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why what need is there to ask ? dont you see i want to get the trousers on ?
why dont you take the trousers and draw them on ?
good why i never thought of it ! many thanks . i only wish you had come before for i have lost a great deal of time in trying to jump into them .
that is fool number three .
well met
whither are you agoing ?
marry i am going to the market to buy sheep .
buy sheep and which way will you bring them home ?
marry i will bring them over this bridge .
by robin hood but thou shalt not .
by maid marjoram but i will .
thou shalt not
i will
tut here tut there
hold them there
beware of the leaping over the bridge of my sheep
i care not .
they shall all come this way
but they shall not
ah fools ! will you never learn wit ? then help me and lay this sack upon my shoulder .
how much meal is there in the sack neighbours ?
marry none .
now by my faith even so much wit is there in your two heads to strive concerning that thing which you have not .
sing here and you shall lack neither meat nor drink all the year .
a vengeance on her we made not our hedge high enough .
why who should bring them ?
marry themselves ! they knew the way well enough a vengeance on them for i was afraid to see my cheese run so fast that they would run beyond the market . i am persuaded that they are by this time almost at york .
i have as yet gotten left so many red herrings .
well and i have left so many whitings .
i have as yet gotten so many sprats left .
and i have got so many salt fishes . let them all go together into the great pond without any distinction and we may be sure to fare like lords the next year .
ah ! a mischief on this eel for he hath eaten up our fish .
what must we do with him ?
kill him !
chop him into pieces
nay not so but let us drown him .
be it accordingly so
lie there and shift for thyself since you can expect no help from us .
we have ventured wonderful hard this day in wading i pray god that none of us may have come from home to be drowned .
nay marry let us see that for there did twelve of us come out .
alas ! there is some one of us drowned .
oh ! this day we went to fish in the brook and here did come out twelve of us and one of us is drowned .
why tell how many there be of you
well what will you give me and i will find out twelve men ?
sir all the money we have got .
give me the money here is one
here is the twelfth man .
gods blessing on thy heart for finding out our dear brother .
be you all agreed of the name ?
be you all agreed of the name ?
wherefore do you come hither ?
wherefore do you come hither ? wherefore do you come hither ? wherefore do you come hither ?
whew !
whew ! whew !
go home fools go home !
you incorrigible villain you shall pay dearly for disturbing me for i will broil you for my breakfast .
o mr . giant where are you now ? oh faith you are gotten into lobs pound where i will surely plague you for your threatening words . what do you think now of broiling me for your breakfast ? will no other diet serve you but poor jack ?
tho here you lodge with me this night you shall not see the morning light my club shall dash your brains out quite .
say you so ? is this one of your welsh tricks ? i hope to be as cunning as you .
oh how have you rested ? did you see anything in the night ?
no but a rat gave me three or four slaps with his tail .
he has owed me twopence seven years pray sir pay me as well as the rest .
take no thought nor heed . let me alone and i warrant you we will never want .
jack since we have got no money where can we lodge tonight ?
master we will do well enough for i have an uncle who lives within two miles of this place . he is a huge and monstrous giant having three heads . he will beat five hundred men in armour and make them fly before him .
alas ! what shall we do there ? he will eat us up at a mouthfulnay we are scarce sufficient to fill one hollow tooth .
it is no matter for that i myself will go before and prepare the way for you . tarry here and wait my return .
who is there ?
none but your poor cousin jack .
and what news with my cousin jack ?
dear uncle heavy news .
god wot ! prithee ! what heavy news can come to me ? i am a giant with three heads and besides thou knowest i fight five hundred men in armour and make them all fly like chaff before the wind .
oh but here is a kings son coming with a thousand men in armour to kill you and to destroy all you have .
o my cousin jack this is heavy news indeed but i have a large vault underground where i will run and hide myself and you shall lock bolt and bar me in and keep the keys till the kings son is gone .
why i desire nothing but your old rusty sword the coat in the closet and the cap and the shoes at your beds head .
ay thou shalt have them and be sure keep you them for my sake . they are things of excellent use . the coat will keep you invisible the cap will furnish you with knowledge the sword cuts asunder whatever you strike and the shoes are of extraordinary swiftness . they may be serviceable to you so take them with all my heart .
you must show me this tomorrow morning or lose your head
so i will if you kiss none but mine .
it is neither here nor there for that if you do not death is your portion .
but now i shall be too hard for the kings son for i will kiss thee and he is to show me the lips i kissed last and he can never show me thy lips .
no i can not be at ease till i find out the den which was this monsters habitation .
noble stranger it is too much to run a second risk for note this monster lived in a den under yon mountain with a brother of his more fierce and fiery than himself . therefore if you should go thither and perish in that attempt it would be the heartbreaking of both me and my lady . therefore let me persuade you to go with us and desist from any further pursuit .