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Adam quoth, she, I shall be in,
In spite of all such churls as ther,
Thour't the original of all sin,
For eating of the forbidden tree;
For which thou art not flyting free,
But for thy soul offences fled.
Adam went back and let her be,
Looking as if his nose had bled.
Then Mother Eve did at him speer
Who was it there that made such din?
He said a woman would be here;
For me I durst not let her in.
I'll go said they and ask her will
Her company I would have sain.
But aye she cried and knocked still
And is no ways she would refrain.
Daughter. said Eve, you will do will
To come again another time:
Heaven's not won by sword nor steel,
Nor none that's guilty of a crime.
Mother said she, the fault is thine
That knocking here so long I stand;
Thy guilt is more than that of mine'
If thou wilt rightly understand,
Thou wast the cause of all our sin
Wherein we were born and conceived,
Our misery did first begin;
By thee thy husband was deceived.
Eve went back where Noah was,
And told him how she was blam'd
Of her great sin and first trespass,

Whereof she was so much asham'd.