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Ivdas sone of Iacob descended of hym / & of this trybe of Iudas ca∣me the kyng{is} progenye / & at y• last Cry¦ste our lorde. Iudas gate Phares / & Pha¦res Esron / & of these men lytell is had in scrypture / but Math reherceth them.
¶Beleus in this Phares dayes was kȳ¦ge of Assurio{rum} / or of Babylon / and he was the .x. kynge / vnder whome Ysaac decessed. ¶Athlas the grete astonomyer was also / the whiche is sayd to bere vp heuen on his sholder / for the very kno∣wlege of the sterres. ¶Sarapis was the thyrde kynge of Arguio{rum}, or of Greco{rum} & this Sarapis was called otherwyse Ap••s / and he came in to Egypte with a myghty nauy / & there decessed / and was made of the blynde gentyles the Egyp¦cyens / the grettest god amonge theym. And that tyme began a meruaylous su¦persticion in ydolatrye / of a calf of two colours whiche they called Apem / & that calf deyed / the deuylles procured a lyke calf to that / for to be made / that they myght deceyue the rude people / & after that it came that the childern of Israel dyde on the same wyse (vt patet) And what thynge coude be more wretched or folysshe in man hauynge reason. ¶Ar∣gus was the fourth kyng of Grekis / af¦ter whome the noble cyte of Argus toke his name. Lycropis edefyed Athenes in Grecia / & this cyte was the nouryssher of lyberall scyence / & of many phyloso∣phers / yet they were deceyued by dyuyl∣les / and grete supersticyosyte in the cyte was made (vide aug{us}. et mirabilē fabu∣lā reperies) ¶Omogires the fyrst man put oxen to the ploughe. ¶Belus this tyme was kynge of Babylon / & he was the .x. kynge of the regyon / & vnder hȳ¦deyed Ysaac. ¶Pharao was kynge of Egypte / whiche receyued Ioseph / & exal¦ted hym for thynterpretacyon of his dre¦mes (vide scientiā pulcherrimā{que} histo∣riā. gen̄ .xlij. &c̄. ¶Amithus was the .xij. kynge of Babylon / vnder whone dyed Ioseph a blessyd man in chastyte ¶Pha¦rao Emonophis about Esdroms dayes was kynge of Egypte / & this Pharao knewe not Ioseph ne none of his lygna ge / & he cōmaūded the childn of Israel to be drowned / as it is had (Exodi .••) Ye clerkes may loke that boke / and we laye wyll loke to cronycles / but aboute this tyme the storye of Exodi began.