“Has anything deceived you about me, that your love is killing me,
And that verily as often as you order my heart, it will do what you order?”

—  Imru' al-Qais

The Sacred books and Early literature of the East, Vol. 5, p. 22 https://archive.org/details/sacredbooksearly05hornuoft/page/18/mode/2up
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