Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 20 (ithimore, nat, invisible, notary, glycerie, humfrey…). Matches are highlighted.
burying of a poor man, and but one three-halfe-pence left in your purse: Content you sir, I'll serve you that is flat. Well Master content your self, for if my divination be not out, that shall be spent at the next Inn or alehouse we come too: for master I know you are passing hungry; therefore isle go before and provide dinner
Full speech
You are well overtaken sir. You are heartily well met sir. Trusting in God good Master Eume nides, that you are in so good health as all your friends were at the making hereof: God give you God morrow sir, lack you not a neat handsome and cleanly young Lad, about the age of fifteen or sixteen years, that can run by your horse, and for a need make your Ma stershippes shoes as black as ink, how say you sir. Content your self, you shall not be so ill a Master but isle be as bade a servant: Tut sir I know you though you know not me; Are not you the man sir, deny it if you can sir, that came from a strange place in the land of Catita, where Jack a napes flies with his tail in his mouth, to seek out a Lady as white as snow, and as red as blood; would, would, have I touched you now. Tut are not you the man sir, deny it if you can sir, that gave all the money you had to the burying of a poor man, and but one three-halfe-pence left in your purse: Content you sir, I'll serve you that is flat. Well Master content your self, for if my divination be not out, that shall be spent at the next Inn or alehouse we come too: for master I know you are passing hungry; therefore isle go before and provide dinner un till that you come, no doubt but yowl come fair and softly after. Nay neither more nor less Master, but even joust half. Stay Master, it is sufficient I have tried your constancy: Do you now remember since you paid for the burying of a poor fellow. Then Master thank that good deed, for this good turn, and so God be with you all. But do you hear master, do you know my name? Why I am Jack. Exeunt Jack. Yes Hosts, but it is my masters fashi on to pay before he eats, therefore a recko ning good hostess. Well master look in your purse. Why look you master, do so much for me. Alas, master, does that word belong to this accident? why me thinks I should have seen you cast away your cloak, and in a bram vado danced a galliard round about the cham ber; why master, your man can teach you more wit than this, come hostis, cheer up my master. But hear you master, one word by the way, are you content I shall be halves in all you get in your journey? Enough master, I ask no more. Marry master to the conjurers presently. Come away master come, Tut never fear master, let me alone, here fit you still, speak not a word. And be cause you shall not be enticed with his inchan ting speeches; with this same wool isle stop your ears: and so master fit still, for I must to the Conjurer. Exit Jack. O Sir are you gone: now I hope we shall have some other coil. Now master how Like you this; the Conjurer he is dead, and vows never to trouble us more. Now get you to your fair Lady, and see what you can do with her: Alas he hears me not all this while; but I will help that. Here master, take this sword and dig with it, at the foot of this hill. Master, without this the Conjurer could do nothing, and so long as this light lasts, so long does his art endure, and this being out, then does his art decay. I master, how? No master you may as soon break the Smiths Anfill, as this little viol; nor the big gest blast that ever Boreas blue, cannot blow out this little light; but she that is neither maid, wife, nor widow. Master, wind this horn; and see what will happen. So master, how Like you this; this is she that ran madding in the woods, his be trothed love that keeps the cross, and now this light being out, all are restored to their for mere liberty. And now master to the Lady that you have so long looked for. Enough master, she hath spoke, now I will leave her with you. Marry master, the head of the conjurer. Ah master, so he deceived them that beheld him: but he was a miserable, old, and crooked man; though to each men eye he see med young and fresh, for master; this Conjurer took the shape of the old man that kept the cross: and that old man was in the likeness of the Conjurer. But now master wind your horn. He winds his horn. So master, now ye think you have done: but I must have a saying to you; you know you and I were partners, I to have half in all you God. Why then master draw your sword, partly your Lady, let me have half of her pre sently. But what else master, have you not got her, therefore divide her straight, for I will have half there is no remedy.
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…