And the Man made answer and said, 'Even so did I.'

And a third time God opened the Book of the Life of the Man.

And God said to the Man, 'Evil hath been thy life, and with evil didst

thou requite good, and with wrongdoing kindness. The hands that fed thee

thou didst wound, and the breasts that gave thee suck thou didst despise.

He who came to thee with water went away thirsting, and the outlawed men

who hid thee in their tents at night thou didst betray before dawn. Thine

enemy who spared thee thou didst snare in an ambush, and the friend who

walked with thee thou didst sell for a price, and to those who brought

thee Love thou didst ever give Lust in thy turn.'

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