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Rh and that other, and ome will ay and write, my tother, and thy tother: we ve to ay, commaundment, why hould we be bounde to write it as the Frenche worde is poken commaundement, and infinite others which I doe omit at this time. Nowe calling to mind what hath bene ayde for wordes, euen the like may be as iutly ayd of letters: for they are minamed much from their offices and natures, whereby the deirous are much the more hindered from learning to reade, though they were neuer o willing. For by the former maner the more reaon a man or woman hath, the latter, and with more trauaile and paine hal he or he learne it. And by this following order, the reaonable will delite therein, for that the eye, the tongue, and the eare, may altogether find it to frame with reaon: which is the mother and roote of all ciences and mans workers. And by how much reaon wanteth in any of them, o much doe they want of their perfection. As for example by part of our letters, wherby you may undertand the like of mot of the ret. For H. what reaon is it to call it ache which we peak when we would expree the griefe of braine, fleh, or bone, and ay and write heade ache, &c. where as the nature and office of H. is to signifie the only putting forth of the breath, before or after the pure voyces callde vowels. So as in teaching a reaonable man, ignorant of letters, as they are now accutomed, and ake him how oundeth in his care which is now taught by pelling, whereby they mut make that which is not giuen by the name of the letter to ounde t, h, r, he will aunwere teacher, for o are your letters taught, as might be thus, te, ache, er, which oundes iutly, as you teache thoe letters to be named. But you will ay, he must know what it pelles, which pelling is as reaonable, as to ay, a Woodcocke, a Snite, and a Curlue, doe make a preent of Godwittes: yet though they haue all long bils, they differ in hape and tate, and ought to kéepe till their owne names, o long as their naturall proportion is eene, and o of the ret. It is a ophiticall maner of teaching when the letters apart must be named in one ort, and being put togither, in another, it is a maner of Metamorpois, or worke of, o to tran- Rh