Testis est Italia.
Here Tully calls Italy, France, Sicily, Spain, to witnesse, for the Italians, French, Sicilians, and Spaniards; and here is also allegoria. Now the se∣cond special modus of that modus of continens pro re
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Here Tully calls Italy, France, Sicily, Spain, to witnesse, for the Italians, French, Sicilians, and Spaniards; and here is also allegoria. Now the se∣cond special modus of that modus of continens pro re
contenta, is, when the place is put for the things done in the place: so the market is put for the Rhetori∣cal actions done in it: so by Academia where Plato taught, Lycéum where Aristotle taught, and Tus∣culane where Tully taught, is meant the Learning made famous therein. There is yet another speciall modus of continens pro re contenta, which I marvel that he left, as this, Reach me the cup, for the drink in the cup: and, Give me thy purse, for the money in the purse: here is continens pro re contenta, and yet neither of the special modi aforegoing.