12 Life and Writings 
doosee had withdrawn himself from his pro- 
tection; and bestowing on the illustrious 
wanderer a considerable sum of money, he 
advised him to seek an asylum with the Prin- 
ces of Yemen. ‘To Tous, however, his na- 
tive place, not to Yemen, did the poet pro- 
ceed, where be died, at an advanced age, 
about the year 1021 of our era. 
It is added that Mahmood afterwards re- 
lenting in his anger, or perhaps fearing that his 
conduct would be viewed by posterity in a dis- 
graceful light, (6) sent the stipulated present 
to Ferdoosee, witha conciliatory letter; that it 
arrived on the very day Ferdoosee was buried; 
and that his daughter, to whom it was oftered, 
refused it, saving that she would not accept 
what had been denied to her Father. In 
confirmation of the above account, Nasir 
Khosroo, a physician, relates inhis Suffer- 
nameh, or book of travels, that when he was 
at Tous ih the year 437 of the Hejira, (A. D. 
1045,) he sawa splendid public edifice, newly 
(6) Jamee, censuring the injustice of Mahmood, exclaims 
Mahmood is dead, and perished his renown, 
And of his memory nought but this remains, 
He spurned the noblest jewel of his crown, 
Nor knew the value of Ferdoosee’s strains. 
