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Roman Legends

Note 3 — THE SIMPLE WIFE.1

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The daughter went down into the cellar to draw the wine. But as she drew the wine she began to cry, saying: ‘If I am to be married I shall have a child, and the child will be a son, and the son will be a priest, and the priest will be a bishop, and the bishop will be a cardinal, and the cardinal will be a pope.’ And she cried and cried, and the wine was running all the time, so that the bottle3 she was filling ran over, and went on running over.

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