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It will, perhaps, be fufpe&ed (and the language itfelf 

 may confirm the fufpicion) that this doctrine has been 

 taken from a religion very different, both in age and 

 authority, from that of Zera'htusht. 



V. 



The following ftory in modern Perjian, was given to 

 me by Mirzd Abdu'lrahhi'm, of Isfahan : it feemg 

 extracted from one of the many poems on the loves 

 of Mejnu'n and Lail v i, the Romeo and Juliet of 

 the Eaft. Each verfe confifts of a Cretick foot, fol- 

 lowed by two Choriambi, or a Choriambus and a 

 Molojfus. 



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