There was once a rich nobleman who had lived with his wife for ten years without having any children. One time he dreamt that he would have a very warlike son. Another time he dreamt again that a Jewess was going to be confined on the same day as his lady. (This was true!) Next morning this lord arose and said to his wife, ‘Wife, I dreamt that we are going to have a child.’
‘That may really come to pass,’ she answered.
He further told her of the Jewess; he said she would be brought to bed at the very same hour as her ladyship.
The good God ordained that she should be delivered of a child; the good God gave them a son. The boy’s father was very joyful, as were also the mother and that Jewess, who was brought to bed at the very same hour as this lady.
The nobleman said to his wife, ‘My lady, we must go to this Jewess, in order that our child may be brought up with hers.’
‘Very well, husband.’
They brought thither the Jewess, and she made her home there, near this nobleman’s dwelling.
He begins to grow up, this son of the nobleman. He is [[176]]very wise; yet the son of the Jewess is still wiser. He is now ten years old, and is eager to go to school; he learns there to perfection. His father and mother are filled with delight.
Once the Jewish boy said to the lord’s son, ‘Look here, now, why not request your father to have some beautiful baths made for you in the fields?’
The nobleman’s son approached his father, kissed his hand, as also his mother’s. ‘Father,’ said he, ‘I beg that you will build me some fine baths in the fields.’