Thylk of Adam

his howe clewe the childe /e thus he clewe
them both to his dampnacpon, therfore as
the lynne of Lapn was pumpylhed. viij. ty
mes / lo was the lynne of Lamech. lxx. ty
mes and viij. that is to lape. lxxxvij. loules
that cam of Lamech were persylhed in the
dplunpe of Noes flood. Allo his wyp dyde
hym moche lowone /e cupll entreated hym
And he bepnye worth layd that he luffred
that for his double hompyde and may
flaughter yet neuertheles he fered hym by
payne layenge / why wpyll ye flee me / he
thall be more /e forer pumpylhed that fleeth
me than he that clewe Lapn. After that
Abell was flapne Strabus layth / Adam
auowed noo more to haue to do with his
wpyf but by ay angell he brake the howe,
by caule a lone lholde he born to god. Pet
nuertheles Jolephus layth that whay
Abell was flapne / Lapn fledde awaye.
Adam thought of piocreacyon of childern
And loo whay he was hondred and .xxx.
pere olde he engendred Seth lyke to his
lymplypude and he to the ymage of god.
This Seth was a good may / e he gate
Enos / Enos Lapnam and Lapnam be
gate Malaell and Malaell Jareth and
Jareth Enoch and Enoch Matulale /e
Matulale Lamech /e Lamech Noe. And
lyke as in the generacpon of Lapn the les
nenth was the werst / lo in the generacpon
of Seth the leuenth was the belt and that
was Enoch whom god toke and brought
hym in to paradyle unto the tyme that he
Chall come with help for to comerte the
hertes of the faders in to the lones. And
Adam lyued after that he haddo begotten
Seth. viij. hondred pere /e engendred loz
nes and doughters. Some holde opynpon
xxx. lones and .xxx. doughters, and lome
l. of that one and l. of that other / we fyn
de no certapne of them in the Dyble. But
all the dapes of Adams lyupnyge here in
erthe amouit to the lomme of .ix. hondred
and .xxx. pere. And in the ende of his lyf
whan he cholde depe / it is lapd but of no
ne anctoypte that he lent Seth his lone in

to paradyle for to fetch the ople of mers
cy where he receyued certapne graynes of
the frupte of the tree of mercy by an angel
And whan he came agapne he founde his
fader Adam yet alvye / tolde hym whahe
he had done. And thenne Adam lawhed
fyrst /e thenne deped. And thenne he lapd
the graphnes or kernels under his faders
tonge /e burped hym in the vale of Ebion
and out of his mouth grewe the trees of
the chie granes or whiche the Lrolle that
our lorde luffred his pallpon on was ma-
de / by the vertue of whiche he gate deep
mercy /e was brought out of derkenes in
to very lyght of heuery. To the whiche he
brynge vs that lueneth /e regneth god woils
de without ende Almej.

There endeth the lyk of Adam

There foloweth the hyltope of Noe / the
fyrk londape in Sexageline.

Thylk of Noe

Folio. iiiij.

After that Adam was deed deped
Eue and was burped by hym. At
the begynnynge in the fyrk age the people
lyped longe. Adam lyued. ix. Lxxx. pere.
and Matulale lyued. ix. Lxxx. pere. Sapf
Iherom layd that he deped the lame yere
the flood was. Thenne Noe was the tenth
fro Adam in the generacpon of Seth, in
whom the fyrk age was ended. The lxx.
Interpreters lape that this fyrk age dured
two. A. C. L. cxxxij. pere. Sapnf Iherom
layth not fully. ii. A. and Methodius tull
ii. A. I. Noe thenne was a man perfyght
and ryghtwys /e kept goddes cobaundes
ment. And whan he was lyne hondred yes
tre olde he gate Scm. Cham and Saphet.
This tyne mey begay co mulcepye on
the erthe /e the childern of god / that is to
lape of Seth/as relygrous lawe /dough
ters of mey /that is to lape of Lapn /e we
tre ouerrome by consupplence /e toke them
to their wpyes. This tyne was lo moche
lynne on the erthe in the lynne of lecherye
whiche was mylued agapne nature wher
for god was dyplcaled /e determyned in
his prelcyence to destrope may that he had
made /e lape. I Chall put man awaye that
I haue made /e my ppyrte shall not aby-
de in may for ener / for he is fleliche. As
who layth I Chall not punpylhe may pere-
petually as I do /e deptyl / for may be frapll
And yet er I Chall destrope hym I Chall gy-
ue hym lyace /e tyme of repencaunce and to
amende hym pf he wpyll /e the tyme of repen
taunce shall be. L. xx. pere. Thenne Noe
ryghtwys /e parfyght walked with god /e
that is in his lawes /e the erthe was cos-
rupt by lynne /e fylled. Why god lawe
the erthe so be corrupte /e that every man
was corrupt by lynne oppon the erthe /he
lapd to Noe. the end of all people is come
tofore me excepte them that Chall be launc
e the erthe is replenylle with their wpyes
kednes. I Chall destroye them with /e erthe
id eft with the ferpylte of the erthe. As
he to the ay Arke of tree hewen polpyhed
and lquard /e make their in dyuerte places

and lyne it with clape and ppeche within
e without, that is to wete with glewe whi
the is so feruent that the tyme may not
he loled and thou Chalt make it the hon-
dred cubytes in length /e fyrky in hede /and
xxx. of hepgh / and make their dyuerte
dyplynccons of places and chambres /and
of wardroops. And the Arke hath a doore
for to entre in and come out and a wyns
dowe was made theroy /e whiche that the
Hebe wos laye was of crystall. This Arke
was ony malynge fro the begynnynge that
god cobaunded fyrk to make it hondred
and x. pere. Zy whiche tyne Noe deped
often the people to leue their lynne / and
how he had lpokey with god and that he
was cobaunded to make the lyy or Arke/
for god holde destrope them for their lyn
ne but yf they lefte it. And they mocked
hym and layd that he raued /e was a foo-
le and gaf noo layth to his layenge / and
contynued lylle in their lynne and wpyes
kednes. Thenne what the Arke was par-
fyghly made /god badde hym to take in
to it of all the beeltes of the erthe /e allo
of the foules of the ayer of eche two male
and female that they may lyne / and allo
of all the metes of the erthe that bey cos-
metlyble that they may leue and fede the
and them. And Noe dyde all that our loz-
de cobaunded hyn. Thenne lapd our loz
de to Noe entre thou and all thy houhol-
de in to the Arke /that is to lape thou and
thy wpyf and thy chie lones and their chie
wpyes. I haue leey that thou art ryghtfull
in this generacpon. Of all beeltes that bey
clene thou Chalt take heuery and of dncles
ne beeltes but oonly two. And of the byr-
des heuery and heuery male and female / so
that they may be laued on the face of the
erthe. Pet after. viij. dapes if Chall rayne
vpon the erthe. xl. dapes and. xl. nyghtes
and Chall destrope all the lubitaunce that
I made on /e erthe. And Noe dyde all thyn
ges that our lorde cobaunded hym he was
vi. L. pere olde whay the flood began on
the erthe. And thenne Noe entred in and