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NOW ENTITULED</em></p> <div> - <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol II'><span class='xlarge'><em>THE BOOK OF THE</em></span><br /> <span class='color_red'>Thousand Nights and a Night</span><br /> <br /> <span class='xlarge'><em>WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF <span class='c005'><span class='color_red'><em class='gesperrt'>THE NIGHTS</em></span></span></em><br /> <br />VOLUME II.</span></h1> + <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol II'><span class='xlarge'><em>THE BOOK OF THE</em></span><br > <span class='color_red'>Thousand Nights and a Night</span><br > <br > <span class='xlarge'><em>WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF <span class='c005'><span class='color_red'><em class='gesperrt'>THE NIGHTS</em></span></span></em><br > <br >VOLUME II.</span></h1> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -204,8 +182,8 @@ ENTITULED</em></p> </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id004'> -<img src='images/i_titlepage_i.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id004'> +<img src='images/i_titlepage_i.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -279,13 +257,13 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <h2 class='c007'>CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.</h2> </div> -<table class='table0' summary='CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME'> +<table class="table0"> <colgroup> -<col width='3%' /> -<col width='6%' /> -<col width='7%' /> -<col width='76%' /> -<col width='6%' /> +<col style="width: 3%" > +<col style="width: 6%" > +<col style="width: 7%" > +<col style="width: 76%" > +<col style="width: 6%" > </colgroup> <tr> <th class='c008'></th> @@ -294,7 +272,7 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <th class='c008'> </th> <th class='c009'>PAGE</th> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='4'>7. NUR AL-DIN ALI AND THE DAMSEL ANIS AL-JALIS.</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_1'>1</a></td> @@ -303,8 +281,8 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Chapt. VI. Story of Noor ed-Deen and Enees el-Jelees: vol. I. p. 436.</em>)</td> <td class='c009'> </td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='4'>8. TALE OF GHANIM BIN AYYUB, THE DISTRAUGHT, THE THRALL O' LOVE</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_45'>45</a></td> @@ -313,14 +291,14 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Chapt. VII. Story of Ghanim the Son of Eiyoob, the Distracted Slave of Love: p. 487.</em>)</td> <td class='c009'> </td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>a.</em></td> <td class='c008' colspan='2'><span class='sc'>Tale of the First Eunuch, Bukhayt</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_49'>49</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>b.</em></td> @@ -331,13 +309,13 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Story of the Slave Kafoor: p. 491.</em>)</td> <td class='c009'> </td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='4'>9. TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_77'>77</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>a.</em></td> @@ -348,7 +326,7 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Chapt. VIII. Story of Taj el-Mulook and the Lady Dunya: p. 523.</em>)</td> <td class='c009'> </td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'> </td> @@ -356,7 +334,7 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Tale of Aziz and Azizah</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_298'>298</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Chapt. VIII. Story of Azeez and Azeezah: p. 535.</em>)</td> <td class='c009'> </td> @@ -368,9 +346,9 @@ dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.</p> <h2 class='c007'>NUR AL-DIN ALI AND THE DAMSEL ANIS AL-JALIS</h2> </div> -<p class='c011'>Quoth Shahrazad<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c012'><sup>[1]</sup></a>:—It hath reached me, O auspicious King of +<p class='c011'>Quoth Shahrazad<a id='r1' href='#f1' class='c012'><sup>[1]</sup></a>:—It hath reached me, O auspicious King of intelligence penetrating, that there was, amongst the Kings of -Bassorah,<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c012'><sup>[2]</sup></a> a King who loved the poor and needy and cherished +Bassorah,<a id='r2' href='#f2' class='c012'><sup>[2]</sup></a> a King who loved the poor and needy and cherished his lieges, and gave of his wealth to all who believed in Mohammed (whom Allah bless and assain!), and he was even as one of the poets described him:—</p> @@ -379,7 +357,7 @@ the poets described him:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>A King who when hosts of the foe invade, ✿ Receives them with lance-lunge and sabre-sway;</div> - <div class='line'>Writes his name on bosoms in thin red lines, ✿ And scatters the horsemen in wild dismay.<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c012'><sup>[3]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Writes his name on bosoms in thin red lines, ✿ And scatters the horsemen in wild dismay.<a id='r3' href='#f3' class='c012'><sup>[3]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -392,7 +370,7 @@ loving him and the wise flocked to him for counsel; whilst the subjects used to pray for his long life, because he was a compendium of the best qualities, encouraging the good and lief, and preventing evil and mischief. But the Wazir Mu'in bin Sawi on the contrary -hated folk<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c012'><sup>[4]</sup></a> and loved not the good and was a mere compound of +hated folk<a id='r4' href='#f4' class='c012'><sup>[4]</sup></a> and loved not the good and was a mere compound of ill; even as was said of him:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -435,7 +413,7 @@ for the palace. So he caught hold of his stirrup saying:—</p> </div> <p class='c000'>Then quoth he, "O my lord, that surpassing object for whom the -gracious mandate was issued is at last found;<a id='r5' /><a href='#f5' class='c012'><sup>[5]</sup></a>" and quoth the +gracious mandate was issued is at last found;<a id='r5' href='#f5' class='c012'><sup>[5]</sup></a>" and quoth the Wazir, "Here with her to me!" So he went away and returned after a little, bringing a damsel in richest raiment robed, a maid spear-straight of stature and five feet tall; budding of bosom with @@ -449,9 +427,9 @@ saith one of those who have described her:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Strange is the charm which dights her brows like Luna's disk that shine; ✿ O sweeter taste than sweetest Robb<a id='r6' /><a href='#f6' class='c012'><sup>[6]</sup></a> or raisins of the vine.</div> + <div class='line'>Strange is the charm which dights her brows like Luna's disk that shine; ✿ O sweeter taste than sweetest Robb<a id='r6' href='#f6' class='c012'><sup>[6]</sup></a> or raisins of the vine.</div> <div class='line'>A throne th' Empyrean keeps for her in high and glorious state, ✿ For wit and wisdom, wandlike form and graceful bending line:</div> - <div class='line'>She in the Heaven of her face<a id='r7' /><a href='#f7' class='c012'><sup>[7]</sup></a> the seven-fold stars displays, ✿ That guard her cheeks as satellites against the spy's design:</div> + <div class='line'>She in the Heaven of her face<a id='r7' href='#f7' class='c012'><sup>[7]</sup></a> the seven-fold stars displays, ✿ That guard her cheeks as satellites against the spy's design:</div> <div class='line'>If man should cast a furtive glance or steal far look at her, ✿ His heart is burnt by devil-bolts shot by those piercing eyne.</div> </div> </div> @@ -466,7 +444,7 @@ the wine she hath drunken and the dresses of honour bestowed upon her instructor: for she hath learned calligraphy and syntax and etymology; the commentaries of the Koran; the principles of law and religion; the canons of medicine, and the calendar and -the art of playing on musical instruments."<a id='r8' /><a href='#f8' class='c012'><sup>[8]</sup></a> Said the Wazir, +the art of playing on musical instruments."<a id='r8' href='#f8' class='c012'><sup>[8]</sup></a> Said the Wazir, "Bring me her master." So the broker brought him at once and, <span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>behold, he was a Persian of whom there was left only what the days had left; for he was as a vulture bald and scald and a wall trembling @@ -479,7 +457,7 @@ willing this world to depart; even as said the poet:—</p> <div class='line'>Time hath shattered all my frame, ✿ Oh! how time hath shattered me.</div> <div class='line'>Time with lordly might can tame ✿ Manly strength and vigour free.</div> <div class='line'>Time was in my youth, that none ✿ Sped their way more fleet and fast:</div> - <div class='line'>Time is and my strength is gone, ✿ Youth is sped, and speed is past.<a id='r9' /><a href='#f9' class='c012'><sup>[9]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Time is and my strength is gone, ✿ Youth is sped, and speed is past.<a id='r9' href='#f9' class='c012'><sup>[9]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -487,13 +465,13 @@ willing this world to depart; even as said the poet:—</p> <p class='c000'>The Wazir asked him, "Art thou content to sell this slave-girl to the Sultan for ten thousand dinars?"; and the Persian answered, "By Allah, if I offered her to the King for naught, it were but my -devoir,"<a id='r10' /><a href='#f10' class='c012'><sup>[10]</sup></a> So the Minister bade bring the monies and saw them +devoir,"<a id='r10' href='#f10' class='c012'><sup>[10]</sup></a> So the Minister bade bring the monies and saw them weighed out to the Persian, who stood up before him and said, "By the leave of our lord the Wazir, I have somewhat to say;" and the Wazir replied, "Out with all thou hast!" "It is my opinion," continued the slave-dealer, "that thou shouldst not carry the maid to the King this day; for she is newly off a -journey; the change of air<a id='r11' /><a href='#f11' class='c012'><sup>[11]</sup></a> hath affected her and the toils of +journey; the change of air<a id='r11' href='#f11' class='c012'><sup>[11]</sup></a> hath affected her and the toils of trouble have fretted her. But keep her quiet in thy palace some ten days, that she may recover her looks and become again as she was. Then send her to the Hammam and clothe her in the @@ -510,9 +488,9 @@ downy site; as said of him the poet and said full right:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>A moon which blights you<a id='r12' /><a href='#f12' class='c012'><sup>[12]</sup></a> if you dare behold; ✿ A branch which folds you in its waving fold:</div> - <div class='line'>Locks of the Zanj<a id='r13' /><a href='#f13' class='c012'><sup>[13]</sup></a> and golden glint of hair; ✿ Sweet gait and form a spear to have and hold:</div> - <div class='line'>Ah! hard of heart with softest slenderest waist, ✿ That evil to this weal why not remould?<a id='r14' /><a href='#f14' class='c012'><sup>[14]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>A moon which blights you<a id='r12' href='#f12' class='c012'><sup>[12]</sup></a> if you dare behold; ✿ A branch which folds you in its waving fold:</div> + <div class='line'>Locks of the Zanj<a id='r13' href='#f13' class='c012'><sup>[13]</sup></a> and golden glint of hair; ✿ Sweet gait and form a spear to have and hold:</div> + <div class='line'>Ah! hard of heart with softest slenderest waist, ✿ That evil to this weal why not remould?<a id='r14' href='#f14' class='c012'><sup>[14]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Were thy form's softness placed in thy heart, ✿ Ne'er would thy lover find thee harsh and cold:</div> <div class='line'>Oh thou accuser! be my love's excuser, ✿ Nor chide if love-pangs deal me woes untold!</div> <div class='line'>I bear no blame; 'tis all my heart and eyne; ✿ So leave thy blaming, let me yearn and pine.</div> @@ -533,7 +511,7 @@ repaired to the baths in the house, where some of the slave women bathed her; after which she arrayed herself in sumptuous raiment; and her beauty and loveliness were thereby redoubled. Then she went in to the Wazir's wife and kissed her hand; and the dame -said to her, "Naiman! May it benefit thee,<a id='r15' /><a href='#f15' class='c012'><sup>[15]</sup></a> O Anis al-Jalis!<a id='r16' /><a href='#f16' class='c012'><sup>[16]</sup></a> +said to her, "Naiman! May it benefit thee,<a id='r15' href='#f15' class='c012'><sup>[15]</sup></a> O Anis al-Jalis!<a id='r16' href='#f16' class='c012'><sup>[16]</sup></a> Are not our baths handsome?" "O my mistress," she replied, "I lacked naught there save thy gracious presence." Thereupon the lady said to her slave-women, "Come with us to the Hammam, @@ -543,7 +521,7 @@ set two little slave-girls to keep the door of the private chamber wherein was Anis al-Jalis and had said to them, "Suffer none go in to the damsel." Presently, as the beautiful maiden sat resting in her rooms, suddenly came in the Wazir's son whose name was Nur -al-Din Ali,<a id='r17' /><a href='#f17' class='c012'><sup>[17]</sup></a> and asked after his mother and her women, to which +al-Din Ali,<a id='r17' href='#f17' class='c012'><sup>[17]</sup></a> and asked after his mother and her women, to which the two little slave-girls replied, "They are in the Hammam." But the damsel, Anis al-Jalis, had heard from within Nur al-Din Ali's voice and had said to herself, "O would Heaven I saw what @@ -572,7 +550,7 @@ as soon as the youth had had his wicked will of her, he rose and fled forth fearing the consequences of his ill-doing. When the Wazir's wife heard the slave-girls' cries, she sprang up and came out of the baths with the perspiration pouring from her face, -saying, "What is this unseemly clamour in the house<a id='r18' /><a href='#f18' class='c012'><sup>[18]</sup></a>?" Then +saying, "What is this unseemly clamour in the house<a id='r18' href='#f18' class='c012'><sup>[18]</sup></a>?" Then she came up to the two little slave-girls and asked them saying, "Fie upon you! what is the matter?"; and both answered, "Verily our lord Nur al-Din came in and beat us, so we fled; then he went @@ -588,7 +566,7 @@ thee but this?" quoth the lady, and quoth she, "Indeed he did! But he did it only three times." "He did not leave thee without dishonouring thee!" cried the Wazir's wife and fell to weeping and buffetting her face, she and the girl and all the handmaidens, -fearing lest Nur al-Din's father should kill him.<a id='r19' /><a href='#f19' class='c012'><sup>[19]</sup></a> Whilst they were +fearing lest Nur al-Din's father should kill him.<a id='r19' href='#f19' class='c012'><sup>[19]</sup></a> Whilst they were thus, in came the Wazir and asked what was the matter, and his wife said to him, "Swear that whatso I tell thee thou wilt attend to it." "I will," answered he. So she related to him what his son @@ -603,8 +581,8 @@ standeth our enemy Al-Mu'in bin Sawi who, as soon as he shall hear of this matter, will go up to the Sultan?"——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id005'> -<img src='images/i_006fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id005'> +<img src='images/i_006fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span></div> @@ -687,7 +665,7 @@ maiden; and Al-Mu'in, though the affair came to his ears, dared not divulge it by reason of the high favour in which his rival stood with the Sultan. At the end of the year Al-Fazl went one day to the public baths; and, as he came out whilst he was still sweating, -the air struck him<a id='r20' /><a href='#f20' class='c012'><sup>[20]</sup></a> and he caught a cold which turned to a fever; +the air struck him<a id='r20' href='#f20' class='c012'><sup>[20]</sup></a> and he caught a cold which turned to a fever; then he took to his bed. His malady gained ground and restlessness was longsome upon him and weakness bound him like a chain; so he called out, "Hither with my son;" and when Nur @@ -711,7 +689,7 @@ bear in mind my injunctions anent Anis al-Jalis." "O my father!" said Nur al-Din, "who is like unto thee? Indeed thou art famed for well doing and preachers offer prayers for thee in their pulpits!" Quoth Al-Fazl, "O my son, I hope that Allah Almighty may grant -<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>me acceptance!" Then he pronounced the Two Testimonies,<a id='r21' /><a href='#f21' class='c012'><sup>[21]</sup></a> or +<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>me acceptance!" Then he pronounced the Two Testimonies,<a id='r21' href='#f21' class='c012'><sup>[21]</sup></a> or Professions of the Faith, and was recorded among the blessed. The palace was filled with crying and lamentation and the news of his death reached the King, and the city-people wept, even those @@ -726,10 +704,10 @@ these lines:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On the fifth day I quitted all my friends for evermore, ✿ And they laid me out and washed me on a slab without my door:<a id='r22' /><a href='#f22' class='c012'><sup>[22]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>On the fifth day I quitted all my friends for evermore, ✿ And they laid me out and washed me on a slab without my door:<a id='r22' href='#f22' class='c012'><sup>[22]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>They stripped me of the clothes I was ever wont to wear, ✿ And they clothed me in the clothes which till then I never wore.</div> <div class='line'>On four men's necks they bore me and carried me from home ✿ To chapel; and some prayed for him on neck they bore:</div> - <div class='line'>They prayed for me a prayer that no prostration knows;<a id='r23' /><a href='#f23' class='c012'><sup>[23]</sup></a> ✿ They prayed for me who praised me and were my friends of yore;</div> + <div class='line'>They prayed for me a prayer that no prostration knows;<a id='r23' href='#f23' class='c012'><sup>[23]</sup></a> ✿ They prayed for me who praised me and were my friends of yore;</div> <div class='line'>And they laid me in a house with a ceiling vaulted o'er, ✿ And Time shall be no more ere it ope to me its door.</div> </div> </div> @@ -756,7 +734,7 @@ in haste and opening let in a man, one of his father's intimates and who had been the Wazir's boon-companion. The visitor kissed <span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>Nur al-Din's hand and said to him, "O my lord, he who hath left the like of thee is not dead; and this way went also the Chief of -the Ancients and the Moderns.<a id='r24' /><a href='#f24' class='c012'><sup>[24]</sup></a> O my lord Ali, be comforted +the Ancients and the Moderns.<a id='r24' href='#f24' class='c012'><sup>[24]</sup></a> O my lord Ali, be comforted and leave sorrowing." Thereupon Nur al-Din rose and going to the guest-saloon transported thither all he needed. Then he assembled his companions and took his handmaid again; and, @@ -772,7 +750,7 @@ poet wrote:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I look to my money and keep it with care, ✿ For right well I wot 'tis my buckler and brand:</div> - <div class='line'>Did I lavish my dirhams on hostilest foes,<a id='r25' /><a href='#f25' class='c012'><sup>[25]</sup></a> ✿ I should truck my good luck by mine ill luck trepanned:</div> + <div class='line'>Did I lavish my dirhams on hostilest foes,<a id='r25' href='#f25' class='c012'><sup>[25]</sup></a> ✿ I should truck my good luck by mine ill luck trepanned:</div> <div class='line'>So I'll eat it and drink it and joy in my wealth; ✿ And no spending my pennies on others I'll stand:</div> <div class='line'>I will keep my purse close 'gainst whoever he be; ✿ And a niggard in grain a true friend ne'er I fand:</div> <div class='line'>Far better deny him than come to say:—Lend, ✿ And five-fold the loan shall return to thy hand!</div> @@ -841,7 +819,7 @@ retirement this day?"; asked he and the other answered him, "My wife is in child-birth and I may not be absent from her: indeed I must return and see how she does." So he gave him leave, whereupon another rose and said, "O my lord Nur al-Din, I wish now to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>go to my brother's for he circumciseth his son to day."<a id='r26' /><a href='#f26' class='c012'><sup>[26]</sup></a> In short +<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>go to my brother's for he circumciseth his son to day."<a id='r26' href='#f26' class='c012'><sup>[26]</sup></a> In short each and every asked permission to retire on some pretence or other, till all the ten were gone leaving Nur al-Din alone. Then he called his slave-girl and said to her, "O Anis al-Jalis, hast thou @@ -929,12 +907,12 @@ Need hath its own law, as the poet said:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Need drives a man into devious roads, ✿ And pathways doubtful of trend and scope:</div> - <div class='line'>No man to a rope<a id='r27' /><a href='#f27' class='c012'><sup>[27]</sup></a> will entrust his weight, ✿ Save for cause that calleth for case of rope.</div> + <div class='line'>No man to a rope<a id='r27' href='#f27' class='c012'><sup>[27]</sup></a> will entrust his weight, ✿ Save for cause that calleth for case of rope.</div> </div> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>Thereupon he rose to his feet and took her,<a id='r28' /><a href='#f28' class='c012'><sup>[28]</sup></a> whilst the tears rolled +<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>Thereupon he rose to his feet and took her,<a id='r28' href='#f28' class='c012'><sup>[28]</sup></a> whilst the tears rolled down his cheek like rain; and he recited with the tongue of the case these lines:—</p> @@ -948,26 +926,26 @@ case these lines:—</p> </div> <p class='c000'>Then he went down with her to the bazar and delivered her to -the broker and said to him, "O Hájj Hasan,<a id='r29' /><a href='#f29' class='c012'><sup>[29]</sup></a> I pray thee note +the broker and said to him, "O Hájj Hasan,<a id='r29' href='#f29' class='c012'><sup>[29]</sup></a> I pray thee note the value of her thou hast to cry for sale." "O my lord Nur al-Din," -quoth the broker, "the fundamentals are remembered;"<a id='r30' /><a href='#f30' class='c012'><sup>[30]</sup></a> +quoth the broker, "the fundamentals are remembered;"<a id='r30' href='#f30' class='c012'><sup>[30]</sup></a> adding, "Is not this the Anis al-Jalis whom thy father bought of me for ten thousand dinars?" "Yes," said Nur al-Din. Thereupon the broker went round to the merchants, but found that all had not yet assembled. So he waited till the rest had arrived and the market was crowded with slave-girls of all nations, Turks, -Franks and Circassians; Abyssinians, Nubians and Takrúrís;<a id='r31' /><a href='#f31' class='c012'><sup>[31]</sup></a> +Franks and Circassians; Abyssinians, Nubians and Takrúrís;<a id='r31' href='#f31' class='c012'><sup>[31]</sup></a> Tartars, Georgians and others; when he came forward and standing cried aloud, "O merchants! O men of money! every round thing is not a walnut and every long thing a banana is not; all reds are not meat nor all whites fat, nor is every brown thing a -date!<a id='r32' /><a href='#f32' class='c012'><sup>[32]</sup></a> O merchants, I have here this union-pearl that hath no +date!<a id='r32' href='#f32' class='c012'><sup>[32]</sup></a> O merchants, I have here this union-pearl that hath no price: at what sum shall I cry her?" "Cry her at four thousand five hundred dinars," quoth one of the traders. The broker opened the door of sale at the sum named and, as he was yet calling, lo! the Wazir Al-Mu'in bin Sawi passed through the bazar and, seeing Nur al-Din Ali waiting at one side, said to himself, "Why -is Khakan's son<a id='r33' /><a href='#f33' class='c012'><sup>[33]</sup></a> standing about here? Hath this gallows-bird +is Khakan's son<a id='r33' href='#f33' class='c012'><sup>[33]</sup></a> standing about here? Hath this gallows-bird aught remaining wherewith to buy slave-girls?" Then he looked <span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>round and, seeing the broker calling out in the market with all the merchants around him, said to himself, "I am sure that he is @@ -1036,7 +1014,7 @@ all signed with significant eyes to Nur al-Din as much as to say, and him." Thereupon Nur al-Din, who was stout of heart as he was stalwart of limb, went up to the Wazir and, dragging him over the pommel of his saddle, threw him to the ground. Now there -was in that place a puddling-pit for brick-clay,<a id='r34' /><a href='#f34' class='c012'><sup>[34]</sup></a> into the midst of +was in that place a puddling-pit for brick-clay,<a id='r34' href='#f34' class='c012'><sup>[34]</sup></a> into the midst of which he fell, and Nur al-Din kept pummelling and fisti-cuffing him, and one of the blows fell full on his teeth, and his beard was dyed with his blood. Also there were with the minister ten armed @@ -1052,8 +1030,8 @@ and, when Nur al-Din had made an end of thrashing the Wazir, he took his handmaid and fared homewards. Al-Mu'in also went his ways at once, with his raiment dyed of three colours, black with mud, red with blood and ash coloured with brick-clay. When he -saw himself in this state, he bound a bit of matting<a id='r35' /><a href='#f35' class='c012'><sup>[35]</sup></a> round his -neck and, taking in hand two bundles of coarse Halfah-grass,<a id='r36' /><a href='#f36' class='c012'><sup>[36]</sup></a> +saw himself in this state, he bound a bit of matting<a id='r35' href='#f35' class='c012'><sup>[35]</sup></a> round his +neck and, taking in hand two bundles of coarse Halfah-grass,<a id='r36' href='#f36' class='c012'><sup>[36]</sup></a> went up to the palace and standing under the Sultan's windows cried aloud, "O King of the age, I am a wronged man! I am foully wronged!" So they brought him before the King who @@ -1101,14 +1079,14 @@ and all this hath befallen me only because I thought to buy this damsel for thee!" Then the Wazir threw himself on the ground and lay there weeping and shivering. When the Sultan saw his condition and heard his story, the vein of rage started out between -his eyes<a id='r37' /><a href='#f37' class='c012'><sup>[37]</sup></a> and he turned to his body-guard who stood before him, +his eyes<a id='r37' href='#f37' class='c012'><sup>[37]</sup></a> and he turned to his body-guard who stood before him, forty white slaves, smiters with the sword, and said to them, "Go down forthright to the house built by the son of Khakan and sack it and raze it and bring to me his son Nur al-Din with the damsel; and drag them both on their faces with their arms pinioned behind them." They replied, "To hear is to obey;" and, arming themselves, they set out for the house of Nur al-Din Ali. Now about -the Sultan was a Chamberlain, Alam<a id='r38' /><a href='#f38' class='c012'><sup>[38]</sup></a> al-Din Sanjar hight, who +the Sultan was a Chamberlain, Alam<a id='r38' href='#f38' class='c012'><sup>[38]</sup></a> al-Din Sanjar hight, who had aforetime been Mameluke to Al-Fazl; but he had risen in the world and the Sultan had advanced him to be one of his Chamberlains. When he heard the King's command and saw @@ -1125,7 +1103,7 @@ greeting or treating. Listen to what the poet said:—</p> <div class='line'>Fly, fly with thy life if by ill overtaken!</div> <div class='line'>Let thy house speak thy death by its builder forsaken!</div> <div class='line'>For a land else than this land thou may'st reach, my brother,</div> - <div class='line'>But thy life tho'lt ne'er find in this world another.<a id='r39' /><a href='#f39' class='c012'><sup>[39]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>But thy life tho'lt ne'er find in this world another.<a id='r39' href='#f39' class='c012'><sup>[39]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -1149,7 +1127,7 @@ or taking leave of his people; or whoso hath forgotten any needful thing, let him do it at once and return, for we are about to sail"; and all of them saying, "There is naught left to be done by us, O captain!", he cried to his crew, "Hallo there! -cast off the cable and pull up the mooring-pole!"<a id='r40' /><a href='#f40' class='c012'><sup>[40]</sup></a> Quoth Nur +cast off the cable and pull up the mooring-pole!"<a id='r40' href='#f40' class='c012'><sup>[40]</sup></a> Quoth Nur al-Din, "Whither bound, O captain?" and quoth he, "To the House of Peace, Baghdad,"——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -1209,7 +1187,7 @@ al-Din landed, he and his handmaid and, giving the captain five dinars, walked on a little way till the decrees of Destiny brought them among the gardens, and they came to a place swept and sprinkled, with benches along the walls and hanging jars filled with -water.<a id='r41' /><a href='#f41' class='c012'><sup>[41]</sup></a> Overhead was a trellis of reed-work and canes shading the +water.<a id='r41' href='#f41' class='c012'><sup>[41]</sup></a> Overhead was a trellis of reed-work and canes shading the whole length of the avenue, and at the upper end was a garden gate, but this was locked. "By Allah," quoth Nur al-Din to the damsel, "right pleasant is this place!"; and she replied, "O my @@ -1217,7 +1195,7 @@ lord sit with me a while on this bench and let us take our ease." So they mounted and sat them down on the bench, after which they washed their faces and hands; and the breeze blew cool on them and they fell asleep and glory be to Him who never sleepeth! -<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>Now this garden was named the Garden of Gladness<a id='r42' /><a href='#f42' class='c012'><sup>[42]</sup></a> and therein +<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>Now this garden was named the Garden of Gladness<a id='r42' href='#f42' class='c012'><sup>[42]</sup></a> and therein stood a belvedere hight the Palace of Pleasure and the Pavilion of Pictures, the whole belonging to the Caliph Harun al-Rashid who was wont, when his breast was straitened with care, to frequent @@ -1231,7 +1209,7 @@ broadened and his ailments were allayed. Now the keeper of the garden, Shaykh Ibrahim, was a very old man, and he had found from time to time, when he went out on any business, people pleasuring about the garden gate with their bona robas; at which -he was angered with exceeding anger.<a id='r43' /><a href='#f43' class='c012'><sup>[43]</sup></a> But he took patience till +he was angered with exceeding anger.<a id='r43' href='#f43' class='c012'><sup>[43]</sup></a> But he took patience till one day when the Caliph came to his garden; and he complained of this to Harun al-Rashid who said, "Whomsoever thou surprisest about the door of the garden, deal with him as thou wilt." Now @@ -1241,16 +1219,16 @@ single mantilla; whereupon said he, "By Allah, good! These twain know not that the Caliph hath given me leave to slay anyone I may catch at the door; but I will give this couple a shrewd whipping, that none may come near the gate in future." So he cut -a green palm-frond<a id='r44' /><a href='#f44' class='c012'><sup>[44]</sup></a> and went up to them and, raising his arm till +a green palm-frond<a id='r44' href='#f44' class='c012'><sup>[44]</sup></a> and went up to them and, raising his arm till the white of his arm-pit appeared, was about to strike them, when he bethought himself and said, "O Ibrahim, wilt thou beat them unknowing their case? Haply they are strangers or of the Sons -<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>of the Road,<a id='r45' /><a href='#f45' class='c012'><sup>[45]</sup></a> and the decrees of Destiny have thrown them here. +<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>of the Road,<a id='r45' href='#f45' class='c012'><sup>[45]</sup></a> and the decrees of Destiny have thrown them here. I will uncover their faces and look at them." So he lifted up the mantilla from their heads and said, "They are a handsome couple; it were not fitting that I should beat them." Then he covered their faces again and, going to Nur al-Din's feet, began to rub and -shampoo them,<a id='r46' /><a href='#f46' class='c012'><sup>[46]</sup></a> whereupon the youth opened his eyes and, seeing +shampoo them,<a id='r46' href='#f46' class='c012'><sup>[46]</sup></a> whereupon the youth opened his eyes and, seeing an old man of grave and reverend aspect rubbing his feet, he was ashamed and drawing them in, sat up. Then he took Shaykh Ibrahim"s hand and kissed it. Quoth the old man, "O my son, @@ -1272,7 +1250,7 @@ beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird -whistled like human wight<a id='r47' /><a href='#f47' class='c012'><sup>[47]</sup></a> and the ring-dove moaned like a +whistled like human wight<a id='r47' href='#f47' class='c012'><sup>[47]</sup></a> and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. The trees grew in perfection all edible growths and fruited all manner fruits which in pairs were bipartite; with the camphor-apricot, the almond-apricot and the apricot @@ -1285,7 +1263,7 @@ redness gars the loveliest cheeks blush with despight; and myrtle and gilliflower and lavender with the blood-red anemone from Nu'uman hight. The leaves were all gemmed with tears the clouds had dight; the chamomile smiled showing teeth that bite, -and Narcissus with his negro<a id='r48' /><a href='#f48' class='c012'><sup>[48]</sup></a> eyes fixed on Rose his sight; the +and Narcissus with his negro<a id='r48' href='#f48' class='c012'><sup>[48]</sup></a> eyes fixed on Rose his sight; the citrons shone with fruits embowled and the lemons like balls of gold; earth was carpeted with flowers tinctured infinite; for Spring was come brightening the place with joy and delight; @@ -1296,7 +1274,7 @@ and they gazed on its beauty, and on the lamps aforementioned in the latticed windows; and Nur al-Din, remembering his entertainments of time past, cried, "By Allah, this is a pleasant place; it hath quenched in me anguish which burned as a fire -of Ghazá-wood.<a id='r49' /><a href='#f49' class='c012'><sup>[49]</sup></a>" Then they sat down and Shaykh Ibrahim set +of Ghazá-wood.<a id='r49' href='#f49' class='c012'><sup>[49]</sup></a>" Then they sat down and Shaykh Ibrahim set food before them; and they ate till they were satisfied and washed their hands: after which Nur al-Din went up to one of the latticed windows, and, calling to his handmaid fell to gazing on the trees @@ -1306,9 +1284,9 @@ folk are wont to drink after eating?" The Shaykh brought him sweet water, cool and pleasant, but he said, "This is not the kind of drink I wanted." "Perchance thou wishest for wine?" "Indeed I do, O Shaykh!" "I seek refuge from it with Allah: it is thirteen -years since I did this thing, for the Prophet (Abhak<a id='r50' /><a href='#f50' class='c012'><sup>[50]</sup></a>) cursed +years since I did this thing, for the Prophet (Abhak<a id='r50' href='#f50' class='c012'><sup>[50]</sup></a>) cursed <span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>its drinker, presser, seller and carrier!" "Hear two words of -me." "Say on." "If yon cursed ass<a id='r51' /><a href='#f51' class='c012'><sup>[51]</sup></a> which standeth there be +me." "Say on." "If yon cursed ass<a id='r51' href='#f51' class='c012'><sup>[51]</sup></a> which standeth there be cursed, will aught of his curse alight upon thee?" "By no means!" "Then take this dinar and these two dirhams and mount yonder ass and, halting afar from the wine-shop, call the first @@ -1466,7 +1444,7 @@ they came under the pavilion, when the Caliph said, "O Ja'afar, I wish to look in upon them unawares before I show myself, that I may see what they are about and get sight of the elders; for hitherto I have heard no sound from them, nor even a Fakir calling -upon the name of Allah.<a id='r52' /><a href='#f52' class='c012'><sup>[52]</sup></a>" Then he looked about and, seeing a +upon the name of Allah.<a id='r52' href='#f52' class='c012'><sup>[52]</sup></a>" Then he looked about and, seeing a <span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>tall walnut-tree, said to Ja'afar, "I will climb this tree, for its branches are near the lattices and so look in upon them." Thereupon he mounted the tree and ceased not climbing from branch to @@ -1481,7 +1459,7 @@ poet say:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Round with big and little, the bowl and cup, ✿ Take either that moon<a id='r53' /><a href='#f53' class='c012'><sup>[53]</sup></a> in his sheen hath crowned:</div> + <div class='line'>Round with big and little, the bowl and cup, ✿ Take either that moon<a id='r53' href='#f53' class='c012'><sup>[53]</sup></a> in his sheen hath crowned:</div> <div class='line'>Nor drink without music, for oft I've seen, ✿ The horse drink best to the whistle's sound!</div> </div> </div> @@ -1499,7 +1477,7 @@ made sure of death and, descending, stood before the Commander of the Faithful, who said to him, "O Ja'afar, praise be to Allah who hath made us of those that observe external ordinances of Holy Law and hath averted from us the sin of disguising ourselves -after the manner of hypocrites!"<a id='r54' /><a href='#f54' class='c012'><sup>[54]</sup></a> But Ja'afar could not speak a +after the manner of hypocrites!"<a id='r54' href='#f54' class='c012'><sup>[54]</sup></a> But Ja'afar could not speak a word for excess of confusion; so the Caliph looked at him and said, "I wonder how they came hither, and who admitted them into my pavilion! But aught like the beauty of this youth and @@ -1517,7 +1495,7 @@ this he rose to his feet and the Caliph said to Ja'afar, "I wonder what he is about to do!" and Ja'afar answered, "I know not." The Shaykh disappeared and presently reappeared bringing a lute; and the Caliph took note of it and knew it for that of Abu Ishak -the Cup-companion.<a id='r55' /><a href='#f55' class='c012'><sup>[55]</sup></a> "By Allah," said the Caliph, "if this damsel +the Cup-companion.<a id='r55' href='#f55' class='c012'><sup>[55]</sup></a> "By Allah," said the Caliph, "if this damsel sing ill I will crucify all of you; but if she sing well I will forgive them and only gibbet thee." "O Allah cause her to sing vilely!" quoth Ja'afar. Asked the Caliph, "Why so?"; and he answered, @@ -1577,7 +1555,7 @@ every rag he came upon. The Caliph also pulled off his person two vests of Alexandrian and Ba'lbak silk, a loose inner robe and a long-sleeved outer coat, and said to the fisherman, "Take them and put them on," while he assumed the foul gaberdine and filthy -turband and drew a corner of the head-cloth as a mouth-veil<a id='r56' /><a href='#f56' class='c012'><sup>[56]</sup></a> +turband and drew a corner of the head-cloth as a mouth-veil<a id='r56' href='#f56' class='c012'><sup>[56]</sup></a> before his face. Then said he to the fisherman, "Get thee about thy business!"; and the man kissed the Caliph's feet and thanked him and improvised the following couplets:—</p> @@ -1604,7 +1582,7 @@ ashamed in presence of the Caliph!"; and quoth he, "Say what thou hast to say." "It passed through my thought, O Commander of the Faithful," said the fisherman, "that, since thou wishest to learn fishing so thou mayest have in hand an honest trade whereby -to gain thy livelihood, this my gaberdine besitteth thee right well."<a id='r57' /><a href='#f57' class='c012'><sup>[57]</sup></a> +to gain thy livelihood, this my gaberdine besitteth thee right well."<a id='r57' href='#f57' class='c012'><sup>[57]</sup></a> The Commander of the Faithful laughed at this speech, and the fisherman went his way. Then the Caliph took up the basket of fish and, strewing a little green grass over it, carried it to Ja'afar @@ -1662,7 +1640,7 @@ Then he threw the gold pieces to the Caliph, who took them and kissed them and put them in pouch. Now his sole object in doing all this was to hear the damsel sing; so he said to Nur al-Din, "Thou hast rewarded me most liberally, but I beg of thy boundless -<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>bounty that thou let this damsel sing an air, that I may hear her."<a id='r58' /><a href='#f58' class='c012'><sup>[58]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>bounty that thou let this damsel sing an air, that I may hear her."<a id='r58' href='#f58' class='c012'><sup>[58]</sup></a> So Nur al-Din said, "O Anis al-Jalis!" and she answered "Yes!" and he continued, "By my life, sing us something for the sake of this fisherman who wisheth so much to hear thee." Thereupon @@ -1692,7 +1670,7 @@ their wits and burst out improvising and singing these couplets:—</p> <p class='c000'>Hereupon the Caliph was agitated, and emotion so overpowered him that he could not command himself for excess of pleasure, and -he exclaimed, "By Allah, good! by Allah, good! by Allah, good!"<a id='r59' /><a href='#f59' class='c012'><sup>[59]</sup></a> +he exclaimed, "By Allah, good! by Allah, good! by Allah, good!"<a id='r59' href='#f59' class='c012'><sup>[59]</sup></a> Asked Nur al-Din, "O fisherman, doth this damsel please thee?" and the Caliph answered, "Ay, by Allah!" Whereupon said Nur al-Din, "She is a gift to thee, a gift of the generous who @@ -1714,7 +1692,7 @@ in these verses:—</p> <div class='line'>This was the fear I feared, this parting blow. ✿ O thou whose love my heart-core ne'er shall tyne!</div> <div class='line'>O Bin Khákán! my sought, my hope, my will, ✿ O thou whose love this breast made wholly thine!</div> <div class='line'>Against thy lord the King thou sinn'dst for me, ✿ And winnedst exile in lands peregrine:</div> - <div class='line'>Allah ne'er make my lord repent my loss ✿ To cream<a id='r60' /><a href='#f60' class='c012'><sup>[60]</sup></a> o' men thou gavest me, one right digne.</div> + <div class='line'>Allah ne'er make my lord repent my loss ✿ To cream<a id='r60' href='#f60' class='c012'><sup>[60]</sup></a> o' men thou gavest me, one right digne.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -1775,7 +1753,7 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>And warned me to flee from the city afar, ✿ Disappear, disappoint what my enemies planned:</div> <div class='line'>Then we fled from our home 'neath the wing of the night, ✿ And sought us a refuge by Baghdad strand:</div> <div class='line'>Of my riches I've nothing on thee to bestow, ✿ O Fisher, except the fair gift thou hast scanned:</div> - <div class='line'>The loved of my soul, and when I from her part, ✿ Know for sure that I give thee the blood of my heart.<a id='r61' /><a href='#f61' class='c012'><sup>[61]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>The loved of my soul, and when I from her part, ✿ Know for sure that I give thee the blood of my heart.<a id='r61' href='#f61' class='c012'><sup>[61]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -1815,7 +1793,7 @@ desire; nay, though I should ask of him a thousand favours every day, he would comply." When Nur al-Din heard this he said, "Good! write that I may see." So the Caliph took ink-case and reed-pen and wrote as follows,—"In the name of Allah, the Compassionating, -the Compassionate! But after.<a id='r62' /><a href='#f62' class='c012'><sup>[62]</sup></a> This letter is written +the Compassionate! But after.