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diff --git a/54778-h/54778-h.htm b/54778-h/54778-h.htm index 55b4b05..1db1069 100644 --- a/54778-h/54778-h.htm +++ b/54778-h/54778-h.htm @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> - <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol VII, by Richard F. 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NOW ENTITULED</em></span></p> <div> - <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol VII'><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 VII.</span></h1> + <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol VII'><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 VII.</span></h1> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -181,8 +168,8 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_titlepage.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id003'> +<img src='images/i_titlepage.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -192,7 +179,7 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> + <hr class='pb c000' > </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -231,7 +218,7 @@ of which this is</p> <div class='c001'>R. F. BURTON.</div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> + <hr class='pb c000' > </div> <div class='chapter'> @@ -239,132 +226,132 @@ of which this is</p> <h2 class='c008'>CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME.</h2> </div> -<table class='table0' summary='CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME.'> +<table class="table0"> <tr> <th class='c009'></th> <th class='c009'> </th> <th class='c009'> </th> <th class='c010'><span class='small'>PAGE</span></th> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'><span class='sc'>Continuation of the History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib</span></td> <td class='c010'><a href='#Page_1'>1</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>OTBAH AND RAYYA</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c91'>91</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>HIND DAUGHTER OF AL-NU’MAN AND AL-HAJJAJ</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c96'>96</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>KHUZAYMAH BIN BISHR AND IKRIMAH AL-FAYYAZ</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c99'>99</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>YUNUS THE SCRIBE AND THE CALIPH WALID BIN SAHL</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c104'>104</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE ARAB GIRL</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c108'>108</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>AL-ASMA’I AND THE THREE GIRLS OF BASSORAH</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c110'>110</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>IBRAHIM OF MOSUL AND THE DEVIL</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c113'>113</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<cite>Lane, Vol. I. page 223.</cite>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>THE LOVERS OF THE BANU UZRAH</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c117'>117</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>THE BADAWI AND HIS WIFE</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c124'>124</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<cite>Lane, Vol. I. 521.</cite>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>THE LOVERS OF BASSORAH</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c130'>130</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>ISHAK OF MOSUL AND HIS MISTRESS AND THE DEVIL</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c136'>136</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>THE LOVERS OF AL-MEDINAH</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c139'>139</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<cite>Lane, Another Anecdote of Two Lovers, III. 252.</cite>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>AL-MALIK AL-NASIR AND HIS WAZIR</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c142'>142</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'><span class='pageno' id='Page_viii'>viii</span>THE ROGUERIES OF DALILAH THE CRAFTY AND HER DAUGHTER ZAYNAB THE CONEY-CATCHER</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c144'>144</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane omits.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>THE ADVENTURES OF MERCURY ALI OF CAIRO</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c172'>172</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane omits.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>ARDASHIR AND HAYAT AL-NUFUS</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c209'>209</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane omits.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c264'>264</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<cite>Lane, III. 255, The Story of Jullanar of the Sea.</cite>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009' colspan='3'>KING MOHAMMED BIN SABAIK AND THE MERCHANT HASAN</td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c308'>308</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<cite>Lane, III. 373, Notes to Chapt. xxiv.