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To protect himself, Nedui says, he binds and beats the tailor when such a fit comes over him. In fact, Nedui claims, he has killed those who have happened to be near him when he is in the grip of such a fit. One day while he is away, his master gives the other apprentices bread and honey, but does not save any for Nedui, telling them that Nedui "would not eat honey even if he were here." Upon learning that he has been left out, Nedui avenges himself upon his master by telling the eunuch whom the king has set over the apprentices as their supervisor that the tailor is subject to seizures of madness, during which he becomes violent and dangerous. The son's story recounts the story of a king's tailor's assistant, a youth by the name of Nedui.

Thus, the roles of the father and his son are reversed, as the father, who was the storyteller, becomes the listener, and the son, who was his father's audience, becomes the narrator. His comment is a transition to the next tale, causing the father to ask his son to tell him this story. The story says that he wishes they’d been whipped, as the antagonist in another story he has heard, was beaten for his chicanery. The son tells his father the moral of the story: "As it says in the proverb, ‘He who wanted all, lost all.’" He says that the two city dwellers got their just comeuppance.

The country man says he dreamed the same things that his companions dreamed and, believing them to be forever lost, one to heaven and the other to hell, ate the bread. The other says that angels escorted him to hell. One says he was taken to heaven and led before God by angels. The city dwellers relate their made-up dreams. Near their destination, their provisions are nearly depleted, and the two city dwellers attempt to cheat the country man by telling him that whoever of them dreams the most extraordinary dream shall get the last of their bread.Īs the city dwellers sleep, the country man, alert to their intended deception, eats the half-baked bread before retiring. In "The Two City Dwellers and the Country Man," told by the father, the three traveling companions of the tale's title are on a pilgrimage to Mecca. "The Two City Dwellers and the Country Man"

The Norton Anthology of Western Literature includes three exempla (singular, exemplum), stories that illustrate a general principle or underscore a moral lesson: "The Two City Dwellers and the Country Man" and "The King's Tailor's Apprentice" (both from The Scholar's Guide) and "The Cursed Dancers of Colbeck."

Mirror for Magistrates by various Tudor authors.

Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies.

Boccaccio's On Famous Women and On the Fates of Illustrious Men.

Suetonius's De vita Caesarum or Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

There were also notable lay writers of moral tales, such as the 13th century Der Stricker and the 14th century Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena ( Tales of Count Lucanor).Įxamples dealing with historical figures include: Geoffrey Chaucer's The Miller's Prologue and Tale became a vivid satire on this genre. 1200, Nicholas Bozon's Les contes moralisés (after 1320), and Odo of Cheriton's Parabolae (after 1225) were famous medieval collections aimed particularly at preachers. The subject matter could be taken from fables, folktales, legends, real history, or natural history. This genre sprang from the above, in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature, consisting of lives of famous figures, and using these (by emphasizing good or bad character traits) to make a moral point.Ĭollections of Exempla helped medieval preachers to adorn their sermons, to emphasize moral conclusions or illustrate a point of doctrine.

2.1 "The Two City Dwellers and the Country Man".