Unless the pious dedication be
Sequent immediate to the thievery.'"
BEN ALI.
"It is good law, O King, and good to heed.
Now, of 'religious purposes' it calls
First, 'to relieve the needy of their need.'
Can it be doubted that this Afghan falls
Among the 'needy,' and became a thief
To his own need's immediate relief?
Nay, in the very act of thieving vowed