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Stimulated by the present of a Tobe, he composed a song in honor of the pilgrim: I will offer a literal translation of the exordium, though sentient of the fact that modesty shrinks from such quotations. "Formerly, my sire and self held ourselves songsters: Only to day, however, I really begin to sing.
After an artful exordium, in which he tried to disarm the suspicions which he felt must be entertained of him, and to point out to the Spartans how completely his interests and theirs were identified, through hatred of the Athenian democracy, he thus proceeded: "Hear me, at any rate, on the matters which require your grave attention, and which I, from the personal knowledge that I have of them, can and ought to bring before you.
'And now, sir, said Venus, 'having prepared your mind in the rough, I will articulate the details. With which brief professional exordium, he entered on the history of the friendly move, and truly recounted it.
If you doubt the steadiness of your discretion now declare it, and save yourself from the infamy, and the fatal consequences, which may attend a breach of your oath; if, on the contrary, you believe yourself capable of a strict integrity now accept the terms, and receive the secret I offer. Ferdinand was awed by this exordium the impatience of curiosity was for a while suspended, and he hesitated whether he should receive the secret upon such terms.
As exordium to the whole, stand here the following long citation: "Who am I; what is this ME? A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance; some embodied, visualized Idea in the Eternal Mind? Cogito, ergo sum. Alas, poor Cogitator, this takes us but a little way. Sure enough, I am; and lately was not: but Whence? How? Whereto?
The style of the exordium ought not to be like that of the argument proper and the narration, neither ought it to be finely spun out, or harmonized into periodical cadences, but, rather, it should be simple and natural, promising neither too much by words nor countenance.
Such-like greetings, together with a dead cat which was flung at him from the crowd, and which he dexterously parried with his stick, were the answers which he received to this exordium. "Yes," said he, quite undismayed by this little missile which had so nearly reached him: "that's me.
With tremendous exordium of brass, the tenor and baritone go at it with a will, showing off the power of their voices, following each other in canonic imitation, singing together in thirds and sixths, and finishing with a lurid unison, quite in the manner of Ruy Gomez and Ernani, or Othello and Iago.
But instead of slackening pace the chain of lighted carriages swept past him, and, gathering speed, wound away into the desolate night. Rallywood looked after it with a sense of blankness. The Chancellor's exordium and the Duke's remarks had rather primed him to a state of expectation, and he felt as if he had been balked of he knew not what.
As soon as the Court broke up, I burst into Mill's room, boiling over with indignation, and exclaiming, "What an infamous shame!" and no doubt adding a good deal more that followed in natural sequence on such an exordium. "What's the matter?" replied Mill as soon as he could get a word in. The petition was the joint work of and myself." "How can you be so perverse?" I retorted.
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