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XI
WHEN STRANGERS OFFER BETTER CONDITIONS



Arion rides on a dolphin
and plays his harp to it.
The animal's mind is not as cruel
as the minds of greedy men.
He who was robbed by men
is rescued by a fish.



 

 

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's