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Rh Now truting you (that can read) know the due ounde and breath of thee foreayde .xi. letters, and that uch as may teach others know how to informe them therein. And when they fayle, let them turne backe to the portraytures, and proue whether they can fine their owne errors or not: if not readily, it is bet to helpe them to loe no time. Wherevnto as there ought to be regards, o alo ought you not to be ouer buie in helping of learners, but giue them always occaion to proue their owne wittes and memorie.

A illable is that word, or part of worde, which is poken roundly togither, without any tay of ounde: wherein is ounded at leat one pure and full vowell, with ome one cononant or more: but if it be with a cononant, and a emivocall, it is no full illable, though it eeme a illable. For as the l.m.n, and r, are of nature in maner poken with the ounde, or halfe ounde of the vowell: o when the peach doth ve them with one or two cononants without vowell, then they are not to be called illables, but halfe illables, which commonly come at the latter ende of wordes: and o ought to bee written, and may be read roundly all togither, as is ved in one illable: and therefore I doe not hereafter et any marke to note uch words for two illables.

Here follow the foreayd .xi. letters o as you may ee how illables may be made of themelues, which you may diuerifie to you Scholler at pleaure: eyther taking all the fiue vowels, firt in order with one breath or cononants, and o one after the other, ele firt with one vowell, to go ouer all the breathes and cononants, and o the ret. And may make illables eyther of two, three, or four letters.

I can not to often admonih the teacher to bee carefull in ounding of the letters, in their proper and onely breath and ound, or breath alone, imple or compound: pure and imple there are but two .h. and .ʆ. which are breathed, the firt without the helpt of tongue, lips or teeth, and the econd by thruting the breath thorow the teeth, without helpe of tongue or lippes, and the .vii. others I call iters (to b.d.g.ᵹ.v.∂. and .z. which for that they haue the inwarde ound I call the brethren) p.t.k.ɕ.f.†. and s, which are compounded with the breath, and the helpe of the lips, tongue or teeth, alwayes without any ound due to themelues: and o there are .ix. breathes, whereof two are pure and imple, and the .vij. others compoed as is ayde alwayes without any proper ounde.

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