1. Provision is guaranteed, so there is no reason for

    eager striving to procure what is guaranteed.

  2. That is only because she knows that he

    angers her in the very act of pleasing me.

  3. Yet she is the very life of a youth whose ordeal

    with Fortune’s nights is no slight matter.

  4. He perishes for want of her, and she for him

    out of loyalty; neither loses by the bargain.

  5. What made me suspicious, after her severity,

    was her turning yesterday toward gentleness.

  6. Such had never been her way

    before Ibn ʿAbdūn’s unexpected arrival.

Sol 5.6