And the foe that I brought I will now displace.”
El-Gundub′ah replied, “O my uncle, thou hast treated me with kindness: do not repent of it; but let me depart from you in peace: cancel not the good that thou hast done.” But Dárim answered, “Use no protraction: for thy death is determined on.” Then El-Gundub′ah thus addressed him:—
“Be admonish’d, O Dárim! thy steps retrace;
And haste not thus rashly thy fate to embrace.
Hast thou ever seen aught of evil in me?
I have always nam’d thee with honour and praise.
By my hand and lance was Esh-Shamta destroy’d,
When thou wast her captive, in bonds and disgrace:
I freed thee from bondage: and is it for this
We are now met as enemies, face to face?