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Lael 
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favoured with the flatts ws kissing the. Threshold a our King, 
and have been rejuvenated ie rad ty og yee with all her 
cover the head of their desire with the skirt of patience and_re- 
straint, refraining f iving rein to their hankerings and long- 
ings, for otherwise the good fellowship of our sociable party will 
be destroyed. Instead, it is better for you® to put up with the 
descent, being the most eminent of the well-known Kam-par ® breed 
and who is an exalted high-flier, though her name means short- 
feathered) thus chants with mute tongue:-—— 
The lightlier laden moves the bein 
ight wings the bird flies f: 
Next, the chief of the oe Mash‘al Kalan? breed, she, who 
in mounting high vies with a flame of fire and is ever hot in the 
desire to kiss Our Threshold, ee Black-tail’ too, a very aha 
in Fb ait ae it be that her black tail is smoke from 
ing hearts of pigeon-lovers?)—and that charming little - 
Pas ager 8 (she of the white? wings, whose tinkling bells calling up 
visions of the anklets of Layla!’ rivet the fetters of madness !° on the 
ie of all pigeon-lovers) and all the rest of those famous sweet- 
gued, smooth-cheeked pigeons that are noted for their 
ert lineage and high descent—some of them join Pur-Nigar, 
while others agree with Sabz-Kahi. In short, since each feather 
of every light- hearted ll pigeon is a mute tongne, therefore all these 
newly arrived veterans, with a thousand tongues, expect from the 
justice of the Prop '8 of the Kingdom that the following petition of 



Zalaykha, in love with Joseph. God restored to her her youth and com- 
manded Joseph to marry her 
2 Change tia direct to indirect narratio 
3 The aatter seems to have here atucet the direct and indirect narra- 
tion, 
+ That is, the addres ate 
: Kalta-par, “ short-winged.”’ 
6 Kam-par, either short-winged or of little flight. 
1 Said to be a breed with certain white feathers in its tail. 
g i 
9 Kindra-dar, said. = be a with white wings 
= Laila and Majniin, and jundn; a play on = words, 
eis play on bal ‘‘ feather: rg and hear 
i That is, you, the addre 
