Plain, brief, and pertinent rules, for the judicious and artificial syllabication of all English words, according to art, and the institution of the same tongue With directions for the use of the English syllabary, and the English monosyllabary, and the said rules of syllabication. / By Jo. Brooksbank.

Directions for the Exercise of the Higher Form.

WHen your Higher Form hath read their Rules of Syllabication, and somewhat understands them, let them learn to Syllabicate, which is to find out a word by its syllabls, which that they may do of themselves when they have occasion, let them exer∣cise as followeth; for an instance herein, I will take 2 verses, of the 4th Chapter of Proverbs,

13. Take fast hold of Instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.

23. Keep thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life.

Which is syllabicated in this manner, Take is a Mo∣nosyllabl, though there be two vowels, becaus e in the end of a word is not sounded, according to the 2 rule for vowels not sounded; and therefore there is a vowel more than Syllabls, according to the third ex∣ception, fast is a tetragram, hold is a tetragram, hould, not hold, because o before ld, hath the souud of ou, according to the 2d rule for spelling, Direct. p. 16. Instruction is a tetrasyllabl, because it hath four vow∣els, and no Exception: In- is the first syllabl, becaus n and s are two Consonants comming together, which cannot begin a word, and therefore cannot begin a syllabl, but must be divided, and the former

must begin the former syllabl and the latter must be∣gin the latter, according to the third rule of Divisio••; struc- is the second syllabl, becaus c, and t, are two consonants comming together, which cannot begin a word, and therefore cannot begin a syllabl, but must be divided, according to the same third Rule of Di∣vision, struck, not strus. because c, before e, i, or y, &c. as in the third Rule for spelling, Direc. p. 16. instruc: ti- is the third syllabl, because i, and o, are two vowels comming together, and no Diph∣thong, therefore they must be divided, and the for∣mer must end the former syllabl, and the latter must begin the latter, according to the first Rule of Divi∣sion: shi, not ti, becaus ti, before a vowel, hath usu∣ally the sound of shi, instructi on, is the last syllabl, Instruction, all the following Monosyllabls as before, Diligence is a Trissyllabl, though there are four vow∣els, because e, in the end of an English word is not sounded, according to the Rule for vowels not soun∣ded; therefore there must be a vowel more than syl∣labls, according to the third Exception: di, is the first Syllabl, because l is one consonant comming be∣twixt two vowels; therefore it must begin the follow∣ing syllabl, according to the second rule of Division, dili-gence is the last syllabl: jence, not guence, becaus g, after d, and before e, i, and y, &c. gense, not genke becaus c, before e, i, or y, &c. diligence, and so the rest. These are all the Directions I can as yet give, by reason mine Abcedary is not yet made publick,

wherein this form and the highest are to be perfected in reading the hardest English can be gathered out of History, Divine, or Prophane, and all other Lear∣ning; as also to be taught the first part of Arithme∣tick, with the Derivations and Compositions in our Mother Tongue and learning to write the same: only there is one Exercise more to be generally used amongst all your Scholars, at such time as you shall find fit, which is to hear all your Scholars spell all Monosyllabls, by the help of the Table of spelling; which Table, and the use thereof followeth.