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94 hundred and fifty dinars?’ She looked at him and seeing him to be an old man, with a dyed beard, said to the broker, ‘Art thou mad, that thou wouldst sell me to this worn-out old man? Am I cotton refuse or threadbare rags that thou marchest me about from graybeard to graybeard, each like a wall ready to fall or an Afrit smitten down of a [shooting] star? As for the first, the poet had him in mind when he said:

And how goodly is the saying of the poet:

And yet goodlier is the saying of another:

As for the other, he is a reprobate and a lewd fellow