2/19/2023 0 Comments Jsesh help![]() Thereupon she hated me, and I fled before her.” My mother died and my father took another wife, a stepmother. The princes said to him, “Whence comest thou, thou good youth?” He replied, “I am the son of one of the horsemen of Egypt. They did every pleasant thing possible for the Prince: they lodged him, they shod his feet, they brought him to their table. They welcomed him hospitably, took him into their house, washed him, and gave fodder to his horse. As they were engaged in their daily efforts to reach the Princess’s window, up rode the Doomed Prince from Egypt. Many royal youths came and tried to scale the wall, but none succeeded. Then he sent for all the princes of Syria and said to them, “Whoever can climb to my daughter’s window shall marry her.” He had built a high house for her, and had placed her window many cubits distant from the ground. This prince had an only daughter and no son. At last the Prince reached the land of a prince of Mesopotamia. The Prince set out upon his travels, and his faithful boar- hound followed after him. ![]() The man led the Prince out of Egypt to the land that lies upon the north-east, and said to him, “Go now wherever thou wilt. So a messenger was sent from the King to the Doomed Prince, ordering him not only to leave the house, but to leave his native land. She hated the Prince, and urged the King to listen to his message and send him forth to meet whatever was in store for him. Let God do whatsoever pleases Him.” His Majesty the King had married another wife, and she did not at all wish the Doomed Prince to be kept safe from his fate. His Majesty said, “Let there be got for him a boar hunting dog to run before him.” So the Prince became the owner of a beautiful dog.īut when the Prince was quite grown up he wearied of his palace prison, and sent to his father, saying, “Why should I remain shut up for ever? I am doomed to die by one of three deaths. The servant told His Majesty the King of these things. He said to the servant who was with him, “What is that which follows the person going along the road?” The servant replied, “That is a dog.” The young Prince said, “Let one like it be brought to me.” Now when the child was nearly grown up he was standing on the roof of the house, and saw a dog following a person who was walking along the road. Many servants were to wait on him, and every kind of good thing for which he asked was to be his, but he was not to be allowed to go out among other people, lest one of his three dooms should over take him. So he gave orders that the child should be shut up in a fine house in the country. His Majesty was terribly grieved at the sad news, and became full of trouble. ![]() The people who were tending the child went at once and repeated to the King what the Hathors had foretold. Now the Seven Sacred Cows, the Hathors, who knew what would happen to every child in his future life, came to greet the babe at his birth, and said that his fate would be to die either through a crocodile, a serpent, or a dog. But when he prayed to the gods to give him a son and heir they listened to him. There was once a King of Egypt who had no son for many years. ![]()
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