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8 And long she thought for to be in

But then for fear of biding out,

She knocked hard and made some din.

To knock and erycry [sic] she did not spare.

Till father Adam did her hear;

Who is't that raps so rudely there,

Heaven cannot well be won by weir.

The wife of Beith' since that you speer,

Hath stood these two hours at the gate:

Go back, saith he, you must forbear,

Here may no sinners entrance get.

Adam, quoth she, I shall be in,

In spite of all such churls as thee:

Thou'rt the original of all sin,

For eating of the forbidden tree:

For which thou art not flyting free,

But for thy foul offences fled.

Adam went back and let her be;

Looking as if his nose had bled.

Then mother Eve did at him speer

Who was it that made such a din?

He said a woman would be here,

For me, I durst not let her in.

I'll go, said she, and ask her will,

Her company I would have fain;

But aye she cried and knocked still,

And in no ways she would refrain.

Daughter, said Eve, you will do well,