Canto XIII. Agastya's Counsel.

“O Ráma, great delight I feel,

Pleased, Lakshmaṇ, with thy faithful zeal,

That you within these shades I see

With Sítá come to honour me.

But wandering through the rough rude wild

Has wearied Janak's gentle child:

With labours of the way oppressed

The Maithil lady longs for rest.