And There
Beside Grow Trees That Bear Full Fair Apples, And Fair Of Colour To
Behold; But Whoso Breaketh Them Or Cutteth Them In Two, He Shall
Find Within Them Coals And Cinders, In Token That By Wrath Of God
The Cities And The Land Were Burnt And Sunken Into Hell.
Some men
clepe that sea the lake Dalfetidee; some, the flome of Devils; and
some the flome that is ever stinking.
And into that sea sunk the
five cities by wrath of God; that is to say, Sodom, Gomorrah,
Aldama, Zeboim, and Zoar, for the abominable sin of sodomy that
reigned in them. But Zoar, by the prayer of Lot, was saved and
kept a great while, for it was set upon a hill; and yet sheweth
thereof some part above the water, and men may see the walls when
it is fair weather and clear. In that city Lot dwelt a little
while; and there was he made drunk of his daughters, and lay with
them, and engendered of them Moab and Ammon. And the cause why his
daughters made him drunk and for to lie by him was this: because
they saw no man about them, but only their father, and therefore
they trowed that God had destroyed all the world as he had done the
cities, as he had done before by Noah's flood. And therefore they
would lie by with their father for to have issue, and for to
replenish the world again with people to restore the world again by
them; for they trowed that there had been no more men in all the
world; and if their father had not been drunk, he had not lain with
them.
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