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Tell me Time, tell me joust Time, When shall I Delia see? When shall I see the loadstar of my life? When shall my wandering course end with her sighed? Or I but view my hope, my hearts delight. Father God speed, if you tell Fortune's, I pray good father tell me mine. Hold thy hands good fellow. Why what was that Jack? Hold thy hands, I pray thee good fellow be not too hasty. Who's that? Forbear I say, who is that which pin cheth me? Alas pretty Lad, I know not how to keep my self, and much less a servant, my pretty boy, my state is so bade. I think this boy be a spirit, How knowest thou all this? Well my Lad since thou art so impor nate, I am content to entertain thee, not as a servant; but a copartner in my journey. But whither shall we go for I have not any money more than one bore three halfpence. I, go before, isle follow thee. No I promise thee not yet. Jack, why be it so then. Hosts I thank you, I have no great stomach. Why Jack what dost thou mean, thou knowest I have not any money: therefore sweet Jack tell me what shall I do. Why faith it is a folly, for I have no money. Alas Jack my purse is full of money. Thanks my fine eloquent hostess. I am Jack, here is my hand. Come Hostess receive your money, and I thank you for my good entertainment. Come Jack whither go we now? Go along Jack, isle follow thee, Jack, they say it is good to go cross legged, and say his prayers backward: how sayest thou? How now Jack, what news? How now Jack, what is this? Why then Jack I will soon put out this light. Why with a stone isle break the glass, and then blow it out. God speed fair maid sitting alone there is once. God speed fair maid; there is twice: God speed fair maid, that is thrice. Thou fairest flower of these western parts: Whose beauty so reflecteth in my sighed, As does a Crystal mirror in the son: For thy sweet sake I have crossed the frozen Rhine, Leaving fair Po, I sailed up Danuby, As far as Saba whose enhancing streams, Cuts betwixt the Tartars and the Russians, These have I crossed for thee fair Delia: Then grant me that which I have sued for long. Thanks gentle Madame: but here comes Jack, thank him, for he is the best friend that we have. How now Jack, what hast thou there? Why Jack that is impossible, he was a young man. Why so thou shalt Jack. Before I will falsify my faith unto my friend, I will divide his, Jack thou shalt have half. Content your selves, my word is passed to him, therefore prepare thy self Delya for thou must die. I very well Jack. Jack what art thou gone? Then farewell Jack. Come brother's and my beauteous Delya, Erestus and thy deer Venelia: We will to Thessaly with joyful hearts. This man hath left me in a Labyrinth, He bids me give more than all, Till dead men's bones come at thy call: He bids me dream of no rest, Till I repent that I do best. Faith and he is bade enough: this fell low does but the partly of a friend, to seek to but rye his friend; how much will bury him? Here hold it then, and I have left me but one poor three half pence; now do I remember the words the old man spoke at the cross; bestow all thou hast, and this is all, till dead men's bones comes at thy call, hear hold it, and so farewell. Well ere I will falsify my word unto my friend, take her all, here Jack isle give her thee. Why I hope Jack thou dost but jest, I promised thee half I God, but not half my Lady. Wretched Eumenides, still unfortunate, Envied by fortune, and forlorn by Fate; Here pine and die wretched Eumenides. Die in the spring, the April of my age? Here fit thee down, repent what thou hast done I would to God that it were never begun. Content Jack : Hostis farewell. Exe. om. Welcome Erestus, welcome fair Venelia, Welcome Thelea, and Kalepha both, Now have I her that I so long have sought, So says fair Delia, if we have your consent.
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…