[Sidenote: Proparalepsis.] _Preassumpcio_, when a sillable is added to a word, the significacion of the worde therby nothyng altered, as: He vseth to slacken his matters, for to slacke his matters.
[Sidenote: Apocope.] _Absissio_, y^e cuttyng away of a letter or sillable frõ the end of a word, as: She is a wel fayr may, for maid.
[Sidenote: Ectasis.] _Extensio_, the making lõg of a sillable whych by nature is short, as: This was ordeined by acte, for ordined.
[Sidenote: Systole.] _Contractio_, the makynge short of a sillable which bi nature is lõg, as He is a man of good perseuera[un]ce: wher some men cõmit .ii. fautes at once, one y^t they take perseuera[un]ce for knoweledge, which signifieth alwais cõtinuance, an other y^t they make this sillable (ue) short, where it is euer longe: and so do they erre in thys worde, adherentes, also, makyng (he) short, when it is alwayes longe, as when they saye: I defye hym, and all his adherentes.
[Sidenote: Synolephe.] _Delecio_, puttynge oute, when .ii. vowels comyng together, the first is as it were put out: as thone and thother, for the one and the other.
[Sidenote: Antisthecon.] _Littera pro littera._ One letter for an other, as akecorne for okecorne.
_Transposicio._ Transposing of letters in wrytynge, as chambre, for chamber.
Figure of construccion is when the order of construccion is otherwyse then after the comen maner. And the kyndes be these.
[Sidenote: Prolepsis.] _Presumpcio_, a takynge before, or generall speakynge of those thynges whych afterwardes be declared more perticulerlye: as, in the meane seasõ that kyng Henry rode royally to Calais on a sumpteous courser, Lewes in a gorgeous chariot was caried to Boloygne.
[Sidenote: Zeugma.] _Iunctio_, ioynyng, as Linacer sayeth, is when in lyke sentences a certen comen thyng that is put in the one, and not chaunged in the other is not expressed, but lefte out: as in Vyrgyll. Before I forget Cesar, eyther the Parthian shall drynke of the flud Araris, or Germany of Tigris: here is left out, shall drynke. Or to define it more playnelye. ¶ _Iniunctio_, is when the verbe in diuerse lyke sentences is referred to one: and that thre maner of waies.
[Sidenote: Presozeugma.] Fyrste when it is set before, and is called _preiunctio_, as: There dyd ouercome in hym, lechery, his chastitie, saucines his feare, madnesse hys reason.