356 ON SIAMESE LITERATURE. 



The following is a quotation from the above book. — The air is Yard. 



Verse 1st. Verse 2d. 



Mua nan || naang khapplm Men Phrd du \ Sing dai 



fdng Raa-chaa \\ kraap long phldn chdi mia sdi\\ thl prd-song 



Phaan klau \\ chdu chdm thdn Mai khdt-sd-thd ]| chaiplong 



mid rah nl \\taam prd ong. tang trong \\ td Rdchd 



' The Princess Khapphaa respectfully addressed his majesty in these words. Your highness 

 is of a liberal and munificent disposition, to which your devoted wife is ever ready to pay homage 

 — and she is watchful to regulate her whole conduct so as to render it agreeable to you. Should 

 your generous mind be deprived of the means of performing liberal actions, it shall be my study to 

 be instrumental in devising others. Can you doubt that she who would sell herself into slavery to 

 assist you, were your highness in distress, does not sympathize in all that happens to you ; through 

 this life and in all future states of existence my services and duties will be paid to you alone.' 



The following quotation from the same work is in another measure 



to the Surang khanang air, and in which spondees predominate. It 



is an irregular one. 



1. 2. 



Mua nan || Eentha phraam Thaao ndp \\ du thdng 



hhrdn dal \\ fdng hhwaam phan nung f || doe pang 



thde hhdm \\ phrd yaa thun nu-a \\ he si 



phraam than 1| hhau pdi* dh mau \\ yun hdl 



hhaithin \\ rot [c/ja] naa thaan thai \\ yhi dl 



som d'et |1 chd Raa-chaa led thaao \\ ho si 



chun chom \\ yin dl rap phldn \\ thdn chdi 



[Indra, having taken the form of a Brahman, approaches the King and asks for 1000 pieces 

 of money.] 



1. — " When the disguised Indra heard the kind words addressed to him by His Majesty, he 

 approached the throne. The monarch rejoiced at the occasion afforded of bestowing charity on so 

 holy a person. 



2. — " He immediately counted out 1000 pieces of gold, and after having placed them on the 

 crown of his head, he delivered them into the hands of the Brahman." 



* ai is a short vowel compound, which is here long by position. 



\ In the original the accent is laid on the consonant, making the vowel short, but the time 

 is equal to a long syllable. 



