384 Þe moste mou{n}tay{n}eȝ on mor þe{n}ne watȝ no more dryȝe, [Sidenote: People flock to the mountains.] & þ{er}-on flokked þe folke, for ferde of þe wrake, Syþen þe wylde of þe wode on þe wat{er} flette; [Sidenote: Some swim for their lives.] Su{m}me swy{m}med þ{er}-on þat saue hemself trawed, 388 Su{m}me styȝe to a stud & stared to þe heuen, [Sidenote: Others roar for fear.] Rwly wyth a loud rurd rored for drede. [Sidenote: Animals of all kinds run to the hills.] Hareȝ, hertteȝ also, to þe hyȝe ru{n}nen, Bukkeȝ, bauseneȝ & buleȝ to þe bonkkeȝ hyȝed, 392 [Sidenote: All pray for mercy.] & alle cryed for care to þe ky{n}g of heuen, Re-cou{er}er of þe creator, þay cryed vchone, [Sidenote: God’s mercy is passed from them.] Þat amou{n}ted þe masse, þe mase his mercy watȝ passed, & alle his pyte departed fro peple þat he hated. 396 [Sidenote: [Fol. 62b.]] Bi þat þe flod to her fete floȝed & waxed, [Sidenote: Each sees that he must sink.] Þen vche a segge seȝ wel þat synk hy{m} byhoued; Frendeȝ fellen i{n} fere & faþmed togeder To dryȝ her delful deystyné & dyȝen alle samen; 400 [Sidenote: Friends take leave of one another.] Luf lokeȝ to luf & his leue takeȝ, For to ende alle at oneȝ & for eu{er} twy{n}ne. [Sidenote: Forty days have gone by, and all are destroyed.] By forty dayeȝ wern faren, on folde no flesch styryed, Þat þe flod nade al freten w{i}t{h} feȝtande waȝeȝ[18], 404 For hit clam vche a clyffe cubit{es} fyftene, Ou{er} þe hyȝest hylle þat hurkled on erþe. [Headnote: ALL ROT IN THE MUD.]