Files Download Download Full Text 2. Description Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla moralized tales , which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. Series Studies in Romance Languages. Notes Translated by John E. Keller and L.
Clark Keating. Buy this Book. Enter search terms:. Digital Commons. That is how they did it, but the parents and the relatives of the bride and groom were afraid that the next day they would find the groom dead or badly battered. When the two were alone in the house, they sat at the table, but before the woman said anything, her husband looked about the table and saw a dog, and he said to it angrily:.
But the dog didn't do it, and the man began to get angrier and told it more forcefully to give him water for his hands. But the dog didn't do it, and when the man saw that the dog wasn't going to do it, he got up very angrily from the table, took up his sword, and went for the dog.
When it saw him coming, it fled, and they both jumped over the table and over the fire until the man overtook the dog and cut off its head and its legs, and tore it to pieces, and bloodied all of the house, and all of the table, and his clothes.
And thus, very angry and covered in blood, he sat down again at the table and looked about. Now he saw a cat and told it to give him water for his hands, and when it did not do it, he said:. Did'st thou not see what I did to the dog because he refused to do what I ordered him? I swear to God that if thou dost not do what I order thee, I will do the same to thee as the dog.
The cat didn't do it because it is not the custom of dogs or of cats to give water for washing the hands, and since it didn't do it, the man got up and took the cat by the legs and smashed it against the wall, breaking it into more than a hundred pieces, and getting angrier than he had at the dog. And thus, very wrathful, and gesturing ferociously, he returned to sit at the table, and looked about the whole house.
The woman, who saw him do all that, thought that he was mad and didn't say anything. When the man had looked all about, he saw his horse, which was in the house, and which was the only horse he had, and he told it very ferociously to give him water for his hands, but the horse didn't do it. When he saw this, the man said:. Thinkest thou that because I do not have another horse that I will do nothing if thou dost not what I order thee to do? Be careful, because if dost not what I order thee, I swear to God that I will do the same to thee as the others, because I would do the same to whoever doth not what I order him.
The horse didn't move, and when he saw that it didn't do what he told it, he went to it and cut off its head with as much wrath as he could muster and chopped it to pieces.
When the woman saw that he killed the only horse he had and said that he would do that to anyone who didn't obey him, she realised that the man was not jesting and she was so afraid that she did not know whether she was dead or alive. And the man, ferocious, wrathful and bloody, returned to the table swearing that if there were a thousand horses in the house and men and women who didn't obey him, that he would kill them all.
And he sat down and looked all about, holding the bloody sword in his lap, and after looking in every part of the house, he didn't see any living thing, he turned his eyes to his wife ferociously and said to her with great wrath, with the sword in his hand:. His wife, who was sure that he would chop her to pieces, got up quickly and got him some water for his hands. And always when he said something, he said it in such a tone that she thought he would cut off her head.
Basic Idea. General notes. El libro de los estados This shows a development in the significance of the author in his own text. He uses this strategy to establish his own authority. The falcon has to cede to the eagle, because the eagle is more powerful. The falcon gets fed up and the birds fight. So the king is justified in his position, because someone has to be the leader — just like God is in heaven.
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