Now you say that I must die because I have broken some laws of yours which men should be ashamed to make, and to save your honour, pay me what I have won, knowing that pearls and gold and slaves are of no value to a dying man and can be taken back again.

That is all the story.
"Yet I would add one word.

You Easterns have two sayings which you teach to your children; that they should learn to shoot with the bow, and to tell the truth.

O King, they are my last lessons to you.

Learn to shoot with the bow--which you cannot do, and to tell the truth which you have not done.