 Such a story is recorded in "Arabian Nights" where Harun al-Rashid plays the same trick on a man he finds sleeping in an alley.Another is found in "De Rebus Burgundicis" (1584) by the Dutch historian Pontus de Huyter, where Philip, Duke of Burgundy, after attending his sister's wedding in Portugal, finds a drunken "artisan" whom he entertains with a "pleasant Comedie.