They answered, 'By the lures of vanity, the blinding of ambition, and
tasting the gall of the Roc.'
So Shibli Bagarag leaned to the seven youths, saying, 'O my princes, but
for not tasting the gall of the Roc I might be as one of these. Wullahy!
I the King am warned by base creatures.' Then he said to the animals,
'Have ye still a longing for the crown?'
And they cried, all of them, 'O light of the astonished earth, we care
for nought other than it.'
So he said, 'And is it known to ye how to dispossess the wearer of his
burden?'