of dirt big enough to hit one with, and removing even her shoes, she swept out the whole chamber. Then she arranged a high seat for herself in the doorway (keeping well outside the threshold) and, spreading a coverlet on a low stool for Pabhavati, she said, "Come, my dear, and I will search in your head for vermin," and making her sit there and place her head upon her lap, after scratching her a little and saying, "Ho! what a lot of lice we have here," she took some from her own head and put them on the head of the princess, and speaking in terms of endearment of the Great Being she sang his praises in this stanza:

This royal dame no pleasure feels Kusa once more to see,
Though, wanting nought, he serves as cook for simple hireling's fee.

Pabhavati was enraged with the humpback. So the old woman took her by the neck and pushed her inside the room, and being herself outside she closed the door and stood clinging to the cord which pulled the door to . Pabhavati, being unable to get at her, stood by the door, abusing her, and spoke another stanza:

[299] This humpbacked slave without a doubt,
For speaking such a word,
Deserves to have her tongue cut out
With keenest sharpened sword.

So the humpback stood holding on to the rope that hung down and said, "You worthless, ill-behaved creature, what good will your fair looks do anyone? Can we live by feeding on your beauty?" and so saying she proclaimed the virtues of the Bodhisatta, shouting them aloud with the harsh voice of a humpback, in thirteen stanzas:

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Great glory his, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Great wealth is his, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Great power is his, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Wide rule is his, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Great king is he, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Lion-voiced is he, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Clear-voiced is he, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Deep voiced is he, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Sweet-voiced is he, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.

Esteem him not, Pabhavati, by outward form or height,
Honey-voiced is he, so do whate'er is pleasing in his sight.