Bestow comfort with gold and with silver,
And thereby also profit thyself.
As this house of thine will remain,
Build it with a silver and a gold brick.
It is narrated that he had poor relations in Egypt, who became rich by the remainder of his wealth, tearing up their old clothes, and cutting new ones of silk and of Damiâri.[1] During the same week I also beheld one of them riding a fleet horse, with a fairy-faced slave-boy at his heels. I said: "Wah! If the dead man were to return among his kinsfolk and connections, the refunding of the inheritance would be more painful to the heirs than the death of their relative." On account of the acquaintance which had formerly subsisted between us, I pulled his sleeve, and said: "Eat thou, O virtuous and good man, what that mean fellow gathered and did not eat.
- ↑ A species of fine linen made at Damietta, in Egypt.
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