5. It may possesse the last syllab: as supprést, preténce, sincére; the
penult: as súbject, cándle, cráftie; the antepenult: as diffícultie,
mínister, fínallie; and the fourth also from the end, as is said sect.
2; as spéciallie, insátiable, díligentlie. In al q_uhi_lk, if a man
change the acce_n_t, he sall spill the sound of the word.

6. The grave accent is never noated, but onelie understood in al
syllabes quherin the acute and circumflex is not. Onlie, for difference,
sum wordes ar marked with it, thus `, leaning contrarie to the acute.

7. The circumflex accent both liftes and felles the syllab that it
possesseth, and combynes the markes of other tuae, thus ˆ. Of this we,
as the latines, hes almost no use. But the south hath great use of it,
and in that their dialect differes more from our’s then in other soundes
or symboles.

8. The use of the accent wil be of good importance for the right
pronu_n_ciation of our tongue, quhilk now we doe forte, non arte, and
conforming of the dialectes, q_uhi_lk, as I have said, differes most in
this.




OF THE APOSTROPHUS AND HYPHEN.

Cap. 10.


1. The learned printeres uses to symboliz apostrophus and hyphen as wel