Our servant’s want relieve; set thou him free from woe.
A servant whom we hold in very high esteem,
In public burial-ground, go, visit; him redeem.
From out the public treasury do thou extract
Seven hundred golden sequins, with due care and tact.270
To him deliver them; and say: ‘O man of good,
For present needs let this suffice; ’twill give thee food.
Thy harpstrings’ hire it is. Go hence; and when ’tis done,
Do thou again come hither; look for me alone.’”
At sound of that dread voice did ‘Umer now awake,