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223 And gifted of God is he who saith:

And how excellent is the saying of the poet:

And that of another:

And yet another:

And yet goodlier is the saying of Abou Nuwas:

Have done and leave to blame me, for blame but angers me, And give me that, for med’cine, that caused my malady; A yellow one, whose precincts nor grief nor sorrow haunt, And if a stone but touch her, ’tis straightway moved to glee. She cometh in her flagon, midmost the darksome night, And by her light the dwelling illumined straight we see. From a kaze-owner take it, attired as if she had A yard; two lovers, wencher and sodomite, hath she;—