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Having him at this Advantage they set upon him with their Emissaries to discover to them his Adherents, as they call'd them, and promis'd him great Things on one Hand, threatning him with his utter Ruin on the other; and the Great Scribe of the Country, with another of their great Courtiers, took such a low Step as to go to him to the Dungeon where they had put him, to see if they could tempt him to betray his Friends.
So the scribe came to the bed-chamber of the King, and in the presence of the high-priest all the words of Amen were written down, not one of them was omitted, and Pharaoh and the Queen signed the roll, and the high-priest witnessed it and, copies having been made, bore it away to hide it in the secret treasury of Amen.
Charles Lamb once declared that Rousseau was a good enough Jesus Christ for the French, and he was capable of declaring Tom Paine a good enough Milton for the Yankees. However that may be, Paine was an indefatigable and useful public servant. He was a bad gauger for King George, but he was an admirable scribe for a revolution conducted on constitutional principles.
The sacristan who polished the jewels that were left, handled them doubtfully now; the monk who superintended the farm sickened as he made his plans for another year; the scribe who sat in the carrel lost enthusiasm for his work; for the jewels in a few months might be on royal fingers, the beasts in strangers' sheds, and the illuminated leaves blowing over the cobbled court, or wrapped round grocers' stores.
I asked, who grew bewildered with his dark talk, but there was no answer, for he had gone. Near to my lodging another man met me, and the moonlight shining on his face showed me the terrible eyes of Ki. "Scribe Ana," he said, "you leave for Memphis to-morrow at the dawn, and not two days hence as you purposed." "How do you know that, Magician Ki?"
"'Thou hast four caps and skirts, two mantles for bad weather, and two pairs of sandals. Here is a fire, here a bench on which Thou mayst sleep, a mortar for crushing wheat, and a pan for dough. "'But what is this? asked the scribe, pointing to a certain figure covered with linen. "'That is one thing which Thou must not touch; if Thou do, Thou wilt lose all thy property.
It mattered little at such a moment where a work was to figure or whether any one should ever enjoy it. The pleasure and the function lay here, in this private revelation, in this playful dialogue between a bit of nature and a passing mood. When a Greek workman cut a volute or a moulding, he was not asked to be a poet; he was merely a scribe, writing out what some master had composed before him.
A confused litter of curled sheets of papyrus, and long strips of unrolled linen scrolls were distributed carelessly over the polished surface. At one side were eight plates of stone the tables of law, codified and blessed by Toth. The governor of police was absent, but his vice, who was jailer and scribe in one, sat in a chair behind the great table.
Having ascertained that neither the preacher nor his congregation would have any objection to my hearing one of these sermons, I made arrangements to attend the service, accompanied by two friends, my artist, and a scribe to take notes. We were shown into an apartment adjoining a small chapel a room opening on to a tastily arranged garden, wealthy in stone lanterns and dwarfed trees.
At the Louvre we have the "Cross- legged Scribe," and the statues of Skemka and Pahûrnefer; at Gizeh there are the "Sheikh el Beled" and his wife, Khafra , Ranefer, the Prince and General Rahotep, and his wife, Nefert, a "Kneeling Scribe," and a "Cross-legged Scribe."
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