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Show ,_ - Ofthe .Aduancement ofLearning, · tu~e ofWordes, as th~y arc: the foodl-=ppes and,· ·Frtnts of Rea(on: \'Vht~h .ktnde of w nato6ie be. tweene IV or de.~, and R_e~fiHJ ts handled ;rp~zr_;~rn, bro. , kenly, though not enurely :' .and therciore I cannot report it deficient, though I thinke it ·Jerie·vvonhy to be reduced-into aScience.by it {elfe. V~to GRAM M.AR a~Co bdongeth, as an Ap· pendtx, ·the ·confiderauon of the ;\ ccidents. ·of Wordes, which·are Meafure, found, and ~ 1euati .. .. on, or Accent, and the fweeteneffe and harfh. nelfe of .them : whence hath yffuc:d fo1ne curi. ous:-obferuations in .'R11ctoric!~e, but .chiefely P~tepe, as wee confider it, in .ref pea of the v erfe, and. no;. of the Argument: wherein though tn en in learned .''-Fongues,doe tye them[elues to the Ancient Meafures, yet in mod erne Languages, it feemeth to me as free to make newe Mea!l1res of Verles, as J - Daunces : For a Daunce is a meafured pace as . ·a Verfe is a meafured Speech • In thefe thi~ges .the Sence is better Iudge, than the Art. , · Ccen~ ferctt!a no(tr.e; · ,_ . · Mallem co1Jtlitti$, qrtam placuifcG,ocis. ·~ndof theferuite exprefsing v lntfqttitie in an vnltke and an vnfit: Subietl, it is well fayd, f4ttod tempore antiquum viderur, id inc Qngruit ate ejt 1'11/!Xi· me n1utem. ... For CYP.llARS ;t are commonly in Let.rers. ·!Z Alphabe!s, ~u~ may bee in ~or des . k" 7dh~ . · m_ e~ . 'The fecond~oo~. · 6x of C Y 1' ~ A ~{ s, (befldes the S 1M :P 1 s H A It s wuh Changes, and tntern1ixtures V L L E S' and N 0 N S'I G N I F I· T s) are many, according to the Na .. or Rule of the infoulding : w H E E L E· H A R s, K A y. c y P H A R s, 0 0 vs, &-c.. But the vertues of them' whereby are !o be pref~rred, are three ; that they be . K>us t~ wrtte and rea~e ; that they bee tblc t~ dtfcypher ; and tn fome cafes, that bee wuhout fufpition. The ·higheft De-whereof, is to. wr!te ·o M N 1 A p E R · N I A ; whtch 1s vndoubtedly pofsibie 'a . ion <l!:_tintuple at moll, of the wri~ mg? to the writing infoulded, and ~~ .... ~~ ...... refiratnte whatfoeuer. This Arte of , hath f~r Relatiue, an Art of Dtjc;phe- ; by fi1ppofinon vnprofitable ; but, as things great vfe. For ft1ppofe that C'lftArs were mannaged; there bee Multitudes of them exclude the Difcypherer. But in regarde rawne[e and vnskilfulnelTe of the hand es which ~hey paiie, the oreateft Mat~ e many times carryed in th~ weakeft cy- . '• .E~tmeration of thefe priuate and rety· ~..., ... l[ll , It may bee thought I feeke to make a Mttfter:R·owle of Sciences ; naminge fhewe and oflentation, and to littl~ o- IIKP~~"'- But lerte thofe which are skilfu.l l '.~q m |