Note 265
The Third Kalandar’s Tale.
These handsome youths are always described in the terms we should apply to women.
And the Shaykh held by the hand a youth cast in beauty's mould, all elegance and perfect grace; so fair that his comeliness deserved to be proverbial; for he was as a green bough or the tender young of the roe, ravishing every heart with his loveliness and subduing every soul with his coquetry and amorous ways.[FN#265] It was of him the poet spake when he said:—
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