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The hermit flings his beads aside

and quaffs perforce the muddy tide

Danish Bait made a thousand excuses but the Sahah laid hold of a goblet saying come I myself will be you cupbearer Vizier said Gheti afroz won’t this instance of kindness and condescension induce you to drink with us you know the saying

Unbounded favours princes grace

Yet still the subject ought to know his place

Danish bait saw it was not time to tamper and found it necessary to humour the joke so he seized the goblet and tossed it off after the first cup he made no more [illeg.] faces. One goblet made way for another The butler now come to announce dinner Gheti afroz enquired if all the host of the Shah had arrived The heralds reported that they had and that the whole plain was darkened with them tent crowding on tent pavilion on pavilion and tent rope intertwined with tent rope in every direction to the distance of five Farsangs Gheti afroz then directed the Perizadis to range tables in order for the host and cover them with a

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