The Game of Chess

the lord said: "Lady, if we were to kill those who love us, what should we then do to those who are our enemies?" And with that, he forgave the youth. Another instance of great patience original: "gedult" is read concerning him: one of his friends, named Aristus, Likely a reference to a story from Valerius Maximus regarding a ruler's patience in the face of insults; the name may be a scribe's variation of a classical name. in anger and malice cast his wickedness into his face from his mouth. But he [the lord] acted as one who is master of his own mind and can tame his anger, for he never showed him a troubled countenance because of it.

And when the sons wished to avenge the father's insult, he turned them away from it. And when Aristus wished to do penance upon himself—as if he wanted to kill himself—the lord followed him and prevented that, and took him back into all his confidence gehaime: intimacy, private counsel, or the inner circle of a ruler just as he had been before.

One reads of King Pyrrhus original: "Phro." This refers to Pyrrhus of Epirus, a Greek general and king often cited in medieval "Mirrors for Princes" as an example of clemency. that he was kind and gentle-minded, senfemuetig: mild-tempered or soft-hearted and he showed this toward those who sat drinking and spoke ill of him. And when this was reported to him, he asked them why they had accused him.

Then one among them spoke: "It was a small thing that we said of you compared to what we would have said had the wine not run out for us." And when he heard the clever excuse original: "hübpschen entredung" regarding the wine and the admission of the truth, original: "warhait" the king laughed kindly at them. And just as they had previously scolded him, they now praised him ever after.

The king should also be truthful in words and in deeds, so that he