18 And the mandate troubled me greatly, for I was a young man and loth to reveal my loveliness before all the world.
19 And because I was backward in setting about it, therefore did he hearten me with words; yea, he did bid me that I should get me a move on.
20 And I did get me a move on; but all else I did get me off.
21 And when I was become naked enough, then did he measure the height of my stature, and what it was. And I was weighed in the balance, also, and found wanting. And afterwards he did take me unto the Lord High Physician.
22 ¶ And there were others in that room, being in like straits to myself. And each of us did eye his fellows with a great contempt, for, verily, we were a sorry lot, and strangely made.
23 ¶ Now he that went up before me, he did carry in his hand a multitude of papers. And he spake unto the Lord High Physician, and he said unto him, Behold, I am sick unto death.
24 And after the Lord High Physician had taken stock of him, and after he had read that which was writ upon the papers, then spake he unto the young man, and he said,
25 It seemeth unto me that thou art a vigorous youth and hefty. But if, peradventure, thou art sick unto death, what matter the means to thy end? And he did send him forth.
26 And the young man was amazed, for he had paid one hundred talents of gold for that which was writ upon the papers, being assured that he might work the matter by force of their numbers.
27 ¶ And after him there stood forth another. And he was a man given over to fatness, so that even in his resting moments he was continually out of breath.