1088 And if thou workë wilt by good counseil, I undertake, withoutë mast or sail, Yet shall I savë her, and thee, and me. Hast thou not heard how saved was Noë, When that our Lord had warned him beforn, That all the world with water should be lorn?” 1089 “Yes,” quoth this carpenter, “full yore ago.” 1090 “Hast thou not heard,” quoth Nicholas, “also The sorrow of Noë, with his fellowship, That he had ere he got his wife to ship? 1091 Him had been lever, 1092 I dare well undertake, At thilkë 1093 time, than all his wethers black, That she had had a ship herself alone. And therefore know’st thou what is best to be done? This asketh haste, and of an hasty thing Men may not preach or makë tarrying.