_Here my sweete sonnes and daughters all my blisse,
Yonder mine owne deere husband buried is._
Where ye see one verbe singular supplyeth the plurall and singular, and
thus
_Iudge ye louers, if it be strange or no;
My Ladie laughs for ioy, and I for wo._
Where ye see a third person supplie himselfe and a first person. And thus,
_Madame ye neuer shewed your selfe vntrue,
Nor my deserts would euer suffer you._
Viz. to show. Where ye see the moode Indicatiue supply him selfe and an
Infinitiue. And the like in these other.
_I neuer yet failde you in constancie,
Nor neuer doo intend vntill I die._
Viz. [_to show_.] Thus much for the congruitie, now for the sence. One
wrote thus of a young man, who slew a villaine that had killed his father,
and rauished his mother.
_Thus valiantly and with a manly minde,
And by one feate of euerlasting fame,
This lustie lad fully requited kinde,
His fathers death, and eke his mothers shame._
Where ye see this word [_requite_] serue a double sence: that is to say,
to reuenge, and to satisfie. For the parents iniurie was reuenged, and the
duetie of nature performed or satisfied by the childe.
[Sidenote: _Hypozeuxis_, or the Substitute.]
But if this supplie be made to sundrie clauses, or to one clause sundrie
times iterated, and by seuerall words, so as euery clause hath his owne
supplie: then is it called by the Greekes _Hypozeuxis_, we call him the
substitute after his originall, and is a supplie with iteration, as thus:
_Vnto the king she went, and to the king she said,
Mine owne liege Lord behold thy poore handmaid.
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