<a id='r62' href='#f62' class='c012'><sup>[62]</sup></a> This letter is written by Harun al-Rashid, son of Al-Mahdi, to his highness Mohammed bin Sulayman al-Zayni, whom I have encompassed about with my favour and made my viceroy in certain of my dominions. The @@ -1827,7 +1805,7 @@ Nur al-Din, who took it and kissed it, then put it in his turband and set out at once on his journey. So far concerning him; but as regards the Caliph, Shaykh Ibrahim stared at him (and he still in fisher garb) and said, "O vilest of fishermen, thou hast brought us -a couple of fish worth a score of half-dirhams,<a id='r63' /><a href='#f63' class='c012'><sup>[63]</sup></a> and hast gotten three +a couple of fish worth a score of half-dirhams,<a id='r63' href='#f63' class='c012'><sup>[63]</sup></a> and hast gotten three <span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>dinars for them; and thinkest thou to take the damsel to boot?" When the Caliph heard this, he cried out at him, and signed to Masrur who discovered himself and rushed in upon him. Now @@ -1835,11 +1813,11 @@ Ja'afar had sent one of the gardener-lads to the doorkeeper of the palace to fetch a suit of royal raiment for the Prince of the Faithful; so the man went and, returning with the suit, kissed the ground before the Caliph and gave it him. Then he threw off the clothes -he had on<a id='r64' /><a href='#f64' class='c012'><sup>[64]</sup></a> and donned kingly apparel. Shaykh Ibrahim was still +he had on<a id='r64' href='#f64' class='c012'><sup>[64]</sup></a> and donned kingly apparel. Shaykh Ibrahim was still sitting upon his chair and the Caliph tarried to behold what would come next. But seeing the Fisherman become the Caliph, Shaykh Ibrahim was utterly confounded and he could do nothing but bite -his finger-ends<a id='r65' /><a href='#f65' class='c012'><sup>[65]</sup></a> and say, "Would I knew whether am I asleep or +his finger-ends<a id='r65' href='#f65' class='c012'><sup>[65]</sup></a> and say, "Would I knew whether am I asleep or am I awake!" At last the Caliph looked at him and cried, "O Shaykh Ibrahim, what state is this in which I see thee?" Thereupon he recovered from his drunkenness and, throwing himself upon @@ -1849,7 +1827,7 @@ the ground, repeated these verses:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Pardon the sinful ways I did pursue; ✿ Ruth from his lord to every slave is due:</div> - <div class='line'>Confession pays the fine that sin demands; ✿ Where, then, is that which grace and mercy sue?<a id='r66' /><a href='#f66' class='c012'><sup>[66]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Confession pays the fine that sin demands; ✿ Where, then, is that which grace and mercy sue?<a id='r66' href='#f66' class='c012'><sup>[66]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -1861,17 +1839,17 @@ lord to be Sultan in Bassorah and, Almighty Allah willing, we will dispatch him the dress of investiture and thee with it." Meanwhile, Nur al-Din Ali ceased not travelling till he reached Bassorah, where he repaired to the Sultan's palace and he shouted -a loud shout.<a id='r67' /><a href='#f67' class='c012'><sup>[67]</sup></a> The Sultan heard him and sent for him; and when +a loud shout.<a id='r67' href='#f67' class='c012'><sup>[67]</sup></a> The Sultan heard him and sent for him; and when he came into his presence, he kissed the ground between his hands and, producing the letter, presented it to him. Seeing the superscription in the writing of the Commander of the Faithful, the Sultan rose to his feet and kissed it three times; and after reading <span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>it said, "I hear and I obey Allah Almighty and the Commander -of the Faithful!" Then he summoned the four Kazis<a id='r68' /><a href='#f68' class='c012'><sup>[68]</sup></a> and the +of the Faithful!" Then he summoned the four Kazis<a id='r68' href='#f68' class='c012'><sup>[68]</sup></a> and the Emirs and was about to divest himself of the rule royal, when behold, in came Al-Mu'in bin Sawi. The Sultan gave him the Caliph's letter and he read it, then tore it to pieces and putting it -into his mouth, chewed it<a id='r69' /><a href='#f69' class='c012'><sup>[69]</sup></a> and spat it out. "Woe to thee," quoth +into his mouth, chewed it<a id='r69' href='#f69' class='c012'><sup>[69]</sup></a> and spat it out. "Woe to thee," quoth the Sultan (and indeed he was sore angered); "what induced thee to do this deed?" "Now by thy life! O our lord the Sultan," replied Mu'in, "this man hath never foregathered with the Caliph @@ -1879,7 +1857,7 @@ nor with his Wazir; but he is a gallows-bird, a limb of Satan, a knave who, having come upon a written paper in the Caliph's hand, some idle scroll, hath made it serve his own end. The Caliph would surely not send him to take the Sultanate from thee -without the imperial autograph<a id='r70' /><a href='#f70' class='c012'><sup>[70]</sup></a> and the diploma of investiture, +without the imperial autograph<a id='r70' href='#f70' class='c012'><sup>[70]</sup></a> and the diploma of investiture, and he certainly would have despatched with him a Chamberlain or a Minister. But he hath come alone and he never came from the Caliph, no, never! never! never!" "What is to be done?" @@ -1893,9 +1871,9 @@ him too." Al-Mu'in took trust of him from the King and, carrying him to his own house, cried out to his pages who laid him flat and beat him till he fainted. Then he let put upon his feet heavy shackles and carried him to the jail, where he called the jailor, -one Kutayt,<a id='r71' /><a href='#f71' class='c012'><sup>[71]</sup></a> who came and kissed the ground before him. Quoth +one Kutayt,<a id='r71' href='#f71' class='c012'><sup>[71]</sup></a> who came and kissed the ground before him. Quoth the Wazir, "O Kutayt, I wish thee to take this fellow and throw -him into one of the underground cells<a id='r72' /><a href='#f72' class='c012'><sup>[72]</sup></a> in the prison and torture +him into one of the underground cells<a id='r72' href='#f72' class='c012'><sup>[72]</sup></a> in the prison and torture him night and day." "To hear is to obey," replied the jailor and, taking Nur al-Din into the prison, locked the door upon him. Then he gave orders to sweep a bench behind the door and, @@ -1936,7 +1914,7 @@ repeating these verses:—</p> <div class='line'>Exile hath worn my heart, my vitals torn; ✿ The World to foes hath turned my firm allies.</div> <div class='line'>O folk, will not one friend amidst you all ✿ Wail o'er my woes, and cry to hear my cries?</div> <div class='line'>Death and its agonies seem light to me, ✿ Since life has lost all joys and jollities:</div> - <div class='line'>O Lord of Mustafá,<a id='r73' /><a href='#f73' class='c012'><sup>[73]</sup></a> that Science-sea ✿ Sole Intercessor, Guide all-ware, all-wise!</div> + <div class='line'>O Lord of Mustafá,<a id='r73' href='#f73' class='c012'><sup>[73]</sup></a> that Science-sea ✿ Sole Intercessor, Guide all-ware, all-wise!</div> <div class='line'>I pray thee free me and my fault forego, ✿ And from me drive mine evil and my woe.</div> </div> </div> @@ -2000,7 +1978,7 @@ have ye not heard the saying of the poet?—</p> least of the retribution for him who imposeth upon Kings with forgeries." And they ceased not parading him round about Bassorah, till they made him stand beneath the palace-windows and -set him upon the leather of blood,<a id='r74' /><a href='#f74' class='c012'><sup>[74]</sup></a> and the sworder came up to +set him upon the leather of blood,<a id='r74' href='#f74' class='c012'><sup>[74]</sup></a> and the sworder came up to <span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>him and said, "O my lord, I am but a slave commanded in this matter: an thou have any desire, tell it me that I may fulfil it, for now there remaineth of thy life only so much as may be till the @@ -2033,7 +2011,7 @@ have smitten this fellow's neck;" but the Sultan said, "Wait ye till we see what this meaneth." Now the dust-cloud was the dust of Ja'afar the Barmecide, Wazir to the Caliph, and his host; and the cause of his coming was as follows. The Caliph passed thirty -days without calling to mind the matter of Nur al-Din Ali,<a id='r75' /><a href='#f75' class='c012'><sup>[75]</sup></a> and +days without calling to mind the matter of Nur al-Din Ali,<a id='r75' href='#f75' class='c012'><sup>[75]</sup></a> and none reminded him of it, till one night, as he passed by the chamber of Anis al-Jalis, he heard her weeping and singing with a soft sweet voice these lines of the poet:—</p> @@ -2077,9 +2055,9 @@ bin Khakan;" adding, "If thou tarry longer on the road than shall suffice for the journey, I will strike off thy head. Furthermore, do thou tell the son of my uncle the whole story of Nur al-Din, and how I sent him with my written orders; and if thou find, O my -cousin,<a id='r76' /><a href='#f76' class='c012'><sup>[76]</sup></a> that the King hath done otherwise than as I commanded, +cousin,<a id='r76' href='#f76' class='c012'><sup>[76]</sup></a> that the King hath done otherwise than as I commanded, bring him and the Wazir Al-Mu'in bin Sawi to us in whatsoever -guise thou shalt find them."<a id='r77' /><a href='#f77' class='c012'><sup>[77]</sup></a> "Hearing and obedience," replied +guise thou shalt find them."<a id='r77' href='#f77' class='c012'><sup>[77]</sup></a> "Hearing and obedience," replied Ja'afar and, making ready on the instant, he set out for Bassorah where the news of his coming had foregone him and had reached to the ears of King Mohammed. When Ja'afar arrived and saw @@ -2107,7 +2085,7 @@ him how they had found Nur al-Din nigh upon death. Thereupon the Caliph said to the youth, "Take this sword and smite with it the neck of thine enemy." So he took the sword from his hand and stepped up to Al-Mu'in who looked at him and said, "I -did according to my mother's milk, do thou according to thine."<a id='r78' /><a href='#f78' class='c012'><sup>[78]</sup></a> +did according to my mother's milk, do thou according to thine."<a id='r78' href='#f78' class='c012'><sup>[78]</sup></a> Upon this Nur al-Din cast the sword from his hand and said to the Caliph, "O Commander of the Faithful, he hath beguiled me with his words;" and he repeated this couplet:—</p> @@ -2137,7 +2115,7 @@ wondrous than the history of the merchant and his children." The King asked "And what was that?" and Shahrazad began to relate the</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f1'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. </span>Supplementary to note 2, p. 2, and note 2, p. 14, vol. i., I may add that "Shahrazad," @@ -2630,13 +2608,13 @@ yellow, with a black border and small pouches for knives or spoons (Pilgrimage i <div class='chapter'> <span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span> - <h2 class='c007'><em>TALE OF GHANIM BIN AYYUB<a id='r79' /><a href='#f79' class='c012'><sup>[79]</sup></a>, THE DISTRAUGHT,<br />THE THRALL O' LOVE.</em></h2> + <h2 class='c007'><em>TALE OF GHANIM BIN AYYUB<a id='r79' href='#f79' class='c012'><sup>[79]</sup></a>, THE DISTRAUGHT,<br >THE THRALL O' LOVE.</em></h2> </div> <p class='c011'>It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in times of yore and in years and ages long gone before, there lived in Damascus a merchant among the merchants, a wealthy man who had a son like -the moon on the night of his fullness<a id='r80' /><a href='#f80' class='c012'><sup>[80]</sup></a> and withal sweet of speech, +the moon on the night of his fullness<a id='r80' href='#f80' class='c012'><sup>[80]</sup></a> and withal sweet of speech, who was named Ghanim bin 'Ayyúb surnamed the Distraught, the Thrall o' Love. He had also a daughter, own sister to Ghanim, who was called Fitnah, a damsel unique in beauty and loveliness. @@ -2655,7 +2633,7 @@ perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, it hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the merchant left his two children abundant wealth and amongst other things an -hundred loads<a id='r81' /><a href='#f81' class='c012'><sup>[81]</sup></a> of silks and brocades, musk-pods and mother +hundred loads<a id='r81' href='#f81' class='c012'><sup>[81]</sup></a> of silks and brocades, musk-pods and mother o' pearl; and there was written on every bale, "This is of the packages intended for Baghdad," it having been his purpose to make the journey thither, when Almighty Allah took him to @@ -2681,10 +2659,10 @@ do on this wise for a full year. On the first day of the following year he went, as was his wont, to the Exchange which was in the bazar, but found the gate shut; and enquiring the reason was told, "One of the merchants is dead and all the others have -gone to follow his bier,<a id='r82' /><a href='#f82' class='c012'><sup>[82]</sup></a> and why shouldst thou not win the -meed of good deeds by walking with them?"<a id='r83' /><a href='#f83' class='c012'><sup>[83]</sup></a> He replied "Yes," +gone to follow his bier,<a id='r82' href='#f82' class='c012'><sup>[82]</sup></a> and why shouldst thou not win the +meed of good deeds by walking with them?"<a id='r83' href='#f83' class='c012'><sup>[83]</sup></a> He replied "Yes," and asked for the quarter where the funeral was taking place, and -one directed him thereto. So he purified himself by the Wuzu-ablution<a id='r84' /><a href='#f84' class='c012'><sup>[84]</sup></a> +one directed him thereto. So he purified himself by the Wuzu-ablution<a id='r84' href='#f84' class='c012'><sup>[84]</sup></a> and repaired with the other merchants to the oratory, where they prayed over the dead, then walked before the bier to the burial-place, and Ghanim, who was a bashful man, followed @@ -2697,7 +2675,7 @@ read out and recited the Koran over the grave; and Ghanim sat with them, being overcome with bashfulness and saying to himself "I cannot well go away till they do." They tarried listening to <span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>the Koranic perlection till nightfall, when the servants set supper -and sweetmeats<a id='r85' /><a href='#f85' class='c012'><sup>[85]</sup></a> before them and they ate till they were satisfied; +and sweetmeats<a id='r85' href='#f85' class='c012'><sup>[85]</sup></a> before them and they ate till they were satisfied; then they washed their hands and again took their places. But Ghanim's mind was preoccupied with his house and goods, being in fear of robbers, and he said to himself, "I am a stranger here and @@ -2729,15 +2707,15 @@ three slaves, two bearing a chest and one with a lanthorn, an adze and a basket containing some mortar. When they reached the tomb, one of those who were carrying the case said, "What aileth thee O Sawab?"; and said the other, "What is the matter O -Kafur?"<a id='r86' /><a href='#f86' class='c012'><sup>[86]</sup></a> Quoth he, "Were we not here at supper-tide and did +Kafur?"<a id='r86' href='#f86' class='c012'><sup>[86]</sup></a> Quoth he, "Were we not here at supper-tide and did we not leave the door open?" "Yes," replied the other, "that is true." "See," said Kafur, "now it is shut and barred." "How weak are your wits!" cried the third who bore the adze and his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>name was Bukhayt,<a id='r87' /><a href='#f87' class='c012'><sup>[87]</sup></a> "know ye not that the owners of the gardens +<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>name was Bukhayt,<a id='r87' href='#f87' class='c012'><sup>[87]</sup></a> "know ye not that the owners of the gardens use to come out from Baghdad and tend them and, when evening closes upon them, they enter this place and shut the door, for fear lest the wicked blackmen, like ourselves, should catch them and -roast 'em and eat 'em."<a id='r88' /><a href='#f88' class='c012'><sup>[88]</sup></a> "Thou sayest sooth," said the two others, +roast 'em and eat 'em."<a id='r88' href='#f88' class='c012'><sup>[88]</sup></a> "Thou sayest sooth," said the two others, "but by Allah, however that may be, none amongst us is weaker of wits than thou." "If ye do not believe me," said Bukhayt, "let us enter the tomb and I will rouse the rat for you; for I doubt @@ -2760,7 +2738,7 @@ break," replied they; and he said, "I fear lest there be robbers within who murder folk and plunder their goods, for evening is their time of entering such places and dividing their spoil." "O thou weak o' wits," said both the bearers of the box, "how could -they ever get in here!"<a id='r89' /><a href='#f89' class='c012'><sup>[89]</sup></a> Then they set down the chest and climbing +they ever get in here!"<a id='r89' href='#f89' class='c012'><sup>[89]</sup></a> Then they set down the chest and climbing over the wall dropped inside and opened the gate, whilst the third slave (he that was called Bukhayt) stood by them holding the adze, the lanthorn and the hand-basket containing the mortar. @@ -2780,10 +2758,10 @@ so he began as follows the</p> <p class='c015'>Know, O my brothers, that when I was a little one, some five years old, I was taken home from my native country by a slave-driver -who sold me to a certain Apparitor.<a id='r90' /><a href='#f90' class='c012'><sup>[90]</sup></a> My purchaser had a +who sold me to a certain Apparitor.<a id='r90' href='#f90' class='c012'><sup>[90]</sup></a> My purchaser had a daughter three years old, with whom I was brought up, and they used to make mock of me, letting me play with her and dance for -her<a id='r91' /><a href='#f91' class='c012'><sup>[91]</sup></a> and sing to her, till I reached the age of twelve and she that +her<a id='r91' href='#f91' class='c012'><sup>[91]</sup></a> and sing to her, till I reached the age of twelve and she that of ten; and even then they did not forbid me seeing her. One day I went in to her and found her sitting in an inner room, and she looked as if she had just come out of the bath which was in the @@ -2795,7 +2773,7 @@ point, as it were a huge key. Then she threw me on my back and, mounting astraddle on my breast, fell a-wriggling and a-bucking upon me till she had uncovered my yard. When she saw it standing with head erect, she hent it in hand and began -rubbing it upon the lips of her little slit<a id='r92' /><a href='#f92' class='c012'><sup>[92]</sup></a> outside her petticoat-trousers. +rubbing it upon the lips of her little slit<a id='r92' href='#f92' class='c012'><sup>[92]</sup></a> outside her petticoat-trousers. Thereat hot lust stirred in me and I threw my arms <span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>round her, while she wound hers about my neck and hugged me to her with all her might, till, before I knew what I did, my pizzle @@ -2810,12 +2788,12 @@ married her to a young man, a barber who used to shave her papa, and portioned and fitted her out of her own monies; whilst the father knew nothing of what had passed. On the night of consummation they cut the throat of a pigeon-poult and sprinkled the -blood on her shift.<a id='r93' /><a href='#f93' class='c012'><sup>[93]</sup></a> After a while they seized me unawares and +blood on her shift.<a id='r93' href='#f93' class='c012'><sup>[93]</sup></a> After a while they seized me unawares and gelded me; and, when they brought her to her bridegroom, they -made me her Agha,<a id='r94' /><a href='#f94' class='c012'><sup>[94]</sup></a> her eunuch, to walk before her wheresoever +made me her Agha,<a id='r94' href='#f94' class='c012'><sup>[94]</sup></a> her eunuch, to walk before her wheresoever she went, whether to the bath or to her father's house. I abode with her a long time enjoying her beauty and loveliness by way of -kissing and clipping and coupling with her,<a id='r95' /><a href='#f95' class='c012'><sup>[95]</sup></a> till she died, and her +kissing and clipping and coupling with her,<a id='r95' href='#f95' class='c012'><sup>[95]</sup></a> till she died, and her husband and mother and father died also; when they seized me for the Royal Treasury as being the property of an intestate, and I found my way hither, where I became your comrade. This, @@ -2868,7 +2846,7 @@ the furniture of the house, one thing upon another, and tore <span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>down the shelves and broke the windows and the lattices and smeared the walls with mud and indigo, saying to me, "Woe to thee, O Kafur! come help me to tear down these cupboards and -break up these vessels and this chinaware,<a id='r96' /><a href='#f96' class='c012'><sup>[96]</sup></a> and the rest of it." +break up these vessels and this chinaware,<a id='r96' href='#f96' class='c012'><sup>[96]</sup></a> and the rest of it." So I went to her and aided her to smash all the shelves in the house with whatever stood upon them, after which I went round about the terrace-roofs and every part of the place, spoiling all @@ -2897,7 +2875,7 @@ perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <div class='nf-center-c1'> <div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>Now when it was the Fortieth Night,<a id='r97' /><a href='#f97' class='c012'><sup>[97]</sup></a></div> + <div>Now when it was the Fortieth Night,<a id='r97' href='#f97' class='c012'><sup>[97]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> @@ -2949,7 +2927,7 @@ with his attendants and the townsfolk, a world of people, who had <span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>come out to look on, and my master's family following them, all screaming and crying aloud and weeping exceeding sore weeping. The first to address my owner were his wife and children; and when -he saw them he was confounded and laughed<a id='r98' /><a href='#f98' class='c012'><sup>[98]</sup></a> and said to them, +he saw them he was confounded and laughed<a id='r98' href='#f98' class='c012'><sup>[98]</sup></a> and said to them, "How is it with all of you and what befel you in the house and what hath come to pass to you?" When they saw him they exclaimed, "Praise be to Allah for thy preservation!" and threw @@ -2990,9 +2968,9 @@ will not free thee till my year is completed and I have told thee the half-lie which is left. When this is done, go down with me to the slave-market and sell me as thou boughtest me to whoso will buy me with my blemish; but thou shalt not manumit me, for I have -no handicraft whereby to gain my living;<a id='r99' /><a href='#f99' class='c012'><sup>[99]</sup></a> and this my demand is +no handicraft whereby to gain my living;<a id='r99' href='#f99' class='c012'><sup>[99]</sup></a> and this my demand is a matter of law which the doctors have laid down in the Chapter of -Emancipation."<a id='r100' /><a href='#f100' class='c012'><sup>[100]</sup></a> While we were at these words, up came the crowd +Emancipation."<a id='r100' href='#f100' class='c012'><sup>[100]</sup></a> While we were at these words, up came the crowd of people, and the neighbours of the quarter, men, women and children, together with the Governor and his suite offering condolence. So my master and the other merchants went up to him @@ -3002,7 +2980,7 @@ they cursed me and reviled me, while I stood laughing and grinning at them, till at last I asked, "How shall my master slay me when he bought me with this my blemish?" Then my master returned home and found his house in ruins, and it was I who had laid waste -the greater part of it,<a id='r101' /><a href='#f101' class='c012'><sup>[101]</sup></a> having broken things which were worth +the greater part of it,<a id='r101' href='#f101' class='c012'><sup>[101]</sup></a> having broken things which were worth much money, as also had done his wife, who said to him, "'Twas Kafur who broke the vessels and chinaware." Thereupon his rage redoubled and he struck hand upon hand exclaiming, "By Allah! @@ -3012,7 +2990,7 @@ would ruin a city, aye or even two." Then in his fury he went to the Governor, and they gave me a neat thing in the bastinado-line and made me eat stick till I was lost to the world and a fainting-fit came on me; and, whilst I was yet senseless, they brought the -barber who docked me and gelded me<a id='r102' /><a href='#f102' class='c012'><sup>[102]</sup></a> and cauterised the wound. +barber who docked me and gelded me<a id='r102' href='#f102' class='c012'><sup>[102]</sup></a> and cauterised the wound. <span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>When I revived I found myself a clean eunuch with nothing left, and my master said to me, "Even as thou hast burned my heart for the things I held dearest, so have I burnt thy heart for that @@ -3024,7 +3002,7 @@ sold and being bought, till I entered the palace of the Commander of the Faithful. But now my spirit is broken and my tricks are gone from me, so—alas!—are my ballocks. When the two slaves heard his history, they laughed at him and chaffed him and said, -"Truly thou art skite<a id='r103' /><a href='#f103' class='c012'><sup>[103]</sup></a> and skite-son! Thou liedest an odious lie." +"Truly thou art skite<a id='r103' href='#f103' class='c012'><sup>[103]</sup></a> and skite-son! Thou liedest an odious lie." Then quoth they to the third slave, "Tell us thy tale." "O sons of my uncle," quoth he, "all that ye have said is idle: I will tell you the cause of my losing my testicles, and indeed I deserved to @@ -3039,7 +3017,7 @@ Then he swarmed up and dropped down from the wall inside and opened the door, so they entered and, setting down the lantern, dug between four tombs a hole as long as the chest and of the same breadth. Kafur plied the spade and Sawab removed the earth by -baskets-full till they reached the depth of the stature of a man;<a id='r104' /><a href='#f104' class='c012'><sup>[104]</sup></a> +baskets-full till they reached the depth of the stature of a man;<a id='r104' href='#f104' class='c012'><sup>[104]</sup></a> when they laid the chest in the hole and threw back the earth over it: then they went forth and shutting the door disappeared from Ghanim's eyes. When all was quiet and he felt sure that he was @@ -3068,7 +3046,7 @@ satisfy the thirsty, nor aught to gratify one whose thirst is satisfied! Where is Zahr al-Bostan?" But no one answered her, so she turned her and cried out, "Ho Sabíhah! Shajarat al-Durr! Núr al-Hudá! Najmat al-Subh! be ye awake? Shahwah, Nuzhah, -Halwá, Zarífah, out on you, speak!<a id='r105' /><a href='#f105' class='c012'><sup>[105]</sup></a>" But no one answered; so +Halwá, Zarífah, out on you, speak!<a id='r105' href='#f105' class='c012'><sup>[105]</sup></a>" But no one answered; so she looked all around and said, "Woe's me! have they entombed me in the tombs? O Thou who knowest what man's thought enwombs and who givest compensation on the Day of Doom, who @@ -3088,7 +3066,7 @@ hither? See, I am now come to myself." "O my lady," he replied, "three slave-eunuchs came here bearing this chest;" and related to her the whole of what had befallen him, and how evening having closed upon him had proved the cause of her preservation, -otherwise she had died smothered.<a id='r106' /><a href='#f106' class='c012'><sup>[106]</sup></a> Then he asked +otherwise she had died smothered.<a id='r106' href='#f106' class='c012'><sup>[106]</sup></a> Then he asked her who she was and what was her story, and she answered, "O youth, thanks be to Allah who hath cast me into the hands of the like of thee! But now rise and put me back into the box; then @@ -3138,7 +3116,7 @@ heart. They ate and drank and each had conceived the fondest affection; for indeed the two were one in age and one in loveliness; and when night came on Ghanim bin Ayyub, the Distraught, the Thrall of Love, rose and lit the wax candles and -lamps till the place blazed with light;<a id='r107' /><a href='#f107' class='c012'><sup>[107]</sup></a> after which he produced +lamps till the place blazed with light;<a id='r107' href='#f107' class='c012'><sup>[107]</sup></a> after which he produced the wine-service and spread the table. Then both sat down again, he and she, and he kept filling and giving her to drink, and she kept filling and giving him to drink, and they played and toyed @@ -3146,7 +3124,7 @@ and laughed and recited verses; whilst their joy increased and they clove in closer love each to each (glory be to the Uniter of Hearts!). They ceased not to carouse after this fashion till near upon dawn when drowsiness overcame them and they slept where -they were, apart each from other, till the morning.<a id='r108' /><a href='#f108' class='c012'><sup>[108]</sup></a> Then Ghanim +they were, apart each from other, till the morning.<a id='r108' href='#f108' class='c012'><sup>[108]</sup></a> Then Ghanim arose and going to the market, bought all they required of meat and vegetables and wine and what not, and brought them to the house; whereupon both sat down to eat and ate their sufficiency, @@ -3158,11 +3136,11 @@ said, "O my lady, grant me one kiss of that dear mouth: perchance she, "wait till I am drunk and dead to the world; then steal a kiss of me, secretly and on such wise that I may not know thou hast kissed me." Then she rose and taking off her upper dress sat -in a thin shift of fine linen and a silken head-kerchief.<a id='r109' /><a href='#f109' class='c012'><sup>[109]</sup></a> At this +in a thin shift of fine linen and a silken head-kerchief.<a id='r109' href='#f109' class='c012'><sup>[109]</sup></a> At this passion inflamed Ghanim and he said to her, "O my lady, wilt <span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>thou not vouchsafe me what I asked of thee?" "By Allah," she replied, "that may not be thine, for there is written upon my -trouser-string<a id='r110' /><a href='#f110' class='c012'><sup>[110]</sup></a> a hard word!" Thereupon Ghanim's heart sank +trouser-string<a id='r110' href='#f110' class='c012'><sup>[110]</sup></a> a hard word!" Thereupon Ghanim's heart sank and desire grew on him as its object offered difficulties; and he improvised these verses:—</p> @@ -3170,7 +3148,7 @@ improvised these verses:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I asked the author of mine ills ✿ To heal the wound with one sweet kiss:</div> - <div class='line'>No! No! she cried,<a id='r111' /><a href='#f111' class='c012'><sup>[111]</sup></a> for ever no! ✿ But I, soft whispering, urged yes:</div> + <div class='line'>No! No! she cried,<a id='r111' href='#f111' class='c012'><sup>[111]</sup></a> for ever no! ✿ But I, soft whispering, urged yes:</div> <div class='line'>Quoth she, Then take it by my leave, ✿ When smiles shall pardon thine amiss:</div> <div class='line'>By force, cried I? Nay, she replied ✿ With love and gladness eke I wis.</div> <div class='line'>Now ask me not what next occurred ✿ Seek grace of God and whist of this!</div> @@ -3188,7 +3166,7 @@ but she redoubled in coyness and cruelty till the night brought on the darkness and let fall on them the skirts of sleep. Thereupon Ghanim rose and lit the lamps and wax-candles, and refreshed the room and removed the table; then he took her feet and kissed -them and, finding them like fresh cream, pressed his face<a id='r112' /><a href='#f112' class='c012'><sup>[112]</sup></a> on them +them and, finding them like fresh cream, pressed his face<a id='r112' href='#f112' class='c012'><sup>[112]</sup></a> on them and said to her, "O my lady, take pity on one thy love hath ta'en and thine eyes hath slain; for indeed I were heart-whole but for thy bane!" And he wept somewhat. "O my lord, and light of @@ -3219,7 +3197,7 @@ he, "So be it!" Thereat she opened the skirt of her shift and, taking up her trouser-string, said to him, "O my lord, read what is worked on the flat of this string:" so he took it in hand, and saw these words broidered on it in gold, "I AM THINE, AND -THOU ART MINE, O COUSIN OF THE APOSTLE!"<a id='r113' /><a href='#f113' class='c012'><sup>[113]</sup></a> +THOU ART MINE, O COUSIN OF THE APOSTLE!"<a id='r113' href='#f113' class='c012'><sup>[113]</sup></a> When he read this, he withdrew his hand and said to her, "Tell me who thou art!" "So be it," answered she; "know that I am one of the concubines of the Commander of the Faithful, and @@ -3282,7 +3260,7 @@ bazar, as was his wont, took what the occasion required and returned home. He found her weeping; but when she saw him she checked herself and, smiling through her tears, said, "Thou hast desolated me, O beloved of my heart. By Allah, this hour -of absence hath been to me like a year!<a id='r114' /><a href='#f114' class='c012'><sup>[114]</sup></a> I have explained to +of absence hath been to me like a year!<a id='r114' href='#f114' class='c012'><sup>[114]</sup></a> I have explained to thee my condition in the excess of my eager love for thee; so come now near me, and forget the past and have thy will of me." But he interrupted her crying, "I seek refuge with Allah! @@ -3294,8 +3272,8 @@ his side and caroused and played with him, till the two were flushed with wine, and she was mad for her own dishonour. Then she sang these verses:—</p> -<div class='figcenter id006'> -<img src='images/i_062fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id006'> +<img src='images/i_062fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -3334,7 +3312,7 @@ oppressed heart with these verses:—</p> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>How long, rare beauty! wilt do wrong to me? ✿ Who was it bade thee not belong to me?</div> <div class='line'>With outer charms thou weddest inner grace ✿ Comprising every point of piquancy:</div> <div class='line'>Passion thou hast infused in every heart, ✿ From eyelids driven sleep by deputy:</div> - <div class='line'>Erst was (I wot) the spray made thin of leaf ✿ O Cassia-spray! Unlief thy sin I see:<a id='r115' /><a href='#f115' class='c012'><sup>[115]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Erst was (I wot) the spray made thin of leaf ✿ O Cassia-spray! Unlief thy sin I see:<a id='r115' href='#f115' class='c012'><sup>[115]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>The hart erst hunted I: how is't I spy ✿ The hunter hunted (fair my hart!) by thee?</div> <div class='line'>Wondrouser still I tell thee aye that I ✿ Am trapped while never up to trap thou be!</div> <div class='line'>Ne'er grant my prayer! For if I grudge thyself ✿ To thee, I grudge my <em>me</em> more jealously;</div> @@ -3357,12 +3335,12 @@ bid him make thee a figure of wood in the form of a corpse. We will dig a grave for it midmost the palace and there bury it: then do thou build an oratory over it and set therein lighted candles and lamps, and order each and every in the palace to be clad in -black.<a id='r116' /><a href='#f116' class='c012'><sup>[116]</sup></a> Furthermore command thy handmaids and eunuchs as +black.<a id='r116' href='#f116' class='c012'><sup>[116]</sup></a> Furthermore command thy handmaids and eunuchs as soon as they know of the Caliph's returning from his journey, to spread straw over the vestibule-floors and, when the Commander of the Faithful enters and asks what is the matter, let them say:—Kut al-Kulub is dead, and may Allah abundantly compensate thee -for the loss of her!<a id='r117' /><a href='#f117' class='c012'><sup>[117]</sup></a>; and, for the high esteem in which she was +for the loss of her!<a id='r117' href='#f117' class='c012'><sup>[117]</sup></a>; and, for the high esteem in which she was held of our mistress, she hath buried her in her own palace. When he hears this he will weep and it shall be grievous to him; then will he cause perlections of the Koran to be made for her and he @@ -3396,7 +3374,7 @@ cause of this and they gave him tidings of the death of Kut al-Kulub, whereon he fell a-swooning. As soon as he came to himself, he asked for her tomb, and the Lady Zubaydah said to him, "Know, O Prince of the Faithful, that for especial honour I have -buried her in my own palace." Then he repaired in his travelling-garb<a id='r118' /><a href='#f118' class='c012'><sup>[118]</sup></a> +buried her in my own palace." Then he repaired in his travelling-garb<a id='r118' href='#f118' class='c012'><sup>[118]</sup></a> to the tomb that he might wail over her, and found the carpets spread and the candles and lamps lighted. When he saw this, he thanked Zubaydah for her good deed and abode perplexed, @@ -3430,7 +3408,7 @@ him, and at his feet a second rubbing and shampooing them. Presently he awoke and, opening his eyes, shut them again and heard the handmaid at his head saying to her who was at his feet, "A nice business this, O Khayzarán!" and the other answered -her "Well, O Kazíb al-Bán?"<a id='r119' /><a href='#f119' class='c012'><sup>[119]</sup></a> "Verily" said the first, "our lord +her "Well, O Kazíb al-Bán?"<a id='r119' href='#f119' class='c012'><sup>[119]</sup></a> "Verily" said the first, "our lord knoweth naught of what hath happened and sitteth waking and watching by a tomb wherein is only a log of wood carved by the carpenter's art." "And Kut al-Kulub," quoth the other, "what @@ -3476,10 +3454,10 @@ one and light of mine eyes!" he cried, "How shall I do to get away when they have surrounded the house?" Quoth she, "Fear not;" and, stripping off his fine clothes, dressed him in ragged old garments, after which she took the pot and, putting in it bits of -broken bread and a saucer of meat,<a id='r120' /><a href='#f120' class='c012'><sup>[120]</sup></a> placed the whole in a basket +broken bread and a saucer of meat,<a id='r120' href='#f120' class='c012'><sup>[120]</sup></a> placed the whole in a basket and setting it upon his head said, "Go out in this guise and fear not for me who wotteth right well what thing is in my hand for -the Caliph."<a id='r121' /><a href='#f121' class='c012'><sup>[121]</sup></a> So he went out amongst them, bearing the basket +the Caliph."<a id='r121' href='#f121' class='c012'><sup>[121]</sup></a> So he went out amongst them, bearing the basket with its contents, and the Protector vouchsafed him His protection and he escaped the snares and perils that beset him, by the blessing of his good conscience and pure conduct. Meanwhile Ja'afar dismounted @@ -3488,7 +3466,7 @@ and decked herself in splendid raiments and ornaments and filled a chest with gold and jewellery and precious stones and rarities and <span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>what else was light to bear and of value rare. When she saw Ja'afar come in, she rose and, kissing the ground before him, said, "O my -lord, the Reed hath written of old the rede which Allah decreed!"<a id='r122' /><a href='#f122' class='c012'><sup>[122]</sup></a> +lord, the Reed hath written of old the rede which Allah decreed!"<a id='r122' href='#f122' class='c012'><sup>[122]</sup></a> "By Allah, O my lady," answered Ja'afar, "he gave me an order to seize Ghanim son of Ayyub;" and she rejoined, "O my lord, he made ready his goods and set out therewith for Damascus and @@ -3508,8 +3486,8 @@ thou shalt receive this our letter, seize upon Ghanim bin Ayyub and send him to us." When the missive came to the viceroy, he kissed it and laid it on his head; then he let proclaim in the bazars, "Whoso is desirous to plunder, away with him to the house of -Ghanim son of Ayyub."<a id='r123' /><a href='#f123' class='c012'><sup>[123]</sup></a> So they flocked thither, when they found -that Ghanim's mother and sister had built him a tomb<a id='r124' /><a href='#f124' class='c012'><sup>[124]</sup></a> in the +Ghanim son of Ayyub."<a id='r123' href='#f123' class='c012'><sup>[123]</sup></a> So they flocked thither, when they found +that Ghanim's mother and sister had built him a tomb<a id='r124' href='#f124' class='c012'><sup>[124]</sup></a> in the midst of the house and sat by it weeping for him; whereupon they seized the two without telling them the cause and, after spoiling the house, carried them before the viceroy. He questioned them @@ -3519,11 +3497,11 @@ far concerning them; but as regards Ghanim, when he saw his wealth spoiled and his ruin utterest he wept over himself till his heart well-nigh brake. Then he fared on at random till the last <span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>of the day, and hunger grew hard on him and walking wearied -him. So coming to a village he entered a mosque<a id='r125' /><a href='#f125' class='c012'><sup>[125]</sup></a> where he sat +him. So coming to a village he entered a mosque<a id='r125' href='#f125' class='c012'><sup>[125]</sup></a> where he sat down upon a mat and propped his back against the wall; but presently he sank to the ground in his extremity of famine and fatigue. There he lay till dawn, his heart fluttering for want of -food; and, owing to his sweating, the lice<a id='r126' /><a href='#f126' class='c012'><sup>[126]</sup></a> coursed over his skin; +food; and, owing to his sweating, the lice<a id='r126' href='#f126' class='c012'><sup>[126]</sup></a> coursed over his skin; his breath waxed fetid and his whole condition was changed. When the villagers came to pray the dawn-prayer, they found him prostrate, ailing, hunger-lean, yet showing evident signs of former @@ -3538,22 +3516,22 @@ with him till sun-rise, when they went to their work. He abode with them in this state for a month, whilst sickness and weakliness grew upon him; and they wept for him and, pitying his condition, took counsel with one another upon his case and agreed -to forward him to the hospital in Baghdad.<a id='r127' /><a href='#f127' class='c012'><sup>[127]</sup></a> Meanwhile behold, +to forward him to the hospital in Baghdad.<a id='r127' href='#f127' class='c012'><sup>[127]</sup></a> Meanwhile behold, two beggar-women, who were none other than Ghanim's mother -and sister,<a id='r128' /><a href='#f128' class='c012'><sup>[128]</sup></a> came into the mosque and, when he saw them, he gave +and sister,<a id='r128' href='#f128' class='c012'><sup>[128]</sup></a> came into the mosque and, when he saw them, he gave them the bread that was at his head; and they slept by his side that night but he knew them not. Next day the villagers brought a camel and said to the cameleer, "Set this sick man on thy beast and carry him to Baghdad and put him down at the Spital-door; so haply he may be medicined and be healed and thou shalt have -thy hire."<a id='r129' /><a href='#f129' class='c012'><sup>[129]</sup></a> "To hear is to comply," said the man. So they brought +thy hire."<a id='r129' href='#f129' class='c012'><sup>[129]</sup></a> "To hear is to comply," said the man. So they brought <span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>Ghanim, who was asleep, out of the mosque and set him, mat and all, on the camel; and his mother and sister came out among the crowd to gaze upon him, but they knew him not. However, after looking at him and considering him carefully they said, "Of a truth he favours our Ghanim, poor boy!; can this sick man be he?" Presently, he woke and finding himself bound with ropes on a -camel's back, he began to weep and complain,<a id='r130' /><a href='#f130' class='c012'><sup>[130]</sup></a> and the village-people +camel's back, he began to weep and complain,<a id='r130' href='#f130' class='c012'><sup>[130]</sup></a> and the village-people saw his mother and sister weeping over him, albeit they knew him not. Then they fared forth for Baghdad, but the camel-man forewent them and, setting Ghanim down at the @@ -3563,8 +3541,8 @@ saw him and stood gazing on him, for he had become as thin as a toothpick, till the Syndic of the bazar came up and drove them away from him, saying, "I will gain Paradise through this poor creature; for if they take him into the Hospital, they will kill him -in a single day."<a id='r131' /><a href='#f131' class='c012'><sup>[131]</sup></a> Then he made his young men carry him to his -house, where they spread him a new bed with a new pillow,<a id='r132' /><a href='#f132' class='c012'><sup>[132]</sup></a> and +in a single day."<a id='r131' href='#f131' class='c012'><sup>[131]</sup></a> Then he made his young men carry him to his +house, where they spread him a new bed with a new pillow,<a id='r132' href='#f132' class='c012'><sup>[132]</sup></a> and he said to his wife, "Tend him carefully;" and she replied, "Good! on my head be it!" Thereupon she tucked up her sleeves and warming some water, washed his hands, feet and body; after which @@ -3622,7 +3600,7 @@ Prince of True Believers," quoth she, "suffer me to go and seek him; haply Allah may unite me with him:" and quoth he, "Do even as thou wilt." So she rejoiced and, taking with her a thousand dinars in gold, went out and visited the elders of the various -faiths and gave alms in Ghanim's name.<a id='r133' /><a href='#f133' class='c012'><sup>[133]</sup></a> Next day she walked +faiths and gave alms in Ghanim's name.