before, hath within ten houres teaching of ten days without any reproachufull word, bin able to reade the laſt ſix leaues of this boke. though peraduenture you may shortly ſee the experience of it in a shorter tyme.
The inuention is ſuche, as if the figures with their letters, wer drawen on the walles, pillers, and poſtes of churches, tounes and houſes, they mought muche helpe and further the ignorant of al letters, to atteine to reade in the folowing maner, ſo as in cõtinuance, the parẽts and patrons, shold be able to teach their familie, and nurſes the children, as well as to go and ſpeake. And ſome one ſuch in a houſe, as now can reade our preſent maner, may be able to teach it to all the reſt of the houſ, euen the whiles their handes may be otherwyſe well occupied, in woorking for their liuing, or otherwiſe being idle or ſitting by the fyre, without any further let or coſt. And though ther may be a maner of reformation with the figures of our letters accuſtomed, it can neuer anſwere the proportion of our ſpeeche duly, and therfore neuer be certain, nor any thing neare ſo profitable for the ignorant of all letter: and would be as ſtrange and lothſom to the common learned, as the folowing maner is. wherefore, to bring the commodities before written to paſſe, whan if there were a whole croſſe crowe or a, b, c, deuised all of newe letters, to helpe ſuche as can not be holpen by the former, and terby bring them to the ende pretended, whiche is to reade, it can not offende any reaſonable man. But as it should be moſte vnnaturally and cruelly done, for him that knoweth the meanes and order, to hide it and keepe it from them: ſo shall it be more ignorantely or maliciouſly doone, of them that condemne, taunte, or ſpeake euill of the thing they know not: therby to diſcourage the willyng, and preſumyng to ſaye, there can be no better way to the wood than their fathers left them.
And further the deſirous walshe and Irishe, maye be muche aduaunced thereby, to the true pronuntiation of our ſpeeche, whiche was neuer before this tyme preſented
