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# LXXII. King John and the Abbot

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LXXII. King John and the Abbot of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 135 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/2/) — \_--"Prosed" from the well-known ballad in Percy.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/3/) — I have changed the first query: What am I worth?
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/4/) — Answer: Twenty-nine pence--one less, I ween, than the Lord.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/5/) — This would have sounded somewhat bold in prose.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/6/) — \_Parallels.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/7/) — \_--Vincent of Beauvais has the story, but the English version comes from the German Joe Miller, Pauli's \_Schimpf und Ernst\_, No. lv., p. 46, ed.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/8/) — Oesterley, where see his notes.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/9/) — The question I have omitted exists there, and cannot have "independently arisen."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/10/) — Pauli was a fifteenth century worthy or unworthy.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/11/) — \_Remarks.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/12/) — \_--Riddles were once on a time serious things to meddle with, as witness Samson and the Sphynx, and other instances duly noted with his customary erudition by Prof.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/63/13/) — Child in his comments on the ballad, \_English and Scotch Ballads\_, i, 403-14.

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