Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 70: what you’re looking at

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44, NOTICE OF JAMi’S LIFE. —— Potentates as far as Baghdad. There Jami fell into trouble by the Treachery of a Follower whom he had reproved, and who misquoted his Verse into dis- paragement of Ati, the Darling Imam of Persia. This, getting wind at Baghdad, was there brought to solemn Tribunal. Jami came victoriously off; his Accuser was pilloried with a dockt Beard in Baghdad Market-place : but the Poet was so ill pleased with the stupidity of those who had believed the Report, that, in an after Poem, he called for a Cup of Wine to seal up Lips of whose Utterance the Men of Baghdad were unworthy. After four months’ stay there, during which he visited at Helleh the Tomb of Ali’s Son Husein, who had fallen at Kerbela, he set forth again—to Najaf, (where he says his Camel sprang forward at sight of Ali’s own Tomb)—crossed the Desert in twenty- two days, continually meditating on the Prophet’s Glory, to Medina; and so at last to Mecca, where, as he sang ina Ghazal, he went through all Mohammedan Ceremony with a Mystical Understanding of his Own. He then turned Homeward : was entertained for forty-five days at Damascus, which he left the very Day before the Turkish Mohammed’s Envoys come with 5000 Ducats to carry him to Constantinople. On Pez CORNICLOO Sa CO)