Of Cedar. chap. 34.
CEdar is the name of a Countrye, in which dwelled the Ismalites, that were the children of Cedar, that was Is∣maels eldest sonne. For Ismael was A∣brahams sonnè, ••otten on his seruaunt Agar, a woman of Aegypt. And more truely they be there called Agareni then Savaceni, though they mistake the name of Sara in vaine, and be proud therof, as though they were gendered of Sara, as Isidore sayth li. 9. These men builde no houses, but goe about in large wilder∣nesse, as wilde men, and dwell in tents, and liue by prayes, and by Uenison. And therefore Ismael was called Onager, a wild Asse: as the Glose saith: super Ge∣ne. 16. This was a fierce man, &c. And he saith, that he shall passe the woodnesse of all beasts, and gréeue sober men and easy. For, as Methodius sayth, yet hereafter they shall once be gathered together, & go out of Desart, and winne and holde the roundnesse of the earth, eight wéekes of yéeres, and theyr way shall bée called the waye of anguish and of woe. For they shall ouercome Cities & kingdomes. And they shall slay Priests in holy places, and lye there with women, and drinks of ho∣ly vessells, and lie beasts to Sepulcres of holy Saintes, for wickednesse of chri∣sten men, that shall be that time. These & many other things he doth rehearse, that Ismaelits men of Cedar, shall doe in the wide worlde.
Cedar a Region in Arabia.* 1.1