Brewer's: Noah's Wife

[Noraida], according to legend, was unwilling to go into the ark, and the quarrel between the patriarch and his wife forms a very prominent feature of Noah's Flood, in the Chester and Townley Mysteries.

Hastow nought herd, quod Nicholas, also The sorwe of Noë with his felaschippe That he had or he gat his wyf to schipe?

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 3:534.

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