180
THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT.
he fearing to hold off from counting lest death should surprise him. Wah! it is an ill thing to do an injustice, which springeth from suspicion, as the poet says:
"Suspicion in the birth fail not to strangle,
Lest that its offspring thy soul's beauty mangle."
So the King saw what he had lost in Rumdrum the barber.
