place both members of a couplet on the fame line, and not the first above the fecond, as we do: a Perfian would write the following verses in this order,

With ravished cars

Affumes the god,

The monarch bears,

Affects to nod.

It must be confeffed that this irregularity in writing, joined to the confufion of the diacritical points, which are often placed at random, and fometimes omitted, makes it very difficult to read the Perfian manufcripts, till the language becomes familiar to us; but this difficulty, like all others in the world, will be infenfibly furmounted by the habit of industry and perfeverance, without which no great defign was ever accomplished.

III.

SHE KESTE H.

In this inelegant hand all order and analogy are neg

lected; the points which distinguish from ,

¿from

で

دن

&c. are for the most part

omitted, and these feven letters, 1, 0, D, J, j, j, 99

are

are connected with thofe that follow them in a moft irregular manner. This is, certainly, a confiderable difficulty, which must be furmounted before the learner can translate an Indian letter: but I am perfuaded, that those who chiefly complain of it have another difficulty ftill greater, which is their imperfect knowledge of the language.

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چو آفتاب مي از مشرق پياله برآید

زباغ عارض ساقي هزار لاله برآيد نسیم در برکل بشکند کلاله سنبل چو از میان چمن بوي آن کلاله برآید شکایت شب هجران نه آن شکایتهاست

که شمه زییانش بصد رساله برآید كرت جو نوح نبي صبر هست در غم طوفان بالا بکردد وکام هزار ساله برآید

بسعي خود نتوان برد کوهر مقصود خیال تست که این کار بیحواله برآید زکرد خوان فلک کو طبع چه میداري

که بیلالت صد غصه یکنواله برآید نسیم زلغت اگر بگذرد بتربت حافظ زخاك كالبدش صد هزار لاله برآید

Under the Patronage of the Universities of OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE,
and the Hon. EAST INDIA and TURKY COMPANIES,

AN IMPROVED EDITION OF

MENINSKI's DICTIONARY

OF THE

Perfian, Arabick, and Turkish LANGUAGES,

IN FOUR VOLUMES FOLIO:

REVISED AND CORRECTED BY

THE AUTHOR OF THE PERSIAN GRAMMAR.

WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND INDEX.

To which will be added,

Such Words, Ancient or Modern, as are omitted by MENINSKI;
extracted from several Manuscript Dictionaries, particularly the
FARHANG JEHANGUIRI, which comprises the Subftance of
Forty Perfian Lexicons:

BY JOHN URI, D. D.

Who has been for feveral Years employed by the University of Oxford, in making
a Catalogue of the Oriental Manufcripts in the Bodleian Library.

The diftinguished patronage under which this great work appears,
makes any farther recommendation of it unneceffary; the protection
of the most celebrated Universities in the world, fufficiently proves its
high importance to the progrefs of learning; and the encouragement
which the Hon. East India and Turky Companies have given it, shows,
that they confider it as extremely ferviceable to them in their tranfac-
tions and correspondence with the powers of Afia.

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