The selfish and envious villain. Engraving from a miniature of "Proverbes et Adages" that showed the legend: "Qui trop embrasse mal etreint" (who embraces a lot little will squeeze). "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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