<a id='r133' href='#f133' class='c012'><sup>[133]</sup></a> Next day she walked to the merchants' bazar and disclosed her object to the Syndic and gave him money, saying, "Bestow this in charity to the stranger!" On the following Friday she fared to the bazar (with @@ -3636,7 +3614,7 @@ and graceful he is?" Now the stranger was Ghanim, son of Ayyub, but the Chief had no knowledge of him and thought him to be some wandering pauper, some debtor whose wealth had been taken from him, or some lover parted from his beloved. -When she heard his words her heart fluttered<a id='r134' /><a href='#f134' class='c012'><sup>[134]</sup></a> and her vitals +When she heard his words her heart fluttered<a id='r134' href='#f134' class='c012'><sup>[134]</sup></a> and her vitals yearned, and she said to him, "Send with me one who shall guide me to thy house." So he sent a little lad who brought her to the house wherein was the head man's stranger-guest and she @@ -3779,7 +3757,7 @@ extempore couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>Kings lay their gems on his threshold-dust ✿ As they bow and salam to the mighty man;</div> <div class='line'>And his glances foil them and all recoil, ✿ Bowing beards aground and with faces wan:</div> <div class='line'>Yet they gain the profit of royal grace, ✿ The rank and station of high soldan.</div> - <div class='line'>Earth's plain is scant for thy world of men, ✿ Camp there in Kaywán's<a id='r135' /><a href='#f135' class='c012'><sup>[135]</sup></a> Empyrean!</div> + <div class='line'>Earth's plain is scant for thy world of men, ✿ Camp there in Kaywán's<a id='r135' href='#f135' class='c012'><sup>[135]</sup></a> Empyrean!</div> <div class='line'>May the King of Kings ever hold thee dear; ✿ Be counsel thine and right steadfast plan,</div> <div class='line'>Till thy justice spread o'er the wide-spread earth ✿ And the near and the far be of equal worth.</div> </div> @@ -3814,13 +3792,13 @@ of which we will repeat for interest fails in twice told tales. The Caliph was convinced that he was a true man; so he invested him with a dress of honour, and placed him near himself in token of favour, and said to him, "Acquit me of the responsibility I have -incurred."<a id='r136' /><a href='#f136' class='c012'><sup>[136]</sup></a> And Ghanim so did, saying, "O our lord the Sultan, of +incurred."<a id='r136' href='#f136' class='c012'><sup>[136]</sup></a> And Ghanim so did, saying, "O our lord the Sultan, of a truth thy slave and all things his two hands own are his master's." The Caliph was pleased at this and gave orders to set apart a palace for him and assigned to him pay and allowances, rations and donations, which amounted to something immense. So he removed thither with sister and mother; after which the Caliph, hearing -that his sister Fitnah was in beauty a very "fitnah,"<a id='r137' /><a href='#f137' class='c012'><sup>[137]</sup></a> a mere seduction, +that his sister Fitnah was in beauty a very "fitnah,"<a id='r137' href='#f137' class='c012'><sup>[137]</sup></a> a mere seduction, demanded her in marriage of Ghanim who replied, "She is thy handmaid as I am thy slave." The Caliph thanked him and gave him an hundred thousand dinars, then summoned the witnesses @@ -3836,7 +3814,7 @@ created the night and the day. Yet, O auspicious King, this story to which thou hast deigned give ear is on no wise more wondrous than the</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f79'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r79'>79</a>. </span>Our "Job." The English translators of the Bible, who borrowed Luther's system @@ -4187,35 +4165,35 @@ Kiun or Chiun of Amos vi. 26.</p> <div class='chapter'> <span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span> - <h2 class='c007'>TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS<br /> SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN,<br /> <br /> AND WHAT BEFEL THEM OF THINGS SELD-SEEN AND PEREGRINE.<a id='r138' /><a href='#f138' class='c012'><sup>[138]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 class='c007'>TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS<br > SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN,<br > <br > AND WHAT BEFEL THEM OF THINGS SELD-SEEN AND PEREGRINE.<a id='r138' href='#f138' class='c012'><sup>[138]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c011'>The King asked her, "And what was their story?" and she answered:—It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was in the City of Safety, Baghdad, before the Caliphate of Abd -al-Malik bin Marwán,<a id='r139' /><a href='#f139' class='c012'><sup>[139]</sup></a> a King, Omar bin al-Nu'uman hight, who +al-Malik bin Marwán,<a id='r139' href='#f139' class='c012'><sup>[139]</sup></a> a King, Omar bin al-Nu'uman hight, who was of the mighty giants and had subjected the Chosroes of Persia and the Kaysars of Eastern Rome; for none could warm himself -at his fire;<a id='r140' /><a href='#f140' class='c012'><sup>[140]</sup></a> nor could any avail to meet him in the field of foray +at his fire;<a id='r140' href='#f140' class='c012'><sup>[140]</sup></a> nor could any avail to meet him in the field of foray and fray; and, when he was an-angered, there came forth from his nostrils sparks of flame. He had made himself King over all quarters, and Allah had subjected to him all His creatures; his word went forth to all great cities and his hosts had harried the farthest lands. East and West had come under his command with whatsoever regions lay interspersed between them, Hind and Sind -and Sin,<a id='r141' /><a href='#f141' class='c012'><sup>[141]</sup></a> the Holy Land, Al-Hijaz, the rich mountains of Al-Yaman +and Sin,<a id='r141' href='#f141' class='c012'><sup>[141]</sup></a> the Holy Land, Al-Hijaz, the rich mountains of Al-Yaman and the archipelagos of India and China. Moreover, he <span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>reigned supreme over the north country and Diyár Bakr, or Mesopotamia, and over Sudán, the Eastern Negro-land and the Islands of the Ocean, and all the far famed rivers of the earth, Sayhún -and Jayhún,<a id='r142' /><a href='#f142' class='c012'><sup>[142]</sup></a> Nile and Euphrates. He sent envoys and ambassadors +and Jayhún,<a id='r142' href='#f142' class='c012'><sup>[142]</sup></a> Nile and Euphrates. He sent envoys and ambassadors to capitals the most remote, to provide him with true report; and they would bring back tidings of justice and peace, with assurance of loyalty and obedience and of prayers in the pulpits for King Omar bin al-Nu'uman; for he was, O Ruler of the Age, a right noble King; and there came to him presents of rarities and toll and tribute from all lands of his governing. This mighty monarch -had a son yclept Sharrkan,<a id='r143' /><a href='#f143' class='c012'><sup>[143]</sup></a> who was likest of all men to his father +had a son yclept Sharrkan,<a id='r143' href='#f143' class='c012'><sup>[143]</sup></a> who was likest of all men to his father and who proved himself one of the prodigies of his time for subduing the brave and bringing his contemporaries to bane and ban. For this his father loved him with love so great none could be greater, @@ -4233,7 +4211,7 @@ pavilions, after the number of the months, each containing thirty private chambers, which thus numbered three hundred and three score, wherein he lodged his handmaids: and he appointed according to law for each one her night, when he lay with her and came -not again to her for a full year;<a id='r144' /><a href='#f144' class='c012'><sup>[144]</sup></a> and on this wise he abode for a +not again to her for a full year;<a id='r144' href='#f144' class='c012'><sup>[144]</sup></a> and on this wise he abode for a length of time. Meanwhile his son Sharrkan was making himself renowned in all quarters of the world and his father was proud of him and his might waxed and grew mightier; so that he passed @@ -4251,7 +4229,7 @@ dispute with me the sovereignty:" so quoth he to himself, "If this concubine bear a male child I will kill it:" but he kept that intention hidden in his heart. Such was the case with Sharrkan; but what happened in the matter of the damsel was as follows. She was -a Roumiyah, a Greek girl, by name Sofiyah or Sophia,<a id='r145' /><a href='#f145' class='c012'><sup>[145]</sup></a> whom the +a Roumiyah, a Greek girl, by name Sofiyah or Sophia,<a id='r145' href='#f145' class='c012'><sup>[145]</sup></a> whom the King of Roum and Lord of Cæsarea had sent to King Omar as a present, together with great store of gifts and of rarities: she was the fairest of favour and loveliest of all his handmaids and the most @@ -4261,12 +4239,12 @@ King on the night of his sleeping with her, saying to him, "O King! I desire of the God of the Heavens that he bless thee this night with a male child by me, so I may bring him up with the best of rearing, and enable him to reach man's estate perfect in -intelligence, good manners and prudent bearing"<a id='r146' /><a href='#f146' class='c012'><sup>[146]</sup></a>—a speech which +intelligence, good manners and prudent bearing"<a id='r146' href='#f146' class='c012'><sup>[146]</sup></a>—a speech which much pleased the King. During her pregnancy she was instant in <span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>prayer, fervently supplicating the Lord to bless her with a goodly male child and make his birth easy to her; and Allah heard her petition so that after her months were accomplished she sat safely -upon the birth-stool.<a id='r147' /><a href='#f147' class='c012'><sup>[147]</sup></a> Now the King had deputed a eunuch to +upon the birth-stool.<a id='r147' href='#f147' class='c012'><sup>[147]</sup></a> Now the King had deputed a eunuch to let him know if the child she should bring forth were male or female; and in like way his son Sharrkan had sent one to bring him tidings of the same. In due time Sophia was delivered of a @@ -4283,14 +4261,14 @@ at it and found it a boy like the full moon, with forehead flower-white, and cheek ruddy-bright with rosy light; whereupon the mother rejoiced, as did the eunuchs and attendants and all the company; and Sophia was delivered of the after-birth whilst all in -the palace sent forth the trill of joy.<a id='r148' /><a href='#f148' class='c012'><sup>[148]</sup></a> The rest of the concubines +the palace sent forth the trill of joy.<a id='r148' href='#f148' class='c012'><sup>[148]</sup></a> The rest of the concubines <span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>heard it and envied her lot; and the tidings reached Omar son of Al-Nu'uman, who was glad and rejoiced at the excellent news. Then he rose and went to her and kissed her head, after which he looked at the boy; and, bending over him, kissed him, whilst the damsels struck the tabors and played on instruments of music; and the King gave order that the boy should be named Zau al-Makan -and his sister Nuzhat al-Zaman.<a id='r149' /><a href='#f149' class='c012'><sup>[149]</sup></a> They answered "Hearing +and his sister Nuzhat al-Zaman.<a id='r149' href='#f149' class='c012'><sup>[149]</sup></a> They answered "Hearing and obedience," and did his bidding; so he appointed wet nurses and dry nurses and eunuchs and attendants to serve them; and assigned them rations of sugar and diet-drinks and unguents and @@ -4325,13 +4303,13 @@ in, he turned to them and, courteously receiving them, asked them of their case, and what was the cause of their coming. They <span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>kissed the ground before him and said, "O King glorious and strong! O lord of the arm that is long! know that he who despatched -us to thee is King Afridun,<a id='r150' /><a href='#f150' class='c012'><sup>[150]</sup></a> Lord of Ionia-land<a id='r151' /><a href='#f151' class='c012'><sup>[151]</sup></a> and of +us to thee is King Afridun,<a id='r150' href='#f150' class='c012'><sup>[150]</sup></a> Lord of Ionia-land<a id='r151' href='#f151' class='c012'><sup>[151]</sup></a> and of the Nazarene armies, the sovereign who is firmly established in the empery of Constantinople, to acquaint thee that he is now waging fierce war and fell with a tyrant and a rebel, the Prince of Cæsarea; and the cause of this war is as follows. One of the Kings of the Arabs in past time, during certain of his conquests, -chanced upon a hoard of the time of Alexander,<a id='r152' /><a href='#f152' class='c012'><sup>[152]</sup></a> whence he +chanced upon a hoard of the time of Alexander,<a id='r152' href='#f152' class='c012'><sup>[152]</sup></a> whence he removed wealth past compute; and, amongst other things, three round jewels, big as ostrich eggs, from a mine of pure white gems whose like was never seen by man. Upon each were graven @@ -4339,7 +4317,7 @@ characts in Ionian characters, and they have many virtues and properties, amongst the rest that if one of these jewels be hung round the neck of a newborn child, no evil shall befal him and he shall neither wail, nor shall fever ail him as long as the jewel -remain without fail.<a id='r153' /><a href='#f153' class='c012'><sup>[153]</sup></a> When the Arab King laid hands upon them +remain without fail.<a id='r153' href='#f153' class='c012'><sup>[153]</sup></a> When the Arab King laid hands upon them and learned their secrets, he sent to King Afridun presents of certain rarities and amongst them the three jewels afore mentioned; and he equipped for the mission two ships, one bearing the treasure @@ -4357,9 +4335,9 @@ together with the three jewels, and slew the crews. When our King heard of this, he sent an army against them, but they routed it; then he marched a second and a stronger but they put this <span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>also to flight, whereupon the King waxed wroth and swore that he -would not go forth<a id='r154' /><a href='#f154' class='c012'><sup>[154]</sup></a> against them save in his own person at the +would not go forth<a id='r154' href='#f154' class='c012'><sup>[154]</sup></a> against them save in his own person at the head of his whole army; nor would he turn back from them till -he had left Cæsarea of Armenia<a id='r155' /><a href='#f155' class='c012'><sup>[155]</sup></a> in ruins and had laid waste all +he had left Cæsarea of Armenia<a id='r155' href='#f155' class='c012'><sup>[155]</sup></a> in ruins and had laid waste all the lands and cities over which her Prince held sway. So he sent us to the Lord of the age and the time, Sultan Omar bin al-Nu'uman, King of Baghdad and of Khorasan, desiring that he aid @@ -4393,7 +4371,7 @@ the King saw them, he rejoiced in them and accepted them; then he bade the Ambassadors be honourably entreated and, summoning his Wazirs, took counsel with them of what he should do. Herewith rose up among them a Wazir, an ancient man, -Dandán<a id='r156' /><a href='#f156' class='c012'><sup>[156]</sup></a> hight, who kissed the ground before Omar and said, "O +Dandán<a id='r156' href='#f156' class='c012'><sup>[156]</sup></a> hight, who kissed the ground before Omar and said, "O King, there is nothing better to do in this matter than equip an army valiant and victorious, and set over it thy son Sharrkan with us as his lieutenants; and this rede commendeth itself to me on @@ -4426,9 +4404,9 @@ for the occasion; whilst Sharrkan repaired to the armouries and took therefrom whatsoever he required of arms and armour, and thence to the stable where he chose horses of choice blood and others. When the appointed three days were ended, the army drew -out to the suburbs of Baghdad city;<a id='r157' /><a href='#f157' class='c012'><sup>[157]</sup></a> and King Omar came forth to +out to the suburbs of Baghdad city;<a id='r157' href='#f157' class='c012'><sup>[157]</sup></a> and King Omar came forth to take leave of his son who kissed the ground before him and received -from the King seven parcels of money.<a id='r158' /><a href='#f158' class='c012'><sup>[158]</sup></a> Then he turned to Dandan +from the King seven parcels of money.<a id='r158' href='#f158' class='c012'><sup>[158]</sup></a> Then he turned to Dandan and commended to his care the army of his son; and the Wazir kissed the ground before him and answered, "I hear and I obey;" and lastly he charged Sharrkan that he should consult the Wazir @@ -4450,7 +4428,7 @@ well grown with trees and shrubbery. Here Sharrkan ordered them to alight and commanded a three days' halt, so they dismounted and pitched their tents, spreading their camp over the right and the left slopes of the extensive valley, whilst the Wazir Dandan and -the Ambassadors of King Afridun pitched in the sole of the Wady.<a id='r159' /><a href='#f159' class='c012'><sup>[159]</sup></a> +the Ambassadors of King Afridun pitched in the sole of the Wady.<a id='r159' href='#f159' class='c012'><sup>[159]</sup></a> As for Sharrkan, he tarried behind them for awhile till all had dismounted and had dispersed themselves over the valley-sides; he then slacked the reins of his steed, being minded to explore the @@ -4463,7 +4441,7 @@ a fourth part of the night was passed, when he felt tired and drowsiness overcame him, so that he could no longer urge horse with heel. Now he was accustomed to take rest on horseback; so when slumber overpowered him, he slept and the steed ceased not going on with -him till half the night was spent and entered one of the thickets<a id='r160' /><a href='#f160' class='c012'><sup>[160]</sup></a> +him till half the night was spent and entered one of the thickets<a id='r160' href='#f160' class='c012'><sup>[160]</sup></a> which was dense with growth; but Sharrkan awoke not until his horse stumbled over wooded ground. Then he started from sleep and found himself among the trees; and the moon arose and shone @@ -4478,7 +4456,7 @@ the senses of men. So King Sharrkan alighted and, tying his steed to one of the trees, went over a little way till he came upon a stream and heard a woman talking in Arabic and saying, "Now by the truth of the Messiah, this is not well of you! but whoso utters a -word, I will throw her and truss her up with her own girdle<a id='r161' /><a href='#f161' class='c012'><sup>[161]</sup></a>!" He +word, I will throw her and truss her up with her own girdle<a id='r161' href='#f161' class='c012'><sup>[161]</sup></a>!" He kept walking in the direction of the sound and when he reached the further side he looked and behold, a stream was gushing and flowing, and antelopes at large were frisking and roving, and wild @@ -4498,7 +4476,7 @@ these couplets:—</p> <p class='c000'>And as Sharrkan considered the place, he saw in it a Christian Monastery within whose enceinte a castle towered high in air -catching the light of the moon.<a id='r162' /><a href='#f162' class='c012'><sup>[162]</sup></a> Through the midst of the convent +catching the light of the moon.<a id='r162' href='#f162' class='c012'><sup>[162]</sup></a> Through the midst of the convent passed a stream, the water flowing amongst its gardens; and upon the bank sat the woman whose voice he had heard, while before her stood ten handmaids like moons and wearing various sorts of @@ -4546,7 +4524,7 @@ thrown them forty times! So what hast thou to boast of? But if thou have the strength to wrestle with me, stand up that I may grip thee and set thy head between thy heels!" The young lady smiled at her words, but she was filled with inward wrath, and she -jumped up and asked, "O my lady Zát al-Dawáhí,<a id='r163' /><a href='#f163' class='c012'><sup>[163]</sup></a> by the truth of +jumped up and asked, "O my lady Zát al-Dawáhí,<a id='r163' href='#f163' class='c012'><sup>[163]</sup></a> by the truth of the Messiah, wilt thou wrestle with me in very deed, or dost thou jest with me?"; and she answered, "Yea,"——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -4568,9 +4546,9 @@ wrestle with thee in very deed" (Sharrkan looking on the while), the damsel cried, "Rise up for the fall an thou have spunk so to do." When the old woman heard this, she raged with exceeding <span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>rage, and her body-hair stood on end like the bristles of a fretful -hedgehog.<a id='r164' /><a href='#f164' class='c012'><sup>[164]</sup></a> Then she sprang to her feet, whilst the damsel stood +hedgehog.<a id='r164' href='#f164' class='c012'><sup>[164]</sup></a> Then she sprang to her feet, whilst the damsel stood up to her, and said, "Now by the truth of the Messiah, I will not -wrestle with thee unless I be naked, Mistress whore!"<a id='r165' /><a href='#f165' class='c012'><sup>[165]</sup></a> So she +wrestle with thee unless I be naked, Mistress whore!"<a id='r165' href='#f165' class='c012'><sup>[165]</sup></a> So she loosed her petticoat-trousers and, putting her hand under her clothes, tore them off her body; then twisted up a silken kerchief into cord-shape, girt it round her middle and became as she were @@ -4591,7 +4569,7 @@ waist-cloth with the left and circling her neck with the right hand, hoisted her off the ground with both; whereupon the old woman strove to free herself and, in so doing fell on her back arsiversy, with her legs high in air and her hairy bush between them showed -manifest in the moonshine; furthermore she let fly two great farts<a id='r166' /><a href='#f166' class='c012'><sup>[166]</sup></a> +manifest in the moonshine; furthermore she let fly two great farts<a id='r166' href='#f166' class='c012'><sup>[166]</sup></a> one of which blew up the dust from the earth's face and the other steamed up to the gate of Heaven. Sharrkan laughed till he fell back upon the ground. Then he arose and, baring his brand @@ -4611,13 +4589,13 @@ Sharrkan to himself, "Every luck hath its cause. Sleep did not fall upon me nor the war-horse bear me hither save for my good fortune; for doubtless this maid and what is with her shall become booty to me." So he made towards his steed and mounted and -heeled<a id='r167' /><a href='#f167' class='c012'><sup>[167]</sup></a> him on, when he sped as the shaft speeds from the bow, +heeled<a id='r167' href='#f167' class='c012'><sup>[167]</sup></a> him on, when he sped as the shaft speeds from the bow, and in his hand he still hent his brand bare of sheath, which he -brandished shouting the while his war-cry, "Allah is All-mighty<a id='r168' /><a href='#f168' class='c012'><sup>[168]</sup></a>!" +brandished shouting the while his war-cry, "Allah is All-mighty<a id='r168' href='#f168' class='c012'><sup>[168]</sup></a>!" When the damsel saw him she sprang to her feet and, taking firm stand on the bank of the stream, whose breadth was six ells, the normal cubits, made one bound and landed clear on the farther -side,<a id='r169' /><a href='#f169' class='c012'><sup>[169]</sup></a> where she turned and cried out with a loud voice, "Who art +side,<a id='r169' href='#f169' class='c012'><sup>[169]</sup></a> where she turned and cried out with a loud voice, "Who art thou, O thou fellow, that breakest in upon our privacy and pastime, and that too hanger in hand as if charging a host? Whence camest thou and whither art thou going? Speak sooth, for truth will @@ -4625,7 +4603,7 @@ stand thee in good stead, and lie not, for lies come of villein-breed. Doubtless thou hast wandered this night from thy way, that thou chancedst upon this place whence escape were the greatest of mercies; for thou art now in an open plain and, did we shout but -a single shout, would come to our rescue four thousand knights.<a id='r170' /><a href='#f170' class='c012'><sup>[170]</sup></a> +a single shout, would come to our rescue four thousand knights.<a id='r170' href='#f170' class='c012'><sup>[170]</sup></a> So tell me what thou wantest; and if thou wouldst only have us set thee on the right road, we will do so." When Sharrkan heard her words he replied, "I am a stranger of the Moslems, who @@ -4663,18 +4641,18 @@ me by Him who sprite in body dight and dealt laws to rule mankind aright, that thou wilt not offer me aught of violence save by way of wrestling; else mayst thou die without the pale of Al-Islam." Sharrkan replied, "By Allah! were a Kazi to swear me, -even though he were a Kazi of the Kazis,<a id='r171' /><a href='#f171' class='c012'><sup>[171]</sup></a> he would not impose +even though he were a Kazi of the Kazis,<a id='r171' href='#f171' class='c012'><sup>[171]</sup></a> he would not impose upon me such an oath as this!" Then he sware to her by all she named and tied his steed to a tree; but he was drowned in the sea of thought, saying in himself, "Praise be to Him who fashioned -<span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>her from dirty water!"<a id='r172' /><a href='#f172' class='c012'><sup>[172]</sup></a> Then he girt himself and made ready for +<span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>her from dirty water!"<a id='r172' href='#f172' class='c012'><sup>[172]</sup></a> Then he girt himself and made ready for wrestling, and said to her, "Cross the stream to me;" but she replied, "It is not for me to come over to thee: if thou wilt, pass thou over here to me." "I cannot do that," quoth he, and quoth she, "O boy, I will come across to thee." So she tucked up her skirts and, leaping, landed on the other side of the stream by his side; whereupon he drew near to her and bent him forwards and -clapped palms.<a id='r173' /><a href='#f173' class='c012'><sup>[173]</sup></a> But he was confounded by her beauty and loveliness; +clapped palms.<a id='r173' href='#f173' class='c012'><sup>[173]</sup></a> But he was confounded by her beauty and loveliness; for he saw a shape which the Hand of Power had tanned with the dye-leaves of the Jánn, which had been fostered by the Hand of Beneficence and fanned by the Zephyrs of fair fortune and @@ -4720,7 +4698,7 @@ two. Then each approached the adversary and he set his breast against hers, but when he felt waist touch waist, his strength failed him; and she, waxing ware of this, lifted him with her hands swiftlier than the blinding leven-flash, and threw him to the -ground. He fell on his back,<a id='r174' /><a href='#f174' class='c012'><sup>[174]</sup></a> and then she said to him, "Rise: +ground. He fell on his back,<a id='r174' href='#f174' class='c012'><sup>[174]</sup></a> and then she said to him, "Rise: I give thee thy life a second time. I spared thee in the first count because of thy Prophet, for that he made unlawful the slaying of women; and I do so on the second count because of thy weakliness @@ -4729,10 +4707,10 @@ I charge thee, if there be in the Moslem army sent by Omar bin <span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>al-Nu'uman to succour the King of Constantinople, a stronger than thou, send him hither and tell him of me: for in wrestling there are shifts and trips, catches and holds, such as the feint or falsing -and the snap or first grip, the hug, the feet-catch, the thigh-bite,<a id='r175' /><a href='#f175' class='c012'><sup>[175]</sup></a> +and the snap or first grip, the hug, the feet-catch, the thigh-bite,<a id='r175' href='#f175' class='c012'><sup>[175]</sup></a> the jostle and the leg-lock." "By Allah, O my lady," quoth Sharrkan (and indeed he was highly incensed against her), "had I -been Master al-Safdí, Master Mohammed Kimál or Ibn al-Saddí,<a id='r176' /><a href='#f176' class='c012'><sup>[176]</sup></a> +been Master al-Safdí, Master Mohammed Kimál or Ibn al-Saddí,<a id='r176' href='#f176' class='c012'><sup>[176]</sup></a> as they were in their prime, I had kept no note of these shifts thou mentionest; for O my mistress, by Allah, thou hast not grassed me by thy strength, but by the blandishments of thy back-parts; @@ -4751,15 +4729,15 @@ in him a strength such as she had not observed before and said to him, "O Moslem, thou art now on thy mettle." "Yes," he replied, "thou knowest that there remaineth to me but this one round, after which each of us will wend a different way." She laughed -and he laughed too;<a id='r177' /><a href='#f177' class='c012'><sup>[177]</sup></a> then she overreached at his thigh and caught +and he laughed too;<a id='r177' href='#f177' class='c012'><sup>[177]</sup></a> then she overreached at his thigh and caught firm hold of it unawares, which made him greet the ground and fall full on his back. She laughed at him and said, "Art thou an eater of bran? Thou art like a Badawi's bonnet which falleth off -with every touch or else the Father of Winds<a id='r178' /><a href='#f178' class='c012'><sup>[178]</sup></a> that droppeth +with every touch or else the Father of Winds<a id='r178' href='#f178' class='c012'><sup>[178]</sup></a> that droppeth before a puff of air. Fie upon thee, O thou poor thing!" adding, "Get thee back to the Moslem army and send us other than <span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>thyself, for thou failest of thews; and proclaim for us, among the -Arabs and Persians, the Turks and Daylamites,<a id='r179' /><a href='#f179' class='c012'><sup>[179]</sup></a> whoso hath might +Arabs and Persians, the Turks and Daylamites,<a id='r179' href='#f179' class='c012'><sup>[179]</sup></a> whoso hath might in him, let him come to us." Then she made a spring and landed on the other side of the stream and said to Sharrkan, laughing, "Parting with thee is right grievous to me, O my lord; but get @@ -4780,7 +4758,7 @@ eyes be it! Mount thy steed and ride along the brink of the stream over against me, for now thou art my guest." At this Sharrkan was glad and, hastening back to his horse, mounted and walked him abreast of her, and she kept faring on till they came -to a drawbridge<a id='r180' /><a href='#f180' class='c012'><sup>[180]</sup></a> built of beams of the white poplar, hung by +to a drawbridge<a id='r180' href='#f180' class='c012'><sup>[180]</sup></a> built of beams of the white poplar, hung by pullies and steel-chains and made fast with hooks and padlocks. When Sharrkan looked, he saw awaiting her upon the bridge the same ten handmaids whom she had thrown in the wrestling-bouts; @@ -4810,7 +4788,7 @@ in number as the months of the year, and in each a concubine after the number of the days; and if I come to him he would not prove shy of me, for your folk believe I am lawful to have and to hold as is said in your writ:—Or those women whom your right hand shall -possess as slaves.<a id='r181' /><a href='#f181' class='c012'><sup>[181]</sup></a> So how canst thou speak thus to me? As for +possess as slaves.<a id='r181' href='#f181' class='c012'><sup>[181]</sup></a> So how canst thou speak thus to me? As for thy saying:—Thou shalt look upon the braves of the Moslems, by the truth of the Messiah, thou sayest that which is not true, for I saw your army when it reached our land, these two days ago; and @@ -4830,7 +4808,7 @@ whom the fault lies." "Now by the virtue of thy faith," she replied, "did I not fear lest the news of me be bruited abroad that I am of the daughters of Roum, I would adventure myself and sally forth <span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>single-handed against the ten thousand horsemen and slay their -leader, the Wazir Dandan and vanquish their champion Sharrkan.<a id='r182' /><a href='#f182' class='c012'><sup>[182]</sup></a> +leader, the Wazir Dandan and vanquish their champion Sharrkan.<a id='r182' href='#f182' class='c012'><sup>[182]</sup></a> Nor would aught of shame accrue to me thereby, for I have read books and studied the rules of good breeding in the language of the Arabs. But I have no need to vaunt my own prowess to thee, @@ -4845,8 +4823,8 @@ and make him my captive and lay him in bilboes."——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id007'> -<img src='images/i_092fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id007'> +<img src='images/i_092fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -4885,7 +4863,7 @@ like rollers in the rolling sea, he extemporised these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>For her sins is a pleader that brow, ✿ And all hearts its fair pleading must trow:</div> <div class='line'>When I saw it I cried, "To-night ✿ The moon at its fullest doth show;</div> - <div class='line'>Tho' Balkís' own Ifrit<a id='r183' /><a href='#f183' class='c012'><sup>[183]</sup></a> try a bout, ✿ Spite his force she would deal him a throw.</div> + <div class='line'>Tho' Balkís' own Ifrit<a id='r183' href='#f183' class='c012'><sup>[183]</sup></a> try a bout, ✿ Spite his force she would deal him a throw.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -4896,7 +4874,7 @@ vestibule, vaulted with ten connected arches, from each of which hung a crystal lamp glistening like a spark of fire. The handmaids met her at the further end bearing wax candles of goodly perfume, and wearing on their heads golden fillets crusted with all manner -bezel-gems,<a id='r184' /><a href='#f184' class='c012'><sup>[184]</sup></a> and went on before her (Sharrkan still following), till +bezel-gems,<a id='r184' href='#f184' class='c012'><sup>[184]</sup></a> and went on before her (Sharrkan still following), till they reached the inner convent. There the Moslem saw couches and sofas ranged all around, one opposite the other and all overhung with curtains flowered in gold. The monastery floor was @@ -4935,7 +4913,7 @@ among the constellations guarding and girding her. She was clad in brocades befitting Kings; her breasts were like twin pomegranates, a woven zone set with all kinds of jewels tightly clasped her waist which expanded below into jutting hips; and her hinder -cheeks stood out as a mound of crystal<a id='r185' /><a href='#f185' class='c012'><sup>[185]</sup></a> supporting a silvern +cheeks stood out as a mound of crystal<a id='r185' href='#f185' class='c012'><sup>[185]</sup></a> supporting a silvern shaft. When Sharrkan looked at her his wits went nigh to fly away from him with delight; and he forgot army and Wazir as he gazed on her fair head decked and dight with a net-work of pearls @@ -4951,7 +4929,7 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>With heavy back-parts, high breasts delicate, ✿ And lissome form that sways with swimming gait,</div> <div class='line'>She deftly hides love-longing in her breast; ✿ But I may never hide its ban and bate:</div> - <div class='line'>While hosts of followers her steps precede,<a id='r186' /><a href='#f186' class='c012'><sup>[186]</sup></a> ✿ Like pearls now necklaced and now separate.</div> + <div class='line'>While hosts of followers her steps precede,<a id='r186' href='#f186' class='c012'><sup>[186]</sup></a> ✿ Like pearls now necklaced and now separate.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -4971,7 +4949,7 @@ naught and he acknowledged the truth, saying, "I am Sharrkan, bin Omar bin al-Nu'uman, whom fortune hath afflicted, and cast into this place; so whatso thou willest, do it in my case!" She hung her head groundwards a long while, then turned to him and -said, "Be of good cheer and let thine eyes be cool and clear;<a id='r187' /><a href='#f187' class='c012'><sup>[187]</sup></a> for +said, "Be of good cheer and let thine eyes be cool and clear;<a id='r187' href='#f187' class='c012'><sup>[187]</sup></a> for thou art the guest of my hospitality, and bread-and-salt hath made a tie between me and thee; wherefore thou art in my ward and under my safeguard. Have no fear for, by the truth of the Messiah, @@ -5015,13 +4993,13 @@ permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the damsel ceased not to drink and ply Sharrkan with drink till he took leave of his wits, for the wine and the intoxication of love he bore her. -Presently she said to the slave-girl, "O Marjánah<a id='r188' /><a href='#f188' class='c012'><sup>[188]</sup></a>! bring us some +Presently she said to the slave-girl, "O Marjánah<a id='r188' href='#f188' class='c012'><sup>[188]</sup></a>! bring us some instruments of music!" "To hear is to obey," said the handmaid and going out, returned in the twinkling of an eye with a -Damascus lute,<a id='r189' /><a href='#f189' class='c012'><sup>[189]</sup></a> a Persian harp, a Tartar pipe, and an Egyptian +Damascus lute,<a id='r189' href='#f189' class='c012'><sup>[189]</sup></a> a Persian harp, a Tartar pipe, and an Egyptian dulcimer. The young lady took the lute and, after tuning each several string, began in gentle undersong to sing, softer, than -zephyr's wing and sweeter than Tasmin<a id='r190' /><a href='#f190' class='c012'><sup>[190]</sup></a>-spring, with heart safe +zephyr's wing and sweeter than Tasmin<a id='r190' href='#f190' class='c012'><sup>[190]</sup></a>-spring, with heart safe and secure from everything the couplets following:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -5057,7 +5035,7 @@ changing the measure, began singing these verses:—</p> <p class='c000'>When she ended her verse, she looked at Sharrkan and found him lost to existence, and he lay for a while stretched at full -length and prone among the maidens.<a id='r191' /><a href='#f191' class='c012'><sup>[191]</sup></a> Then he revived and, +length and prone among the maidens.<a id='r191' href='#f191' class='c012'><sup>[191]</sup></a> Then he revived and, remembering the songs, again inclined to mirth and merriment; and the twain returned to their wine and wassail, and continued their playing and toying, their pastime and pleasure till day ceased @@ -5075,7 +5053,7 @@ was a wide daïs carpeted with all kinds of silks, and round it open lattices commanding a view of trees and streams. About the saloon were figures carved in human form, and fashioned on such wise that the air passed through them and set in motion musical -instruments within, so that the beholder would fancy they spoke.<a id='r192' /><a href='#f192' class='c012'><sup>[192]</sup></a> +instruments within, so that the beholder would fancy they spoke.<a id='r192' href='#f192' class='c012'><sup>[192]</sup></a> Here sat the young lady, looking at the figures; but when she saw Sharrkan, she sprang to her feet and, taking him by the hand, made him sit down by her side, and asked him how he had @@ -5096,7 +5074,7 @@ quoting:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>When she heard this she said, "Verily Al-Kuthayyir<a id='r193' /><a href='#f193' class='c012'><sup>[193]</sup></a> was conspicuous +<p class='c000'>When she heard this she said, "Verily Al-Kuthayyir<a id='r193' href='#f193' class='c012'><sup>[193]</sup></a> was conspicuous for sweet speech and chaste, and he was superlative in his praise of Azzah when he sang (and she began to recite):—</p> @@ -5111,7 +5089,7 @@ his praise of Azzah when he sang (and she began to recite):—</p> <p class='c000'>"And indeed," quoth she, "'twas said that Azzah boasted exceeding beauty and loveliness." Then she asked Sharrkan saying, -"O Prince, dost thou know aught of Jamíl's<a id='r194' /><a href='#f194' class='c012'><sup>[194]</sup></a> verses to Buthaynah? +"O Prince, dost thou know aught of Jamíl's<a id='r194' href='#f194' class='c012'><sup>[194]</sup></a> verses to Buthaynah? if so repeat to us somewhat of them;" and he answered, "Yes, I know them better than any;" whereupon he began repeating these couplets:—</p> @@ -5149,7 +5127,7 @@ in his place till morning dawned. As soon as he awoke, the handmaids came to him with tabrets and other instruments of mirth and merriment, as wont; and, kissing the ground between his hands, said to him, "Bismillah!—in Allah's name—be so kind as -to come<a id='r195' /><a href='#f195' class='c012'><sup>[195]</sup></a>: our mistress biddeth thee to her presence!" So he rose +to come<a id='r195' href='#f195' class='c012'><sup>[195]</sup></a>: our mistress biddeth thee to her presence!" So he rose and accompanied the slave-girls who surrounded him, playing on tabrets and other instruments of music, till they passed from that saloon into another and a yet more spacious hall, decorated with @@ -5162,7 +5140,7 @@ and began reciting:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>He pluckt fruits of her necklace in rivalry, ✿ And her breast-pearls that bedded in gold-mine lie.</div> <div class='line'>Pure water on silvern bars is her brow, ✿ And her cheeks show roses with rubies vie:</div> - <div class='line'>Meseems in her eyne that the violet's hue ✿ Lies purpling set in the Ithmid's<a id='r196' /><a href='#f196' class='c012'><sup>[196]</sup></a> dye.</div> + <div class='line'>Meseems in her eyne that the violet's hue ✿ Lies purpling set in the Ithmid's<a id='r196' href='#f196' class='c012'><sup>[196]</sup></a> dye.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -5177,7 +5155,7 @@ the poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I speak and longing love upties me and unties me; ✿ Till with her honey-dew of inner lip she plies me:</div> - <div class='line'>I brought the chess-board and my liefest lover plays me ✿ With white and black,<a id='r197' /><a href='#f197' class='c012'><sup>[197]</sup></a> but black-cum-white ne'er satisfies me:</div> + <div class='line'>I brought the chess-board and my liefest lover plays me ✿ With white and black,<a id='r197' href='#f197' class='c012'><sup>[197]</sup></a> but black-cum-white ne'er satisfies me:</div> <div class='line'>'Twas as if King for Castle I were fain to place me ✿ Till wilful loss of game atwixt two queens surprise me:</div> <div class='line'>And if I seek to read intent in eyes that eye me ✿ Oh man! that glance askance with hint of wish defies me."</div> </div> @@ -5186,7 +5164,7 @@ the poet:—</p> <p class='c000'>Then she brought the chess-board and played with him; but Sharrkan, instead of looking at her moves, kept gazing at her fair -mouth, and putting knight in place of elephant and elephant<a id='r198' /><a href='#f198' class='c012'><sup>[198]</sup></a> +mouth, and putting knight in place of elephant and elephant<a id='r198' href='#f198' class='c012'><sup>[198]</sup></a> in stead of knight. She laughed and said to him, "If thy play be after this fashion, thou knowest naught of the game." "This is only our first," replied he, "judge not by this bout." When she @@ -5261,7 +5239,7 @@ chamberlain nor porter, but all the doorkeepers rose and forewent us as of wont; although, when others come, they leave them standing at the gate while they ask permission to admit them. But this is not a time for long talking, when the King is expecting our return -with this Prince, the scorpion-sting<a id='r199' /><a href='#f199' class='c012'><sup>[199]</sup></a> of the Islamitic host, that he +with this Prince, the scorpion-sting<a id='r199' href='#f199' class='c012'><sup>[199]</sup></a> of the Islamitic host, that he may kill him and drive back his men whither they came, without the bane of battling with them." "These words be ill words," rejoined the Princess, "and Dame Zat al-Dawahi lied, avouching an @@ -5333,7 +5311,7 @@ would be villeiny," said she; "Let one have at one." When he heard this, he sprang to his feet and made for them with his sword and battle-gear; and Masurah, the Knight, also sprang up and bore down upon him. Sharrkan met him like a lion and delivered -a shoulder cut<a id='r200' /><a href='#f200' class='c012'><sup>[200]</sup></a> which clove him to the middle, and the blade came +a shoulder cut<a id='r200' href='#f200' class='c012'><sup>[200]</sup></a> which clove him to the middle, and the blade came <span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>out gleaming and glittering from his back and bowels. When the lady beheld that swashing blow, Sharrkan's might was magnified in her sight and she knew that when she overthrew him in the @@ -5350,7 +5328,7 @@ knights, the lady looking on the while. And Allah cast a panic into the hearts of the survivors, so that they held back and dared not meet him in the duello, but fell upon him in a body; and he laid on load with heart firmer than a rock, and smote them and -trod them down like straw under the threshing-sled,<a id='r201' /><a href='#f201' class='c012'><sup>[201]</sup></a> till he had +trod them down like straw under the threshing-sled,<a id='r201' href='#f201' class='c012'><sup>[201]</sup></a> till he had driven sense and soul out of them. Then the Princess called aloud to her damsels, saying, "Who is left in the convent?"; and they replied, "None but the gate-keepers;" whereupon she @@ -5365,7 +5343,7 @@ by the truth of the Messiah, I will not be a niggard of myself for my guest; nor will I abandon him though for this I abide a reproach and a byword in the land of the Greeks." Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore -of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight.<a id='r202' /><a href='#f202' class='c012'><sup>[202]</sup></a> When she +of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight.<a id='r202' href='#f202' class='c012'><sup>[202]</sup></a> When she <span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span>saw what work he had made with them she said to him, "Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan! The Cavaliers may well glory in the like of thee." Then he rose and wiping his blade clean of the blood @@ -5376,7 +5354,7 @@ of the slain began reciting these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>How oft in the mellay I've cleft the array, ✿ And given their bravest to lions a prey:</div> <div class='line'>Ask of me and of them when I proved me prow ✿ O'er creation, on days of the foray and fray:</div> - <div class='line'>When I left in the onslaught their lions to lie ✿ On the sands of the lowlands<a id='r203' /><a href='#f203' class='c012'><sup>[203]</sup></a> in fieriest day.</div> + <div class='line'>When I left in the onslaught their lions to lie ✿ On the sands of the lowlands<a id='r203' href='#f203' class='c012'><sup>[203]</sup></a> in fieriest day.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -5385,7 +5363,7 @@ of the slain began reciting these couplets:—</p> smiles and kissed his hand; then she doffed her hauberk and he said to her, "O lady mine, wherefore didst thou don that coat of mail and bare thy brand?" "To guard thee against -these caitiffs,"<a id='r204' /><a href='#f204' class='c012'><sup>[204]</sup></a> she replied. Then she summoned the gate-keepers +these caitiffs,"<a id='r204' href='#f204' class='c012'><sup>[204]</sup></a> she replied. Then she summoned the gate-keepers and asked them, "How came ye to admit the King's Knights into my dwelling without leave of me?"; and they answered, "O Princess, it is not our custom to ask leave of thee @@ -5435,13 +5413,13 @@ year, it chanced that amongst the daughters of the great who resorted to the patron, as was their custom, came a daughter of the King of Constantinople, a beautiful girl called Sophia. They tarried at the monastery six days and on the seventh the folk -went their ways;<a id='r205' /><a href='#f205' class='c012'><sup>[205]</sup></a> but Sophia said, I will not return to Constantinople +went their ways;<a id='r205' href='#f205' class='c012'><sup>[205]</sup></a> but Sophia said, I will not return to Constantinople save by water. So they equipped for her a ship in which she embarked with her suite; and making sail they put out to sea; but as they were voyaging behold, a contrary wind caught them and drove the vessel from her course till, as Fate and Fortune would have it, she fell in with a Nazarene craft from the -Camphor Island<a id='r206' /><a href='#f206' class='c012'><sup>[206]</sup></a> carrying a crew of five hundred armed Franks, +Camphor Island<a id='r206' href='#f206' class='c012'><sup>[206]</sup></a> carrying a crew of five hundred armed Franks, who had been cruising about a long time. When they sighted the sails of the ship, wherein Sophia and her women were, they gave <span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span>chase in all haste and in less than an hour they came up with her, @@ -5450,7 +5428,7 @@ Then taking her in tow they made all sail for their own island and were but a little distant from it when the wind veered round and, splitting their sails, drove them on to a shoal which lies off our coast. Thereupon we sallied forth and, looking on them as -spoil driven to us by Fate,<a id='r207' /><a href='#f207' class='c012'><sup>[207]</sup></a> boarded and took them; and, slaying +spoil driven to us by Fate,<a id='r207' href='#f207' class='c012'><sup>[207]</sup></a> boarded and took them; and, slaying the men, made prize of the wreck, wherein we found the treasures and rarities in question and forty maidens, amongst whom was the King's daughter, Sophia. After the capture we carried the @@ -5459,7 +5437,7 @@ daughter of King Afridun of Constantinople; and he chose out for himself ten including her; and divided the rest among his dependants. Presently he set apart five damsels, amongst whom was the King's daughter, and sent them to thy father, King Omar -bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth<a id='r208' /><a href='#f208' class='c012'><sup>[208]</sup></a> and +bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth<a id='r208' href='#f208' class='c012'><sup>[208]</sup></a> and woollen stuffs and Grecian silks. Thy father accepted them and chose out from amongst the five girls Sophia, daughter of King Afridun; nor did we hear more of her till the beginning of this @@ -5481,8 +5459,8 @@ me and design to disgrace me and dishonour my daughter, you will, the instant my letter reacheth you, send my daughter back to me. But if you slight my letter and disobey my commandment, <span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>I will assuredly make you full return for your foul dealing and -the baseness of your practices.<a id='r209' /><a href='#f209' class='c012'><sup>[209]</sup></a> When my father read this letter -and understood the contents,<a id='r210' /><a href='#f210' class='c012'><sup>[210]</sup></a> it vexed him and he regretted not +the baseness of your practices.<a id='r209' href='#f209' class='c012'><sup>[209]</sup></a> When my father read this letter +and understood the contents,<a id='r210' href='#f210' class='c012'><sup>[210]</sup></a> it vexed him and he regretted not having known that Sophia, King Afridun's daughter, was among the captured damsels, that he might have sent her back to her sire; and he was perplexed about the case because, after so long @@ -5496,7 +5474,7 @@ swearing to him by strong oaths that he knew not his daughter to be among the bevy of damsels in the ship and setting forth how he had sent her to King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, who had gotten the blessing of issue by her. When my father's reply -reached King Afridun he rose up and sat down,<a id='r211' /><a href='#f211' class='c012'><sup>[211]</sup></a> and roared and +reached King Afridun he rose up and sat down,<a id='r211' href='#f211' class='c012'><sup>[211]</sup></a> and roared and foamed at the mouth crying:—What! shall he take captive my daughter and even her with slave-girls and pass her on from hand to hand sending her for a gift to Kings, and they lie with her @@ -5533,7 +5511,7 @@ them, lay hands on them and keep them, that the case may be made manifest to you; and, after three days, I will be with you all and we will enter Baghdad together." As he turned to depart she said, "Forget not the compact which is between me and thee;" -then she rose to bid<a id='r212' /><a href='#f212' class='c012'><sup>[212]</sup></a> him farewell and embrace him and quench +then she rose to bid<a id='r212' href='#f212' class='c012'><sup>[212]</sup></a> him farewell and embrace him and quench the fire of desire, so she took leave of him and, throwing her arms round his neck, wept with exceeding weeping, and repeated these verses:—</p> @@ -5559,7 +5537,7 @@ they saw him and knew him, they dismounted and saluting him, asked the reason of his absence; whereupon he told them all that had passed between him and Princess Abrizah from first to <span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>last. The Wazir returned thanks to Almighty Allah for his safety -and said,<a id='r213' /><a href='#f213' class='c012'><sup>[213]</sup></a> "Let us at once leave these lands; for the envoys who +and said,<a id='r213' href='#f213' class='c012'><sup>[213]</sup></a> "Let us at once leave these lands; for the envoys who came with us are gone to inform the King of our approach, and haply he will hasten to fall on us and take us prisoners." So Sharrkan cried to his men to saddle and mount, which they @@ -5583,7 +5561,7 @@ Wazir Dandan in command, bidding him lead the host back to Baghdad. But he himself remained behind with an hundred riders, till the rest of the army had made one day's march: then he called "To horse!" and mounted with his hundred men. -They rode on two parasangs'<a id='r214' /><a href='#f214' class='c012'><sup>[214]</sup></a> space till they arrived at a gorge +They rode on two parasangs'<a id='r214' href='#f214' class='c012'><sup>[214]</sup></a> space till they arrived at a gorge between two mountains and lo! there arose before them a dark cloud of sand and dust. So they checked their steeds awhile till the dust opened and lifted, discovering beneath it an hundred @@ -5642,7 +5620,7 @@ the two lines crying, "Ho! who is for smiting? Let no dastard engage me this day nor nidering!" Hardly had he made an end of his vaunt, when there sallied forth to him a Frankish cavalier, armed cap-à-pie and clad in a surcoat of gold stuff, riding on a grey-white -steed,<a id='r215' /><a href='#f215' class='c012'><sup>[215]</sup></a> and he had no hair on his cheeks. He urged his charger on +steed,<a id='r215' href='#f215' class='c012'><sup>[215]</sup></a> and he had no hair on his cheeks. He urged his charger on to the midst of the battle-plain and the two fell to derring-do of cut and thrust, but it was not long before the Frank foined the Moslem with the lance-point; and, toppling him from his steed, took him @@ -5716,7 +5694,7 @@ stumbled and fell with his rider; thereupon Sharrkan threw himself on the foe, and would have smitten him with the sword fearing lest the strife be prolonged, when the Frank cried out to him, "O Sharrkan, champions are not wont to do thus! This is -the act of a man accustomed to be beaten by a woman."<a id='r216' /><a href='#f216' class='c012'><sup>[216]</sup></a> When +the act of a man accustomed to be beaten by a woman."<a id='r216' href='#f216' class='c012'><sup>[216]</sup></a> When Sharrkan heard this, he raised his eyes to the Frank's face and gazing steadfastly at him, recognized in him Princess Abrizah with whom that pleasant adventure had befallen him in the convent; @@ -5793,7 +5771,7 @@ attended only by his eunuchs. The Princess entered and kissing the ground between his hands, saluted him in choice terms. He was amazed at her eloquent speech and thanked her for her dealing with his son Sharrkan and bade her be seated. So she sat down -and unveiled her face;<a id='r217' /><a href='#f217' class='c012'><sup>[217]</sup></a> and, when the King saw her beauty, his +and unveiled her face;<a id='r217' href='#f217' class='c012'><sup>[217]</sup></a> and, when the King saw her beauty, his reason fled his head and he made her draw near and showed her <span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span>favour, appointing her an especial palace for herself and her damsels, and assigning them solde and allowances. Then began he to ask @@ -5901,14 +5879,14 @@ of ending the carousal shall draw near, fill her a last cup and dropping therein the Bhang, give it to her to drink, and she will not reach her sleeping-chamber ere the drug take effect on her. Then do thou go in to her and take thy will of her; and such is -my advice."<a id='r218' /><a href='#f218' class='c012'><sup>[218]</sup></a> "Thy rede is aright," quoth the King, and seeking +my advice."<a id='r218' href='#f218' class='c012'><sup>[218]</sup></a> "Thy rede is aright," quoth the King, and seeking his treasury, he took thence a piece of concentrated Bhang, if an elephant smelt it he would sleep from year to year. This he put in his bosom-pocket and waited till some little of the night went by, when he betook himself to the palace of Princess Abrizah, who seeing him stood up to receive him; but he bade her sit down. So she sat down, and he sat by her, and he began to talk with her -of wine and wassail, whereupon she furnished the carousing-table<a id='r219' /><a href='#f219' class='c012'><sup>[219]</sup></a> +of wine and wassail, whereupon she furnished the carousing-table<a id='r219' href='#f219' class='c012'><sup>[219]</sup></a> and placed it before him. Then she set on the drinking vessels and lighted the candles and ordered to bring dried fruits and sweetmeats and all that pertaineth to drinking. So they fell to tippling @@ -5937,7 +5915,7 @@ by her that night. As soon as Almighty Allah brought the dawn, the handmaid Marjanah washed her mistress's hands and feet and brought rose-water and bathed her face and mouth with it, whereupon she sneezed and yawned and cast up from her inside that bit -of Bhang like a bolus.<a id='r220' /><a href='#f220' class='c012'><sup>[220]</sup></a> Then she revived and washed her hands +of Bhang like a bolus.<a id='r220' href='#f220' class='c012'><sup>[220]</sup></a> Then she revived and washed her hands and mouth and said to Marjanah, "Tell me what hath befallen me." So she told her what had passed and how she had found her, lying on her back, with the blood running down, wherefore she @@ -5954,7 +5932,7 @@ by him, and when the months of child-breeding had gone by, her pregnancy appeared and her belly swelled, and the world was straitened upon her, so she said to her handmaid Marjanah, "Know that it is not the folk who have wronged me, -but I who sinned against my own self<a id='r221' /><a href='#f221' class='c012'><sup>[221]</sup></a> in that I left my father and +but I who sinned against my own self<a id='r221' href='#f221' class='c012'><sup>[221]</sup></a> in that I left my father and mother and country. Indeed, I abhor life, for my spirit is broken and neither courage nor strength is left me. I used, when I mounted my steed, to have the mastery of him, but now I am @@ -5991,7 +5969,7 @@ forehead." Then she considered awhile, and said to Marjanah, "Look us out a man who will go with us and serve us by the way, for I have no strength to bear arms." "By Allah, O my lady," replied Marjanah, "I know none but a black slave called -<span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span>Al-Ghazban,<a id='r222' /><a href='#f222' class='c012'><sup>[222]</sup></a> who is one of the slaves of King Omar bin al-Nu'uman; +<span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span>Al-Ghazban,<a id='r222' href='#f222' class='c012'><sup>[222]</sup></a> who is one of the slaves of King Omar bin al-Nu'uman; he is a valiant wight, and he keepeth guard at our palace gate. The King appointed him to attend us, and indeed we have overwhelmed him with our favours; so, look ye, I will @@ -6068,7 +6046,7 @@ burden and am delivered of the after-birth, and then, if thou be able thereto, do with me as thou wilt; but, an thou leave not lewd talk at this time, assuredly I will slay myself with my own hand and quit the world and be at peace from all this." And she began -reciting extempore<a id='r223' /><a href='#f223' class='c012'><sup>[223]</sup></a>:—</p> +reciting extempore<a id='r223' href='#f223' class='c012'><sup>[223]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -6083,19 +6061,19 @@ reciting extempore<a id='r223' /><a href='#f223' class='c012'><sup>[223]</sup></ </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id008'> -<img src='images/i_126fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id008'> +<img src='images/i_126fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_127'>127</span>When Ghazban heard these lines he was wroth exceedingly; his -eyes reddened with blood and his face became a dusty-grey<a id='r224' /><a href='#f224' class='c012'><sup>[224]</sup></a>; his +eyes reddened with blood and his face became a dusty-grey<a id='r224' href='#f224' class='c012'><sup>[224]</sup></a>; his nostrils swelled, his lips protruded and the repulsiveness of his aspect redoubled. And he repeated these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ho thou, Abrizah, mercy! leave me not for I ✿ Of thy love and Yamáni<a id='r225' /><a href='#f225' class='c012'><sup>[225]</sup></a> glance the victim lie</div> + <div class='line'>Ho thou, Abrizah, mercy! leave me not for I ✿ Of thy love and Yamáni<a id='r225' href='#f225' class='c012'><sup>[225]</sup></a> glance the victim lie</div> <div class='line'>My heart is cut to pieces by thy cruelty, ✿ My body wasted and my patience done to die:</div> <div class='line'>From glances ravishing all hearts with witchery ✿ Reason far flies, the while desire to thee draws nigh;</div> <div class='line'>Though at thy call should armies fill the face of earth ✿ E'en now I'd win my wish and worlds in arms defy!</div> @@ -6115,13 +6093,13 @@ Such was the case with Al-Ghazban; but as regards Abrizah, she gave birth to a son, like the moon, and Marjanah took the babe and did him the necessary offices and laid him by his mother's <span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span>side; and lo and behold! the child fastened to its mother's breast -and she dying.<a id='r226' /><a href='#f226' class='c012'><sup>[226]</sup></a> When Marjanah saw this, she cried out with a +and she dying.<a id='r226' href='#f226' class='c012'><sup>[226]</sup></a> When Marjanah saw this, she cried out with a grievous cry and rent her raiment and cast dust on her head and buffeted her cheeks till blood flowed, saying, "Alas, my mistress! Alas, the pity of it! Thou art dead by the hand of a worthless black slave, after all thy knightly prowess!" And she ceased not weeping when suddenly a great cloud of dust arose and walled -the horizon<a id='r227' /><a href='#f227' class='c012'><sup>[227]</sup></a>; but, after awhile, it lifted and discovered a numerous +the horizon<a id='r227' href='#f227' class='c012'><sup>[227]</sup></a>; but, after awhile, it lifted and discovered a numerous conquering host. Now this was the army of King Hardub, Princess Abrizah's father, and the cause of his coming was that when he heard of his daughter and her handmaids having fled to Baghdad, @@ -6182,7 +6160,7 @@ short to ye. When we have taught the girls these things, we shall be able to work our will with our foe, for he doteth on women and he hath three hundred and sixty concubines, whereto are now added an hundred of the flowers of thy handmaidens who were -with thy daughter, she that hath found mercy.<a id='r228' /><a href='#f228' class='c012'><sup>[228]</sup></a> As soon as I +with thy daughter, she that hath found mercy.<a id='r228' href='#f228' class='c012'><sup>[228]</sup></a> As soon as I have made an end of their education, as described to thee, I will <span class='pageno' id='Page_130'>130</span>take them and set out with them in person." When King Hardub heard his mother's words, he rejoiced and arose and kissed her @@ -6271,11 +6249,11 @@ flourishing and skilled in horsemanship. This Prince had reached the age of fourteen and he occupied himself with piety and prayers, loving the poor, the Olema and the Koran-students, so that all the people of Baghdad loved him, men and women. -One day, the procession of the Mahmil<a id='r229' /><a href='#f229' class='c012'><sup>[229]</sup></a> of Irák passed round +One day, the procession of the Mahmil<a id='r229' href='#f229' class='c012'><sup>[229]</sup></a> of Irák passed round <span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span>Baghdad before its departure for the pilgrimage to Meccah and visitation of the tomb of the Prophet (whom Allah bless and preserve!). When Zau al-Makan saw the Mahmil procession -he was seized with longing desire to become a pilgrim,<a id='r230' /><a href='#f230' class='c012'><sup>[230]</sup></a> so +he was seized with longing desire to become a pilgrim,<a id='r230' href='#f230' class='c012'><sup>[230]</sup></a> so he went in to his sire and said, "I come to ask thy leave to make the pilgrimage." But his father forbade him saying, "Wait till next year and I will go and thou too." When the Prince @@ -6295,14 +6273,14 @@ and took somewhat of money and donned a man's habit; and she ceased not walking to the palace-gate, where she found Zau al-Makan with camels ready for marching. So he mounted and mounted her; and the two fared on till they were in the midst -of the Iraki<a id='r231' /><a href='#f231' class='c012'><sup>[231]</sup></a> pilgrim-party, and they ceased not marching and +of the Iraki<a id='r231' href='#f231' class='c012'><sup>[231]</sup></a> pilgrim-party, and they ceased not marching and Allah wrote safety for them, till they entered Meccah the Holy and stood upon Arafat and performed the pilgrimage-rites. Then they made a visitation to the tomb of the Prophet (whom Allah bless and assain!) and thought to return with the pilgrims to their native land. But Zau al-Makan said to his sister, "O my sister, it -is in my mind to visit the Holy House,<a id='r232' /><a href='#f232' class='c012'><sup>[232]</sup></a> Jerusalem, and Abraham -the Friend of Allah<a id='r233' /><a href='#f233' class='c012'><sup>[233]</sup></a> (on whom be peace!)." "I also desire so to +is in my mind to visit the Holy House,<a id='r232' href='#f232' class='c012'><sup>[232]</sup></a> Jerusalem, and Abraham +the Friend of Allah<a id='r233' href='#f233' class='c012'><sup>[233]</sup></a> (on whom be peace!)." "I also desire so to <span class='pageno' id='Page_133'>133</span>do," replied she. So they agreed upon this and he fared forth and took passage for himself and her and they made ready and set out in the ship with a company of Jerusalem palmers. That very @@ -6340,7 +6318,7 @@ hunger? I know no resource but that I go out and do service and earn somewhat to keep us alive, till thou recover from thy sickness, when we will travel back to our native land." She sat weeping awhile and he wept too, propped upon his elbow. Then Nuzhat -al-Zaman arose and, veiling her head with a bit of camlet,<a id='r234' /><a href='#f234' class='c012'><sup>[234]</sup></a> which +al-Zaman arose and, veiling her head with a bit of camlet,<a id='r234' href='#f234' class='c012'><sup>[234]</sup></a> which <span class='pageno' id='Page_134'>134</span>had been of the cameleer's clothes and which the owner had forgotten and left with them; she kissed the head of her brother and embraced him and went forth from him, weeping and knowing @@ -6371,7 +6349,7 @@ my head be it!" replied the camel-man; but he said to himself, death?" So he carried him away to a place and hid with him till the night, when he threw him down on the ash-heap near the fire-hole of a Hammam and went his way. When morning dawned -the Stoker<a id='r235' /><a href='#f235' class='c012'><sup>[235]</sup></a> of the bath came to his work and, finding Zau al-Makan +the Stoker<a id='r235' href='#f235' class='c012'><sup>[235]</sup></a> of the bath came to his work and, finding Zau al-Makan cast on his back, exclaimed, "Why did they not throw their dead body any where but here?" So saying, he gave him a kick and he moved; whereupon quoth the Fireman, "Some one of @@ -6438,7 +6416,7 @@ At this the Fireman rejoiced and going out, bought sherbet of violets and rose-water and made him drink it. Now the Stoker used to work at the Hammam all day for a wage of five dirhams, whereof he spent every day, for Zau al-Makan, one dirham upon -sugar and sherbet of rose-water and willow-flower water,<a id='r236' /><a href='#f236' class='c012'><sup>[236]</sup></a> and +sugar and sherbet of rose-water and willow-flower water,<a id='r236' href='#f236' class='c012'><sup>[236]</sup></a> and another dirham for fowls; and he ceased not to entreat him thus kindly during a whole month, till the traces of illness ceased from him and he was once more sound and whole. Thereupon the @@ -6448,7 +6426,7 @@ So the Stoker went to the bazar and fetched a donkey-boy, and he mounted Zau al-Makan on the ass and supported him in the saddle till they came to the bath. Then he made him sit down and seated the donkey-boy in the furnace-room and went forth to -the market and bought lote-leaves and lupin-flour,<a id='r237' /><a href='#f237' class='c012'><sup>[237]</sup></a> with which he +the market and bought lote-leaves and lupin-flour,<a id='r237' href='#f237' class='c012'><sup>[237]</sup></a> with which he returned to the bath and said to Zau al-Makan, "O my master, in Allah's name, walk in and I will wash thy body." So they entered the inner room of the bath, and the Fireman took to rubbing Zau @@ -6571,7 +6549,7 @@ eyes brimmed over with tears, and he began repeating:—</p> </div> <p class='c000'>And when he had ended his verse, he wept and the Fireman said -to him, "O my son, we hardly believed that thy health had returned;<a id='r238' /><a href='#f238' class='c012'><sup>[238]</sup></a> +to him, "O my son, we hardly believed that thy health had returned;<a id='r238' href='#f238' class='c012'><sup>[238]</sup></a> so take heart and do not weep, for I fear a relapse for thee." And he ceased not comforting and cheering him, whilst Zau al-Makan sighed and moaned over his strangerhood and @@ -6583,7 +6561,7 @@ from his eyes and he recited these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Get thee provaunt in this world ere thou wend upon thy way; ✿ And know how surely Death descends thy life-lot to waylay:</div> <div class='line'>All thy worldly goods are pride and the painfullest repine; ✿ All thy worldly life is vexing of thy soul in vain display:</div> - <div class='line'>Say is not worldly wone like a wanderer's place of rest, ✿ Where at night he "nakhs<a id='r239' /><a href='#f239' class='c012'><sup>[239]</sup></a>" his camels and moves off at dawn of day?</div> + <div class='line'>Say is not worldly wone like a wanderer's place of rest, ✿ Where at night he "nakhs<a id='r239' href='#f239' class='c012'><sup>[239]</sup></a>" his camels and moves off at dawn of day?</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -6625,7 +6603,7 @@ these calamities from them and began versifying:—</p> <div class='line'>And cease not separation-flames my vitals to consume, ✿ And drives me on destruction-way this sorrow's ecstacy;</div> <div class='line'>And longing breeds me restlessness; desire for ever fires, ✿ And tears to all proclaim what I would keep in secrecy:</div> <div class='line'>No cunning shift is known to me a meeting to secure, ✿ That I may quit this sickly state, may cure my malady:</div> - <div class='line'>The love which blazeth in my heart is fed with fancy-fuel, ✿ The lover from its hell of fire must bear Hell's agony!<a id='r240' /><a href='#f240' class='c012'><sup>[240]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>The love which blazeth in my heart is fed with fancy-fuel, ✿ The lover from its hell of fire must bear Hell's agony!<a id='r240' href='#f240' class='c012'><sup>[240]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>O thou who blamest me for all befel me, 'tis enough, ✿ Patient I bear whatever wrote the Reed of Doom for me:</div> <div class='line'>By Love I swear I'll never be consoled, no, never more; ✿ I swear the oath of Love's own slaves who know no perjury:</div> <div class='line'>O Night, to chroniclers of Love the news of me declare; ✿ That sleep hath fed mine eyelids of thy knowledge witness bear!</div> @@ -6634,7 +6612,7 @@ these calamities from them and began versifying:—</p> </div> <p class='c000'>Then she walked on, weeping and turning right and left as she -went, when behold, there espied her an old Badawi<a id='r241' /><a href='#f241' class='c012'><sup>[241]</sup></a> who had come +went, when behold, there espied her an old Badawi<a id='r241' href='#f241' class='c012'><sup>[241]</sup></a> who had come <span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span>into the town from the desert with wild Arabs other five. The old man took note of her and saw that she was lovely, but she had nothing on her head save a piece of camlet, and, marvelling at @@ -6705,8 +6683,8 @@ is thy design with me?" When he heard her words he hardened his heart and said to her, "O lazy baggage of ill-omen and insolent! wilt thou bandy words with me?" and he took the whip and came down with it on her back till she felt faint. Then she -bowed down over his feet and kissed<a id='r242' /><a href='#f242' class='c012'><sup>[242]</sup></a> them; and he left beating -<span class='pageno' id='Page_143'>143</span>her and began reviling her and said, "By the rights of my bonnet,<a id='r243' /><a href='#f243' class='c012'><sup>[243]</sup></a> +bowed down over his feet and kissed<a id='r242' href='#f242' class='c012'><sup>[242]</sup></a> them; and he left beating +<span class='pageno' id='Page_143'>143</span>her and began reviling her and said, "By the rights of my bonnet,<a id='r243' href='#f243' class='c012'><sup>[243]</sup></a> if I see or hear thee weeping, I will cut out thy tongue and stuff it up thy coynte, O thou city-filth!" So she was silent and made him no reply, for the beating pained her; but sat down with her @@ -6757,7 +6735,7 @@ dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> the Badawi gave the barley scone to Nuzhat al-Zaman and promised he would sell her to a good man like himself, she replied, "Whatso thou doest is right!" and, about midnight, -when hunger burned her,<a id='r244' /><a href='#f244' class='c012'><sup>[244]</sup></a> she ate a very little of that barley-bread +when hunger burned her,<a id='r244' href='#f244' class='c012'><sup>[244]</sup></a> she ate a very little of that barley-bread and the Badawi ordered his party to set out; so they loaded their loads and he mounted a camel setting Nuzhat al-Zaman behind him. Then they journeyed and ceased not @@ -6784,7 +6762,7 @@ sense and breeding and wit and beauty and loveliness. But from the day I sent her brother to Jerusalem, her heart hath been yearning for him, so that her beauty is fallen away and her value lessened." Now when the merchant heard this, he set forth with -the Badawi and said, "O Shaykh<a id='r245' /><a href='#f245' class='c012'><sup>[245]</sup></a> of the Arabs, I will go with thee +the Badawi and said, "O Shaykh<a id='r245' href='#f245' class='c012'><sup>[245]</sup></a> of the Arabs, I will go with thee and buy of thee this girl whom thou praisest so highly for wit and manners and beauty and loveliness; and I will pay thee her price <span class='pageno' id='Page_145'>145</span>but it must be upon conditions which if thou accept, I will give thee @@ -6799,10 +6777,10 @@ that I have just now something to ask from him, and it is this that he write me an order upon the office, exempting me from custom-dues and also that he write me a letter of recommendation to his father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman. So if he take the girl, I will -weigh<a id='r246' /><a href='#f246' class='c012'><sup>[246]</sup></a> thee out her price at once." "I agree with thee to this +weigh<a id='r246' href='#f246' class='c012'><sup>[246]</sup></a> thee out her price at once." "I agree with thee to this condition," answered the Badawi. So they returned together to the place where Nuzhat al-Zaman was and the wild Arab stood at -the chamber door and called out, saying, "O Nájiyah<a id='r247' /><a href='#f247' class='c012'><sup>[247]</sup></a>!" which was +the chamber door and called out, saying, "O Nájiyah<a id='r247' href='#f247' class='c012'><sup>[247]</sup></a>!" which was the name wherewith he had named her. When she heard him, she wept and made no answer. Then he turned to the merchant and said to him, "There she sitteth; go to her and look at her and @@ -6823,7 +6801,7 @@ Badawi. May be he cometh only to hear me talk; so I will give him a fair answer." All this while her eyes were fixed on the ground; then she raised them to him and said in a sweet voice, "And upon thee be peace, O my lord, and Allah's mercy and His -<span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span>benediction!<a id='r248' /><a href='#f248' class='c012'><sup>[248]</sup></a> This is what is commanded of the Prophet, whom +<span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span>benediction!<a id='r248' href='#f248' class='c012'><sup>[248]</sup></a> This is what is commanded of the Prophet, whom Allah bless and preserve! As for thine enquiry how I am, if thou wouldst know my case, it is such as thou wouldst not wish but to thy foe." And she held her peace. When the merchant heard @@ -6831,7 +6809,7 @@ what she said, his fancy took wings for delight in her and, turning to the Badawi, he asked him, "What is her price, for indeed she is noble?" Thereupon the Badawi waxed angry and answered, "Thou wilt turn me the girl's head with this talk! Why dost thou -say that she is noble,<a id='r249' /><a href='#f249' class='c012'><sup>[249]</sup></a> while she is of the scum of slave-girls and of +say that she is noble,<a id='r249' href='#f249' class='c012'><sup>[249]</sup></a> while she is of the scum of slave-girls and of the refuse of folk? I will not sell her to thee!" When the merchant heard this, he knew the man to be weak of wits and said to him, "Calm thyself, for I will buy her of thee with these blemishes @@ -6868,11 +6846,11 @@ she hath with thee?" Cried the Badawi, "And what hath the baggage to do with clothes? By Allah, this camlet in which she is wrapped is ample for her." "With thy leave," said the merchant, "I will unveil her face and examine her even as folk examine -slave-girls whom they think of buying."<a id='r250' /><a href='#f250' class='c012'><sup>[250]</sup></a> Replied the other, "Up +slave-girls whom they think of buying."<a id='r250' href='#f250' class='c012'><sup>[250]</sup></a> Replied the other, "Up and do what thou wilt and Allah keep thy youth! Examine her outside and inside and, if thou wilt, strip off her clothes and look at her when she is naked." Quoth the trader, "Allah forfend! -I will look at naught save her face."<a id='r251' /><a href='#f251' class='c012'><sup>[251]</sup></a> Then he went up to her and +I will look at naught save her face."<a id='r251' href='#f251' class='c012'><sup>[251]</sup></a> Then he went up to her and was put to shame by her beauty and loveliness,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -6895,7 +6873,7 @@ name this day or what it was before this day?" Thereupon the merchant enquired, "Hast thou then two names: to day's and yesterday's?" "Yes," replied she, "my name in the past was Nuzhat al-Zaman, the Delight of the Age; but my name at this present is -Ghussat<a id='r252' /><a href='#f252' class='c012'><sup>[252]</sup></a> al-Zaman, the Despight of the Age." When the merchant +Ghussat<a id='r252' href='#f252' class='c012'><sup>[252]</sup></a> al-Zaman, the Despight of the Age." When the merchant heard this his eyes brimmed over with tears and quoth he to her, "Hast thou not a sick brother?" "Ay by Allah, O my lord, I have," quoth she, "but fortune hath parted me and him and he lieth sick @@ -6925,7 +6903,7 @@ they dropped; and she began reciting:—</p> <p class='c000'>When the merchant heard her verses, he wept and put out his hand to wipe away the tears from her cheeks; but she let down her veil -over her face, saying, "Heaven forbid, O my lord!"<a id='r253' /><a href='#f253' class='c012'><sup>[253]</sup></a> Then the +over her face, saying, "Heaven forbid, O my lord!"<a id='r253' href='#f253' class='c012'><sup>[253]</sup></a> Then the Badawi, who was sitting at a little distance watching them, saw her cover her face from the merchant while about to wipe the tears from her cheeks; and he concluded that she would have hindered @@ -6961,9 +6939,9 @@ quoth the merchant to the Badawi, "O Shaykh of the Arabs, this slave is none of thine affair; so do thou sell her to me for what thou wilt." "Take her," quoth the Badawi, "and pay me down her price, or I will carry her back to the camp and there set her to -feed the camels and gather their dung."<a id='r254' /><a href='#f254' class='c012'><sup>[254]</sup></a> Said the merchant, +feed the camels and gather their dung."<a id='r254' href='#f254' class='c012'><sup>[254]</sup></a> Said the merchant, "I will give thee fifty thousand dinars for her." "Allah will -open!"<a id='r255' /><a href='#f255' class='c012'><sup>[255]</sup></a> replied the Badawi. "Seventy thousand," said the merchant. +open!"<a id='r255' href='#f255' class='c012'><sup>[255]</sup></a> replied the Badawi. "Seventy thousand," said the merchant. "Allah will open!" repeated the Badawi: "this is not the capital spent upon her, for she hath eaten with me barley-bread to the value of ninety thousand gold pieces." The merchant rejoined, @@ -7043,17 +7021,17 @@ and have commented the Burhán; and I have studied the Simples of Ibn Baytár, and I have something to say of the canon of Meccah, by Avicenna. I can ree riddles and can solve ambiguities, and discourse upon geometry and am skilled in anatomy. -I have read the books of the Sháfi'í<a id='r256' /><a href='#f256' class='c012'><sup>[256]</sup></a> school and the Traditions of +I have read the books of the Sháfi'í<a id='r256' href='#f256' class='c012'><sup>[256]</sup></a> school and the Traditions of the Prophet and syntax; and I can argue with the Olema and discourse of all manner learning. Moreover I am skilled in logic and rhetoric and arithmetic and the making of talismans and -almanacs, and I know thoroughly the Spiritual Sciences<a id='r257' /><a href='#f257' class='c012'><sup>[257]</sup></a> and the +almanacs, and I know thoroughly the Spiritual Sciences<a id='r257' href='#f257' class='c012'><sup>[257]</sup></a> and the times appointed for religious duties and I understand all these branches of knowledge." Then quoth she to the merchant, "Bring me ink-case and paper, that I write thee a letter which shall aid thee on thy journey to Baghdad and enable thee to do without passports." Now when the merchant heard this, he cried out, -"Brava! Brava!<a id='r258' /><a href='#f258' class='c012'><sup>[258]</sup></a> Then O happy he in whose palace thou shalt +"Brava! Brava!<a id='r258' href='#f258' class='c012'><sup>[258]</sup></a> Then O happy he in whose palace thou shalt be!" Thereupon he brought her paper and ink-case and a pen of brass and bussed the earth before her face to do her honour. She took a sheet and handled the reed and wrote therewith these @@ -7262,7 +7240,7 @@ thine age, this merchant hath described thee as being learned and accomplished; and he claimeth that thou art skilled in all branches of knowledge, even to astrology: so let us hear something of all this he hath mentioned, and favour us with a short discourse on -such subjects." She replied, saying:—"O King, to hear is to obey.<a id='r259' /><a href='#f259' class='c012'><sup>[259]</sup></a> +such subjects." She replied, saying:—"O King, to hear is to obey.<a id='r259' href='#f259' class='c012'><sup>[259]</sup></a> The first subjects whereof I will treat are the art of government and the duties of Kings and what behoveth governors of commandments according to religious law, and what is incumbent on them @@ -7285,7 +7263,7 @@ and after their own desires, and their persistence therein giveth rise to contentions; so they have need of the Sultan, that he do justice between them and order their affairs; and, if the King restrain not his folk from one another, the strong will drive the -weak to the wall. Hence Ardeshir<a id='r260' /><a href='#f260' class='c012'><sup>[260]</sup></a> saith, Religion and Kingship +weak to the wall. Hence Ardeshir<a id='r260' href='#f260' class='c012'><sup>[260]</sup></a> saith, Religion and Kingship be twins; religion is a hidden treasure and the King is its keeper; and the Divine Ordinances and men's intelligence point out that it behoveth the people to adopt a Sultan who shall withhold oppressor @@ -7300,7 +7278,7 @@ certain sage:—There be three kinds of Kings, the King of the Faith, the King who protecteth things to which reverence is due, and the King of his own lusts. The King of the Faith obligeth his subjects to follow their faith, and it behoveth he be the most -faithful,<a id='r261' /><a href='#f261' class='c012'><sup>[261]</sup></a> for it is by him that they take pattern in the things of the +faithful,<a id='r261' href='#f261' class='c012'><sup>[261]</sup></a> for it is by him that they take pattern in the things of the Faith; and it becometh the folk to obey him in whatso he commandeth according to Divine Ordinance; but he shall hold the discontented in the same esteem as the contented, because of submission @@ -7351,7 +7329,7 @@ them, or they will murmur against thee. Give thy giving deliberately and confer thy favours advisedly; open thy hand to them in time of success and stint them not in time of distress. There is a legend that a desert Arab came once to the Caliph -Al-Mansúr<a id='r262' /><a href='#f262' class='c012'><sup>[262]</sup></a> and said, Starve thy dog and he shall follow thee. +Al-Mansúr<a id='r262' href='#f262' class='c012'><sup>[262]</sup></a> and said, Starve thy dog and he shall follow thee. When the Caliph heard his words, he was enraged with the Arab, but Abu 'l-Abbás of Tús said to him, I fear that if some other than thou should show him a scone, the dog would follow him and leave @@ -7363,7 +7341,7 @@ Egypt, as follows:—Pay heed to thy Secretaries and thy Chamberlains, for the Secretaries will acquaint thee with established matters and the Chamberlains with matters of official ceremony, whilst thine expenditure will make thy troops known to thee. Omar bin -Al-Khattab<a id='r263' /><a href='#f263' class='c012'><sup>[263]</sup></a> (whom Allah accept!) when engaging a servant was +Al-Khattab<a id='r263' href='#f263' class='c012'><sup>[263]</sup></a> (whom Allah accept!) when engaging a servant was in the habit of conditioning him with four conditions; the first that he should not ride the baggage-beasts, the second that he should not wear fine clothes, the third that he should not eat of the spoil and the @@ -7380,7 +7358,7 @@ and no honour like knowledge. So guard the head and what it containeth and the belly and what it compriseth; and think of death and doom ere it ariseth. Saith Ali (whose face Allah honour!), Beware of the wickedness of women and be on thy guard -against them: consult them not in aught;<a id='r264' /><a href='#f264' class='c012'><sup>[264]</sup></a> but grudge not complaisance +against them: consult them not in aught;<a id='r264' href='#f264' class='c012'><sup>[264]</sup></a> but grudge not complaisance to them, lest they greed for intrigue. And eke quoth he, whoso leaveth the path of moderation his wits become perplexed; and there be rules for this which we will mention, if it be Allah's @@ -7398,7 +7376,7 @@ Justice is indispensable in all things; even slave-girls have need of justice; and men quote as an instance highway robbers who live by violenting mankind, for did they not deal equitably among themselves and observe justice in dividing their booty, their order -would fall to pieces.<a id='r265' /><a href='#f265' class='c012'><sup>[265]</sup></a> In short, for the rest, the Prince of noble +would fall to pieces.<a id='r265' href='#f265' class='c012'><sup>[265]</sup></a> In short, for the rest, the Prince of noble qualities is Beneficence-cum-Benevolence; and how excellent is the saying of the poet:—</p> @@ -7428,7 +7406,7 @@ discourse upon subject other than this." When she heard their words and understood them she said, "As for the chapter of good breeding, it is wide of comprehension, being a compend of things perfect. Now it so happened that one day there came to the -Caliph Mu'áwiyah<a id='r266' /><a href='#f266' class='c012'><sup>[266]</sup></a> one of his companions, who mentioned the +Caliph Mu'áwiyah<a id='r266' href='#f266' class='c012'><sup>[266]</sup></a> one of his companions, who mentioned the people of Irak and the goodness of their wit; and the Caliph's wife Maysun, mother of Yezid, heard his words. So, when he was gone, she said to the Caliph:—O Prince of the Faithful, I would @@ -7436,13 +7414,13 @@ thou let some of the people of Irak come in and talk to thee, that I may hear their discourse. Therewith Mu'awiyah said to his attendants, See who is at the door? And they answered, The Banu Tamím. Let them come in, said he. So they came in and -with them Al-Ahnaf son of Kays.