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Upon these chalky Cliffs of Albion We are arrived now with tedious toil, And compassing the wide world round about To seek our sister, to seek fair Delya forth, Yet cannot we so much as hear of his. Now father God be your speed, What do you gather there? Hips and Hawes, and sticks and straws, why is that all your food father? And Father here is another alms penny for me, and if I speed in my journey, I will give thee a Palmer's staff of ivory, and a scallop shell of beaten gold. Brother herd you not what the old man said: Be not afraid of every stranger, Start not aside for every danger: Things that seem are not the same, Blow a blast at every flame: If any ask who told you this good, Say the white Bear of England's wood. Oh Brother see where Delya is. Why Delya knowest thou not thy Brother's here? We come from Thessaly to seek thee forth, And thou deceivest thy self for thou art Delya. Be not so cruel unto our sister gentle Knight. Brother, was not that Delya did appear? Or was it but her shadow that was here? Near, Oh where, hast thou any tidings? And may we safely come where Delia is Brother, why do we not the ̄ courageously enter. What brother dost thou fallen? Leave cruel thou to hurt the miserable; Dig brother dig, for she is hard as steel. Here they dig & descry the light under a little hill. Valiant Eumenides thou well deservest To have our favours: so let us rejoice, That by thy means we are at liberty. Here may we joy each in others sighed, And this fair Lady have her wandering knight.
Plot summary
Plot — The Old Wives Tale
PLOT Lost in the woods, three pages encounter Clunch the smith, and accept the hospitality of his cottage. One of them goes to bed with him while his wife, Madge, tells the others a tale. Delia, the daughter of the King of Thessaly, has been abducted by the sorcerer Sacrapant, who can only be killed by a dead man, and whose power depends on a light in a glass which can only be broken by a woman who is neither wife, widow, nor maid. Delia's two brothers come to England in search of her, and meet Erestus. They give him alms and he prophesies to them. He too is a victim of Sacrapant, who has transformed him into an old man by day and a bear by night, and driven his betrothed lady, Venelia, out of her mind. The brothers enter Sacrapant's domain, but are imprisoned by Furies and set to work digging for gold. Delia, forgetting her identity under the influence of a potion, is appointed as their overseer. Others are also searching for Delia. One is the wandering knight Eumenides, another the braggart Huanebango; the former gives generous alms to Erestus, but the latter refuses. Eumenides happens upon a fight between Wiggen and the parish officials, who are refusing to bury Wiggen's dead brother Jack; Eumenides resolves the dispute by giving all his remaining money to pay for the funeral. Huanebango attempts to force his way into Sacrapant's cell, and is ejected by the Furies; Sacrapant strikes him deaf and Corebus blind. Lampriscus has two daughters, one ugly in looks and the other in temperament. Erestus advises that they should fetch water from the well of life and there see their fortune. Zantippa, the ill-tempered one, maltreats the well's spirit, a head, but finds the unconscious, newly deaf Huanebango lying beside it: her future husband will be unable to hear her shrewish words. Celanta, the ill-faced one, becomes the blind Corebus' wife. She treats the head in the well better, and is rewarded with corn and gold. The despairing Eumenides meets Jack, and accepts him as a companion. At a tavern, the knight will not eat because he cannot pay, but finds his purse miraculously full of money. He vows to give Jack a half share in everything he gets on his travels. Jack renders Eumenides resistant to Sacrapant's magic by stopping his ears, then invisibly takes the enchanter's sword and garland. Sacrapant falls dead. Eumenides digs up the glass light, but is unable to break it; that falls to Venelia, who, being betrothed but unwed, is neither maid nor wife, and so…