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 And how she all his deeds did ken.

Abraham then said, now get you gone,

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 flyting free

You of yourself had suehsuch [sic] a care,

Denied your wife and made a lie;

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 quietly eomecome [sic] in.

Abraham went baekback [sic] to JaeobJacob [sic] then,

And told his nephew how he sped,

How that of her he nothing wan,

And that he thought the earlincarlin [sic] mad.

Then down came JaeobJacob [sic] throu' the eloseclose [sic],

And said, go baekwardbackward [sic] down to hell:

JaeobJacob [sic], quoth she, I know thy voieevoice [sic],

That gate pertaineth to thy sell:

Of thy old trumperies I eancan [sic] tell,

With two sisters thou led'st thy life

And the third part of these tribes twelve,

Thou got with maid's besides thy wife:

And stole thy father's bennison,

Only by fraud thy father frae;

Gave thou not him for venison,