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In short it baffled all powers of discreption* to describe the magnificence and splendor of the ceremonies with which the noble maid was wedded to the young prince and the planet Jupiter united with the moon of beauty. They brought her home with all manner of mirth and magnificence and Gheti Afroz likewise having taken lease of her mother father and mother came to her palace and spent some hours in pleasant conference with Melech Mahommed. The luckless lover said in his passion When all are risting* in joys One only grief my heart employs One only thought of my spirit fills Yet fortune to increase the ills Which on my tortured bosom prey Has stolen my hapless kiss away. The fair to please him pledged him in some cups saying What would you heartless lover say If fortune stole myself away Gheti Afroz showed him great affection and Melech Mahommed recited With water from the chrystal* lake You promised first my thirst to slake I seized the tempting draught in haste And again in the same train Ah pierce not the heart again A thousand times already slain