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“ JAAFER BEN YEHYA AND ABDULMELIK BEN SALIH THE ABBASIDE. [1]
It is told of Jaafer ben Yehya the Barmecide that he sat down one day to drink and being minded to be private (with his friends) , sent for his boon-companions, in whom he delighted, and charged the chamberlain [2] that he should suffer none of the creatures of God the Most High to enter, save a man of his boon-companions, by name Abdulmelik ben Salih, [3] who was behindhand with them. ”

“ Then they donned coloured clothes, [4] for that it was their wont, whenas they sat in the wine-chamber, to don raiment of red and yellow and green silk, and sat down to drink, and the cups went round and the lutes pulsed. ”