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,