then balkis the most beautiful queen suleiman-bin-daoud’s very best beloved queen that was of sheba and sable and the rivers of the gold of the south from the desert of zinn to the towers of zimbabwe balkis, almost as wise as the most wise suleiman-bin-daoud himself, said, ‘it is nothing, o queens! a butterfly has made complaint against his wife because she quarrelled with him, and it has pleased our lord suleiman-bin-daoud to teach her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness, for that is counted a virtue among the wives of the butterflies.’