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King Yunan only rejoined, "I shall not be safe without slaying

thee; for, as thou healedst me by something held in hand, so am I

not secure against thy killing me by something given me to smell

or otherwise." Said the physician, "This then, O King, is thy

requital and reward; thou returnest only evil for good." The King

replied, "There is no help for it; die thou must and without

delay." Now when the physician was certified that the King would

slay him without waiting, he wept and regretted the good he had

done to other than the good. As one hath said on this subject:-

Of wit and wisdom is Maymunah[FN#98] bare * Whose sire in wisdom

all the wits outstrippeth: Man may not tread on mud or dust or

clay * Save by good sense, else trippeth he and slippeth.