376
OF INGRATITUDE.
Before the present week or month expires, what will remain of it?
Scholar. I marvel at your sagacity in making a bargain. Now hear, Good and faithful servant! because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will appoint thee Lord over many: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord[1].
TALE XCIII.
OF NATURE AND THE RETURNS OF INGRATITUDE.
An emperor rode out in the afternoon to hunt. Happening to pass a certain wood, he heard a serpent, which some shepherds had
- ↑ This is a curious instance of the once fashionable practice of forcing every thing into allegory. Not many would have hit upon so odd an invention. It may be thought that the preceptor and his disciple should change places in the dialogue.