<a id='r267' /><a href='#f267' class='c012'><sup>[267]</sup></a> Then quoth Mu'awiyah:—Enter, +with them Al-Ahnaf son of Kays.<a id='r267' href='#f267' class='c012'><sup>[267]</sup></a> Then quoth Mu'awiyah:—Enter, O Abu Bahr, and drew a curtain between himself and Maysun, that she might hear what they said without being seen herself; then he said to Al-Ahnaf:—O Son of the Sea, draw near and tell me what counsel thou hast for me. Quoth Al-Ahnaf, Part thy hair and trim thy moustachio and pare thy nails and pluck -thine armpits and shave thy pubes<a id='r268' /><a href='#f268' class='c012'><sup>[268]</sup></a> and ever use the toothstick +thine armpits and shave thy pubes<a id='r268' href='#f268' class='c012'><sup>[268]</sup></a> and ever use the toothstick <span class='pageno' id='Page_161'>161</span>because therein be two-and-seventy virtues, and make the Ghusl or complete ablution on Friday, as an expiation for all between the Fridays."——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased @@ -7459,7 +7437,7 @@ saying her permitted say.</p> </div> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Ahnaf -bin Kays replied to Al-Mu'awiyah's<a id='r269' /><a href='#f269' class='c012'><sup>[269]</sup></a> question, "And ever use +bin Kays replied to Al-Mu'awiyah's<a id='r269' href='#f269' class='c012'><sup>[269]</sup></a> question, "And ever use the toothstick, because therein be two-and-seventy virtues and make the complete Friday ablution as an expiation for all between the two Fridays." Quoth Mu'awiyah, "What is thy counsel to @@ -7477,12 +7455,12 @@ thou with thy wife?" Quoth Ahnaf, "Excuse me from answering this, O Commander of the Faithful!"; but Mu'awiyah cried, "I conjure thee inform me." He said, "I entreat her kindly and show her familiarity and am large in expenditure, for woman was -created of a crooked rib."<a id='r270' /><a href='#f270' class='c012'><sup>[270]</sup></a> "And how dost thou when thou hast +created of a crooked rib."<a id='r270' href='#f270' class='c012'><sup>[270]</sup></a> "And how dost thou when thou hast a mind to lie with her?" "I bid her perfume herself and kiss -her till she is moved to desire; then, should it be as thou knowest,<a id='r271' /><a href='#f271' class='c012'><sup>[271]</sup></a> +her till she is moved to desire; then, should it be as thou knowest,<a id='r271' href='#f271' class='c012'><sup>[271]</sup></a> I throw her on her back. If the seed abide in her womb I say:—O Allah make it blessed and let it not be a wastrel, but fashion -it into the best of fashions!<a id='r272' /><a href='#f272' class='c012'><sup>[272]</sup></a> Then I rise from her to ablution +it into the best of fashions!<a id='r272' href='#f272' class='c012'><sup>[272]</sup></a> Then I rise from her to ablution <span class='pageno' id='Page_162'>162</span>and first I pour water over my hands and then over my body and lastly, I praise Allah for the joy He hath given me." Said Mu'awiyah, "Thou hast answered right well and now tell me @@ -7520,19 +7498,19 @@ Mu'aykib! I have found somewhat concerning thy soul. I asked, And what is that?; and he answered, It is that thou hast shown thyself a foe to the followers of Mohammed (on whom be peace and salvation!) in the matter of this dirham, and thou wilt have -to account for it on Resurrection Day.<a id='r273' /><a href='#f273' class='c012'><sup>[273]</sup></a> And Omar also wrote -a letter to Abú Músá al-Ashári<a id='r274' /><a href='#f274' class='c012'><sup>[274]</sup></a> as follows:—When these presents +to account for it on Resurrection Day.<a id='r273' href='#f273' class='c012'><sup>[273]</sup></a> And Omar also wrote +a letter to Abú Músá al-Ashári<a id='r274' href='#f274' class='c012'><sup>[274]</sup></a> as follows:—When these presents reach thee, give the people what is theirs and remit to me the rest. And he did so. Now when Othmán succeeded to the Caliphate, he wrote a like letter to Abu Musa, who did his bidding and sent -<span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span>him the tribute accordingly, and with it came Ziyád.<a id='r275' /><a href='#f275' class='c012'><sup>[275]</sup></a> And when +<span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span>him the tribute accordingly, and with it came Ziyád.<a id='r275' href='#f275' class='c012'><sup>[275]</sup></a> And when Ziyad laid the tribute before Othman, the Caliph's son came in and took a dirham, whereupon Ziyad shed tears. Othman asked Why weepest thou?; and Ziyad answered, I once brought Omar bin Al-Khattab the like of this and his son took a dirham, whereupon Omar bade snatch it from his hand. Now thy son hath taken of the tribute, yet I have seen none say aught to him or snatch -the money from him. Then Othman<a id='r276' /><a href='#f276' class='c012'><sup>[276]</sup></a> cried, And where wilt thou +the money from him. Then Othman<a id='r276' href='#f276' class='c012'><sup>[276]</sup></a> cried, And where wilt thou find the like of Omar? Again Zayd bin Aslam relates of his father that he said:—I went out one night with Omar till we approached a blazing fire. Quoth Omar, O Aslam, I think these must be @@ -7540,7 +7518,7 @@ travellers who are suffering from the cold. Come, let us join them. So we walked on till we came to them and behold! we found a woman who had lighted a fire under a cauldron and by her side were two children, both a-wailing. Said Omar, Peace be with you, -O folk of light (for it was repugnant to him to say 'folk of fire'),<a id='r277' /><a href='#f277' class='c012'><sup>[277]</sup></a> +O folk of light (for it was repugnant to him to say 'folk of fire'),<a id='r277' href='#f277' class='c012'><sup>[277]</sup></a> what aileth you? Said she, The cold and the night trouble us. He asked, What aileth these little people that they weep?; and she answered, They are hungry. He enquired, And what is in this @@ -7558,7 +7536,7 @@ on the Day of Resurrection? So I put the things on his back, and we set off, running, till we threw down the sack hard by her. Then he took out some of the flour and put it in the cauldron; and, saying to the woman, Leave it to me, he began blowing the -fire under the cauldron. Now he was a long-bearded man<a id='r278' /><a href='#f278' class='c012'><sup>[278]</sup></a> and I +fire under the cauldron. Now he was a long-bearded man<a id='r278' href='#f278' class='c012'><sup>[278]</sup></a> and I saw the smoke issuing from between the hairs of his beard till the flour was cooked, when he took some of the fat and threw it in and said to the woman, Feed them while I cool it for them. So they @@ -7584,7 +7562,7 @@ sheep, kept by a Mameluke, and asked him to sell him a sheep. He answered, They are not mine. Thou art the man I sought, said Omar, and bought him and freed him; whereupon the slave exclaimed, O Allah, as thou hast bestowed on me the lesser emancipation; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span>so vouchsafe me the greater!<a id='r279' /><a href='#f279' class='c012'><sup>[279]</sup></a> It is also said that +<span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span>so vouchsafe me the greater!<a id='r279' href='#f279' class='c012'><sup>[279]</sup></a> It is also said that Omar bin Al-Khattab was wont to give his servants sweet milk and himself eat coarse fare, and to clothe them softly and himself wear rough garments. He rendered unto all men their due, and @@ -7592,24 +7570,24 @@ exceeded in his giving to them. He once gave a man four thousand dirhams and added thereto a thousand, wherefore it was said to him, Why dost thou not increase to thy son as thou increasest to this man? He answered, This man's father stood firm at the -battle-day of Ohod.<a id='r280' /><a href='#f280' class='c012'><sup>[280]</sup></a> Al-Hasan relates that Omar once came -back from foray with much money, and that Hafsah<a id='r281' /><a href='#f281' class='c012'><sup>[281]</sup></a> approached +battle-day of Ohod.<a id='r280' href='#f280' class='c012'><sup>[280]</sup></a> Al-Hasan relates that Omar once came +back from foray with much money, and that Hafsah<a id='r281' href='#f281' class='c012'><sup>[281]</sup></a> approached him and said, O Commander of the Faithful, the due of kinship! O Hafsah! replied he, verily Allah hath enjoined us to satisfy the dues of kinship, but not with the monies of the True Believers. Indeed, thou pleasest thy family, but thou angerest thy father. -And she went away trailing her skirts.<a id='r282' /><a href='#f282' class='c012'><sup>[282]</sup></a> The son of Omar said, I +And she went away trailing her skirts.<a id='r282' href='#f282' class='c012'><sup>[282]</sup></a> The son of Omar said, I implored the Lord to show me my father one year after his death, till at last I saw him wiping the sweat from his brow and asked him, How is it with thee, O my father? He answered, But for my Lord's mercy thy father surely had perished." Then said Nuzhat al-Zaman, "Hear, O auspicious King, the second division of the first chapter of the instances of the followers of the Apostle and other -holy men. Saith Al-Hasan al-Basrí,<a id='r283' /><a href='#f283' class='c012'><sup>[283]</sup></a> Not a soul of the sons of +holy men. Saith Al-Hasan al-Basrí,<a id='r283' href='#f283' class='c012'><sup>[283]</sup></a> Not a soul of the sons of Adam goeth forth of the world without regretting three things, failure to enjoy what he hath amassed, failure to compass what he hoped, failure to provide himself with sufficient viaticum for that -whereto he goeth.<a id='r284' /><a href='#f284' class='c012'><sup>[284]</sup></a> It was said to Sufyan,<a id='r285' /><a href='#f285' class='c012'><sup>[285]</sup></a> Can a man be a religious +whereto he goeth.<a id='r284' href='#f284' class='c012'><sup>[284]</sup></a> It was said to Sufyan,<a id='r285' href='#f285' class='c012'><sup>[285]</sup></a> Can a man be a religious and yet possess wealth? He replied, Yes, so he be patient when grieved and be thankful when he hath received. Abdullah bin Shaddád, being about to die, sent for his son Mohammed and @@ -7632,7 +7610,7 @@ poets:—</p> <p class='c000'>Then quoth Nuzhat al-Zaman, "Let the King also give ear to these notes from the second section of the first chapter." He asked her what be they?; and she answered, "When Omar bin -Abd al-Aziz<a id='r286' /><a href='#f286' class='c012'><sup>[286]</sup></a> succeeded to the Caliphate, he went to his household +Abd al-Aziz<a id='r286' href='#f286' class='c012'><sup>[286]</sup></a> succeeded to the Caliphate, he went to his household and laying hands on all that was in their hold, put it into the public treasury. So the Banu Umayyah flew for aid to his father's sister, Fátimah, daughter of Marwán, and she sent to him saying, @@ -7664,23 +7642,23 @@ as His Apostle Mohammed (upon whom be the benediction of Allah and His salvation!), for a blessing to some and a bane to others; and He elected for him those with him and took him to <span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span>Himself, leaving the people a stream whereof they might drink. -After him Abu Bakr<a id='r287' /><a href='#f287' class='c012'><sup>[287]</sup></a> the Truth-teller became Caliph and he left +After him Abu Bakr<a id='r287' href='#f287' class='c012'><sup>[287]</sup></a> the Truth-teller became Caliph and he left the river as it was, doing what was pleasing to Allah. Then arose Omar and worked a work and strove in holy war and strife whereof none might do the like. But when Othman arose to power he diverted a streamlet from the stream, and Mu'awiyah in his turn diverted from it several streamlets; and without ceasing in like manner, Yezid and the Banu Marwán such as Abd al-Malik and -Walíd and Sulaymán<a id='r288' /><a href='#f288' class='c012'><sup>[288]</sup></a> drew away water from the stream, and the +Walíd and Sulaymán<a id='r288' href='#f288' class='c012'><sup>[288]</sup></a> drew away water from the stream, and the main course dried up, till rule devolved upon me, and now I am minded to restore the stream to its normal condition. When Fatimah heard this, she said, I came wishing only to speak and confer with thee, but if this be thy word, I have nothing to say to thee. Then she returned to the Ommiades and said to them, Now take ye the consequences of your act when ye allied yourselves by -marriage with Omar bin Al-Khattab<a id='r289' /><a href='#f289' class='c012'><sup>[289]</sup></a>." And it is also said that +marriage with Omar bin Al-Khattab<a id='r289' href='#f289' class='c012'><sup>[289]</sup></a>." And it is also said that when Omar was about to die, he gathered his children round him, -and Maslamah<a id='r290' /><a href='#f290' class='c012'><sup>[290]</sup></a> bin Abd al-Malik said to him, O Prince of the +and Maslamah<a id='r290' href='#f290' class='c012'><sup>[290]</sup></a> bin Abd al-Malik said to him, O Prince of the Faithful, how wilt thou leave thy children paupers and thou their protector? None can hinder thee in thy lifetime from giving them what will suffice them out of the treasury; and this indeed were @@ -7710,7 +7688,7 @@ I saw a wolf or wolves. I thought them to be dogs, for I had never before seen wolves; so I asked, What dost thou with these dogs? They are not dogs, but wolves, answered the shepherd. Quoth I, Can wolves be with sheep and not hurt them? Quoth he, -When the head is whole, the body is whole.<a id='r291' /><a href='#f291' class='c012'><sup>[291]</sup></a> Omar bin Abd +When the head is whole, the body is whole.<a id='r291' href='#f291' class='c012'><sup>[291]</sup></a> Omar bin Abd al-Aziz once preached from a pulpit of clay and, after praising and glorifying Allah Almighty, said three words as follows, O folk, make clean your inmost hearts, that your outward lives may be @@ -7723,7 +7701,7 @@ behind thee, wilt thou lean on it a little while? But Omar answered, I fear lest it be a fault about my neck on Resurrection Day. Then he gasped with the death rattle and fell back in a faint; whereupon Fatimah cried out, saying, Ho, Maryam! Ho, -Muzáhim!<a id='r292' /><a href='#f292' class='c012'><sup>[292]</sup></a> Ho, such an one! Look to this man! And she +Muzáhim!<a id='r292' href='#f292' class='c012'><sup>[292]</sup></a> Ho, such an one! Look to this man! And she began to pour water on him weeping, till he revived from his swoon; and, seeing her in tears said to her, What causeth thee to weep, O Fatimah? She replied, O Commander of the Faithful, I @@ -7754,7 +7732,7 @@ al-Zaman said to her brother Sharrkan and the four Kazis, "Here endeth the second section of the first chapter. And it so happened that Omar bin Abd al-Aziz wrote to the people of the festival at Meccah as follows:—I call Allah to witness, in the Holy Month, in -the Holy City and on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage,<a id='r293' /><a href='#f293' class='c012'><sup>[293]</sup></a> that I +the Holy City and on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage,<a id='r293' href='#f293' class='c012'><sup>[293]</sup></a> that I am innocent of your oppression and of his wrongs that doth wrong you, in that I have neither commanded this nor purposed it, neither hath any report of aught thereof hitherto reached me, nor have I @@ -7787,9 +7765,9 @@ and presently he said to them, Your Father is between two things; either ye will be well to do, and your parent will enter the fire, or ye will be poor and your parent will enter Paradise; and your father's entry into Paradise is liefer to him than that ye should be -well to do.<a id='r294' /><a href='#f294' class='c012'><sup>[294]</sup></a> So arise and go, Allah be your helper, for to Him I -commit your affair! Khálid bin Safwán<a id='r295' /><a href='#f295' class='c012'><sup>[295]</sup></a> said, Yúsuf bin Omar<a id='r296' /><a href='#f296' class='c012'><sup>[296]</sup></a> -accompanied me to Hishám bin Abd al-Malik,<a id='r297' /><a href='#f297' class='c012'><sup>[297]</sup></a> and as I met him +well to do.<a id='r294' href='#f294' class='c012'><sup>[294]</sup></a> So arise and go, Allah be your helper, for to Him I +commit your affair! Khálid bin Safwán<a id='r295' href='#f295' class='c012'><sup>[295]</sup></a> said, Yúsuf bin Omar<a id='r296' href='#f296' class='c012'><sup>[296]</sup></a> +accompanied me to Hishám bin Abd al-Malik,<a id='r297' href='#f297' class='c012'><sup>[297]</sup></a> and as I met him he was coming forth with his kinsmen and attendants. He alighted and a tent was pitched for him. When the people had taken their seats, I came up to the side of the carpet whereon he sat reclining @@ -7814,7 +7792,7 @@ little while and whereof thou wilt be questioned for a long while, and for the rendering an account whereof thou shalt be as a pledge which is pawned? Quoth the King, Whither shall I flee and what must I seek for me? That thou abide in thy kingship, -replied the other, or else robe thee in rags<a id='r298' /><a href='#f298' class='c012'><sup>[298]</sup></a> and apply thyself +replied the other, or else robe thee in rags<a id='r298' href='#f298' class='c012'><sup>[298]</sup></a> and apply thyself to obey Almighty Allah thy Lord until thine appointed hour. I will come to thee again at daybreak. Khalid bin Safwan further relates that the man knocked at the door at dawn and @@ -7872,7 +7850,7 @@ seat of estate, whilst they paraded the bride before him in seven different dresses: after which they eased her of the weight of her raiment and ornaments and gave such injunctions as are enjoined upon virgins on their wedding-nights. Then Sharrkan went in -unto her and took her maidenhead;<a id='r299' /><a href='#f299' class='c012'><sup>[299]</sup></a> and she at once conceived +unto her and took her maidenhead;<a id='r299' href='#f299' class='c012'><sup>[299]</sup></a> and she at once conceived by him and, when she announced it, he rejoiced with exceeding joy and commanded the savants to record the date of her conception. On the morrow he went forth and seated himself on his @@ -7946,7 +7924,7 @@ of delivery. Allah made the child-birth easy to her and she bare a daughter, whereupon she sent for Sharrkan and seeing him she said to him, "This is thy daughter: name her as thou wilt." Quoth he, "It is usual to name children on the seventh day after -birth."<a id='r300' /><a href='#f300' class='c012'><sup>[300]</sup></a> Then he bent over the child to kiss it and he saw, hung +birth."<a id='r300' href='#f300' class='c012'><sup>[300]</sup></a> Then he bent over the child to kiss it and he saw, hung about its neck, a jewel, which he knew at once for one of those which Princess Abrizah had brought from the land of the Greeks. Now when he saw the jewel hanging from his babe's neck he @@ -7994,7 +7972,7 @@ fallen, for I am Sharrkan, son of Omar bin al-Nu'uman." She looked at him and knew he spoke the truth; and, becoming as one demented, she wept and buffetted her face, exclaiming, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah! Verily have we -fallen into mortal sin!<a id='r301' /><a href='#f301' class='c012'><sup>[301]</sup></a> What shall I do and what shall I say to +fallen into mortal sin!<a id='r301' href='#f301' class='c012'><sup>[301]</sup></a> What shall I do and what shall I say to my father and my mother when they ask me, Whence hadst thou thy daughter?" Quoth Sharrkan, "It were meetest that I marry thee to my Chamberlain and let thee bring up my daughter in his @@ -8002,7 +7980,7 @@ house, that none may know thou be my sister. This hath befallen us from Almighty Allah for a purpose of his own, and nothing shall cover us but thy marriage with this Chamberlain, ere any know." Then he fell to comforting her and kissing her head and -she asked him, "What wilt thou call the girl?" "Call her Kuzia-Fakan,"<a id='r302' /><a href='#f302' class='c012'><sup>[302]</sup></a> +she asked him, "What wilt thou call the girl?" "Call her Kuzia-Fakan,"<a id='r302' href='#f302' class='c012'><sup>[302]</sup></a> answered he. Then he gave the mother in marriage to the Chief Chamberlain, and transferred her to his house with the child, which they reared on the laps of the slave-girls, and fed with @@ -8075,7 +8053,7 @@ taken the jewel from her and hung it round his daughter's neck by a chain of pure gold; and she and her husband set out for Baghdad the same night. Now it so happened that Zau al-Makan and his friend the Fireman had come forth from the hut in which -they were, to see the spectacle, and they beheld camels and Bukhti<a id='r303' /><a href='#f303' class='c012'><sup>[303]</sup></a> +they were, to see the spectacle, and they beheld camels and Bukhti<a id='r303' href='#f303' class='c012'><sup>[303]</sup></a> dromedaries and bât-mules and torches and lanterns alight; and Zau al-Makan enquired about the loads and their owner and was told that it was the tribute of Damascus going to King Omar bin @@ -8101,10 +8079,10 @@ me." But he replied, "Not so: I will be thy servant." Quoth well," quoth the Stoker; "I will ride when I grow tired." Then said Zau al-Makan, "O my brother, soon shalt thou see how I will deal with thee, when I come to my own folk." So they fared on -till the sun rose and, when it was the hour of the noonday sleep<a id='r304' /><a href='#f304' class='c012'><sup>[304]</sup></a> +till the sun rose and, when it was the hour of the noonday sleep<a id='r304' href='#f304' class='c012'><sup>[304]</sup></a> the Chamberlain called a halt and they alighted and reposed and watered their camels. Then he gave the signal for departure and, -after five days, they came to the city of Hamah,<a id='r305' /><a href='#f305' class='c012'><sup>[305]</sup></a> where they set +after five days, they came to the city of Hamah,<a id='r305' href='#f305' class='c012'><sup>[305]</sup></a> where they set down and made a three day's halt;——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -8157,19 +8135,19 @@ distichs:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>"Al-Yaman's<a id='r306' /><a href='#f306' class='c012'><sup>[306]</sup></a> leven-gleam I see, ✿ And sore despair despaireth me</div> + <div class='line'>"Al-Yaman's<a id='r306' href='#f306' class='c012'><sup>[306]</sup></a> leven-gleam I see, ✿ And sore despair despaireth me</div> <div class='line'>For friend who erst abode wi' me ✿ Crowning my cup with gladdest gree;</div> <div class='line'>It minds me o' one who jilted me ✿ To mourn my bitter liberty.</div> <div class='line'>Say sooth, thou fair sheet-lightning! shall ✿ We meet once more in joy and glee?</div> <div class='line'>O blamer! spare to me thy blame ✿ My Lord hath sent this dule to dree,</div> <div class='line'>Of friend who left me, fain to flee; ✿ Of Time that breeds calamity:</div> <div class='line'>All bliss hath fled the heart of me ✿ Since Fortune proved mine enemy.</div> - <div class='line'>He<a id='r307' /><a href='#f307' class='c012'><sup>[307]</sup></a> brimmed a bowl of merest pine, ✿ And made me drain the dregs, did he:</div> + <div class='line'>He<a id='r307' href='#f307' class='c012'><sup>[307]</sup></a> brimmed a bowl of merest pine, ✿ And made me drain the dregs, did he:</div> <div class='line'>I see me, sweetheart, dead and gone ✿ Ere I again shall gaze on thee.</div> <div class='line'>Time! prithee bring our childhood back, ✿ Restore our happy infancy,</div> <div class='line'>When joy and safety 'joyed we ✿ From shafts that now they shoot at me!</div> <div class='line'>Who aids the hapless stranger-wight, ✿ That nights in fright and misery,</div> - <div class='line'>That wastes his days in lonely grief, ✿ For "Time's Delight"<a id='r308' /><a href='#f308' class='c012'><sup>[308]</sup></a> no more must be?</div> + <div class='line'>That wastes his days in lonely grief, ✿ For "Time's Delight"<a id='r308' href='#f308' class='c012'><sup>[308]</sup></a> no more must be?</div> <div class='line'>Doomed us despite our will to bear ✿ The hands of base-borns cark and care.</div> </div> </div> @@ -8216,14 +8194,14 @@ replied the Fireman, "I tell thee the truth!: some passer-by, some wayfarer must have recited the verses and disturbed me and kept me awake; Allah requite him!" Quoth the Eunuch, "If thou happen upon him, point him out to me and I will lay hands on -him and bring him to the door of our lady's litter;<a id='r309' /><a href='#f309' class='c012'><sup>[309]</sup></a> or do thou +him and bring him to the door of our lady's litter;<a id='r309' href='#f309' class='c012'><sup>[309]</sup></a> or do thou take him with thine own hand." Said the Fireman, "Go thou back and I will bring him to thee." So the Eunuch left him and went his ways; and, going in to his mistress, told her all this and said to her, "None knoweth who it was; it must have been some passer-by, some wayfarer." And she was silent. Meanwhile, Zau <span class='pageno' id='Page_181'>181</span>al-Makan came to himself and saw that the moon had reached the -middle Heavens; the breath of the dawn-breeze<a id='r310' /><a href='#f310' class='c012'><sup>[310]</sup></a> breathed upon +middle Heavens; the breath of the dawn-breeze<a id='r310' href='#f310' class='c012'><sup>[310]</sup></a> breathed upon him and his heart was moved to longing and sadness; so he cleared his throat and was about to recite verses, when the Fireman asked him, "What wilt thou do?" Answered Zau al-Makan, @@ -8252,7 +8230,7 @@ harmed thee in aught. What ails thee, then, that thou must needs recite verses, seeing that we are tired out with walking and watching and all the folk are asleep, for they require sleep to rest them of their fatigue?" But Zau al-Makan answered, "I will not -be turned away from my purpose."<a id='r311' /><a href='#f311' class='c012'><sup>[311]</sup></a> Then grief moved him and +be turned away from my purpose."<a id='r311' href='#f311' class='c012'><sup>[311]</sup></a> Then grief moved him and he threw off concealment and began repeating these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -8272,7 +8250,7 @@ he threw off concealment and began repeating these couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>We were and were the days enthralled to all our wills, ✿ Dwelling in union sweet and homed in fairest site:</div> - <div class='line'>Who shall restore the home of the beloved, where showed ✿ Light of the Place for aye conjoined with Time's Delight?<a id='r312' /><a href='#f312' class='c012'><sup>[312]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Who shall restore the home of the beloved, where showed ✿ Light of the Place for aye conjoined with Time's Delight?<a id='r312' href='#f312' class='c012'><sup>[312]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -8338,7 +8316,7 @@ and aroused Zau al-Makan and said to him, "Come, sit up, that I may tell thee what hath happened." So Zau al-Makan sat up, and his companion told him what had passed, and he answered, "Let me alone; I will take no heed of this and I care for none, for I am -near mine own country."<a id='r313' /><a href='#f313' class='c012'><sup>[313]</sup></a> Quoth the Stoker, "Why wilt thou +near mine own country."<a id='r313' href='#f313' class='c012'><sup>[313]</sup></a> Quoth the Stoker, "Why wilt thou obey thy flesh and the devil? If thou fear no one, I fear for thee and for my life, so Allah upon thee! recite nothing more of verses till thou come to thine own land. Indeed, I had not deemed thee @@ -8355,7 +8333,7 @@ third time and began versifying with these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_184'>184</span>I fly the carper's injury, ✿ Whose carping sorely vexeth me:</div> <div class='line'>He chides and taunts me, wotting not ✿ He burns me but more grievously.</div> - <div class='line'>The blamer cries "He is consoled!" ✿ I say, "My own dear land<a id='r314' /><a href='#f314' class='c012'><sup>[314]</sup></a> to see:"</div> + <div class='line'>The blamer cries "He is consoled!" ✿ I say, "My own dear land<a id='r314' href='#f314' class='c012'><sup>[314]</sup></a> to see:"</div> <div class='line'>They ask, "Why be that land so dear?" ✿ I say "It taught me in love to be:"</div> <div class='line'>They ask, "What raised its dignity?" ✿ I say, "What made my ignomy:"</div> <div class='line'>Whate'er the bitter cup I drain, ✿ Far be fro' me that land to flee:</div> @@ -8388,7 +8366,7 @@ say.</p> said to Zau al-Makan, "O my lord, I have sought thee these several times this night, for my mistress biddeth thee to her." Quoth Zau al-Makan, "And who be this bitch that seeketh for me? Allah -curse her and curse her husband with her!"<a id='r315' /><a href='#f315' class='c012'><sup>[315]</sup></a> And he began to +curse her and curse her husband with her!"<a id='r315' href='#f315' class='c012'><sup>[315]</sup></a> And he began to revile the Eunuch, who could make him no answer, because his mistress had charged him to do Zau al-Makan no hurt, nor bring him save of his own especial free will; and, if he would not accompany @@ -8403,7 +8381,7 @@ and went with the Eunuch and walked among the sleeping folk, stepping over them; whilst the Fireman followed after them from afar, and kept his eye upon him and said to himself, "Alas the pity of his youth! To-morrow they will hang him." And he ceased -not following them till he approached their station,<a id='r316' /><a href='#f316' class='c012'><sup>[316]</sup></a> without any +not following them till he approached their station,<a id='r316' href='#f316' class='c012'><sup>[316]</sup></a> without any <span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span>observing him. Then he stood still and said, "How base it will be of him, if he say it was I who bade him recite the verses!" This was the case of the Stoker; but as regards what befel Zau al-Makan, @@ -8449,7 +8427,7 @@ Nuzhat al-Zaman heard his words she said, "Allah reunite him with what he loveth!" Then quoth she to the Eunuch, "Tell him to let me hear somewhat anent his separation from his countrymen and his country." The Eunuch did so, and Zau al-Makan -sighed heavily and began repeating these couplets<a id='r317' /><a href='#f317' class='c012'><sup>[317]</sup></a>:—</p> +sighed heavily and began repeating these couplets<a id='r317' href='#f317' class='c012'><sup>[317]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -8492,16 +8470,16 @@ of her, and she repeated these verses:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Time sware my life should fare in woeful waste; ✿ Forsworn art Time, expiate thy sin in haste!<a id='r318' /><a href='#f318' class='c012'><sup>[318]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Time sware my life should fare in woeful waste; ✿ Forsworn art Time, expiate thy sin in haste!<a id='r318' href='#f318' class='c012'><sup>[318]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Comes weal and comes a welcome friend to aid; ✿ To him who brings good news, rise, gird thy waist:</div> - <div class='line'>I spurnèd old-world tales of Eden-bliss; ✿ Till came I Kausar<a id='r319' /><a href='#f319' class='c012'><sup>[319]</sup></a> on those lips to taste.</div> + <div class='line'>I spurnèd old-world tales of Eden-bliss; ✿ Till came I Kausar<a id='r319' href='#f319' class='c012'><sup>[319]</sup></a> on those lips to taste.</div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_187'>187</span>When Zau al-Makan heard this, he pressed his sister to his breast; tears streamed from his eyes for excess of joy and he repeated -these couplets<a id='r320' /><a href='#f320' class='c012'><sup>[320]</sup></a>:—</p> +these couplets<a id='r320' href='#f320' class='c012'><sup>[320]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -8555,7 +8533,7 @@ my brother, Zau al-Makan." When the Chamberlain heard the story he knew it to be sooth, and its manifest truth appeared to him and he was certified that he was become King Omar bin al-Nu'uman's son-in-law, so he said to himself, "'Twill be my fate -to be made viceroy of some province."<a id='anchor1'></a><a id='r321' /><a href='#f321' class='c012'><sup>[321]</sup></a> Then he went up to Zau +to be made viceroy of some province."<a id='anchor1'></a><a id='r321' href='#f321' class='c012'><sup>[321]</sup></a> Then he went up to Zau al-Makan and gave him joy of his safety and reunion with his sister, and bade his servants forthwith make him ready a tent and one of the best of his own horses to ride. Thereupon said Nuzhat @@ -8633,7 +8611,7 @@ him nothing, but said to him, "Thou disturbedst our mistress by reciting verses, thou and this youth: but fear nothing for thyself;" and kept laughing at him the while to himself. Whenever the caravan halted, they served him with food, and he and the Castrato -<span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>ate from one dish.<a id='r322' /><a href='#f322' class='c012'><sup>[322]</sup></a> Then the Eunuch bade his lads bring a gugglet +<span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>ate from one dish.<a id='r322' href='#f322' class='c012'><sup>[322]</sup></a> Then the Eunuch bade his lads bring a gugglet of sugared sherbet and, after drinking himself, gave it to the Fireman, who drank; but all the while his tears never dried, out of fear for his life and grief for his separation from Zau al-Makan @@ -8647,7 +8625,7 @@ fashion till they came within three days' journey from Baghdad. Here they alighted at eventide and rested till the morning morrowed; and as they awoke and they were about to load the beasts, behold, there appeared afar off a great cloud of dust that -darkened the firmament till it became black as gloomiest night.<a id='r323' /><a href='#f323' class='c012'><sup>[323]</sup></a> +darkened the firmament till it became black as gloomiest night.<a id='r323' href='#f323' class='c012'><sup>[323]</sup></a> Thereupon the Chamberlain cried out to them, "Stay, and your loading delay!"; then, mounting with his Mamelukes, rode forward in the direction of the dust-cloud. When they drew near, @@ -8732,7 +8710,7 @@ the Wazir Dandan also rose and went out to meet him and stood before him in honour. After this, the Chamberlain held on that day a Divan-council; and he and the Wazir sat upon a throne, whilst all the Emirs and Grandees and Officers of State took their -places before them, according to their several ranks.<a id='r324' /><a href='#f324' class='c012'><sup>[324]</sup></a> Then they +places before them, according to their several ranks.<a id='r324' href='#f324' class='c012'><sup>[324]</sup></a> Then they melted sugar in rose-water and drank, after which the Emirs sat down to hold council and permitted the rest of the host to mount and ride forward leisurely, till they should make an end of their @@ -8750,7 +8728,7 @@ him presents, which he conjured him to accept. In similar guise did all the Emirs and Grandees and Officers of State, bringing him gifts and calling down blessings on him and saying to him, "Haply thou wilt mention our case to Sultan Zau al-Makan and -speak to him to continue us in our dignities."<a id='r325' /><a href='#f325' class='c012'><sup>[325]</sup></a> The Chamberlain +speak to him to continue us in our dignities."<a id='r325' href='#f325' class='c012'><sup>[325]</sup></a> The Chamberlain promised all they required and bade his pages be ready to march, whereupon the Wazir Dandan sent with him tents and bade the tent-pitchers set them up at a day's journey from the city. And @@ -8786,7 +8764,7 @@ Sharrkan?" "O my son," replied the Chamberlain, "thy brother will be Sultan of Damascus and thou Sultan of Baghdad; so take heart of grace and get ready thy case." Zau al-Makan accepted this and the Chamberlain presented him with a suit of royal -raiment and a dagger<a id='r326' /><a href='#f326' class='c012'><sup>[326]</sup></a> of state, which the Wazir Dandan had +raiment and a dagger<a id='r326' href='#f326' class='c012'><sup>[326]</sup></a> of state, which the Wazir Dandan had brought with him; then leaving him he bade the tent-pitchers choose a spot of rising ground and set up thereon a spacious pavilion, wherein the Sultan might sit to receive the Emirs and @@ -8812,7 +8790,7 @@ day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Chamberlain bade the tent-pitchers set up a pavilion spacious enough to receive the subjects flocking to their Sultan, they -planted a splendid Sháhmiyánah<a id='r327' /><a href='#f327' class='c012'><sup>[327]</sup></a> befitting Kings. And as they +planted a splendid Sháhmiyánah<a id='r327' href='#f327' class='c012'><sup>[327]</sup></a> befitting Kings. And as they ended their labours behold, a dust cloud spired aloft and the breeze made it lift and beneath it showed a conquering host; and presently it appeared that this was the army of Baghdad and @@ -8891,7 +8869,7 @@ and loveliness and perfection. They read the Koran and the Traditions and are skilled in all manner of learning and in the history of bygone races. They stand here between thy hands to do thee service, O King of the Age, and it is by trial that folk are -prized or despised." Thy father, who hath found mercy;<a id='r328' /><a href='#f328' class='c012'><sup>[328]</sup></a> looked +prized or despised." Thy father, who hath found mercy;<a id='r328' href='#f328' class='c012'><sup>[328]</sup></a> looked at the damsels and their favour pleased him; so he said to them, "Let each and every of you make me hear something of what she knoweth anent the history of the folk of yore and of peoples long @@ -8914,7 +8892,7 @@ found mercy, glanced at the damsels and their favour pleased him and he said to them, "Let each and every of you make me hear something of what she knoweth anent the history of the folk of yore and of peoples long gone before!" Thereupon one of them -came forward and, kissing the ground before him, spake as follows.<a id='r329' /><a href='#f329' class='c012'><sup>[329]</sup></a> +came forward and, kissing the ground before him, spake as follows.<a id='r329' href='#f329' class='c012'><sup>[329]</sup></a> "Know, O King, that it behoveth one of good-breeding to eschew impertinence and adorn himself with excellencies, and observe the Divine injunctions and avoid mortal sins; and to this he should @@ -8933,13 +8911,13 @@ dispute with thee, thou mayst dispute with him and refute him with proofs and be proof against him; but as for thy friend, there is none can judge between thee and him save righteousness and fair-dealing. Choose, therefore, thy friend for thyself, after thou hast -proved him. If he be of the brotherhood of futurity,<a id='r330' /><a href='#f330' class='c012'><sup>[330]</sup></a> let him be +proved him. If he be of the brotherhood of futurity,<a id='r330' href='#f330' class='c012'><sup>[330]</sup></a> let him be zealous in observing the externals of the Holy Law and versed in its inner meaning, as far as may be; and if he be of the brotherhood of the world, let him be free-born, sincere, neither a fool nor a perverse, for the fool man is such that even his parents might well flee from him, and a liar cannot be a true friend. Indeed -the word, Siddík<a id='r331' /><a href='#f331' class='c012'><sup>[331]</sup></a> ('friend') deriveth from Sidk ('truth') that +the word, Siddík<a id='r331' href='#f331' class='c012'><sup>[331]</sup></a> ('friend') deriveth from Sidk ('truth') that welleth up from the bottom of the heart; and how can this be the case, when falsehood is manifest upon the tongue? And know, that the observance of the Law profiteth him who practiseth it: so @@ -8979,7 +8957,7 @@ intent that the great may not hunger for oppression nor the small despair of justice. Furthermore he should extract proof from the complainant and impose an oath upon the defendant; and mediation is admissible between Moslems, except it be a compromise -sanctioning the unlawful or forbidding the lawful.<a id='r332' /><a href='#f332' class='c012'><sup>[332]</sup></a> If thou shalt +sanctioning the unlawful or forbidding the lawful.<a id='r332' href='#f332' class='c012'><sup>[332]</sup></a> If thou shalt have done aught during the day, of which thy reason is doubtful but thy good intention is proved, thou (O Kazi) shouldst revert to the right, for to do justice is a religious obligation and to return to @@ -8994,16 +8972,16 @@ Receive thou the testimony of competent Moslem witnesses, one against other, for Almighty Allah hath commanded judges to judge by externals, He Himself taking charge of the inner and secret things. It behoveth the judge also to avoid giving judgement, -whilst suffering from stress of pain or hunger,<a id='r333' /><a href='#f333' class='c012'><sup>[333]</sup></a> and that in +whilst suffering from stress of pain or hunger,<a id='r333' href='#f333' class='c012'><sup>[333]</sup></a> and that in his decisions between folk he seek the face of Allah Almighty, for he whose intent is pure and who is at peace with himself, Allah shall guarantee him against what is between him and the people. -Quoth al-Zuhri<a id='r334' /><a href='#f334' class='c012'><sup>[334]</sup></a>:—There are three things for which, if they be +Quoth al-Zuhri<a id='r334' href='#f334' class='c012'><sup>[334]</sup></a>:—There are three things for which, if they be found in a Kazi, he should be deposed; namely, if he honour the base, if he love praise and if he fear dismissal. And Omar bin Abd al-Aziz once deposed a Kazi, who asked him, Why hast thou dismissed me? It hath reached me, answered Omar, that thy converse -<span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span>is greater than thy condition. It is said also that Iskandar<a id='r335' /><a href='#f335' class='c012'><sup>[335]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span>is greater than thy condition. It is said also that Iskandar<a id='r335' href='#f335' class='c012'><sup>[335]</sup></a> said to his Kazi:—I have invested thee with this function and committed to thee in it my soul and mine honour and my manliness; so do thou guard it with thy sense and thine understanding. @@ -9029,16 +9007,16 @@ her permitted say.</p> Wazir Dandan said to Zau al-Makan:—Thereupon the first damsel backed out from the presence and a second damsel came forward and, kissing the ground seven times before the King thy -father, spake as follows, "The sage Lukmán<a id='r336' /><a href='#f336' class='c012'><sup>[336]</sup></a> said to his son, There +father, spake as follows, "The sage Lukmán<a id='r336' href='#f336' class='c012'><sup>[336]</sup></a> said to his son, There be three who are known only in three several cases; the merciful man is unknown save in time of wrath, the brave only in battle, and thy friend in time of need. It is said that the oppressor shall be deprest though by people praised, and that the opprest is at rest -though by people blamed. Quoth Allah Almighty,<a id='r337' /><a href='#f337' class='c012'><sup>[337]</sup></a> Assuredly +though by people blamed. Quoth Allah Almighty,<a id='r337' href='#f337' class='c012'><sup>[337]</sup></a> Assuredly deem not that those who rejoice in what they have done, and who love to be praised for what they have not done, shall escape reckoning of punishment: indeed there is reserved for them a -grievous penalty. And he said<a id='r338' /><a href='#f338' class='c012'><sup>[338]</sup></a> (on whom be salvation and salutation!):—Works +grievous penalty. And he said<a id='r338' href='#f338' class='c012'><sup>[338]</sup></a> (on whom be salvation and salutation!):—Works are according to intention and to each man is attributed that which he intendeth. He said also:—In the body is a part which being sound the rest is sound, and which being @@ -9078,15 +9056,15 @@ salutation and salvation!) hath explained it when he sayeth, The pious is he who forgetteth not the grave nor calamity and who preferreth that which endureth to that which passeth away; who counteth not the morrow as of his days but reckoneth himself -among the dead. And it is related that Abu Zarr<a id='r339' /><a href='#f339' class='c012'><sup>[339]</sup></a> used to say, +among the dead. And it is related that Abu Zarr<a id='r339' href='#f339' class='c012'><sup>[339]</sup></a> used to say, Want is dearer to me than wealth, and unheal is dearer to me than health. Quoth one of the listeners, May Allah have mercy on Abu Zarr! For my part, I say, Whoso putteth his trust in the goodness of the election of Almighty Allah should be content with that condition which Allah hath chosen for him. Quoth one -of the Companions of the Prophet, Ibn Abi Aufa<a id='r340' /><a href='#f340' class='c012'><sup>[340]</sup></a> once prayed +of the Companions of the Prophet, Ibn Abi Aufa<a id='r340' href='#f340' class='c012'><sup>[340]</sup></a> once prayed with us the dawn-prayer. When he had done, he recited, O Thou -<span class='pageno' id='Page_201'>201</span>Enwrapped!