The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

STORIES OF MISERS.
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until after he had commanded that she should sit on
a chariot, and that her former husband should draw
her along in it; and the king commanded that it should
be thus. And as they were travelling along the road,
she took out a dinar and threw it on the ground,
and said to him that had formerly been her husband
and was now drawing her chariot, "Hand me up the
"zuza which I have dropped;" and when he looked
on the ground he found the dinar. And he said to
her, "This is not a ziiza, but a dinar'.' She said to
him, "Blessed be the Lord who hath prepared a dinar
"for me to find, seeing that I have lost a zuza'.' By
the zuza she referred to the man whom she had lost,
and by the dinar to the king' whom she had found.