The oliue leafe: or, Vniuersall abce Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, and authoritie of letters: together with th'estimation, profit, affinitie or declination of them: for the familiar vse of all studentes, teachers, and learners of what chirography soeuer, most necessarie. By two tables, newly and briefly composed charactericall and syllabicall. Of Alexander Top Gent.
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The oliue leafe: or, Vniuersall abce Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, and authoritie of letters: together with th'estimation, profit, affinitie or declination of them: for the familiar vse of all studentes, teachers, and learners of what chirography soeuer, most necessarie. By two tables, newly and briefly composed charactericall and syllabicall. Of Alexander Top Gent.
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Top, Alexander.
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Imprinted at London :: By W. White for George Vincent, dwelling in great Woodstreete, at the signe fo the Hand in hand, where they are to be sold,
1603.
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Alphabet -- Early works to 1800.
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"The oliue leafe: or, Vniuersall abce Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, and authoritie of letters: together with th'estimation, profit, affinitie or declination of them: for the familiar vse of all studentes, teachers, and learners of what chirography soeuer, most necessarie. By two tables, newly and briefly composed charactericall and syllabicall. Of Alexander Top Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68824.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.
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Vnto the Author.
DIuine Conceite, I wish thy selfe hadst drawenThis Grammatique before it past to presse:It came to me as •…•… were by interception:And (as I thinke) not two lynes puncted right;Which (in so strange a subiect) would haue plundgdOu•• English Presse, and maz'de the Reader much.Something my hand hath done, but God knowes small:Good-will did it, and that was best of all.
O're this it restes (for here is Alpha sole,O mega (wants) thy selfe do adhibetThe Light it selfe, whose rayes we yet possesse:For we vnable farre to walke by this.Who knowes the things of Man, but sprite in Man?We well may guesse, but vnsure what thou meanes.This Ohue-leafe bringes tydinges of some Good:Set Noah out, for ceased is the Flood.
Who reuerenceth all Students of Holy-tongue
HENOCH CLAPHAM.
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