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the expressing of particular words: And in other Countries, Those who have made voyages to, & for some time sojourned in the East-Indies, have credibly informed us, That the Inhabitants of China, (a mighty Kingdom or Empire there) do at this Day, use Thirty Thousand Significant Characters, for the expressing of any thing they write; and that the Japansers and some Neighbouring Ilanders, though they know not their Language, yet understand they their Characters and Traffic with them. And if these could learn and understand so many, How much better may the weakest of Learners with us, attain and practice so few as these, being (all of them) but 200 and odde; and especially having so great dependance also on the letters of the Alphabet, as was shewed before: yet for the further helping of such to learn them, who have but a very weak memory, I shall here insert this Direction.

Write down so many words as begin with one Letter, with their Characters: then write over the Characters half a dozen times, and try to read them without the Words, Those you know not, look to see, And thus do till you are perfect in all.

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Secondly, The Symbolical Significants are
such as have a Resemblance, or Reason in the ve-
ry Form and Figure of them, of what they fig-
nifie, To learn which, there neederh no pains
at all; for the very Hearing or Reading of the
Symbolical Relation betwixt these words and
their Characters, (which shall be added in the
close of the 10th Chapter,) will be sufficient to
imprint these Significants firmly in your minde.
Now these Symbolical Words are, viz. Alone,
Alittle &c. p. 7 M. M. (3) Besides these,
there are the Significants contained in the Pre-
positions and Terminations which you have be-
fore learned, p. 7. NN. (4) There are also
Litteral-Significants for the several Books of
Scripture, as Gen. Exod. &c. p. 9. 0. 0, which
being framed of the letters, and written short,
according to Rule, are therefore little or no
charge to the Memory. (5) There are likewise
Significants for useful Clauses and Sentences,
both Litteral and Simbolicall: As Nevertheless,
&c. p. 9. P. P. Which Significants for Clauses
and Sentences, have either (1) The Resemblance
of the words they signifie: or (2) Are Extracted
from the Letters of the Alphabet: or (3) Con-
tain in them, the Principal Words of the Re-
spective-Phrases, Clauses or Sentences, signified

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by them: As, Kingdom-Chrift, for The Kingdom of Chrift: Torments-Hell, for The Torments of Hell, &c. So are soone learned.—Yet Observe here, that you are to learn no more of these Significant for Clauses and Sentences, then you have frequent occasion to use. And you may make or adde unto these, any other Significant Characters for such words, Phrases and Sentences, as in your Place, Calling, Employment, Trade or Profession, you shall have occasion most frequently to make use of. So any Familiar Names of things, confifting of more words then one, or any Familiar Clause or Sentence which you frequently use, may fitly be expreft by the firft letters of two or three of the firft words: as (NP) for NisfPrius, (DP) for Dedimus Potestatem, (CCC) for Corpus Cum Causa, (TCO) for The Coherence of these words with the former, standeth thus, (LVN) for Let us Now make some Use or Application of this to our selves, &c. or such like, as in the aforeaid Example. Only note, that every man, according to his Profession, must make and keep a Table of such Words, Clauses and Sentences, as he would thus signifie, that so if he should at any time doubt what the letters do signifie, he may immediately know by his Table.

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Now touching the Significants aforesaid, you
may further Chferve, in the Tables of them,
(1) That I have set some Characters for whole
Words, which before stood but for parts of words:
as there is the Character of (tifie) for (Chrift)
(Vn) for (Union) &c. as p. 17. G. G.—All
which may with facility be distinguished thus:
When any of these stand alone by themselves,
they are whole words, but when they are joyn-
ed with any other letters, they are but a part: As
for instance, this Termination, tifie (+) being
written alone by it selfe is (Chrift) but when it
is joyned with other letters to make up a word,
it is (tifie) a part of a word (as Mortifie, Certifie,
Rattifie, &c p. 15. N.N. & Q.Q.) and so of
the rest. All which are no hindrance, but rather
a Helpe to the Learner; for by remembring the
one, he cannot forget the other. (2) Although
some Characters here may seem much alike (one
to another) yet there is a plain and manifest dif-
ference, (if it be considered) either in their Fi-
gure or Placing, or Proportion. (1) In their
Figure, as Burden, Would, &c. p. 17. H. H.
(2) In their Placing, as Hee, Have, &c. p. 18.
1.1. (3) In their Proportion, as Able, Table,
&c. p. 18 K. K. (4) Note, That the distance
of Significants one from another, must be about

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the space that is betwixt ordinary letters printed, as thus, (Marke the Perfect man, and be hold the upright, &c.) p.18. L.L.

