
Single Couplet (Müfred) 16 — Kızıl meyle şehâ altun sâgar
In Prince Bayezid's single couplet a golden cup filled with red wine is likened to a golden ring set with a ruby. A banquet scene addressed to a shah.

In Prince Bayezid's single couplet a golden cup filled with red wine is likened to a golden ring set with a ruby. A banquet scene addressed to a shah.

Prince Bayezid's single couplet: a weeping eye, a roasted heart, a liver turned to blood and the plea "my state has changed". The same rhyme recurs in a tezkire couplet.

Prince Bayezid's single couplet of supplication: mountains of sin set against boundless seas of mercy. The "tutalum" of his letter of pardon here turns to God.

Prince Bayezid's last Turkish single couplet: the pleasure of the faithless, cruel world is not worth its torment and affliction. A brief summary of the divan's counsel.

Prince Bayezid's first Persian single couplet is a short supplication: O God, if you see fault and sin in us, forgive and hold us excused. It opens a series on pardon.

Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: the servant lays his face before God's court and says "from me repentance, from you pardon and grace". It shares a leaf with a mesnevi.

Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: mankind is never free of sin, and forgiveness befits God the sultan. A couplet joining human weakness to the generosity of pardon.

Prince Bayezid's only Persian single couplet on love: there is no need to aim the arrow of eyelashes at a lover already caught in the lasso. Recorded among Turkish couplets.

Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: I know no door other than your court; O Generous One, forgive and do not drive me away. A plea built on the image of the door.

Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: lamenting I have fallen at your court; God forbid that you turn me back and keep me deprived. A plea that makes rejection unthinkable.

The last couplet of Prince Bayezid's divan: Şâhî, if you wish for salvation, do no wrong and keep God in view. A Persian couplet of advice that admits two readings.

The thirty-two-couplet passage of Kara Fazlî's Gül ü Bülbül, dedicated to Prince Mustafa, where the story proper begins with King Spring of Rûm and his son the Rose.

Prince Bayezid's first mesnevi opens as a letter to the beloved and turns into a eulogy of Süleyman the Magnificent, ending with "you are the Süleyman Khan of the age".

The only surviving passage of Kara Fazlî's lost first mesnevi Hümây u Hümâyûn, ten couplets quoted by Latîfî that describe the portrait of a beauty painted on blue silk.

Prince Bayezid's longest mesnevi opens with a description of beauty, turns to the complaint of separation and ends with a prayer for the long life of the Shahanshah.

Prince Bayezid's last mesnevi is a supplication for pardon on the Day of Judgement: the scale, the Sırat bridge, a black face offered like a slave and quotations from the Qur'an.
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