<a id='r341' /><a href='#f341' class='c012'><sup>[341]</sup></a> till he came to where Allah saith, When there shall +<span class='pageno' id='Page_201'>201</span>Enwrapped!<a id='r341' href='#f341' class='c012'><sup>[341]</sup></a> till he came to where Allah saith, When there shall be a trumping on the trumpet, and fell down dead. It is said that Sabit al-Banáni wept till he well-nigh lost his eyes. They brought him a man to medicine him who said to him, I will cure thee, @@ -9116,7 +9094,7 @@ and in the next a greedy slave. How so? asked the other and Mohammed answered, The abstinent man in this world conquereth both the world that is and the world to come. And quoth Ghaus bin Abdillah, There were two brothers among the sons of Israel, -one of whom said to the other, What be the most perilous<a id='r342' /><a href='#f342' class='c012'><sup>[342]</sup></a> thing +one of whom said to the other, What be the most perilous<a id='r342' href='#f342' class='c012'><sup>[342]</sup></a> thing thou hast done? Replied the brother, I once came upon a nest of young birds; so I took out one and threw it back into the nest; but among the chickens were some which drew apart from it. @@ -9126,9 +9104,9 @@ for prayer I am fearful that it is only for the sake of the reward. Now their father heard these words and exclaimed, O Allah, an say they sooth take them to Thyself! It was declared by one of the wise men, Verily, these were of the most virtuous of children. -Quoth Sa'id bin Jubayr,<a id='r343' /><a href='#f343' class='c012'><sup>[343]</sup></a> I was once in company with Fuzalah +Quoth Sa'id bin Jubayr,<a id='r343' href='#f343' class='c012'><sup>[343]</sup></a> I was once in company with Fuzalah <span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span>bin 'Ubayd and said to him, Exhort thou me! Replied he, Bear -in mind these two necessaries, Shun syntheism<a id='r344' /><a href='#f344' class='c012'><sup>[344]</sup></a> and harm not +in mind these two necessaries, Shun syntheism<a id='r344' href='#f344' class='c012'><sup>[344]</sup></a> and harm not any of Allah's creatures. And he repeated these two couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -9162,12 +9140,12 @@ Itá'a al-Salamí, when he had made an end of an exhortation, was wont to tremble and grieve and weep sore; and as they asked him why he did this he answered, I desire to enter upon a grave matter, and it is the standing up before Almighty Allah to do in accordance -with my exhortation. In similar guise Zayn al-Abidín,<a id='r345' /><a href='#f345' class='c012'><sup>[345]</sup></a> son +with my exhortation. In similar guise Zayn al-Abidín,<a id='r345' href='#f345' class='c012'><sup>[345]</sup></a> son of Al-Husayn, was wont to tremble when he rose to pray. Being asked the cause of this, he replied, Know ye not before whom I stand and whom I address? It is said that there lived near Sufyán -al-Thauri<a id='r346' /><a href='#f346' class='c012'><sup>[346]</sup></a> a blind man who, when the month of Ramazán came, -went out with the folk to pray,<a id='r347' /><a href='#f347' class='c012'><sup>[347]</sup></a> but remained silent and hung +al-Thauri<a id='r346' href='#f346' class='c012'><sup>[346]</sup></a> a blind man who, when the month of Ramazán came, +went out with the folk to pray,<a id='r347' href='#f347' class='c012'><sup>[347]</sup></a> but remained silent and hung <span class='pageno' id='Page_203'>203</span>back. Said Sufyan, On the Day of Resurrection he shall come with the people of the Koran and they will be distinguished by increase of honour from their fellows. Quoth Sufyan, Were the @@ -9177,28 +9155,28 @@ related also of Sufyan al-Thauri that he said, To look upon the face of a tyrant is a sin." Then the third damsel retired and came forward the fourth, who said, "Here am I to treat of sundry traditions of pious men which suggest themselves to me. It is related that -Bishr Barefoot<a id='r348' /><a href='#f348' class='c012'><sup>[348]</sup></a> said, I once heard Khálid say, Beware of secret +Bishr Barefoot<a id='r348' href='#f348' class='c012'><sup>[348]</sup></a> said, I once heard Khálid say, Beware of secret polytheism. I asked, What may secret polytheism be?; and he answered, When one of you in praying prolong his inclinations -and prostrations till a cause of impurity<a id='r349' /><a href='#f349' class='c012'><sup>[349]</sup></a> come upon him. And +and prostrations till a cause of impurity<a id='r349' href='#f349' class='c012'><sup>[349]</sup></a> come upon him. And one of the sages said, Doing works of weal expiateth what is ill. -Quoth Ibrahim,<a id='r350' /><a href='#f350' class='c012'><sup>[350]</sup></a> I supplicated Bishr Barefoot to acquaint me with +Quoth Ibrahim,<a id='r350' href='#f350' class='c012'><sup>[350]</sup></a> I supplicated Bishr Barefoot to acquaint me with some theological mysteries; but he said, O my son, this knowledge it behoveth us not to teach to every one; of every hundred five, even as the legal alms upon money. Said Ibrahim, I thought his reply excellent and approved of it and while I was praying behold, -Bishr was also praying: so I stood behind him<a id='r351' /><a href='#f351' class='c012'><sup>[351]</sup></a> making the +Bishr was also praying: so I stood behind him<a id='r351' href='#f351' class='c012'><sup>[351]</sup></a> making the prayer-bow till the Mu'ezzin called his call. Then rose a man of tattered appearance and said, O folk, beware of a truth which -bringeth unweal, for there is no harm in a lie bringing weal,<a id='r352' /><a href='#f352' class='c012'><sup>[352]</sup></a> and in +bringeth unweal, for there is no harm in a lie bringing weal,<a id='r352' href='#f352' class='c012'><sup>[352]</sup></a> and in <span class='pageno' id='Page_204'>204</span>time of need no choice we heed: speech booteth not in the absence of good qualities even as silence hurteth not in the presence of -good. Presently I saw Bishr drop a danik,<a id='r353' /><a href='#f353' class='c012'><sup>[353]</sup></a> so I picked it up and +good. Presently I saw Bishr drop a danik,<a id='r353' href='#f353' class='c012'><sup>[353]</sup></a> so I picked it up and exchanged it for a dirham which I gave him. Quoth he, I will not take it. Quoth I, It is perfectly lawful change; but he rejoined I cannot take in exchange the riches of the present world for those of the future world. It is related also that Bishr Barefoot's sister -once went to Ahmad bin Hanbal"<a id='r354' /><a href='#f354' class='c012'><sup>[354]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived +once went to Ahmad bin Hanbal"<a id='r354' href='#f354' class='c012'><sup>[354]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <div class='ph3'> @@ -9223,22 +9201,22 @@ Bishr Barefoot, answered she. Rejoined the Imam, O household of Bishr, I shall never cease to drink full draughts of piety from your hearts. Quoth one of the sages, When Allah willeth well to His servant He openeth upon him the gate of action. Malik -bin Dinár,<a id='r355' /><a href='#f355' class='c012'><sup>[355]</sup></a> when he passed through the bazar and saw aught he +bin Dinár,<a id='r355' href='#f355' class='c012'><sup>[355]</sup></a> when he passed through the bazar and saw aught he desired, was wont to say:—O soul, take patience, for I will not accord to thee what thou desirest. He said also (Allah accept him!), The salvation of the soul lies in resistance to it and its -damnation in submission to it. Quoth Mansúr bin Ammár,<a id='r356' /><a href='#f356' class='c012'><sup>[356]</sup></a> I +damnation in submission to it. Quoth Mansúr bin Ammár,<a id='r356' href='#f356' class='c012'><sup>[356]</sup></a> I made a pilgrimage and was faring Meccahwards by way of Cufa, and the night was overcast, when I heard a voice crying out from the deeps of the darkness saying, O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness <span class='pageno' id='Page_205'>205</span>and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity -without beginning;<a id='r357' /><a href='#f357' class='c012'><sup>[357]</sup></a> so do Thou pardon my transgression, for +without beginning;<a id='r357' href='#f357' class='c012'><sup>[357]</sup></a> so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance! When he had made an end of his prayer he recited aloud the verse, O true believers, save your souls and those of your families from the fire whose fuel -is men and stones.<a id='r358' /><a href='#f358' class='c012'><sup>[358]</sup></a> Then I heard a fall, but not knowing what it +is men and stones.<a id='r358' href='#f358' class='c012'><sup>[358]</sup></a> Then I heard a fall, but not knowing what it was I passed on. When the morning morrowed, as we went our way, behold, we fell in with a funeral-train, followed by an old woman whose strength had left her. I asked her of the dead, and @@ -9255,14 +9233,14 @@ cometh to him. Also quoth he, Every worldly good which doth not draw one nearer to Allah is a calamity, for a little of this world distracteth from a mickle of the world to come and a mickle of the present maketh thee forget the whole of the future. It was -asked of Abú Házim,<a id='r359' /><a href='#f359' class='c012'><sup>[359]</sup></a> Who is the most prosperous of men?; and +asked of Abú Házim,<a id='r359' href='#f359' class='c012'><sup>[359]</sup></a> Who is the most prosperous of men?; and he answered, Whoso spendeth his life in submission to Allah. The other enquired, And who is the most foolish of mankind? Whoso selleth his future for the worldly goods of others, replied -Abu Házim. It is reported of Moses<a id='r360' /><a href='#f360' class='c012'><sup>[360]</sup></a> (on whom be peace!) that +Abu Házim. It is reported of Moses<a id='r360' href='#f360' class='c012'><sup>[360]</sup></a> (on whom be peace!) that when he came to the waters of Midian he exclaimed:—O Lord, verily I stand in need of the good which thou shalt send down to -me.<a id='r361' /><a href='#f361' class='c012'><sup>[361]</sup></a> And he asked of his Lord and not of his folk. There came +me.<a id='r361' href='#f361' class='c012'><sup>[361]</sup></a> And he asked of his Lord and not of his folk. There came <span class='pageno' id='Page_206'>206</span>two damsels and he drew water for them both and allowed not the shepherds to draw first. When the twain returned, they informed their father Shu'ayb (on whom be peace!) who said, Haply, he is @@ -9271,7 +9249,7 @@ hither. Now when she came to Moses, she veiled her face and said, My father biddeth thee to him that he may pay thee thy wage for having drawn water for us. Moses was averse to this and was not willing to follow her. Now she was a woman large -in the back parts, and the wind blowing upon her garment<a id='r362' /><a href='#f362' class='c012'><sup>[362]</sup></a> discovered +in the back parts, and the wind blowing upon her garment<a id='r362' href='#f362' class='c012'><sup>[362]</sup></a> discovered the hinder cheeks to Moses; which when Moses saw, he lowered his eyes and said to her, Get thee behind while I walk in front. So she followed him till he entered the house of Shu'ayb @@ -9294,7 +9272,7 @@ to thy sire, "When Moses (on whom be peace!) entered the home of Shu'ayb where supper was ready, Shu'ayb said to him, O Moses, I desire to pay thee thy wage for having drawn water for these two. But Moses answered, I am of a household which selleth nothing of -the fashion of the next world<a id='r363' /><a href='#f363' class='c012'><sup>[363]</sup></a> for what is on earth of gold and +the fashion of the next world<a id='r363' href='#f363' class='c012'><sup>[363]</sup></a> for what is on earth of gold and silver." Then quoth Shu'ayb, O youth! nevertheless thou art my guest, and it is my wont and that of my forbears to honour the guest by setting food before him. So Moses sat down and ate. @@ -9304,7 +9282,7 @@ daughters, and Moses' service to him was to stand for her dowry. As saith the Holy Writ of him:—Verily I will give thee one of these my two daughters in marriage, on condition that thou serve me for hire eight pilgrimages: and if thou fulfil ten years, it is in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_207'>207</span>thine own breast; for I seek not to impose a hardship on thee.<a id='r364' /><a href='#f364' class='c012'><sup>[364]</sup></a> A +<span class='pageno' id='Page_207'>207</span>thine own breast; for I seek not to impose a hardship on thee.<a id='r364' href='#f364' class='c012'><sup>[364]</sup></a> A certain man once said to one of his friends whom he had not met for many days:—Thou hast made me desolate, for that I have not seen thee this long while. Quoth the other, I have been distracted @@ -9313,7 +9291,7 @@ Yes, he hath been my neighbour these thirty years, but I have never spoken to him. He replied, Verily thou forgettest Allah in forgetting thy neighbour! If thou lovedst Allah thou wouldst love thy neighbour. Knowest thou not that a neighbour hath a -claim upon his neighbour,<a id='r365' /><a href='#f365' class='c012'><sup>[365]</sup></a> even as the right of kith and kin? +claim upon his neighbour,<a id='r365' href='#f365' class='c012'><sup>[365]</sup></a> even as the right of kith and kin? Said Huzayfah, "We entered Meccah with Ibráhím bin Adham, and Shakik al-Balkhí was also making a pilgrimage that year. Now we met whilst circumambulating the Ka'abah and Ibrahim @@ -9323,7 +9301,7 @@ we hunger we take patience. This wise, said Ibrahim, do the dogs of Balkh; but we, when blest with plenty, do honour to Allah and when an-hungered we thank Him. And Shakik seated himself before Ibrahim and said to him, Thou art my master. Also said -Mohammed bin Imrán, A man once asked of Hátim the Deaf<a id='r366' /><a href='#f366' class='c012'><sup>[366]</sup></a> +Mohammed bin Imrán, A man once asked of Hátim the Deaf<a id='r366' href='#f366' class='c012'><sup>[366]</sup></a> What maketh thee to trust in Allah? Two things, answered he, I know that none save myself shall eat my daily bread, so my heart is at rest as to that; and I know that I was not created without @@ -9335,7 +9313,7 @@ will follow their example in relating what hath reached me of the famous men of past times. It is said that the Imam al-Sháfi'í departed the night into three portions, the first for study, the second for sleep and the third for prayer. The Imam Abú -Hanífah<a id='r367' /><a href='#f367' class='c012'><sup>[367]</sup></a> was wont also to pass half the night in prayer. One +Hanífah<a id='r367' href='#f367' class='c012'><sup>[367]</sup></a> was wont also to pass half the night in prayer. One <span class='pageno' id='Page_208'>208</span>day a man pointed him out to another, as he walked by and remarked, Yonder man watcheth the whole night. When he heard this Abu Hanifah said, I was abashed before Allah to @@ -9356,14 +9334,14 @@ seventy times during the month of Ramazán, and that in his daily prayers. Quoth Al-Shafi'i (Allah accept him!), During ten years I never ate my fill of barley-bread, for fullness hardeneth the heart and deadeneth the wit and induceth sleep and enfeebleth one from -standing up to pray.<a id='r368' /><a href='#f368' class='c012'><sup>[368]</sup></a> It is reported of Abdullah bin Mohammed +standing up to pray.<a id='r368' href='#f368' class='c012'><sup>[368]</sup></a> It is reported of Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Sakrá that he said, I was once talking with Omar and he observed to me, Never saw I a more God-fearing or eloquent man than Mohammed bin Idris al-Sháfi'í. It so happened I went out one day with Al-Háris bin Labíb al-Saffár, who was a disciple of -Al-Muzani<a id='r369' /><a href='#f369' class='c012'><sup>[369]</sup></a> and had a fine voice and he read the saying of the +Al-Muzani<a id='r369' href='#f369' class='c012'><sup>[369]</sup></a> and had a fine voice and he read the saying of the Almighty:—This shall be a day whereon they shall not speak to -any purpose, nor shall they be permitted to excuse themselves.<a id='r370' /><a href='#f370' class='c012'><sup>[370]</sup></a> I +any purpose, nor shall they be permitted to excuse themselves.<a id='r370' href='#f370' class='c012'><sup>[370]</sup></a> I saw Al-Shafi'i's colour change; his skin shuddered with horripilation, he was violently moved and he fell down in a fainting fit. When he revived he said, I take refuge with Allah from the stead @@ -9425,7 +9403,7 @@ and spoke not. When the Caliph's messenger came with the money, he went in to the Imam and accosted him, but he would not speak to him. So the messenger said, Verily this money is lawfully thine. I know that it is lawfully mine, replied he: but I -<span class='pageno' id='Page_210'>210</span>abhor that the love of tyrants get a hold upon my heart.<a id='r371' /><a href='#f371' class='c012'><sup>[371]</sup></a> Asked +<span class='pageno' id='Page_210'>210</span>abhor that the love of tyrants get a hold upon my heart.<a id='r371' href='#f371' class='c012'><sup>[371]</sup></a> Asked the other, If thou go in to them canst thou not guard thyself from loving them. Answered Abu Hanifah, Can I look to enter the sea without my clothes being wet? Another of Al-Shafi'i's sayings @@ -9451,7 +9429,7 @@ True Believer, when he asketh thee concerning the things of his faith; and beware of betraying a Believer, for whoso betrayeth a Believer, betrayeth Allah and His Apostle. Avoid dissensions and litigation; and leave that which causeth doubt in thee for things -which breed no doubt:<a id='r372' /><a href='#f372' class='c012'><sup>[372]</sup></a> so shalt thou be at peace. Enjoin beneficence +which breed no doubt:<a id='r372' href='#f372' class='c012'><sup>[372]</sup></a> so shalt thou be at peace. Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of Allah. Adorn thine inner man and Allah shall adorn thine outer man. Accept the excuse of him who excuseth self to thee and hate not @@ -9500,7 +9478,7 @@ saying, "When thou hast fasted the first ten days, break thy fast on the eleventh night with what is in this gugglet, for it will root out the love of the world from thy heart and fill it with light and faith. As for me to-morrow I will go forth to my brethren, the -Invisible<a id='r373' /><a href='#f373' class='c012'><sup>[373]</sup></a> Controuls, for I yearn after them, and I will return to +Invisible<a id='r373' href='#f373' class='c012'><sup>[373]</sup></a> Controuls, for I yearn after them, and I will return to <span class='pageno' id='Page_212'>212</span>thee when the first ten days are past." Thy father took the gugglet and arose and set it apart in a closet of his palace, then locked the door and put the key in his pocket. Next day the King fasted @@ -9528,7 +9506,7 @@ leaf, like no leaf of known tree. She went in to thy sire and saluted him; and, when he saw her, he rose to her saying, "Welcome, O pious lady!" "O King," quoth she, "the Invisible Controuls salute thee, for I told them of thee, and they rejoiced in -thee and have sent thee their Halwá,<a id='r374' /><a href='#f374' class='c012'><sup>[374]</sup></a> which is of the sweetmeats +thee and have sent thee their Halwá,<a id='r374' href='#f374' class='c012'><sup>[374]</sup></a> which is of the sweetmeats of the other world. Do thou break thy fast on it at the end of the day." The King rejoiced at this with great joy, and exclaimed, "Praised be Allah, who hath given me brethren of the Invisible @@ -9609,8 +9587,8 @@ and fasting by day; wherefore he sleepeth." So we waited till next day; but still he did not come forth. Then we stood at the closet-door and cried aloud so haply he might awake and ask what was the matter. But nothing came of that; so at last we -lifted up the door;<a id='r375' /><a href='#f375' class='c012'><sup>[375]</sup></a> and, going in, found him dead, with his flesh -torn into strips and bits and his bones broken.<a id='r376' /><a href='#f376' class='c012'><sup>[376]</sup></a> When we saw him +lifted up the door;<a id='r375' href='#f375' class='c012'><sup>[375]</sup></a> and, going in, found him dead, with his flesh +torn into strips and bits and his bones broken.<a id='r376' href='#f376' class='c012'><sup>[376]</sup></a> When we saw him in this condition it was grievous to us, and we took up the cup and found within its cover a piece of paper whereon was inscribed, "Whoso doeth evil leaveth no regrets, and this be the reward of @@ -9618,7 +9596,7 @@ him who playeth traitor with the daughters of Kings and who debaucheth them; and we make known to all who fall upon this scroll that Sharrkan, when he came to our country, seduced our Queen Abrizah; nor did that suffice him but he must needs take -her from us and bring her to you. Then he<a id='r377' /><a href='#f377' class='c012'><sup>[377]</sup></a> sent her away in +her from us and bring her to you. Then he<a id='r377' href='#f377' class='c012'><sup>[377]</sup></a> sent her away in company of a black slave who slew her, and we found her lying dead on the desert sward and thrown out to wild beasts. This be no kingly deed, and he who did this is requited with naught but @@ -9630,7 +9608,7 @@ Moreover, there is no help for it but that we wage war upon you and kill you and take your country from you, and ye shall be cut <span class='pageno' id='Page_215'>215</span>off even to the last man, nor shall a living soul be spared by Death nor one who bloweth fire with his breath, save he who Cross and -Belt<a id='r378' /><a href='#f378' class='c012'><sup>[378]</sup></a> worshippeth." When we read this paper, we knew that the +Belt<a id='r378' href='#f378' class='c012'><sup>[378]</sup></a> worshippeth." When we read this paper, we knew that the ancient woman had beguiled us and carried out her plot against us: whereupon we cried aloud and buffeted our faces and wept sore when weeping availed us naught. And the troops fell out as @@ -9649,7 +9627,7 @@ stablish thy sovranty; for verily whoso leaveth the like of thee is not dead." Thereupon Zau al-Makan gave over his weeping and caused his throne to be set up without the pavilion, and then commanded the army to pass in review-order before him. And -the Chamberlain sat by his side and all the armour-bearers<a id='r379' /><a href='#f379' class='c012'><sup>[379]</sup></a> +the Chamberlain sat by his side and all the armour-bearers<a id='r379' href='#f379' class='c012'><sup>[379]</sup></a> behind him, whilst the Wazir Dandan and the rest of the Emirs and Grandees stood each in his dividual stead. Then quoth King Zau al-Makan to the Minister Dandan, "Inform me concerning @@ -9667,8 +9645,8 @@ and jewels, when he took them and parted them all amongst the troops,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id009'> -<img src='images/i_214fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id009'> +<img src='images/i_214fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -9709,7 +9687,7 @@ to this effect am I instructed by him." So the Wazir went down from before him and made ready for his march. Then Zau al-Makan bade set apart a magnificent house for the Fireman and furnished it with the best of furniture and long is the tale of that -Fireman.<a id='r380' /><a href='#f380' class='c012'><sup>[380]</sup></a> Presently Zau al-Makan went out chasing and hunting +Fireman.<a id='r380' href='#f380' class='c012'><sup>[380]</sup></a> Presently Zau al-Makan went out chasing and hunting <span class='pageno' id='Page_217'>217</span>and, as he was returning to Baghdad, one of the Emirs presented him with blood-horses and with beauteous handmaids whose description the tongue evades. One of the damsels pleased him: so @@ -9727,7 +9705,7 @@ troops rode up with banners on high, Zau al-Makan and those with him pushed forward to meet Sharrkan and his men; and when Zau al-Makan saw his brother, he desired to dismount, but Sharrkan conjured him not to do on this wise, and himself footed it, -and walked a few paces towards him.<a id='r381' /><a href='#f381' class='c012'><sup>[381]</sup></a> As soon as he reached +and walked a few paces towards him.<a id='r381' href='#f381' class='c012'><sup>[381]</sup></a> As soon as he reached Zau al-Makan, the new Sultan threw himself upon him, and Sharrkan embraced him and wept with great weeping and the twain condoled with each other. Then they mounted and rode @@ -9735,7 +9713,7 @@ onward, they and their troops, till they reached Baghdad, where they alighted and went up to the royal palace and there they passed that night, and when next morning came, Zau al-Makan went forth and bade summon the troops from all parts, and proclaimed -a Holy War and a Razzia.<a id='r382' /><a href='#f382' class='c012'><sup>[382]</sup></a> They then awaited the +a Holy War and a Razzia.<a id='r382' href='#f382' class='c012'><sup>[382]</sup></a> They then awaited the coming of the levies from each quarter of the kingdom, and every one who came they entreated with honour and promised him all manner of good; till in so doing a full month had sped, and the @@ -9783,7 +9761,7 @@ of the army of Syria, and as soon as the Arabs were come in and the troops were assembled from all directions; and, as he fared forth, he was followed by the warriors and the united host. Now the name of the General of the Daylam army was Rustam and -that of the General of the army of the Turks<a id='r383' /><a href='#f383' class='c012'><sup>[383]</sup></a> Bahram. And Zau +that of the General of the army of the Turks<a id='r383' href='#f383' class='c012'><sup>[383]</sup></a> Bahram. And Zau al-Makan marched in mid-host and on his right was his brother Sharrkan, and on his left the Chamberlain his brother-in-law. So the squadrons broke up and pushed forward and the battalions and @@ -9826,9 +9804,9 @@ and he sent to all countries seeking succour and acquainting the folk with the cause of slaying the Moslem King. So the Nazarene troops flocked to him and three months were not past ere the army of the Greeks was complete, besides which there joined themselves -to him Franks from all their lands, French, Germans<a id='r384' /><a href='#f384' class='c012'><sup>[384]</sup></a> and -Ragusans,<a id='r385' /><a href='#f385' class='c012'><sup>[385]</sup></a> with men of Zara,<a id='r386' /><a href='#f386' class='c012'><sup>[386]</sup></a> Venetians, Genoese, and all the hosts -<span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>of the Yellow Faces<a id='r387' /><a href='#f387' class='c012'><sup>[387]</sup></a>; and, when the gathering was at its full, earth +to him Franks from all their lands, French, Germans<a id='r384' href='#f384' class='c012'><sup>[384]</sup></a> and +Ragusans,<a id='r385' href='#f385' class='c012'><sup>[385]</sup></a> with men of Zara,<a id='r386' href='#f386' class='c012'><sup>[386]</sup></a> Venetians, Genoese, and all the hosts +<span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>of the Yellow Faces<a id='r387' href='#f387' class='c012'><sup>[387]</sup></a>; and, when the gathering was at its full, earth was straitened on them by reason of their multitude. Then Afridun, the Great King, ordered a march; so they set out and ceased not to defile through the city for ten days. They fared on till they @@ -9852,14 +9830,14 @@ were the General of the Turks, and the General of Daylam, Rustam and Bahram, amid twenty thousand horse, behind whom came the men from the shores of the Salt Sea, clad in iron mail, as they were full moons that past through a night o'ercast. Then the Nazarene -host called out on Jesus and Mary, and the defiled<a id='r388' /><a href='#f388' class='c012'><sup>[388]</sup></a> Cross and they +host called out on Jesus and Mary, and the defiled<a id='r388' href='#f388' class='c012'><sup>[388]</sup></a> Cross and they heaped themselves upon the Wazir Dandan and those with him of the Syrian host. Now all this was in pursuance of a stratagem <span class='pageno' id='Page_221'>221</span>devised by that ancient woman Zat al-Dawahi; for, before his departure, King Afridun had gone in to her and asked her, "How shall I do and what plan shall I pursue?; it is thou hast caused this great distress to us;" and she had answered, "O great King -and mighty Cohen!<a id='r389' /><a href='#f389' class='c012'><sup>[389]</sup></a> I will teach thee a trick would baffle Iblis +and mighty Cohen!<a id='r389' href='#f389' class='c012'><sup>[389]</sup></a> I will teach thee a trick would baffle Iblis himself, though he summon to his assistance all his grisly hosts."——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -9946,9 +9924,9 @@ the countries of the Christians in silken wraps after mixing it with gold pieces for every dram and they sent for and sought it to fumigate brides withal; and the Chief Priests and the great Kings were wont to use a little of it as collyrium for the eyes and as a remedy in -sickness and colic; and the Patriarchs used to mix their own skite<a id='r390' /><a href='#f390' class='c012'><sup>[390]</sup></a> +sickness and colic; and the Patriarchs used to mix their own skite<a id='r390' href='#f390' class='c012'><sup>[390]</sup></a> with it, for that the skite of the Chief Patriarch could not suffice -for ten countries.<a id='r391' /><a href='#f391' class='c012'><sup>[391]</sup></a> So, as soon as dawn was seen and the morning +for ten countries.<a id='r391' href='#f391' class='c012'><sup>[391]</sup></a> So, as soon as dawn was seen and the morning shone with its shine and sheen, the horsemen ran to their spears full keen, and King Afridun——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -9983,7 +9961,7 @@ than parting from the beloved make; and blacker than night was his blackness and more fetid than the lion was his breath for foulness; more crooked than a bow was his crookedness and grimmer than the leopard was his ugliness, and he was branded with the -mark of the Infidels on face.<a id='r392' /><a href='#f392' class='c012'><sup>[392]</sup></a> After this he came up to King +mark of the Infidels on face.<a id='r392' href='#f392' class='c012'><sup>[392]</sup></a> After this he came up to King Afridun and kissed his feet and stood before him; and the King said to him, "I desire thou go out against Sharrkan, King of Damascus, son of Omar bin al-Nu'uman, and deliver us from this @@ -9998,7 +9976,7 @@ and his horde of Infidels, even as though they were driving to the Fire, preceded by a herald, crying aloud in the Arabic tongue and saying, "Ho, sect of Mohammed (upon whom be salutation and salvation!), let none of you come out but your champion Sharrkan, -the Sword of Al-Islam, Lord of Damascus in Shám<a id='r393' /><a href='#f393' class='c012'><sup>[393]</sup></a>!" Nor had +the Sword of Al-Islam, Lord of Damascus in Shám<a id='r393' href='#f393' class='c012'><sup>[393]</sup></a>!" Nor had he made an end of speaking, when arose a tumult in the plain; all the people heard the strain and the whole moving bodies of the armies twain called to mind the Day of Complain. Then the @@ -10050,7 +10028,7 @@ had done and put forth his hand to bend it in mid-flight; but Sharrkan prevented him, and sped at him a second throw-spear which smote him and the point fell on his forehead, in the very centre of the sign of the Cross, and Allah hurried his soul to -the Fire and Dwelling-place dire.<a id='r394' /><a href='#f394' class='c012'><sup>[394]</sup></a> But when the Infidels saw +the Fire and Dwelling-place dire.<a id='r394' href='#f394' class='c012'><sup>[394]</sup></a> But when the Infidels saw <span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>Luka bin Shamlut fall slain, they buffeted their faces and they cried, "Alas!" and "Woe worth the day!" and called for aid upon the Abbots of the monasteries——And Shahrazad perceived @@ -10075,7 +10053,7 @@ together against Sharrkan; and, brandishing their scymitars and lances, rushed forward to the attack. Then army met army and breasts fell under hoof, whilst spear and sword ruled the day and fore-arms and wrists grew weak and the coursers seemed -created without legs;<a id='r395' /><a href='#f395' class='c012'><sup>[395]</sup></a> nor did the herald of war cease calling +created without legs;<a id='r395' href='#f395' class='c012'><sup>[395]</sup></a> nor did the herald of war cease calling to fight, till arms were aweary and day took flight and night came on with darkness dight. So the two hosts drew apart, whilst every brave staggered like a drunken knave, for that with so much cut @@ -10088,11 +10066,11 @@ Lord of the Worlds one and all!" Replied Zau al-Makan, "Let us never cease to praise Allah, for that He hath dispelled trouble from the Arab and the Ajam. Indeed the folk, generation after generation, shall tell of thy derring-do against the accursed Luka, -the falsifier of the Evangel;<a id='r396' /><a href='#f396' class='c012'><sup>[396]</sup></a> of thy catching the throw spear +the falsifier of the Evangel;<a id='r396' href='#f396' class='c012'><sup>[396]</sup></a> of thy catching the throw spear <span class='pageno' id='Page_227'>227</span>in mid-flight, and how the enemy of Allah among men thou didst smite; and thy fame shall endure until the end of time." Then said Sharrkan, "Harkye, O grand Chamberlain and doughty -Capitayne!" and he answered, "Adsum!"<a id='r397' /><a href='#f397' class='c012'><sup>[397]</sup></a> Quoth Sharrkan, +Capitayne!" and he answered, "Adsum!"<a id='r397' href='#f397' class='c012'><sup>[397]</sup></a> Quoth Sharrkan, "Take with thee the Wazir Dandan and twenty thousand horse, and lead them seven parasangs towards the sea, and force the march till ye shall have come near the shore, and there remain only @@ -10115,7 +10093,7 @@ himself the Wazir Dandan and twenty thousand men even as Sharrkan had commanded. As soon as dawned the morn, the <span class='pageno' id='Page_228'>228</span>troops sprung to horse when they had donned their armour-gear and drawn the scymitar and slung the spear. Then the Christians -dispread themselves over hill and dale and the Ecclesiasts<a id='r398' /><a href='#f398' class='c012'><sup>[398]</sup></a> cried +dispread themselves over hill and dale and the Ecclesiasts<a id='r398' href='#f398' class='c012'><sup>[398]</sup></a> cried out and all heads were bared, and those in the ships hoisted the Cross at their mast-heads and began making for shore from every side, and landed their horses and gat them ready for fight and fray, @@ -10137,15 +10115,15 @@ and Sharrkan held back and their troops gave way and feigned flight from before the enemy, while the Infidel array pressed hard upon them deeming them in rout, and made ready to foin and hew. Then the meiny of the Moslems raised their voices, reciting -the first verses of the Chapter of the Cow,<a id='r399' /><a href='#f399' class='c012'><sup>[399]</sup></a> whilst the dead were +the first verses of the Chapter of the Cow,<a id='r399' href='#f399' class='c012'><sup>[399]</sup></a> whilst the dead were trampled under hoofs of steeds, and the heralds of the Greeks cried out, "Ho, servants of the Messiah! Ho, people of the True -Faith! Ho, followers of the Primate!<a id='r400' /><a href='#f400' class='c012'><sup>[400]</sup></a> Verily Divine grace upon +Faith! Ho, followers of the Primate!<a id='r400' href='#f400' class='c012'><sup>[400]</sup></a> Verily Divine grace upon you opes; for see, the hosts of Al-Islam like birds with broken wings incline to elope! So turn ye not to them your backs, but let your swords cleave deep in their necks and hold not your hands from them, else are ye outcasts from the Messiah, Mary's son, who -spoke even when a cradled one!"<a id='r401' /><a href='#f401' class='c012'><sup>[401]</sup></a> Now Afridun, King of Constantinople, +spoke even when a cradled one!"<a id='r401' href='#f401' class='c012'><sup>[401]</sup></a> Now Afridun, King of Constantinople, <span class='pageno' id='Page_229'>229</span>deemed that the Infidels were victorious, knowing not that this was but a clever stratagem of the Moslems, and sent to King Hardub of Roum congratulations on success, adding, @@ -10198,7 +10176,7 @@ the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span>Laud not long hair,<a id='r402' /><a href='#f402' class='c012'><sup>[402]</sup></a> except it be dispread ✿ In two-fold locks, on day of fight and fray,</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span>Laud not long hair,<a id='r402' href='#f402' class='c012'><sup>[402]</sup></a> except it be dispread ✿ In two-fold locks, on day of fight and fray,</div> <div class='line'>O'er youth who bears his lance 'twixt flank and thigh, ✿ From many a whiskered knight to win the day.</div> </div> </div> @@ -10223,7 +10201,7 @@ thing distracteth not from other thing; in that thou hast been discomfiting the children of impiety and in rebellion revelling." Then cried the Cavalier to him saying, "Thou art he who madest brother-covenant with me but yesterday: how quickly thou hast -forgotten me!" Thereupon he withdrew his mouth-veil,<a id='r403' /><a href='#f403' class='c012'><sup>[403]</sup></a> so that +forgotten me!" Thereupon he withdrew his mouth-veil,<a id='r403' href='#f403' class='c012'><sup>[403]</sup></a> so that what was hidden of his beauty was disclosed, and lo! it was none other than Zau al-Makan. Then Sharrkan rejoiced in his brother, save that he feared for him the rush of fighting and the crush of @@ -10256,7 +10234,7 @@ champions, great or small, saved from bale and bane. Moreover, they took their ships, with all the money and treasure and cargo, save a score of keel, and the Moslems got that loot whose like was never gotten in bygone years; nor was such cut and thrust -ever heard of by men's ears.<a id='r404' /><a href='#f404' class='c012'><sup>[404]</sup></a> Now amongst the booty were +ever heard of by men's ears.<a id='r404' href='#f404' class='c012'><sup>[404]</sup></a> Now amongst the booty were fifty thousand horses, besides treasure and spoil past reckoning and arithmetic, whereat the Moslems rejoiced with an exceeding joy for that Allah had given them victory and protection. Such @@ -10278,7 +10256,7 @@ him all that had befallen them from the Moslem, and they wept into dismay for unheal; and they informed him concerning Luka son of Shamlut, how calamity had betided him and how Death had shot him with his shaft. Thereat the horrors of Doomday rose -upon King Afridun,<a id='r405' /><a href='#f405' class='c012'><sup>[405]</sup></a> and he knew that there was no making +upon King Afridun,<a id='r405' href='#f405' class='c012'><sup>[405]</sup></a> and he knew that there was no making straight their crook. Then came up from them the sound of weeping and wailing; the city was full of men mourning and the keeners were keening, and sighs and cries were heard from all @@ -10308,14 +10286,14 @@ but I desire to have some Christian dwellers of Syria, such as go out every month and year to sell their goods, that they may help me (for this they can do) in carrying out my plan." Replied the King, "Be it so whenever thou wilt." So she bade fetch an -hundred men, natives of Najrán,<a id='r406' /><a href='#f406' class='c012'><sup>[406]</sup></a> in Sham, and the King asked +hundred men, natives of Najrán,<a id='r406' href='#f406' class='c012'><sup>[406]</sup></a> in Sham, and the King asked <span class='pageno' id='Page_233'>233</span>them, "Have ye not heard what hath befallen the Christians with the Moslems?" "Yes," answered they; and he rejoined, "Know ye that this woman hath devoted her life to the Messiah and purposeth to go forth with you, disguised as Monotheists and Mohammedans, to work out a device which shall profit us and hinder the Moslem from us: say, then, are ye also willing to devote yourselves -to the Anointed and I will give you a quintal of gold?<a id='r407' /><a href='#f407' class='c012'><sup>[407]</sup></a> He of +to the Anointed and I will give you a quintal of gold?<a id='r407' href='#f407' class='c012'><sup>[407]</sup></a> He of you who escapeth shall have the money, and him of you who dieth will the Messiah reward." "O King," replied they, "we will devote our lives to the Messiah, and we will be thy sacrifice." Thereupon @@ -10347,7 +10325,7 @@ saying her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when King Afridun heard these words, he fell into a fainting-fit with his nose under his feet; and, as soon as he revived, fear fluttered the -scrotum<a id='r408' /><a href='#f408' class='c012'><sup>[408]</sup></a> below his belly and he complained to the ancient dame, +scrotum<a id='r408' href='#f408' class='c012'><sup>[408]</sup></a> below his belly and he complained to the ancient dame, Zat al-Dawahi. Now this accursed old woman was a witch of the witches, past mistress in sorcery and deception; wanton and wily, deboshed and deceptious; with foul breath, red eyelids, yellow @@ -10357,15 +10335,15 @@ back humped, skin withered and wan and nostrils which ever ran. Pilgrimage to the Holy House of Meccah and all this that she might come to the knowledge of the Mohammedan ordinances and the miraculous versets of the Koran; and she had professed -Judaism in the Holy City of Jerusalem<a id='r409' /><a href='#f409' class='c012'><sup>[409]</sup></a> for two years' space, that +Judaism in the Holy City of Jerusalem<a id='r409' href='#f409' class='c012'><sup>[409]</sup></a> for two years' space, that she might master the magic of men and demons; so that she was a plague of plagues and a pest of pests, wrong-headed as to belief and to no religion lief. Now the chief reason of her sojourn with her son, King Hardub of Greece, was on account of the slave -virgins at his court: for she was given to tribadism<a id='r410' /><a href='#f410' class='c012'><sup>[410]</sup></a> and could not +virgins at his court: for she was given to tribadism<a id='r410' href='#f410' class='c012'><sup>[410]</sup></a> and could not exist without sapphism or she went mad: so if any damsel pleased her, she was wont to teach her the art of rubbing clitoris -against clitoris and would anoint her with saffron<a id='r411' /><a href='#f411' class='c012'><sup>[411]</sup></a> till she fainted +against clitoris and would anoint her with saffron<a id='r411' href='#f411' class='c012'><sup>[411]</sup></a> till she fainted away for excess of volupty. Whoso obeyed her she was wont to favour and make her son incline towards her; but whoso repelled her she would contrive to destroy; and so she abode for a length @@ -10379,8 +10357,8 @@ of jewels and instructions; but Abrizah held aloof from her and sought refuge with the Omnipotent, the Omniscient; for, by Allah, right well quoth the poet:—</p> -<div class='figcenter id010'> -<img src='images/i_234fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id010'> +<img src='images/i_234fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -10426,12 +10404,12 @@ dealings!" Then she donned a gown of fine white wool and rubbed <span class='pageno' id='Page_236'>236</span>her forehead, till she made a great mark as of a scar and anointed it with an ointment of her own fashion, so that it shone with prodigious sheen. Now the old hag was lean-bodied and hollow-eyed, -and she bound her legs tightly round with cords<a id='r412' /><a href='#f412' class='c012'><sup>[412]</sup></a> just above her feet, +and she bound her legs tightly round with cords<a id='r412' href='#f412' class='c012'><sup>[412]</sup></a> just above her feet, till she drew near the Moslem camp, when she unwound them, leaving their marks deeply embedded in her ankles. Then she anointed the wheals with dragon's blood and bade her companions beat her with a severe beating, and set her in a chest and, quoth -she, "Cry abroad the Refrain of Unity,<a id='r413' /><a href='#f413' class='c012'><sup>[413]</sup></a> nor fear from it aught of +she, "Cry abroad the Refrain of Unity,<a id='r413' href='#f413' class='c012'><sup>[413]</sup></a> nor fear from it aught of damage!" Replied they, "How can we beat thee, who be our sovereign lady, Zat al-Dawahi, mother of the King we glory in?" Then said she, "We blame not nor deal reproach to him who goeth @@ -10455,7 +10433,7 @@ native land. We spent that night conversing about our journey, and when day broke, we saw figured upon the wall a human form; and as we drew nigh it, behold, it moved and said:—O Moslems, is there amongst you one who is minded to woo the favour of the -Lord of the three Worlds?