Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 69: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

NOTICE OF JAMIi’S LIFE. 43 EE ee ee eS ee shall I say of those of Khorasan, who drown me in an Ocean of Munificence P”’ This, though Oriental, is scarcely bombast. Jami was honoured by Princes at home and abroad, at the very time they were cutting one another's Throats; by his own Sultan Abu Said; by Hasan Beg of Mesopotamia—“ Lord of Tabriz”—by whom Abu Said was defeated, dethroned, and slain; by Mohammed II. of Turkey—‘ King of Rim”—who in his turn defeated Hasan; and lastly by Husein Mirza Baikara, who somehow made away with the Prince whom Hasan had set up in Abu Said’s Place at Herat. Such is the House that Jack builds in Persia. As Hasan Beg, however—the Usuncassan of old European Annals—is singularly connected with the present Poem, and with probably the most impor- tant event in Jami’s Life, I will briefly follow the Steps that led to that as well as other Princely Intercourse. In aH. 877, a.v. 1472, Jami set off on his Pilgrimage to Mecca, as every True Believer who could afford it was expected once in his Life to do. He, and, on his Account, the Caravan he went with, were honourably and safely escorted through the interjacent Countries by order of their several . oo Oe ee ee ee eae ee ~_— wor 18 - e+ - ew oe. BD GONG DOO So! {