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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35113	Semography, or, Short and swift writing invented and composed for the benefit of others by the author hereof, William Cartwright, and is now set forth and published by his nephew, Ieremiah Rich, immediate next to the authour, deceased ...	Cartwright, William.; Rich, Jeremiah, d. 1660?	1642 (1642)	Wing C717; ESTC R22892	7,736	30

SEMOGRAPHY OR SHORT and SWIFT WRITING Being the most easiest exactest and speediest Method of all other that have beene yet extant the full understanding is so easily attain'd that the Learner hereof needs no other help but the book it selfe 〈…〉 which will bring him to such exact 〈…〉 that in a short time he shall be able to take word for word after the speaker with much ease Invented and composed for the benefit of others by the Author hereof WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT And is now set forth and published by his Nephew Ieremiah Rich immediate next to the Authour deceased There is divers that the Professor hereof hath taught that will affirme this hand to ourgoe all others for briefnesse which have had the sight likewise of other hands All which desire to learn this hand may have the Booke to teach them London Printed in the yeere 1642. To the not curious but honest Reader KInd Reader I am not minded to trouble your view with foolish and empty complements neither need I write any thing to the praise of short-writing it is already done by so many to my hand who have so far strained their finest complements to boast out their own works that the strongest cords thereof have not only crackt but very Complementall-like they have broken out into large lies but yet alas we all know that many times men over-strain themselves with too long a reach But to passe that for my part I conceive that all the hands that are written are advantageous to those that write speeches or Sermons And I further conceive that there is little difference in those hands that are already extant for those which brag most have least cause for if their Method be shorter it is because they commit more to memory then it is the memory which helpes and not the Rule but that must needs be best that is briefest with the least trouble to memory For if any be pleased so far to charge their memory there is a way in this hand to write any or all the sentences in the Scripture by markes which for the most part plainly figureth out the severall sentences they belong to but it would be too long for me to discourse of that here something to this purpose I have written in the booke and if any desire further satisfaction let them repaire to me and they shall have it For there is more to be done by this hand then can well be committed to the Presse without great and large expression Now as for my commending of the worke I know not why any man should expect it seeing it is my owne for although I am not Father to it yet am I the right heire for my Vncle dying left it to me only and now contrary to the custome of all others I am willing that any that please should partake with me of this my small portion Farewell Thine JER. RICH To all good Artists that would write The shortest way lo here 's the light LO here 's presented to thy view What none before could ever shew For it short-writing we may praise The like hath not been seen these daies For Method rare and abbreviation Excelling all within this Nation For sure there is not any hand As farre as I can understand That doth instruct to write so briefe With ease to learn of all its chiefe An easie apprehension may With few spent houres find out the way Both for to write and eke to reade Such ease doth from these Rules proceede Here I might lay downe some reason But it would much be out of season For he that 's pleas'd this book to buy May reade and know as much as I. This branch I leave now to thy view The stock is dead from whence it grew And thou partaker of his paines Possesse with joy thine be the gaines And when thou knowest then say I tell The very truth and so farewell Per me TIMOTHY LANGLEY Who hath written SHELTONS this 12. yeares and viewed many others yet conceives there is none can parallel this This I will make appeare to any that desires to learne this hand in 4. or 5. particulars SEMOGRAPHY OR Short and Swift Writing FIrst of all in the writing of this Art it is to be observed that the Learner hereof must be a skilfull speller having knowledge in all manner of words that can be named For the Briefnesse of this Art consisteth not onely in the easinesse of the Markes or Characters for the same but in the shortning of words by casting out all such letters that are superfluous and of little sound and only to write as much as will bring in the sense of the word And this he must be skilfull in before he can undertake to write after any or to take any quantitie of a Sermon For the help of the Learner in this observe these things following First that at the least one letter may be left out in the shortest word that can be spoken Secondly that sometime two Consonants or more may be left out and yet the word sufficiently pronounced As in these words and the like For might write mit For fight write fit For light write lit. For doubt write dot For dough write do Thirdly observe that sometimes a whole syllable may be left out and yet the word understood plainly As in these For commandement write cōmament For congregation write congation For resolute write reslut For communication write comucation For hypocrite write hypcrite Fourthly observe that the like two or three syllables may be left out As in these For incomprehensible write incom For internall write ntern For Mephibosheth write Mefb For Holofernes write Holof For uncreated write uncre For redeemed write rd And the like It often happeneth that in the end of a long word two or three syllables may be spared Fifthly one Consonant may be changed for another of the like sound when the other cannot conveniently be as in this Art must be often used As commonly in the end of long words x may be writ for ch as in Patriarch x may expresse it thus Patriarx And so in divers other As to write all such words as begin with c k may be exprest standing in the place of c. As followeth For com write kom For call write kall For cold write kold For crime write krime For croud write kroud Sixthly some words may be shortned by the leaving out of e sometimes at the beginning sometimes in the middle and sometimes at the end As followeth In the beginning when it commeth before x. For externall write xternall For extent write xtent For extend write xtend For extreme write xtreme As also when it commeth before n. As For entrance write ntrance For enternall write nternall For entension write ntension And the like When e also cometh before s. As For escape write scape For estate write state For establish write stablish And the like When it cometh before m also it may be left out in the like