and she said to him, ‘o my lord and light of my eyes, turn the ring upon your finger and show these queens of egypt and mesopotamia and persia and china that you are the great and terrible king.’ but suleiman-bin-daoud shook his head and said, ‘o my lady and delight of my life, remember the animal that came out of the sea and made me ashamed before all the animals in all the world because i showed off. now, if i showed off before these queens of persia and egypt and abyssinia and china, merely because they worry me, i might be made even more ashamed than i have been.’