</cite>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c009'> </td> <td class='c009'><em>a.</em></td> <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Story of Prince Sayf al-Muluk and the Princess Badi’a al-Jamal</span></td> <td class='c010'><a href='#c314'>314</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c011' colspan='4'>(<cite>Lane, III. 308, The Story of Seif El-Mulook and Badeea El-Jamal, with the Introduction transferred to a note, p. 372.</cite>)</td></tr> </table> @@ -397,14 +384,14 @@ The Faith to his people and they all became True Believers; after which Jamak returned to the city and despatched thence provaunt and henchmen to Gharib; and wine to the camp before Babel where they passed the night. On the morrow, Gharib gave the -signal for the march and they fared on till they came to Mayyáfárikín,<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c012'><sup>[1]</sup></a> +signal for the march and they fared on till they came to Mayyáfárikín,<a id='r1' href='#f1' class='c012'><sup>[1]</sup></a> which they found empty, for its people had heard what had befallen Babel and had fled to Cufa-city and told Ajib. When he heard the news, his Doom-day appeared to him and he assembled his braves and informing them of the enemy’s approach ordered them make ready to do battle with his brother’s host; after which he numbered them and found them thirty thousand -horse and ten thousand foot.<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c012'><sup>[2]</sup></a> So, needing more, he levied other +horse and ten thousand foot.<a id='r2' href='#f2' class='c012'><sup>[2]</sup></a> So, needing more, he levied other fifty thousand men, cavalry and infantry, and taking horse amid a mighty host, rode forwards, till he came upon his brother’s army encamped before Mosul and pitched his tents in face of their lines. @@ -422,7 +409,7 @@ gave it to him and he tore it open and found therein:—“In the name of Allah the Compassionating, the Compassionate! Peace on Abraham the Friend await! But afterwards. As soon as this letter shall come to thy hand, do thou confess the Unity of the -Bountiful King, Causer of causes and Mover of the clouds;<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c012'><sup>[3]</sup></a> and +Bountiful King, Causer of causes and Mover of the clouds;<a id='r3' href='#f3' class='c012'><sup>[3]</sup></a> and leave worshipping idols. An thou do this thing, thou art my brother and ruler over us and I will pardon thee the deaths of my father and mother, nor will I reproach thee with what thou hast @@ -436,7 +423,7 @@ into a furious rage. Then he tore the letter in pieces and threw it away, which vexed Sahim and he cried out upon Ajib, saying, “Allah wither thy hand for the deed thou hast done!” With this Ajib cried out to his men, saying, “Seize yonder hound and hew -him in pieces with your hangers.”<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c012'><sup>[4]</sup></a> So they ran at Sahim; but he +him in pieces with your hangers.”<a id='r4' href='#f4' class='c012'><sup>[4]</sup></a> So they ran at Sahim; but he <span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>bared blade and fell upon them and slew of them more than fifty braves; after which he cut his way out, though bathed in blood, and won back to Gharib, who said, “What is this case, O Sahim?” @@ -474,10 +461,10 @@ Then clashed the cymbals of retreat and the two hosts drew apart each from other, and returned to their tents, where they nighted. Next morning, as soon as it was day, the cymbals beat to battle and derring-do, and the warriors donned their harness of fight and -baldrick’d<a id='r5' /><a href='#f5' class='c012'><sup>[5]</sup></a> their blades the brightest bright and with the brown +baldrick’d<a id='r5' href='#f5' class='c012'><sup>[5]</sup></a> their blades the brightest bright and with the brown lance bedight mounted doughty steed every knight and cried out, saying, “This day no flight!” And the two hosts drew out in -battle array, like the surging sea. The first to open the chapter<a id='r6' /><a href='#f6' class='c012'><sup>[6]</sup></a> of +battle array, like the surging sea. The first to open the chapter<a id='r6' href='#f6' class='c012'><sup>[6]</sup></a> of <span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>war was Sahim, who drave his destrier between the two lines and played with swords and spears and turned over all the Capitula of combat till men of choicest wits were confounded. Then he cried @@ -501,7 +488,7 @@ as morning morrowed the two hosts mounted and sought the field of fight; and the Moslems looked for Gharib to back steed and ride under the standards as was his wont, but he came not. So Sahim sent to his brother’s pavilion a slave who, finding him -not, asked the tent-pitchers,<a id='r7' /><a href='#f7' class='c012'><sup>[7]</sup></a> but they answered, “We know +not, asked the tent-pitchers,<a id='r7' href='#f7' class='c012'><sup>[7]</sup></a> but they answered, “We know naught of him.” Whereat he was greatly concerned and went forth and told the troops, who refrained from battle, saying, “An Gharib be absent, his foe will destroy us.” Now there was for @@ -679,7 +666,7 @@ a whole day, at the end of which time he returned and told Al-Damigh all that had happened to Gharib with his brother. So he waited till the night, when he fell upon the Infidels, crying out, “Allaho Akbar!” and put them to the edge of the biting -scymitar. When Gharib heard the Takbir,<a id='r8' /><a href='#f8' class='c012'><sup>[8]</sup></a> he said to Sahim, +scymitar. When Gharib heard the Takbir,<a id='r8' href='#f8' class='c012'><sup>[8]</sup></a> he said to Sahim, “Go find out the cause of these shouts and war-cries.” So Sahim repaired to the field of battle and questioned the slaves and camp followers, who told him that King Al-Damigh had come up with @@ -725,7 +712,7 @@ soldiers wherewith to overthrow my foe: and know, O Sayyar, that I am anhungered.” So Sayyar sprang up and going out to the desert caught an ostrich-poult and brought it to his lord. Then he gathered fuel and deftly using the fire-sticks kindled a -fire, by which he roasted the bird which he had hallal’d<a id='r9' /><a href='#f9' class='c012'><sup>[9]</sup></a> and fed +fire, by which he roasted the bird which he had hallal’d<a id='r9' href='#f9' class='c012'><sup>[9]</sup></a> and fed Ajib with its flesh and gave him to drink of the water of the spring, till his strength returned to him, after which he went to one of the Badawi tribal encampments, and stealing thence a steed mounted @@ -894,7 +881,7 @@ he halted in mid-field, with no coward’s heart, and cried out, him quaff the cup of disgrace and rid of him earth’s face!” Hardly had he made an end of speaking, when forth rushed Jamrkan, as he were a calamity of calamities or a piece of a mountain, cased in -steel. He was a mighty huge<a id='r10' /><a href='#f10' class='c012'><sup>[10]</sup></a> Amalekite; and he drave at Gharib +steel. He was a mighty huge<a id='r10' href='#f10' class='c012'><sup>[10]</sup></a> Amalekite; and he drave at Gharib without speech or salute, like the fierce tyrant he was. And he was armed with a mace of China steel, so heavy, so potent, that had he smitten a hill he had smashed it. Now when he charged, @@ -922,7 +909,7 @@ the road for the servants of Almighty Allah, and fearest thou not the Lord of the Worlds?” “O my master,” asked Jamrkan, “and who is the Lord of the Worlds?” “O dog,” answered Gharib, “and what calamity dost thou worship?” He said, “O -my lord, I worship a god made of dates<a id='r11' /><a href='#f11' class='c012'><sup>[11]</sup></a> kneaded with butter and +my lord, I worship a god made of dates<a id='r11' href='#f11' class='c012'><sup>[11]</sup></a> kneaded with butter and honey, and at times I eat him and make me another.” When Gharib heard this, he laughed till he fell backwards and said, “O miserable, there is none worship-worth save Almighty Allah, who @@ -999,7 +986,7 @@ and sheep. During this time Gharib returned to Cufa, where the horsemen met him in state. He entered his palace and sat down on his sire’s throne with his champions ranged on either hand. Then the spies came forwards, and informed him that his brother -Ajib had made his escape and had taken refuge with Jaland<a id='r12' /><a href='#f12' class='c012'><sup>[12]</sup></a> bin +Ajib had made his escape and had taken refuge with Jaland<a id='r12' href='#f12' class='c012'><sup>[12]</sup></a> bin Karkar, lord of the city of Oman and land of Al-Yaman; whereupon Gharib cried aloud to his host, “O men, make you ready to march in three days.” Then he expounded Al-Islam to the thirty @@ -1045,7 +1032,7 @@ of Life and Light, I will not leave one of thy brother’s folk in existence! But where didst thou quit them and how many men are they?” Answered Ajib, “I left them in Cufa and they be fifty thousand horse.” Whereupon Jaland called his Wazir -Jawámard,<a id='r13' /><a href='#f13' class='c012'><sup>[13]</sup></a> saying, “Take thee seventy thousand horse and fare +Jawámard,<a id='r13' href='#f13' class='c012'><sup>[13]</sup></a> saying, “Take thee seventy thousand horse and fare to Cufa and bring me the Moslems alive, that I may torture them with all manner of tortures.” So Jawamard departed with his host and fared through the first day and the second till the @@ -1080,7 +1067,7 @@ and cried:—</p> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>I plunge with my braves in the seething sea; ✿ Seize the foe in my strength and my valiancy;</div> <div class='line'>And the doughtiest knights wot me well to be ✿ Friend to friend and fierce foe to mine enemy.</div> <div class='line'>I will load Gharib with the captive’s chains ✿ Right soon, and return in all joy and glee;</div> - <div class='line'>For I’ve donned my mail and my weapons wield ✿ And on all sides charge at the chivalry.<a id='r14' /><a href='#f14' class='c012'><sup>[14]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>For I’ve donned my mail and my weapons wield ✿ And on all sides charge at the chivalry.<a id='r14' href='#f14' class='c012'><sup>[14]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -1203,7 +1190,7 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>I’m Al-Kurajan, and my name is known ✿ To beat all who in wold or in city wone!</div> <div class='line'>How many a soldier my sword at will ✿ Struck down like a cow on the ground bestrown?