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"What do I hear?" cried the tailor, and ran upstairs and said to the youth, "Hollo, thou liar: thou saidest the goat had had enough, and hast let her hunger!" and in his anger he took the yard-measure from the wall, and drove him out with blows.
"Say," she cried to Rei, who bowed before her, "say, who is this woman?" Rei looked at the Queen with terrified eyes, and spake in a voice of warning. "This is that Goddess who dwells in the Temple of Hathor," he said. "Let her pass in peace, O Queen." "In peace she shall pass indeed," answered Meriamun. "What saidest thou, old dotard? That Goddess!
After the example of that devout and wise king hast thou also done, in that thou hast received me in good hope, wherein, as I ween, thou shalt not be disappointed." Ioasaph said unto him, "Fair and fitting hath been all thy speech; but now I fain would learn who is thy Master, who, as thou saidest at the first, spake concerning the Sower."
Where I want to know, however, there want I also to be honest namely, severe, rigorous, restricted, cruel and inexorable. Because THOU once saidest, O Zarathustra: 'Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life'; that led and allured me to thy doctrine. And verily, with mine own blood have I increased mine own knowledge!"
But, whereas thou saidest that thou didst neither wilfully do wrong, nor didst fail of the mark through ignorance, but after much laborious enquiry hadst ascertained that it was truly a good thing to worship idols and to be riveted to the pleasures of the passions that thou art wilfully a wrong doer, I may not say.
He knit his brows somewhat, and said: "Nay, it may not be: true it is that thou saidest that no evil weird went with it, but hearken!
But if I meet with some wise and understanding man, and hear the word of salvation, I shall not deliver it to the fowls of the air, I trow, nor yet to the beasts of the field; nor shall I be found either stony or thorny-hearted, as thou saidest, but I shall receive the word kindly, and guard it wisely. So if thou knowest any such like thing, conceal it not from me, but declare it.
Shall it be written of me, The holy Pachymius abode in the precepts of the eremites so long as he dwelt in the desert where no water was, but as soon as he came within sight of a bath, he stumbled and fell?" "Oh, father," urged they, "savoureth not this of vaingloriousness? The demon in the guise of an angel of light, as thou so well saidest even now. Be strong. Quit thyself valiantly.
Vain man and foolish as thou art, thou didst desire to travel the Underworld in search of certain ones who once were all in all to thee nay, not all in all since of them there were two or more but at least much. Thus thou wouldst do because, as thou saidest, thou didst seek to know whether they still lived on beyond the gates of Blackness.
Ioasaph said unto him, "Make plain to me this saying; how the least of all thy companions surpasseth me in riches thou saidest but now that they lived in utter penury, and were pinched by extreme poverty and why thou callest me a poor man, but sayest that, when I shall be passing rich, I, who am ready to distribute, shall be ready to distribute no more."
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