Does it seem to him right (Oh! light be your tone!)
That the slave who well serves him receive but a stone?
Here is another poetic remonstrance showing that the great in his day had interesting peculiarities.
TO SULTAN MESSUD
(On finding his ass in the sultan’s stable)
Through spirit voices thou hast learned
How into night my day is turned,
All in three years thou gavest me,
Or that thy Vizier gave for thee