When Baba saw these symptoms, which he knew
To bode him no great good, he deprecated
Her anger, and beseeched she’d hear him through—
He could not help the thing which he related:
Then out it came at length, that to Dudù
Juan was given in charge, as hath been stated;
But not by Baba’s fault, he said, and swore on
The holy camel’s hump, besides the Koran.