Noblemen being ruined by long lawsuit decide wisely to join their families in marriage and save their fortunes — Mythoi

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Noblemen being ruined by long lawsuit decide wisely to join their families in marriage and save their fortunes.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Zeal – temperate and intemperate. · view the constellation · filed as J552.2

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 402.

Within the index

Filed under Intemperate pugnacity.

1 finer motif beneath it

Bishop fond of lawsuits is ordered by king to settle them: bishop pleads for a few to be left so that he will have something to live for

Filed beside it

Noblemen who quarreled over a device. Wiser of the two shows foolishness of such a fight Serpent (weasel) tries to bite a file Helmet left for woman to quarrel with. Woman insists upon quarreling with a nobleman. He says, "If you wish to quarrel, I shall leave my helmet here. You can talk to it." Brothers compose quarrel and save umpire's fee Boast at home. In Castile a Spaniard maintains to a Portuguese that the Spanish king is best of all. In Portugal, that the Portuguese king is best. "Each cock crows in his own barnyard."

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