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 And come again another time;

Heaven is not won by sword nor 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 deceived

Eve went baekback [sic] 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 knock;

Go back, he said, ye drunken lown,

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

Noah, she said, hold thou thy pieeepiece [sic],

Where I drank ale, thou didst drink wine,

DiseoveredDiscovered [sic] was to thy disgracedisgraee [sic],

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 back with speed,

And told the PatriarehPatriarch [sic] Abraham then,

How that the old earlincarlin [sic] made him dread,