or it is a comprehension of the more unworthy under the more worthy.
Personam, genus & numerum conceptio tri∣plex.
Accipit indignum Syllepsis sub mage digno:
Tu{que} puer{que} eritis. Rex & Regina beati.
Quid tu & soror facitis? In English,
What doe you and your sister make?
Ego & mater miseri perimus: I and my mother being miserable, doe perish.
Tu & uxor, qui adfuistis. testis estote: You and your wi••e, who were present, be ye witnes∣ses.
Syllepsis is threefold: viz.
1. Of the Person: as,
Ego & pater sumus in tuto: I and my father are safe.
Ne{que} ego, ne{que} tu sapimus: Neither I nor you are wise.
Tu q••id ego & populus mecum desideret audi: Hear thou what I and the people with me do desire.
2. Of the Gender: as,
••ex & Regni beati: The King and the Queen be blest.
3. Of the Number: as,
Ego cum fratre sumus candidi: I with my bro∣ther are white.
So Ovid. Impliciti laqueis nudus uter{que} jacet: They lie both naked fast tyed together with cords, speaking of Mars and Venus tyed together in Vulcans net.