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In Greek, Hebrew, and many languages, it occurs in the form of Paronomasia, or play on words; but this presupposes a rapport between the name and what is implied by it. Assonance in Latin poetry has no such relevance. It simply emphasizes or adorns, e.g. It takes divers forms, e.g. the omoioteleuton akin to our rhyme.
And imprimis I would venture humbly to obserue that your Majesties arguments are to the last Degree asinine. Euen the title which, as is customarie with great personages, is the best part of your Majesties book is marred by an unseemlie concession to paronomasia. That your Majesties manifold abuses of the Logicks may be better espied, I will take them seriatim.
that he most would gaze and wonder at, Is th' horned mitre, and the bloody hat, The crooked staffe, their coule's strange form and store, Save that he saw the fame in hell before. The first satire of the fifth book is levelled at Racking Landlords. The following lines are a strong example of the taste of those times for the Punn and Paronomasia.
One of the things which theosophy teaches is that those transcendent glimpses of a divine order and harmony throughout the universe vouchsafed the poet and the mystic in their moments of vision are not the paradoxes the paronomasia as it were of an intoxicated state of consciousness, but glimpses of reality.
Really, if Sir Philip Sidney and other serious and exquisite gentlemen had not sometimes taken a positively grave interest in the like pastimes of paronomasia, one should hardly conceive it possible to meet with them even in tragi-comedy. Did Pulci find these also in his ballad-authorities? King Manfredonio has come in loving hostility against her to endeavour to win her affection by his prowess.
"It is a perversion of the text," said the eager Henry Warden, "grounded on a vain play upon words a most idle paronomasia."
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