Kite tries to carry off so many partridges that he drops them all

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Kite tries to carry off so many partridges that he drops them all.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Prudence in ambition. · view the constellation · filed as J514.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Herbert III 40ff.
general Hervieux IV 211 No. 38

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Filed under One should not be too greedy.

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Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded Greedy pig looks up into tree for figs. This causes his death Greedy man dissatisfied with gold looks for jewels; finds only iron and eventually nothing Fowler wants two rubies as ransom for a caught goose; loses goose and both rubies

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