Chapter 17. It Is Fitting for the King to Obey and Submit to His Friends’ Admonitions
1 To his friends he will offer himself to be cut and cauterized, as to skilled physicians, and will summon to the palace every man wiser than himself; and he will draw many a man out of the corner where he whispers to a few young lads,[1] entrusting himself to them and making his own heart a welcoming vessel, receiving in every part whatever is best.