Spice, Spiced Wine, and Pure Wine

摘要

The Arabs have coined a proverb ashar min qifa nabki("more famous than 'Stop, let usweep!'") quoting the first two words of Imru' al-Qays's Mdallaqa. This Mdallaqa is knownto have several versions, in which the number and order of lines are slightly different. Theversion used here is edited by Abd al-Rahman al-Mustawi (2003), comprising 81 lines