Further explanations of these fanciful names are needless here. So far as they can be understood they are interpreted by Sherîshi, most of whose remarks have been introduced into the text of De Sacy’s commentary.

Despair not in calamities.—Sir William Jones quotes these beautiful verses as a specimen of Eastern moral poetry (Poeseos Asiaticæ Commentarii, cap. xiv.). The metre is kâmil.