want of eloquence they can neither titter nor make show of them.  It is a meere fopperie.  And will you know what, in my seeming, the cause is?  They are shadows and Chimeraes, proceeding of some formelesse conceptions, which they cannot distinguish or resolve within, and by consequence are not able to produce them in as-much as they understand not themselves:  And if you but marke their earnestnesse, and how they stammer and labour at the point of their deliverle, you would deeme that what they go withall, is but a conceiving, and therefore nothing neere downelying; and that they doe but licke that imperfect and shapelesse lump of matter.  As for me, I am of opinion, and Socrates would have it so, that he who had a cleare and lively imagination in his mind, may easilie produce and utter the same, although it be in Bergamaske [Footnote:  A rustic dialect of the north of Italy.] or Welsh, and if he be dumbe, by signes and tokens.

     Verbaque praevisam rem non invita sequentur.
     [Footnote:  Hor.  Art.  Poet. 311.]

     When matter we fore-know,
     Words voluntarie flow.

As one said, as poetically in his prose, Cum res animum occupavere, verba ambiunt; [Footnote:  SED. Controv. 1. vii. prae.] “When matter hath possest their minds, they hunt after words:”  and another:  Ipsa res verba rapiunt:  [Footnote:  Cic. de Fin.  I. iii. c. 5.] “Things themselves will catch and carry words:”  He knowes neither Ablative, Conjunctive, Substantive, nor Gramar, no more doth his Lackey, nor any Oyster-wife about the streets, and yet if you have a mind to it he will intertaine you, your fill, and peradventure stumble as little and as seldome against the rules of his tongue, as the best Master of arts in France.  He hath no skill in Rhetoricke, nor can he with a preface fore-stall and captivate the Gentle Readers good will:  nor careth he greatly to know it.  In good sooth, all this garish painting is easilie defaced, by the lustre of an in-bred and simple truth; for these dainties and quaint devices serve but to ammuse the vulgar sort; unapt and incapable to taste the most solid and firme meat:  as Afer verie plainly declareth in Cornelius Tacitus.  The Ambassadours of Samos being come to Cleomenes King of Sparta, prepared with a long prolix Oration, to stir him up to war against the tyrant Policrates, after he had listned a good while unto them, his answer was:  “Touching your Exordium or beginning I have forgotten it; the middle I remember not; and for your conclusion I will do nothing in it.”  A fit, and (to my thinking) a verie good answer; and the Orators were put to such a shift; as they knew not what to replie.  And what said another? the Athenians from out two of their cunning Architects, were to chuse one to erect a notable great frame; the one of them more affected and selfe presuming, presented himselfe before them, with a smooth fore-premeditated discourse, about the subject of that piece of worke, and thereby drew the judgements