## CHAP. IX.

Of above 40. several and distinct Wayes, Rules, Methods, Examples, and Instances, For the yet further Abreviation and Contraction both of Words, Clauses, and Sentences.

First, Note, That many words may be understood when the vowels are not expressed, some of the Consonants themselves having been found also of the vowels in them, as (B.V-Consonant, R.L.M.N. & X, have the sound of Bee, You, Are, Ell, Em, En, & Ex:) Hence as the letter E, being writ alone, or by it selfe may well serve to expresse the word Bee, and the letter V, the word You, so likewise the letter R, writ by it selfe, may serve to express the word ARE: and the letters CR, the word (CARE) and

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and the letters DR, the word (DEARE,) and
so very many words more ( without their vow-
ellis) may be thus understood and expreſt, onely
by their Conſonants, as p. 19. M.M. (2) In
many ſhort words, [the latter Conſon. nt may
be (not disjoyn'd as before, but) joyn'd or af-
fixt to the former Conſonant in the vowels
place,] where by the labour of taking the hand
often from the paper, may be very much ſpared,
as *Beare*; *But, &c.* p.19; N.N. (3) For (ve)
in the end of any English word, wherein a vowel
goes before (you may only write a tittle in that
foregoing vowels place) and so you may inge-
niously expreſſe very many words also: As firſt,
*These, viz.* Above, Atcheeve, &c. p. 19. O. O.
Secondly, *These Dive, Heave, &c.* p. 20. P.P.
Thirdly, *These, viz.* Dove, Drive&c, p.20.
*QQ. Objeſtion; But how ſhall I know, (in the
ſecond Ex.ample here) Dive from Die? Heave
from He, &c? and (in the third Example) Dove
from Doe? Drive from Drie? &c. being writ-
ten alike? Answer; For thoſe in the firſt Ex-
ample, they may be so written, there being no
other English words written like them.(2) thoſe
in the Second Ex.ample, may be so written alſo,
becauſe for thoſe words (*Die, He, Lie and
The*) there are Significants in the aforeſaid Ta-
bles.

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bles. (3) For thofe in the laft Example, They
in like manner may be so written: Seeing the
words written like them, are quite otherwise in
fence, and so may be known in reading (without
any confusion) by the fense of the matter; But if
this satisfie not one of a Dull apprehenſion, He
may write the words in this third and laft Ex-
ample, by expreffing the Character of V, ac-
cording to the former Rules. (4) Because in
some Discourses, you may have occasion to
write one and the fame Long Word, 40.60. or
100 times over: therefore Some part of ſuch
words may be omitted, and yet no hindrance to
the reading of them; so you may write for
Accomplifh, Accomp: for Tranſubstantiation,
Tranſub, &c. as p. 10,11. T. T. (5) For the plu-
ral Number, in ſwift-writing it need not to be
exprefſt; but when there is need of expreffing
it, then if the Character of ( s ) cannot conveni-
ently be joyned, ( put a tittle behinde the whole
word, to note it) as Gods, &c. p. 11. V. V. Or
elſe (you may add the Character of (es) after or
over the word,) as Promiſes, &c. p. 11. W. W.
(6) Because in ſpeedy writing we expreſſe only
the primitive part of a word, for the Derivative:
Therefore [one Significant ( in the Tables a-
foreſaid) may ſignifie two or three words, if
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they be all of the same beginning; ] as in Admonish, Admonishing, &c. p. 11. X.X. (7) Personall Terminations, a. (es, eſt, eth,) may alſo be omitted, ( seeing the Person is alwayes expreſt with the Verbe in the English-Tongue) as in Declareth, ſhouldeſt, dwells, &c. p.20 R.R. (8) Litteral or Syllabical Adjeſtions are to be omitted: as for Thine owne, Mine owne, An High Honour, &c. write Thy owne, My owne, A High Honour, &c. So in Poetry, [ And thou Melpomne Helpen to Endite: These wofull lines which weepen as I write ] write Melpome, Help, Weepe: So in the Latine Tongue, In Adefdum, Numnam, omit dum, and nam, &c. (9) The ending of words may be omitted, when the writing is in Rime: and the end of the line anſwers in found, the end of ſome fore-going line, as thus,

