剣を飲み込む見世物を用いて、軽率な約束を守ることは剣を飲み込むより難しいと王に教えた顧問官の本生話で、一週間貸し与えた青年と共に逃げた王妃への王の悲嘆を癒す。

A birth story of a counsellor who used the display of a sword-swallower to teach a king that keeping a rash promise is harder than swallowing a sword, curing the king’s grief over a queen who had run off with a young man given to her for a week.