I dont have ducks or row i have chickens shirt

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2 min readOct 18, 2019

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A whimsical story is told of a king, who denied to poets those rewards to which usage had almost given them a claim. I dont have ducks or row i have chickens shirt. This king, whose name is not recorded, had the faculty of retaining in his memory an ode after having only once heard it; and he had a memlook who could repeat an ode that he had twice heard, and a female slave who could repeat one that she had heard thrice.

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Whenever a poet came to compliment him with a panegyrical ode, the King used to promise him that, I dont have ducks or row i have chickens shirt. if he found his verses to be his original composition, he would give him a sum of money equal in weight to what they were written upon. The poet, consenting, would recite his ode; and the King would say, “It is not new; for I have known it some years;” and would repeat it as he had heard it; after which he would add, “And this memlook also retains it in his memory;” and would order the memlook to repeat it; which, having heard it twice, from the poet and the king, he would do. The King would then say to the poet, “I have also a female slave who can repeat it;” and on his ordering her to do so, stationed behind the curtains, she would repeat what she had thus thrice heard: so the poet would go away empty-handed.

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