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So as if we should intreate our maker to play also the Orator, and whether it be to pleade, or to praise, or to advise, that in all three cases he may utter and also perswade both copiously and vehemently . Puttenham was writing in the same age and with the same tradition which defined Rhetoric as the art of ornament in speech.
Witnes, gratious heaven, Who, were you not offended at some sinn I have unwittingly comitted, would Send sacred innocence it selfe to pleade How much 'tis iniurd in me, that with zeale Above the love of mothers I have tendred This misinformd man. Bon. I shall grow childish, too; my passions strive For my dead love to keepe my greife alive. Actus Secundus. Enter Sucket, Crackbie, Grimes. Gr.
Slight as this is, it hints at the rhetoric of Ovid and the declamation schools. The poet is "to pleade by example." He is making a speech to his mistress trying to prove to her his undying passion that she may grant him the ultimate favor. The genre is the same that includes the Epistles of Ovid and the Love Letters of Aristenetus. It is the genre of versified speech-making.
His only reference to either example or allegory is in a passage where he recommends methods of avoiding triteness in the praise of his mistress. If I should disclose my pretence in love, I would eyther make a strange discourse of some intollerable passion, or finde occasion to pleade by the example of some historie, or discover my disquiet in shadowes per Allegoriam.
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