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And here the two combatants exchanged salutes, with knightly courtesy, -- such as beseemeth gallant cavaliers: -- and, being readie dight, each did mount in saddle. "

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832

So they all assembled and took counsel together concerning whom it befitted for his goodness and piety to set over them; and a party of them chose one Crow, saying, “It beseemeth that this be King over us,” whilst others objected to him and would none of him; and thus there arose division and dissension amidst them and the strife of excitement waxed hot between them.

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Quoth he to himself, “Accomplish what Allah bath decreed to thee,” and bent over her, to take a kiss of her cheek; but she caught the kiss upon her palm, saying, “This beseemeth not but by night.”

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“Thou knowest it beseemeth not one of my rank to sell slave-girls nor set prices on concubines; but were she not a rearling I would send her to thee, as a gift, not grudge her to thee.”

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King of the age, it beseemeth not the like of thee to wrong the folk and take away their good.

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Nur al-Din, saying, “Take thy slave-girl and Allah bless thee in her for she beseemeth none but thee and none but thou beseemeth her.”

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Adding, “By Allah, O my lord, I will not be sold to yonder old man; so sell me to other than him, for haply he will be abashed at me and vend me again and I shall become a mere servant460 and it beseemeth not that I sully myself with menial service; and indeed thou knowest that the matter of my sale is committed to myself.”

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So he made sure of destruction and said, Of a truth it beseemeth not the creature to seek for himself aught over and above that which Allah hath allotted to him.

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But we will not punish him this time for his unmannerly manners as shown in this letter, because he is wanting in wit and feeble of foresight, and it beseemeth our dignity that we first warn him not to repeat the like of these childish extravagances, and if he risk his life by returning to the like of this, he will deserve speedy destruction.

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Empire went in to King Badr Basim and said to him, “O King, there is no harm in mourning for the late sovran: but over - mourning beseemeth none save women; wherefore occupy thou not thy heart and our hearts with mourning for thy sire; inasmuch as he hath left thee behind him, and whoso leaveth the like of thee is not dead.”

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