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217 His might!) and how He had vouchsafed him the ring and how his hope had been cut off, except God had provided him with the slave of the Ring. So he rejoiced and all chagrin ceased from him; then, for that he had been four days without sleeping, of the stress of his chagrin and his trouble and his grief and the excess of his melancholy, he went to the side of the palace and lay down under a tree; for that, as I have said, the palace was among the gardens of Africa without the city. He lay that night under the tree in all ease; but he whose head is in the headsman’s hand sleepeth not anights. However, fatigue and lack