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¶ Here followeth to show howe a man chaungeth xii. times, euen as the xii. months doeth.
HE must take the first vi. yeare for Ianuary, the which is of no vertue nor strēgth, in that season nothing on the earth groweth. So man after that hee is borne, till he be vi. yeare of age, is wyth little or no witte, strength, or cunning, and maye doe little or nothing that commeth to any profite.
Then commeth February, and then the dayes longeth, and the sunne is more hotter, then the fyeldes begin to waxe greene. So the other vi. yere till he come to xii. the childe beginneth to grow bigger, and is apt to learne such thinges as is taught him.
Then commeth the month of March, in which the labourour soweth the earth and planteth trees, and edyfieth