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Updated: June 2, 2025
Troops very ill disciplined spread their devastation over all the neighbouring country. They spared only the dwelling of Abosaber and six persons of his household; but they pillaged his granaries and his standing corn, with those of all the inhabitants. The wife of Abosaber bewailed this disaster.
Saying this, he went away, taking the road to the village, from which they were not far distant. Scarcely was Abosaber out of sight when a gentleman passing near her stopped in astonishment at seeing a most beautiful woman plundered and abandoned thus in a solitary road.
He had been a month in this laborious and unprofitable situation, when a workman, falling from a ladder, broke his leg. This poor unhappy man set up dreadful cries, interrupted by complaints and imprecations. Abosaber approached him. "Companion," said he to him, "you increase your misfortunes instead of relieving them. Have patience!
This virtue, necessary to all, and which calls upon us for that resignation which we owe to the eternal decrees, raised the patient Abosaber from the bottom of a well even to the throne." "Who is this Abosaber?" asked the King. "Give me a short account of his history." He was hospitable and beneficent to the poor, and every one that applied to him.
"Long live Abosaber! long live our King! long live the patient monarch! may he live for ever! and may his reign endure to eternity!" The King having returned into his apartment, sent for his wife and his children, and after yielding to the sweet impulses of nature, "Behold," said he to his spouse, "the fruits of patience, and the consequences of rashness.
The order was obeyed. The Viziers, the officers, and the whole divan murmured aloud, that Abosaber might hear them. "Never was there seen such an act of violence," said they among themselves.
Abosaber dismissed his divan to converse with this exiled Prince, and, as soon as they were alone, he said to him, "Behold in me Abosaber, your former subject, unjustly spoiled by you of all his fortune, and banished from your kingdom. Observe the just difference in the conduct of Heaven towards us. I departed from my village, reduced by you to the last point of wretchedness.
Unhappy the man who gives orders at once rigorous and urgent! unhappy the man who acts without reflection! I fear that the evils which the King has brought upon us will soon return upon himself." An enemy of Abosaber had heard this discourse, and reported it to the King. "Thus," said he, "speaks the man whom the goodness of your Majesty had spared!"
The wife of Abosaber wanted her husband, at the head of his people, to hunt this animal, by whose devastation they, on account of their riches, were more particularly affected. "Wife," said Abosaber to her, "let us have patience! I have not any skill in lion hunting; leave it to others." The King of the country heard of the ravages of this lion, and ordered a general chase.
A neighbouring monarch, driven from his dominions by a powerful enemy, vanquished, and followed by a small retinue, took refuge with Abosaber, and implored on his knees the hospitality, assistance, and good offices of a King renowned for his virtues, and especially for his patience.
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