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"Sa'dy Dakany is one of the poets who lived in the Deccan. The 

 mistake which some persons have made of ascribing the Rekhtah 

 compositions of Sa'dy Dakany to Sa'dy Shyrazy, owing to the identity 

 of the takhalluc and their own rashness and want of research, has 

 arisen from ignorance and stupidity. Those who make such an 

 assertion ought to prove it. Specimen of Sa'dy Dakany's poetry : * I 

 have given thee my heart, thou hast taken it and hast given me pain 

 in return. Thou hast done this, I have done that, this is a good 

 fashion!" 



The passage in Myr Taqyy runs : 



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" Sa'dy Dakany is the author of the following verses ; they have by 

 some persons been ascribed to the Shaykh Sa'dy, but this is an error : 

 1 1 have given thee my heart, thou hast taken it and hast given me 

 pain in return. Thou hast done this, I have done that, this is a good 

 fashion ! I make cups of my two eyes, crying, crying, I wither away ; 

 I will give full sway to my sentiments, I will place (the two cups) 

 before the dog of thy street that he may not remain thirsty, this is 

 love (or that he may drink). Sa'dy has given you a verse and has 

 mixed sugar and honey. He has put pearls into the Rekhtah idiom, 

 and this is a poem as well as a song." 



