Of what matiere it schal be told,[976]
A tale lyketh manyfold
Hic loquitur vlterius de diuisione Terre que post diluuium tribus filiis Noe in tres partes, scilicet Asiam, Affricam et Europam diuidebatur.
The betre, if it be spoke plein:
Thus thinke I forto torne ayein
And telle plenerly therfore[977]
Of therthe, wherof nou tofore
I spak, and of the water eke,
So as these olde clerkes spieke,[978]
And sette proprely the bounde