Vis and Ramin

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SHE had no power
CHAPTER
XLVI
VIS FALLS SICK THROUGH GRIEF
to rise. Her couch was stuffed with
grief, and her pillow 1 was filled with yellow roses from her
face. The monarchs and their wives, the magnates and
their wives, with their children, came to inquire, and sat
around.
2 Some said it was jaundice and melancholy, and
some said it was bewitchment 3
sorcerers. Wherever
there was in the land a good physician, 4 astrologer, 5 or
leech, 6 from Khuarasan, Eraq, and from everywhere, they
brought them. They were troubled, and none of them
could understand. Some said one thing, and some said
another. They said it was because the moon was in Libra, 7
in a bad constellation. Some said she was beloved by a
being unseen on earth, and therefore suffered. Whatever
anyone understood, he said it, and what afflicted her
afflicted them, and they ceased not to give their minds to
it. No one could discover the cause of her loss of strength
and her weakness. Her heart was branded with Eamin's
brand, 8 and she was perturbed at being unable to bear it.
She wept over her plight and her heart. She poured pearls
abundantly on the saffron. 9
When Moabad went out, she again overflowed, so that
from her pillow tears flowed in a stream, and a lake stood
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in the room. She lamented so piteously that those also
heard
her could not remain quiet. She said : "0
by
1
2
Zap'hra. Cf. zap lirani -saffron, 241, 430.
3 MocJikliibuloba.
*
Ekimi, 291.
6
Munedjibi, 14, 15. 6
Mcurnali, 291.
7
Sastsori balance. 8
Daghi.
9
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Zap'hrani, 241, 354.