The Old Cornish Drama : With Illustrations From Ancient Cornish Sacred Poems And Miracles Plays of Other Lands : a Lecture
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Other scenes found here and not in the Origo are the death of Cain at the hands of Lamech (an incident based on a tradition related by St. Jerome and, like so many other interesting legends, painted in the windows at St. Neot's), the transla- tion of Enoch to Paradise, from which he is again taken in the harrowing of hell ; and the erection by Seth of two pillars, the one of marble, and the one of brick, wherein to preserve from destruction 2 The Old Cornish Drama by the flood the books in whic...h he had caused to be written the history of all things from the beginning of the world. For the rest, the plays are practically identical so far as the earlier one extends — namely, from the fall of Lucifer and creation of the world to the abating of Noah's flood. Some of the stage directions read very quaintly : * Adam and Eve aparlet in whytt lether in a place apoynted by the conveyour, and not to be sene tyll they be called and thei knell and ryse ' ; ' Let Paradyce be fynelye made wy*^ 1 1 ° fayre trees in yt and an appell upon the tree and som other frute one the other ' ; 'A fowntaine in Paradice and fyne flowers in yt painted,' and so on.
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