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Ioseph. looked heauely. Awaking, and fallen againe into a deep sleep, I saw a dreame: Seuen eares of corne grew forth vpon one stalke, ful and verie faire. Other seuen also thinne and blasted with adustion, sprang of the stalke: which deuoured the beautie of the former: I told the dreame to the coniecturers, and there is no man that can declare it. Ioseph answered: The Kings dreame is one: God hath shewed to Pharao the things that he wil doe. The seuen faire kine, and the seuen ful eares, be seuen yeares of plentifulnes: and both conteine the selfe-same meaning of the dreame. Also the seuen leane and thinne kine, that came vp after them, and the seuen thinne eares, and blasted with the burning wind: are seuen yeares of famine to come. Which shal be fulfilled in this order. Behold there shal come seuen yeares of great fertilitie in the whole Land of Ægypt: after which shal folow other seuen yeares of so great sterilitie, that al the abundance before shal be forgotten: for the famine shal consume al the land, and the greatnes of the scarcitie shal destroy the greatnes of the plentie. And in that thou didest see the second time a dreame perteining to the same thing, it is a token of the certeintie, for that the worde of God shal come to passe, and be fulfilled speedily. Now therfore let the King prouide a wise man and industrious, & make him Ruler ouer the Land of Ægypt: that he may appointe ouerseers ouer al countries: and gather into barnes the fifth part of the fruits, during the seuen yeares of the fertilitie, that now presently shal ensue: and let al the corne be laid vp vnder Pharaoes hands, and let it be reserued in the cities. And let it be in a readines, against the famine of seuen yeares to come, which shal oppresse Ægypt, and the land shal not be consumed with scarcitie. The counsel pleased Pharao, and al his seruants: and he spake to them: Can we find such an other man, that is ful of the spirit of God? He said therfore to Ioseph: Because God hath shewed thee al things that thou hast spoken, can I find a wiser and one like vnto thee? Thou shalt be ouer my house, & at the commandement of thy mouth al the people shal obey: only in the throne of the Kingdome I wil goe before thee. And againe Pharao said to Ioseph: Behold, I haue appointed thee ouer the whole land of Ægypt. And he tooke his ring from his owne hand, and gaue it into his hand: and he put vpon him a silke robe, and put a chaine of gold about his necke. And he made him goe vp into his second chariot, the cryer proclayming that al should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was ″ made Gouernour ouer the whole Land of Ægypt. And the King said to Ioseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment no man shal moue hand or foot in al the land of Ægypt. And he turned his name, & called him in the Ægyptian tong ″ the Sauiour of the world. And he gaue him to wife Aseneth the daughter of Putiphar Priest of Heliopolis. Ioseph therfore went forth to the land of Ægypt (and he was thirtie yeares old when he stood in the Rh