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Motifs
- Complacent wife agrees with all of husband's absurd statements. H474
- Clever prince interprets enigmatic statements. H561.9
- Enigmatic statements. Apparently senseless remarks (or acts) interpreted figuratively prove wise. H580
- Other enigmatic statements. H599
- Enigmatic statements of a sham mad man (Hamlet). H599.2
- The servant to improve on the master's statements. The wooer makes boasts to the girl and the servant always doubles the master's boast. Finally the master says, "I have poor eyesight." – The servant, "You don't see at all." (Or the master coughs and apologizes; the servant says that he coughs all night.) J2464