Analysis of Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21
It is related that a sultan thus addressed a miserly beggar who had accumulated great riches: ‘It is evident that thou possessest boundless wealth and we have an affair on hand in which thou canst aid us by way of a loan. When the finances of the country are in a flourishing condition it will be repaid.’ The miser replied: ‘It is not befitting the power and dignity of a padshah to soil the hands of his noble aspirations with the property of an individual like myself who has collected it grain by grain.’ The king replied: ‘It does not matter because the money will be spent upon infidels: The wicked women should be joined to the wicked men.”
If the water of a Christian’s well is impure
What matters it if thou washest a dead Jew therein?
They said: ‘The lime-mortar is not clean.’
We replied: ‘We shall plug therewith the privy holes.”
I heard that he refused to comply with the behest of the king, began to argue and to look insolently; whereon the king ordered the sum in question to be released from his grasp by force and with a reprimand.
If an affair cannot be accomplished with gentleness
He forsooth turns his head to impudence.
Who has no regard for himself
It is proper that no one should pay him any.
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Metre | 1101010101010100101101001101110011110101110111011111111011001010101001000101110101001111010010010010111011110010101001101001111010111101011111001010111011000101011110101 101010101101 110111101101 110110111 10111110101 1111011011001101011100111101100101011011111101010 11011010101100 1111111 11101101 111011111110 |
Characters | 1,317 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 96 |
Words per line (avg) | 23 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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