Melîhî of Tokat, Mehmed II's witty companion: his life in the tezkires, Hüsameddin placing him in Prince Ahmed's circle, and his surviving verse.
Melîhî of Tokat, Ahmed Paşa's teacher and Mehmed II's witty companion: his life in the tezkires, the repentance story, Hüsameddin placing him in Prince Ahmed's circle, his poems.
Three couplets of a ghazal by Melîhî preserved by Latîfî: the heart cursing the eye, the beloved's face read through the suras of Light and Smoke, and variants in the tezkires.
Seven couplets from Melîhî's kaside arranged by the letters of the alphabet: the cypress that imitated the beloved, earth and the Pleiades, and a last couplet woven of calligraphy.
Melîhî's opening couplet quoted in four tezkires and the second couplet preserved by Sehî: a censer burning in pity, a candle weeping blood and a pun on the double sense of "uzandı".
The kıta in which the old Melîhî explains why he walked home without his stick when drunk: two staffs, one of wood and one of pomegranate-red wine, and a witty play on body and spirit.
Melîhî's answer to Mehmed II, who asked why his teeth had fallen out: stones thrown at a lover who whetted his teeth for moon-faced lips, and a jest on the idiom "to whet one's teeth".
The libertine couplet Latîfî says was always on Melîhî's lips: drink wine, live pleasantly, break no hearts, for the Generous One's work is generosity; a creed of uncertain authorship.
Melîhî's couplet addressed to a Sufi: pure wine too gives its "hâl", the cup in the gathering is not empty, and the libertine's answer to Şeyh Rûşenî's offer of the wine of love.
Melîhî's couplet defending wine against the ascetic: an unveiling no forty-day retreats of a thousand years could reach, the flowing seven cups and a libertine reply in Sufi terms.
The couplet Melîhî recited drunk at Tahtelkale: praise of rose-coloured wine, a curse on the boza and hemp he had tried in his days of repentance, and a story ending before Mehmed II.
The couplet Melîhî addressed to a beauty with a single pearl earring: Müşterî as buyer and as Jupiter, a moon-faced beloved, a pearl like the Pleiades, and the slap that followed.
The couplet Melîhî improvised after a beauty slapped him: a jest that takes the blood from his nose as penalty for the wine he drank without the beloved's lip, on a Turkish idiom.
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