Servant asks master for arms of knighthood. Is given a stalk of garlic — Mythoi

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Servant asks master for arms of knighthood. Is given a stalk of garlic.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Humility. · Presumption of the lowly. · view the constellation · filed as J955.3

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Italian Novella Rotunda.

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Filed under Lowly tries in vain to be greater than he is.

1 finer motif beneath it

Peasant asks to be knighted. Is told that he can be made rich but not noble

Filed beside it

Frog tries in vain to be as big as ox. Bursts Servant plays at being emperor. Master sees him and says, "Now that you are emperor remember your humble master." Old simpleton resolves to become a senator. He is made to believe that he is wanted as an archer and is so frightened that he dies

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