سندبادنامه 289

English (machine translation) 289

Language: English

289.1

Alas for my covenant of fidelity, O idol, for my suspicion / of your fidelity and love has proved mistaken!"
"In waiting for you, my eyes have become like narcissi; and in awaiting your arrival, my limbs
and parts have all become ears like sweet basil; I posted spies and informants, so that

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289.5

they might bring news from wherever [you were]; yet you were in luxury and ease, amusement and leisure, while I remained in pain and hardship, affliction and distress!" The man was left helpless in his wife's hands, ashamed, bewildered, distraught,
and anxious, like a sparrow in the talons of a falcon, or an elephant from the sting of a mosquito; he sought an escape
and a way out, saying:
and sought an escape, saying:

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سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian