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 Hypotyposis.

There were hills which garnished their proud heights with trees, humble valleys whose low estate seem'd comforted with refreshing of sil∣ver rivers; medows enamel'd with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnes∣sed so to by the chearful disposition of many well tun'd birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort; Here a shepherds boy piping, as though he should never be old, there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal finging, and her hands kept time with her voices musick. A shew as it were of an accompaniable solita∣riness, and of a civil wildness.

It is a place which now humbling it self in fallowed plains, now proud in well husbanded hills, marries barren woods to cultivated val∣leys, and joyns neat gardens to delicious foun∣tains, &c.