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160 aught thou wouldst have done, for thy last hour is come.” “O good slave,” said I, “grant me a little respite, that I may give thee my last injunctions.” Then I raised my head and considered my case and how I had fallen from high estate into abjection; wherefore the tears streamed from my eyes and I wept passing sore. He looked at me with angry eyes and repeated the following verses:

When I heard this, I wept and looked at him and repeated the following verses:

Then I wept; and when he heard what I said and saw my tears, his anger redoubled, and he repeated the following verses: