For LETTERS, we haue C more then the Greekes, K and Y more then
the Latines, and W more then them both, or then the French
and Italians.
In those common to them and us, we have the use of the Greek B in
our V, of our B they haue none; so have we of their [uppercase lambda]
and [uppercase theta] in our Th, which in the wordes that and things
expresseth both; but of our D they haue none. Likewise their T we
turn to another use in yield, than they can; and as for E,G, and J,
neither Greekes nor Latines can make use of them as we doe in
these Words, each, edge, joy. True it is, that we in pronouncing the
Latine use them also after this manner; but the same, in regard of
the ancient and right Romane deliuerie, altogether abusively; as may
appear by Scaliger, Sir Thomas Smith, Lipsius, and others.
Now, for the Significance of WORDS, as every Indiuiduum is but one,
so in our native English-Saxon Language, we find many of them suitably
expressed by one Sillable: Those consisting of more are borrowed
from other Nations; the Examples are infinite, and therefore I will
omit them as sufficiently notorious.
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