th well that this time
were many men, though their generation be not said, whom Cain called to
his city, by whose help he made it, whom he induced to theft and
robbery.

He was the first that walled or made cities; dreading them that he
hurted, for surety he brought his people into the towns. Then Enoch gat
Irad, and Irad Mehujael, and he gat Methusael, and he gat Lameth, which
was the seventh from Adam and worst, for he brought in first bigamy.
This Lameth took two wives, Adah and Zilla; of Adah he gat Jabal which
found first the craft to make folds for shepherds and to change their
pasture, and ordained flocks of sheep, and departed the sheep from the
goats after the quality, the lambs by themselves, and the older by
themselves, and understood the feeding of them after the season of the
year. The name of his brother was Jubal, father of singers in the harp
and organs, not of the instruments, for they were found long after, but
he was the finder of music, that is to say of consonants of accord, such
as shepherds use in their delights and sports. And forasmuch as he heard
Adam prophesy of two judgments by the fire and water, that all things
should be destroyed thereby, and that his craft new found should not
perish, he did do write it in two pillars or columns, one of marble,
another of clay of the earth, to the end that one should endure against
the water, and that other against the fire. Josephus saith that the
pillar of marble is yet in the land of Syria. Of Zilla he begat
Tubal-cain, which found first the craft of smithery and working of iron,
and made things for war, and sculptures and gravings in metal to the
pleasure of the eyes, which he so working, Tubal, tofore said, had
delight in the sound of his hammers, of which he made the consonants and
tunes of accord in his song. Noema, sister of Tubal-cain, found first
the craft of diverse texture.

Lameth was a shooter, and used to shoot at wild beasts, for none use of
the meat of them, but only for to have the skins for their clothing, and
lived so long that he was blind and had a child to lead him. And on a
time by adventure he slew Cain. For Cain was always afeard and hid him
among bushes and briars, and the child that led Lameth had supposed it
had been some wild beast and directed Lameth to shoot thereat, and so,
weening to shoot at a beast, slew Cain. And when he knew that he had
slain Cain, he with his bow slew the child, and thus he slew them both
to his da