Vis and Ramin

THE WEDDING OF MOABAD AND VIS 51
made like a garden by her countenance. Though Shahinshah
made merry, queen Vis sat full sullen, she grieved
day and night, she wept like a cloud, so that whoever saw
her wept with her. Sometimes she wept because of sepa-
ration from her mother, and sometimes on account of
*
Yiro's love, and she cast lots ; sometimes quietly tears of
blood flowed from her eyes ;
sometimes she began to cry out
like a madman. She spoke not even one word, nor did she
reply, whoever said anything to her. So to speak, every
moment the caravan of grief came into her heart In
spareness she was become as thin as a needle, and by grief
she became yellow as saffron. The wives of the monarchs
and magnates all came to see her, and sat at her side ; they
sympathized and spoke pleasantly, saying :
" 2
By Heaven,
be calm, rest a little, and weep not !" By no means did she
calm her soul, neither made she answer; and when she
saw Moabad from afar she tore her necklace instead of
scratching
her face. She hearkened not to his conversa-
tion, nor did she -show him her face ;
she continually bent
her face towards the wall, and dammed the lake of her
bloody tears.8 Thus was Vis on the road and at Marav
even for one day Shahinshah could not rejoice 56
also, so that |
in her. Vis's mouth was like a vineyard, but the gate of
the vineyard was firmly closed.
1 ? Tsilni qarnit, 69. Ch., Diet. Cf. Acts i. 26.
Zcnaar, 79. B., 884, " We adjure thee."
3
Cf. Nestan's silence, R., 1186-7, 1159-60.