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 * 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 celeſtial flock.


 * Noah, ſhe ſaid, hold thou thy peace,

Where I drank ale, thou didſt drink wine, Diſcover'd was to thy diſgrace, When thou waſt drunken like a ſwine If I did drink, I learn'd at thee, For thou'rt the Father and the firſt, That others taught and likewiſe me, To drink altho' we had no thirſt.


 * Then Noah turned back with ſpeed,

And told the Patriarch Abra'am then: How that the carling made him dread, And how ſhe all his deeds did ken.

Abra'am 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.


 * Abra'am, ſhe ſaid, will ye but ſpare,

I hope you are not flyting free; You of yourſelf had ſuch a care, Dony'd your wife and made a lieː O then I pray you let me be, For I repent of all my ſin; Do thou but open the gates to me, And let me quietly come in.


 * Abra'am went back to Jacob then,

And told his nephew how he ſped, How that of her nothing he wan, And that he thought the carling mad.