This anecdote from Jami's Baharestan illustrates the proverbial generosity (karam) of Ma'n ibn Za'idah, a governor whose munificence became a byword in Arabic and Persian literature. Unable to gain an audience, a poet floats a couplet written on a wooden board down the stream where Ma'n sits; the verse names the board itself as its only intercessor (shafi') to the patron. Moved by the wit of this supplication, Ma'n summons the poet, rewards him lavishly, then repeats and multiplies the gift on successive days. The story links two ideas central to the fourth garden (rowze) of the Baharestan, which is devoted to generosity: the ideal of boundless, self-multiplying munificence in a patron, and the power of eloquent verse as a form of supplication that earns its own reward.