human
--that is, the
gpt
which the Countess Olivia wrote, as became a young woman of fashion when
human
Twelfth Night was produced; and from this again to the modified chancery hand which was in such common use in the first half of the century 1600, and again to a cramped and contracted chirography almost illegible, which went out of general use in the last years of Elizabeth and the first of James I. All these varieties of handwriting, except the last, were in use from 1600 to the Restoration. They will be found in the second edition of Richard Gethinge's
gpt
Calligraphotechnia, or The Arte of Faire Writing, 1652.