P. 403 f. Roxburghe, III, 883, is #B#. Roxburghe, III, 494 was printed
and sold by John White, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, “circa 1777:” Ebsworth,
Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 749. ‘The King and the Bishop,’ Roxburghe, III,
170, is printed in the same volume, p. 751, and ‘The Old Abbot and King
Olfrey,’ Pepys, II, 127, at p. 753.
405 b, II, 507. An Armenian, a Slovak, and a Hungarian version, by H. v.
Wlisłocki, Zs. f. vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte, u. s. w., N. F.,
IV, 106 ff., 1891.
404 b, 2d paragraph. Of this kind is the Russian tale, How Fraud made
entrance into Russia. Ivan the Terrible demands tribute of neighboring
princes. They propose to him three riddles: if he guesses them, they are
to pay twelve casks of gold and tribute; if he fails, they take his
kingdom. A marvellous old man helps the Tsar out. He has been promised a
cask of gold, but the Tsar fills one of the casks two thirds with sand,
and offers that. The old man tells him that he, the Tsar, has brought
Fraud into the land, never to be eradicated. Ivan begs him to take one
of the other casks, but in vain. The old man vanishes; it was God.
Rybnikof, II, 232, No 39. (W. W.)