¶Of a greate flode in Tessalie
ANother flode there was in Tessalie
In the tyme whanne kyng amphion
Helde the ceptre and the regalye
Vpon thebes the myghty stronge towne
Beside the kyngdome of babiloun
The same tyme this flode fyll doutles
Whanne goddes people was ledde by moyses
With this flode the londe hadde ben deuoured
Of tessaylie and of all that region
But on pernaso the people was socoured
And on the roches that stode enuyron
Founde there refute to their saluacion
And greate socoure tyll the flode rage
Began discrece withdrawe and a swage
In olde stories also ye may se
Whanne Cicraps hadde first possession
Of athenys the myghty stronge cyte
An hete there fyll in that region
By influence that descendith doun
From the bodyes aboue celestiall
Which likely was for to deuoure all