<a id='r414' /><a href='#f414' class='c012'><sup>[414]</sup></a> How so? asked we; and the figure +Lord of the three Worlds?<a id='r414' href='#f414' class='c012'><sup>[414]</sup></a> How so? asked we; and the figure answered:—Know that Allah hath made me speak to you, to the <span class='pageno' id='Page_237'>237</span>intent that your faith be fortified, and that your belief embolden you and that you may go forth of the country of the Infidels and repair @@ -10463,11 +10441,11 @@ to the Moslem host; for with them wones the Sword of the Compassionate One, of our Age the Champion, King Sharrkan, by whom He shall conquer Constantinople town and destroy the sect of the Nazarene. And when ye shall have journeyed three days, you will -find an hermitage known as the Hermitage of the ascetic Matruhina<a id='r415' /><a href='#f415' class='c012'><sup>[415]</sup></a> +find an hermitage known as the Hermitage of the ascetic Matruhina<a id='r415' href='#f415' class='c012'><sup>[415]</sup></a> and containing a cell; visit it with pure intent and contrive to arrive there by force of will, for therein is a Religious from the Holy City, Jerusalem, by name Abdullah, and he is one of the devoutest of -mankind, endowed with the power of working saintly miracles<a id='r416' /><a href='#f416' class='c012'><sup>[416]</sup></a> such +mankind, endowed with the power of working saintly miracles<a id='r416' href='#f416' class='c012'><sup>[416]</sup></a> such as dispel doubts and obscurity. Certain of the monks seized him by fraud and shut him up in a souterrain where he hath lain a long time. By his deliverance you will please the Lord of Faithful Men, @@ -10586,7 +10564,7 @@ pacing to and fro across the plain. Now they had traversed great deserts and drink had been six days cut off from them, when they drew near this meadow and saw therein waters founting and ripe fruits flaunting and that land as it were Paradise; for it had -donned its adornments and decked itself.<a id='r417' /><a href='#f417' class='c012'><sup>[417]</sup></a> Gently waved the +donned its adornments and decked itself.<a id='r417' href='#f417' class='c012'><sup>[417]</sup></a> Gently waved the branches of its trees drunken with the new wine of the dew, and combined with the nectar of Tasnim the soft breathings of the morning breeze. Mind and gazer were confounded by its beauty, @@ -10607,7 +10585,7 @@ even as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The stream's a cheek by sunlight rosy dyed, ✿ Whose down<a id='r418' /><a href='#f418' class='c012'><sup>[418]</sup></a> is creeping shade of tamarisk-stems;</div> + <div class='line'>The stream's a cheek by sunlight rosy dyed, ✿ Whose down<a id='r418' href='#f418' class='c012'><sup>[418]</sup></a> is creeping shade of tamarisk-stems;</div> <div class='line'>Round legs of tree-trunks wavelets roll in rings ✿ Silvern, and blossoms are the diadems.</div> </div> </div> @@ -10639,11 +10617,11 @@ Sharrkan read it and said, "We will presently restore to you what hath been taken from you; but yet it behoveth you not to carry merchandise to the country of the Infidels." Replied they, "O our Lord, in very sooth Allah despatched us thither that we might -win what Gházi<a id='r419' /><a href='#f419' class='c012'><sup>[419]</sup></a> never won the like of, not even thou in all thy +win what Gházi<a id='r419' href='#f419' class='c012'><sup>[419]</sup></a> never won the like of, not even thou in all thy <span class='pageno' id='Page_241'>241</span>razzias." Asked Sharrkan, "What was it ye won?" "O King," answered they, "we will not tell thee save in private; for if this matter be noised among the folk, haply it may come to the ears of -some,<a id='r420' /><a href='#f420' class='c012'><sup>[420]</sup></a> and this will be the cause of our ruin and of the ruin of all +some,<a id='r420' href='#f420' class='c012'><sup>[420]</sup></a> and this will be the cause of our ruin and of the ruin of all Moslems who resort to the land of the Greeks." Now they had hidden the chest wherein was the damned Zat al-Dawahi. So Zau al-Makan and his brother brought them to a private place, where @@ -10674,7 +10652,7 @@ delivered him and slew the hermit, fearing for our lives; after which we made haste to fly for dread of death; but a trusty man told us that in this hermitage are quintals of gold and silver and stones of price." Then they fetched the chest and brought out the -accursed old woman, as she were a cassia-pod<a id='r421' /><a href='#f421' class='c012'><sup>[421]</sup></a> for excess of blackness +accursed old woman, as she were a cassia-pod<a id='r421' href='#f421' class='c012'><sup>[421]</sup></a> for excess of blackness and leanness, and she was laden with the same fetters and shackles. When Zau al-Makan and the bystanders saw her, they took her for a man of the best of Allah's devotees and surpassing @@ -10692,15 +10670,15 @@ to the delights of Paradise. I had indeed supplicated Him that I might return to my native land, not as a compensation for the sufferings decreed to me, but that I might die under the horse-hoofs of warriors fighting for the Faith who, being slain in -fray, live again without suffering death."<a id='r422' /><a href='#f422' class='c012'><sup>[422]</sup></a> Then she repeated the +fray, live again without suffering death."<a id='r422' href='#f422' class='c012'><sup>[422]</sup></a> Then she repeated the following couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our Fort is Tor,<a id='r423' /><a href='#f423' class='c012'><sup>[423]</sup></a> and flames the fire of fight: ✿ Moses art thou and this is time for aid:</div> - <div class='line'>Cast down thy rod, 'twill swallow all they wrought, ✿ Nor dread for men their ropes be vipers made:<a id='r424' /><a href='#f424' class='c012'><sup>[424]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>For Chapters read on fight-day lines of foes, ✿ And on their necks 'grave versets<a id='r425' /><a href='#f425' class='c012'><sup>[425]</sup></a> wi' thy blade!</div> + <div class='line'>Our Fort is Tor,<a id='r423' href='#f423' class='c012'><sup>[423]</sup></a> and flames the fire of fight: ✿ Moses art thou and this is time for aid:</div> + <div class='line'>Cast down thy rod, 'twill swallow all they wrought, ✿ Nor dread for men their ropes be vipers made:<a id='r424' href='#f424' class='c012'><sup>[424]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>For Chapters read on fight-day lines of foes, ✿ And on their necks 'grave versets<a id='r425' href='#f425' class='c012'><sup>[425]</sup></a> wi' thy blade!</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -10719,7 +10697,7 @@ But she said, "This is no time for eating; it is the time for worshipping the Requiting King." Then she stood up in the prayer-niche and remained praying till the night was spent; and she ceased not to do after this fashion for three days and nights, sitting -not but at the time of the Salám or salutation<a id='r426' /><a href='#f426' class='c012'><sup>[426]</sup></a> ending the several +not but at the time of the Salám or salutation<a id='r426' href='#f426' class='c012'><sup>[426]</sup></a> ending the several prayers. When Zau al-Makan saw her on this wise, firm belief in her gat hold of his heart and he said to Sharrkan, "Cause a tent of perfumed leather to be pitched for this Religious, and appoint a @@ -10764,7 +10742,7 @@ whence I know not, and I said to myself:—Who like me can walk the water? And my heart from that time hardened and Allah afflicted me with the love of travel. So I journeyed to Roum-land and visited every part for a whole year, and left no place but -therein I worshiped Allah. When I came to this spot,<a id='r427' /><a href='#f427' class='c012'><sup>[427]</sup></a> I clomb +therein I worshiped Allah. When I came to this spot,<a id='r427' href='#f427' class='c012'><sup>[427]</sup></a> I clomb the mountain and saw there an hermitage, inhabited by a monk called Matruhina, who, when he sighted me, came out and kissed my hands and feet and said:—Verily, I have seen thee since thou @@ -10774,7 +10752,7 @@ carried me into that hermitage, and brought me to a dark room; and, when I entered it unawares, he locked the door on me and left me there forty days, without meat or drink; for it was his intent to kill me by delay. It chanced one day, that a Knight -called Dakianús<a id='r428' /><a href='#f428' class='c012'><sup>[428]</sup></a> came to the hermitage, accompanied by ten +called Dakianús<a id='r428' href='#f428' class='c012'><sup>[428]</sup></a> came to the hermitage, accompanied by ten squires and his daughter Tamasil, a girl whose beauty was incomparable. When they entered that hermitage, the monk Matruhina told them of me, and the Knight said:—Bring him out, for surely @@ -10831,7 +10809,7 @@ daughter; and take her, for she is fit only for the King of the Age, Sharrkan, or King Zau al-Makan." Thereat they all rejoiced with the exception of the Wazir Dandan, who put scant faith in her story, for her words took no hold on his reason, and -signs of doubt in her and disbelief showed in his face.<a id='r429' /><a href='#f429' class='c012'><sup>[429]</sup></a> Yet +signs of doubt in her and disbelief showed in his face.<a id='r429' href='#f429' class='c012'><sup>[429]</sup></a> Yet he was confounded at her discourse, but he feared to speak with her for awe of the King. Then quoth the ancient dame, Zat al-Dawahi, "Verily, I fear lest the Knight come and, seeing these @@ -10885,7 +10863,7 @@ whilst the rest rode on before Zat al-Dawahi, who gained new strength for excess of joy, so that Zau al-Makan said, "Glory be to Him who sustaineth this holy man, whose like we never saw!" Now the witch had written a letter to the King of Constantinople -and despatched it on the wings of a bird,<a id='r430' /><a href='#f430' class='c012'><sup>[430]</sup></a> acquainting him with +and despatched it on the wings of a bird,<a id='r430' href='#f430' class='c012'><sup>[430]</sup></a> acquainting him with what had passed and ending, "I wish thee to send me ten thousand horsemen of the bravest of the Greeks and let them steal along the foot of the mountains with caution, lest the host of Al-Islam get @@ -10910,7 +10888,7 @@ Zau al-Makan and his brother Sharrkan and the Wazir Dandan and the escort, when they reached the hermitage they entered and met the Monk Matruhina, who came out to see who and what they were; whereupon quoth that pious man Zat al-Dawahi, -"Slay this damned fellow."<a id='r431' /><a href='#f431' class='c012'><sup>[431]</sup></a> So they smote him with their swords +"Slay this damned fellow."<a id='r431' href='#f431' class='c012'><sup>[431]</sup></a> So they smote him with their swords and made him drink the cup of death. Then the accursed old woman carried them to the place of offerings and ex votos, and brought out to them treasures and precious things more than she @@ -11039,7 +11017,7 @@ with twenty thousand horse to destroy these Unfaithfuls." Quoth Sharrkan, "How wilt thou pass to them, O thou holy man, seeing that the valley is blocked up on all sides by the Miscreants?" Quoth the accursed hag, "Allah will veil me from their eyes and they -shall not sight me;<a id='r432' /><a href='#f432' class='c012'><sup>[432]</sup></a> nor, if any saw me, would he dare to attack me +shall not sight me;<a id='r432' href='#f432' class='c012'><sup>[432]</sup></a> nor, if any saw me, would he dare to attack me at that time, for I shall be as one non-existing, absorbed in Allah, and He will fend off from me His foes." "Thou sayest sooth, O holy man," rejoined Sharrkan, "for indeed I have been witness of @@ -11205,7 +11183,7 @@ more left. Then quoth the Infidels to one another, "When shall these battle days have an end? We are weary of warring the <span class='pageno' id='Page_255'>255</span>Moslems." And quoth one of them, "Up and at them, for there remain of them but five-and-twenty men! If we cannot prevail -on them to fight, let us light a fire upon them;<a id='r433' /><a href='#f433' class='c012'><sup>[433]</sup></a> and if they submit +on them to fight, let us light a fire upon them;<a id='r433' href='#f433' class='c012'><sup>[433]</sup></a> and if they submit themselves and yield to us, we will take them prisoners; but if they refuse we will leave them for fuel to the fire, so shall they become to men of foreseeing mind a warning dire. May the @@ -11315,7 +11293,7 @@ themselves to fight and to sell their lives in the service of the Lord of Faithful Men; and while they were in this case, behold, they heard many voices voicing, "There is no god but <em>the</em> God! God is most great! Salutation and salvation upon the Apostle, the Bringer -of glad Tidings, the Bearer of bad Tidings!"<a id='r434' /><a href='#f434' class='c012'><sup>[434]</sup></a> So they turned +of glad Tidings, the Bearer of bad Tidings!"<a id='r434' href='#f434' class='c012'><sup>[434]</sup></a> So they turned towards the direction of the sound and saw a company of Moslems who believed in one God, pushing towards them, whereat their hearts were heartened and Sharrkan charged upon the Infidels @@ -11351,7 +11329,7 @@ and lo! they were like a flight of locusts or rain clouds raining rain; and the voices of the Moslems chanting the Koran and glorifying the Compassionate One, struck their ears. Now the Infidels knew of the approach of this host through Zat al-Dawahi -with her craft and whoredom,<a id='r435' /><a href='#f435' class='c012'><sup>[435]</sup></a> calumny and contrivance. And the +with her craft and whoredom,<a id='r435' href='#f435' class='c012'><sup>[435]</sup></a> calumny and contrivance. And the armies of Al-Islam drew near, as it were the swollen sea, for the multitude of footmen and horsemen and women and children. Then quoth the General of the Turks to the General of the @@ -11396,7 +11374,7 @@ towards her. So she turned into a wayside brake and hid her horse among the trees and she walked a while saying to herself, "Haply the Moslem hosts be returning, routed, from the assault of Constantinople." However, as she drew near them she looked -narrowly and made sure that their standards were not reversed,<a id='r436' /><a href='#f436' class='c012'><sup>[436]</sup></a> +narrowly and made sure that their standards were not reversed,<a id='r436' href='#f436' class='c012'><sup>[436]</sup></a> and she knew that they were coming not as conquered men, but fearing for their King and comrades. When she was assured of this, she hastened towards them, running at speed, like a devil of @@ -11412,11 +11390,11 @@ and a dreadful of the Infidels." And the damned witch repeated to them the story to fill them with trouble and terror, adding, "The most of them are dead, and there are but five-and-twenty men left." Said Bahram, "O holy man! when didst thou leave -them?" "But this night,"<a id='r437' /><a href='#f437' class='c012'><sup>[437]</sup></a> replied she. He cried, "Glory be to +them?" "But this night,"<a id='r437' href='#f437' class='c012'><sup>[437]</sup></a> replied she. He cried, "Glory be to Allah! to Him who hath rolled up the far distance for thee like a rug, so that thou hast sped thus walking upon thy feet and propt upon a mid-rib of palm-tree! But thou art one of the saints -which fly like birds when inspired and possessed by His directions."<a id='r438' /><a href='#f438' class='c012'><sup>[438]</sup></a> +which fly like birds when inspired and possessed by His directions."<a id='r438' href='#f438' class='c012'><sup>[438]</sup></a> Then he mounted his horse, and he was perplexed and confounded by what he had heard from the beldam so strong in lies and ill calumnies, and he said, "There is no Majesty and there @@ -11427,7 +11405,7 @@ the country, wide and side, night and day, and when morning dawned they reached the head of the defile and saw Zau al-Makan and Sharrkan shouting. "There is no god but <em>the</em> God! Allaho Akbar! and Salutation and Salvation upon the Congratulator, the -Comminator."<a id='r439' /><a href='#f439' class='c012'><sup>[439]</sup></a> Whereupon he and his drove at the Unbelievers +Comminator."<a id='r439' href='#f439' class='c012'><sup>[439]</sup></a> Whereupon he and his drove at the Unbelievers and whelmed them, as the rain-torrent whelms the waste; and cried out their war-cries, till fear gat hold of the prowest Knights and the mountains were cloven in affright. And when shone the @@ -11440,7 +11418,7 @@ befallen the party in the cave. Now thereat they marvelled and left our companions there, and our hearts are with them." So they hurried departure, commending themselves to the Subtle, the All-wise, and Zau al-Makan exhorted the Moslems to steadfastness -and versified in the following couplets:<a id='r440' /><a href='#f440' class='c012'><sup>[440]</sup></a>—</p> +and versified in the following couplets:<a id='r440' href='#f440' class='c012'><sup>[440]</sup></a>—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -11452,7 +11430,7 @@ and versified in the following couplets:<a id='r440' /><a href='#f440' class='c0 <div class='line'>Thou savedst from every fear I feared, by aid ✿ Of my Wazir, the Age's noblest he!</div> <div class='line'>Garred us Thy grace in fight to throw the Greek, ✿ Who yet came back dight in War's cramoisie:</div> <div class='line'>Then made I feint to fly from out the fight; ✿ But like grim lion turning made them flee,</div> - <div class='line'>And left on valley-sole my foemen, drunk ✿ Not with old wine<a id='r441' /><a href='#f441' class='c012'><sup>[441]</sup></a> but Death-cup's revelry:</div> + <div class='line'>And left on valley-sole my foemen, drunk ✿ Not with old wine<a id='r441' href='#f441' class='c012'><sup>[441]</sup></a> but Death-cup's revelry:</div> <div class='line'>Then came the Saintly Hermit, and he showed ✿ His marvels wrought for town and wold to see;</div> <div class='line'>When slew they hero-wights who woke to dwell ✿ In Eden bowers wherein sweet rill-lets well.</div> </div> @@ -11553,7 +11531,7 @@ column more dreadful than the dread of the Day of Doom. Horse and foot hastened up to look at it and know the terrors of the case, when behold, they saw it to be the recluse aforesaid; so they thronged round him to kiss his hands and he cried out, "O people -of the Best of Mankind,<a id='r442' /><a href='#f442' class='c012'><sup>[442]</sup></a> the lamp which shineth in darkness blind, +of the Best of Mankind,<a id='r442' href='#f442' class='c012'><sup>[442]</sup></a> the lamp which shineth in darkness blind, verily the Infidels have outwitted the Moslems by guile, for they fell upon the host of the One God whilst they deemed themselves safe from the Faithless, and attacked them in their tents and made @@ -11573,7 +11551,7 @@ razzias with King Omar bin al-Nu'uman and trodden the earth of these lands!" Said Sharrkan, "Put away from thee such evil thought, hast thou not seen this Holy Man exciting the Faithful to fight, and holding spears and swords light? So slander him not, -for backbiting is blameable and poisoned is the flesh of the pious.<a id='r443' /><a href='#f443' class='c012'><sup>[443]</sup></a> +for backbiting is blameable and poisoned is the flesh of the pious.<a id='r443' href='#f443' class='c012'><sup>[443]</sup></a> Look how he inciteth us to fight the foe; and, did not Almighty Allah love him, He had cast him aforetime into fearful torment." Then Sharrkan bade bring a Nubian mule for the ascetic to ride @@ -11585,7 +11563,7 @@ of whom the poet saith:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He prayeth and he fasteth for an end he doth espy; ✿ When once his end is safely won then fast and prayer good-bye.<a id='r444' /><a href='#f444' class='c012'><sup>[444]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>He prayeth and he fasteth for an end he doth espy; ✿ When once his end is safely won then fast and prayer good-bye.<a id='r444' href='#f444' class='c012'><sup>[444]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -11628,7 +11606,7 @@ this letter, and do ye bear it to your King Afridun, that he may read it and to my son King Hardub that they both do what is written therein of bidding and forbidding." So they let down for her a string and she tied thereto a letter whose purport was the following: -"From the terriblest of tribulations<a id='r445' /><a href='#f445' class='c012'><sup>[445]</sup></a> and the chiefest of all calamities, +"From the terriblest of tribulations<a id='r445' href='#f445' class='c012'><sup>[445]</sup></a> and the chiefest of all calamities, Zat al-Dawahi, to King Afridun greeting. But afterwards. Of a truth I have contrived a device for destroying the Moslems; so bide ye quiet and content. I have cozened and captured their @@ -11781,12 +11759,12 @@ a cavalier rode single-handed into the plain, mounted on a steed of purest strain, and for foray and fray full ready and fain. And that Knight had limbs of might and he was clad in an iron cuirass made for stress of fight. On his breast he wore a jewelled mirror -and in his hand he bore a keen scymitar and his lance of Khalanj-wood,<a id='r446' /><a href='#f446' class='c012'><sup>[446]</sup></a> +and in his hand he bore a keen scymitar and his lance of Khalanj-wood,<a id='r446' href='#f446' class='c012'><sup>[446]</sup></a> the curious work of the Frank, weighing a quintal. Then the rider uncovered his face and cried out, saying, "Whoso knoweth me verily hath enough of me, and whoso knoweth me -not right soon<a id='r447' /><a href='#f447' class='c012'><sup>[447]</sup></a> shall ken who I be. I am Afridun the overwhelmed -by the well-omened Shawáhi,<a id='r448' /><a href='#f448' class='c012'><sup>[448]</sup></a> Zat al-Dawahi." But he +not right soon<a id='r447' href='#f447' class='c012'><sup>[447]</sup></a> shall ken who I be. I am Afridun the overwhelmed +by the well-omened Shawáhi,<a id='r448' href='#f448' class='c012'><sup>[448]</sup></a> Zat al-Dawahi." But he had not ended speaking ere Sharrkan, the Champion of the Moslems, fared forth to meet him, mounted on a sorrel horse worth a thousand pieces of red gold with accoutrements purfled in pearls @@ -11811,7 +11789,7 @@ which is no liar, thou art nought save a doughty rider and a stalwart fighter; but thou art fraudful and thy nature is not that of the noble. I ken thy work is other than praiseworthy nor is thy prowess that of a Prince; for thy people behave to thee as -though thou wert a slave;<a id='r449' /><a href='#f449' class='c012'><sup>[449]</sup></a> and see! they bring thee out a charger +though thou wert a slave;<a id='r449' href='#f449' class='c012'><sup>[449]</sup></a> and see! they bring thee out a charger which is not thine, that thou mayst mount and return to the fight. But by the truth of my Faith, thy fighting irketh and fatigueth me and I am weary of cutting and thrusting with thee; and if thou @@ -11913,7 +11891,7 @@ dight, and King Zau al-Makan and Afridun made to charge one at other. But when Zau al-Makan fared forth into the field, there came with him the Wazir Dandan and the Chamberlain and Bahram, saying, "We will be thy sacrifice." He replied, "By the -Holy House and Zemzem and the Place!<a id='r450' /><a href='#f450' class='c012'><sup>[450]</sup></a> I will not be stayed +Holy House and Zemzem and the Place!<a id='r450' href='#f450' class='c012'><sup>[450]</sup></a> I will not be stayed from going forth against these wild asses." And when he rode out into the field he played with sword and spear till riders marvelled and both armies wondered; then he rushed upon the foe's right @@ -11933,7 +11911,7 @@ and its coat was jet black even as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='line'>On the glancing racer outracing glance ✿ He speeds, as though he would collar Doom:</div> <div class='line'>His steed's black coat is of darkest jet, ✿ And likest Night in her nightliest gloom:</div> <div class='line'>Whose neigh sounds glad to the hearer's ears ✿ Like thunders rolling in thund'rous boom:</div> - <div class='line'>If he race the wind he will lead the way, ✿ And the lightning-flash will behind him loom.<a id='r451' /><a href='#f451' class='c012'><sup>[451]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>If he race the wind he will lead the way, ✿ And the lightning-flash will behind him loom.<a id='r451' href='#f451' class='c012'><sup>[451]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -11943,7 +11921,7 @@ the marvellous qualities were stored in him; and they fell to drawing on and withdrawing till the breasts of the bystanders were straitened and they were weary of waiting for the event. At last Zau al-Makan cried out his war-cry and rushed upon Hardub, -King of Cæsarea,<a id='r452' /><a href='#f452' class='c012'><sup>[452]</sup></a> and struck him a stroke that shore head from +King of Cæsarea,<a id='r452' href='#f452' class='c012'><sup>[452]</sup></a> and struck him a stroke that shore head from trunk and slew him on the spot. When the Infidels saw this, they charged in a body, compact and united, upon Zau al-Makan, who met them amidfield, and they engaged in hewing and foining, till @@ -12222,7 +12200,7 @@ How well saith the poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Whatso is not to be no sleight shall bring to pass; ✿ What is to be without a failure shall become;</div> - <div class='line'>Soon the becoming fortune shall be found to be, ✿ And Folly's brother<a id='r453' /><a href='#f453' class='c012'><sup>[453]</sup></a> shall abide forlorn and glum."</div> + <div class='line'>Soon the becoming fortune shall be found to be, ✿ And Folly's brother<a id='r453' href='#f453' class='c012'><sup>[453]</sup></a> shall abide forlorn and glum."</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12236,7 +12214,7 @@ ceased not from pushing forward the siege of Constantinople for a length of days. And they being thus, behold, news arrived from Baghdad, by one of the Emirs to the effect that the King's wife had been blessed with a boy, and that his sister, Nuzhat al-Zaman, -had named him Kanmakan.<a id='r454' /><a href='#f454' class='c012'><sup>[454]</sup></a> Moreover, that the boy bid fair to +had named him Kanmakan.<a id='r454' href='#f454' class='c012'><sup>[454]</sup></a> Moreover, that the boy bid fair to be famous, already showing wondrous signs and marvellous tokens; and that she had commanded the Olema and the preachers to pray for mother and child from the pulpits and bless them in all @@ -12263,7 +12241,7 @@ her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when they brought him the news of his wife having borne him a boy child, Zau al-Makan rejoiced with great joy and cried, "Now is my back -strengthened, for that I have been blessed with a son<a id='r455' /><a href='#f455' class='c012'><sup>[455]</sup></a> whose +strengthened, for that I have been blessed with a son<a id='r455' href='#f455' class='c012'><sup>[455]</sup></a> whose name is Kanmakan." And he spake to the Wazir Dandan, saying, "I am minded to leave this mourning and order perlections of the Koran for my brother and command almsdeeds on his account." @@ -12279,7 +12257,7 @@ these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They bore him bier'd, and all who followed wept ✿ With Moses' shrieks what day o'erhead shook Tor;<a id='r456' /><a href='#f456' class='c012'><sup>[456]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>They bore him bier'd, and all who followed wept ✿ With Moses' shrieks what day o'erhead shook Tor;<a id='r456' href='#f456' class='c012'><sup>[456]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Till reached the grave which Fate had made his home, ✿ Dug in men's souls who one sole God adore:</div> <div class='line'>Ne'er had I thought before to see my joy ✿ Borne on the bier which heads of bearers bore:</div> <div class='line'>Ah no! nor ere they homed thee in the dust ✿ That stars of heaven earth ever covered o'er.</div> @@ -12318,8 +12296,8 @@ reciting the following pentastichs:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Where gone is Bounty since thy hand is turned to clay? ✿ And I in misery lie since thou wast ta'en away.</div> - <div class='line'>See'st not, O litter-guide<a id='r457' /><a href='#f457' class='c012'><sup>[457]</sup></a> (Heaven keep thee glad and gay!), ✿ How tears adorn my cheeks, these furrowed wrinkles fray?</div> - <div class='line in8'>A sight to joy thine eyes and fill thee with dismay.<a id='r458' /><a href='#f458' class='c012'><sup>[458]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>See'st not, O litter-guide<a id='r457' href='#f457' class='c012'><sup>[457]</sup></a> (Heaven keep thee glad and gay!), ✿ How tears adorn my cheeks, these furrowed wrinkles fray?</div> + <div class='line in8'>A sight to joy thine eyes and fill thee with dismay.<a id='r458' href='#f458' class='c012'><sup>[458]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>By Allah ne'er this heart within I spoke of thee; ✿ Ah no! nor dared my sight to see thy brilliancy:</div> <div class='line'>Save that my tear-drops sorest wound have garred me dree ✿ Yea! and if e'er on other rest these eyne of me,</div> <div class='line in8'>May yearning draw their reins nor suffer sleep to see.</div> @@ -12380,9 +12358,9 @@ gladness! Know, O auspicious King, that there reached my ears a relation of a lover and a loved one and of the discourse between them and what befel them of things rare and fair, a story such as repelleth care from the heart and dispelleth sorrow like unto that -of the patriarch Jacob<a id='r459' /><a href='#f459' class='c012'><sup>[459]</sup></a>; and it is as follows:—</p> +of the patriarch Jacob<a id='r459' href='#f459' class='c012'><sup>[459]</sup></a>; and it is as follows:—</p> -<h3 class='c014'><em>TALE OF TAJ AL-MULUK AND THE PRINCESS DUNYA:<br /> THE LOVER AND THE LOVED.</em></h3> +<h3 class='c014'><em>TALE OF TAJ AL-MULUK AND THE PRINCESS DUNYA:<br > THE LOVER AND THE LOVED.</em></h3> <p class='c015'>There stood in times long gone by behind the Mountains of Ispahan, a city hight the Green City, wherein dwelt a King named @@ -12428,12 +12406,12 @@ of witnesses, so may accrue to me the favour of the Lord of all Creatures." Said the Wazir, "O King, verily Allah hath fulfilled thy wish and hath brought thee to thy desire;" presently adding, "Know, O King, it hath come to my knowledge that King -Zahr Shah,<a id='r460' /><a href='#f460' class='c012'><sup>[460]</sup></a> Lord of the White Land, hath a daughter of surpassing +Zahr Shah,<a id='r460' href='#f460' class='c012'><sup>[460]</sup></a> Lord of the White Land, hath a daughter of surpassing <span class='pageno' id='Page_285'>285</span>loveliness whose charms talk and tale fail to express: she hath not her equal in this age, for she is perfect in proportion and symmetry, black eyed as if Kohl-dyed and long locked, wee of waist and heavy of hip. When she draweth nigh she seduceth and when she turneth -her back<a id='r461' /><a href='#f461' class='c012'><sup>[461]</sup></a> she slayeth; she ravisheth heart and view and she looketh +her back<a id='r461' href='#f461' class='c012'><sup>[461]</sup></a> she slayeth; she ravisheth heart and view and she looketh even as saith of her the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -12469,7 +12447,7 @@ her." Replied the Wazir, "I hear and I obey." Then he hied to his own house and bade make ready presents befitting Kings, of precious stones and things of price and other matters light of load but weighty of worth, besides Rabite steeds and coats of mail, such -<span class='pageno' id='Page_286'>286</span>as David made<a id='r462' /><a href='#f462' class='c012'><sup>[462]</sup></a> and chests of treasure for which speech hath no +<span class='pageno' id='Page_286'>286</span>as David made<a id='r462' href='#f462' class='c012'><sup>[462]</sup></a> and chests of treasure for which speech hath no measure. And the Wazir loaded the whole on camels and mules, and set out attended by an hundred slave-girls with flags and banners flaunting over his head. The King charged him to return to @@ -12498,11 +12476,11 @@ and Lieutenants and Lords of the land, and go out to meet the ambassador in honour of King Sulayman Shah; for that his dominion extended over the country. Such was the case with Zahr Shah; but as regards the Wazir he abode in his stead till night was -half spent<a id='r463' /><a href='#f463' class='c012'><sup>[463]</sup></a> and then set out for the city; but when morning shone +half spent<a id='r463' href='#f463' class='c012'><sup>[463]</sup></a> and then set out for the city; but when morning shone <span class='pageno' id='Page_287'>287</span>and the sun rose upon hill and down, of a sudden he saw King Zahr Shah's Wazir approaching him, with his Chamberlains and high Lords and Chief Officers of the kingdom; and the two parties -joined company at some parasangs' distance from the city.<a id='r464' /><a href='#f464' class='c012'><sup>[464]</sup></a> Thereat +joined company at some parasangs' distance from the city.<a id='r464' href='#f464' class='c012'><sup>[464]</sup></a> Thereat the Wazir made sure of the success of his errand and saluted the escort, which ceased not preceding him till they reached the King's palace and passed in before him through the gate to the seventh @@ -12674,7 +12652,7 @@ in him was approved the saying of the poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_291'>291</span>In the towering forts Allah throned him King, ✿ A lion, a star in the skies of reign:</div> - <div class='line'>At his rising the spear and the throne rejoiced, ✿ The gazelle, the ostrich, the men of main:<a id='r465' /><a href='#f465' class='c012'><sup>[465]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>At his rising the spear and the throne rejoiced, ✿ The gazelle, the ostrich, the men of main:<a id='r465' href='#f465' class='c012'><sup>[465]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Mount him not on the paps, for right soon he'll show ✿ That to throne on the war-steed's loins he's fain:</div> <div class='line'>And wean him from sucking of milk, for soon ✿ A sweeter drink, the foe's blood, he'll drain.</div> </div> @@ -12682,8 +12660,8 @@ in him was approved the saying of the poet:—</p> </div> <p class='c000'>Then the midwives took the newborn child and cut the navel-cord -and darkened his eyelids with Kohl-powder<a id='r466' /><a href='#f466' class='c012'><sup>[466]</sup></a> and named him Táj -al-Mulúk Khárán.<a id='r467' /><a href='#f467' class='c012'><sup>[467]</sup></a> He was suckled at the breast of fond indulgence +and darkened his eyelids with Kohl-powder<a id='r466' href='#f466' class='c012'><sup>[466]</sup></a> and named him Táj +al-Mulúk Khárán.<a id='r467' href='#f467' class='c012'><sup>[467]</sup></a> He was suckled at the breast of fond indulgence and was reared in the lap of happy fortune; and thus his days ceased not running and the years passing by till he reached the age of seven. Thereupon Sulayman Shah summoned the @@ -12729,7 +12707,7 @@ him:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>When he reached the eighteenth year of his age, tender down<a id='r468' /><a href='#f468' class='c012'><sup>[468]</sup></a> +<p class='c000'>When he reached the eighteenth year of his age, tender down<a id='r468' href='#f468' class='c012'><sup>[468]</sup></a> sprouted, on his side-face fresh with youth, from a mole upon one rosy cheek and a second beauty-spot, like a grain of ambergris, adorned the other; and he won the wits and eyes of every wight @@ -12739,7 +12717,7 @@ who looked on him, even as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>He is Caliph of Beauty in Yúsufs lieu, ✿ And all lovers fear when they sight his grace:</div> - <div class='line'>Pause and gaze with me; on his cheek thou'lt sight ✿ The Caliphate's banner of sable hue.<a id='r469' /><a href='#f469' class='c012'><sup>[469]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Pause and gaze with me; on his cheek thou'lt sight ✿ The Caliphate's banner of sable hue.<a id='r469' href='#f469' class='c012'><sup>[469]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12760,7 +12738,7 @@ who looked on him, even as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I marvel seeing yon mole that serves his cheeks' bright flame ✿ Yet burneth not in fire albeit Infidel<a id='r470' /><a href='#f470' class='c012'><sup>[470]</sup></a>;</div> + <div class='line'>I marvel seeing yon mole that serves his cheeks' bright flame ✿ Yet burneth not in fire albeit Infidel<a id='r470' href='#f470' class='c012'><sup>[470]</sup></a>;</div> <div class='line'>I wonder eke to see that apostolic glance, ✿ Miracle-working, though it work by magic spell:</div> <div class='line'>How fresh and bright the down that decks his cheek, and yet ✿ Bursten gall-bladders feed which e'en as waters well.</div> </div> @@ -12774,7 +12752,7 @@ who looked on him, even as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I marvel hearing people questioning of ✿ The Fount of Life and in what land 'tis found:</div> <div class='line'>I see it sprung from lips of dainty fawn, ✿ Sweet rosy mouth with green mustachio down'd:</div> - <div class='line'>And wondrous wonder 'tis when Moses viewed ✿ That Fount, he rested not from weary round.<a id='r471' /><a href='#f471' class='c012'><sup>[471]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>And wondrous wonder 'tis when Moses viewed ✿ That Fount, he rested not from weary round.<a id='r471' href='#f471' class='c012'><sup>[471]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12801,7 +12779,7 @@ obeyed his words and staked out a wide circle with toils; and there gathered together a mighty matter of all kinds of wild beasts and gazelles, which cried out for fear of the men and threw themselves for fright in the face of the horses. Then they loosed on -to them the hounds and lynxes<a id='r472' /><a href='#f472' class='c012'><sup>[472]</sup></a> and hawks;<a id='r473' /><a href='#f473' class='c012'><sup>[473]</sup></a> and they shot the +to them the hounds and lynxes<a id='r472' href='#f472' class='c012'><sup>[472]</sup></a> and hawks;<a id='r473' href='#f473' class='c012'><sup>[473]</sup></a> and they shot the quarry down with shafts which pierced their vitals; and, by the <span class='pageno' id='Page_294'>294</span>time they came to the further end of the net-ring, they had taken a great number of the wild beasts, and the rest fled. Then @@ -12814,7 +12792,7 @@ morning dawned there came up a caravan of merchants conveying negro slaves and white servants, and halted by the water and the green ground. When Taj al-Muluk saw them, he said to one of his companions, "Bring me news of yonder men and question -them why they have halted in this place.<a id='r474' /><a href='#f474' class='c012'><sup>[474]</sup></a>" So the messenger +them why they have halted in this place.<a id='r474' href='#f474' class='c012'><sup>[474]</sup></a>" So the messenger went up to them and addressed them, "Tell me who ye be, and answer me an answer without delay." Replied they, "We are merchants and have halted to rest, for that the next station is @@ -12885,8 +12863,8 @@ distracted air, and versified in these couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>Beware her glance I rede thee, 'tis like wizard-wight, ✿ None can escape unscathed those eye-shafts' glancing flight:</div> <div class='line'>In very sooth black eyes, with languorous sleepy look, ✿ Pierce deeper than white swords however these may bite.</div> <div class='line'>Be not thy senses by her sweets of speech beguiled, ✿ Whose brooding fever shall ferment in thought and sprite:</div> - <div class='line'>Soft-sided Fair,<a id='r475' /><a href='#f475' class='c012'><sup>[475]</sup></a> did silk but press upon her skin, ✿ 'Twould draw red blood from it, as thou thyself canst sight.</div> - <div class='line'>Chary is she of charms twixt neck and anklets dwell; ✿ And ah! what other scent shall cause me such delight?<a id='r476' /><a href='#f476' class='c012'><sup>[476]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Soft-sided Fair,<a id='r475' href='#f475' class='c012'><sup>[475]</sup></a> did silk but press upon her skin, ✿ 'Twould draw red blood from it, as thou thyself canst sight.</div> + <div class='line'>Chary is she of charms twixt neck and anklets dwell; ✿ And ah! what other scent shall cause me such delight?<a id='r476' href='#f476' class='c012'><sup>[476]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12903,7 +12881,7 @@ what thou hast and acquaint me with thy circumstance; for I see thee weeping-eyed and heavy-hearted. If thou have been oppressed, we will end thine oppression, and if thou be in debt, we will pay thy debt; for of a truth my heart burneth to see thee, -since I first set eyes on thee."<a id='r477' /><a href='#f477' class='c012'><sup>[477]</sup></a> Then Taj al-Muluk bade the +since I first set eyes on thee."<a id='r477' href='#f477' class='c012'><sup>[477]</sup></a> Then Taj al-Muluk bade the seats be set, and they brought him a chair of ivory and ebony with a net-work of gold and silk, and spread him a silken rug for his feet. So he sat down on the chair and bidding the youth seat @@ -12938,7 +12916,7 @@ thigh; and his reason wandered, and he began versifying:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_297'>297</span>When shall be healed of thee this heart that ever bides in woe? ✿ Than thee the Pleiad-stars more chance of happy meeting show.</div> - <div class='line'>Parting and banishment and longing pain and lowe of love, ✿ Procrastinating<a id='r478' /><a href='#f478' class='c012'><sup>[478]</sup></a> and delay—these ills my life lay low:</div> + <div class='line'>Parting and banishment and longing pain and lowe of love, ✿ Procrastinating<a id='r478' href='#f478' class='c012'><sup>[478]</sup></a> and delay—these ills my life lay low:</div> <div class='line'>Nor union bids me live in joy, nor parting kills by grief, ✿ Nor travel draws me nearer thee nor nearer comest thou:</div> <div class='line'>Of thee no justice may be had, in thee dwells naught of ruth; ✿ Nor gain of grace by side of thee, nor flight from thee I know:</div> <div class='line'>For love of thee all goings forth and comings back are strait ✿ On me; and I am puzzled sore to know where I shall go.</div> @@ -12978,7 +12956,7 @@ sighs and groans, and repeated these verses:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_298'>298</span>Now blame him not; for blame brings only irk and pain! ✿ Indeed, I spake him sooth but ne'er his ear could gain:</div> - <div class='line'>May Allah guard my moon which riseth in the vale ✿ Beside our camp, from loosed robe like skyey plain:<a id='r479' /><a href='#f479' class='c012'><sup>[479]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>May Allah guard my moon which riseth in the vale ✿ Beside our camp, from loosed robe like skyey plain:<a id='r479' href='#f479' class='c012'><sup>[479]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>I left him but had Love vouchsafed to leave for me ✿ Some peace in life such leave of him I ne'er had ta'en:</div> <div class='line'>How long he pleaded for my sake on parting morn, ✿ While down his cheeks and mine tears ran in railing rain:</div> <div class='line'>Allah belie me not: the garb of mine excuse ✿ This parting rent, but I will mend that garb again!