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But in this thyng, you shall take this for suffycyent, and the reste you shall obserue as you maye se by the working of eche sorte: for the dyuers wittes of men haue inuented dyuers and sundry wayes almost vnnumerable. But one feate I shall teache you, whiche not only for the straungenes and secretnes is moche pleasaunt, but also for the good commoditie of it ryghte worthy to be well marked. This feate hath ben vsed aboue 2000 yeares at the leaste, and yet was it neuer comenly knowen, especyally in Englysshe it was neuer taughte yet. This is the arte of nombrynge on the hand, with diuers gestures of the fyngers, expressynge any summe conceaued in the 133 b. *mynde. And fyrst to begynne, yf you wyll expresse any summe vnder 100, you shall expresse it with your lefte hande: and from 100 vnto 10000, you shall expresse it with your ryght hande, as here orderly by this table folowynge you may perceaue.
¶ Here foloweth the table
of the arte of the
hande
1 134 b. *In which as you may se 1 is expressed by ye lyttle fynger of ye lefte hande closely and harde croked.
2 [3]2 is declared by lyke bowynge of the weddynge fynger (whiche is the nexte to the lyttell fynger) together with the lytell fynger.
3 3 is signified by the myddle fynger bowed in lyke maner, with those other two.
4 4 is declared by the bowyng of the myddle fynger and the rynge fynger, or weddynge fynger, with the other all stretched forth.