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9 And eomecome [sic] again another time

Heaven is not won by sword or steel,

Nor one that's guilty of a erimecrime [sic].

Mother, said she, the fault is thine,

That knoekingknocking [sic] here so long I stand:

Thy guilt is more than that of mine,

If thou wilt rightly understand,

Our misery thou didst begin,

By thee thy husband was deeeiveddeceived [sic]

Eve went back where Noah was,

And told him all how she was blam'd,

Of her great sin and first trespass,

Whereof she was so much ashamed.

Then Noah said, I will go down,

And will forbid her that she knoekknock [sic];

Go back, he said, ye drunken lown,

You're none of the eelestialcelestial [sic] flock.

Noah, she said, hold thou thy piece,

Where I drank ale, thou didst drink wine,

Discovered was to thy disgrace,

When thou wast full like to a swine:

If I was drunk I learned at thee,

For thou'rt the father and the first,

That others taught, and likewise me,

To drink when we as had no thirst.

Then Noah turned baekback [sic] with speed,

And told the Patriarch Abraham then,

How that the earlincarlin [sic] made him dread,