পাতা:সদগুণ ও বীর্য্যের ইতিহাস.djvu/১৪৯

I 146 J generous person had retired, I began to examine the contents of the purse under my own arm, and sound in it an hundred pieces of gold. Hence I supposed each of my companions had as many, when I was seized with a sudden desire to put them all together; I did so, and was exceedingly pleased on awaking. This, Sire, is the whole of my áream; I hope your Majesty approves of my conduct. The emperor learning from this ingenious harangue that this soldier, notwithstanding he had feigned to be asleep like his companions, was the only one awake, permitted him to retain the twelve rewards, saying to him, “the money is all yours, for you only were awake. As for the rest, it is sufficient for them to know, that each had a hundred pieces of gold, which he lost by being asleep. Hence they will learn, that riches are not acquired by slumber; or if by some accident they fall to the share of the slothful, they take flight immediately.”