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expedience]
C (Quod he) I sail do as I can.
Efter the Elude I fynde no Storye
Worthy to putt in Memorye,
Tyll Nemrod began to Ryng
Aboue the Peple as ane Kyng,
Quhilk wes the Principall man of one.
That beilder was of Babilone.
cour[tiour]
&s' That Story, Maister, wald I knaw,
(Quod I) geue 3e the suthe wald schaw,
Quhy and for quhat occasioun
Thay beildit sic ane strang Dungeoun.
expe[rience]
C Than said to me Experience !
I sail declare, with Deligence,
Those Questionis, at thy command.
Bot first, Sonne, thow mon vnderstand
Off Nemrod the Genologie,
His strenth, Curage, and Quantitie ;
Quhowbeit Moyses, in his first Buke,
That Story lychtlye did ouer Luke ;
Off hym no more he doith declare.
Except he was ane strang Huntare.
Bot vtheris Clerkis Curious,
As Oroce doith, and losephus,
Discryuis Nemrod at more lenth,
Boith of his stature and his strenth.
This Nemrod was the fourt persoun
[E 8&] Frome Noye be lyne discendyng doun.
Noye generit Cham, Cham generit Chus,
And Chus, Nemrod ; the suthe bene thus.
This Nemrod grew ane man of mycht ;
That tyme in erth wes none so wycht.
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