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. f e secunde cawse is for sothely me 

 semythe better to wryte and twyse teche one 

 gode sentens fen ones forgoten. levyng f erfore 

 all vayn preambles of superfluyte fat papyr ful- 

 fyllyjte with owtyn fruyte fis lesone I jyfe 50 w 

 fyrste fat in jour 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 jerus 

 makyth 24 howres fat is a day naturale so fat 

 in fis jere fat is clepyt lyp jere beyng ccc and 

 sexty and sex days. In everych jere we vse 

 a new letter fat Sonday gothe by. In fe lyp 

 jere we occupy twene f e furste servyth fro new 

 jerus day to seynt mathye day. f e secunde tellyth 

 us owre soneday f e remnande of f e gere. 



jour pryme schal be to jow a specyal doctour 

 of dyverse conclusyons querfore in latyn he is 

 clepyt f e golden nownbur and begynnyjt at one 

 and rennyth to xix and turnyth ajayn to one, and 

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

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

 jere be jere to xix and ajayn to one and so 

 abowte with owten ende. In fe fyrst table of 

 jowre 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 jere qwen it fallyth. In 



