Now truſting you (that can read) know the due ſounde and breath of theſe foreſayde .xi. letters, and that ſuch as may teach others know how to informe them therein. And when they fayle, let them turne backe to the portraytures, and proue whether they can fine their owne errors or not: if not readily, it is beſt to helpe them to loſe no time. Wherevnto as there ought to be regards, ſo alſo ought you not to be ouer buſie in helping of learners, but giue them always occaſion to proue their owne wittes and memorie.
Of ſillables.
A ſillable is that word, or part of worde, which is ſpoken roundly togither, without any ſtay of ſounde: wherein is ſounded at leaſt one pure and full vowell, with ſome one conſonant or more: but if it be with a conſonant, and a ſemivocall, it is no full ſillable, though it ſeeme a ſillable. For as the l.m.n, and r, are of nature in maner ſpoken with the ſounde, or halfe ſounde of the vowell: ſo when the ſpeach doth vſe them with one or two conſonants without vowell, then they are not to be called ſillables, but halfe ſillables, which commonly come at the latter ende of wordes: and ſo ought to bee written, and may be read roundly all togither, as is vſed in one ſillable: and therefore I doe not hereafter ſet any marke to note ſuch words for two ſillables.
Here follow the foreſayd .xi. letters ſo as you may ſee how ſillables may be made of themſelues, which you may diuerſifie to you Scholler at pleaſure: eyther taking all the fiue vowels, firſt in order with one breath or conſonants, and ſo one after the other, elſe firſt with one vowell, to go ouer all the breathes and conſonants, and ſo the reſt. And may make ſillables eyther of two, three, or four letters.
I can not to often admoniſh the teacher to bee carefull in ſounding of the letters, in their proper and onely breath and ſound, or breath alone, ſimple or compound: pure and ſimple there are but two .h. and .ʆ. which are breathed, the firſt without the helpt of tongue, lips or teeth, and the ſecond by thruſting the breath thorow the teeth, without helpe of tongue or lippes, and the .vii. others I call ſiſters (to b.d.g.ᵹ.v.∂. and .z. which for that they haue the inwarde ſound I call the brethren) p.t.k.ɕ.f.†. and s, which are compounded with the breath, and the helpe of the lips, tongue or teeth, alwayes without any ſound due to themſelues: and ſo there are .ix. breathes, whereof two are pure and ſimple, and the .vij. others compoſed as is ſayde alwayes without any proper ſounde.
