"Sign this and you are free!"
"What is this?"
"A writing in which you say to the king that you are innocent of what you are accused."
"If that is so, bring it and I will sign it."
And he put a cross and his seal at the foot of it.
The judge bore to the king that sentence that the prisoner had signed, believing it to be his salvation, and then the king, convinced of his innocence, commanded him to be set free and returned all his honours to him.
After that the knight dedicated himself to learning reading and writing, and made such progress that, after eight years of lessons, he already knew which was the letter O, both capital and small, which indeed showed a progress not too rapid.
And the peasant? He was sought for, being a wicked man, and as soon as he was caught he was put into prison, where he finished his life.
Ignorance is bad, but the wicked are worse than the ignorant.
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