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 Then Noah ſaid I will go down

And will forbid her that she knock,

Go back he said ye drunken loon,

You're none of the celestial flock,

Noah, ſhe ſaid, hold thou thy peace,

Where I drank ale thou didſt drink wine,

Diſcovered was to thy diſgrace,

When thou wsswas [sic] drunken like a ſwine,

For I did did drink I learn'd at thee,

If thou'rt the Father and the first,

That others taught, and likewise me,

To drink although we had no thirst.

Then Noah turned back with ſpeed;

And told the Patriarch Abra'am then,

How that the old carline made him dread,

And how she all his deeds did ken.

Abraham then said, Now get you gane.

Let us no more hear of your din,

No lying wife as I ſuppone,

May enter here theſe gates within.

Abraham, she said, will ye but ſpare,

I hope you are not ſlyting free;

You of yourſelf had ſuch a care,

Deny'd your wife and made a lee;

O then I pray you let me be,

For I repent of all my ſin;

Do thou but open the gate to me,

And let me then come quickly in.

Abraham went back to Jacob then,

And told his Nephew how he sped,

How that of her he nothing wan.

And that he thought the Carline mad.