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Motif

The child born too soon.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning the parentage of children. · view the constellation · filed as J1276

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Filed under Repartee concerning the parentage of children.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Child born one month after marriage. Father-in-law to son-in-law: "Do like my grandson and you will always be ahead of others." Too much for his income. Child born two months after marriage. Husband returns wife to her father (uncle) saying: "I can't afford a child every two months."
Filed beside it
Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) Repartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous

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