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- Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
- King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
- Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop. J2103.2
- Servant makes pact with devil denying Christ to secure nobleman's daughter. M217.1
- Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
- Nobleman's perseverance wins him coveted place on reserved bench. Elected upon the death of one of its occupants. Q81.1
- Nobleman's generosity enables impoverished lover to entertain his lady. W11.7