ABSTRACT
I will teach thee a lesson worth the hearing … how Gentility first sprung upe, I will not forget the olde wives logick, when Adam delvd and Eve span, who was then a Gentleman? but I tel thee after the generall floode that there was no more men upon the earth but Noe and his three sonnes, and that Cham had wickedly discovered his fathers secrets then grew the division of estates thus: The church was figured in Sem, Gentilitye in Iapheth, labour and drudgerie in Cham…
