It is told of Ma'an bin Zaidah that, being out one day a chasing and a hunting, he became athirst but his men had no water with them; and while thus suffering behold, three damsels met him bearing three skins of water;—

When it was the Two Hundred and Seventy first night

Then the first said,

"He heads his arrows with piles of gold, And while shooting his foes is his bounty doled: Affording the wounded a means of cure, And a sheet for the bider beneath the mould! '

And the second said,

"A warrior showing such open hand, His boons all friends and all foes enfold The piles of his arrows of or are made, So that battle his bounty may not withhold!"

And the third said,

"From that liberal hand on his foes he rains Shafts aureate headed and manifold: Wherewith the hurt shall chirurgeon pay, And for slain the shrouds round their corpses roll'd."

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