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“ THE WIFE OF BEITETr
Theu Noah faid will go down.
And will forbid her that she knock.
Go back he faid ye drunken loon,
You're none of the celeftial flock.
Noah, Ihe faid, hold hou thy paace,
Where I drank alethou didft drink wine,
Dilcover d was to thy dilgrace,
W’hen thou was d u .ken Uke a fwine.
If 1 4^ drink 4 learn'd at thee.
For thou rt the Father and the firft,
That others taught, and likewile me.
To dr nk although we had no thirll.
Then Noah turned back with fpeed.
And told the Patriarch Abra’am then,
How that the old carline made him dread,
And how fhe all his deeds did ken.
Abraham then faid, Now get you gane,
Let us no more hear of your din.
No ly ing wife as I fuppoue,
May enter here thefe gates within.
Abraham, she laid, % ill ye but fpare,
I hope you are not fly ting iree ;
Y®u of ydurfelf had "luch a care,
Deny'd your wife and made a lie :
O then I pray you kt me be,
For 1 repent of al! my fin;
Do thou but.open the gates.to me.
And let me then come quick'y in.
Abraham went back to Jacob then,
And told his nephew how he fped.
How that of her he nothing wan,
And that he thought the carline mad.