The king saw that he was himself referred to, and said, "O Teacher! are you speaking of us?"

And the Bodisat spake openly, and said, "O great king! be it thou, or be it any other, whoever talks beyond measure meets with some mishap like this."

And the king henceforth refrained^ himself, and became a man of few words.

This again is a very widely extended tale, (see Table of Contents, E4a), and has lost little of its effectiveness in North's version. The quaint illustration, p. 174, would serve for the Pali original equally well as for its English great-great-great-great-great-great-grand-child.