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wardes the latter ende of the euenth Chapter, of my Treatie of the Englih Orthographie, published in June. . I declared opinion, in teaching of letters, where I alo profeed, if I did et forth an A. B. C. for teaching of the rude, I would follow his councell, which I doe hereafter very neare. And although it hath appeared by my ayde Treatie, that we maye write certainely and well without the doubling of cononants for the hortnee of the voel before them, yet for that it doth none otherwie import but for the twie writing of them, I doe ve them hereafter doubled: and thinke it ufficient that men may ee, what our prediceors might very well haue done. And for the, l, apired, for the which Welhmen and Spanyardes doe ue the, ll, For our Englih tongue, the, l, without any mark for the apiration, may ufficiently erue, after the folowing maner of teaching: but otherwie not. And therefore, I ve hereafter no marke for the l, apired. Which yet hould be very meete for any man that would write the Welh. As by the way of patime, I haue done from a Welhmans mouth, though I vndertood no worde thereof, and did reade it againe to him, and diuers others of that language, o as one amongt them (which knew me not) ayde vnto the ret in Welh, that I coulde peake Welh o well as he. But the ret knowing the contrary, laughing tolde me what he ayde, whom I forthwith certified, that I did it, by an order and certaine knowledge what I did write, and not by any acquaintance with the tongue. The like haue I done of the Irihe, and may as eaily doe of the Barbarian, or Ruian peaches, or any other o traunge as they, hearing them ditinctly poken. And though I ve not their letters or maner of writing, I would well hope o to write, as at any time thereafter eeing it, I hould be able to reade and pronounce it againe, euen as he that I heard it of, pake it vnto me. And I haue of late experi- Rh