shalt cause me to end my days in the palace."
Copy Of The Answer To This Order
"The follower Sanehat says: In excellent peace above everything consider
of this flight that he made here in his ignorance; Thou, the Good God,
Lord of both Lands, Loved of Ra, Favorite of Mentu, the Lord of Thebes,
and of Amen, lord of thrones of the lands, of Sebek, Ra, Horus, Hathor,
Atmu, and of his fellow-gods, of Sopdu, Neferbiu, Samsetu, Horus, lord of
the east, and of the royal uraeus which rules on thy head, of the chief
gods of the waters, of Min, Horus of the desert, Urrit, mistress of Punt,
Nut, Harnekht, Ra, all the gods of the land of Egypt, and of the isles of
the sea. May they give life and peace to thy nostril, may they load thee
with their gifts, may they give to thee eternity without end,
everlastingness without bound. May the fear of thee be doubled in the
lands of the deserts. Mayest thou subdue the circuit of the sun's disk.
This is the prayer to his master of the humble servant who is saved from a
foreign land.
"O wise King, the wise words which are pronounced in the wisdom of the
majesty of the sovereign, thy humble servant fears to tell. It is a great
thing to repeat. O great God, like unto Ra in fulfilling that to which he
has set his hand, what am I that he should take thought for me? Am I among
those whom he regards, and for whom he arranges? Thy majesty is as Horus,
and the strength of thy arms extends to all lands.
"Then let his Majesty bring Maki of Adma, Kenti-au-ush of Khenti-keshu,
and Tenus from the two lands of the Fen-khu; these are the princes who
bear witness of me as to all that has passed, out of love for thyself.
Does not Tenu believe that it belongs to thee like thy dogs? Behold this
flight that I have made: I did not have it in my heart; it was like the
leading of a dream, as a man of Adehi (Delta) sees himself in Abu
(Elephantine), as a man of the plain of Egypt who sees himself in the
deserts. There was no fear, there was no hastening after me, I did not
listen to an evil plot, my name was not heard in the mouth of the
magistrate; but my limbs went, my feet wandered, my heart drew me; my god
commanded this flight, and drew me on; but I am not stiff-necked. Does a
man fear when he sees his own land? Ra spread thy fear over the land, thy
terrors in every strange land. Behold me now in the palace, behold me in
this place; and lo! thou art he who is over all the horizon; the sun rises
at thy pl
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