este, autumne

and wynter. Of the foure tymes ben made the yeres, of yeres ben made
the whiche
et iuer. Des quatre temps se font les ans, des ans se font
les

last four yeres and lustres fyve, of lustres ben made the fyfteene
yeres, of
olimpiades et lustres, des lustres se font les indicions,
des indicions

ben made the c. yeres, of ben made the tyme, whiche is sayd a m.
yeres. Of
se font les siecles, des siecles se fait le temps, qui est dict
evum. De

is made the tyme wiche is sayd xv thousande yeres.
evum se fait le temps qui est dict parigeneses.

The tyme is none other thyng but nombre of movyng, movyng
Le temps nest aultre chose que nombre de mouuement, mouuement

is cause of lyfe worldly, and lyfe everlastynge is our Lorde
Jesu Christ; for
est cause de uie, et uie pardurable est Nostre Seigneur
Jesu Crist; car

who so ever shall worshyppe hym and drede perpetually, in the lande
quiconques lhonorera et craindra a perpetuite, en la terre

of lyvers shall lyve.
des uiuantz uiura.

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This letter _A_, in latyn, is as moche to saye as without, and tomos is
divysyon, than Atomos is without divisyon.

Ye shall note, that atmos is a thyng so lytell that can nat be devyded,
as a letter whiche is atmos, in grammer, out, is atmos in arismetry, a
pricke is atmos in geometry, and the duste that flyeth in the sonne
beame ben atmos, and a twynclyng of an ey whiche may be taken here for
atmos.

The Greeks were wont to reken by Olympiades, whiche ben four yere; the
Romayns by lustres, whiche ben fyve yeres: and by indicions that ben
made of thre lustres, which ben fyftene yeres: a secle is an hundred
yere, and somtyme taken for a mannes lyfe. Evum is take lykewyse for a
mannes age, and for a thousande yeres, and Parigeneses for fyftene
thousande yeres, and tyme is taken for the lastyng of all the worlde.