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DAuyd of the lignage of Iuda was the second kynge of Hebrewes & regned fourty yere first seuen yere in ebron vpon Iuda al one & after thre and thyrtty yere vpon all israel ¶Latynus Siluius the fyfth kyng of latyns regned fyfty ye¦re The second Ixyon kyng of cormth̄ regned xxxviij yeres Andonycus buylde the cyte ephesus / And Salamon is borne ¶Psidorus libro quinto Cartage is buyld ¶ Petrus
Somme wol meene that carthedon Tirius bylde cartage / And other wryte that his doughter dido buylded it ¶R And yf ther were but thre score yere and ten bytwene the byldynge of cartage and of Rome as Trogus and papias acorden· than it se¦meth that cartage was buyld about the first yere of Ozias king of Iuda as it is sayd in the first book of the prouynce of Affri∣ca capitulo numidia. Galf•• and Alf•• Menpricius the fifth kyng kynge of brytons regned twenty xere This cleped his broder for acorde and slough hym and toke the kyngdome with strength and vsede tyrannye in the peple and bigate on his wyf a noble yong man called Ebrancus & forsoke his wyf atte laste & vsed zodomye as a shrew shold but atte last at huntyng he was eten of wolues ¶ Dauid the kynge. dyed the xxix day of december at the tour of Syon in Iherusalem and was buryed therwith grete rychesse of the whiche rychesse afterward hircanus the bis∣shop yaf antioch{us} demetri{us} sone thre thousand talentes for to goo from Ierl̄m / Treuisa / A talent is a grete weyght & ther be thre man talentis the lest is of / l. poūde / the middel of ·lx / score pond & twelue / the moost of an / C. poūde and twenty / Sequitur in histo∣ria / This dauyd while he had peas made songes & ympnes som of thre metres & som̄e of v & made also organs of dyuerse man & other instrumētes of music in which the dekenes shold say ymp¦nes and songes & four men maystres ouer other / Ema•• in the myddel Asaph in the right syde. ethan in the lyft syde & edythim to ouer see the symbals Also ther were xxiiij bisshopps & had vnder hem four and twenty preestes four and twentydekens & four and twenty porters· the thyrdde part of hem serued in the temple and the m••ene tyme the other two partes ordeyned for her own hows / Salamon regned in ysrl̄ somwhat of yeres while his fader dauid was a lyue / the whiche yeres ben acompted to da¦uid & not to· salamon / & after that his fader was deed he regned xl yere· Also Ierom in epl̄a ad vitalē presbiterū· sayth that sala¦mon whan ••e was xj yere old gate a sone on pharoes doughter Also me redeth of achaz the kyng yt gate a child whan he was xj yer old / also this salamō whan yt he had slayne Ioab semey & ado¦nyas & whan he had receyued wytte & wysedom of god in the hill & yeuen dome of the two strompettes / he cast in his hert to doo thre thynges· fyrst bylde a temple to almyghty god / a kynges pala∣is to him self / and to walle Iherusalem with thre wallys / within the first walle dwellyd preestes & clerkes that serued in the tēple
and the kyng & his houshold within the second wall woned stal¦worth men and prophetes and within the thyrdde wall were in∣habyte with comyn peple and craftes men / Salamons mete was euerx day / xxx / chorus of ter floure & lxxx chor{us} of mele / x / fatte oxen & an honderd weders / withoute veneson pultrye and wylde foule. Chorus conteyneth the mesure of .30 / busshels Salamon wrote also thre bookes that one is called Parabole salamonis & prouerbia also / the second heete ecclesiastes· the thyrd cantica can ticorum / He disputed also of kynde of trees & of herbes. from the cedar that groweth in the woode Lybanus / vnto the ysope that groweth oute of the walles· Also he told moche philosophye of the kynde of beestes / He foūde vp also halsyng & coniurisons for to slake sekenesse and other for to caste fendes oute of men· that they combred / Also he founde vp figu••es and pryntes to be gra∣uen in precious stones that shuld with the rotes of somme herbes be holden to the nose thrylles of men that hadden fendes within hem and put out the fendes / This craft was moche vsed among the hebrewes bifore the comyng of crist Therfor Iosephus libro octauo sayth that he sawe Elyazarus the coniurour in presence of Vaspas••an the Prynce helede men that hadden fendes with in hem / in this maner he put a vessel with water to the mannes no∣se and heet the fende / that he sholde ouertorne the vessel whan he wente oute· and so it was done / ¶ Also Salamon. to fynde a spedeful craft for to clense and cleue stones / he enclosed a struc¦tion bird in a glas & the struction brought a worme that heete Thamyr oute of wyldernesse and touched the glas aboute wyth the blood of that worme / and so brak the glas and delyuerd his bird ¶Than the first yere of salamon was the outgoing of that nacion Ionica of Lacedemonea Omerus was in that pas¦singe· Ionica is a nacion of grekes ¶ The fourth yere of Sa∣lamon the second moneth that was four honderd and four score yere after the goyng out of Egypte salamon began to buylde the temple & was seuen yere in buyldyng and signefyed holy chirch & the viij yere the temple was halowed & had in length an C cu¦bites & xx / in brede thre score & in heyght xxx / ¶ In this temple was so moch gold that whan the romaynes sette it on fyre ther ran a streme of gold of nayles molten in to the brooc called tor¦rens Cedron. Also that yere the quene of Saba come for to here the wysedome of Salamon ¶ Petrus ¶ Me sayth this que¦ue sawe a tree in the temple on the whiche tree / one shulde
be an hanged / and by cause of his deth the kyngdome of Iewes shold be destroyed· the quene warned salamon. and anon the tre was throwen in to a depe pyt vnder erth & how it fleet aftward aboute Cristes tyme in a pond called probatica piscina / it is vn∣certayne. Me troweth that this tree· was the rood tree Gaufr / Ebranc Nempricius sonne was the sixth kyng of brytons and regned sixty yere / this man was both fayre and stronge and on one and twenty wyues he bigate twenty sonnes and thyrttye doughters. The fayrest doughter of alle was gwalaes / Hebranc sende thes doughters to Albia siluius kynge / for he wolde haue hem maryed to the bloode of troye bycause that the wymmen Sa¦bynes fledde the beddes of the latyns Also Ebranc by leding of Assaracus occupyed a party of germania Ebranc beyonde humbre bylde that cyte of york in the marche of northumberlond and of scotland / he ordeyned the cyte alcluyt ¶ And he buylde within Scotland the castel of maydens that now is called eden borgh / ¶Afterward he sayled in to Fraunce with a greet nauye and come ayene wonderly ryche / Alba siluius the sixth kyng of l••tyns regned nyne and thyrtty yere