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The Story of England

by Robert Manning of Brunne, A.D. 1338. Edited from mss. at Lambeth Palace and the Inner Temple, by Frederick J. Furnivall

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Genealogia primi regis Troge & Enee a Noe et Saphet vsque ad Loquerinum deducta.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Genealogia primi regis Troge & Enee a Noe et Saphet vsque ad Loquerinum deducta.

Now of þe story wyl we gynne:
Whan God took wreche of Kaymes synne,
Þe erthe was waryed in his werk—
Als y þe bible seys þe Clerk,—
& þerfore God sente a flood
Þat fordide al flesche & blood,
Man & best þat beren lyues,
Bot foure men & foure wyues.
So mykel was þenne mannes trespas,
Þat alle þat euer of Adam was
Wyþynne a þousand ȝer & mo,
In þat flod were lorn alle þo.
Bot Noe & his þre sones
And þeir wyues—þe bible hit mones—
Wer none worthi in Godes sight,
Ne non bot þese þat liueden ryght.

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þyse were þo þat skaped þe deþ,
Noe, Seem, Cam, & Sapheþ,
And þer wyues þat wiþ þem nam;
þo þat now ar, of þys folk þey cam.
Þyse Noe sones, ȝe han wel herd
How þey departed al þys werd:
þey departed [it] in þre parties,
And names gaf at þeir deuis,
Assye, Aufryk, & Europe;
þys ar þe parties, wel y hope.
Sem was þe eldest: he ches Assye;
Cam took Aufryk til his partie;
Saphet, Europè he took;
& þus þey parted, als seyþ þe book.