3.3. How ornament Poeticall is of two sortes according to the double vertue and efficacie of figures.
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. This latter they
called Energia of ergon, because it wrought with a strong and
vertuous operation; and figure breedeth them both, some seruing to giue
glosse onely to a language, some to geue it efficacie by sence, and so by that
meanes some of them serue th'eare onely, some serue the conceit onely and
not th'eare: there be of them also that serue both turnes as common
seruitours appointed for th'one and th'other purpose, which shalbe hereafter
spoken of in place: but because we haue alleaged before that ornament is
but the good or rather bewtifull habite of language and stile, and figuratiue
speaches the instrument wherewith we burnish our language fashioning it to
this or that measure and proportion, whence finally resulteth a long and
continuall phrase or maner of writing or speach, which we call by the name
of stile: we wil first speake of language, then of stile, lastly of
figure, and declare their vertue and differences, and also their vse and best
application, & what portion in exornation euery of them bringeth to the
bewtifying of this Arte.