The constellation
J1351 Women call each other prostitutes
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- Rude retorts · J1350 entry
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- Prostitutes wander. A woman having given her cook leave of absence for the next day asks her what day it is. "Saturday." "No, it is the day on which the prostitutes wander." The cook: "Yes, from one prostitute to another. Today I am with you, tomorrow with your sister." · J1351.1 entry
- The envious accuser. A woman accuses another of being a harlot. The second: "You would like to be in my place but no one wants you." · J1351.2 entry
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- Person calls another an ass · J1352 entry
- Whom it concerns. There is someone carrying a goose. How does that concern me? He is carrying it to your house. How does that concern you? · J1353 entry
- Not in his line of business. At market a man enquires of another: "How is the moon, three-quarters or full?" "I don't know. I have neither bought nor sold one." · J1354 entry
- The one exception. "You are a good man; there is not your equal on the earth. You have everything for yourself alone; only your wife is public property." · J1355 entry
- The flatterer's retort. Two men meet a homely girl. One of them: "Who wouldn't call that girl pretty?" The girl overhears and says, "No one would say it of you." The man: "Anyone might say it who would lie as I have lied about you." · J1356 entry
- Ancient and modern ancestors. To a prince who boasted that he was descended from the Trojans a doctor replies: "My people are of Nurenberg. Everyone knows who they are; but of the Trojans no one knows anything except that Aeneas was a traitor and Romulus a robber." · J1357 entry
- No thanks to the messenger. A messenger tells a man that he has a newborn son. "Thanks are to God, but I am not beholden to you for it." · J1358 entry
- Monk says that he is a stallion. In reply to women's taunts he boasts of his powers. A woman calls on the devil to come and ride him · J1361 entry
- Too late for the same advice. Impoverished spendthrift sarcastically to thrifty person: "Stop spending so freely!" "It's too late to give you the same advice." · J1363 entry
- To be rewarded by his kind. Unworthy person is rewarded. Asks worthy one: "Why is it that I am rewarded and you are not?" Answer: "Because you have found more of your kind than I have of mine." (Also told of Dante and a minstrel.) · J1364 entry