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A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

Chapter 10: Notes on the Text
By Richard Sherry
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About This Book

This work collects and defines classical schemes and tropes in the vernacular, offering concise definitions, Greek and Latin terms, and usually a single illustrative example for each figure. It presents rhetoric primarily as style and ornament, asserting that figures both clarify and embellish expression while largely setting aside invention, arrangement, memory, and delivery. Presentation is highly prescriptive and schematic, resembling a pedagogical dictionary of terms and rules intended for imitation. The printed edition pairs the catalog with an English rendering of a contemporary essay on educating children, supplying practical exemplars for composition and spoken discourse.

Dedication

To the ryght worshyp
ful Master Thomas Brooke
Esquire, Rychard Shyrrey
wysheth health euer-
lastynge.

Figures and Tropes

¶ A briefe note of eloquciõ, the third
parte of Rhetoricke, wherunto
all Figures and Tropes be
referred.

Notes on the Text

Paragraphs

Some paragraph breaks in this e-text are conjectural. The printed book had the following kinds of breaks:

conventional paragraph with indented first line

unambiguous paragraph with non-indented first line

ambiguous paragraph: previous line ends with blank space, but the space is not large enough to contain the first syllable of the following line

sentence break corresponds to line break: this happens randomly in any printed book, and only becomes ambiguous when the book also has non-indented paragraphs

In this e-text, the second type of paragraph is marked with a simple line break (no extra space) and pilcrow ¶. The third type has a pilcrow ¶ but no line break. The fourth type is not marked.

Transcriber’s Footnote

* homotelento, -teleto:
In the facsimile edition, the body text has homoteleto but the Index has homotelento. In the other available text, the body text has homotelẽto with clear overline. The correct form is “homeoteleuton” (in this book’s spelling, probably “homioteleuton”).

Spelling

The pattern of initial v, non-initial u is followed consistently.

The spelling “they” is more common than “thei”.

The form “then” is normally used for both “then” and “than”; “than” is rare.

The most common spelling is “wyll”, but “wyl”, “wil” and “will” also occur.

Word Division

Line-end hyphens were completely arbitrary; words split at line break were hyphenated about two-thirds of the time. The presence or absence of a hyphen has not been noted. Hyphenless words at line-end were joined or separated depending on behavior elsewhere in the text:

Always one word (re-joined at line break): som(e)what, without, afterward(e)s

Usually one word: often( )times, what( )so( )euer

One or two words: an( )other

Usually two words: it/him/my...( )self/selues; shal( )be; straight( )way

Always two words: here to

Roman Numerals

Numbers were printed with leading and following .period. When the number came at the beginning or end of a line, the “outer” period was sometimes omitted. These have been supplied for consistency.