And the Young King going through the room, the treasurer showed him the pile saying: Sire, see how you dispense your gifts. You see what a large sum is two hundred marks, which seem nothing to you.
And the Young King looked and said: that seems little enough to me to give to so valiant a man. Give him four hundred, for I thought two hundred marks much more than they seem now I see them.[5]
[1] bontà in original—goodness. [↑]
[2] The young King was Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England. He was often known under this title. [↑]
[3] Beltram, or Bertrand di Born. [↑]
[4] This change from indirect to direct narrative occurs frequently in the Novellino. [↑]
[5] The story of the tooth appears also in Conti di antichi cavalieri. [↑]