To Chain was Calmana betake,[1458]
And Delboram hath Abel take,[1459]
In whom was gete natheles
Of worldes folk the ferste encres.
Men sein that nede hath no lawe,
And so it was be thilke dawe
P. iii. 278
And laste into the Secounde Age,[1460]
Til that the grete water rage,
Of Noë which was seid the flod,[1461]