CAIN BUILDS ENO. LAMECH BEGINS BIGAMY.

And oðer fiftene al-ſwilc ſel,
Quane eue bar rigt-wiſe abel.[[104]]
and afterwards Eve bore righteous Abel.
Abel an hundred ger waſ hold,
420 ðan he was of iſ broðer wold;
An hundred ger after iſ dead,
 [Fol. 9.]
Abel was a hundred years old when he was slain by his brother.
Adam fro eue in ſrifte abead.
To hundred ger and .xxx.ti mo
424 was adam hold and eue ðo,
After this Adam from Eve in shrift abode one hundred years.
ðan bor ghe ſeht in ðe ſtede
Of caym ðat abel for-dede;
Or or midleſt, or after ðo
428 Bar eue of adam manige moo.
Seth was born when Adam was 230 years old.
Ðor quiles ðat adam ſorge dreg
for abel, caym fro him fleg,
wið wif and hagte, and wurð ut-lage,
432 wið dead him ſtood hinke and age.
Cain fled from his home and became an outlaw.
He ches a ſtede toward eden,
And to him[[105]] ſameden oðer men,
He chose an abode near Eden.
wallede a burg, e-no bi name;
He built a city, Enoch by name.
436 ðeft and reflac ðhugte him no ſame,
for ðat he made him manige fon,
ðor he ðhogte he ſtonden agon.
Theft and robbery was no sin to him; many foes he made.
Met of corn, and wigte of fe,
440 And merke of felde, first fond he.
Tellen ic wile ſo birðe bad,
Adam, caym, enos, iraab,
Malaleel, matusale;
444 Lamech is at ðe sexte kne,
Measure of corn, weight of goods, division of land, taught he first.
ðe ſeuende man after adam,
ðat of caymes kinde cam.
ðiſ lamech waſ ðe firme man,
 [Fol. 9b.]
The seventh man after Adam, of Cain's kind, was Lamech.
448 ðe bigamie firſt bi-gan.
Bigamie is unkinde ðing,
On engleis tale, twie-wifing;
He first began bigamy.

[104]

At the bottom of fol. 8b is the catchword—Abel a hundred.

[105]

him is by a later hand.