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LOGOPANDECTEISION. 317
86. Sixteenth!)', No other tongue hath above eight or nine parts of speech, but this
hath twelve.
87. Seventeenthly, For variety of diction in each part of speech, it surmounteth all
the languages in the world.
88. Eighteenthly, Each noun thereof, or verb, may begin or end with a vowel or
consonant, as to the peruser shall seem most expedient.
89. Nineteenthly, Every word of this language, declinable or indeclinable, hath at
least ten several synomymas.
90. Twentiethly, Each of these synomymas, in some circumstance of the signifi-
cation, differeth from the rest.
91. One and twentiethly, Every faculty, science, art, trade, or discipline, requiring
many words for expression of the knowledge thereof, hath each its respective root from
whence all the words thereto belonging are derived.
92. Two and twentiethly, In this language the opposite members of a division have
usually the same letters in the words which signifie them ; the initial and final letter
being all one, with a transmutation only in the middle ones.
93. Three and twentiethly, Every word in this language signifieth as well backward
as forward, and however you invert the letters, still shall you fall upon significant
words, whereby a wonderful facility is obtained in making of anagrams.
94. Four and twentiethly, There is no language in the world, but for every word
thereof it will afford you another of the same signification, of equal syllables with it,
and beginning or ending, or both, with vowels or consonants as it doth.
95. Five and twentiethly, By vertue hereof there is no hexameter, elegiack, saphick,
asclepaid, iambick, or any other kind of Latine or Greek verse, but I will afford you
another in this language of the same sort, without a syllable more or less in the one
then the other, spondae answering to spondae, dactil to dactil, caasure to caesure, and
each foot to other, with all uniformity imaginable.
96. Six and twentiethly, As it trotteth easily with metrical feet, so at the end of
the career of each line hath it the dexterity, after the manner of our English and other
vernaculary tongues, to stop with the closure of a rime ; in the framing whereof, the
well-versed in that language shall have so little labour, that for every word therein he
shall be able to furnish at least five hundred several monosyllables of the same termi-
nation with it.
97. Seven and twentiethly, In translating verses of any vernaculary tongue, such
as Italian, French, Spanish, Slavonian, Dutch, Irish, English, or whatever it be, it
affords you words of the same signification, syllable for syllable, and in the closure of
each line a rime, as in the original.
98. Eight and twentiethly, By this language, and the letters thereof, we may doe
such admirable feats in numbers, that no cyphering can reach its compendiousne?s ;
for whereas the ordinary way of numbring by thousands of thousands of thousands of