'
He paid no heed to them, but cried out at the top of his voice,
saying, 'I am the doctor, the scribe! I am the astrologer, the
mathematician!' And all the townsfolk forbade him from this, but
he heeded them not, saying in himself, 'None knoweth desire save
he who suffereth it.' Then he began again to cry his loudest,
saying, 'I am the scribe, I am the mathematician, I am the
astrologer!' till all the townsfolk were wroth with him and said
to him, 'Thou art but a silly self-willed boy! Have pity on
thine own youth and tender years and beauty and grace.' But he
cried all the more, 'I am the astrologer, I am the mathematician!
Is there any one that seeketh?' As he was thus crying and the
people remonstrating with him, King Gha?our heard his voice and
the clamour of the folk and said to his Vizier, 'Go down and
bring me yon astrologer.' So the Vizier went down and taking
Kemerezzeman from the midst of the crowd, carried him up to the
King, before whom he kissed the earth, repeating the following
verses:
Eight elements of high renown are all comprised in thee; By them
may Fortune never cease thy bounder slave to be!
Munificence and knowledge sure, glory and piety, Fair fluent
speech and eloquence and might and victory.
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