</div> @@ -12999,14 +12977,14 @@ on it these figures and emblems." Hereupon, he spread out the piece of linen, and behold, thereon was the figure of a gazelle wrought in silk and worked with red gold, and facing it was another gazelle traced in silver with a neck-ring of red gold and -three bugles<a id='r480' /><a href='#f480' class='c012'><sup>[480]</sup></a> of chrysolite upon the ring. When Taj al-Muluk saw +three bugles<a id='r480' href='#f480' class='c012'><sup>[480]</sup></a> of chrysolite upon the ring. When Taj al-Muluk saw the beauty of these figures, he exclaimed, "Glory be to Allah who -teacheth man that which he knoweth not!"<a id='r481' /><a href='#f481' class='c012'><sup>[481]</sup></a> And his heart +teacheth man that which he knoweth not!"<a id='r481' href='#f481' class='c012'><sup>[481]</sup></a> And his heart yearned to hear the youth's story; so he said to him, "Tell me thy story with her who owned these gazelles." Replied the young man:—Hear, O my Lord, the</p> -<h3 class='c014'><em>TALE OF AZIZ AND AZIZAH.</em><a id='r482' /><a href='#f482' class='c012'><sup>[482]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 class='c014'><em>TALE OF AZIZ AND AZIZAH.</em><a id='r482' href='#f482' class='c012'><sup>[482]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c015'>My father was a wealthy merchant and Allah had vouchsafed him no other child than myself; but I had a cousin, Azízah hight, @@ -13077,7 +13055,7 @@ owned these gazelles. And lo! she was looking out of a wicket in a lattice of brass and never saw my eyes a fairer than she; and in fine my tongue faileth to describe her beauty. When she caught sight of me looking at her, she put her forefinger into her mouth, -then joined her middle finger and her witness-finger<a id='r483' /><a href='#f483' class='c012'><sup>[483]</sup></a> and laid +then joined her middle finger and her witness-finger<a id='r483' href='#f483' class='c012'><sup>[483]</sup></a> and laid them on her bosom, between her breasts; after which she drew in her head and closed the wicket-shutter and went her ways. Thereupon fire broke out in and was heaped upon my heart, and greater @@ -13088,7 +13066,7 @@ second time, but found it shut and waited patiently till sundown, but sensed no sound and saw no one in view. So when I despaired of seeing her again, I rose from my place and taking up the handkerchief, opened it, when there breathed from it a scent of musk -which caused me so great delight I became as one in Paradise.<a id='r484' /><a href='#f484' class='c012'><sup>[484]</sup></a> +which caused me so great delight I became as one in Paradise.<a id='r484' href='#f484' class='c012'><sup>[484]</sup></a> Then I spread it before me and out dropped from it a delicate little scroll; whereupon I opened the paper which was perfumed with a delicious perfume, and therein were writ these couplets:—</p> @@ -13103,14 +13081,14 @@ with a delicious perfume, and therein were writ these couplets:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_301'>301</span>And after casting my eyes on the beauty of the kerchief,<a id='r485' /><a href='#f485' class='c012'><sup>[485]</sup></a> I saw +<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_301'>301</span>And after casting my eyes on the beauty of the kerchief,<a id='r485' href='#f485' class='c012'><sup>[485]</sup></a> I saw upon one of its two borders the following couplets worked in with the needle:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>His cheek-down writeth (O fair fall the goodly scribe!) ✿ Two lines on table of his face in Rayhán-hand:<a id='r486' /><a href='#f486' class='c012'><sup>[486]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>His cheek-down writeth (O fair fall the goodly scribe!) ✿ Two lines on table of his face in Rayhán-hand:<a id='r486' href='#f486' class='c012'><sup>[486]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>O the wild marvel of the Moon when comes he forth! ✿ And when he bends, O shame to every Willow-wand!</div> </div> </div> @@ -13148,7 +13126,7 @@ great store of money." And she ended by asking, "What hath befallen thee this day to make thee delay till now?; and why hast thou allowed that to happen which happened because of thine absence?" Answered I, "O daughter of mine uncle, question me -not concerning what hath befallen me."<a id='r487' /><a href='#f487' class='c012'><sup>[487]</sup></a> Then I told her all that +not concerning what hath befallen me."<a id='r487' href='#f487' class='c012'><sup>[487]</sup></a> Then I told her all that <span class='pageno' id='Page_302'>302</span>had passed from beginning to end, and showed her the handkerchief. She took the scroll and read what was written therein; and tears ran down her cheeks and she repeated these cinquains:—</p> @@ -13188,7 +13166,7 @@ from its eyelids, and perforce I cannot but aid thee to thy desire and aid her also to her desire; for she is whelmed in passion for thee even as thou for her." Asked I, "And what is the interpretation of her signs?"; and Azizah answered, "As for the putting -her finger in her mouth,<a id='r488' /><a href='#f488' class='c012'><sup>[488]</sup></a> it showed that thou art to her as her soul +her finger in her mouth,<a id='r488' href='#f488' class='c012'><sup>[488]</sup></a> it showed that thou art to her as her soul to her body and that she would bite into union with thee with her wisdom teeth. As for the kerchief, it betokeneth that her breath <span class='pageno' id='Page_303'>303</span>of life is bound up in thee. As for the placing her two fingers on @@ -13238,7 +13216,7 @@ times, dipping it and raising it as often. Then she wrung it out and folded it in her hands, bending down her head the while; after which she drew it in from the lattice and, shutting the wicket-shutter, went away without a single word; nay, she left me confounded and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_304'>304</span>knowing not what signified her signs.<a id='r489' /><a href='#f489' class='c012'><sup>[489]</sup></a> I tarried sitting there till +<span class='pageno' id='Page_304'>304</span>knowing not what signified her signs.<a id='r489' href='#f489' class='c012'><sup>[489]</sup></a> I tarried sitting there till supper-time and did not return home till near midnight; and there I found the daughter of my uncle with her cheek propt in her hand and her eyelids pouring forth tears; and she was repeating these @@ -13248,11 +13226,11 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Woe's me! why should the blamer gar thee blaming trow? ✿ How be consoled for thee that art so tender bough?</div> - <div class='line'>Bright being! on my vitals dost thou prey, and drive ✿ My heart before platonic passion's<a id='r490' /><a href='#f490' class='c012'><sup>[490]</sup></a> force to bow.</div> - <div class='line'>Thy Turk-like<a id='r491' /><a href='#f491' class='c012'><sup>[491]</sup></a> glances havoc deal in core of me, ✿ As furbished sword thin-ground at curve could never show:</div> + <div class='line'>Bright being! on my vitals dost thou prey, and drive ✿ My heart before platonic passion's<a id='r490' href='#f490' class='c012'><sup>[490]</sup></a> force to bow.</div> + <div class='line'>Thy Turk-like<a id='r491' href='#f491' class='c012'><sup>[491]</sup></a> glances havoc deal in core of me, ✿ As furbished sword thin-ground at curve could never show:</div> <div class='line'>Thou weigh'st me down with weight of care, while I have not ✿ Strength e'en to bear my shift, so weakness lays me low:</div> <div class='line'>Indeed I weep blood-tears to hear the blamer say:—✿ "The lashes of thy lover's eyne shall pierce thee through!"</div> - <div class='line'>Thou hast, my prince of loveliness! an Overseer,<a id='r492' /><a href='#f492' class='c012'><sup>[492]</sup></a> ✿ Who wrongs me, and a Groom<a id='r493' /><a href='#f493' class='c012'><sup>[493]</sup></a> who beats me down with brow.</div> + <div class='line'>Thou hast, my prince of loveliness! an Overseer,<a id='r492' href='#f492' class='c012'><sup>[492]</sup></a> ✿ Who wrongs me, and a Groom<a id='r493' href='#f493' class='c012'><sup>[493]</sup></a> who beats me down with brow.</div> <div class='line'>He foully lies who says all loveliness belonged ✿ To Joseph, in thy loveliness is many a Joe:</div> <div class='line'>I force myself to turn from thee, in deadly fright ✿ Of spies; and what the force that turns away my sight!</div> </div> @@ -13268,7 +13246,7 @@ Quoth she, "O my cousin, as for her sign to thee with her palm and five fingers its interpretation is, Return after five days; and the putting forth of her head out of the window, and her gestures with the mirror and the letting down and raising up and wringing out of -the red kerchief,<a id='r494' /><a href='#f494' class='c012'><sup>[494]</sup></a> signify, Sit in the dyer's shop till my messenger +the red kerchief,<a id='r494' href='#f494' class='c012'><sup>[494]</sup></a> signify, Sit in the dyer's shop till my messenger come to thee." When I heard her words fire flamed up in my heart and I exclaimed, "O daughter of my uncle, thou sayest sooth in this thine interpretation; for I saw in the street the shop of a @@ -13290,9 +13268,9 @@ when my cousin rose and warmed some water and bathed me with it. Then she dressed me in my best and said to me, "Repair to her and Allah fulfil thy wish and bring thee to thy desire of thy beloved!" So I went out and ceased not walking on till I came -to the upper end of the by-street. As it was the Sabbath<a id='r495' /><a href='#f495' class='c012'><sup>[495]</sup></a> I found +to the upper end of the by-street. As it was the Sabbath<a id='r495' href='#f495' class='c012'><sup>[495]</sup></a> I found <span class='pageno' id='Page_306'>306</span>the dyer's shop locked and sat before it, till I heard the call to -mid afternoon prayer. Then the sun yellowed and the Mu'ezzins<a id='r496' /><a href='#f496' class='c012'><sup>[496]</sup></a> +mid afternoon prayer. Then the sun yellowed and the Mu'ezzins<a id='r496' href='#f496' class='c012'><sup>[496]</sup></a> chanted the call to sundown-prayer and the night came; but I saw no sign nor heard one word, nor knew any news of her. So I feared for my life sitting there alone; and at last I arose and @@ -13304,7 +13282,7 @@ was sighing and groaning and repeating these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The longing of an Arab lass forlorn of kith and kin ✿ (Who to Hijázian willow-wand and myrtle<a id='r497' /><a href='#f497' class='c012'><sup>[497]</sup></a> doth incline,</div> + <div class='line'>The longing of an Arab lass forlorn of kith and kin ✿ (Who to Hijázian willow-wand and myrtle<a id='r497' href='#f497' class='c012'><sup>[497]</sup></a> doth incline,</div> <div class='line'>And who, when meeting caravan, shall with love-lowe set light ✿ To bivouac-fire, and bring for drink her tears of pain and pine)</div> <div class='line'>Exceeds not mine for him nor more devotion shows, but he ✿ Seeing my heart is wholly his spurns love as sin indign.</div> </div> @@ -13338,7 +13316,7 @@ merchant continued to Taj al-Muluk:—Now when I kicked the daughter of my uncle in the breast she fell on the edge of the raised pavement in the saloon and her brow struck upon a wooden peg. Thereby her forehead was cut open and the blood ran down, -but she was silent and did not utter a single sound.<a id='r498' /><a href='#f498' class='c012'><sup>[498]</sup></a> Presently +but she was silent and did not utter a single sound.<a id='r498' href='#f498' class='c012'><sup>[498]</sup></a> Presently she rose up, and made some tinder of rags, then staunching with it the bleeding wound, bound her forehead with a bandage; after which she wiped up the blood that had fallen on the carpet, and @@ -13454,7 +13432,7 @@ to her this couplet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ho, lovers all! by Allah say me sooth ✿ What shall he do when love sore vexeth youth?<a id='r499' /><a href='#f499' class='c012'><sup>[499]</sup></a>"</div> + <div class='line'>Ho, lovers all! by Allah say me sooth ✿ What shall he do when love sore vexeth youth?<a id='r499' href='#f499' class='c012'><sup>[499]</sup></a>"</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -13469,12 +13447,12 @@ with a dome of ivory and ebony, and the lamp hung from the midst of the dome. The floor was spread with silken carpets embroidered in gold and silver, and under the lamp stood a great candle, burning in a candelabrum of gold. In mid-pavilion was -a fountain adorned with all manner of figures;<a id='r500' /><a href='#f500' class='c012'><sup>[500]</sup></a> and by its side +a fountain adorned with all manner of figures;<a id='r500' href='#f500' class='c012'><sup>[500]</sup></a> and by its side stood a table covered with a silken napkin, and on its edge a great porcelain bottle full of wine, with a cup of crystal inlaid with gold. Near all these was a large tray of silver covered over, and when I uncovered it I found therein fruits of every kind, figs and pomegranates, -grapes and oranges, citrons and shaddocks<a id='r501' /><a href='#f501' class='c012'><sup>[501]</sup></a> disposed +grapes and oranges, citrons and shaddocks<a id='r501' href='#f501' class='c012'><sup>[501]</sup></a> disposed amongst an infinite variety of sweet-scented flowers, such as rose, jasmine, myrtle, eglantine, narcissus and all sorts of sweet-smelling herbs. I was charmed with the place and I joyed with exceeding @@ -13510,7 +13488,7 @@ and being famished for food I went up to the table and raised the cover and found in the middle a china dish containing four chickens reddened with roasting and seasoned with spices, round the which were four saucers, one containing sweetmeats, another conserve of -pomegranate-seeds, a third almond-pastry<a id='r502' /><a href='#f502' class='c012'><sup>[502]</sup></a> and a fourth honey +pomegranate-seeds, a third almond-pastry<a id='r502' href='#f502' class='c012'><sup>[502]</sup></a> and a fourth honey fritters; and the contents of these saucers were part sweet and part sour. So I ate of the fritters and a piece of meat, then went on to the almond-cakes and ate what I could; after which I fell @@ -13557,7 +13535,7 @@ had passed, and she smiled again a smile of reproach and said, "Verily, my heart is full of pain; but may he not live who would hurt thy heart! Indeed, this woman maketh herself inordinately dear and difficult to thee, and by Allah, O son of my uncle, I fear -for thee from her.<a id='r503' /><a href='#f503' class='c012'><sup>[503]</sup></a> Know, O my cousin, that the meaning of the +for thee from her.<a id='r503' href='#f503' class='c012'><sup>[503]</sup></a> Know, O my cousin, that the meaning of the salt is thou wast drowned in sleep like insipid food, disgustful to the taste; and it is as though she said to thee:—It behoveth thou be salted lest the stomach eject thee; for thou professest to be @@ -13565,7 +13543,7 @@ of the lovers noble and true; but sleep is unlawful and to a lover undue; therefore is thy love but a lie. However, it is her love for thee that lieth; for she saw thee asleep yet aroused thee not and were her love for thee true, she had indeed awoken thee. As for -the charcoal, it means Allah blacken thy face<a id='r504' /><a href='#f504' class='c012'><sup>[504]</sup></a> for thou makest +the charcoal, it means Allah blacken thy face<a id='r504' href='#f504' class='c012'><sup>[504]</sup></a> for thou makest a lying pretence of love, whereas thou art naught but a child and hast no object in life other than eating and drinking and sleeping! such is the interpretation of her signs, and may Allah Almighty @@ -13618,14 +13596,14 @@ temptation. So I arose from my seat and went up to the table and, raising its cover, found a dish of fowls, surrounded by four saucers containing four several meats. I ate a mouthful of each kind and as much as I would of the sweetmeats and a piece of -meat: then I drank from the saucer a sauce yellowed with saffron<a id='r505' /><a href='#f505' class='c012'><sup>[505]</sup></a> +meat: then I drank from the saucer a sauce yellowed with saffron<a id='r505' href='#f505' class='c012'><sup>[505]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_314'>314</span>and as it pleased me, I supped it up by the spoonful till I was satisfied and my stomach was full. Upon this, my eyelids drooped; so I took a cushion and set it under my head, saying, "Haply I can recline upon it without going to sleep." Then I closed my eyes and slept, nor did I wake till the sun had risen, -when I found on my stomach a cube of bone,<a id='r506' /><a href='#f506' class='c012'><sup>[506]</sup></a> a single tip-cat -stick,<a id='r507' /><a href='#f507' class='c012'><sup>[507]</sup></a> the stone of a green date<a id='r508' /><a href='#f508' class='c012'><sup>[508]</sup></a> and a carob pod. There was +when I found on my stomach a cube of bone,<a id='r506' href='#f506' class='c012'><sup>[506]</sup></a> a single tip-cat +stick,<a id='r507' href='#f507' class='c012'><sup>[507]</sup></a> the stone of a green date<a id='r508' href='#f508' class='c012'><sup>[508]</sup></a> and a carob pod. There was no furniture nor aught else in the place, and it was as if there had been nothing there yesterday. So I rose and shaking all these things off me, fared forth in fury; and, going home, found @@ -13657,8 +13635,8 @@ Thy body is present but thy heart is absent; and she meaneth, Love is not thus: so do not reckon thyself among lovers. As for the date-stone, it is as if she said to thee, An thou wert in love thy heart would be burning with passion and thou wouldst not taste -<span class='pageno' id='Page_315'>315</span>the delight of sleep; for the sweet of love is like a green date<a id='r509' /><a href='#f509' class='c012'><sup>[509]</sup></a> -which kindleth a coal of fire in the vitals. As for the carob-pod<a id='r510' /><a href='#f510' class='c012'><sup>[510]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_315'>315</span>the delight of sleep; for the sweet of love is like a green date<a id='r509' href='#f509' class='c012'><sup>[509]</sup></a> +which kindleth a coal of fire in the vitals. As for the carob-pod<a id='r510' href='#f510' class='c012'><sup>[510]</sup></a> it signifieth to thee, The lover's heart is wearied; and thereby she saith, Be patient under our separation with the patience of Job." When I heard this interpretation, fires darted @@ -13707,7 +13685,7 @@ drank a second and a third, till I had drunk full ten, when the cool air smote me and I fell to the earth like a felled man. I ceased not to lie thus till day arose, when I awoke and found myself outside the garden, and on my stomach were a butcher's knife and -a dram-weight of iron.<a id='r511' /><a href='#f511' class='c012'><sup>[511]</sup></a> Thereat I trembled and, taking them with +a dram-weight of iron.<a id='r511' href='#f511' class='c012'><sup>[511]</sup></a> Thereat I trembled and, taking them with me, went home, where I found my cousin saying, "Verily, I am in this house wretched and sorrowful, having no helper but weeping." Now when I entered, I fell down at full length and throwing the @@ -13720,7 +13698,7 @@ sleeping; but thou wouldst not hearken to my warning, nor did my words profit thee aught." I rejoined, "By Allah, I conjure thee to explain to me the meaning of the knife and the iron dram-weight." "By the dram-weight," replied my cousin, "she alludeth -to her right eye,<a id='r512' /><a href='#f512' class='c012'><sup>[512]</sup></a> and she sweareth by it and saith:—By the Lord +to her right eye,<a id='r512' href='#f512' class='c012'><sup>[512]</sup></a> and she sweareth by it and saith:—By the Lord of all creatures and by my right eye! if thou come here again and sleep, I will cut thy throat with this very knife. And indeed I fear for thee, O my cousin, from her malice; my heart is full @@ -13744,7 +13722,7 @@ fetched me some food and set it before me. I refused it, but she said to me, "Did I not tell thee that thou must do my bidding? Eat!" So I ate and thwarted her not and she proceeded to put the food into my mouth and I to masticate it, till I was full. -Then she made me drink jujube-sherbet<a id='r513' /><a href='#f513' class='c012'><sup>[513]</sup></a> and sugar and washed +Then she made me drink jujube-sherbet<a id='r513' href='#f513' class='c012'><sup>[513]</sup></a> and sugar and washed my hands and dried them with a kerchief; after which she sprinkled me with rose-water, and I sat with her awhile in the best of spirits. When the darkness had closed in, she dressed @@ -13773,7 +13751,7 @@ red gold, and she was as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She lords it o'er our hearts in grass-green gown, ✿ With buttons<a id='r514' /><a href='#f514' class='c012'><sup>[514]</sup></a> loose and locks long flowing down.</div> + <div class='line'>She lords it o'er our hearts in grass-green gown, ✿ With buttons<a id='r514' href='#f514' class='c012'><sup>[514]</sup></a> loose and locks long flowing down.</div> <div class='line'>Quoth I, "What is thy name?" Quoth she, "I'm she, ✿ Who burns the loverheart live coals upon:"</div> <div class='line'>I made my plaint to her of loving lowe; ✿ Laughed she, "To stone thou moanest useless moan!"</div> <div class='line'>Quoth I, "An be of hardest stone thy heart, ✿ Allah drew sweetest spring from hardest stone."</div> @@ -13794,7 +13772,7 @@ save at the same moment. Then she undid her petticoat-trousers which slipped down to her anklets, and we fell to clasping and embracing and toying and speaking softly and biting and intertwining of legs and going round about the Holy House and the -corners thereof,<a id='r515' /><a href='#f515' class='c012'><sup>[515]</sup></a> till her joints became relaxed for love-delight and +corners thereof,<a id='r515' href='#f515' class='c012'><sup>[515]</sup></a> till her joints became relaxed for love-delight and she swooned away. I entered the sanctuary, and indeed that night was a joy to the sprite and a solace to the sight even as saith the poet:—</p> @@ -13803,7 +13781,7 @@ poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Sweetest of nights the world can show to me, that night ✿ When cups went round and round as fed by ceaseless spring:</div> - <div class='line'>There utter severance made I 'twixt mine eyes and sleep, ✿ And joined, rejoined mine ear-drop with the anklet-ring.<a id='r516' /><a href='#f516' class='c012'><sup>[516]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>There utter severance made I 'twixt mine eyes and sleep, ✿ And joined, rejoined mine ear-drop with the anklet-ring.<a id='r516' href='#f516' class='c012'><sup>[516]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -13949,7 +13927,7 @@ where I found the young lady awaiting me. We sat down and ate and drank, after which we did all we wanted and slept till the morning; and, as I was going away, I repeated to her the saying of my cousin. When she heard the couplet she cried out with a -loud cry and was greatly moved and exclaimed, "Awáh! Awáh!<a id='r517' /><a href='#f517' class='c012'><sup>[517]</sup></a> +loud cry and was greatly moved and exclaimed, "Awáh! Awáh!<a id='r517' href='#f517' class='c012'><sup>[517]</sup></a> By Allah, she who spake these lines is dead!" Then she wept and said to me, "Woe to thee! How is she who spoke thus related to thee?" Replied I, "She is the daughter of my father's brother." @@ -13992,7 +13970,7 @@ gat ready her bier and buried her; and we had recitations of the whole Koran over her tomb and we abode by her grave three days, after which we returned to our home, and I grieving for her grievously. Then my mother came to me and said, "I would fain -know what thou didst to her, to break her heart<a id='r518' /><a href='#f518' class='c012'><sup>[518]</sup></a> for, O my son, I +know what thou didst to her, to break her heart<a id='r518' href='#f518' class='c012'><sup>[518]</sup></a> for, O my son, I questioned her at all times of the cause of her complaint, but she would tell me nothing nor let me know aught of it. So Allah upon thee, tell me what thou hast been doing to her that she died." @@ -14017,7 +13995,7 @@ have seen thy case as I have said, I will make it over to thee." "Show it me," cried I: but she would not. Then I gave myself up to love-delights and thought no more of my cousin's death: for my mind was unsettled and fain would I have been with my lover -the livelong day and night.<a id='r519' /><a href='#f519' class='c012'><sup>[519]</sup></a> So hardly had I perceived the darkness +the livelong day and night.<a id='r519' href='#f519' class='c012'><sup>[519]</sup></a> So hardly had I perceived the darkness fall when I betook myself to the garden, where I found the young lady sitting on coals of fire for much impatience. As soon as she was sure that she saw me, she ran to me and throwing her @@ -14078,7 +14056,7 @@ foregathered with me; no, never! But there is one thing I desire of thee." I asked, "What is it?"; and she answered, "It is that thou bring me to her grave, that I may visit her in the tomb wherein she is and write some couplets thereon." I rejoined, -"To-morrow, if Allah please!"<a id='r520' /><a href='#f520' class='c012'><sup>[520]</sup></a> I slept with her that night, +"To-morrow, if Allah please!"<a id='r520' href='#f520' class='c012'><sup>[520]</sup></a> I slept with her that night, and she ceased not saying after every hour, "Would thou hadst told me of thy cousin before her death!" And I asked her, "What is the meaning of the two saws she taught me? Faith is fair! @@ -14101,8 +14079,8 @@ characters these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_325'>325</span>I past by a broken tomb amid a garth right sheen, ✿ Whereon seven blooms of Nu'uman<a id='r521' /><a href='#f521' class='c012'><sup>[521]</sup></a> glowed with cramoisie;</div> - <div class='line'>Quoth I, "Who sleepeth in this tomb?" Quoth answering Earth ✿ "Before a lover Hades-tombed<a id='r522' /><a href='#f522' class='c012'><sup>[522]</sup></a> bend reverently!"</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_325'>325</span>I past by a broken tomb amid a garth right sheen, ✿ Whereon seven blooms of Nu'uman<a id='r521' href='#f521' class='c012'><sup>[521]</sup></a> glowed with cramoisie;</div> + <div class='line'>Quoth I, "Who sleepeth in this tomb?" Quoth answering Earth ✿ "Before a lover Hades-tombed<a id='r522' href='#f522' class='c012'><sup>[522]</sup></a> bend reverently!"</div> <div class='line'>Quoth I, "May Allah help thee, O thou slain of Love, ✿ And grant thee home in Heaven and Paradise-height to see!"</div> <div class='line'>Hapless are lovers all e'en tombèd in their tombs, ✿ Where amid living folk the dust weighs heavily!</div> <div class='line'>Fain would I plant a garden blooming round thy grave, ✿ And water every flower with tear-drops flowing free!</div> @@ -14129,7 +14107,7 @@ and my breast was broadened thereby, for I knew not the tricks of Fate nor the changing ways of Time. When the hour of night-prayer came, I was minded to repair to my lover; but, being the worse for wine, I knew not when going to her whither I went, so -my drunkenness turned me into a by-street called Syndic Street;<a id='r523' /><a href='#f523' class='c012'><sup>[523]</sup></a> +my drunkenness turned me into a by-street called Syndic Street;<a id='r523' href='#f523' class='c012'><sup>[523]</sup></a> and the while I walked up that street behold, I caught sight of an old woman faring with a lighted taper in one hand, and in the other <span class='pageno' id='Page_326'>326</span>a folded letter.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and @@ -14170,7 +14148,7 @@ greeted; and, when she heard its purport, she rejoiced at the good tidings and blessed me, saying, "Allah dispel thine anxiety, even as thou hast dispelled mine!" Then she took the letter and walked on. Meanwhile, I was urged by a call of nature and sat down on -my heels to make water.<a id='r524' /><a href='#f524' class='c012'><sup>[524]</sup></a> When I had ended I stood up and wiped +my heels to make water.<a id='r524' href='#f524' class='c012'><sup>[524]</sup></a> When I had ended I stood up and wiped the orifice with a pebble and then, letting down my clothes, I was about to wend my way, when suddenly the old woman came up to me again and, bending down over my hand, kissed it and said, "O @@ -14202,21 +14180,21 @@ have betaken myself to thee; so disappoint me not." Replied I, "To hear is to obey; do thou go before me!" So she walked on devancing me and I followed her a little way, till she came to the gate of a large and handsome mansion whose door was plated with -copper.<a id='r525' /><a href='#f525' class='c012'><sup>[525]</sup></a> I stood behind the door, whilst the old woman cried out +copper.<a id='r525' href='#f525' class='c012'><sup>[525]</sup></a> I stood behind the door, whilst the old woman cried out in Persian, and ere I knew it a damsel ran up with light and nimble step. She had tucked up her trousers to her knees, so that I saw a pair of calves that confounded thinker and sighter, and the maid herself was as saith the poet describing her:—</p> -<div class='figcenter id011'> -<img src='images/i_326fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id011'> +<img src='images/i_326fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>O thou who barest leg-calf, better to suggest ✿ For passion-madded amourist better things above!</div> - <div class='line'>Towards its lover doth the bowl go round and run; ✿ Cup<a id='r526' /><a href='#f526' class='c012'><sup>[526]</sup></a> and cup-bearer only drive us daft with love.<a id='r527' /><a href='#f527' class='c012'><sup>[527]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Towards its lover doth the bowl go round and run; ✿ Cup<a id='r526' href='#f526' class='c012'><sup>[526]</sup></a> and cup-bearer only drive us daft with love.<a id='r527' href='#f527' class='c012'><sup>[527]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -14228,7 +14206,7 @@ rolled up her sleeves to the elbow, so that I could see her white wrists whereon were two pairs of bracelets with clasps of great pearls; and round her neck was a collar of costly gems. Her ears were adorned with pendants of pearls and on her head she wore a -kerchief<a id='r528' /><a href='#f528' class='c012'><sup>[528]</sup></a> of brocade, brand-new and broidered with jewels of price. +kerchief<a id='r528' href='#f528' class='c012'><sup>[528]</sup></a> of brocade, brand-new and broidered with jewels of price. And she had thrust the skirt of her shift into her trousers-string being busy with some household business. So when I saw her in this undress, I was confounded at her beauty, for she was like a @@ -14236,7 +14214,7 @@ shining sun. Then she said, with soft, choice speech, never heard I sweeter, "O my mother! is this he who cometh to read the letter?" "It is," replied the old woman; and she put out her hand to me with the letter. Now between her and the door was a distance of -about half a rod<a id='r529' /><a href='#f529' class='c012'><sup>[529]</sup></a>; so I stretched forth my hand to take the letter +about half a rod<a id='r529' href='#f529' class='c012'><sup>[529]</sup></a>; so I stretched forth my hand to take the letter from her and thrust head and shoulders within the door, thinking to draw near her and read the letter when, before I knew what her design was, the old woman butted her head against my back and @@ -14269,7 +14247,7 @@ breast and kneaded my belly with her fingers, till I well-nigh lost unable to resist for the violence of her pressure, through seven vestibules, whilst the old woman forewent us with the lighted candle, till we came to a great saloon with four estrades whereon -a horseman might play Polo.<a id='r530' /><a href='#f530' class='c012'><sup>[530]</sup></a> Here she released me, saying, +a horseman might play Polo.<a id='r530' href='#f530' class='c012'><sup>[530]</sup></a> Here she released me, saying, "Open thine eyes." So I opened them still giddy for the excess of her embracing and pressing, and saw that the whole saloon was built of the finest marbles and alabasters, and all its furniture was @@ -14282,7 +14260,7 @@ which is liefer to thee life or death?" "Life," answered I; and she said, "If life be liefer to thee, marry me." Quoth I, "Indeed I should hate to marry the like of thee." Quoth she, "If thou marry me thou wilt at least be safe from the daughter of Dalílah -the Wily One."<a id='r531' /><a href='#f531' class='c012'><sup>[531]</sup></a> I asked, "And who be that daughter of the Wily +the Wily One."<a id='r531' href='#f531' class='c012'><sup>[531]</sup></a> I asked, "And who be that daughter of the Wily One?" Whereupon she laughed and replied, "'Tis she who hath companied with thee this day for a year and four months (may the Almighty destroy and afflict her with one worse than herself!). @@ -14298,7 +14276,7 @@ that I may ken the cause of thy deliverance from her." So I told her all that had happened between us, including the story of my cousin Azizah. She expressed her pity when she heard of the death, and her eyes ran over with tears and she clapt hand on hand and cried -out, "Her youth was lost on Allah's way,<a id='r532' /><a href='#f532' class='c012'><sup>[532]</sup></a> and may the Lord bless +out, "Her youth was lost on Allah's way,<a id='r532' href='#f532' class='c012'><sup>[532]</sup></a> and may the Lord bless thee for her good works! By Allah, O Aziz, she who died for thee was the cause of thy preservation from the daughter of Dalilah the Wily; and, but for her, thou hadst been lost. And now @@ -14314,7 +14292,7 @@ my heart is at ease for thee from her, for she will never kill thee; and the daughter of thy uncle preserved thee during her lifetime and after her death. By Allah, I have desired thee day after day, but could not get at thee till this time when I tricked thee and -outwitted thee; for thou art a raw youth<a id='r533' /><a href='#f533' class='c012'><sup>[533]</sup></a> and knowest not the +outwitted thee; for thou art a raw youth<a id='r533' href='#f533' class='c012'><sup>[533]</sup></a> and knowest not the wiles of young women nor the deadly guile of old women." Rejoined I, "No, by Allah!" Then said she to me, "Be of good cheer and eyes clear; the dead hath found Allah's grace, and the @@ -14392,7 +14370,7 @@ amid our murmurs of pleasure we attained the supreme delight and the term we had in sight. We slept together till the morning, when I would have gone out; but lo! she came up to me, laughing, and said, "So! So! thinkest thou that going into the Hammam is -the same as going out?<a id='r534' /><a href='#f534' class='c012'><sup>[534]</sup></a> Dost thou deem me to be the like of the +the same as going out?<a id='r534' href='#f534' class='c012'><sup>[534]</sup></a> Dost thou deem me to be the like of the daughter of Dalilah the Wily One? Beware of such a thought, for thou art my husband by contract and according to law. If thou be drunken return to thy right mind, and know that the house @@ -14418,7 +14396,7 @@ as thou camest in." So I waited till the hour of night-prayer and was about to go forth in fear and trembling, when she stopped me, saying, "By Allah, I will not let thee go until thou swear to come back this night before the closing of the door." I agreed to this, -and she swore me a solemn oath on Blade and Book,<a id='r535' /><a href='#f535' class='c012'><sup>[535]</sup></a> and the oath +and she swore me a solemn oath on Blade and Book,<a id='r535' href='#f535' class='c012'><sup>[535]</sup></a> and the oath of divorce to boot, that I would return to her. Then I left her and <span class='pageno' id='Page_333'>333</span>going straight to the garden, found the door open as usual; whereat I was angry and said to myself, "I have been absent this whole @@ -14428,7 +14406,7 @@ and see before I go to my mother, more by reason that it is now nightfall." So I entered the flower-garden——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f138'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r138'>138</a>. </span>This knightly tale, the longest in the Nights (xliv-cxlv.), about one-eighth of the @@ -14703,7 +14681,7 @@ on his breast (Iliad xxxii., 700, etc.).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f175'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r175'>175</a>. </span>So biting was allowed amongst the Greeks in the <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ἀνακλινοπάλη</span>, the final struggle +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r175'>175</a>. </span>So biting was allowed amongst the Greeks in the <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ἀνακλινοπάλη</span>, the final struggle on the ground.</p> </div> @@ -14719,7 +14697,7 @@ English.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f178'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r178'>178</a>. </span>Arab. "Abu riyáh"=a kind of child's toy. It is the "<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Ρόμβος</span>" of the Greeks, +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r178'>178</a>. </span>Arab. "Abu riyáh"=a kind of child's toy. It is the "<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Ρόμβος</span>" of the Greeks, our "bull-roarer" well known in Australia and parts of Africa.</p> </div> @@ -14830,7 +14808,7 @@ al-Malik bin Marwán A.H. 65-86.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f196'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r196'>196</a>. </span>The word has a long history. From the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">στίμμι</span> or <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">στίβι</span> is the Lat. stibium; +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r196'>196</a>. </span>The word has a long history. From the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">στίμμι</span> or <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">στίβι</span> is the Lat. stibium; while the Low-Latin "antimonium" and the Span. Althimod are by metathesis for Al-Ithmid. The dictionaries define the substance as a stone from which antimony is prepared; but the Arabs understand a semi-mythical mineral of yellow colour which enters @@ -14876,7 +14854,7 @@ often than a board.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f198'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r198'>198</a>. </span>Arab. "Al-fil," the elephant=the French fol or fou and our bishop. I have derived "elephant" from Píl (old Persian, Sansk. Pilu) and Arab. Fil, with the article -Al-Fil, whence the Greek <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ἐλέφας</span> the suffix—as being devoted to barbarous words as +Al-Fil, whence the Greek <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ἐλέφας</span> the suffix—as being devoted to barbarous words as Obod-as (Al-Ubayd), Aretas (Al-Háris), etc. Mr. Isaac Taylor (The Alphabet i. 169), preserves the old absurdity of "eleph-ant or ox-like (!) beast of Africa." Prof. Sayce finds the word al-ab (two distinct characters) in line 3, above the figure of an (Indian) @@ -14899,7 +14877,7 @@ Eastern attack with the sword.</p> a round and smoothed floor of dried mud in the open air and threshed by different contrivances. In Egypt the favourite is a chair-like machine called "Norag," running on iron plates and drawn by bulls or cows over the corn. Generally, however, Moslems -prefer the old classical <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Τρίβολον</span>, the Tribulum of Virgil and Varro, a slipper-shaped +prefer the old classical <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Τρίβολον</span>, the Tribulum of Virgil and Varro, a slipper-shaped sled of wood garnished on the sole with large-headed iron nails, or sharp fragments of flint or basalt. Thus is made the "Tibn" or straw, the universal hay of the East, which our machines cannot imitate.</p> @@ -15921,7 +15899,7 @@ rightly punished the royal lecher.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f378'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r378'>378</a>. </span>Arab. "Zunnár," the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ζώνη</span>. Christians and Jews were compelled by the +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r378'>378</a>. </span>Arab. "Zunnár," the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ζώνη</span>. Christians and Jews were compelled by the fanatical sumptuary laws of the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil (A.D. 856) to wear a broad leather belt in public; hence it became a badge of the Faith. Probably it was confounded with the "Janeo" (Brahmanical thread) and the Parsi sacred girdle called @@ -16047,8 +16025,8 @@ blade easily severs a horse's leg.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f396'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r396'>396</a>. </span>Mohammed repeatedly declared (Koran lxi.) that the Christians had falsified the passage ("I go to my Father and the Paraclete shall come," John xvi. 7) promising the -advent of the Comforter, <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">παράκλητος</span>, (ibid. xiv. 20; xv. 26) by substituting the latter -word for <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">περικλυτός</span> glorious, renowned, <em>i.e.</em>, Ahmed or Mohammed=the praised +advent of the Comforter, <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">παράκλητος</span>, (ibid. xiv. 20; xv. 26) by substituting the latter +word for <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">περικλυτός</span> glorious, renowned, <em>i.e.</em>, Ahmed or Mohammed=the praised one. This may have been found in the Arabic translation of the Gospels made by Warakah, cousin to Mohammed's first wife; and hence in Koran lxi. we find Jesus prophesying of an Apostle "whose name shall be Ahmad." The word has consequently been inserted @@ -16540,7 +16518,7 @@ have never seen or heard of it in these days.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f473'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r473'>473</a>. </span>Arab. "Sukúr," whence our "Saker" the falcon, not to be confounded with the -old Falco Sacer, the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ἱέραξ</span>. Falconry which, like all arts, began in Egypt, is an +old Falco Sacer, the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ἱέραξ</span>. Falconry which, like all arts, began in Egypt, is an extensive subject throughout Moslem lands. I must refer my readers to "Falconry in the Valley of the Indus" (Van Voorst, 1852) and a long note in Pilgrimage iii. 71.</p> </div> @@ -17672,7 +17650,7 @@ sometimes added. See Lane (i. 615).</p> <li class='c016'>Zuhal=Saturn, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a></li> <li class='c016'>Zuhrí (Al-), <a href='#Page_198'>198</a></li> <li class='c016'>Zukák al-Nakíb=Syndic street, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a></li> - <li class='c016'>Zunnár=<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ζώνη</span>, confounded with the "Janeo", <a href='#Page_215'>215</a></li> + <li class='c016'>Zunnár=<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ζώνη</span>, confounded with the "Janeo", <a href='#Page_215'>215</a></li> </ul> <div class='tnotes'> @@ -17690,10 +17668,10 @@ sometimes added. See Lane (i. 615).</p> <li>Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. </li> - <li>From a footnote in volume 10, "It has been pointed out to me - that in vol. ii. p. <a href='#Page_285'>285</a>, line 18 "Zahr Shah" is a mistake for + <li>From a footnote in volume 10, "It has been pointed out to me + that in vol. ii. p. <a href='#Page_285'>285</a>, line 18 "Zahr Shah" is a mistake for Sulayman Shah." - + </li> </ol> diff --git a/51775-h/images/cover.jpg b/51775-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differindex b94e4f8..f1b4e58 100644 --- a/51775-h/images/cover.jpg +++ b/51775-h/images/cover.jpg |
