Gurdiyeh Rides Before the Shah and Shirin

From E6.48, Gurdiyeh Displays Her Grace and Skill. It illustrates E6.48.8–19 (to E6.48.21):

E6.48.8
Twelve hundred beauties made the royal train,A throng the garden struggled to contain.
E6.48.9
Before them Shirin walked, bright as the dawn,A silver cypress moving on the lawn.
E6.48.10
Gurdiyeh neared the Shah and asked a TurkFor jowshan, Roman helm, for battle’s work.
E6.48.11
She left her seat, came forth equipped to fight,A spear in hand, prepared to show her might.
E6.48.12
She said, “My king, permit me now to show;Watch closely; may you never suffer woe.”
E6.48.13
The Shah gave leave; lance held and reins in hand,She leapt jowshan-clad, swift as fire and sand.
E6.48.14
She rode within the garden, left and right,And traced strange courses, wondrous to the sight.
E6.48.15
She wheeled her horse, and raised her voice on high;Her battle-cries rose past the clouded sky.
E6.48.16
She told the Shah, “When I met Tobarg’s might,I raged like this, a she-wolf in the fight.”
E6.48.17
Then Shirin said, “Why arm her so, O king?Her brother’s death may give her wrath its wing.
E6.48.18
I fear she broods on Bahram’s bitter fate,And may turn all that fury into hate.
E6.48.19
You sit in robes upon your throne of gold,While she rides past, with weapons in her hold.”