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Läsebok N:o 20—22.
4. Lewis XI and tlie Merchant.
Lewis the Eleventh, king of France, sometimes admitted
to his table a rich merchant. The latter, emboldened by the
kindness of the monarch, begged of him letters of nobility.
The king granted them to him, but ceased to see him. When
the merchant asked him the reason of it, he answered:
»When I admitted you to my table, I considered you as the
first merchant; now that you are the last of the nobility, I
should do an injury to the other noblemen by continuing to
do so».
5. The Keys of St. Peter.
Pope Sixtus the Fifth, while he was a cardinal, feigned
himself broken with age and infirmities, and stooped to
excess; looking upon this as one probable means of his
exaltation to the papal chair. It being observed to him soon after
his election, that he carried himself much more erect than
he had lately done: »I was looking for the keys of St. Peter»,
said he, »but having found them, I have no longer any
occasion to stoop».
6. The Field Daisy.
I’m a little pretty thing;
Always coming with the spring;
In the meadows green I’m found
Peeping just above the ground.
And my stalk is covered flat
With a white and yellow bat.
Little lady, when you pass
Lightly o’er the tender grass,
Skip about, but do not tread
On my meek and healthy head.
For I always seem to say,
»Surely, Winter’s gone away».
7. The Beardless Ambassador.
In 1589 Philip the Second, king of Spain, had sent the
young Constable of Castile to Rome, to congratulate Sixtus
the Fifth on his exaltation. This pope, displeased that so
young an ambassador had been deputed to him, could not
help saying: »Well, sir, did your master want men, by
sending me an ambassador without a beard?» — »lf my
sovereign had thought», »replied the proud Spaniard», that merit
consisted in a beard, he would have sent you a he-goat, and
not a gentleman, as I am.
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