第83章 ABOUL ASWED AND HIS SQUINTING SLAVE-GIRL.

Aboul Aswed bought a native-born slave-girlwho was squint-eyedand she pleased him；but his people decried her to him；

whereat he wondered and spreading out his handsrecited the following verses：

They run her down to meand yet no fault in her find IExcept perhaps it be a speck she hath in either eye.

To compensate this faultif fault it beo'the upper parts She's slim and heavy of the parts beneath the waist that lie.