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b. 170; Legenda aurea, ed. Grasse, 180; Libra de Enxemplos, 53; Stainhöwel, Æsop, collect, vi. (and derivates); Le Grand, Fabliaux, iii. 113; Mystère du roi Advenís in Hist. du théatre franc., ii. 475; Marie de France, ed, Roquefort, i. 314, ii. 324 ; Selentroist, i4.b ; Luther, Tischreden, 612 ; Hans Sachs, D. iv. 428 ; Kirchhof, Wendunmuth, iv, 34 ; Wieland, Vogelgesang, ap. Werke, ed. 1796, xviii, 315 ; Le lai de Loiselet, ed. G. Paris, 1883 ; Lydgate, Chorle and Byrde; cf. Temple of Glass, edit. Schick, p. c. 135.

Literature. — Oesterley, Crane, Benfey, Jacobs, Paris, Schick, ll. cc.]

There was once a king who made every one tremble around him. One day a servant, when handing him the soup, from fear spilt a little. Before the King could express his rage, the servant emptied the whole tureen. "Why did you do that?" said the King. "I knew, my Lord," said the servant, "that you would punish me severely for my first small fault, and thereby lose dignity in the eyes of your people, so I therefore arranged to do something worth the punishment I saw forthcoming." Thereupon the King forgave him, and became less tyrannical in future.

There is a desert full of robbers and beasts of prey. In the midst is a garden with a wall too