" "Nay, my son," said the father, "that would be hard for you.
Truly I am your son, allow me to do your work, I can plough as well as you, nay better.
Nay, said the host, I would bet a hundred pieces of gold that that will not come true.
And now every day were set on the table great dishes filled with beautiful apples and pears from their own garden; bushels and barrels of these fruits were sent to friends in the city and country, nay, were even sent abroad.
Nay, that is almost too improbable; and yet it is true.
Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries than for their own clothes, and so I have dressed out my shadow like a man; nay, you may observe that I have even given him a shadow of his own; it is rather expensive, but I like to have things about me that are peculiar.
At last the prince had his own statue erected on the public places and fixed on the royal palaces; nay, he even wished it to be placed in the churches, on the altars, but in this the priests opposed him, saying: "Prince, you are mighty indeed, but God's power is much greater than yours; we dare not obey your orders.
