The cynic's wish. When he learns that a woman has hanged herself from a tree he explains: "Would that all trees bore such fruit!"

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The cynic's wish. When he learns that a woman has hanged herself from a tree he explains: "Would that all trees bore such fruit!"

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1442.11.1

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under The cynic and the fig tree. Man tells friend that his wife has hanged herself on a fig tree. Friend: "Give me a shoot of that tree!"

Carried in tale types

The Woman's Tree · ATU 13691 recorded variant

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