Such who do all their Life live fearfully;
The Lord can cauſe to die most Ch—

He ſeares no Puniſhment who is Aſſured
Before he Dies, his Pardon is Proc—

5 Properties there are Wine's Praise Advancing,
Strong, Beautiful, and Fragrant, Coole, & D—

(10) Longer Words, and also other
words, may be written very ſhort by the

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Significants aforesaid: As [Abundant, super-
abundant, super Excellent, Faithful, Faithfulness,
Righteousness, By the Significants, Abound, Ex-
cellent, Faith, Righteous: So Confound Prolong,
Dislike, Mislike, Invoyce, Friendship: By Found,
Long, Like, Voyce, Friend: So Remember, Establish,
Almost, Humane, Immanuel: By Member, Sta-
blish, most, man: So Disbonour, Displace, Dis-
charge, Discountenance, Unpeople: By Honour,
Place, Charge, Countenance, People: So Admini-
stration, Cohabbitation, Conclusion, Glorification,
Premeditation: By Minister, Habbit, Conclude,
Glory, Meditate:] writing the rest, besides the
particular Significant, by spelling Charadtery,
and according to the former Rules, as in the Ex-
ample for this, p.20,21, S.S. (11) When double
Words are to be written, [we write the firft
word, and only a letter, two or three of the fe-
cond,] as Be have, &c. p. 21. T.T. OR, [the
firft letter of the firft word, and the whole word
that followes:] As Life-Eternal, &c. p.21.V.V.
(12) Many Significants may be United or knit
together in one, with farre greater Speed and
brevity, then when they are written severally:
as, (It is) &c. p.21. W.W. (13) Other words
also of several forts and kindes, may likewife be
writ together: As (1) Such as begin with a
vowel, H or Y, (2) Such also where the former
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word ends upon a vowel: and (3) Such like-wife where one word ends with the name Con-ntonant which the next begins with: All these three several kindes of words may be writ together: As at once, &c. p. 21. X.X. (14) Words, Names, Numbers, Quotations, &c. may be a bridged here, as they are in ordinary writing: As Mr. Mrs. &c p. 22. Y.Y. Only for Numbers, if the Learner like it better (Because the figures are somewhat like unto other Characters) He may for distinction sake and the immediate fin-ding of any particular Head of Matter which he writes, put a Circumference about his figures, writing First, Secondly, Thirdly, Fourthly, &c. thus ① ② ③ ④ Thus the Notes & Bre-viatures used in the Civil and Common Law, may be also abbreviated. (15) Words, Clauses and Sentences may be much abbreviated, by Certain New Characters, made and placed about some particular Words or Letters, where they are Sig-nificant of divers others: As these Characters, (in these 19. following Examples and Instances, viz. (·) made within a whole word, is (in the) as p. 22. Z. Z. (·) made over a word, a little inclining towards the right hand, is (of God) as p. 22. A. A. (..) made over a word a little inclining also towards the right hand is (of the Lord)

