Contest in generosity. Ruler vies with minister in generosity. Minister declared loser and condemned to die. Pardoned on acknowledging defeat — Mythoi

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Contest in generosity. Ruler vies with minister in generosity. Minister declared loser and condemned to die. Pardoned on acknowledging defeat.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of character. · Tests of character. · view the constellation · filed as H1552.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Tests of generosity.

Filed beside it

Which was the most generous – husband, robber, or lover? Woman has promised her lover to go to him on her wedding night. Husband lets her go. On way she meets robbers and tells her story. Robbers take her to her lover. She tells what has happened. Lover returns her immediately to her husband

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