But now she is a maid, and her dangers are many, for she is beautiful, and the heart of man is evil.

Keep me with her always, O Lord, to guard and guide her! Let me not leave her, for she is without knowledge of good and evil.

Spare me a little while longer, though I am stricken in years.

For her sake spare me, Oh Lord--it is the last of my prayers--the last, O Lord, the last--for her sake spare me!" God did not hear the prayer of Israel.

Next morning a guard of soldiers came out from Tetuan and took him prisoner in the name of the Kaid.