"Instead of returning me a civil answer, the insolent wretch, beholding me with a fierce air, "Impotent villain,' said he, ‘I would rather give my slave to a Jew for nothing than to thee for money.' ‘Noor ad Deen,' I replied, without passion, though I had some reason to be a little warm,'you do not consider, that by talking in this manner you affront the king, who raised both your father and me to the honours we have enjoyed.'
"This admonition, instead of softening him, only provoked him to a higher degree; so that, falling upon me like a madman, without regard to my age or rank, he pulled me off my horse, and put me into this miserable plight. I beseech your majesty to consider, that it is on your account I have been so publicly affronted."