King buys spendthrift's bed. It must have been an extraordinary bed to permit a man with so many debts to sleep on it

Motif

King buys spendthrift's bed. It must have been an extraordinary bed to permit a man with so many debts to sleep on it.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Miscellaneous aspects of wisdom. · view the constellation · filed as J1081.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 503
general Herbert III 128 No. 79, 170 No. 35

Within the index

Filed under Preciousness of untroubled sleep.

Carried in tale types

The Debtor's Bed · ATU 890**1 recorded variant

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