For the space of three years he wandered over the world,and in the world there was neither love nor loving-kindness nor charity for him,but it was even such a world as he had made for himself in the days of his great pride.
And one evening he came to the gate of a strong-walled city that stood by a river,and,weary and footsore though he was,he made to enter in.But the soldiers who stood on guard dropped their halberds across the entrance and said roughly to him:“What is thy business in the city?”