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“ Belike, if I had sought to slay the lion myself, I had not availed against him, and this is the issue of patience.’
It befell, after this, that a man was slain in Abou Sabir’s village; wherefore the Sultan caused plunder the village, and they plundered the headman’s goods with the rest. So his wife said to him, ‘All the Sultan’s officers know thee; so do thou prefer thy plaint to the king, that he may cause thy beasts to be restored to thee.’ But he said to her, ‘O woman, said I not to thee that he who doth evil shall suffer it? ”

“ As for the thieves who proffered repentance, there was no repentance for them with me, for that they began upon me with foul [dealing] and waylaid me by the road and despoiled me and took my good and my sons. ”

“ Then Abou Sabir foregathered with his wife and said to her, ‘How deemest thou of the fruit of patience and its sweetness and the fruit of haste and its bitterness? Verily, all that a man doth of good and evil, he shall assuredly abide.’
↑ i.e. the grave. Return to The Ten Viziers; or the History of King Azadbekht and His Son. ”