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.
Thus endeth the seconde and laste boke of this introduction.
Printed at London by Thomas Godfray.