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 1 Pre   |            to tell me, if I were to ask for a small stipend, would
 2 XII   | steadfastness and patience, friend, ask not~If Hafiz keep--~Patience
 3 XV    |          bring to birth?"~I sit and ask the stars when thou'rt away.~
 4 XXI   |              the delights of earth,~Ask not one grain of favour
 5 XXI(*)|           disposed to exact than to ask for charity. As they went
 6 XXI(*)|          and remain until what they ask for is paid them, hooting
 7 XXXVI |           BELOVED, who has bid thee ask no more~How fares my life?
 8 XXXVI |         life? to play the enemy~And ask not where he dwells that
 9 XXXVI |            burning steadfastly,~But ask no more the sweet wind's
10 XXXVI |         sweet wind's wayward choir.~Ask me of faith and love that
11 XXXVI |            I sing of these no more.~Ask not the monk to give thee
12 XXXVI |          neath his lying guise;~And ask not him to teach thee alchemy~
13 XXXVI |              his hearth-stone cold.~Ask to what goal the wandering
14 XXXVI |            wise~In pain and sorrow, ask no remedy!~But when the
15 XXXVI |            Hafiz, ere it flies,~And ask not why the hour has brought
16 XXXVI |      brought it thee,~And wherefore ask no more!~ ~
17 XLII  |          age; of whom would'st thou ask:~What has befallen the wheels