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Lord) as p. 22. B. B. (..) made over a word,
towards the left hand, signifies (the Lords) p. 22.
C. C. (.) made under a word, towards the
right hand, is (unto God) p. 23. D. D. (..)
made under a word is (unto the Lord) p 23 E.E.
(\) made through a word, is (Therefore faith,
or Therefore faith the) p. 23. F. F. (—) made
through a word is (wherefore faith, or wherefore
faith the) p. 23. G. G. (/) made through a
word, is (Thus faith, or thus faith the) p. 23. HH,
(\) made over a word, is (Saith, or faith the)
p. 23. I. I. (—) made and joyned to any Sig-
nificant, or other like short word, before or af-
ter, signifies [Not] before or after, p. 23. K. K.
(~) made over a word, is for [As, both be-
fore and after that word] p. 24. L.L (+) made
over two or three of the first letters, signifies
(A finne of any sort : as p. 24. M. M. (X) made
over as above, (the upper part being like an R,)
signifies, A finner of any sort, as p. 24. N. N.
(—) made under words, signifies (A Repet-
tion of those words it is made under,) As Luk. 10.
41. Martha, and Psalm. 96. 13. For he commeth
and Pfal. 94. 3 How long shall the wicked Tri-
umph? and Cunt. 1. 15. Behold in whom is fair,
The line under shewes, the words above it are to
be read twice: Thus p. 24. O.O. (—) made
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under (thus turning up) signifies [A double Repetition] as Ezek. 21. 27. *Overturn* and Isa. 6. 3. *Holy* and *feremy* 7. 4. *The Temple of the Lord* p. 24. P. P. But if the Repetition be mediate, [There must be another line added betwixt the words, to Note, that those words before underlined, are there again to be rehearsed] As thus, Phil. 4. 8. whatsoever things are True,

Honest — Just — Pure — Lovely, —
of good Report. p. 24. Q.Q. (That) signifies not only the word (Contrary) when it is written by it selfe; but also being made close after any word or words, it signifies both contrary words, contrary Clauses, and contrary Sentences; Namely, such words, Clauses and Sentences, as are directly contrary to those which have been written before it: As to write Good, Evil, &c. Thus, Good that as p. 24. R. R. So these Sentences, Mat. 19. 30. The first shall be last: and That is, The last shall be first. So 1 John 5. 12. and Luk. 14. 11. See p. 25. S. S. (That) signifies [the latter part of a known sentence] being made after 3 or 4. of the first words: Example, (In the beginning was the Word, that) which signifies the rest of the Verse, viz. [and the Word was with God, and that word was God.] So Mark 16. 16. as p. 25. T. T. So much for the 15th way of Abreviation by

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by these new Characters, thus framed and placed: In which way indeed, you are taught and instructed to write an innumerable Company of words, Clauses and Sentences, farre shorter and swifter also, (by these familiar, easie and plain Rules or Directions) then others either do, or can write the same, yea, although they do invent and make several markes or Significants for each of them, as (you see) they do, in moft or all the Books yet extant: which as to the learning of so many (as at several times we have occasion in this kinde to write) must needes excelf. Sively & intolerably burden the memory, which by this 15th way of abreviation, is avoided and prevented.(16) Words, Clauses, Common Phrases, Familiar Names of things and Sentences which you frequently use, may be abreviated by the Invention of other Significant Characters for them, according to the Direction and Examples formerly given, p 59, 60. & p. 9, 10 P. P. (17) Some words may be omitted in Sentences, which are of leffe consequence, as (the, in, of, is, his, hee, to, their) and many other such like: which being implied by the more principal and Essentiaall ones that are expressed, may be supplied in the reading: As for Example, [God was Christ reconciling World Himself, not imputing sinnes:] for [God was

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mans reward:] So Deut.19.21. [Life for Life, Eye, Tooth, Hand, Foot, Breach, Blood, &c.] that is ( according to the Tenor of the first Clause,) [Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth, Hand for Hand, Foot for Foot, Breach for Breach, Blood for Blood, &c.] (19) Words may be omitted in Perfect Sillogismes, such as conflict of the Proposition, Assumption and Conclusion, orderly placed, and not abridged into Enthememes, or the contracted Forme: The known Conclusion may be omitted. (20) Words may be omitted in Comparisons fully distinguished by their parts, viz. Proposition and Reddition: The Reddition (as the necessary known Consequence of the Proposition) is omitted, yet supplied in Reading. (21) Words may be also left out, in superfluous Additions, when they are added without weight, as in (vocemqne his auribus haui. Eneid. 4. And I heard it with these Eares.) These words (with these Eares) may be well spared, because no man heareth without his cares. Again, [The Ambassadors not obtaining peace, turn'd back again to their House, from whence they went,] These words (from whence they went) are needles to be added, being understood by the former words (turn'd back again to their House.) (22) Much also may be omitted in Idle

