1. Heer, seeing we borrow mikle from the latin, it is reason that we
either follow them in symbolizing their’s, or deduce from them the
groundes of our orthographie.
2. Imprimis, then, quhatever we derive from them written with c we sould
alsoe wryte with c, howbeit it sound as an s to the ignorant; as
conceave, receave, perceave, from concipio, recipio, percipio; concern,
discern, from concerno, discerno; accesse, successe, recesse, from
accedo, succedo, recedo, w_i_th manie moe, q_uhi_lk I com_m_end to the
attention of the wryter.
3. Also quhat they wryte w_i_th s we sould alsoe wryte with s; as
servant, from servus; sense, from sensus; session from sessio; passion,
from passio.
4. Neither is the c joined w_i_th s here to be omitted; as science and
conscience, from scientia, conscientia; ascend and descend, from
ascendo, descendo; rescind and abscind, from rescindo and abscindo.
4 (_sic_). This difference of c and s is the more attentivelie to be
marked for that wordes of one sound and diverse signification are many
tymes distinguished be these symboles; as, the kinges secrete council,
and the faithful counsil of a frende; concent in musik, and consent of
myndes; to duel in a cel, and to sel a horse; a decent weed, and descent
of a noble house. These tuo last differres alsoe in accent.
5. Lykwayes, that we derive from latin verbales in tio, sould also be
wrytten with t; as oration, visitation, education, vocation,
proclamation, admonition, _et_c.
6. Wordes deryved from the latin in tia and tium we wryte with ce; as
justice, from justitia; intelligence, from intelligentia; vice, from
vitium; service, from servitium. In al q_uhi_lk, houbeit the e behind
the c be idle, yet use hes made it tollerable to noat the breaking of
the c, for al tongues bear with sum slippes that can not abyde the tuich
stone of true orthographie.
7. C is alsoe written in our wordes deryved from x in latin; as peace,
from pax; fornace, from fornax; matrice, from matrix; nurice, from
nutrix, q_uhi_lk the south calles nurse, not without a falt both in
sound and symbol; be this we wryte felicitie, audacitie, tenacitie,
_et_c.
8. Lykwayes we sould keep the vouales of the original, quherin the north
warres the south; from retineo, the north retine, the south retain; from
foras, the north foran, the south forain; from regnu_m_, the north
regne, the south raigne; from cor, the north corage, the south courage;
from devoro, the north devore, the south devour; from vox, the north
voce, the south voice; from devoveo, the north devote, the south
devoute; from guerrum, the north were, the south war; from gigas,
gigantis, the north gyant, the south giaunt; from mons, montis, the
north mont, the south mount. Of this I cold reckon armies, but wil not
presume to judge farther then the compasse of my awn cap, for howbeit we
keep nearar the original, yet al tongues have their idiom in borrowing
from the latin, or other foran tongues.