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Fair women

Once I fell in love with a fair woman, you know, but I was not sure about her, because she told me, she could not live with a man too close by her side. So, I asked an old wise man, what to do about it. The old wise man, he might have been about eighty, made a clicking sound with his mouth and shook his head.

“Oh, dearly me,” he said, “love and women, that's something I haven't got around to yet myself, you should ask an older and wiser man. But if you love a fair woman, you need a strong heart, my lad.”

So, I walked to an even older and wiser man. He was maybe a hundred years and I told him, that I am in love with a fair woman, but that she gets all upset, if I get to close to her and she starts losing things, like her glasses all the time.

” My, oh my,” he said, “I never understood this matter myself you know, you must ask a much older and wiser man then me. But if you love a fair woman, you need a healthy mind,” he said and bid me farewell.

So, I walked about looking for an older and wiser man, no easy task, you reckon. At last I found one, who was maybe a hundred and ten, if not more, with long white hair and a white beard and I told him, that I am in love with a fair woman, but that she gets pain in her shoulders and doesn't feel well, if I stay too long too close by her side and I didn't know what to do about it.

”Oh, oh,” he said, "love is an overly complicated matter, I haven't figured it out myself. You need to ask an older and wiser man then me, he said, but if you love a fair woman, you need a lot of patience and may be a bit more patience.”

So, I sat down and thought, „I will never find an older and wiser man.” I looked all about and couldn't find one and I asked myself: ”How old to you have to get to understand love and women?” And then it came to me, - you need a long, long life, patience, a healthy mind and a strong heart, if you are in love with a fair woman.