th'eare

The third by _sizeine_ or sixe verses, and is not only most vsual, but also very pleasant to th'eare.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Ye haue another sort of speach in a maner defectiue because it wants good band or coupling, and is the figure [_Asyndeton_] we call him [_loose language_] and doth not a litle alter th'eare as thus.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Thus then I say that _auricular_ figures be those which worke alteration in th'eare by sound, accent, time, and slipper volubilitie in vtterance, such as for that respect was called by the auncients numerositie of speach.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

And so long as this qualitie extendeth but to the outward tuning of the speech reaching no higher then th'eare and forcing the mynde little or nothing, it is that vertue which the Greeks call _Enargia_ and is the office of the _auricular_ figures to performe.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Ye do by another figure notably affect th'eare when ye make euery word of the verse to begin with a like letter, as for example in this verse written in an _Epithaphe_ of our making.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

This ornament then is of two sortes, one to satisfie & delight th'eare onely by a goodly outward shew fet vpon the matter with wordes, and speaches smothly and tunably running: another by certaine intendments or sence of such wordes & speeches inwardly working a stirre to the mynde: that first qualitie the Greeks called _Enargia_, of this word _argos_, because it geueth a glorious lustre and light.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Thus then I say that auricular figures be those which worke alteration in th'eare by sound, accent, time, and slipper volubilitie in vtteraunce, such as for that respect was called by the auncients numerositie of speach.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

Ye haue another sort of speach in a maner defectiue because it wants good band or coupling, and is the figure [Asyndeton] we call him [loose language] and doth not a lite alter th'eare as thus.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

This happened because the good old Knight made no difference betweene an Oration or publike speach to be deliuered to th'eare of a Princes Maiestie and state of a Realme, then he would haue done of an ordinary tale to be told at his table in the contrey, wherein all men know the oddes is very great.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

This ornament then is of two sortes, one to satisfie & delight th'eare onely by a goodly outward shew se vpon the matter with wordes, and speaches smothly and tunably running: another by certaine intendments or sence of such wordes & speaches inwardly working a stirre to the mynde: that first qualitie the Greeks called Enargia, of this word argos, because it geueth a glorious lustre and light.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569