The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass / Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue

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Preface.


The Introduction touching Master Tyll Owlglass	1


Adventures.

I.—How Tyll Owlglass was born, and was on one day three times christened	2

II.—How that Owlglass when that he was a child did give a marvellous answer to a man that asked the way	3

III.—How all the boors did cry out shame upon Owlglass for his knavery; and how he rode upon a horse behind his father	5

IV.—How Owlglass did learn to dance upon a rope, and did fall therefrom into the River Saale	6

V.—How Owlglass did move two hundred young people, that they did give unto him their shoes, with the which he made rare sport upon his rope	8

VI.—How that Owlglass his mother did move him that he should learn a handicraft	9

VII.—How Owlglass did deceive a baker at Strasfurt, and gat bread for his mother	10

VIII.—How Owlglass, with other children, was forced to eat fat soup, and gat blows likewise	11

IX.—How Owlglass brought it about that the stingy farmer’s poultry drew for baits	12

X.—How Owlglass was again moved of his mother to depart to a foreign land, that he might learn a handicraft	13

XI.—How Owlglass crept into a bee-hive; how two thieves came by night to steal honey; what honey they did steal; and how Owlglass made it come to pass, that the thieves did fight one with the other, and did leave the bee-hive standing	14

XII.—How Owlglass for little money did have a singing bird for his dinner	16

XIII.—How Owlglass did eat the roasted chicken from off the spit	17

XIV.—How Owlglass did publish abroad that he would fly from off the roof of the town-house at Magdeburg	19

XV.—How Owlglass did cure the sick folks in the hospital at NÜrnberg in one day, and what came thereafter	21

XVI.—How Owlglass bought bread according to the proverb, “To him that hath bread is bread given”	23

XVII.—How Owlglass became a doctor, and did cure many folk	23

XVIII.—How that Owlglass became a drawer of teeth, and cured all by a wondrous pill	25

XIX.—How that Owlglass did at Brunswick hire him to a baker, and did there bake owls and monkeys	26

XX.—How Owlglass did again hire him unto a baker, and how he bolted meal in the moon’s light	29

XXI.—Telleth of what manner of thinking was Owlglass, and how he formed his life according unto principles of virtue and goodness	32

XXII.—How that Owlglass did hire him to the Count of Anhalt to blow the horn on a tower; and when that enemies did approach, then blew he not, and when that they came not, then blew he	33

XXIII.—How that Owlglass did have golden shoes struck unto his horse’s feet	37

XXIV.—How that Owlglass did have a great contention before the King of Poland with two other fools	38

XXV.—How that Owlglass did make confession to a priest, and took from him a silver box	39

XXVI.—How that Owlglass was forbidden the dukedom of Lunenburg, and how he did cut open his horse and stand therein	40

XXVII.—How that Owlglass did buy an inheritance in land from a boor, and how he sate therein in a cart	42

XXVIII.—How that Owlglass painted the forbears of the Landgrave of Hessen, and told him that an if >209

CVI.—How that Owlglass in three parts did divide all that belonged unto him; and the one part gave he freely unto his friends, and another thereof humbly to the town council of MÖllen, and the third part unto the priest there	211

CVII.—How that at MÖllen Owlglass died, and the swine did cast down the coffin when that the good priests sang the vigil	212

CVIII.—How that our for ever prized Master Owlglass was buried	213

CIX.—Telleth what stood upon his gravestone	214

CX.—How in after time our most excellent Owlglass was esteemed so worthy that he was made a holy Saint; and on the day of All Fools in April do the folk alway keep his memory, as also when they do a foolish thing, the which maketh him continually esteemed of great and small	215

CXI.—Reciteth a few grave reflections of this present chronicler	216


APPENDICES.

Appendix A.

Bibliographical Notes for the Literary History of Eulenspiegel	219


Appendix B.

The Historical Eulenspiegel and his Gravestone	240


Appendix C.

Of Dr. Thomas Murner, the Author of Eulenspiegel	244


Appendix D.

The Verses inserted by William Copland in the English black-letter Howleglas of 1528	247


Appendix E.

The BakÂla Legend of the Valacqs analogous to Owlglass	249


Appendix F.

Works akin to the Eulenspiegel Literature	252

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