right mettlesome:
For her song gave hearing to ears stone-deaf, * While Brava!
Brava! exclaimed the dumb."

Then she played again and played so ravishingly, that she charmed
their wits and burst out improvising and singing these couplets,

"You have honoured us visiting this our land, * And your
splendour illumined the glooms that blent:
So 'tis due that for you I perfume my place * With rose-water,
musk and the camphor-scent!"

Hereupon the Caliph was agitated, and emotion so overpowered him
that he could not command himself for excess of pleasure, and he
exclaimed, "By Allah, good! by Allah, good! by Allah,
good!"[FN#59] Asked Nur al-Din, "O fisherman, doth this damsel
please thee?" and the Caliph answered, "Ay, by Allah!" Whereupon
said Nur al-Din, "She is a gift to thee, a gift of the generous
who repenteth him not of his givings and who will never revoke
his gift!" Then he sprang to his feet and, taking a loose robe,
threw it over the fisherman and bade him receive the damsel and
be gone. But she looked at him and said, "O my lord, art thou
faring forth without farewell? If it must be so, at least stay
till I bid thee good-bye and make known my case." And she began
versifying in these verses,

"When love and longing and regret are mine, * Must not this body
show of ills a sign?
My love! say not, 'Thou soon shalt be consoled'; * When state
speaks state none shall allay my pine.