“A King sits on his throne, surrounded by his ministers and courtiers. He declares he is ill, though there were no apparent signs of illness, but a King must not be contradicted, so doctors by the score come to try and cure him, but they fail, and so by the King's orders their heads are cut off. Two famous doctors visit the King, the one as poor as a rat and as thin as a herring, the other one rich and fat. One declares the King is as sound as a bell; the King immediately orders him to be beheaded. The other doctor, dreading the same fate, says that the King will be well if he sleeps for one night in the shirt of a happy man. Couriers are at once despatched in search of a happy man. They come across two men bewailing their sad fate – one has buried a wife, the other has not – so the couriers continue the search until they arrive at a village where they spy a beggar whistling and rolling in the grass. They offer him 100 ducats for his shirt, as he appears to be the sort of man they want. But the beggar says he has no shirt! The King grows ashamed to think it is difficult to find in all his wide realms a happy man, and the reflection cures him, and he lives to be blessed by his subjects.”