ukku, chuhoo, chuhooo"? 22

_Courtier._ Well?

_Sansthanaka._ Do me a favor.

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_Courtier._ Certainly. Anything, unless it be a sin.

_Sansthanaka._ There's not a shmell of a shin in it, shir. Not a perfume!

_Courtier._ Speak, then.

_Sansthanaka._ Murder Vasantasena.

_Courtier._ [_Stopping his ears._]

A tender lady, gem of this our city,
A courtezan whose love was stainless ever--
If I should kill her, sinless, without pity.
What boat would bear me on the gloomy river? 23

_Sansthanaka._ I'll give you a boat. And beshides, in thish deserted
garden, who'll shee you murdering her?

_Courtier._

The regions ten,[80] the forest gods, the sky,
The wind, the moon, the sun whose rays are light,
Virtue, my conscience--these I cannot fly,
Nor earth, that witnesses to wrong and right. 24

_Sansthanaka._ Well then, put your cloak over her and murder her.

_Courtier._ You fool! You scoundrel!

_Sansthanaka._ The old hog is afraid of a shin. Never mind. I'll
pershuade Sthavaraka, my shlave. Sthavaraka, my little shon, my shlave,
I'll give you golden bracelets.

_Sthavaraka._ And I'll wear them.

_Sansthanaka._ I'll have a golden sheat made for you.

_Sthavaraka._ And I'll sit on it.

_Sansthanaka._ I'll give you all my leavings.

_Sthavaraka._ And I'll eat them.

_Sansthanaka._ I'll make you the chief of all my shervants.

_Sthavaraka._ Master, I'll be the chief.

_Sansthanaka._ You only have to attend to what I shay.

_Sthavaraka._ Master, I will do anything, unless it be a sin.

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_Sansthanaka._ There's not a shmell of a shin in it.

_Sthavaraka._ Then speak, master.

_Sansthanaka._ Murder Vasantasena.

_Sthavaraka._ Oh, master, be merciful! Unworthy as I am, I brought
this worthy lady hither, because she mistook this bullock-cart for
another.

_Sansthanaka._ You shlave, ain't I your mashter?

_Sthavaraka._ Master of my body, not of my character. Be merciful,
master, be merciful! I am afraid.

_Sansthanaka._ You're my shlave. Who are you afraid of?

_Sthavaraka._ Of the other world, master.

_Sansthanaka._ Who is thish "other world"?

_Sthavaraka._ Master, it is a rewarder of righteousness and sin.

_Sansthanaka._ What is the reward of righteoushness?

_Sthavaraka._ To be like my master, with plenty of golden ornaments.

_Sansthanaka._ What is the reward of shin?

_Sthavar