</div> <div class='line'>How many a soldier I’ve forced to fly ✿ And have rolled their heads as a ball is thrown?</div> - <div class='line'>Now I’ll drive and harry the land Irak<a id='r15' /><a href='#f15' class='c012'><sup>[15]</sup></a> ✿ And like rain I’ll shower the blood of fone;</div> + <div class='line'>Now I’ll drive and harry the land Irak<a id='r15' href='#f15' class='c012'><sup>[15]</sup></a> ✿ And like rain I’ll shower the blood of fone;</div> <div class='line'>And lay hands on Gharib and his men, whose doom ✿ To the wise a warning shall soon be shown!</div> </div> </div> @@ -1240,7 +1227,7 @@ them to mount, and they arose to ride and on the Lord of the Worlds they relied. Then said Jamrkan, “Drive the camels and mules to the Miscreants’ camp and push them with your spears for goads!” They did as he bade and the beasts rushed upon the -enemy’s tents, whilst the bells and clinkets and rattles jangled<a id='r16' /><a href='#f16' class='c012'><sup>[16]</sup></a> +enemy’s tents, whilst the bells and clinkets and rattles jangled<a id='r16' href='#f16' class='c012'><sup>[16]</sup></a> and the Moslems followed at their heels, shouting, “God is Most Great!” till all the hills and mountains resounded with the name of the Highmost Deity, to whom belong glory and majesty! @@ -1334,7 +1321,7 @@ with these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’m Kurajan, of this age the knight; ✿ And my shade to the lions of Shara’<a id='r17' /><a href='#f17' class='c012'><sup>[17]</sup></a> is blight:</div> + <div class='line'>I’m Kurajan, of this age the knight; ✿ And my shade to the lions of Shara’<a id='r17' href='#f17' class='c012'><sup>[17]</sup></a> is blight:</div> <div class='line'>I storm the forts and snare kings of beasts ✿ And warriors fear me in field of fight;</div> <div class='line'>Then, Harkye Jamrkan, if thou doubt my word, ✿ Come forth to the combat and try my might!</div> </div> @@ -1347,7 +1334,7 @@ lamented for them, and they lunged with lance and great was the clamour between them: nor did they leave fighting till the time of mid-afternoon prayer was passed and the day began to wane. Then Jamrkan drave at Kurajan and smiting him on the breast -with his mace,<a id='r18' /><a href='#f18' class='c012'><sup>[18]</sup></a> cast him to the ground, as he were the trunk of a +with his mace,<a id='r18' href='#f18' class='c012'><sup>[18]</sup></a> cast him to the ground, as he were the trunk of a palm-tree; and the Moslems pinioned him and dragged him off with ropes like a camel. Now when the Miscreants saw their Prince captive, a hot fever-fit of ignorance seized on them and @@ -1362,7 +1349,7 @@ and so forth:—good look to it for a spoil! Then Jamrkan went in to Kurajan and expounded to him Al-Islam, threatening him with death unless he embraced the Faith. But he refused; so they cut off his head and stuck it on a spear, after which they -fared on towards Oman<a id='r19' /><a href='#f19' class='c012'><sup>[19]</sup></a> city. But as regards the Kafirs, the +fared on towards Oman<a id='r19' href='#f19' class='c012'><sup>[19]</sup></a> city. But as regards the Kafirs, the survivors returned to Jaland and made known to him the slaying of his son and the slaughter of his host, hearing which he cast his crown to the ground and buffeting his face, till the blood ran @@ -1395,7 +1382,7 @@ he said to them, “O my kinsmen, know that Jaland and I are dismayed with exceeding dismay at the coming of the Moslems, and I know that he will not avail to protect me from my brother nor from any other; so it is my counsel that we make our escape, -whilst all eyes sleep, and flee to King Ya’arub bin Kahtán,<a id='r20' /><a href='#f20' class='c012'><sup>[20]</sup></a> for +whilst all eyes sleep, and flee to King Ya’arub bin Kahtán,<a id='r20' href='#f20' class='c012'><sup>[20]</sup></a> for that he hath more of men and is stronger of reign.” They, hearing his advice exclaimed “Right is thy rede,” whereupon he bade them kindle fires at their tent-doors and march under cover of the night. @@ -1577,7 +1564,7 @@ two-bow prayer, after the rite of Abraham the Friend (on whom be the Peace!) and wrote a letter, which he despatched by his brother Sahim to the King of the Kafirs. When Sahim reached the enemies’ camp, the guards asked him what he wanted, and -he answered them, “I want your ruler.”<a id='r21' /><a href='#f21' class='c012'><sup>[21]</sup></a> Quoth they, “Wait +he answered them, “I want your ruler.”