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Pentaur rose to his feet, and the bright color flew to his face as close to him he perceived Bent-Anat. "You fought at Kadesh?" asked the king. "As thou sayest," replied Pentaur. "You are well spoken of as a poet," said Rameses, "and we desire to hear the wonderful tale of my preservation celebrated in song. If you will attempt it, let a lute be brought and sing." The poet bowed.
Material evidence fails us almost entirely, after the reign of Rameses III. Towards the close of the eleventh century B.C., the high-priests of Amen repaired the walls of Thebes, of Gebeleyn, and of El Hibeh opposite Feshn. The territorial subdivision of the country, which took place under the successors of Sheshonk, compelled the provincial princes to multiply their strongholds.
Paaker's deed had shaken his friendly confidence, and in his petition for peace the Cheta prince had intimated that Rameses might find much in his household to be set to rights perhaps with a strong hand.
His father was the noble warrior Assa," answered the haruspex, "and he therefore, after he himself had attained the highest consideration and vast wealth, escorted home the niece of the King Hor-em-lieb, who would have had a claim to the throne, as well as the Regent, if the grandfather of the present Rameses had not seized it from the old family by violence."
Ani's hawk is dead; he has nothing to hope for from Fortune, and I nothing to hope for from him. But if Rameses if the real king would promise me then my poor old body Yes, that is the thing, that is what I will do."
The conquered peoples had no choice, and the representative of the Cheta king who himself was wounded and twelve princes of the principal nations who had fought against Rameses, were forced to follow his victorious train. Every respect was shown them, and they were treated as the king himself, but they were none the less his prisoners.
The prince and the poet stood thus back to back for a few moments, when a stone struck Pentaur's head; he staggered, and the crowd were rushing upon him, when the little fence was torn away by a determined hand, a tall womanly form appeared on the scene of combat, and cried to the astonished mob: "Have done with this! I command you! I am Bent-Anat, the daughter of Rameses."
"The priests declare themselves against the king, and recognize in Ani the genuine blood of Ra." "That is much," said the old woman. "And many dogs are the death of the gazelle," said Nemu laughing. "But Rameses is not a gazelle to run, but a lion," said the old woman gravely. "You are playing a high game." "We know it," answered Nemu. But it is for high stakes there is much to win."
In a few hours they were brought to a close, for the Asiatic and Egyptian scribes had agreed, in the course of the long march southwards, on the stipulations to be signed; the treaty itself was to be drawn up after the articles had been carefully considered, and to be signed in the city of Rameses called Tanis or, by the numerous settlers in its neighborhood, Zoan.
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
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