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fon, Use, Motive, Metaphor, Allusion, Similitude, Comparison &c. Referring the Enlargements on each Head to our Memory: This Rule I insert, not only for ease and brevity, but also as a Help to the Art of Memory: The best way to attain it, and to improve it, being to exercise and to use it: And this Rule abreviates not only a Sentence, but a Sermon. (25) A Sentence may be yet further abreviated, by expressing it by some Apt Figure: So that Sentence, Mat. 7:13 (Enter ye in at the straight Gate, &c.) may fitly be exprest by this Figure

Y which was invented by Pithagoras to represent the state and condition of man in this World, The lower part notes Infancy, in which age, it doth not appear to what course of life the Childe is inclinable: the upper part stretching two ways, towards the Right hand, and towards the left; Representeth the two ways, in one of which every man walketh, the Right side which is the narrower, shewing the way of Life; and the left which is the broader, shewing the way of Death and destruction. So that Sentence, Luke 13:24. (Strive to Enter in at the strait Gate,

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Gate, for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter
in, and shall not be able) may be expressed
thus ([]) So that Sentence i John 5.7.
[There are three that bear Record in Heaven,
&c.) may be noted thus (...). And verse 8.
(There are three that bear witnesses in Earth, &c.)
thus (...). So a perfect Transition, which is
a Sentence shewing both what went before, and
what followes. As [Having declared unto you
the sentence and meaning of the Apostle in these
words,—I will now proceed to the Doctrines
which may thence be gathered for our Instru-
tion:] may be expressed thus (⊽) An im-
perfect Transition, shewing only that which
went before, As [And thus much shall suffice,
to have spoken concerning the occasion of these
words of the Prophet] thus (⊺) Or shewing
that which followes, As [Let us now make Ap-
plication of this Doctrine to our selves, and see how
neerely it concerneth us] thus (⊺) A Diga-
fion from the Matter, As (And here although it
be not incident to my Text, yet it shall not be un-
profitable to consider by the way, &c.) thus (△)
A Regression or turning again to the Matter, As
(But now to return where we left) thus (rip) So
whatever the terms of the Transition be, (as e-
very man useth variety,) These or such like Fi-
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gures, or Emblematical Characters, may fitly
serve to expresse them: So these Phrases, The
chief point, &c. p.25. W. W. To which the Reader
may add, and invent more or other, as he shall
judge them useful, these being only given as an
instance of this kind. And by the benefit of
these, or such like Figures and Emblems, Refer-
red to a due place in our Imagination, the Me-
mory, will be very much holpen. And unto these
Apt Figures and Emblems, the Hieroglyphicks
also may be referred, which were certain My-
sticall and Enigmatical Letters or Characters,
that were used amongst the Egyptians, which
were to them instead of writing: As they noted
Labour and Industry, by the Character or Fi-
gure of the Emmot, which labours very industri-
only in the Summer, to provide food for winter.
And they represented Swiftness by the Dolphin,
which is said to be the swiftest in motion of all
living Creatures: And they figured Fond-Love
by A Sbe-Ape, Embracing one of her young
ones: for the Ape brings forth two, whereof
the loveth one, and hateth the other, That
which the loveth, the huggeth to her self with
such hard Embracements, that she killeth it: and
then having but one left, she nourishes it with
lelle fondness. So they noted A Deceiver by
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and swiftness of hand. (3) Marke your Characters well, and observe the right way of making them, as you have been directed, p. 32. 51. 52. 61. & be sure also to write your words true & right, according to the Rules of this Art. (4) Observe likewise the special & particular Rules given for the more handsome, proportionable, exact, lineal, plain, easie, short and speedy expresseing of words: (as p. 41. 45. 46. 53. 61. & 27. to 36. also 48. 50. 51. 56. 59. & 62. to 71.) Let your great Care at first be to write all things Regularly & Exactly, & when you can do this, quettion not but future practise will bring you to write swifty. (5) If you desire to write small, you must practise small Charactery-writing at first; for as you begin, so you will continue and be leted in observing a certain measure in your writing. (6) Though there be little neede of Pointing, in the practice of this Art, yet for the Help of young beginners, They may use one note of distinction, as this (:) or this ( / ) or this ( // ) and make it at the end of a perfect Sentence or full point. OR at the End of a Clause, where the Nature of our writing Requires it, or where the Sense would otherwise be Ambiguous, And (it may be) much altered, if the points were made only at the end of that which (of it selfe) may be an Intire Sentence, or only at the End of each Line: As in this Example: Women

