them: for our preſent maner is as vnfitte to helpe them in any vvyſe, as the Frenche preſent maner of Cacographie, is vnfyt to help vs, to the true pronunciation of the french. vvhiche toungs, vvere neuer vvell learned by any ſtraunger, excepte it vvere by the lyuely voyce, and that ſeldome if it be not in youth: vvhyles the tongue is moſt pliable, and the vvitte moſt pregnante and inclined to ſpeeche. And in lyke maner, by the ſame certaintie and order, vvee may be able to vvrite read and pronoũce their ſpeaches, as they do: muche better and eaſyer, than by their ovvne maner of vvrityng: vvhich vvas neuer nor coulde be doone, by our preſent abuſed maner.
And for the ſcruple than ſome may haue, that it shoulde not be lauful to teache and imprint any other maner, than that vvhich is generally receyued, they may be hereby certified, that it is authoriſed, according to the order of the iniunction, that all bookes in the former maner, may alſo be imprinted in this maner. Thus you may ſee my vvil is good, though my povver be little, and therfore I doo put you in remembraunce, vvhiche doo acknovvledge our abuſe, and deſire the reformation thereof, to shevve your zeale vnto your countrey, and to put your helping handes, to the furtheraunce of ſo greate and good a vvoorke: that the deſyrous novv rude, neede not to doubt the vvant of bookes in the follovving maner; for their vſe: vvhich is novv their only diſcouragyng and ſtay: ſaying, vvhen vvee haue learned that (hauing no more bookes for our exerciſe) vvee are neuer the better. But if there vvere imprinted for them, the pſalter, vvith the order of morning and euening prayer, and the nevv teſtament, there are many a thouſand vvel diſpoſed creatures in England, vvold be moſt glad to lerne it: vvhich are out of all hope othervvise, euer to be able to reade. and they and their like, shalbe bounde to pray God, for your and your ſucceſſion, to the vvorlds end. VVritten in London, the xviij. of December. 1570.