<a id='r21' href='#f21' class='c012'><sup>[21]</sup></a> Quoth they, “Wait till we consult him anent thee;” and he waited, whilst they went in to their Sovran and told him of the coming of a messenger, and he cried, “Hither with him to me!” So they brought Sahim @@ -1680,7 +1667,7 @@ knew him and admitted him. When Gharib saw him he said, “What bearest thou there, O Sahim?”; and he replied, “O King, this is Jaland bin Karkar.” Then he uncovered him, and Gharib knew him and said, “Arouse him, O Sahim,” So he made him -smell vinegar<a id='r22' /><a href='#f22' class='c012'><sup>[22]</sup></a> and frankincense; and he cast the Bhang from his +smell vinegar<a id='r22' href='#f22' class='c012'><sup>[22]</sup></a> and frankincense; and he cast the Bhang from his nostrils and, opening his eyes, found himself among the Moslems; whereupon quoth he, “What is this foul dream?” and closing his eyelids again, would have slept; but Sahim dealt him a kick, @@ -1793,13 +1780,13 @@ shoulders, towered with them high in air, till they were above the clouds. So Gharib and Sahim awoke and found themselves betwixt heaven and earth; whereupon they looked at those who bore them and saw that they were two Marids, the head of the one -being as that of a dog and the head of the other as that of an ape<a id='r23' /><a href='#f23' class='c012'><sup>[23]</sup></a> +being as that of a dog and the head of the other as that of an ape<a id='r23' href='#f23' class='c012'><sup>[23]</sup></a> with hair like horses’ tails and claws like lions’ claws, and both were big as great palm-trees. When they espied this case, they exclaimed, “There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in <span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>Allah, the Glorious, the Great!” Now the cause of this was that a certain King of the Kings of the Jinn, hight Mura’ash, had a -son called Sá’ik, who loved a damsel of the Jinn, named Najmah;<a id='r24' /><a href='#f24' class='c012'><sup>[24]</sup></a> +son called Sá’ik, who loved a damsel of the Jinn, named Najmah;<a id='r24' href='#f24' class='c012'><sup>[24]</sup></a> and the twain used to foregather in that Wady under the semblance of two birds. Gharib and Sahim saw them thus and deeming them birds, shot at them with shafts but wounding only @@ -1818,11 +1805,11 @@ till the blood streamed from his mouth, and cried out to two Marids, saying, “Hie ye to the Valley of Springs and bring me all who are therein.” So they betook themselves to the Wady in question, where they found Gharib and Sahim asleep, and, snatching -them up, carried them to King Mura’ash.<a id='r25' /><a href='#f25' class='c012'><sup>[25]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad +them up, carried them to King Mura’ash.<a id='r25' href='#f25' class='c012'><sup>[25]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_034fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_034fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -1839,7 +1826,7 @@ perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> two Marids, after snatching up Gharib and Sahim in their sleep, carried them to Mura’ash, king of the Jann, whom they saw seated on the throne of his kingship, as he were a huge mountain, -with four heads on his body,<a id='r26' /><a href='#f26' class='c012'><sup>[26]</sup></a> the first that of a lion, the second +with four heads on his body,<a id='r26' href='#f26' class='c012'><sup>[26]</sup></a> the first that of a lion, the second that of an elephant, the third that of a panther, and the fourth that <span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>of a lynx. The Marids set them down before Mura’ash and said to him, “O King, these twain be they we found in the Valley of @@ -1857,7 +1844,7 @@ we saw no bird, neither slew we bird or beast!” Now when Mura’ash heard Gharib swear by Allah and His greatness and by Abraham the Friend, he knew him for a Moslem (he himself being a worshipper of Fire, not of the All-powerful Sire), so he -cried out to his folk, “Bring me my Goddess.<a id='r27' /><a href='#f27' class='c012'><sup>[27]</sup></a>” Accordingly they +cried out to his folk, “Bring me my Goddess.<a id='r27' href='#f27' class='c012'><sup>[27]</sup></a>” Accordingly they brought a brazier of gold and, setting it before him, kindled therein fire and cast on drugs, whereupon there arose therefrom green and blue and yellow flames and the King and all who were present @@ -1873,9 +1860,9 @@ from nothingness and maketh water to well from the barren rock-well, Him who inclineth heart of sire unto new-born scion and who may not be described as sitting or standing; the God of Noah and Salih and Hud and Abraham the Friend, Who created Heaven -and Hell and trees and fruit as well,<a id='r28' /><a href='#f28' class='c012'><sup>[28]</sup></a> for He is Allah, the One, the +and Hell and trees and fruit as well,<a id='r28' href='#f28' class='c012'><sup>[28]</sup></a> for He is Allah, the One, the All-powerful.” When Mura’ash heard this, his eyes sank into his -head<a id='r29' /><a href='#f29' class='c012'><sup>[29]</sup></a> and he cried out to his guards, saying, “Pinion me these +head<a id='r29' href='#f29' class='c012'><sup>[29]</sup></a> and he cried out to his guards, saying, “Pinion me these two dogs and sacrifice them to my Goddess.” So they bound them and were about to cast them into the fire when, behold, <span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>one of the crenelles of the palace-parapet fell down upon the @@ -2013,7 +2000,7 @@ Misbelievers made off and the first to fly was Ajib. Thereupon the Moslems gathered together, marvelling at this that had betided the Infidels and fearing the tribesmen of the Jinn. But the Marids ceased not from pursuit, till they had driven them far -away into the hills and wolds; and but fifty thousand Rebels<a id='r30' /><a href='#f30' class='c012'><sup>[30]</sup></a> of +away into the hills and wolds; and but fifty thousand Rebels<a id='r30' href='#f30' class='c012'><sup>[30]</sup></a> of