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CHAP. IX. Directions for making the foresaid marks, and placing the vowels in long words. (Book 9)

IN making your Characters, begin them so that you take not off the pen unlesse it be in those that cannot other∣wise be made.

Secondly, the most of them are so framed, that you may end them toward the right hand, that so with more con∣venience the next letter may be joyned if it be to be joyned.

Thirdly, the next consonant or mark is to be joyned where you last took off the pen from the former.

The vowels in long words are to be placed about the last letter, if it bee a word that goeth forward in the line; as to write contemn, write con thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], joyne t thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], and then set m dis∣joyned in the place of e against t thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], not against con thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉]. To write disdain, write dis thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], joyne d thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], and then set n in the vowels place against d thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], not against dis thus [〈☐…〉〈☐…〉], &c.

Those markes for ending of words

that begin with a vowell, are common∣ly to be joyned to the former mark or letter: as in these,

durable

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

nation

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

bring

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

and such like.

Unlesse there come another Vowell before them, and then the marke is to be set dis-joyned in the place of the for∣mer vowell: as in these,

doing

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

pliable

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

pious

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

and such like.

The character for s after some letters in the end of words cannot convenient∣ly bee joyned; therefore in stead of it write a tittle behind the whole word: as in these,

sayings

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

servants

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

conserves

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉

pirates

〈☐…〉〈☐…〉