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25. e Orhaft thou no inclination to enjoy her charms? 



* I adjure thee, by the foul of Laili s , to declare the 

 1 truth !' 



26. He rejoined : ' O chief of men with generous 

 ' hearts, a particle of duft from thy gate is a diadem on 

 6 my head. 



27. c The pain of my love for LailT is fufficient for 

 c my heart: a wifh to enjoy her prefence thus would be 



* injustice. 



28. ' To gratify this contemptible foul of mine, a 



* fingle ray from that bright luminary would be enough.' 



29. He fpake, and ran towards the defert, his eye 

 weeping, and his eye-lafhes raining tears. 



Thefe couplets would fully anfvver the purpofe of 

 mowing the method in which Perjian may be written 

 according to the original characters, with fome regard 

 alfo to the Isfahdne pronunciation ; but fince a very in- 

 genious artift, named Muhammed Ghaut'h, has en- 

 graved a tetraftich on copper, as a fpecimen of his art, 

 and fince no moveable types can equal the beauty of 

 Per pan writing, I annex his plate*, and add the four 

 lines, which he has felected, in EngliJIi letters : they are 

 too eafy to require a tranflation, and too infignificant 

 to deferve it. 



Huwa'l dziz 

 Chafhmi tera/i/ium zi to darim md 

 keblah toyi rii beech arim met, 

 ha]ati ma dz to ber ayed tern dm 

 ddmenat dz caj naguzdrzm md* 



* Plate VI. 



VI. The 



