What rhetorical force does hal yanquḍu ... al-ahwāʾ carry?

al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah: Ḥujr, Royal Kinship and the Dhū al-Majāz Covenant (verses 56–67)

• Asking for a date
• Asking for a new meeting place
• Asking the poet’s age
• Rhetorical denial: whim should not annul a covenant