"Of greater importance for my present argument is the fact that these Latin manuals began to be joined and even rivalled by a number of vernacular texts."
"since the plaintiff will be unable to defend his cause..."
"I have of course no complaint about this emphasis in itself,but a number of critics have in turn equated elocutio with the whole art of eloquence,speaking of 'Shakespeare's rhetoric'when they are merel referring to his wordplay and other verbal effects."