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doth generally ork by certain aightes, meaures, proportions and coures, to the reonable hich do bet conider and oberue her order, do bring their orks to bet perfection. But uche as neuer came forth of hel, thinke there is none other heuẽ, and others hich take the fale tor the true, or the doubtful for certain, as beitched by Circes inchauntments, to hich ort the prouerb may be ell applied: the blynd can iudge no colors. and ho is blinder than uch as il not e? Thee be uch as haue bin trained in abue, her ith their ences are o imbued and intoxicate, as they il allo none other maner (be it neuer o reonable, profitable and certain) than that they haue ben traded in. herfore I do dedicate and direct this my trauail to you, hich I kno are bet able to be iudges therof. For lãguages hich are no no longer from the mother to the child, nor of long tyme ved vulgarly, but taught as it er by tepmothers & trange nures, can not be other than corrupted and aliened frõ the nature: o that the trauayled only in them, ith this our mother tong, are not ufficient censores in this matter. herfore thei may do el to be patient vntill they vnderstãd your opiniõs, or se hat experiẽce may do therin. And although I haue published an Orthographie, teaching the true riting of our English toung, I haue not vntill noe published the mote eay ay and order to teach the ame to be read. hich I haue done, vpon the consideration of the intentes of the firt inuentours of letters, (ho oeuer their ucceors Latins and others haue neglected it) hich is the reaon of the facilitie taught hereafter, and o caueth it it to be the more traunge, and therfore the more ubiecte Rh