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Women are Vertuous Good and Kinde,
What man can say that? they offend :
They serve their Husbands with glad minde
Never, they deceive them till their End.

And so in these two Latine Verses, confiding
of very short Sentences, (describing the Simony
of some Clergie-men.)

Intus quis? tuquis? ego sum. quid quæris? ut intrem.
Fers aliquid? non. Staforas. enfero. quid? Satis. intra.

Finally, If they write out a *Psalme* or *Chapter* or other like matter, and would write it in a *ve*ry little room, let them put the figures in the *Margent*, and at the end of every *Verſe*, make this double (:) or this Treble point (.) as in the *Example before the second Title Page*. Howbeit, if any desire it (at any time, or on any particular Occafion) They may likewife make use of the *Parenthefis* (in the ufual form,) thus (') of the *Interogative point*, thus? and of the *Note of Admiration* thus !

But then Secondly, Besides these Notes of
*Distinction*, there are also Notes of *Reference*,
which serve to reduce a Sentence, or part there-
of, (omitted or misplaced) into its proper place,
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Books of Short writing: yet being of as much
use in this Art, (in the writing of any Book or
Treatise, and in the Transcribing or Copying
out of any thing,) as they are when you write or
Transcribe ought at large, I shall therefore add
a word touching the same. There is the single and
the double Note of Reference, The single (which
is commonly termed The Note of Interlineation)
is thus, ( ∴ ) serving only to reduce into its
proper place, that which is written above the line,
betwixt the lines, or in the Margent : which be-
ing so commonly known, I shall not need here
to insert any Examples thereof. The double Note
of Reference is thus [ ] whereof the first is to
be made at the beginning of a Clause, Sentence or
Speech, before which, (being already written,)
some other Sentence or Speech, should be placed:
The last is to be made at the end thereof, And
this Double note signifieth, That all the Clause,
Sentence or Speech, that is included betwixt them,
is to be read after the Sentence or Speech next fol-
lowing : in that place where the said two Notes
are again made and placed together : As in this
Example.

When the Citizens of Pavia in Italy were at Diffen-
tion, by reason of the Faction between the Guelphes and
the Gibelines, The Gibelines procured a Favourer of theirs
called Francis Canis, to come and arise with a pow-
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er of men, [whereof when the Gibelines did complain
unto him, saying that their Goods too, were spoiled a-
gainst Agreement: He answered, that Themselves were
Gibelines, and should be safe, but their Goods were Guel-
phes and must pay for it,] upon agreement and Cove-
nant that he should have the Goods of the Guelphes for
his pay. But he being once come into the City with men
of Warre, spare neither of them, His Souldiers must be
served, [ ] The Gibelines of Papia could not foresee
this, our Catholiques by them may. Let them leave
their Brainsick-Defires, and divelish purposes, of bring-
ing Francis Ganis into their Countrey, least by experi-
ence they feel (which God forbid) that though them-
selves be Catholiques, their Goods may be Heritiques, per-
haps some Heretical blood in their Bodies also, by con-
cagion of Ours. D. Reignolds.

NOTE, That the Sentence included in,
and written betwixt this Double Note before, is
to be there passed over, and is to be read here,
where this double Note is again inserted. So that
the Use of this double Clause Note, is this: If
we have written a Sentence, before which (upon
better consideration) another Sentence should be
written, and that there is not space enough to
interline it, or to write it in the Margent. Here,
if we should blot out the former Sentence, it
would require some time to write it again, But
by these Clause Notes being included, it may
stand still, and be read in its due place. Last of all,
Here followes, (according to promise)

The

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The Relation betwixt the Symbolicall
Words, and their Characters.

