Shaving of
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 2
作者：Meredith, George, 1828-1909
体例：题 章数：49
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章节目录
共 49 题- THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
- By George Meredith
- AN ARABIAN ENTERTAINMENT
- BOOK 2.
- THE BETROTHAL
- Then the Vizier, 'Let us hear: we listen.'
- He answered, 'Fairest she who's likest to her lord.'
- Said they, 'What fairer thing matched with them might prevail?'
- The Sage austerely smiled, and said, 'Yon monkey's tail.'
- He lifted his head and replied, 'Even so.'
- She said, 'Joy in thy kiss, and that I have 'scaped Shagpat.'
- Then he: 'Shagpat? How? had that wretch claim over thee ere I came?'
- So he said, 'How so?'
- And how have ye determined as to that first step?'
- Shibli Bagarag said, 'How of that punishment, O Vizier?'
- Quoth Khipil, 'To hear is to obey.'
- Khipil said, 'Surely, O King, the chair is not yet executed.'
- And the King said, 'How of my clemency in the matter of the chafing?'
- THE GENIE KARAZ
- Said the Vizier, 'Thou?'
- And he replied, 'Surely, O Vizier! thou knowest little of my dexterity.'
- She answered, 'Because of that; but 'tis the smallest opposer, that.'
- Then the Vizier said, 'Let us consult.'
- The Vizier assented, saying, 'Second, then, the Chief of Identicals?'
- Shibli Bagarag said, ''Tis terrible! on my head be it!'
- They both shouted, 'The whereabout of that sword, O Noorna!'
- They answered, 'Our faith is in Allah, our confidence in thee.'
- She answered, 'O my father! leave thou that to me. What says the poet?--
- Noorna replied, 'I've need of thee!'
- He said, 'What shape?'
- THE WELL OF PARAVID
- O Noorna, thou art wise above women: great and glorious over them.'
- THE HORSE GARRAVEEN
- So she said, 'Thou beginnest to feel my worth?'
- So he said, 'And I--whither go I?'
- She answered, 'To the City of Oolb straightway.'
- Then he, 'But I know not its bearing from this spot: how reach it?'
- Said he, 'Is it so?'
- She answered, 'Even so.'
- THE TALKING HAWK
- So he said, 'Do I well in entering this city?'
- He answered, 'Native, O King, to Shiraz; newly from the City of Shagpat.'
- And the King asked, 'How is it with that hairy wonder?'
- He answered, 'The dark forest flourisheth about him.'
- GOORELKA OF OOLB
- And the hawk bade him say, 'The loan of thy cockleshell.'
- Upon that the King said, 'Follow me!'
- But Shibli Bagarag said, 'Nought save a loan of the cockle-shell, King!'
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