t. Quhilk observation of
so noble a wit is most true in tongues q_uhi_lk he understud, the greek
and latin. But if Cicero had understud our tongue, he sould have hard
the accent in the fourth syllab from the end; as in m{a'}trimonie,
p{a'}trimonie, v{a'}dimonie, int{o'}llerable, int{e'}lligences, and
whole garrisones of lyke liverie. 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.

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 v