sed or awk under XP in batch file (DOS box) - print $1 lines then delete $1 lines from a file

[John Bartley K7AAY]

I need to print $1 lines from a file, and then delete that number of
lines.
$1 has been derived in the prior line with
wc -l sourcefile.txt | awk '{$1 /= 4 ; $1 = int($1) ; print $1 }'

I've tried numerous awk and sed statements, a la:

sed -e -n "$1,p" sourcefile.txt > list.1
sed -i "$1d" sourcefile.txt

sed $1q list.txt > list.1 & sed -i $1d sourcefile.txt

awk "{(FNR < $1); print}" sourcefile.txt > list.1


Your help would be appreciated.  Thank you.