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You have found Fortunatus’s purse. Are in luck’s way. The nursery tale of Fortunaʹtus records that he had an inexhaustible purse. It is from the Italian fairy tales of Straparoʹla, called Nights. Translated into French in 1585. (See Wishing Cup.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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