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110 Khatoun said to her, ‘Know, O princess, that this is Seif el Mulouk, to whom, by the ordinance of God the Most High, I owe my deliverance, and he it is who hath endured all manner of afflictions on thine account: wherefore I would have thee look on him with favour.’ With this Bediya laughed and said, ‘And who keeps faith, that this youth should do so? For there is no [true] love in men.’ ‘O princess,’ answered Seif, ‘never shall lack of faith be in me, and all men are not created alike.’ And he wept before her and recited these verses:

Then he wept sore and love and longing got the mastery over him and he greeted her with the following verses: