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A thousand years
and six hours of the hours,
without guile, without danger, it has been heard,
Adam was in Paradise.^[1]

O God our help, whom champions prove,
who fashioned all with perfect justice,
not bright the matter of our theme (?)^[2]
the King who spake an admonition with them.

Prince who gave a clear admonition.

(The figures in brackets after the title of the chapters are the numbers of the poems or cantos in the text.)

1. There seems to be some error here. According to Gen. v. 3, Adam lived altogether nine hundred and thirty years, as the poet states further on (p. 43).
2. The meaning of this line is not clear. The above is conjectural.