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P14 Particular practices of kings
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- Prisoners released as celebration of king's success · P14.1 entry
- King will not permit a one-eyed man in his presence · P14.2 entry
- King playing chess when important news arrives · P14.3 entry
- King orders all gold brought to him · P14.4 entry
- King never touches earth: carried always by slaves · P14.5 entry
- King's (prince's) sulking chamber. He sulks here until his wishes are carried out · P14.6 entry
- None permitted to enter hall of king unless he possesses an art · P14.7 entry
- King does not want men who are unable to engage in any sport · P14.8 entry
- Law that nobody may give the king bad tidings · P14.9 entry
- Kings have seat on hills · P14.10 entry
- King angry at hero who rides straight into the castle without permission · P14.11 entry
- King has his own gifts stolen back for him · P14.12 entry
- King gives his own wife as reward · P14.13 entry
- King requires everyone who comes before him to tell a story · P14.14 entry
- King has champion to enforce respect · P14.15 entry
- Threefold division of king's day: one third dedicated to watching boys at play; one third to playing fidehell (chess?); one third to drinking · P14.16 entry
- King's stronghold on island · P14.17 entry
- King orders man whose neck the rope will fit to be executed · P14.18 entry
- King goes in disguise at night to observe his subjects · P14.19 entry
- Tom-tom beater to spread the news of kingship · P14.20 entry
- King shows himself in public only one day a year · P14.21 entry
- King keeps lions as pets and a lion-tamer at his palace · P14.22 entry
- King does not eat much during years of famine in order not to forget the hungry · P14.23 entry