e so many aromatics ne so sweet odors smelling as the
queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that ever she desired and
demanded of him, and after returned into her country and land. The
weight of pure gold that was offered every year to Solomon was six
hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, except that that the merchants
offered, and all they that sold, and all the kings of Arabia and dukes
of that land. Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold and
set them in the house of Lebanon; he made him also a throne of ivory
which was great and was clad with gold, which had six grees or steps,
which was richly wrought with two lions of gold holding the seat above,
and twelve small lions standing upon the steps, on every each twain,
here and there. There was never such a work in no realm. And all the
vessels that King Solomon drank of were of gold, and the ceiling of the
house of Lebanon in which his shields of gold were in was of the most
pure gold. Silver was of no price in the days of King Solomon, for the
navy of the king, with the navy of Hiram, went in three years once into
Tarsis and brought them thence gold and silver, teeth of elephants and
great riches. The King Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the
world in riches and wisdom, and all the world desired to see the cheer
and visage of Solomon, and to hear his wisdom that God had given to him.
Every man brought to him gifts, vessels of gold and silver, clothes and
armor for war, aromatics, horses and mules every year. Solomon gathered
together chariots and horsemen; he had a thousand four hundred chariots
and cars, and twelve thousand horsemen, and were lodged in small cities
and towns about Jerusalem by the king. There was as great abundance and
plenty of gold and silver in those days in Jerusalem as stones or
sycamores that grow in the field, and horses were brought to him from
Egypt and Chao. What shall I all day write of the riches, glory and
magnificence of King Solomon? It was so great that it cannot be
expressed, for there was never none like to him, ne never shall none
come after him like unto him. He made the book of the parables
containing thirty-one chapters, the book of the Canticles, the book of
Ecclesiastes, containing twelve chapters, and the book of Sapience
containing nineteen chapters. This King Solomon loved overmuch women,
and specially strange women of other sects; as King Pharaoh's daught