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 co{m}moditie of it ryghte worthy to be well marked. This feate hath ben vsed aboue 2000 yeares at the leaste, and yet was it neuer come{n}ly 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 [*133b] 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+ The arte of nombrynge by the hande. [Transcriber’s Note: Footnote 3 reads: “Bracket ([) denotes new paragraph in original.” For this e-text, the brackets have been omitted in favor of restoring the paragraph breaks. Changes of speaker (M, S) are also marked by paragraphs, as in the previous selection. The illustration includes the printed page number 134; there is therefore no sidenote *134a. The sidenote for “4” is missing.] [Illustration: (Numbers as described in text)] [Sidenote: 1] [*134b] In which as you may se 1 is expressed by y^e lyttle fynger of y^e lefte hande closely and harde croked. [Sidenote: 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. [Sidenote: 3] 3 is signified by the myddle fynger bowed in lyke maner, with those other two. 4 is declared by the bowyng of the myddle fynger and the rynge fynger, or weddynge fynger, with the other all stretched forth. [Sidenote: 5, 6] 5 is represented by the myddle fynger onely bowed. And 6 by the weddynge fynger only crooked: and this you may marke in these a certayne order. But now 7, 8, and 9, are expressed w{i}t{h} the bowynge of the same fyngers as are 1, 2, and 3, but after an other fourme. [Sidenote: 7] For 7 is declared by the bowynge of the lytell fynger, as is 1, saue that for 1 the fynger is clasped in, harde {and} [*135a] rounde, but for to expresse 7, you shall bowe the myddle ioynte of the lytell fynger only, and holde the other ioyntes streyght. _S._ Yf you wyll geue me leue to expresse it after my rude maner, thus I vnderstand your meanyng: that 1 is expressed by crookynge in the lyttell fynger lyke the head of a bysshoppes bagle: and 7 is declared by the same fynger bowed lyke a gybbet. _M._ So I perceaue, you vnderstande it. [Sidenote: 8] Then to expresse 8, you shall bowe after the same maner both the lyttell fynger and the rynge fynger. [Sidenote: 9, 10]