SVch as by their place and calling ( but especially Preachers ) as haue occasion to speake publiquely before the ignorant people , are to bee admonished , that they neuer affect any strange inkhorne tearmes , but labour to speake so as is commonly receiued , and so as the most ignorant may well vnderstand them : neyther seeking to be ouer fine or curious , nor yet liuing ouer carelesse , vsing their speach as most men doe , and ordering their wits as the fewest haue done . Some men seek so far for outlandish English , that they forget altogether their mothers language , so that if some of their mothers were aliue , they were not able to tell or vnderstand what they say ; and yet these fine English Clearkes will say they speake in their mother tongue ; but one might well charge them for counterfayting the Kings English . Also , some far iournied gentlemen , at their returne home , like as they loue to goe in forraine apparrell , so they will pouder their talke with ouer-sea language . Hee that commeth lately out of France , will talke French English , and neuer blush at the matter . Another chops in with English Italianated , and applyeth the Italian phrase to our English speaking , the which is as if an Orator , that professeth to vtter his minde in plaine Latine , would needs speake Poetrie , and far fetched colours of strange antiquitie . Doth any wise man thinke , that wit resteth in strange words , or else standeth it not in wholsome matter , and apt declaring of a mans minde ? Doe wee not speake , because we would haue others to vnderstand vs ? or is not the tongue giuen for this end , that one might know what another meaneth ? Therefore , either wee must make a difference of English , and say , some is learned English , and othersome is rude English , or the one is Court talke , the other is Country-speech , or else we must of necessitie banish all affected Rhetorique , and vse altogether one manner of language . Those therefore that will auoid this follie , and acquaint themselues with the plainest and best kinde of speach , must seeke from time to time such wordes as are commonly receiued , & such as properly may expresse in plaine manner , the whole conceit of their minde . And looke what words we best vnderstand , and know what they meane , the same should soonest be spoken , and first applyed , to the vtterance of our purpose . Therfore for this end , foure things would chiefly be obserued in the choyse of wordes . First , that such wordes as wee vse , should bee proper vnto the tongue wherein we speake . Againe , that they be plaine for all men to perceiue . Thirdly , that they bee apt and meete , most properly to set out the matter . Fourthlie , that wordes translated , from one signification to another , ( called of the Grecians Tropes , ) be vsed to beautifie the sentence , as precious stones are set in a ring , to commend the gold . Now such are thought apt wordes , that properly agree vnto that thing , which they signifie , and plainly expresse the nature of the same . Therefore , they that haue regard of their estimation and credite , doe warily speake , & with choise , vtter words most apt for their purpose . In waightie causes , graue wordes are thought most needfull , that the greatnesse of the matter , may the rather appeare , in the vehemencie of their talke . So likewise of other , like order must be taken . Albeit some , not onely doe not obserue this kinde of aptnesse , but also they fall into much fondnes , by vsing words out of place and applying them to diuers matters , without all discretion .

If thou be desirous ( gentle Reader ) rightly and readily to vnderstand , and to profit by this Table , and such like , then thou must learne the Alphabet , to wit , the order of the Letters as they stand , perfectly without booke , and where euery Letter standeth : as ( b ) neere the beginning , ( n ) about the middest , and ( t ) toward the end . Now if the word , which thou art desirous to finde , begin with ( a ) then looke in the beginning of this Table , but if with ( v ) looke towards the end . Again , if thy word begin with ( ca ) looke in the beginning of the Letter ( c ) but if with ( cu ) then looke toward the end of that Letter . And so of all the rest , &c.

And further vnderstand , that all such words as are deriued and drawne from the Greeke , are noted with this letter ( g. ) And the french are marked thus ( § ) but such words as are deriued from the Latine and others , haue no marke at all .