Edâyî Receb Bey (d. 1574-75), divan secretary and companion of Prince Mustafa in Amasya: his life, his place in the anthologies and his surviving verses.
The life of Edâyî, companion and divan secretary of Prince Mustafa in Amasya and later fief treasurer under Piyâle Pasha, his place in the anthologies and his surviving couplets.
The opening couplet of the kaside Edâyî presented to Prince Mustafa, which made him secretary of the divan: the mole on the beloved's lip as a wound in the heart's tulip.
Edâyî's opening couplet quoted by Hüsameddin: holding the beloved dear together with her rivals, as one wears the rose with its thorn; idiom, the rose and thorn image, repetition.
Two couplets by Edâyî found together in three anthologies: the eyebrow as the crescent in the sky of beauty, and the shaved down likened to a Celâlî rebel rising in Rûm.
Edâyî's couplet of complaint against the heavens: Mercury granting fortune to the ignorant and the butcher throwing meat to a dog; the double sense of tîr, arrow and planet.
Edâyî's opening couplet built on a pun: the lover who finds the world-adorning beloved not by searching the world but within his own soul; the play on cihân-ârâ and cihân arayı.
A sigh that tours the nine heavens without finding the beloved: a couplet given by Hüsameddin to Edâyî Receb Bey and by Kınalızâde to Kazzâz Bekir Edâyî of Istanbul.
Edâyî's couplet of the drinking party: as beauties arrive, the men of pleasure adorn their bodies with alif-shaped wounds, and the redif yer yer binds two separate scenes.
The couplet Edâyî presented to Şerîfezâde Mehmed Çelebi, which won him a post in the Imperial Council: a double entendre uniting his dead master and new patron through two names.
Edâyî's Persian-Arabic couplet written to be engraved on the seal of Kaya Bey of Amasya: the pun on seal and love, the play on Kaya as rock, and the inscription carved in stone.
Edâyî's couplet urging the debt of worship between fear and hope: the word recâ that becomes ecr, reward, when read backwards, the two senses of kalb and the echo of his pen name.
An opening couplet Gelibolulu Âlî quoted from Edâyî: the lover asks his eye to wet his grave with tears so the beloved's hem gathers no dust; the dispute of Âlî and Hüsameddin.
An opening couplet Gelibolulu Âlî quoted from Edâyî, preserved in TEİS: a parallel between the cup of love stirring the lovers' gathering and the drunken eye dazing the world.
Edâyî's couplet of the drop rained from the cloud of love and the peerless pearl in the oyster of the world; the April rain belief, and the irony of Âlî's verdict on the poet.
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