That if þou wreye me þou schalt be wood
Nay crist forbede it for his holy blood
Line 3508
Quod þo þis sely man I am no labbe
Though I it say I am nought leef to gabbe /
Say what þou wolt I schal it neuer telle /
To child ne wyf by him þat harwed helle
Line 3512
Now Iohan quod nicholas I wol not lye
I haue I-founde in myn astrologye
As I haue loked in þe moone bright
That now on monday next at quarter night
Line 3516
Schal falle a reyn and þat so wilde and wood
That half so gret was neuer Noes flood
This worlde he seyde more þan an hour
Schal ben I-dreynt so hidous is þe schour
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Thus schal mankynde drenche and leese his lyf
This Carpenter answered allas my wyf
And shal she drenche allas myn alisoun
For sorwe of þis he fel almost adoun
Line 3524
And seyde is þer no remedy in þis caas
whe ȝis for gode quod heende Nicholas
If þou wolt werken aftir lore and reed
Thou maist nought worke after þin owen heed
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For þus seiþ Salomon þat was ful trewe
werke by counseil / and þou schalt nat rewe
And if þou worken wolt by good counsail
I vndertake wiþouten mast and sail
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Ȝet schal I sauen hir and þe and me
hastow nat herd / how saued was Noe
whan þat our lord had warned him biforn
That al þe world wiþ watir schulde be lorn
Line 3536
Ȝis quod þis Carpenter ful ȝore ago
hastow nought herd quod Nicholas also [folio 47b]
The sorwe of Noe wiþ his felaschipe
That he hadde or he gat his wyf to schipe
Line 3540
him hadde wel leuer I dar wel vndertake /
At þilke tyme þan alle his weþeres blake
