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Main > English folktales > Fairy tale "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury"
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
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"Nay, that cannot be," quoth the shepherd; "I know not to write nor to read."
"Well, then, four nobles a week thou shalt have for the ready wit. And tell the Abbot from me that he has my pardon." And with that King John sent away the shepherd with a right royal present, besides his pension.
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In a village there lived two men who had the self-same name. Both were named Claus. But one of them owned four horses, and the other owned only one horse; so to distinguish between them people called the man who had four horses Big Claus, and the man who had only one horse Little Claus. Now I'll tell you what happened to these two, for this is a true story.
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