Contented be, nor itch for further store.
They seized the swan--but had its gold no more.

So saying, the Master soundly rebuked the erring Sister and laid down the precept that any Sister who should eat garlic would have to do penance. Then, [477] making the connexion, he said, "Fat Nanda was the brahmin's wife of the story, her three sisters were the brahmin's three daughters, and I myself the golden mallard."

[Note. The story occurs at pp. 258-9 of Vol. IV. of the Vinaya. Cf. La poule aux oeufs d'or in La Fontaine (v. 13) &c.]

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