90 THE PREFACE TO 



my superfluyte of wordes for two cawses. fe 

 furste cawse for so curyos and harde sentens in 

 obscure termes is full tedyos to sy th a tender wy tte 

 to cousayne. pe secunde cawse is for sothely me 

 semythe better to wryte and twyse teche one 

 gode sentens fen ones forgoten. levyng ferfore 

 all vayn preambles of superfluyte fat papyr ful- 

 fyllygte with owtyn fruyte f is lesone I gyfe gow 

 fyrste fat in gour gerus beyn xii moneth. January 

 February March Aprile May June July Auguste 

 Septembre Octobre Novembre Decembre. And 

 ccc and sexty days and 5 and sex odde howres 

 qwyche odde howres gedyrd togeder 4 gerus 

 makyth 24 howres fat is a day naturale so fat 

 in p is gere fat is clepyt lyp gere beyng ccc and 

 sexty and sex days. In everych gere we vse 

 a new letter fat Sonday gothe by. In fe lyp 

 gere we occupy twene f e furste servyth fro new 

 gerus day to seynt mathye day. f e secunde tellyth 

 us owre soneday f e remnande of f e gere. 



gour pryme schal be to gow a specyal doctour 

 of dyverse conclusyons querfore in latyn he is 

 clepyt f e golden nownbur and begynnygt at one 

 and rennyth to xix and turnyth agayn to one, and 

 so in case fat one were pryme f is gere next gere 

 schulde 2 be pryme and f e 3 gere 3. so rennyng 

 gere be gere to xix and agayn to one and so 

 abowte with owten ende. In f e fyrst table of 

 gowre kalendere by f e reede letters in f e firste 

 lyne joyned to f e blake letters in f e secunde lyne 

 schal ge knowe f e lyp gere qwen it fallyth. In 



