce from these black veins which Mother Wisdome bread.

By Anatomie of wonders, &c. understand a book; by the sweet juice, instruction; and by the black veins, the letters and lines in the book.