"Alas," replied the king, "I fear God, and am no more than the treasurer of the Moslems.

Their property I cannot alienate; but I still possess three shops in the city of Hems: these you may take; and these alone can I bestow." His chamber of justice was the terror of the great and the refuge of the poor.

Some years after the sultan's death, an oppressed subject called aloud in the streets of Damascus, "O Noureddin, Noureddin, where art thou now?
Arise, arise, to pity and protect us!" A tumult was apprehended, and a living tyrant blushed or trembled at the name of a departed monarch.
[Footnote 36: Abulmahasen apud de Guignes, Hist.

des Huns, tom.ii.

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