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The English school-master, : teaching all his scholars, of what age forever the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English tongue, that hath ever yet been known or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, how any unskilfull person may easily both understand any hard English words, which they shall in scriptures, sermons, or elsewhere hear or read : and also be made to use the same aptly themselves : and generally whatsoever is necessary to be known for the English speech : so that he which hath this book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his letters unto the grammar-school, for an apprentice or any other his private use, so far as concerneth English. And therefore is made not only for children, though the first book be meer childish for them, but also for all other, especially for those that are ignorant in the Latine tongue. In the next page the school-master hangeth forth his table to the view of all beholders, setting forth some of the chief commodities of his profession / devised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill by Edward Coote.