Quære, What are the glittering turrets of a man's head?
Upon the shore; as frequent as the sand,
To meet the prince, the glad Dimetians stand[1].
Quære, Where these Dimetians stood? and of what size they were? add also to the jargon such as the following:
Destruction's empire shall no longer last,
And desolation lie for ever waste[2].
Here Niobe, sad mother, makes her moan,
And seems converted to a stone in stone[3].
But for variegation, nothing is more useful than
3. The Paranomasia, or Pun,
where a word, like the tongue of a jack-daw, speaks twice as much by being split: as this of Mr. Dennis.
Bullets, that wound, like Parthians as they fly[4]:
or this excellent one of Mr. Welsted,
Behold the virgin lye
Naked, and only cover'd by the sky[5].
To which thou may'st add,
To see her beauties no man needs to stoop,
She has the whole horizon for her hoop.
4. The Antithesis, or See-saw,
whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation. Such are these on a lady, who made herself
