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Taynush Rages at the False Envoy

Taynush Rages at the False Envoy

From D5.22, Taynush, Son of Kaydafa, Rages against Iskandar. It illustrates D5.22.1–10:

  • D5.22.1
    When Taynush heard Iskandar’s spoken word,He raged like wind, with all his anger stirred.
  • D5.22.2
    He cried: “You worthless fool! Your wit is small;No man would count you as a man at all.
  • D5.22.3
    Do you not know before whose face you sit?Do not display your hand or vaunt your wit.
  • D5.22.4
    Your head is filled with arrogance and wrath;Who is your king, who set you on this path?
  • D5.22.5
    Were it not for our sovereign mother’s grace,I would tear off your head here in this place,
  • D5.22.6
    As from a laden bough one plucks its fruit;A citron severed from the parent shoot.
  • D5.22.7
    Mourning Foor, I will tear your head away,And to the gathered troops its face display.”
  • D5.22.8
    His mother called to him to still his tongue,And at her shout his startled head he swung.
  • D5.22.9
    She said: “These heavy words are not his own;Flay him who sent him from his royal throne.”
  • D5.22.10
    She ordered them to drag her son away,Out from her presence, where he could not stay.

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