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And come again another time;
Heaven is not won by sword nor 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 deceived
Eve went baek 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 eelestial flock,
Noah, she said, hold thou thy pieee,
Where I drank ale, thou didst drink wine,
Diseovered 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 back with speed,
And told the Patriareh Abraham then,
How that the old earlin made him dread,
