Stingy and envious stood before a king, and he said to them: "Ask anything you want, and I will give the second twice the request of the first." Neither of them wanted the other to take more than him, so they took a long fight and asked each other to ask first, so the king said: “If you do not do what I command you, cut off your heads.” Envious to the king said: "My Lord, take one of my eyes off!"