two hundred thousand escaped with their lives and made for their <span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>own land, wounded and sore discomfited. Then the two Jinns returned and said to them, “O host of the Moslems, your lord @@ -2026,13 +2013,13 @@ Kaylajan returned to Mura’ash and Gharib; and acquainted them with that which had happened, whereat Gharib finding the two sitting together felt heart at ease and said, “Allah abundantly requite you!” Then quoth King Mura’ash, “O my brother, I am -minded to show thee our country and the city of Japhet<a id='r31' /><a href='#f31' class='c012'><sup>[31]</sup></a> son of +minded to show thee our country and the city of Japhet<a id='r31' href='#f31' class='c012'><sup>[31]</sup></a> son of Noah (on whom be peace!)” Quoth Gharib, “O King, do what seemeth good to thee.” So he called for three noble steeds and mounting, he and Gharib and Sahim, set out with a thousand Marids, as they were a piece of a mountain cloven lengthwise. They fared on, solacing themselves with the sight of valleys and -mountains, till they came to Jabarsá,<a id='r32' /><a href='#f32' class='c012'><sup>[32]</sup></a> the city of Japhet son of +mountains, till they came to Jabarsá,<a id='r32' href='#f32' class='c012'><sup>[32]</sup></a> the city of Japhet son of Noah (on whom be peace!) where the townsfolk all, great and small, came forth to meet King Mura’ash and brought them into the city in great state. Then Mura’ash went up to the palace of @@ -2058,7 +2045,7 @@ of Japhet son of Noah. Here Gharib saw a sword hanging to a pin of gold and asked, “O King, whose is that?” Mura’ash answered, “’Tis the sword of Yafis bin Nuh, wherewith he was wont to do battle against men and Jinn. The sage Jardúm forged -it and graved on its back names of might.<a id='r33' /><a href='#f33' class='c012'><sup>[33]</sup></a> It is named Al-Máhik—the +it and graved on its back names of might.<a id='r33' href='#f33' class='c012'><sup>[33]</sup></a> It is named Al-Máhik—the Annihilator—for that it never descendeth upon a man, but it annihilateth him, nor upon a Jinni, but it crusheth him; and if one smote therewith a mountain ’twould overthrow it.” When @@ -2133,13 +2120,13 @@ Valley of Carnelian, where he went in to King Barkan and, kissing the earth before him, wished him abiding glory and <span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>prosperity. Then he told him of Mura’ash being converted to Al-Islam, and Barkan said, “How came he to tear himself away -from his faith<a id='r34' /><a href='#f34' class='c012'><sup>[34]</sup></a>?” So the rebel told him what had passed and, +from his faith<a id='r34' href='#f34' class='c012'><sup>[34]</sup></a>?” So the rebel told him what had passed and, when Barkan heard it, he snorted and snarked and railed at Sun and Moon and sparkling Fire, saying, “By the virtue of my faith, I will surely slay mine uncle’s son and his people and this mortal, nor will I leave one of them alive!” Then he cried out to the legions of the Jinn and choosing of them seventy thousand -Marids, set out and fared on till he came to Jabarsá<a id='r35' /><a href='#f35' class='c012'><sup>[35]</sup></a> the city of +Marids, set out and fared on till he came to Jabarsá<a id='r35' href='#f35' class='c012'><sup>[35]</sup></a> the city of Japhet and encamped before its gates. When Mura’ash saw this, he despatched a Marid, saying, “Go to this host and learn all that it wanteth and return hither in haste.” So the messenger rushed @@ -2171,9 +2158,9 @@ is thy cousin Barkan who is come to salute thee!” So the messenger went back and told Mura’ash, who said to Gharib, “Sit thou on thy throne whilst I go and salute my cousin and return to thee.” Then he mounted and rode to the camp of his -uncle’s son. Now this was a trick<a id='r36' /><a href='#f36' class='c012'><sup>[36]</sup></a> of Barkan, to bring Mura’ash +uncle’s son. Now this was a trick<a id='r36' href='#f36' class='c012'><sup>[36]</sup></a> of Barkan, to bring Mura’ash out and seize upon him, and he said to his Marids, whom he had -stationed about him, “When ye see me embrace him,<a id='r37' /><a href='#f37' class='c012'><sup>[37]</sup></a> lay hold of +stationed about him, “When ye see me embrace him,<a id='r37' href='#f37' class='c012'><sup>[37]</sup></a> lay hold of <span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>him and pinion him.” And they replied, “To hear is to obey.” So, when King Mura’ash came up and entered Barkan’s pavilion, the owner rose to him and threw his arms round his neck; @@ -2205,7 +2192,7 @@ host mounted also and the two hosts drew out in lines facing each other. The first to open the gate of war was Gharib, who drave his steed into the mid-field and bared the enchanted blade, whence issued a glittering light that dazzled the eyes of all the -Jinn and struck terror to their hearts. Then he played<a id='r38' /><a href='#f38' class='c012'><sup>[38]</sup></a> with the +Jinn and struck terror to their hearts. Then he played<a id='r38' href='#f38' class='c012'><sup>[38]</sup></a> with the sword till their wits were wildered, and cried out, saying, “Allaho Akbar! I am Gharib, King of Irak. There is no Faith save the Faith of