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 1 4|     thou worche; consider thy rote first, the whiche is made
 2 4|   wryt in thy slate under thy rote, and adde hit togeder, and
 3 4|    and adde togedere unto thy rote; and thus to make rotes.
 4 4|   oure Lord be lasse than the rote, which is the yer of oure
 5 4|       the same wyse furst thy rote in thy slate, and after
 6 4| anafter withdraw hem from the rote, the yer of oure Lord 1397;
 7 4|   thou shalt worche. Make thy rote fro the laste day of December
 8 4|    and adde alle these to thy rote; and the residue is the
 9 5|    Arsechieles tables tak thy rote, the whiche is for the yer
10 5|    yeres that ben passed that rote. Ensampul as thus: the yer
11 5|      wolde witen, precise, my rote; than wroot I furst 1400.
12 5|      3 yer was passed fro the rote, the whiche was writen in
13 5|       the whiche I fond in my rote the yer of oure Lord 1397;
14 5|    that thou findest with thy rote the yer of oure Lord 1400,
15 5|    yer that is lasse than thy rote, withdraw the nomber of
16 5|  whiche thou findest with thy rote the yer of oure Lord a 1397;
17 5|      of other signes with thy rote; and thy residue that leveth