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A brief notice of tome of th 



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II. — A brief notice of some of the Persian Poets. — By Lieutenant 

 T. J. Newbold, Aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Wilson, c. b. 



(Continued from No, 15, P. 23/ ). 



Lutf Uddin S\'ishapuri. 



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Aishapuri was noted for the bad fortune which attended his whole 

 career. Mahomed Bukhtuuer Khan, who relates the following anec- 

 dote of him, neither mentions the date when this poet nourished, nor 

 gives any notice of his compositions, save a single stanza which is too 

 much defaced, in the copy I possess, to be made out. Thus ill luck 

 may be said to have persecuted him even beyond the dark inquisition 

 of the tomb. But to the anecdote — " It is said that A'ishapuri one 

 day placed a number of pigeons, which he had taken considerable 

 pains in collecting, together with a vessel of wine and a dish of the 

 pilau, termed ynutanjen, in a convenient spot in the garden, while he 

 went in person to invite the object of his affections, to see the airy 

 evolutions of the birds, and to partake of the good things he had pre- 

 pared. In the interim some of his rivals scaled the garden wall, 

 devoured the pilau, and washed it down with the wine. This done, 

 they seized two of the pigeons, put them into the empty dish, and 

 carefully replaced the cover. The poet shortly after arrived with his 

 mistress, but on taking off the cover, was most disagreeably startled by 

 the sudden flight of the pigeons from their pilaubtss prison. His 

 rivals enjoyed the scene from a comer of the garden, where they had 

 secreted themselves, while the disappointed lover cursed his unlucky 

 stars ; which, to use his biographer's words, although he was neither 

 so great a villain as Pharaoh or Shedad, had played him so scurvy a 

 trick/' 



Majid Uddin. 



Flourished in the time of Atabek Selgur Shah, and was an intimate 

 friend of Khajeh Bhai-uddin Diivan. He had a wife, both old and 

 a shrew, whom he was at last constrained to run away from to Ispahan. 

 The disconsolate spouse, like the old man in Sinbad, was not so easily 

 to be shaken off, but followed his steps to the far-famed capital of Iran, 

 wiih a perseverance sometimes to be met with in ladies of more 



