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At the foot of the Rock for run ning water, and gathering roots for your din ner sir. Will it please you to fit down sir. Then I pray you sir let me have the best meat from the king of England's table, and the best wine in all France, brought in by the we riest knave in all Spain. Oh heavens! how am I beholding to this fair young man. But I must ply these strangers to their work. See where they come. What tell you me of Delya prating swains? I know no Delya nor know I what you mean, Ply you your work or else you are Like to smart. Yet more of Delya, then take this and smart: What feign you shifts for to defer your labour? Work villains work, it is for gold you dig. Then farewell world, adieu Eume nides. Is this the best meat in England? What is it? Is this the best wine in France? What Wine is it? Is this the veriest knave in all Spain? What is he a Fryer? Then I pray you sir Friar tell me before you go, which is the most greediest English man? Good sir I know not what you mean. Away & touch it not, it is some thing, that my Lord hath hidden there. she covers it again. Thou gentle knight, whose fortune is so good: To find me out, and set my brother's free, My faith, my heart, my hand, I give to thee. Not so good sir, for you are by.
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…