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Английская версия сказки, из книги The Sackfull of News – Some Lyes and some Truths, 1640 года издания:

There was a fryer in London which did use to goe often to the house of an old woman, but ever when he came to her house she hid away all the meate she had.
On a time this Fryer came to her house bringing certain companie with him, and demaunded of the wife if she had any meat?
And she said nay.
Well, quoth the fryer, have you not a whetstone?
Yea, quoth the woman, what will you do with it?
Mary, qd he, I would make meate thereof.
Then she brought the whetstone.

He asked her likewise if she had not a frying pan?
Yea, said she; but what the divell will you do therewith?
Mary, said the Fryer you shall see by and by what I will doe with it.
And when he had the pan, he set it on the fire, and put the whetstone therein.
Cocks body, said the woman, you will burn the pan.
No, no, quod the fryer; if you will give me some eggs it will not burn at all.
But she would have had the pan from him when that she saw it was in danger; yet he would not let her, but still urged her to fetch him some eggs, which she did.
Tush! said the Fryer, here are not enow: go fetch me ten or twelve.
So the good wife was constrayned to fetch more for feare lest the pan should burn: and when he had them he put them in the pan.
Now, qd he, if you have no butter the pan will burn and the eggs to[o].
So the good wife being very loth to have her pan burnt and her egges lost, she fetcht him a dish of butter, the which he put into the pan, and made good meate thereof, and brought it to the table, saying much good may it doe you, my masters; now may you say you have eaten of a buttered whetstone.
Whereat all the company laughed, but the woman was exceeding angrie because the Fryer had subtilly beguiled her of her meate.

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Текст был мне понятен, за исключением трех слов/выражений, а именно: whetstone - точильный камень, оселок; meat, употребленное здесь в устаревшем значении "пища, еда" (откуда sweetmeat, meat and drink); cock's body - очевидно, искаженное русское "Господи!" (шутка, конечно, хотя и не далекая от правды: на самом деле это эвфемизированное (by) God's body, т.е. "ей-богу").
Ну и заодно выяснилось, что в европейской традиции этот сюжет известен как "суп из камня".