Ruler makes ready to abandon barren wife and marry another. He remains with her when he learns that she is with child

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Ruler makes ready to abandon barren wife and marry another. He remains with her when he learns that she is with child.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Lucky accidents – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as N681.2

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Italian NovellaRotunda.

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Filed under Husband (lover) arrives home just as wife (mistress) is to marry another.

Filed beside it

Return home to one's own funeral Wife finds lost husband just as he is to marry another Incest accidentally averted Son returns on day his mother is to be married to another (though her husband still lives)

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