Noë, Signifieth reste, or ceassing from labour. It was the name of an holy Patriarch, the sonne of Lamech, whome onely (with his wife and three sonnes) God elected to bee preserued from the vniuersall floud, which almightie God sente ouer the worlde, for the horrible sinues of men then liuing. Noe (of the age of 600. yeares) by the commandement of God made a greate vessell, called in holy scripture an Arke, which contained in length 300. cubites (as Saint Augustine saieth) geometricall, euerie cubite containing fixe common cubites, whiche is nine foote: so it was in length 2700. foote, in breadth 50. cubites, which was 450. foote: in deepenesse 30. cubites, which was 270. foote: wherein were also saued of all kindes of beasts and foules, male and female. And after the floude ceassed, the Arke remained vppon an hill in Armenia called Cordici. Noe lyued after the floude 350. yeares: after the creation of the worlde 2007. yeares: and before the incarnation of Christe 1855. yeares. He was of the Gentiles called Ianus, and sometime Vortumnus.