Adam, le premer homme qe unques fust, entendi et savoit bien de trois choses qe fussent a vener. C'est assavoir de deus jugementz par lesquels Dieux voleit le monde ajuger: le premer jugement par eve, qe vint en le tenps Noe; l'autre jugement par feu. Encontre cels deus jugementz il fist deus piliers: l'un de marbre, encontre l'eve; et l'autre de tighel ou de tai, encontre le feu. En lesquels pielers il escrit tote manere art, qe cels qe venissent aprés lui purroient savoir le cours de siecle et lui avoir plus frechement en memorie.

Adam, the first man that ever was, knew and understood well three things that were to come. That is, he knew of the two judgements by which God wished to judge the world: the first judgement by water, which came in the time of Noah; the other judgement by fire. To guard against these two judgements he made two pillars: one of marble, against the water, and the other of tile or of clay, against the fire. On these pillars he wrote all kinds of knowledge, so that those who came after him could know the course of the world, and to recall the knowledge more clearly in his own memory.