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playfully and in a playful mood the two exchanged their signet rings. The king quietly handed over the priest's ring to a servant but the priest was not aware of this. Later, he asked the servant to show it to the priest's wife and get from her the purse with the thousand gold pieces in it from the place where her husband had concealed it. The signet ring of the husband convinced the wife that the priest himself must have sent him and therefore she handed over the treasure to him. The man brought it back to the king.
The king kept the purse in the midst of lots of other palace treasures and summoned the priest and the complainant to the palace. The man saw his purse and quickly recognised it and convinced the king that it belonged to him. The king returned it to him and ordered that the priest's tongue should be cut : a punishment which he deserved.
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