Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 433
,thou shalt cut off thine own nose with thine ax !And the wood-cutter departed laughing: Oho!but that is a false soothsayer ! for how could the 232 AKBAR AND BIRBAL [Jan., thing which he hath foretold come to pass ? Now,in truth, if I did so, and he flourished his axtoward his foot, I might cut off… … THE KING SAID, WHAT MAN IS THAT his nose was off! Thus it is that the soothsayerhath gained great repute for the fulfilment of aprophecy that was, indeed, due to the prophecyitself, as is often the case; and, therefore, manyof the ignorant do fear him. Yea, said Akbar, but what of the other man,to…
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