I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.—
Henry VIII., iii. 2.
finds a counterpart in a satire of the Persian poet Ferdousi on the Arabian impostor:—
Had I but written as many verses in praise of Mahomet and Allah, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
It also finds a parallel in a passage from Ockley’s History of the Saracens—AN. Hegira 54, A. D. 673—
This year Moawiyah deposed Samrah, deputy over Basorah. As soon as Samrah heard this news, he said—“God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.”
Our hearts——
——are beating.—