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Arts belonging to Speech. Artes Sermones.

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_Grammar_, 1. is conversant about _Letters_, 2. of which it maketh _Words_, 3. _Grammatica_, 1. versatur circa _Literas_, 2. ex quibus componit _Voces_, _verba_, 3. and teacheth how to utter, write, 4. put together and part them rightly. docetque eloqui, scribere, 4. construere, distinguere (interpungere) eas recte.

_Rhetorick_, 5. doth as it were paint, 6. a rude form, 7. of Speech _Rhetorica_, 5. pingit, 6. quasi rudem _formam_, 7. Sermonis with _Oratory Flourishes_, 8. such as are _Figures_, _Elegancies_, _Adagies_, _Oratoriis Pigmentis_, 8. ut sunt _Figuræ_, _Elegantiæ_, _Adagia_ (proverbia) _Apothegms_, _Sentences_, _Similies_, _Hierogylphicks, &c._ _Apothegmata_, _Sententiæ_ (Gnomæ) _Similia_, _Hieroglyphica, &c._

_Poetry_, 9. gathereth these _Flowers_ _of Speech_, 10. _Poesis_, 9. colligit hos _Flores_ _Orationis_, 10. and tieth them as it were into a little _Garland_, 11. and so making of _Prose_ a _Poem_, & colligat quasi in _Corallam_, 11. atque ita, faciens è _prosa_ _ligatam orationem_, it maketh several sorts of _Verses_ and _Odes_, and is therefore crowned with a _Laurel_, 12. componit varia _Carmina_ & _Hymnos_ (_Odas_) ac propterea coronatur _Lauru_, 12.

_Musick_, 13. setteth _Tunes_, 14. with _pricks_, _Musica_, 13. componit _Melodias_, 14. _Notis_, to which it setteth words, and so singeth alone, or in _Consort_, or by Voice, or Musical Instruments, 15. quibus aptat verba, atque ita cantat sola vel _Concentu_ (_Symphonia_), aut voce aut Instrumentis Musicis, 15.