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I had been very much struck by the appearance of this dame. Not so much on account of her physical beauty though that was of a rare kind as by the air that characterised her. I should feel a difficulty in describing this, which consisted in a certain braverie that bespoke courage and self-possession.
Garnishing of utterance Fenner does not discuss at all. In The Arcadian Rhetorike , Abraham Fraunce treats both. "Rhetorike," he says, "is an Art of Speaking. It hath two parts, Eloqution and Pronuntiation. Eloqution is the first part of Rhetorike, concerning the ordering and trimming of speech. It hath two parts, Congruity and Braverie."
This sense of having been hardly treated by Fortune at the outset, marred much of his present enjoyment, accompanied as it was by a misgiving that, do what he might, that early inferiority would cling to him, like some rag of a garment that he must wear over all his 'braverie, proclaiming as it did to the world, 'This is from what I sprung originally.
"Braverie of speach consisteth of tropes or turnings, and in figures or fashionings." The remainder of the first book deals with meter and verse forms, baldly of prose rhythm, epizeuxis, conceited verses, and various rhetorical figures. The second book deals with the voice and gestures.
The King and all the Nobilitie did not a little marvel; for in his cheeks were holes, and therein small bones planted, which in his Countrey was reputed for a great braverie. The poor Brazilian monarch died on his voyage back, which made Hawkins fear for the life of Martin Cockeram, whom he had left in Brazil as a hostage.
She still carried her rifle; and was equipped just as I had seen her in the morning; but now, sharing the spirit of her steed and further animated by the exciting incidents, still in the act of occurrence her countenance exhibited a style of beauty, not the less charming from the wildness and braverie that characterised it.
There were women, too, mingled in the crowd seated and standing in every attitude gay and beautiful women, decked out in the finery of fashion, but with a certain braverie of manner that betokened their unfortunate character. D'Hauteville had guessed aright the game was at its height.
For they were so cruellie bent to our utter subversion and overthrow, that in the beginning it was lesse reproach to be accounted a slave than an Englishman, or a drudge in anie filthie businesse than a Britaine: insomuch that everie French page was superiour to the greatest Peere; and the losse of an Englishman's life but a pastime to such of them as contended in their braverie who should give the greatest strokes or wounds unto their bodies when their toiling and drudgerie could not please them or satisfie their greedie humours.
"And, as these fashions are diverse, so likewise it is a world to see the costlinesse and the curiositie: the excesse and the vanitie: the pomp and the braverie; the change and the varietie: and finallie the ficklenesse and the follie that is in all degrees: insomuch that nothing is more constant in England than inconstancie of attire." Each one aimed at making the best appearance.
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