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<text> <front> <tPage> <dTitle type=main>The Arte of Rhetorique,</dTitle> <dTitle type=sub>for the use of all suche as are studious of Eloquence, sette forth in English</dTitle> <byLine>by <dAuthor>Thomas Wilson</dAuthor> </byLine> </tPage> <div type=dedication> <head>To the right honorable Lorde, John Dudley, Lorde Lisle, Earle of Warwike, and maister of the horse to the kynges majestie: your assured to commaund Thomas Wilson.</head> <p>When Pyrrhus Kynge of the Epirotes made battayle agaynste the Romaynes, and could neither by force of Armes, nor yet by anye Policye wynne certayne stronge holdes: he used communely to send one Cineas (a noble Oratour, and sometimes scholer to Demosthenes) to perswade with the Capitaynes and people that were in them, that they shoulde yelde up the sayde holde or townes without fyght or resistaunce. And so it came to passe, that through the pithye eloquence of this noble Oratoure, divers stronge Castels and Fortresses were . . .
