“Warrior! now no longer free!
Tell me what thy wish may be;
Shall I plunge thee in the sea,
Or leave thee on the mountain drear,
None to give thee succor near?
Tell thy wish to me!”
Now Rustem, knowing that the Deevs act ever by the rule of contraries, and realizing that if thrown into the sea his chance for escape would be better, quickly said unto the Deev:
“O, plunge me not in the roaring sea,
The maw of a fish is no home for me;
But cast me forth on the mountain; there