Vis and Ramin

EAMIN SETS OUT FOR KHUABASAN 299
" Alas, heart ! how long wilt thou burn me with fire and
boil me in the pot 1 of grief? I am slaying thee in the
superabundance of my ignorance, and it is all one to thee.
I am like gall in my stupidity, and thou art become devoid
of all share in solace from joy. May God give no one a heart
like thee, for thou art drunk with love and stupid with
ignorance."
| Eamin, after this manner, communed with his heart and 336
reproached it. But this was of no avail ; the desire of his
heart for information gained such strength that he could
no longer master his heart, and in this suggestion of his
heart, like a chicken's heart, he trembled so miserably, and
at his drinking sat so melancholy, as if his heart itself no
longer gave him joy. He got down from the throne and
went forth from the palace, he went away as swiftly as a
co\vard from a battle. He mounted on his bay-steed, 2 the
swift-running. When he went out from the gates of the
city, like one winged he came towards Khuarasan, and
travelled in those uninhabited and desert plains on the road
to Khuarasan.
1 Codchobi. 2 Rakhsi, 872, 436? chestnut.