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Rh them: for our preent maner is as vnfitte to helpe them in any ye, as the Frenche preent maner of Cacographie, is vnfyt to help vs, to the true pronunciation of the french. hiche toungs, ere neuer ell learned by any traunger, excepte it ere by the lyuely voyce, and that eldome if it be not in youth: hyles the tongue is mot pliable, and the itte mot pregnante and inclined to peeche. And in lyke maner, by the ame certaintie and order, ee may be able to rite read and pronoũce their peaches, as they do: muche better and eayer, than by their one maner of rityng: hich as neuer nor coulde be doone, by our preent abued maner.

And for the cruple than ome may haue, that it shoulde not be lauful to teache and imprint any other maner, than that hich is generally receyued, they may be hereby certified, that it is authoried, according to the order of the iniunction, that all bookes in the former maner, may alo be imprinted in this maner. Thus you may ee my il is good, though my poer be little, and therfore I doo put you in remembraunce, hiche doo acknoledge our abue, and deire the reformation thereof, to shee your zeale vnto your countrey, and to put your helping handes, to the furtheraunce of o greate and good a oorke: that the deyrous no rude, neede not to doubt the ant of bookes in the folloing maner; for their ve: hich is no their only dicouragyng and tay: aying, hen ee haue learned that (hauing no more bookes for our exercie) ee are neuer the better. But if there ere imprinted for them, the palter, ith the order of morning and euening prayer, and the ne tetament, there are many a thouand el dipoed creatures in England, old be mot glad to lerne it: hich are out of all hope otherise, euer to be able to reade. and they and their like, shalbe bounde to pray God, for your and your ucceion, to the orlds end. ritten in London, the xviij. of December. 1570.