. . .From Noah and his three sons all mankind have come. And or he waſ on werlde led,
His kinde waſ wel wide ſpred;
Al it iſ writen ic tellen mai
652 Of his kin bi hiſ liue dai;
Before his death his family were widely spread. vten childre and vten wimmen,
wel fowre and .xx. ðhuſent men
woren ſtalwurði boren bi tale,
656 wið-uten wif-kin and childre ſmale;
.ix. hundred ger and fifti told,
or or he ſtarf, noe waſ old.
 [Fol. 13b.]
They numbered, excluding women and children, 24,000 stalworth men. Nembrot gat hiſe feres red,
660 for ðat he hadde of water dred,
To maken a tur, wel heg & ſtrong,
Of tigel and ter, for water-gong;
Nimrod had dread of water, so . . . Read More