Amarna letters of the king, my lord.""-('before', then line 8, line 11). Both sentences are identical, and repetitive, with only the subject statement changing. The entire corpus of Amarna letters has many standard phrases. It also has some phrases, and quotations used only once. Some are parables: (EA 252: ""...when an ant is pinched (struck), does it not fight back and bite the hand of the man that struck it?""...) Amarna letter EA 15, from Ashur-uballit I; see also Amarna letter EA 153. Amarna letters The Amarna letters (; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with
Many a true word is spoken in jest Many a true word is spoken in jest Many a true word is spoken in jest is an adage, aphorism or proverb. A version of this appears in the Prologue to The Cook's Tale (written in 1390) by Chaucer: ""Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!"". An early print appearance of the most familiar form of this aphorism was in Volume VII of the "Roxburghe Ballads", where appears in the prologue to "The Merry Man's Resolution, or A London Frollick". The ballad purportedly goes back to the 17th century, but the introductory verse was probably written by