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By thy life tell what hath reached thine ear, * Thou know'st what said they and so justice show. Yea, for myself and slanderer and thee * An awful day of reckoning there shall be. Then she sealed the letter and gave it to me; and I took it and carried it to the house of Jubayr bin Umayr, whom I found absent a hunting.
May thy mother be reft of thee! Why do I see thee bemoaning the house in this wise? Quoth I, 'I frequented it of yore, when it belonged to a good friend of mine. Asked the slave, 'What was his name?; and I answered, 'Jubayr bin Umayr the Shaybani. Rejoined he, And what hath befallen him?
And when next year came, I repaired to Bassorah, as usual, to seek my pension, and the Sultan paid it to me; but, as I was about to return to Baghdad, I bethought me of the Lady Budur and said to myself, 'By Allah, I must needs go to her and see what hath befallen between her and her lover! So I went to her house and finding the street before her door swept and sprinkled and eunuchs and servants and pages standing before the entrance, said to myself, 'Most like grief hath broken the lady's heart and she is dead, and some Emir or other hath taken up his abode in her house. So I left it and went on to the house of Jubayr, son of Umayr the Shaybani, where I found the benches of the porch broken down and ne'er a page at the door, as of wont and said to myself, 'Haply he too is dead. Then I stood still before the door of his house and with my eyes running over with tears, bemoaned it in these couplets,
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Ali son of Mansur continued: "So I seated myself at the table of Jubayr bin Umayr al-Shaybani and, examining it with care, found these couplets engraved upon it, 'On these which once were-chicks, Your mourning glances fix, Late dwellers in the mansion of the cup, Now nearly eaten up!
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