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Updated: May 10, 2025
Repine not an affliction hit thee hard; * For woe and welfare aye conjoint abide: How oft shall woman see all griefs surround * Yet feel a joyance thrill what lies inside! How many a wretch, on whom the eyes of folk * Look down, shall grace exalt to pomp and pride!
So they both went thither and found naught to affright them; whereupon the water fowl began repeating, "And haply whenas strait descends on lot of generous youth * Right sore, with Allah only lies his issue from annoy: He's straitened, but full oft when rings and meshes straitest clip, * He 'scapes his strait and joyance finds, albe I see no joy."
However, she waxed so exceeding fair and sweet and lovely, that the loveliness of her pierced to the hearts of many of her jailers, so that some of them, and specially of the squires and men-at-arms, would do her some easement which they might do unrebuked, or not sorely rebuked; as bringing her flowers in the spring, or whiles a singing-bird or a squirrel; and an old man there was of the men-at-arms, who would ask leave, and get it at whiles, to come to her in her chamber, or the garden? and tell her minstrel tales and the like for her joyance.
Then the Lady took her gay embroidered cloak, which lay at the foot of the oak tree, and cast it over him and, as Ralph deemed, eyed him lovingly, and belike the Knight of the Sun thought in likewise, for he scowled upon her; and for awhile but little was the joyance by the ancient oak, unless it were with the Lady. Supper and Slumber in the Woodland Hall
"Who art thou who thus ridest into my burg, as none has durst hitherto without the leave of my sons?" He answered, "I am called Sigurd, son of King Sigmund." Then said King Giuki, "Be thou welcome here then, and take at our hands whatso thou willest." So he went into the king's hall, and all men seemed little beside him, and all men served him, and there he abode in great joyance.
It was the eastern bamboula of the Harems, to which was added all the elastic joyance, all the gay brilliancy of the blood of France. Suddenly she lifted both her hands above her head.
He found there no trace of his daughter and questioned her women, who answered, 'She abode with us but a little while and went away, how and whither we know not. Whereupon he wept sore and repeated the following verses: O house, whose birds warbled for joyance whilere And whose sills were resplendent with glory and pride, Till the lover came to thee, bemooning himself For his passion, and found thy doors open and wide, Would I knew where my soul is, my soul that was late In a house, where its masters no longer abide!
And I ceased not to humble myself before Almighty Allah and weep and bewail myself, recalling my former estate of solace and satisfaction and mirth and merriment and joyance; and thus I abode two days, at the end of which time I came to a great island abounding in trees and streams.
Then I knocked at the gate and there came out two young girls, high-bosomed maids, as they were moons, and said to me, 'Enter, for our mistress awaits thee, and she slept not last night for joyance in thee. So I entered and they brought me, through a vestibule, into an upper chamber with seven doors, paved with vari-coloured marbles and furnished with hangings and carpets of coloured silk.
He set the chair for her and she sat down upon it and taking the lute, tuned it and sang to it these verses: When, when will separation and hatred pass away And what is past of joyance come back to make me gay? But yesterday, in gladness, one dwelling held us both; We saw the enviers napping, all heedless of their prey.
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