248 -4 brief notice of the Persian poets. [July 



Hakim et Schaer, Philosophe et Poete. II a compose im 

 poeme intitule, Alfiali u Maschg aliah, pour le Sultan, 

 Thogrul le Selgincide, qui etait devenu impuissant avec 

 les femmes, ou il a mele plusieurs histoires lascives, et 

 beaucoup des figures impudigues." One day when Tho- 

 grul Shah was amusing himself at JVerd, a sort of 

 game played with dice, three ace came up instead of 

 three sice ; this annoyed the Sultan, on which Azraki 

 uttered the following impromptu : — 



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Quatrain. 



" Although your majesty desired three sice, three ace have turn- 

 ed up, 



Do not however imagine that the dice have done you injustice; 



Oh King when sice caught a ghmce of your eye, 



From very fear of your majesty it prostrated its face ou the dust.'* 



Adih Sdbir 



Adib Sabir flourished in the reign of Sultan Sanjar 

 Seljuki by whom he was dispatched on an embassy to 

 tiie ruler of Khorassan, Altezi'z. He was treacherously 

 drowned by order of this chief, one night, in the river 

 Jyhun (the Oxus). The author of the TarikJi i Guzidah 

 does not give any information regarding the composi- 

 tions of this poet, contenting himself simply by citing a 

 few lines from one of them, by no means remarkable for 

 their beauty. 



Assir Uddin Admdni. 

 This poet derives his distinguishing appellation from 



