Of proportion in Measure. 55
How many sortes of measures we use in our vulgar. 58
Of the distinctions of mans voice and pauses allowed
to our speech,
& of the first pause called Ceszure.
61
Of proportion in concord called Rime. 63
Of accent, stirre and time, evidently perceyued in
the distinction
of mans voice, and in that which maketh
the flowing of a Meetre. 64
Of your Cadences in which the meeter is made Symphonicall,
&
when they be most sweet and solemne.
65
How the good maker will not wrench his word to helpe
his rime,
either by falsifying his accent or his
Ortographie. 67
Of concord in long and short measures, & by neare
or farre
distances, and which of them is most commendable.
68
Of proportion by situation. 69
Of proportion in figure. 75
How if all manner of suddaine innouations were not
very scandalous,
specially in the lawes of any language,
the use of the Greeke
and Latine feet might be brought into
our vulgar poesie &
with good grace inough.
85
A more particular declaration of the Metricall feete
of the Greekes
and Latines, and of your feete of two
times. 91
Of the feet of three times, and what vse we may haue
of them
in our vulgar.
103
Of all the other of three times besides the Dactill. 106
Of your halfe foote in a verse & those verses which
they called
perfect and defective.
107
Of the breaking of your wordes of many sillables,
& when & how
it is to be vsed.
108
The Table of the third booke.
Of ornament poeticall and that it resteth in figures. 114
How our writing & speeches publique ought to be figuratiue,
and if they be not doo greatly disgrace
the cause and
purpose of the speaker and writer.
115
How ornament poeticall is of two sortes according
to the
double nature and efficacy of figures.
119
Of language and what speech our maker ought to vse. 119
Of stile, and that it is of three kindes, loftie,
meane,
and low according to the nature of the
subiect. 123
Of the loftie, meane, and low subiect. 127
Of figures and figuratiue speeches. 128