The Characters for them, as they are before expreſt,
Pa. 5. M. M. are again here inſerted betwixt Parentheſes,
immediately before the reſpective words, as follows, wiz.

① ( @ ) About, becauſe A goes about, ( ⌜ )
Round about, becauſe R goes round about,
( ⌝ ) Round, becauſe R likewiſe runs round.
( ⌞ ) Alone, becauſe it is an A alone by it ſelf,
( ⌠ ) Alittle, becauſe it is a little A. ( ⌡ )
little, becauſe 'tis a little L. ( ⌣ ) Among,
becauſe we comes down among a company of
Oes, ( ⌘ ) away, becauſe the latter part of the
A runs away from the former. ( ⌭ ) Always,
becauſe ſtill when it is made, it doth always
turn in-ward. ( ⌮ ) Again, becauſe A runs
down and up again. ( ⌯ ) Againſt, becauſe the
dash is againſt A. ( ⌭ ) Chriſt, becauſe it is a
Croſſe, and Chriſt died on the Croſſe.
( ⌲ ) Antichriſt, becauſe it conſiſts of great A,
the firſt letter of Anti, and the Character of
Chriſt. ⌸ Antichriſtian, for the fame reaſon.

( ⌘ ) Angel, becauſe it figures an Angel in Head and Wings, as they uſe to paint them. ( ↓ )
Anchor, becauſe also it figures an Anchor. ( ⌒ )
Annoiſted, becauſe it repreſents the powring of Oyl

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Oyl on the head of A, as was wont to be done,
on the head of such as were anointed.

(1) Ascend and 9 Descend, because they demonstrate the manner of an Ascention and Descention. (à) Abound, because the period abounds above the A. (a) Aside, because it is made on the side of A. (c) Afore, because it is made afore the A, so the 6. following, p. 5. M. M. for the same Reason. (H) Backward, because it is a B, made backward (l) Burden, because the last letter is under, and beares the burden of the former. (J) Begin, and (S) Beginning, because they are the beginning of a B. (R) Compass, because it figures a pair of Compasses. (C) Contrary, because it is the Character of C, made the contrary way: (E) Conscience, because it hath a little touch, as where Conscience is tender, a very little thing will trouble or touch it. (D) Counsel, because it figures one going in, to take Counsel, to some Inner or Council-Chamber. (M) Crown, because it represents or figures a Crown. (cc) Confederates, because it conifts of the fame letters joyned together, as Confederates, (ll) Companions, because one letter is a Companion to the other. (π) Fellowship, because

two

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two of the same letters are united together as
Fellowes. ( E ) Company, because C, that be-
gins the word is furnished with Company. ( R )
Down, because the stroke goes down from D,
and so ( R ) Downward. ( G ) Double, because
the first letter D is made double. J Devil, be-
cause it is the Character of evil, made somewhat
like a D, which letter added to evil, makes Devil.
( V ) Divide, or Division, because the first Syl-
lable Di, is divided. ( = ) Equal, & ( — ) une-
qual, because the lines are made both equal & un-
equal. ( = = ) Even, because the two Ees, also
are made even. ( E ) Escape, because it presents
a man broke loose out of prison, ran away and
escaped. ( E ) Embrace, because it figures one
taking a little Infant in his Armes, and embra-
cing it. ( X ) Extraordinary, because it is an
Extraordinary X. ( √ ) From, because the lower
stroke or dash, runs from the higher. J Friend,
because it is close knit, as a Friend is, where
as the Character of False thus, ( ? ) is loose
and shattered

Govern, because G is o-
ver-ruled, or governed by an over-Character. So
( O ) Mis-govern for the same reason. ( — )
Heaven, because Heaven is overor above: as this
Character is to be placed over, viz. over a fore-
going word, towards the right hand, as [in Hea-
ven]

