L is us’d for o, as Ralph, [h]alf, calf, malt, [h]alt, salt and scalp, not in [h]ealth and wealth, and dealt: L is so us’d after e, as elf, not self, whelm, Gulielm, not elme.
Lastly, L is for u, as old, cold, gold, fold, bold, colt, bolt, not in dolt.
If ae, eo, ie, and ea be diphthongs, and lawfully marry’d by Banes, or Licens, I’m sure it is but an [h]alf char-marriage, for they (for a just impediment) never bed together.
Amendment offer’d.
Make a Cambril over the vowels to make ’em long; and this will cure innumerabl errors, and there will be no more mistakes or abuse of the vowels, and this will save a world of truble.
But because the titl of i stands in the way, give a dash for I long, and let a low Apostrophe, as high as the bodies of the letters, stand for i short, and i with a tittle for double i or ee. So
Mal, mel, mil, mol, mul.
Mâl, mêl, mıl, môl, mûl.[D]
Then ask the Printer whether a Cambril set over the vowels, be not as good, and cheap as an e, a, o, or gh at the end.
But w[h]at difference can we make in figures, between ou, long o, and short o? Thus like the sign Taurus[E] after the Greek fashion is short ou, or (speak Tongue) ou at lengt[h], is long o wit[h] u; and again the sign Taurus wit[h] a Foot-Ball between [h]is [h]orns, is t[h]e Trift[h]ong; t[h]e reason belongs to Grammar.
For to lay sound upon sound wit[h]out sig[h]t, is as field upon field, false Heraldry.