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then, O King,” continued the youth, “that there is no goodlier thing than clemency and that all thou dost thereof, thou shalt find before thee, a treasure laid up for thee.”


When the king heard this, his wrath subsided and he said, “Carry him back to the prison till the morrow, so we may look into his affair.”