Poet is importuned by admirers. Vaults away from them saying: "You may tell me anything you wish – in your own homes!

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Poet is importuned by admirers. Vaults away from them saying: "You may tell me anything you wish – in your own homes!

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Clever man puts another out of countenance. · Clever man puts another out of countenance. · view the constellation · filed as J1224.1

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Italian Novella Rotunda.

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Poet (Dante) puts ruler out of countenance. Ruler had instructed jesters to tease him. The poet cleverly answers his questioners pretending to have the impression that the questions are addressed to the ruler

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