discourse

UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms

UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.

And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,

Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason

Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman.

Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse / Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how / We got the victory.