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Then Noah said, I will go down
And will forbid her that she knock.
Go back he said, you 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 the disgrace
When thou wast drunken like a swine:
If I did drink I learn'd at thee,
For thour't the father and the first
That other's taught, and likewise me,
To drink although we had no thirst.
Then Noah turned back with speed,
And told the patriarch Abraham then,
How that the carling made him dread,
And how she all his deeds did ken,
Abra'am then said Now get ye gone
Let us hear no more of your din,
No lying wife as I suppone,
May enter here these gates within.
A bram, she said will ye but spare,
⟨I⟩ hope you are not flyting free;
You of yourself had such a care,
Denied your wife and made a lie.
O then I pray you let me be,
for I repent of all my sin,
Do thou but ope the gates to me,
And let me quietly come in,
Abra'am went back to Jacob ⟨then⟩,
And told his nephew how he sped,
sow that of her he nothing wan,
and that he thought the carling mad.