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Mercury is of a mixed nature, favourable in conjunction with the favourable, and sinister in conjunction with the sinister aspects, and abideth in each sign seventeen days and a half day. Venus, temperate and favourable, abideth in each sign five-and-twenty days. Mars is sinister and woneth in each sign ten months. Jupiter is auspicious and abideth in each sign a year.

Allah increase thy beauty and thy weal; * And be thy ransom every enemy! So shall on Doomsday lovers range beneath * Thy flag, and beauties 'neath thy banner be." Then he wept and recited these also, "That rarest beauty ever bides my foe * Who holds my heart and lurks in secresy: Speaking, I speak of nothing save her charms * And when I'm dumb in heart-core woneth she."

Asked she, "What are they?" and he said, "What is sweeter than honey; what is sharper than the sword; what is swifter than poison; what is the delight of a moment and what the contentment of three days; what is the pleasantest of days; what is the joy of a week; what is that debt the worst debtor denieth not; what is the prison of the tomb; what is the joy of the heart; what is the snare of the soul; what is death-in-life; what is the disease that may not be healed; what is the shame that may not be wiped off; what is the beast that woneth not in cultivated fields, but lodgeth in waste places and hateth the sons of Adam and hath in him somewhat of the make of seven strong and violent beasts?"

'Well Allah wotteth I am sorely plagued: * Nor can I show my pain to human sight. Two souls have I, one soul is here contained, * While other woneth in another site. Meseems the absent soul's like present soul, * And that she suffers what to me is dight. Then he asked us. 'Have I said well or said ill?