well to hide the portrayture with your finger, or ſome Paper fitte to couer the fiue in the line you take leuell, to cauſe him to haue the more regarde to the ſhapes of the letters.
And when the learner doth know, and can name the Portraytures readily, you that teach, muſt take heede that you teach not your Scholler as you were taught. And firſt vnderſtand 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 muſt ſound no more of the portrayture which doth remember it, than the very ſound 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 ſo of the reſt 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 ſame ſoundes, you do find in their portraytures, without ſounding of any vowell before them). as may be thus: l-yon: M--ọul: N--ịdl: R--ing: and as they are ſounded when they are doubled in the middeſt of wordes, as in falling, Miller, ſounding 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 alſo after them, and therefore ought not to haue the name ſtayde with any of them, for that is to the learners hinderaunce, as much as may be: and it is as reaſonable to name the vowell with the helpe of any one or other Conſonant, as the Conſonant by the helpe of anye one or other vowell. And in teaching the breath .h. it ſignifieth nothing elſe but the putting forth of the pure breath without any maner of ſound , or other aſpiration: as in a--hh--a, or hạh: e--hh--e, or hẹh, and ſo of the reſt of the vowels and diphthongs. And for the .sh which I ſhape with one ſole figure thus .ʆ.⟨for⟩ ſh. ʆ. onely ⟨vſed⟩ and ⟨reason⟩ why. for that it commeth clearly with a breath, hard thruſt thorow the teeth, in drawing the tongue inward towards the vpper great teeth, without touching of the pallet, and ſo is an aſpiration 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 ſo ought to be taught of himſelfe as in a--ſhſh--a.
Now it is to bee noted, that one vowell, in euerye worde of one ſillable, where the pricke is not there vnder markt, for the longer time: that vowel is ſufficiently knowne to be ſhort, without dubbling of the following consonant. But in wordes of many ſillables, the ſhortneſs of the vowell, hath beene vſed to be notes, eyther with one conſonant dubbled, or by going before two diuers conſonant, and for the long time of vowels there is ſufficiently ſayde.
