Show Persian Poet Laureate Laurente Kept Reasonably Busy Persia appears ars to be the only other uther country which hn tins has maintained a poet laureate laureale In recent feats tars Until Sin Sin- Din eil Abolished the po post t In 1890 1596 the court of ot J Tt-heran Tt had for fur centuries pos possessed e a poet laureate whose duties were fur far more onerous than those of his hits British equivalent According to l who spent spent some sowe j years ears In ersla at the beginning beginning be bl ginning of the lust Century court etl etl- pre prescribed that theU whenever hene the the shah Shuh traveled outside the capital his I suite should hould Include a dwarf a 8 giant a Jester a historiographer and the poet laureate these laureate these live hive being treated on an equal footing among the lesser ministrants to his majesty's pl pleasure asure and aud diversion The historiographer had bad to record for tor the benefit of posterity all the doIngs doIngs do- do Ings lags and sayings of his master roaster and the laureate was wall called upon upon to celebrate cele- cele cele celebrate brate a large proportion of these In verse M. M highly approved of the custom which he found fouad rigidly followed for the shah knowing that many of ot his bis utterances and deeds would be be In an on ode felt fell bound on these royal progresses to speak and behave majestically majestically Man Manchester chester cheater England Englan |