"I won’t deny you the mules,
my darling girl…I won’t deny you anything.
Off you go, and the men will harness a wagon,
the tall one with the good smooth wheels,
fitted out with a cradle on the top."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 6, lines 76-80. King Alcinous finds it hard to say no to his daughter Nausicaa. When she coaxes him to harness a wagon so that she can wash her clothes in the river, he agrees straight away.