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Antic and Fantastic, as I am frolic franion, never in all my life was I so dead slain. What? to lose our way in the wood, without either fire or candle so vncom fortable? Oh coelum! Oh terra! Oh maria! Oh Neptune! Gammer thou and thy good man fit lovingly together, we come to chat and not to eat. Else think you me ill brought up, so set to it when you will. they sing. And I another thats flat. What rests then but we come mit him to his wench, and each of us take his stand up in a Tree, and sing out our ill fortune to the tune of Oh man in desperation. Either hath this trotting Cur gone out of his cyrcuit, or else are we never some village, Enter a Smith with a Lanthorn & Candle. which should not be far off, for I perceive the glymring of a Gloworme, a Candle, or a Cats eye, my life for a half penny. In the name of my own father, be thou Ox or Ass that appea rest, tell us what thou art. And in faith Sir unless your hospitality do relieve us, we are Like to wander with a sorrowful heigh ho, among the owlets, & Hob goblins of the Forest: good Vulcan, for Cupid's sake that hath cozened us all: befriend us as thou mayest, and command us howsoever, wheresoever, whensoever, in whatsoever, for e ver and ever. Look you Gammer, of the Giant and the Kings Daughter, and I know not what, I have seen the day when I was a little one, you might have drawn me a mile after you with such a discourse. Who dressed his dinner then? Soft Gammer, here some come to tell your tale for you. Why this goes round without a fid ling stick; but do you hear Gammer, was this the man that was a Bear in the night, and a man in the day? Soft, who have we here? our amo rous harvest stars. Soft, who have we here? Do you hear Gammer, me thinks this Jack boar a great sway amongst them. Yet this vantage shall we have of them in the morning, to be ready at the sighed thereof extempore.
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…