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The pens excellencie or The secretaries delighte : wherein aswell the abuses w[hic]h are offered vnto ye worthines of ye pen, by vnworthie pen men, are trulie discovered: as ye dignity of ye art it selfe by ye antiquitie, excellencie & diversitie thereof, is breifly demonstrated together with an insertion of sondrie peeces, or examples, of all ye vsuall hands of England: as also an addition of certaine methodicall observations for writing, making of the pen, holding the pen, &c