10. Me thoght I shewed man luf when I made hym to be All angels abuf, like to the Trynyté; And now in grete reprufe full low ligis he, In erth hymself to stuf with syn that displeas_es_ Me 85 Most of all. Veniance will I take In erth for syn sake; My grame thus will I wake Both of grete and small. 90 11. I repente full sore that euer maide I man; Bi me he settis no store, and I am his soferan; I will distroy therfor both beest, man and woman, All shall perish, les and more; that bargan may thay ban That ill has done. 95 In erth I se right noght Bot syn that is vnsoght; Of those that well has wroght Fynd I bot a fone. 12. Therfor shall I fordo all this medill-erd 100 With floodis that shall flo and ryn with hidous rerd; I haue good cause therto; for Me no man is ferd. As I say shal I do—of veniance draw My swerd, And make end Of all that beris life, 105 Sayf Noe and his wife, For thay wold neuer stryfe With Me, then Me offend. 13. Hym to mekill wyn, hastly will I go To Noe my seruand, or I blyn, to warn hym of his wo. 110 In erth I se bot syn reynand to and fro, Emang both more and myn, ichon other fo With all thare entent. All shall I fordo With floodis that shall floo; 115 Wirk shall I thaym wo That will not repent. [_God descends and addresses Noah._] 14. Noe, My freend, I thee commaund, from cares the to keyle, A ship that thou ordand of nayle and bord ful wele. Thou was alway well-wirkand, to Me trew as stele, 120 To My bydyng obediand: frendship shal thou fele To mede. Of lennthe thi ship be Thre hundreth cubettis, warn I the, Of heght euen thirté, 125 Of fyfty als in brede. 15. Anoynt thi ship with pik and tar, without and als within, The water out to spar—this is a noble gyn; Look no man the mar, thre che_s_e chambres begyn; Thou must spend many a spar this wark or thou wyn 130 To end fully. Make in thi ship also Parloures oone or two, And houses of offyce mo For beestis that ther must be. 135