ABSTRACT

A certain King was always saying to his Son that he was not his own Son, although the Son was exactly like him, and one day the King said " Let him be taken outside the town and killed, he is a Bastard." Now the Boy had for his Friend the Son of the Minister (1), and when the People of the city had gone to the forest, [he persuaded them to let the Son live, and] they cut off one of his hands, and showed it to the King, and said that they had killed him.