“A very good tale!” said he. “The best I have heard for a long while. If all beggars could tell such a good one, they might find me kinder. You may be making it all up, of course, but you deserve a supper for the story all the same. Let’s have something to eat!”
In "The Odyssey," Eumaeus says something similar to a beggar (who is Odysseus in disguise):
"That was a splendid tale, old man! It worked. You will get all the clothes and things a poor old beggar needs—at least for now."
- Emily Wilson translation
