Chaucer Translation (Nicolas' plan)

He said, " John my dear Landlord/host, you shall swear on your pledged word, that to no person shall you disclose this secret; For it is Christs sercte i speak, And if you tell it to a man then you are doomed, For the punishment you will have, If you betray me, you will become mad."" No christ forbid it, For his holy blood!" Said this Simple/Naive Man, "I am not a tell-tale; No I am not wisful to over talk. Say what you want, i shall never tell it not to child or wife, by him that hallowed hell!""Now John, " said nice Nicolas " i will not lie; i have discovered in my astrology, as i have llooked in the birght moon, That tomorrow at 9 pm, shall fall a rain as raging as a tempest, which is greater then Noahs' flood. This world" He said "in less than an hour shall be drowned,so terrible is the deluge, that mankind will drown and all lose life."To this the carpenter answered, "Oh no, my wife! And will she drown too? Oh No, My Alison!"So full of sorrow was he that he collapsed, and said, " is there no soloution in this case ?""Why yes, For god" Said nice Nicolas, " If you follow some good advice, for you must not work according to your own ideas; for this seek Salomon as he was very wise; "act only in consulation with others and you shall not regret it"And if you wish to work good by the secret, i undertake without mast and sale, Yet shall i save her and you and me. have you not heard how Noah was save,when our lord had warned him before that all the world will be lost in water?""yes," said the carpenter, " a very long time ago"" Have you not heard" said Nicolas "also the grief of Noah with his compaions, before he could get his wife to the ship? he would rather i dare well gurantee at this time, than all his black sheep that she had a ship alone to herself. and therefore do you know what is best to be done ? this demands urgency men may not preach or make a delay immeadiatly go fast and get us in a kneading trough, or elese a pot, for each of us, but the have got to be large, in which we may float in like a barge, and have inside sufficiant food for a day never mind the rest! The water shall subside and go away about 9 am the next day. But Robin may not know of this, your servant, also the maid Gille i may not save; ask not wh, for though you aske me, i will not tell Gods secrets.let it satisfy you, but if my brain becomes mad, to have a graet grace as Noah had. Your Wife i will save certainly. Go now make haste over this matter.But when you have, for her you and me, obtained us this kneading trough there, then you shall hang then in the roof very high that no man will see our buisness. And when you have done, as i said, and have stowed in thenm neatly, and also a axe to cut the cord, when the water comes, then we may go, and break a hole in the gable, towrads the garden, over the stable, that way we may freely pass on our way, when the great rain is gone away, then you shall float as haappliy as a duck, as does the white duck after a drake.Then i will say " How, alison! How, John! be merry, for the flood will pass soon."and you will say " Hail master Nicolas! good morning, i see your well, for it is day" and then we shall be lords all our life of all the world as Noah and his wife.But of one thing i warn you be well advised on the same night that we board our ships, that none of us speak a word, no shouting, no crying, but we should be praying; For it is gods own dearsest desire.Your wife and you must hange far apart, for then there will be no sin between you, no more in thier actions for this is what the directive said. Go, Gods be your speed! Tomorrow at nine, when men be all asleep, into our boats we will creep, and sit then abiding gods graces.Go nowon your wa, i have no more time to spend talking about this. men say this " trust your affiars to a wise man and leave it to him" you are so wise, there is no need to tell you what to do. Go, save our lives and that i implore."