"If I were a tyrant you would not say so." Answer made by emperor to one who calls him a tyrant

Motif

"If I were a tyrant you would not say so." Answer made by emperor to one who calls him a tyrant.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee with ruler (judge, etc.). · view the constellation · filed as J1281

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Winter's Tale Act 3
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Tempest Act 3

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 733

Within the index

Filed under Repartee with ruler (judge, etc.).

Filed beside it

Trickster chooses his gift. To be rewarded by ruler with a coin, an ass, a sheep, or a vineyard. Answers that he will take the coin, mount the ass, drive the sheep into the vineyard, and there pray for the ruler Gifts from the brothers. A king gives a man a coin. "Is that all you give your brother?" "Are you my brother?" "Surely, we both pray, Our father, etc." "If all your brothers give you as much as I you will be rich." Do not leave it to your successor. A widow stops a ruler on his way to war. He may be killed and he should not leave the act of justice as a credit to his successor Against his will. A thief condemned to the gallows tells the king, "I do what you do and it is against my will." King: "You shall also be hanged against your will." His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" Repartee with ruler (judge, etc.) – miscellaneous

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