This anie eare may if he accent the
antepenult matr{i'}monie, or the penult matrim{o'}nie, or the last as
matrimon{i'}e.
3. Then to the purpose we have the same accentes q_uhi_lk the latin and
the greek hath, acute, circu_m_flex, and grave.
4. The acute raiseth the syllab quheron it sittes; as prof{e'}sse,
pr{o'}fit, {i'}mpudent.
5. It may possesse the last syllab: as suppr{e'}st, pret{e'}nce,
sinc{e'}re; the penult: as s{u'}bject, c{a'}ndle, cr{a'}ftie; the
antepenult: as diff{i'}cultie, m{i'}ister, f{i'}nallie; and the fourth
also from the end, as is said sect. 2; as sp{e'}ciallie, ins{a'}tiable,
d{i'}ligentlie. 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 ^. 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.
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