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¶ Isaac Capitulum vndecimum

ISaac was born of his Moder Sarra whan she was foure score yrre olde and ten / Petrus 539 Isaac was wened wha•• he was thre yere old and tho was made a gret feeste ¶ For tho he went first to his fader borde ¶ Crees began to regne in Creta / of hym that ylond creta hath that name c••eta ¶ Somme men say that Crees was one of the gou••rnours that norysshed and hidde Iupiter Sarra dyed whan she was six score yere old and seuen and was buryed in eb••on And sone therafter ele¦zeer abrahams seruaunt was sente f••r 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fette a wy•• for Isaac and brought rebecka. Also Abraham wedded ce••hura and big••¦te on her six childeren and departed hem all from his sone I••aac ¶ Petrus 59. Hebrewes seyn that Ce••hura is a com••n•• na∣me and is to vnderstandyng y coupled / And seyth that this ce∣th••ra was aga•• and of le••man was made a wi•• after / the deth of Sarra lest pe••auenter the old man shold haue be holden and reputed for a lechour yf he had wedded ony other than he had leye by bifore ¶ I••aac was fourty yere old whan he wed∣ded Rebecca that bare no child / xx yere after ¶ Augustinus libro octodecimo. Atte last / 54 Tryconydes was seyn a womā that ••eete trycona the grees calle hir minerua and heete pallas Also of pallas the Ilond of Tracia there was she nourysshed outher of pallas the geant that he slough R Here take ••ede that this geant pallas was another g••ant than the geant pal∣las that turnus euanders slough in ••n••as tyme Augustin{us} vbi supra This maide pallas that he••te minerua found vp ma¦ny craftes and specially wolle craft / and was lightyer trowed

a goddesse: For me wist wele lytil whens she cam· Isaac had twey twynnes born of rebecca Esau and Iacob ¶Augustinus vbi supra / The kyngdom of Argyues began in Grecia vnder I¦nachus Isis fader Isis heete Io also & Inachus regned fyfty yere And that kyngdom dured fyue honderd yere and foure and fourty vnder xiiij kynges vnto the last acrisius hym slowe per∣sius. though it were not by his wylle the twelfth yere of delbo∣ra Iugge of Israel· And therfore persius drad ful soore and lefte the Argus and torned the kyngdom to the mycenes Abraham an honderd yere old thre score and fyftene deyed and was buryed in Ebron Petrus 66 The langage of Hebrew and the vsage of old latyn is for to accompte the lasse nombre before to the more countray to the maner that latyn vseth nowe For now we seyn in latyn Abraham lyued an honderd yere .iij score and fyftene· But the hebrewes seyn in this maner: Abra∣ham lyued fyftene thre score and an honderd yere ¶ Augusti∣nus de ciuitate dei libro octodecimo Feroneus Inachus sonne was the second kyng of the argyues and regned sixty yere / This Feroneus Argolycus yafe firste lawes in grees and ordeyned that causes shold he pleted to fore Iugges ¶ Therfor he cleped the place of domes forum after his owne name / his broders na∣me was Fogons and the fogons coude moche Astrologye / and ordeyned temples to worship fals goddes: therfor he was repu∣ted and taken for a God amonge them that worshipped suche fals goddes His sister was called ysis / and Io also. she sayl∣led into Egypt and taught men there lettres and tyllynge of feldes: Therfore after her deth she was honoured as a goddesse a∣mong theym Isidorus libro tercio ¶Isis ordeyned first trom¦pes. therfor the amasones cleped hir oft to batayll ward with trompes ¶ R ¶ That me redeth that Iupiter rauesshed Io and on hit begate epaphus It is but a fable and feynyng of Poetes / For noble fame of eyther persone ¶ For Poetes feyne many noble persones geten of Iupiter For the kyn shold be hol¦de for the more gentil and noble ¶ But Io was in the tyme of Isaac and Iupiter was after in the tyme / of Iosue: Thessal¦lus grecus sonne regned in thessalia. Iacob after that he hadde bought the first birthes and slyly geten his faders blessyng by his moders counsayle he went doun in to mesopotania Petrus 64 ¶The first birthes were speciall profytes and worship that the oldest sonne had in her kynrede vnto Aaron: For they were

clothed in special clothynge in offrynge of sacrifice and had her fader blessynge and double porcion in feestes and in delyng of herytage and they shuld blesse her lasse Iacob begate his first sonne ruben on his wyf lya ¶This yere was a lytil flode in a∣chaia that heet attica· that lond was vnder ogiges the kyng that renued the cyte Atthen and bilde Elensis ¶ This yere Iacob four score yere old and enleuen begate Ioseph on rathel / Petrus 74: Whan the fourten yere were doo in the whiche Iacob serued for his wyues. Laban made couenaunt with hym that alle the spekeld lammes and kyddes that shuld be ewed duryng his co∣uenaunt shuld be Iacobs mede· and all that were of oo coloure whyte / or blac shuld be labans owne therfore Iacob toke gren•• yerdes of poplers of almond trees and of Platans and pylled of the rynde in somme place of the yerdes / and in somme place pylled hem not· And soo he made the yerdes spekeld and made hem in the wattryng place bifore the shepes eyen when they shold conceyue for theyshold conceyue lambes like to the shadowes that they sawe of Rāmes in the myrroure of the water in the con∣ceyuyng / And for they shold not alle be specled leste the gyle were knowen / therfor in the first conceyuyng tyme he leyde so ye••¦des but not in the later conceyuyng tyme And so Iacob foun¦de a newr maner tornyng of kynde with kyndely craft to fighte ayenst kynd R Loke more of this matier aboue libro eius capi∣tulo primo ¶ Whan Iacob was come ayene with his wyues & children er he cam to his fader twellue yere bifore the deth of I∣saac Ioseph sexten yere old was sold in to egypte to one that he••¦te putephar that was ennuchus and maister of pharoes knygh¦tes ¶Treuisa Ennuchus is he that is gelded and suche were somtyme made wardens of ladyes in egypt ¶Augustinus super Genesim ¶This putephar was not soo ennuchus as they that were gelded in her childhode for he had wyf and childer and Io∣seph had wedded his doughter / but this putephar sawe that Io¦seph was fayr and boughte him for to mysuse hym. therfore god made this putephar so cold· that he myghte neuer after haue to doo flesshely with his owne wyf no moore than thaugh he were ennuch{us} y gelded / & therfore as he that was most worshipful he was made bisshop of god heliopoles. Apis the third kyng of ar¦giues was Feroneus sonne and regned two and twenty yere Isaac an honderd yere old and four score dyed and was bury∣ed in the double graue in ebron ¶ That yere pharao sawe the

sweuen of the seuen corn eres and of the seuen kyne