Vis and Ramin

CHAPTEK XL
SHAH MOABAD'S ADVICE,* INSTRUCTION,* AND COMMAND 8 TO vis
AT the very time when Bego was advising Kamin, it pleased
Moabad also to instruct 4 Vis. He counselled her with
pleasant and soft 5 words. Thus he spoke:
"
fair mistress, 6 my life-giver ! Thou thyself knowest
how much trouble I have seen for thy sake, what has
befallen me through love for thee, and how many times my
heart has been pained by thee. By thine evil behaviour my
grief has been prolonged, and thou hast made me a byword.
There is no beauty which thou hast not, and there is no
greatness which I have not. There is on the earth no
greater monarch than I. I shall be king of kings, and
thou queen of beauties ; come, let us be together. Keep not
thy heart estranged. As long as we exist let us be friends
one of the other, let us take a share of love. Be thou lady
of lands, towns, armies, treasures, and courts;
it suffices
me to have but the name of royalty, be thou the doer of
243 every deed else. Whatever thou desirest, | let it be done;
wherever there is a fair spot, sport, rejoice, give gifts, and
manage. 7 Whatever I have, all is thine ; thou art worthy
of even a hundred thousand times as much. My vezirs are
thine, my scribes also are thine. Whatever thou wishest,
command, and let it be done. Eoyalty and greatness
beseem thee and not me ; thus let me be thy lover, doing
thy beloved will and following thy desires. Besides, who
can there be on the earth who would not be thy slave,
1 TsurVhna. 2
Shegoneba.
3
Mtzneba.
4
Tsur'tha, 241.
8 LbiU. 8
Patroni, 236, 354.
7 lurvocti? take pains, 446.
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