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CHAP. III.
How ornament Poeticall is of two sortes according to the double vertue and efficacie of figures.
THis ornament then is of two sortes, one to satisfie & delight th'eare onely by a goodly outward shew set vpon the matter with wordes, and speaches smothly and tunably running: ano∣ther by certaine intendments or sence of such wordes & speaches inwardly working a stirre to the mynde: that first qualitie the Greeks called Enargia, of this word argos, because it geueth a glo∣rious lustre and light. This latter they called Energia of ergon, be∣cause it wrought with a strong and vertuous operation; and fi∣gure breedeth them both, some seruing to giue glosse onely to a language, some to geue it efficacie by sence, and so by that meanes some of them serue th'eare onely, some serue the conceit onely and not th'eare: there be of them also that serue both turnes as commō seruitours appointed for th'one and th'other purpose, which shal∣be hereafter spoken of in place: but because we haue alleaged be∣fore that ornament is but the good or rather bewtifull habite of language and stile, and figuratiue speaches the instrument where∣with we burnish our language fashioning it to this or that mea∣sure and proportion, whence finally resulteth a long and continu∣all phrase or maner of writing or speach, which we call by the name of stile: we wil first speake of language, then of stile, lastly of figure, and declare their vertue and differences, and also their vse and best application, & what portion in exornation euery of them bringeth to the bewtifying of this Arte.