Tablet I, Section 1e

[whatever] there be, that would I know." "Enkidu, come (then) to [Erech], the high-wall’d, [where] people [array] them [Gorgeous] in festal attire, (and) each day the day is a revel, 10. [Eunuch]-priests [clashing] (their) cymbals, and [dancing]-girls . . . . . . . . flown with their wantoning, gleeful, and keeping the nobles Out of their beds ! (Nay), Enkidu, [joy] in thy life (to its fullest) [Thou shalt] taste—(forsooth) will I shew thee a man who is happy, 15. Gilgamish! View him, O look on his face, (how) comely his manhood! Dower’d with lustiness is he, the whole of his body with power Brimming, [his] vigour is stronger than thine, (all) day and night restless! 20. Enkidu, temper thine arrogance—Gilgamish, loveth him Shamash, Anu, (and) Enlil , and Ea have dower’d his wisdom with largesse. . (Sooth), or ever from out of thy mountains thou camest, in Erech 25. Gilgamish thee had beheld in a dream; so, Gilgamish coming Spake to his mother, the dream to reveal. 'O my mother, a vision Which I beheld in my night-time. (Behold), there were stars of the heavens, When something like unto Anu's own self fell down on my shoulders, 30. (Ah, though) I heaved him, he was o’erstrong for me, (and though) his grapple Loosed I, I was unable to shake him (from off me): (and now, all the meanwhile), People from Erech were standing about [him , the] artisans [pressing]. 35. On [him behind], (while) throng’d him [the heroes]; my (very) companions Kissing [his] feet; [I, I to my breast] like a woman did hold him, (Then) [I] presented him low at [thy] feet, [that] as mine own equal. [Thou] might’st account him.' [She] who knoweth all wisdom (thus) to her Seigneur she answer’d, 40. [She] who knoweth all wisdom, to Gilgamish (thus) did she answer: '(Lo), by the stars of the heavens are represented thy [comrades], [That which was like unto] Anu's [own self], which fell on thy shoulders, [Which thou didst heave, but he was, o’erstrong for thee, [(aye), though his grapple Thou didst unloose], but to shake him from off thee thou wert [un] able, 45. [So didst present] him low at my feet, [that] as thine own equal [I might] account him—[and thou to thy breast like a woman] didst hold him: [This is a stoutheart, a] friend, one ready to stand by [a comrade], One whose strength [is the greatest, (the length and breadth) of the country], [Like to a double of Anu's own self his] strength is enormous. [(Now), since thou] to thy breast didst hold him [the way of a woman], 5.