]
Your displacing of a sillable as to say [_desier_ for _desire_] [_sier_
for _sire._]
By cleare exchaunge of one letter or sillable for another, as to say
_euermare_ for _euermore, wrang_ for _wrong: gould_ for _gold: fright_ for
_fraight_ and a hundred moe, which be commonly misused and strained to
make rime.
By wrong ranging the accent of a sillable by which meane a short sillable
is made long and a long short as to say _soueraine_ for _soueraine:
gratious_ for _gratious: endure_ for _endure: Salomon_ for _Salomon._
These many wayes may our maker alter his wordes, and sometimes it is done
for pleasure to giue a better sound, sometimes vpon necessitie and to make
vp the rime. But our maker must take heed that he be not to bold specially
in exchange of one letter for another for vnlesse vsuall speach and
custome allow it, it is a fault and no figure, and because these be
figures of the smallest importaunce, I forbeare to giue them any vulgar
name.
_CHAP. XII._
_Of Auricular figures pertaining to clauses of speech and by them working
no little alteration to the eare._
As your single words may be many waies transfigured to make the meetre or
verse more tunable and melodious, so also may your whole and entire
clauses be in such sort contriued by the order of their construction as
the eare may receiue certaine recreation, although the mind for any
noueltie of sence be little or nothing affected.
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