Ribald Classic: The Goldsmith And The Singing Girl
February, 1976
In a Certain City in Persia, there once lived a young goldsmith who shunned all women. This was not from any defect of mind or body, but it arose from a visit he made to the house of a friend. There, upon a wall, he saw a picture of a beautiful damsel playing the lute. Never had he seen a woman so perfect in every feature. He went back again and again to gaze, at last beginning to sicken from longing.Whereupon his friend, wishing to dispel this morbid state, said. "Hast thou so little wit t...
