Noah's Restoration of the World

Noe (according to S. Jerome to his interpretations of

Hebrew words signifieth as much as resting o[rch]fying of a

man's selfe; and he was the sonne of Lamech; which signi-

fieth humilitie. This Noe by the descriptions of [vlet] writers

was taken in those daies to be a [Giafizin] respect of his ex-

traordinarie stature, prop[oseion]; and corpulence and he

was about [xx] age (as Moyses also in the sixt chapter of

Genesis affirmeth of [five] hundred years when he begat

of his [... an hour's study might get this one]

first sonnes; Sems which [? pleased?, signifies ?ous o-]

therwise called [Melchesidech these to herth bugte-]

Berosus affirme him to bee the [younon] which signifies

[subtilrie] or [raft:] and Japhet, which signifies [serme or]

[frotdome - the rest of the line unlegible]

lived in a citie called Enos, which was the first citie in the

world, and was built by Cain the sonne of Adam, at the

foot of the mountaine Libanus in the land of Syria, and

in the particular province of Phoenicia, not far from the

famous citie of Ierusalem, situated in the holy land.

  In this citie of Enos, and in many others thereabouts,

inhabited and lived many most deformed, fierce, and ter-

rible giants, who by reason of their unmatchable strength

and indomitable powerfulnesse, ruled and overswaied all

those people thereabouts at their pleasure, committing

many odious and ungodly deeds, and living a most disso-

lute and vicious life, engorging their luxurious appetites

with surfets of adulterie and libidinous conversation, as

void of shame, the law of nature, and the feare of God.