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eunuchs. Handsome in mien and feature, it is related of him that at Dābiḳ, arrayed in a green robe and turban, he looked at himself in the mirror, and said, "Am I not the kingly youth?" slave-girl stood admiring by. "What thinkest thou?" he said to her. "I was thinking," she sang in plaintive verse, "that thou art the best of joys, if thou wouldest but remain; yet for mankind there is no continuing here. No blemish can I see in thee that is in other men, excepting only that thou, like them, must pass away." And he died within the week—having reigned two years and a half.
