before, hath vvithin ten houres teaching of ten days vvithout any reproachufull vvord, bin able to reade the laſt ſix leaues of this boke. though peraduenture you may shortly ſee the experience of it in a shorter tyme.
The inuention is ſuche, as if the figures vvith their letters, vver dravven on the vvalles, pillers, and poſtes of churches, tounes and houſes, they mought muche helpe and further the ignorant of al letters, to atteine to reade in the folovving maner, ſo as in cõtinuance, the parẽts and patrons, shold be able to teach their familie, and nurſes the children, as vvell as to go and ſpeake. And ſome one ſuch in a housſe, as novv can reade our preſent maner, may be able to teach it to all the reſt of the houſ, euen the vvhiles their handes may be othervvyſe vvell occupied, in vvoorking for their liuing, or othervviſe being idle or ſitting by the fyre, vvithout any further let or coſt. And though ther may be a maner of reformation vvith the figures of our letters accuſtomed, it can neuer anſvvere the proportion of our ſpeeche duly, and therfore neuer be certain, nor any thing neare ſo profitable for the ignorant of all letter: and vvould be as ſtrange and lothſom to the common learned, as the folovving maner is. VVherefore, to bring the commodities before vvritten to paſſe, vvhan if there vvere a vvhole croſſe crovve or a, b, c, deuised all of nevve letters, to helpe ſuche as can not be holpen by the former, and terby bring them to the ende pretended, vvhiche is to reade, it can not offende any reaſonable man. But as it should be moſte vnnaturally and cruelly done, for him that knovveth the meanes and order, to hide it and keepe it from them: ſo shall it be more ignorantely or maliciouſly doone, of them that condemne, taunte, or ſpeake euill of the thing they knovv not: therby to diſcourage the vvillyng, and preſumyng to ſaye, there can be no better vvay to the vvood than their fathers left them.
And further the deſirous VValshe and Irishe, maye be muche aduaunced thereby, to the true pronuntiation of our ſpeeche, vvhiche vvas neuer before this tyme preſented
