Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton; Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton [Editor]: The art of needle-work from the earliest ages: including some notices of the ancient historical tapestries (London: Henry Colburn Publishers, 1841)

ROMANCES WORKED IN TAPESTRY. 169
“ The story of Adam, there was goodly wrought,
And of his wyfe Eve, bytwene them the serpent,
How they were deceyved, and to theyr peynes brought;
There was Cayn and Abell, offerynge theyr present,
The sacryfyce of A.bell, accepte full evydent:
Tuball and Tubalcain were purtrayed in that place, ‘
The inventours of musyke and crafte by great grace.
“ Noe and his shyppe was made there curyously
Sendynge forthe a raven, whiche never came again ;
And how the dove returned, with a braunche hastely,
A token of comforte and peace, to man certayne :
Abraham there was, standing upon the mount playne
To offer in sacrifice Isaac his dere sone,
And how the shepe for hym was offered in oblacyon.
“ The twelve sones of Jacob there were in purtrayture,
And how into Egypt yonge Josephe was solde,
There was imprisoned, by a false conjectour,
After in all Egypte, was ruler (as is tolde).
There was in pycture Moyses wyse and bolde,
Our Lorde apperynge in bushe fiammynge as fyre,
And nothing thereof brent, lefe, tree, nor spyre.*
“ The ten plages of Egypt were well embost,
The chyldren of Israel passyng the reed see,
Kynge Pharoo drowned, with all his proude hoost,
And how the two table, at the Mounte Synaye
Were gyven to Moyses, and how soon to idolatry
The people were prone, and punysshed were therefore,
How Datan and Abyron, for pryde were full youre.”f
Then Duke Joshua leading the Israelites: the
division of the promised land; Kyng Sauli and David,
and “ prudent Solomon Roboas succeeding ;
“ The good Kynge Esechyas and his generacyon,
And so to the Machabus, and dyvers other nacyon.”

Spyre—twig, branch.

t Youre— burnt.