Note 6 — Chapter V
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
Now once on a time that minister said to me when my state of concealment weighed upon my spirits; “why do you, although you know all things, abandon yourself to despondency? Do you not know that the minds of kings are most undiscerning, and in a short time you will be cleared from all imputations;6 in proof of which listen to the following tale:—