Finallie of our sort, Lucane in his first booke writeth thus, among other like saiengs well toward the latter end; [Sidenote: _Lucani. li._ 1.] Vos quóq; qui fortes animas, bellóq; peremptas Laudibus in longum vates dimittitis æuum, Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi. Et vos barbaricos ritus, morémque sinistrum Sacrorum Druiydæ, positis recepistis ab armis. Solis nosse Deos, & c[oe]li numina vobis, Aut solis nescire datum: nemora alta remotis Incolitis lucis. Vobis authoribus, vmbræ Non tacitas Erebi sedes, Ditisque profundi Pallida regna petunt, regit idem spiritus artus Orbe alio. Longæ canitis si cognita, vitæ Mors media est, certe populi, quos despicit arctos, F[oe]lices errore suo, quos ille timorum Maximus haud vrget leti metus: inde ruendi In ferrum mens prona viris, animæque capaces Mortis: & ignauum est redituræ parcere vitæ. Thus we sée as in a glasse the state of religion, for a time, after the first inhabitation of this Iland: but how long it continued in such soundnesse, as the originall authors left it, in good sooth I cannot say, yet this is most certeine, that after a time, when Albion arriued here, the religion earst imbraced fell into great decaie. For whereas Iaphet & Samothes with their children taught nothing else than such doctrine as they had learned of Noah: Cham the great grandfather of this our Albion, and his disciples vtterlie renouncing to follow their steps, gaue their minds wholie to seduce and lead their hearers headlong vnto all error. Whereby his posteritie not onelie corrupted this our Iland, with most filthie trades and practises; but also all mankind, generallie where they became, with vicious life, and most [Sidenote: What doctrine Cham and his disciples taught.] vngodlie conuersation. For from Cham and his successours procéeded at the first all sorcerie, witchcraft, and the execution of vnlawful lust, without respect of sex, age, consanguinitie, or kind: as branches from an odious and abhominable root, or streames deriued from a most filthie and horrible stinking puddle. Howbeit, & notwithstanding all these his manifold lewdnesses, such was the follie of his Ægyptians (where he first reigned and taught) that whilest he liued they alone had him in great estimation (whereas other nations contemned and abhorred him for his wickednesse, calling him [Sidenote: Chemesenua.] Chemesenua, that is, the impudent, infamous and wicked Cham) and not [Sidenote: Chem Min.] [Sidenote: Cham made a god.] onelie builded a citie vnto him which they called Chem Min, but also after his death reputed him for a god, calling the highest of the seuen planets after his name, as they did the next beneath it after Osyris his sonne, whom they likewise honored vnder the name of Iupiter.