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ven] thus (≡) and over a following word, to-
wards the left hand, as [Heaven above] thus —
( __ ) Earth, because it is made below or under,
as the Earth is under Heaven, or below it: As
[Heaven and Earth:] thus ( —_ ) [Earth
and Heaven] thus ( &= ) (Θ) World, because
it is round as the World is, the upper part figu-
ring Heaven, the lower part Hell: the middle
part the Earth, which is placed in the midft of
the World. (—) Buried, because the tittle
under notes one lying Buried under the
Earth, ( ę ) Household, because it is the Cha-
racter of Onse, ( ę ) or House, regularly written,
and the period put within it, points out the
People in the House, which are the Household.
( X ) Hippocrite, because it hath 2. faces, look-
ing several wayes, as the Hypocrite doth. So X
Hypocrisie, and ( 8 ) Hypocritical, upon the
same account. ( L ) Idoll, because of the upright
position of it, anſwerable to the standing up of
an Idoll, and because 'tis an Idle Character, it
may ſignifie also the word Idle, but the rather,
because they are words of neere found: So ( L ; )
Idly, ( Lc ) Idlenefs. ( † ) Idolatry, and ‡
Idolator. (G) Intangle, and ⚙️ Intricate,
because they are Intangled, or wrapped in,
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guish it from Sonne, or Sunne thus, (O) which is round,
as the Body of the Sunne (you know) is. (L) within,
and (L) without, because the title is made both
within and without. ✠ Point, because the P is

pointed, or hath a point in it: So A Appoint, and
Q Disappoint. ✠ Quench, because the head of

Q, is obliterated or quenched, ✠ Quarter, because the Q. is quartered, or made in quarters. (✓)
Quick, and (7.) Quickly, because it is a Q very suddenly or quickly made, differing from Queen, (9.)
which is more full, straight, & longsome in making: →
Turn & (▷) Return, because they present the fashion of a plain Returning, or Turning back. (6.) Towards,
because also it turns back Towards the left hand. (✓)
Raise. (γ²) Raised. (γ⊕) Resurrection: because there is (as it were) a Resurrection and Raising
up of a, ed, & e. (γδ) Rise, because its R, and the Character of (IS) joyned: So (qδ) Arise: (✓) Right.
(qf) Right, (√) Upright, because the R, AR, &
VR, do shoot right up, and upright. (R) Redeem, because the vowels are founded in the Consonants, RDM.
(Π) Vnrighteousnesfs, because this is contrary to the Character of Righteous: so that as these two are contrary
the one to the other, so they are signified, by contrary
Characters. (Ø) Throughout, because the long stroke
goes

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goes throughout the Circumference or Cipher, W Reemb
because they are two Resembling each other: So pp Simil-
tude, because of the likenefs and Simillitude of the two Serpents, because it resembles a Serpent creeping on the ground.

Dragon, because its distinguisht from Serpent, by the Tail
turned up, Noting the Tail of a Dragon. S Sathan, because it
like a Serpent reared up to affault any : as Sathan reared up him-
self at first against Eve, to affault her with his Temptations, in the

Shape of a Serpent. S Sacrament, & $ Sacrifice, These

two are both written with the same kinde of S, faving that when
it signifies Sacrifice, it hath a dash through it, in signe that Sacri-
fices are now abolished, but when it signifies Sacrament, it is with-
out a dash, because Sacraments are still in use.

Having thus haftily palled through these Simbolical Significants,
I must here crave my Readers Pardon, for expreſsing ſuch idle and
fantastical Conceits, (as I do confefs some of them be) Because
without them I could not ſo well ſhow the Agreement of the
words with their Characters: yet this I may tell him withall, that
the most absurd Relations, will be as well Remembred by their
Absurdity, as the most Proper by their Apt and Fit Agreement.

---A Reader (faith Austine) when he comes to the End of a
Book, as glad as a Traveller, when he seeth the Signe of the Inxe
where he meanes to Lodge: So (Courteous Reader.) You are now
come even to the End of this Little Book; and therefore also you
may be glad, But more especially, if it hath advantaged your
Hoped-Success in this SHORT, SWIFT, and SECRET-ART; and
if to, Pray for me, and for the Benefit you shall Reap hereby, Re-
member to give God the Glory.

Here-with Farewell; If you can tell
What yet more Fair, Short, Swift may bee,
Let the World know it, Candedly show it
Or if not, Follow this with mee.

FINIS.