Abraham the Friend!” Now when Barkan heard @@ -2222,8 +2209,8 @@ drew near Gharib, he cried out to him, saying, “O dog of mankind, what made thee come into our land, to debauch my cousin and his folk and pervert them from one faith to other faith. Know that this day is the last of thy worldly days.” Gharib replied, -“Avaunt,<a id='r39' /><a href='#f39' class='c012'><sup>[39]</sup></a> O vilest of the Jann!” Therewith Barkan drew a -javelin and making it quiver<a id='r40' /><a href='#f40' class='c012'><sup>[40]</sup></a> in his hand, cast it at Gharib; but +“Avaunt,<a id='r39' href='#f39' class='c012'><sup>[39]</sup></a> O vilest of the Jann!” Therewith Barkan drew a +javelin and making it quiver<a id='r40' href='#f40' class='c012'><sup>[40]</sup></a> in his hand, cast it at Gharib; but it missed him. So he hurled a second javelin at him; but Gharib caught it in mid-air and after poising it launched it at the elephant. It smote him on the flank and came out on the @@ -2327,7 +2314,7 @@ met and fell each upon other in that valley. Then the engagement was dight and there befel a sore fight as though an earthquake shook the site and fair plight waxed foul plight. Earnest came and jest took flight, and parley ceased ’twixt wight -and wight,<a id='r41' /><a href='#f41' class='c012'><sup>[41]</sup></a> whilst long lives were cut short in a trice and the +and wight,<a id='r41' href='#f41' class='c012'><sup>[41]</sup></a> whilst long lives were cut short in a trice and the Unbelievers fell into disgrace and despite; for Gharib charged them, proclaiming the Unity of the Worshipful, the All-might and shore through necks and left heads rolling in the dust; nor did @@ -2408,7 +2395,7 @@ on from vestibule to vestibule, till they had passed through the seventh and happened upon the inner court of the palace wherein they saw four daïses, each different from the others, and in the midst a jetting fount of red gold, compassed about with golden -lions,<a id='r42' /><a href='#f42' class='c012'><sup>[42]</sup></a> from whose mouths issued water. These were things to +lions,<a id='r42' href='#f42' class='c012'><sup>[42]</sup></a> from whose mouths issued water. These were things to daze man’s wit. The estrade at the upper end was hung and carpeted with brocaded silks of various colours and thereon stood two thrones of red gold, inlaid with pearls and jewels. So @@ -2488,7 +2475,7 @@ the Pied Palace and found its walls builded of alternate courses of gold and silver, with door-sills of crystal and keystones of greenest emerald. In its midst was a fountain adorned with bells and pendants and figures of birds and beasts spouting forth water, -and thereby a daïs<a id='r43' /><a href='#f43' class='c012'><sup>[43]</sup></a> furnished with gold-brocaded silk, bordered +and thereby a daïs<a id='r43' href='#f43' class='c012'><sup>[43]</sup></a> furnished with gold-brocaded silk, bordered or embroidered with jewels: and they found the treasures of the palace past count or description. Then they entered the women’s court, where they came upon a magnificent serraglio and Gharib @@ -2532,7 +2519,7 @@ beauty and loveliness; for she was the very Princess of the Fair. Her mother died when she was a babe of forty days, and the nurses and eunuchs reared her, till she reached the age of seventeen; but she hated her sire and rejoiced in his slaughter. So -Gharib put his palm to hers<a id='r44' /><a href='#f44' class='c012'><sup>[44]</sup></a> and went in unto her that night and +Gharib put his palm to hers<a id='r44' href='#f44' class='c012'><sup>[44]</sup></a> and went in unto her that night and found her a virgin. Then he bade pull down the Pied Palace and divided the spoil with the true-believing Jinn, and there fell to his share one-and-twenty thousand bricks of gold and silver and @@ -2558,7 +2545,7 @@ to him, “This horse, O my brother, will live only in our region, and, if it come upon man’s earth, ’twill die: but I have in my stables a sea-horse, whose fellow is not found in Al-Irak, no, nor in all the world is its like.” So he caused bring forth the horse, -and when Gharib saw it, it interposed between him and his wits.<a id='r45' /><a href='#f45' class='c012'><sup>[45]</sup></a> +and when Gharib saw it, it interposed between him and his wits.<a id='r45' href='#f45' class='c012'><sup>[45]</sup></a> Then they bound it and Kaylajan bore it on his shoulders and Kurajan took what he could carry. And Mura’ash embraced Gharib and wept for parting from him, saying, “O my brother, @@ -2585,7 +2572,7 @@ them abroad in the wastes and wilds till, by the help of Allah, the All-powerful, we leave not a soul alive, no, not a blower of the fire.” But Gharib said, “By the virtue of Abraham the Friend, I will not let you fight them without me and behold, I mount!” -Now the cause of the coming of that great host was right marvellous.<a id='r46' /><a href='#f46' class='c012'><sup>[46]</sup></a>——And +Now the cause of the coming of that great host was right marvellous.