Man, do not weep--laugh as I do, Oho-ho! Give me my staff, and good-night.

Forget not that we sit together at the crowning to-morrow, for you are a King's Companion and that rank once conferred is one which no new Pharaoh can take away.

It is like the gift of the spirit, Ana, which is hard to win, but once won more eternal than the stars.

Oh! why do I live so long who would bathe in it, as when a child I used to bathe in Nile ?" On the following day at the appointed hour I went to the great hall of the palace, that in which I had first seen Meneptah, and took my stand in the place allotted to me.

It was somewhat far back, perhaps because it was not wished that I, who was known to be the private scribe of Seti, should remind Egypt of him by appearing where all could see me.
Great as was the hall the crowd filled it to its furthest corners.
Moreover no common man was present there, but rather every noble and head-priest in Egypt, and with them their wives and daughters, so that all the dim courts shone with gold and precious gems set upon festal garments.