Religion & morality > Wife of Beith

3 TUB WIFE OF BElTH.
.&dain, quoth she, I shsll be in,
Tn fpite of all fuch churles as thee.
Thou srt the original of all fm,
For eating of the forbidden tree;
But for thy foul offence* fled,
For which thou art not flyting free;
Adam went back and let her be,
Looking as if his nofe had bled.
Then mother Eve did at him fpeer,
Who was it there that made fuch din i
He faid a woman would be here,
For me I durft not l6t her in.
I'll go faid she, and alk her tf ili,
Her company 1 would have fain.
But ay she-cry'd and knocked ftuV.
And in no,ways-would she refrain.
Daughter, laid Eve, you will do>well.
To come again another time ; .
Heaven is hot won by fwordncn h.' el,
Nor one that’s gu'Uy of a CTiG^.e
Mother faicUhe tie Ja-ult- j?:'^^. .
That knocking hire fo long 1 Band,-. .
Thy guilt is more than that o; mine,
If thou wilt rightly underflahd, •
Thou waft the caufe of all our fin,
W, ere in fie were burn and conceiv’d,
Our mifery thotvciidiibegin, ’ ■ ii i
By thee thy hufband was deceiwtl
Eve went back where Noah was, ' ' '
And told him all how she was blsm d
Of her her great lin and firft trefspais.
Whereof she y/as fo much aal'.r.m’ck-