94 ([return])
[ For the Jahím-hell, see vol. viii. 111.]
95 ([return])
[ For the Seven Ages of womankind (on the Irish model) see vol. ix. 175. Some form of these verses is known throughout the Moslem East to prince and peasant. They usually begin:—
rom the tenth to the twentieth year * To the gaze a charm doth
appear;
and end with:—
From sixty to three score ten * On all befal Allah's malison.]
96 ([return])
[ Here I suppose the word "kál" has been dropped after "bi 'l-shi'r," and it should be: He (the youth) replied, that was our common sire, Adam, etc.—ST.]