"Japeth," he continues, "cum heder my sonne, thou shalt have my blessing dere.... I make the a gentilman of the west parte of the world and of Asia, that is to say, _the contre of gentilmen_." He then in like manner creates Sem a gentleman, and gives him Africa, or "_the contre of tempurnes_."[12] "Of the offspryng of the gentleman Japheth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys, and also the kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus ... kyng of the londe of Jude and of Jues, gentilman by his modre Mary prynce[ss] of cote-armure!"... "Jafet made the first target and therin he made a ball in token of all the worlde." Morgan's researches do not seem to have furnished him with the arms of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but those of the twelve patriarchs are given by him and others. Joseph's "coat of many colours," Morgan, by a strange oversight, makes to consist of two tinctures only, viz. black, chequered with white--in the language of heraldry, _chequy sable and argent_,--to denote the lights and shadows of his history. The pathetic predictions and benedictions pronounced by the dying patriarch Jacob to his sons, furnished our old writers with one of their best pretences for giving coat-armour to persons in those remote ages. The standards ordered to be set up around the Israelitish camp in the desert[13] are likewise adduced in support of the notion that regular heraldry was then known. The arms of the twelve tribes are given by Morgan in the following hobbling verses:[14] "Judah bare Gules, a lion[15] couchant or; Zebulon's black Ship's[16] like to a man of war; Issachar's asse[17] between two burthens girt; As Dan's[18] sly snake lies in a field of vert; Asher with _Azure_ a Cup[19] of gold sustains; And Nephtali's Hind[20] trips o'er the flow'ry plains; Ephraim's strong Ox lyes with the couchant Hart; Manasseh's Tree its branches doth impart; Benjamin's Wolfe in the field gules resides; Reuben's field argent and blew bars wav'd glides; Simeon doth beare his Sword; and in that manner Gad, having pitched his Tent, sets up his Banner." The same authority gives as the arms of Moses a _cross_, because he preferred "taking up the cross," and suffering the lot of his brethren to a life of pleasure and dignity in the court of Pharaoh. The 'parfight armory of Duke Joshua,' given by Leigh, is _Partie bendy sinister, or and gules, a backe displayed sable_. The arms of Gideon were _Sable, a fleece argent, a chief azure gutté d'eau_,[21] evidently a 'composition' from the miracle recorded in the Book of Judges. To Samson is ascribed, _Gules, a lion couchant or, within an orle argent, semée of bees sable_, an equally evident allusion to a passage in the bearer's history. David, as a matter of course, bore _a golden harp in a field azure_.[22]