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thee, I have known thy name, I have known the names of the forty-two of 
the gods who are with thee in the ball of the Two Truths, who live by 
catching the wicked, and feeding off their blood, in the day of reckoning of 
words, before the good being, the justified.* 
“Rub ye away my faults, f for I have not privily done evil against mankind, 
neither have I afflicted persons or men ; I have not told falsehoods before the 
tribunal of truth, I have had no acquaintance with evil, I have not done any 
wicked thing, I have not made the labouring man perform more than his 
daily task, I have not been idle, I have not failed, I have not been weak (in 
the sense of sinful ), I have not done what is hateful to the gods, I have not 
calumniated the slave to his master, I have not sacrificed (filled the office 
wrongfully of a priest), I have not murdered, I have not given orders to 
smite a person privily, I have not done fraud to any man, neither have I 
altered the measures of the country. I have not injured the images of the 
gods, I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings, neither 
have I netted the sacred fish ;J I have not stopped running water, I have not 
robbed the gods of their offered haunches, I have not caused to weep, I have 
not multiplied words in speaking, I have not blasphemed a god, I have not 
made a conspiracy, I have not corrupted women or men, neither have I 
polluted myself ; I have not stolen from the dead, I have not played the 
hypocrite, I have not caused any to weep, I have not despised any god in 
my heart ; I am pure, I am pure — let no harm happen to me from the 
avenging genii ; save, 0 save me from them. 
“0 Lords of truth, I have made to the gods the offerings due unto them, 
I have given food to the hungry, I have given drink to the thirsty, I have 
given clothes to the naked, § I have been attentive to the words of truth, I 
am pure from all sins, I am free from the curse of the wicked, I have done 
what the gods writ upon earth, I have no sins, and no perversion — place me 
before thyself, 0 Lord of Eternity, and let me pass through the roads of 
darkness and dwell with thee for ever/’ 
34. To so magnificent an appeal, and to a sonl so consciously 
perfect, but one answer can tRe deity return. At a signal 
from Osiris, the deceased is invested in a longwhite linen robe, || 
* “ I have brought to you truth, and have blotted out your iniquity.” — Id. 
f The first clause, literally un nefer, may really be not an address but a 
proper name. — Id. 
x The Lepidotus, or Oxyrhynchus Niloticus, worshipped at Latopolis as a 
form of the goddess Athor. — Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians, vol. ii. 
pp. 248—251. ^ ’ 
§ After naked occurs, in some papyri, the further clause, “ and a boat to 
the shipwrecked.” — Renouf. 
|| A specimen of this garment in the Hay collection measured 16 feet by 9, 
and was furnished with a broad twisted fringe along the outer edge. The 
name for this garment among- the ancient Egyptians was “ Basoui.” 
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