I have spoken." Now Mermes bowed and turned to go, since when those words had passed Pharaoh's lips it was not lawful to answer them.

Yet Asti dared to do so.
"O Pharaoh," she said, "be not wrath with your servant.

Pharaoh, as you know, I have skill in divination, the spirits of the dead whisper at times in my ears of things that are to be.

It seemed to me just now when having left the presence of the Queen, my foster-child, I stood a while alone in the darkness, that the divine Majesty of the great lady, the royal wife, Ahura, who was my friend and mistress, stood beside me and said: "'Go, Asti, to Pharaoh, and say to Pharaoh that great danger threatens him and our royal daughter.

Say to him--Fly from Memphis, lest there he should be prepared for burial, and the Star of Amen hidden by a cloud of shame.