The Arte of English Poesie, page 149 by George Puttenham
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ry of them asmuch. And as we setting forth her Maiesties regall petigree said in this figure of [Single supplie.] _Her graundsires Father and Brother was a King
Her mother a crowned Queene, her Sister and her selfe._
Whereas ye see this one Word [was] serues them all in that they require but one congruitie and sence.
[Sidenote: Prozeugma, or the Ringleader.]
Yet hath this figure of [Single supply] another propertie, occasioning him to change now and then his name: by the order of his supplie, for if it be placed in the forefront of all the seuerall clauses whom he is to serue as a common seruitour, then is he called by the Greeks Prozeugma, by vs the Ringleader: thus
_Her beautie perst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart; Her presence all the powers of my discourse. &c._
Where ye see this one word [perst] placed in the foreward, satisfieth both in sence & congruitie all those other clauses that followe him.
[Sidenote: Mezozeugma, or the Middlemarcher.]
And if such word of supplie be placed in the middle of all such clauses as he serues: it is by the Greeks called Mezozeugma, by us the [Middlemarcher] thus:
_Faire maydes beautie (alack) with yeares it weares away, And with wether and sicknes, and sorrow as they say._
Where ye see this word [weares] serues one clause before him, and two clauses behind him, in one and the same sence and congruitie. And in this verse,
Either the troth or talke nothing at all.
Where this word [talke] serues the clause before and also behind.
[Sidenote: Hypozeugma, or the Rerewarder.]
But if such supplie be placed after all the clauses, and not before nor in the middle, then is he called by the Greeks Hypozeugma, and by vs the [Rerewarder] thus:
_My mates that wont, to keepe me companie
And my neighbours, who dwelt next to my wall
The friends that