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And eome again another time
Heaven is not won by sword or steel,
Nor one that's guilty of a erime.
Mother, said she, the fault is thine,
That knoeking 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 deeeived
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 knoek;
Go back, he said, ye drunken lown,
You're none of the eelestial 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 baek with speed,
And told the Patriarch Abraham then,
