Felt for his servants, thus addressed:

“O faithful servant, well my heart

Knows how attached and true thou art.

Hear thou the words I speak, and know

Why to the town I bid thee go.

Soon as Kaikeyí, youngest queen,

Thy coming to the town has seen,

No doubt will then her mind oppress

That Ráma roams the wilderness.

And so the dame, her heart content