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Rh well to hide the portrayture with your finger, or ome Paper fitte to couer the fiue in the line you take leuell, to caue him to haue the more regarde to the hapes of the letters.

And when the learner doth know, and can name the Portraytures readily, you that teach, mut take heede that you teach not your Scholler as you were taught. And firt vndertand you, that the pricke which I write vnder euery vowell as ạ, is worth aa: and ẹ, ee: ị, ii: ọ, oo: ụ, uu. and in teaching the letter or naming it, you mut ound no more of the portrayture which doth remember it, than the very ound of the letter, as may be thus Of Aple, ạ: of eare, ẹ: of eele, ị: of oke-leafe, ọ: and of wood-cock, ụ. And o of the ret as of Lion (you may not name the l. m. n. nor r. as you haue bene taught, calling them el, em, en, er: but giue them the ame oundes, you do find in their portraytures, without ounding of any vowell before them). as may be thus: l-yon: M--ọul: N--ịdl: R--ing: and as they are ounded when they are doubled in the middet of wordes, as in falling, Miller, ounding them alone, as maye be of ll. in fa--ll--ing, and Mi--ll--er. So of m, as of Ha--mm--on: of n, as in Ta--nn--er. of r, as in fu--rr--ed, nothing touching any vowell: for they are indifferent for all vowels and dipthongs, both before, and alo after them, and therefore ought not to haue the name tayde with any of them, for that is to the learners hinderaunce, as much as may be: and it is as reaonable to name the vowell with the helpe of any one or other Cononant, as the Cononant by the helpe of anye one or other vowell. And in teaching the breath .h. it ignifieth nothing ele but the putting forth of the pure breath without any maner of ound, or other apiration: as in a--hh--a, or hạh: e--hh--e, or hẹh, and o of the ret of the vowels and diphthongs. And for the .sh which I hape with one ole figure thus .ʆ. for that it commeth clearly with a breath, hard thrut thorow the teeth, in drawing the tongue inward towards the vpper great teeth, without touching of the pallet, and o is an apiration differing from the former, and nothing framed with the .s. for that the z. and s. are framed in the mouth, the tongue filling the pallet, and touching of all the vpper teeth. And o ought to be taught of himelfe as in a--hh--a.

Now it is to bee noted, that one vowell, in euerye worde of one illable, where the pricke is not there vnder markt, for the longer time: that vowel is ufficiently knowne to be hort, without dubbling of the following consonant. But in wordes of many illables, the hortnes of the vowell, hath beene ved to be notes, eyther with one cononant dubbled, or by going before two diuers cononant, and for the long time of vowels there is ufficiently ayde. Rh