as a, b, c.

2. Apostrophus is the ejecting of a letter or a syllab out of one word
or out betuene tuae, and is alwayes marked above the lyne, as it wer a
com_m_a, thus ’.

3. Out of one word the apostrophus is most usual in poesie; as Ps. 73,
v. 3, for quhen I sau such foolish men, I grug’d, and did disdain; and
v. 19, They are destroy’d, dispatch’d, consum’d.

4. Betuene tuae wordes we abate either from the end of the former or the
beginni_n_g of the later.

5. We abate from the end of the former quhen it endes in a voual and the
next beginnes at a voual; as, th’ ingrate; th’ one parte; I s’ it, for I
see it.

6. In abating from the word following, we, in the north, use a
mervelouse libertie; as, he’s a wyse man, for he is a wyse man; I’l meet
with him, for I wil meet with him; a ship ’l of fooles, for a ship ful
of fooles; and this we use in our com_m_on language. And q_uhil_k is
stranger, we manie tymes cut of the end of the word; as, he’s tel the,
for he sal tel the.

7. This for apostrophus. Hyphen is, as it wer, a band uniting whol
wordes joined in composition; as, a hand-maed, a heard-man, tongue-tyed,
out-rage, foer-warned, mis-reported, fals-deemed.