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.
Smith, John, Gent., Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
An English Example.
Her witty perswasions had wise answers; her eloquence recompensed with sweetnesse; her threatnings repelled with disdain in Pamela, and patience in Philoclea, &c.
3. Colon, Media distinctio, a mean distinction between a Comma and a Period, is where there remains almost as much of the sentence to come, as is then past:
Or, as others define it;
It is a part of a Sentence which finishes the sense, shut up in measure and order of syllables, but being pull'd away from a period it defers the hearers expectation, as not perfecting the sen∣tence; and it goes forward from the twelfth to the eighteenth syllable, and sometimes to the twenty fourth: It is a longer stay then the for∣mer, thus noted—:
