1. I said to her, “By your life, have you tasted wine?

    For I have seen intoxication in your eyelids.”

  2. She turned away, frowning, then returned

    and said, “No—by your life, I have not tasted ‘rā.’”

  3. I said, “Why did you drop the ḥāʾ?” She said,

    “I fear reproach if I reveal my excuse.”

  4. I said, “Would one like me reproach you?” She said,

    “I fear you’ll smell my breath—and sober up.”

Sol 5.6