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The Mesnevi

Note 2 — TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.1

James W. (James William) Redhouse translation

He must have been born in about A.D. 1204 or 1205, to have been five years old when the family left Balkh. In 1226 he would, therefore, be twenty-one or twenty-two years of age. But see Anecdotes, Chap, i., No. 2, &c.

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