(Vol. vii., p. 305.)
Sir John Maundeville says:
"Also, seven miles from Nazareth is Mount Cain, under which is a
well; and beside that well Lamech, Noah's father, slew Cain with
an arrow. For this Cain went through briars and bushes, as a
wild beast; and he had lived from the time of Adam, his father,
unto the time of Noah; and so he lived nearly two thousand
years. And Lamech was blind for old age."--_Travels_, chap. x.,
Bohn's _Early Travels in Palestine_, p. 186.
To which is appended the following note by Mr. Thomas Wright, the
editor:
"This legend arose out of an interpretation given to Gen. iv.
23, 24. See, as an illustration, the scene in the _Coventry
Mysteries_, pp. 44. 46.