Japhet’s Wife. And I will gather chips here,

To make a fire for you, in fear,

And for to dight[82] your dinner,

Against you come in.

[Here they make signs as though they were working with divers instruments.

Noah. Now in the name of God I will begin,

To make the ship that we shall in,

That we be ready for to swim,

At the coming of the flood,

These boards I join together,