Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox.

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Title
Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox.
Author
Fox, George, 1624-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for Benjamin Clark ...,
1683.
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English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Early works to 1800.
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"Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40205.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

Pages

W

To weigh a Wey of Cheese in the high∣way.

Page 98

To wait upon a man; sold by weight.

If he were wise, he would wear warmer Cloathes; the Ware in a Shop.

Thou wast unwise to make so much waste.

He did wrest his wrist.

I wist not that he was there, but I wisht that he might be there.

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