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Rh to obloquie, though holly ithout caue. As by the example foloing may partly appere. As our english Saxons out of doubt did, o at this day the Germain vpper and nether, the Italian and the Spanyard to teach the, h, ith this voyce Hah, or ha, and am peruaded that no nation, doth teach it ith o little reaon as e do, and yet ee are as it ere drovned in the error, hich came to our predeceours in maner folloing. The French (hich the Normans in the time of the conquet pake, and is lefte in our cõmmon laes at this daye) in teaching their letters, they remember their cholers of certain things, after the order of the portraytures no taught hereafter, and for the, d, they note vng deel, in english a thimble: & for h, vn hache in english a hachet. herof it commeth, that our predeceours of long tyme haue abued to call it ache, by ignorance of the inuention, leauing out the firt h, hoe office and qualitie shoulde be as ell expreed vnto vs, by the names of chalke or cheee, as by the name of ache, as shall be further ayd in the preface hereafter: And the like reaon is there in teaching the mot of our letters, and abusing them o diuerly, as it bringeth to the lerner, rather cõfusion than help. hich I find as reaonable, as if a nure should take in hand to teach a child, to go firt vpon high pattens or tiltes, or vpon a coarde, or on the hands, before he should be taughte as the narurall and reaonable order is: alledging that hen he can go o, he shall be the urer of foot all his life. If our preent maner of teaching be by experience proued to be of lyke reaon to this, ho can it be maynteined for good? But the reaon of the foloing order is uche, as the reaonable from .xij. to .lx. yeares old may ith eae and pleaure learned to read in a very short time, ome in more, ome lee, according to the naturall dipoition, hiche is from .xij. to .xxx more enclined to learned, than euer before or after. and yet one of :lx: and vpards, may el and eaily learne it. It ould be thought a traunge matter, or a playn lye, if I should rite that one hich neuer knee letter Rh