Note 384
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
Such an address to a royalty (Eastern) even in the present day, would be a passport to future favours.
"The world's best joys long be thy lot, my lord! * And last while darkness and the dawn o'erlap: O thou who makest, when we greet thy gifts, * The world to dance and Time his palms to clap."[FN#384]
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