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PART I. WEST-EASTERLY MORALITIES
"Art thou so upright, and by God made free
To be malignant in integrity?
Is it the truth alone thou owest to the king?
Nay, but all oracles that whispering
Speak in the central chamber of the heart,
Saving when envy speaks, which spoke in thee.
But thou, my father, shall not thy name be
Henceforth 'The Merciful'? For so thou art.
So spoke the king, and, leaning head to head,
The courtiers whispered, and Ben Ali said: