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 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. OF THE CONGRUITIE OF OUR BRITAN TONGUE. LIB. 2. OF THE PERSON. Cap. 1. 1. Al wordes q_uhi_lk we use to expresse our mynde are personal or impersonal. 2. A personal word is q_uhi_lk admittes diversitie of person. 3. Person is the face of a word, quhilk in diverse formes of speach it diverselie putes on; as, I, Peter, say that thou art the son of God. Thou, Peter, sayes that I am the son of God. Peter said that I am the son of God. 4. Quherupon person is first, second, and third. 5. The first person is of him that speakes; as, I wryte.