Kalais
Americannoun
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Juan de Kalais, the son of a widow, sets off as a merchant, but sells his cargo and ship to pay the debts of a corpse, which is being dragged about on a dung-heap.
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Juan de Kalais asks, “And if anyone should pay his debts, would you bury him then?”
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Juan de Kalais has it cried throughout the city that whoever has to receive anything of that man should show himself.
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Our Juan de Kalais sold his cargo, and still, not having enough, he sold his ship too.
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Juan de Kalais says to him: “That is not worth much.”
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