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15. s Bring quickly before me that inflamed youth, 

 c that heart-confumed, anguilh -pierced lover.' 



16. The boy went, and returned, in the twinkling 

 of an eye, accompanied by the ruler in the territories 

 of Love. 



17. When the Prince looked at him, he beheld a 

 wretch in bondage to the mifery of defire. 



18. Madnefs had fixed her abode on his head : he 

 was clothed, as with a vert, with the wounds of feparation* 



%g. His locks flowed, like a mantle, over his body; 

 his only fandal was the callus of his feet. 



20. In his hair ftuck a comb of Arabian thorns : a 

 robe of fand from the defert covered his back. 



21. c O thou, (raid the Prince J who haft been loft in 

 € the valley of forrow, do thou not wifh me to give 

 ' thee the object of thy paffion, 



22. c To exalt thee with dignity and power, to bring 

 * Laili v before thee, gratifying thy foul ?' 



23. c No, no, (anfwered he:) far, far is it from my 



* wilh that an atom mould be feen together with the fun.' 



24. « Speak truly, (replied the Prince :) art thou not 



• willing to recreate thyfelf on the fmooth plain of that 

 4 beautiful cheek ? 



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