سندبادنامه 355

English (machine translation) 355

Language: English

355.1

"Though you be wind, I shall bind your feet like earth."
Then she took a pup home, cared for it there for some time, and looked after it,
until through abundant care and attention it became tame and bonded with her. Then one day she made several flat loaves,
placed pepper and wild rue within those loaves, and took the dog with her to the woman's house.
When she sat down, she took out some of those loaves, broke them, and fed them to that pup.

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The dog ate the loaves, and from the extreme sharpness and pungency of the substance, tears began to flow from its eyes,
and the old crone, in sympathy with it, brought tears into her own eyes
and sighed cold sighs. When the woman saw the teardrops of the dog and the old crone,
she asked her: "O mother, why does this pup weep?

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And what has happened to it that tears of regret pour from its eyes upon the page of its cheek?"
The old crone said: "Do not ask about things which, if made plain to you, would distress you."
The young woman persisted, while the old crone made excuses, until the young woman
grew impatient, swore oaths, and said: "Speak!" The old crone said: "O daughter,

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355.15

15 The Story of the Lover, the Old Crone, and the Weeping Dog
—far be it from your blissful threshold; may the state that has befallen her fall upon your enemies!—
the tale of her pain is wondrous, and her misfortune rare and strange:

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سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian