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<article> <h3 align="center" align="center">XXI</h3> <h3 align="center" align="center">THE TESTAMENT OF AVT’HANDIL TO KING ROSTEVAN WHEN HE STOLE AWAY</h3>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="769">769</A></FONT></span>He sat down to write the will, thus piteously inditing: "O king! I have stolen away in quest of him I must seek. I cannot remain sundered from him, the</p>
<p><A NAME="page_123"><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR=GREEN>p. 123</FONT></A></p>
<p>kindler of my fires. Forgive me and be merciful to me like as God.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="770">770</A></FONT></span>"I know that in the end thou wilt not blame this my resolve. A wise man cannot abandon his beloved friend. I venture to remind thee of the teaching of a certain discourse made by Plato: 'Falsehood, and two-facedness injure the body and then the soul.'</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="771">771</A></FONT></span>"Since lying is the source of all misfortunes, why should I abandon my friend, a -brother by a stronger tie than born brotherhood? I will not do it! What avails me the knowledge of the philosophizing of the philosophers! Therefore are we taught that we may be united with the choir of the heavenly hosts.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="772">772</A></FONT></span>"Thou hast read how the apostles write of love, how they speak of it, how they praise it; know thou it and harmonize thy knowledge: 'love exalteth us,' this is as it were the tinkling burden of their song: if thou conceive not this how can I convince ignorant men?</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="773">773</A></FONT></span>"He who created me, even He gave me power to overcome foes; He who is the invisible Might, the Aid of every earthly being, who fixes the bounds of the finite, sits immortal God as God, He can in one moment change a hundred into one and one into a hundred.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="774">774</A></FONT></span>"What God wills not will not become fact. The violet fades, the rose withers, if they cannot gaze on the sunbeams; every lovely thing is desirable for the eye to gaze on. How can I endure the lack of him, or how can life please me!</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="775">775</A></FONT></span>"However angry thou art, forgive me that I have not kept your command; enthralled, I had no power to fulfil it. No! to go was the remedy for the flaming of</p>
<p><A NAME="page_124"><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR=GREEN>p. 124</FONT></A></p>
<p>my furnaces. Wherever I may be, what matters it to me if I have but my freewill?</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="776">776</A></FONT></span>"Sadness avails thee not, nor useless flow of tears. The deed which is inevitably decreed above cannot be avoided. It is a law with men that they should struggle and suffer woes, and no creature of flesh hath power to thwart Providence.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="777">777</A></FONT></span>Whatever God has predestined to come to pass upon me let it be fulfilled, and when I return my heart will no longer remain ashes. May I see you also joyful in majesty and manifold wealth. What I can do for him is my glory, and this is sufficient booty for me.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="778">778</A></FONT></span>"O king, this is my decision. Slay me! if anyone can disapprove! O king, can it be that my going grieves thee! I cannot be false, I cannot do a cowardly deed; he would shame me when we meet face to face in that eternity whereto we both shall come.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="779">779</A></FONT></span>"Mindfulness of a friend ne’er doeth us harm. I despise the man who is shameless, false and treacherous. I cannot be false; I cannot do it for a mighty king. What is worse than a hesitant, tardy-going man!</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="780">780</A></FONT></span>"What is worse than a man in the fight with a frowning face, shirking, affrighted and thinking of death! In what is a cowardly man better than a woman weaving a web! It is better to get glory than all goods!</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="781">781</A></FONT></span>"A narrow road cannot keep back Death, nor a rocky one; by him all are levelled, weak and strong-hearted; in the end the earth unites in one place youth and greybeard. Better a glorious death than shameful life!</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="782">782</A></FONT></span>"And now I fear, O king, to make this request to</p>
<p><A NAME="page_125"><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR=GREEN>p. 125</FONT></A></p>
<p>you: mistaken, mistaken is he who expects not death momentarily; it which unites us all comes alike by day and by night. If I see thee not living, life will be fleeting for me.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="783">783</A></FONT></span>"If Fate, the destroyer of all, destroy me, an orphan I shall die travelling, unmourned by parent, nor will those who brought me up, nor the friend whom I trust, enshroud me; then indeed will your merciful, tender heart have pity on me.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="784">784</A></FONT></span>"I have countless possessions weighed by none: Give the treasure to the poor, free the slaves; enrich every orphan without means; they will be grateful to me, remember me, bless me; I shall be thought of.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="785">785</A></FONT></span>"Whatever is not worthy of being kept in your treasury, give part to build orphan homes, part to build bridges; be not sparing in the spending of mine estate for me; I have none save thee to quench the hot fires. <A NAME="fr_17"></A><A HREF="#fn_17"><FONT SIZE="1">1</FONT></A></p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="786">786</A></FONT></span>"Henceforth thou shalt learn no more news from me, herewith I commit my soul to thee; this letter tells thee so, without flattering thee; the devil's deeds shall not seduce (my soul), it will prevail; forgive me and pray for me; what can be exacted from me dead?</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="787">787</A></FONT></span>"I entreat thee, O king, for Shermadin my chosen servant. This year he hath an added day of grief. Comfort him with the favour I was wont to favour him withal; make not the tears to flow from his eyes welling with blood.</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="788">788</A></FONT></span>"My testament is ended, written by mine own hand. Behold, mine upbringer, I have parted from thee; I am gone away with maddened heart. Let not the</p>
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<p><A NAME="page_126"><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR=GREEN>p. 126</FONT></A></p>
<p>sovereigns be grieved for my sake, be ye not clad in gloom, but be ye in your sovereignty feared by foes."</p>
<p><span class="margnote"><FONT COLOR="GREEN" SIZE="-1"><a name="789">789</A></FONT></span>When he had made an end of writing he gave the will to Shermadin. He said: "Convey this to the king discreetly; none can excel thee in any service." He embraced him and wept over him bloody-hued tears.</p>
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<P><A NAME="fn_17"></A><A HREF="mps24.html#fr_17">125:1</A> Of purgatory?</P>
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