1. Khalid, you strayed from the path of right judgment,

    nor approached Two-Pricks through his proper door.

  2. You played the fool, pawing at him with lampoon,

    and made him forget his host of suitors.

  3. Had you wooed him with an amatory pre—

    —lude, you would have been the most successful of his suitors,

  4. like your daughter, when she made herself available to him

    and became chief among his companions.

  5. May I be bereft of you—an old man endowed with seasoned judgment,

    who attempts a thing, only to find it beyond him,

  6. while a graceful, budding-breasted girl pursues it

    and masters the means to carry it through.

Sol 5.6