CHAPTER VII.

Garnishing of the frame of speech in a _sentence_, is a garnishing of the shape of speech, or a figure; which for the forcible moving of affections, doth after a sort beautify the sense and very meaning of a sentence. Because it hath in it a certain manly majesty, which far surpasseth the soft delicacy or dainties of the former figures.

It is either the garnishing of speech _alone_, or _with others_.

The garnishing of speech _alone_, is when as the sentence is garnished without speech had to other. And it is either in regard of the _matter_; or of the _person_.

In regard of the _matter_; it is either a crying out, called _exclamation_; or a pulling or calling back of himself, called _revocation_.

A crying out, or _exclamation_, is the first, which is set forth by a word of calling out. Sometimes of wonder, as, Rom. xi. 33: _O the depth of the judgments of God!_ Psal. viii. 1: _O Lord, how excellent is thy name!_ Sometimes of pity; also these words, _Behold_, _Alas_, _Oh_, be signs of this figure, as, _O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which stonest the prophets_. Sometimes of desperation; as, _My sin is greater than can be forgiven. Behold, thou drivest me out, &c._ Sometimes of wishing: as, Psalm lxxxiv. 1: _O Lord of hosts, how amiable are thy tabernacles!_ Sometimes of disdaining: as, Rom. vii. 24: _O miserable wretch that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of sin!_ Sometimes of mocking: as they which said to our Saviour Christ, _Ah, thou that, &c._ Sometimes of cursing and detestation; as in David, _Let their table be made a snare, and bow down their back always_.

Also when this figure is used in the end of a sentence, it is called a shooting out of the voice or επιφωνημα; as when the sins of Jezebel were spoken against, this is added at the end, _Seemed it a little to her to do thus and thus_.

So after the high setting forth of the name of God, David shutteth up his praise with this: _Blessed be his glorious name, and let all the earth be filled with his glory_. Sometimes here is used a certain liberty of speech, wherein is a kind of secret crying out: as Peter (Acts iii. 12,) saith: _Ye men of Israel, hear these words_. And Paul, (2 Cor. xi. 1): _Would to God you could suffer a little my foolishness, and indeed ye suffer me_.

Thus much of crying out. Now followeth the figure of calling back, or _revocation_.

_Revocation_ is when any thing is called back; and it is as it were a cooling and quenching of the heat of the exclamation that went before.

And this is either a _correction_ of one’s self, called επανορθωσις; or a _holding_ of one’s _peace_, called αποσιωπησις.

Επανορθωσις is correction, when something is called back that went before: as Paul correcteth his doubtfulness of Agrippa’s belief, when he saith, _Believest thou, King Agrippa? I know thou believest._ So, 1 Cor. xv. 10: _I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I_, &c.

A _keeping of silence_, or αποσιωπησις, is when the course of the sentence bygone is so stayed, as thereby some part of the sentence, not being uttered, may be understood. So our Saviour Christ (John xii. 27) saith, _My soul is heavy: what shall I say?_

Thus much of a figure garnishing the speech alone, in regard of the _matter_. Now followeth the garnishing of the speech alone, in regard of the _person_.

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