This Mode too may be varied is such wise that, in place of one Consignificant word, you may combine in different ways two or three such words, always, however, confining the key to the first word. And this form, again, may receive further variations of different sorts. So much, then, for this Mode.

It remains that I should make a few remarks also on Oblique and Inverted Preparation of Words. The former not only occurs in those Modes which are contained in Trithemius’s Steganographia (Bk. 3.c.12, above), but, further than this, it may occur in general in all the devices of Transposition (Bk. 5. below). But the treatment of this subject belongs properly to the last chapter of Bk. 5.  Only the simple, rude and unadorned form of that Transposition belongs here; as for the other forms, it is enough to have referred to them.

Inverted Preparation also is not confined to the Modes treated by Trithemius (Bk. 3.c.c.9.11); it may in general occur as often as do the Direct and Oblique Modes hitherto mentioned. But let us dismiss this subject and advance to the next.