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“In fact, I love that fawn, cutting roses in your garden— which is why I’ve earned your wrath. If you could see him, the others would never find you. “Scrape me some honey from your hive,” he said. “I’ll have mine from your tongue.” I replied. Then he bristled and said to me, sullen: “And sin before the living God?” “The sin’s on me,” I answered, “my lord.”
— -Samuel ibn Naghrillah, also known as Samuel HaNagid or Samuel the Prince (993 CE - 1056?)