The Scented Garden

The Wages of Sin. 65 4. This passage means that “ the devil always leaves you in the lurch ” as Spurgeon said. Howev- er devoted one may be to vice, sooner or later it tires and gives no more pleasure. The same is of course true of virtue ; but, to the mystic, virtue, as such, is itself vice. Cf. “ All your righteousness is as filthy rags.” 5. Shahrava. A king who forced a leather cur- rency on his subjects. Dildos in Persia being usually made of leather, the jest is double- edged. To present a dildo, or anything which might by any possibility be used as such, to a courtesan is a deadly insult, implying “ You cannot attract a live man ”, and she will assuredly have you murdered sooner or later if she can. 6. A proverb and a pun, [Persian text] denial, [Persian text] splendour.