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1148-1157

  • Is he the King's or the Vizier's congener? Is garlic at all suitable to sweetmeat made with walnut kernels?
  • (As for) his saying, from deceit and feint and artifice, ‘The King with his retinue is searching after me,’
  • Here's an absurd mad fancy for you, here's a vain boast and a snare to catch blockheads! 1150
  • Any one who believes this—’tis because of (his) foolishness: how is a slender little bird fit for (friendship with) royalty?
  • If the smallest owl should strike at his brain, where is succour for him from the King?”
  • The falcon said, “If a single feather of mine be broken, the King of kings will uproot the (whole) owlery.
  • What is an owl? Even if a falcon vex my heart and maltreat me,
  • The King will heap up in every lowland and highland hundreds of thousands of stacks of falcons' heads. 1155
  • His favours keep watch over me; wherever I go, the King is (following) behind.
  • The phantasy of me is abiding in the King's heart: sick (would be) the King's heart without the phantasy of me.