(They draw up plank; then Shem points to distance. Two Tortoises enter, panting. With grins, the sons shove out the plank and Tortoises enter ark. They close the door and window. Enter a Woman of the Idolaters. carrying a baby. She enters between the flood-curtain and the ark.)
Woman (cries):
Good Noah, I repent me of my sin!
O ope the door, good man, and take me in!
O ope the door!
Noah (looking out of window):
Call on your gods to lift you from the wave.
Are your gods helpless that they cannot save?
Woman (holding up baby): Yet save my child!
Noah's Wife (at the window):
Yea, save the child we must;
For God is merciful as well as just.
Noah: