| [Turkish Fables]: |
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| | PAGE |
| [The Gardener and His Wife] | [3] |
| [The Fly] | [4] |
| [The Widow and Her Friend] | [4] |
| [The Two Young Men and the Cook] | [5] |
| [The Buffaloes and the Log] | [5] |
| [The Old Man and His Son] | [5] |
| [The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird] | [6] |
| [The Hens and the Eagles] | [6] |
| [The Pigeon and the Painting] | [7] |
| [The Lion and the Man] | [7] |
| [The Compliment to the Vezir] | [7] |
| [The Ass and the Frogs] | [8] |
| [The Tortoise and the King of Animals] | [8] |
| [The Fox and the Lion] | [8] |
| [The Farmer and His Hounds] | [9] |
| [The Bear and His Mate] | [9] |
| [The Eel and the Serpent] | [9] |
| [The Sailors in Distress] | [10] |
| [The Father and Son] | [10] |
| [The Poet and the Clown] | [10] |
| [The Shark] | [11] |
| [The Wolf, the Nurse, and the Child] | [11] |
| [The Candle] | [12] |
| [The Clown, Turned First Soldier, Then Merchant] | [12] |
| [The Two Kings at War] | [13] |
| [The River and Its Source] | [13] |
| [The Hunter and His Hounds] | [14] |
| [The Fool Who Sells Wisdom] | [14] |
| [The Dicer] | [15] |
| [The Lamb and the Wolf] | [15] |
| [The Insects, the Bee, and the Ant] | [15] |
| [The Two Cocks] | [16] |
| [The Assembly of the Birds] | [16] |
| [The Fox and the Crab] | [16] |
| [The Goats and the Wolves] | [17] |
| [The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox] | [18] |
| [The Wolf and the Ass] | [18] |
| [The Fox and the Partridge] | [19] |
| [The Fox and the Sparrow] | [19] |
| [The Syrian Priest and the Young Man] | [20] |
| [The Converted Cat] | [20] |
| [The Fox and the Wolf] | [21] |
| [The Horse and His Rider] | [21] |
| [The Rose and the Butterfly] | [22] |
| [The Archer and the Trumpeter] | [23] |
| [The Wolf, the Fox, and the Shepherd’s Dog] | [23] |
| [The Magistrates] | [25] |
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| [Ottoman Poems:] |
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| [From the Asheq Pasha Diwani] | [69] |
| [From the Iskender Nama] | [69] |
| [From the Iskender Nama] | [70] |
| [From Khusrev and Shirin] | [71] |
| [From Khusrev and Shirin] | [72] |
| [Yaziji Oglu] | [73] |
| [Ruba’i] | [75] |
| [Gazel] | [75] |
| [Fragment of Gazel] | [76] |
| [Gazel] | [76] |
| [Gazel] | [77] |
| [Fragment of Gazel] | [77] |
| [Gazel] | [78] |
| [Gazel] | [78] |
| [Gazel] | [79] |
| [Fragment] | [79] |
| [Gazel] | [80] |
| [From the Winter Qasida] | [80] |
| [From the Spring Qasida] | [81] |
| [From the Qasida on Sultan Bayezid II.] | [82] |
| [Gazel] | [82] |
| [Ruba’is] | [83] |
| [From the Spring Qasida] | [83] |
| [Murebba’] | [84] |
| [Fragment] | [86] |
| [Gazel] | [87] |
| [Gazel] | [87] |
| [Gazel] | [88] |
| [Gazel] | [88] |
| [Gazel] | [89] |
| [On Autumn] | [90] |
| [On Spring] | [90] |
| [Rose Time] | [91] |
| [From an Elegy on Sultan Selim I.] | [92] |
| [From an Elegy on Iskender Chelebi] | [93] |
| [Fragment] | [94] |
| [Gazel] | [94] |
| [On the Prophet Muhammed] | [95] |
| [Gazel] | [95] |
| [Gazel] | [96] |
| [Gazel] | [96] |
| [Gazel] | [97] |
| [Gazel] | [97] |
| [Gazel] | [98] |
| [Gazel] | [98] |
| [Gazel] | [99] |
| [Museddes] | [100] |
| [Mukhammes] | [102] |
| [From Leylī and Mejnūn] | [103] |
| [Mejnūn Addresses Nevfil] | [104] |
| [Mejnūn’s Gazel] | [104] |
| [Zeyd’s Vision] | [105] |
| [Gazel] | [106] |
| [Gazel] | [106] |
| [Gazel] | [107] |
| [Gazel] | [107] |
| [Gazel] | [108] |
| [From the King and the Beggar] | [108] |
| [Gazel] | [109] |
| [Qaīsda] | [109] |
| [Gazel] | [112] |
| [Gazel] | [113] |
| [Gazel] | [113] |
| [Gazel] | [114] |
| [Gazel] | [114] |
| [Gazel] | [115] |
| [On Autumn] | [115] |
| [Gazel] | [116] |
| [Gazel] | [116] |
| [Gazel] | [116] |
| [Gazel] | [117] |
| [Elegy on Sultan Suleymān I.] | [118] |
| [Gazel] | [122] |
| [Gazel] | [122] |
| [Gazel] | [123] |
| [Museddes] | [123] |
| [Gazel] | [125] |
| [To Sultan Murād IV.] | [125] |
| [In Reply to the Preceding] | [126] |
| [Lugaz] | [127] |
| [Sachli Zemān] | [127] |
| [Jihān Bānū] | [127] |
| [Lā’l Para] | [128] |
| [Āq-Ālem] | [128] |
| [Museddes] | [128] |
| [Gazel] | [130] |
| [Munājāt] | [130] |
| [Mukhammes] | [131] |
| [Gazel] | [133] |
| [Munājāt] | [133] |
| [Gazel] | [134] |
| [Farewell Poem] | [135] |
| [Gazel] | [136] |
| [Gazel] | [137] |
| [Gazel] | [137] |
| [On a Dancing-Girl] | [138] |
| [Gazel] | [139] |
| [Fragment] | [139] |
| [Gazel] | [140] |
| [Gazel] | [140] |
| [The Song of Love’s Nurse] | [141] |
| [Love’s Song] | [142] |
| [Gazel] | [143] |
| [Museddes] | [144] |
| [Gazel] | [145] |
| [Gazel] | [146] |
| [Gazel] | [146] |
| [Description of Circassian Women] | [147] |
| [Description of Greek Women] | [147] |
| [Defeat of the French in Egypt] | [149] |
| [Sharqī] | [152] |
| [Sharqī] | [153] |
| [Gazel] | [154] |
| [Gazel] | [154] |
| [Gazel] | [155] |
| [On the Death of ‘Andelīb Khānim] | [156] |
| [Takhmīs] | [157] |
| [Sharqī] | [158] |
| [Gazel] | [159] |
| [On a Beyt of Mahmūd Nedīm Pacha] | [160] |
| [Counsels of Nabi Efendi:] |
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| [Introduction] | [165] |
| [Prologue] | [167] |
| [Details of Nabi’s Station] | [169] |
| [Of Nabi’s Motives in Writing the Book] | [170] |
| [Of the Ranks of Islam] | [171] |
| [First Duty of True Religion] | [172] |
| [The Excellence of Prayer] | [172] |
| [The Excellence of Fasting] | [174] |
| [Of Pilgrimage] | [174] |
| [The Excellence of Almsgiving] | [176] |
| [The Desirability of Knowledge] | [179] |
| [The Knowledge of God] | [181] |
| [Eulogy of Constantinople] | [182] |
| [On Flight from Avidity and Avarice] | [185] |
| [Bad Effects of Pleasantry and Jocularity] | [186] |
| [Nobility of Generosity] | [187] |
| [Eulogy of Good Nature] | [188] |
| [Of Lying and Hypocrisy] | [191] |
| [Forbidding the Practice of Astrology] | [192] |
| [The Defilement of Drunkenness] | [193] |
| [The Vanity of Adornment] | [194] |
| [The Ascension of Mahomet] | [201] |
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| [The Rose and the Nightingale:] |
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| [Prelude] | [231] |
| [The Praise of God] | [232] |
| [An Address to God’s Munificence] | [234] |
| [Hymn of Praise] | [237] |
| [Ascension of the Master] | [240] |
| [A Blessing on the Prophets] | [243] |
| [The Occasion of the Poem] | [244] |
| [Praise of the Pearl of Lordship] | [248] |
| [Beginning of the Narrative] | [251] |
| [Description of the Rose] | [253] |
| [The Shah Provides a Teacher] | [257] |
| [Morning and Evening in the Rose Garden] | [257] |
| [The Attendants of the Pure Rose] | [258] |
| [Praise of the Rose in Her Beauty] | [261] |
| [The East Wind Finds the Nightingale] | [264] |
| [The East Wind Counsels the Nightingale] | [271] |
| [The Nightingale Comes to the Rose] | [273] |
| [The Nightingale Enters the Rose Garden] | [276] |
| [The Nightingale Alone in the Night] | [277] |
| [The Nightingale Sleepless] | [279] |
| [The Nightingale Addresses the Moon] | [281] |
| [The Nightingale Talks to the Dawn] | [282] |
| [The Nightingale Addresses the Sun] | [283] |
| [The Nightingale Turns to God] | [285] |
| [The Rose Hears the Nightingale] | [287] |
| [The Narcissus Remonstrates] | [289] |
| [The East Wind Meets the Nightingale] | [291] |
| [The East Wind Encourages the Nightingale] | [293] |
| [The Colloquy of the Rose] | [295] |
| [The Nightingale Writes to the Rose] | [298] |
| [The Jasmine Bears the Letter] | [300] |
| [The Rose Answers] | [301] |
| [The Hyacinth and the Nightingale] | [303] |
| [The Treachery of the Hyacinth] | [306] |
| [The Thorn Advises the Rose] | [308] |
| [The Thorn Slanders the Nightingale] | [310] |
| [Captivity of the Nightingale] | [311] |
| [King August Appears] | [314] |
| [King August Sends the Hot Wind] | [316] |
| [Samum Arrives] | [318] |
| [King August Sends His Son] | [319] |
| [Flight of Spring] | [321] |
| [Autumn Comes] | [323] |
| [Autumn Conquers the Rose Garden] | [325] |
| [Winter Appears] | [327] |
| [Winter Devastates the Rose Garden] | [328] |
| [Spring Seeks Help from the Equinox] | [331] |
| [Spring Vanquishes Winter] | [333] |
| [Spring Resides in the Rose Garden] | [335] |
| [The Rose Sends to the Nightingale] | [336] |
| [The Nightingale Hears the East Wind] | [337] |
| [The Nightingale Answers the East Wind] | [339] |
| [The Rose Visits the Nightingale] | [341] |
| [The Rose Seeks the Release of the Nightingale] | [343] |
| [The Rose Hears of the Nightingale’s Release] | [346] |
| [The Feast Given by the Rose] | [347] |
| [Description of the Revel] | [350] |
| [Short-lived Happiness] | [352] |
| [Meaning of the Tale] | [353] |
| [Close of the Book] | [356] |
| [History of the Forty Vezirs:] |
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| [Introduction] | [361] |
| [Trial of the Three Sons] | [366] |
| [Stratagem Greater than Strength] | [374] |
| [The Wiles of Woman] | [379] |
| [The Search for Khizr] | [381] |
| [The Vezir and Khizr] | [384] |
| [The Sherbet-seller and the Moor] | [385] |
| [The Tailor and the Woman] | [388] |
| [Story of the Adopted Son] | [391] |
| [The King and the Vezir] | [394] |
| [The Sparrow and His Mate] | [396] |
| [The Crafty Vezir] | [398] |
| [The Three Princes and the Cadi] | [401] |
| [The Caliph and the Slave Girl] | [404] |
| [The Foolish Princes] | [405] |
| [Story of the Egyptian Prince] | [409] |
| [The Merchant’s Bequest] | [414] |
| [The King and the Vezir’s Son] | [415] |
| [The King and the Weaver] | [418] |
| [The Vicissitudes of Life] | [420] |
| [The King and the Sheykh] | [426] |
| [The King’s Remorse] | [428] |
| [Luqman’s Device] | [430] |
| [The King and the Dervish] | [432] |
| [Mahmud and Hasan] | [436] |
| [Story of Sultan Mahmud] | [438] |
| [Story of the Merchant’s Son] | [440] |
| [Hasan of Basra] | [446] |
| [The Gardener and His Son] | [449] |
| [The Dervish’s Advice] | [450] |
| [The Turkman Children] | [452] |
| [A Queen’s Deceit] | [453] |
| [The Abdal and the King] | [455] |
| [The Sultan and His Traitorous Son] | [456] |
| [Conclusion] | [460] |
TURKISH FABLES
[Translated by Epiphanius Wilson, A.M.]
The Gardener and His Wife
A CERTAIN Gardener had a young and pretty woman for his Wife. One day, when, according to her habit, she had gone to wash her linen in the river, the Gardener, entering his house, said to himself:
“I do not know, really, whether my Wife loves me. I must put it to the test.”
On saying this, he stretched himself full length upon the ground, in the middle of the room, as if dead. Soon, his Wife returned, carrying her linen, and perceived her husband’s condition.
“Tired and hungry as I am,” she said to herself, “is it necessary that I should begin at once to mourn and lament? Would it not be better to begin by eating a morsel of something?”