Matthew(i)
1 And it came to passe, whan men began to multyply vpon the erth, & had begat them daughters,
2 that sonnes of god saw the daughters of men that they were fayre, and toke vnto them wyues, which they best lyked among them all.
3 And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alway striue wyth man, for they are flesh. Neuerthelesse I wyl geue them yet space, an .C. & .xx. yeres.
4 There were tyrantes in the world in those dayes. For after that the chyldren of god had gone in, vnto the daughters of men, & had begotten them chyldren, the same chyldren were the mightiest of the world, & men of renowne.
5 And whan the Lord saw that the wekednesse of man was encreased vpon the erth, & that al the ymaginacion & thoughtes of his hert was only euell contynually,
6 he repented that he had made man vpon the erth, and sorowed in his hert.
7 And sayd: I wyl destroy mankynde whych I haue made, from of the face of the erth: both man, beast, worme and foule of the ayre, for it repenteth me that I haue made them.
8 But yet Noe founde grace in the syght of the Lord.