The zajalesque rhyme-scheme (aa bbba [aa] ccca etc.) is further typical of the Portuguese and Italian songs with initial refrain and vuelta.

Presumably he is here alluding to the Stoic idea that the meaning of a concept-word can be split into a lectical and a real component. The lectical component is something conceptual.

Then to the pair, who speechless stood, he stretch'd A table-spread, bade each to hold an end, And with clear voice: As we, the Church's arm, With this estramacon do smite in twain The texture of this fabric (here he flash'd The blade between the two, cleaving the cloth), […]

A flourishing style of chirography is nowhere less in place than on a physician's prescription.