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[Transcriber's Notes:
About this book: _A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike_ was
published in 1563. Only five copies of the original are known to
exist. This e-book was transcribed from microfiche scans of the
original in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. The scans can
be viewed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France website at
http://gallica.bnf.fr.</p>
Typography: The original line and paragraph breaks, hyphenation,
spelling, capitalization, punctuation, inconsistent use of an acute
accent over "ee", the use of u for v and vice versa, and the use of i
for j and vice versa, have been preserved. All apparent printer errors
have also been preserved, and are listed at the end of this document.
The following alterations have been made:
1. Long-s has been regularized as s.
2. The paragraph symbol, resembling a C in the original, is rendered
as ¶.
3. Missing punctuation, hyphens, and paragraph symbols have been added
in brackets, e.g. [-].
4. A decorative capital followed by a capital letter is represented
here as two capital letters, e.g. NAture.
5. Except for the dedication, which is in modern italics, the majority
of the original book is in blackletter font, with some words in a
modern non-italic font. All modern-font passages are marked by
underscores.
6. Sidenotes have been placed in-line, approximately where they appear
in the original.
7. Incorrect page numbers have been corrected, but are included in the
list of printer errors at the end of this e-book.
8. Abbreviations and contractions represented as special characters in
the original have been expanded as noted in the table below. A
"macron" means a horizontal line over a letter. "Supralinear" means
directly over a letter; "sublinear" means directly under a letter. The
"y" referred to below is an Early Modern English form of the
Anglo-Saxon thorn character, representing "th," but identical in
appearance to the letter "y."