Quoth she (for I to lie with her forbore), ✿ "O folly-following fool, O fool to core:

If thou my coynte for Kiblah[[342]] to thy coigne ✿ Reject, we'll show thee what shall please thee more."[[343]]

And yet another:—

She proffered me a tender coynte ✿ Quoth I "I will not roger thee!"

She drew back, saying, "From the Faith ✿ He turns, who's turned by Heaven's decree!"[[344]]

And front-wise futtering, in one day, ✿ "Is obsolete persistency!"

Then swung she round and shining rump ✿ Like silvern lump she showèd me!

I cried: "Well done, O mistress mine! ✿ No more am I in pain for thee;

O thou of all that Allah oped[[345]] ✿ Showest me fairest victory!"

And yet another:—