Ma.
Any of the vowels; a, e, i, o, u, as a-ny e-uill, I-doll, o uer-tur-neth, v-ni ty.
Schol.
But Sir, I sometime find two vowels to-ge-ther in one syl••able, what shall I doe with them.
Ma.
You must then call them a Dipthong, which is no∣thing else but a sound made of two vowels.
Schol.
Will any two vowels make a Dipthong?
*Teach, that any two vo∣wels that will make a perfect sound, is called a Dipthong.
Ma.
No, no••e that are fully soun-ded, but these: oi, ei, oi, au, eu, ou, oo, ee; as in say, either, coin, taught, eu eu-nuch, ought, good, feed. Which when you finde, you must joyne to∣ge-ther, ex cept in some proper names, as in Beer-she ba, Na∣tha-ni-el, so in see▪eth, agree-ing, and such words, where a syllable begins with (e or i) is added to a per-fect word en∣ding in (e) as see, a-gree, de-gree. But aa, oo, and such like, make no dipthongs, and therefore may not be ioyned.
Schol.
Yet doe I finde ia, ie, io, iu, va, ve, vi, vo, ioyned to∣ge ther, as in Iames, Iesus, ioyne, Iudas, va-lew, ve-ri-ly, vi∣sir, vow: I pray you, are they then no dipthongs.
Mast.
No, for i and v. ioy-ned with a vo-well in the be∣gin-ning of a syl-la-ble, are tur-ned from vo-wels in-to con∣so-nants, as A▪hi-iah.
Schol.
What meane you by a Consonant?
Mast.
I meane all the other let-ters ex-cept the vo-wels, which can spell nothing without one of the vo-wels: as take (e) out of strength, and strngth will spell nothing.
Schol.
Why Sir, (y) did euen now spell a word, yet is there in it none of the fiue vowels.
Ma.
Indéed (y) is often vsed for (i) when it is a vo-well; but when they be Con-so-nants, they differ: for (y) is also a Con-so-nant, when it is ioyned in the beginning of a syl-la∣ble with a vo-wel, as in yes, you: so iet dif-fe-reth from yet and such like.
Schol.
I pray you shew me the reason why in (like) which was the last word you vsed, and in many other before, you put in the end, which is not sounded.
Ma.
This letter in the end of a word not sounded, hath two principall vses. The first and chiefest is to draw the syl∣la-ble long: as he is made, mad.
A Mill dam. A ••••rewd dame.