Noah's Wife:
Nay, how comes it, when
The world is drowned that we be sav-ed then,
That we alone be saved of living men?
Noah:
Because to no false gods we've bowed the knee,
Therefore God hath said to me:
"Thou and thy family shall sav-ed be."
Noah's Wife:
And must our friends and all our kindred die?
I cannot save myself and hear their cry.
If they cannot be saved, no more will I.
Noah: Peace, woman, go within. (Points sternly.)
Noah's Wife: I will not go.
Noah:
Then stand without and watch the waters flow.
Thou wilt be glad to enter soon, I know. (She seats
herself beside ark and munches apple or plies distaff.)
Hark, what was that?