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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.