Note 379 — KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.[375]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
This line contains one of the Yes, Yes and No, No trifles alluded to in vol. ii. 60. Captain Lockett (M. A. 103) renders it “I saw a fawn upon a hillock whose beauty eclipsed the full moon. I said, What is thy name? she answered Deer. What my Dear said I, but she replied, no, no!” To preserve the sound I have sacrificed sense: Lúlú is a pearl Lí? lí? (= for me, for me?) and Lá! Lá! = no! no! See vol. i. 217. I should have explained a line which has puzzled some readers,
“A sun (face) on wand (neck) in knoll of sand (hips) she showed” etc.