<a id='r46' href='#f46' class='c012'><sup>[46]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -2634,12 +2621,12 @@ them to me, that I may ply them with various tortures and make them taste the bitterness of humiliation and leave them a warning to whoso will be warned in this our while.” Then he chose out to accompany him eighty thousand fighting men on horseback and -the like number on giraffes,<a id='r47' /><a href='#f47' class='c012'><sup>[47]</sup></a> besides ten thousand elephants, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>bearing on their backs seats<a id='r48' /><a href='#f48' class='c012'><sup>[48]</sup></a> of sandal-wood, latticed with golden +the like number on giraffes,<a id='r47' href='#f47' class='c012'><sup>[47]</sup></a> besides ten thousand elephants, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>bearing on their backs seats<a id='r48' href='#f48' class='c012'><sup>[48]</sup></a> of sandal-wood, latticed with golden rods, plated and studded with gold and silver and shielded with pavises of gold and emerald; moreover he sent good store of war-chariots, in each eight men fighting with all kinds of weapons. -Now the Prince’s name was Ra’ad Sháh,<a id='r49' /><a href='#f49' class='c012'><sup>[49]</sup></a> and he was the champion +Now the Prince’s name was Ra’ad Sháh,<a id='r49' href='#f49' class='c012'><sup>[49]</sup></a> and he was the champion of his time, for prowess having no peer. So he and his army equipped them in ten day’s time, then set out, as they were a bank of clouds, and fared on two months’ journey, till they came upon @@ -2656,7 +2643,7 @@ Hind; but Sa’adan scarce let him take stand in front ere he smote him with his mace and crushed his bones and stretched him on the ground; and so did he with a second and a third, till he had slain thirty fighting men. Then there dashed out at him an Indian -cavalier, by name Battásh al-Akrán,<a id='r50' /><a href='#f50' class='c012'><sup>[50]</sup></a> uncle to King Tarkanan +cavalier, by name Battásh al-Akrán,<a id='r50' href='#f50' class='c012'><sup>[50]</sup></a> uncle to King Tarkanan and of his day the doughtiest man, reckoned worth five thousand horse in battle-plain and cried out to Sa’adan, saying, “O thief of the Arabs, hath thy daring reached that degree that thou shouldst @@ -2670,13 +2657,13 @@ haled him off to their tents. Now when Jamrkan saw his comrade a prisoner, he cried out, saying, “Ho for the Faith of Abraham the Friend!” and clapping heel to his horse, ran at Battash. They wheeled about awhile, till Battash charged Jamrkan and -catching him by his jerkin<a id='r51' /><a href='#f51' class='c012'><sup>[51]</sup></a> tare him from his saddle and cast him +catching him by his jerkin<a id='r51' href='#f51' class='c012'><sup>[51]</sup></a> tare him from his saddle and cast him to the ground; whereupon the Indians bound him and dragged him away to their tents. And Battash ceased not to overcome all who came out to him, Captain after Captain till he had made prisoners of four-and-twenty Chiefs of the Moslems, whereat the True Believers were sore dismayed. When Gharib saw what had -befallen his braves, he drew from beneath his knee<a id='r52' /><a href='#f52' class='c012'><sup>[52]</sup></a> a mace of gold +befallen his braves, he drew from beneath his knee<a id='r52' href='#f52' class='c012'><sup>[52]</sup></a> a mace of gold weighing six-score pounds which had belonged to Barkan King of the Jann——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -2739,7 +2726,7 @@ Gharib and flew off with him, in company with Kurajan; nor was an hour past before they set him down at the gate of his palace, in Cufa. He went in to his uncle Al-Damigh, who rose to him and saluted him; after which quoth Gharib, “How is it with my -wives Fakhr Taj<a id='r53' /><a href='#f53' class='c012'><sup>[53]</sup></a> and Mahdiyah?” Al-Damigh answered, “They +wives Fakhr Taj<a id='r53' href='#f53' class='c012'><sup>[53]</sup></a> and Mahdiyah?” Al-Damigh answered, “They are both well and in good case.” Then the eunuch went in and acquainted the women of the Harim with Gharib’s coming, whereat they rejoiced and raised the trill of joy and gave him the reward @@ -2798,7 +2785,7 @@ among the Kings?” And Ajib answered, saying, “I am thy brother, and this day is the last of thy worldly days.” Now when Gharib was assured that he was indeed his brother Ajib, he cried out and said, “Ho, to avenge my father and mother!” Then -giving his sword to Kaylajan,<a id='r54' /><a href='#f54' class='c012'><sup>[54]</sup></a> he drave at Ajib and smote him +giving his sword to Kaylajan,<a id='r54' href='#f54' class='c012'><sup>[54]</sup></a> he drave at Ajib and smote him with his mace a smashing blow and a swashing, that went nigh to beat in his ribs, and seizing him by the mail-gorget tore him from the saddle and cast him to the ground; whereupon the two @@ -2820,7 +2807,7 @@ enemy and repeated these couplets of the poet:—</p> called for his charger and donning his harness and habergeon, mounted and dashed out a-field. As soon as he drew near King Gharib, he cried out at him, saying, “O basest of Arabs and bearer -of scrubs,<a id='r55' /><a href='#f55' class='c012'><sup>[55]</sup></a> who art thou, that thou shouldest capture Kings and +of scrubs,<a id='r55' href='#f55' class='c012'><sup>[55]</sup></a> who art thou, that thou shouldest capture Kings and braves? Down from thy horse and put elbows behind back and kiss my feet and set my warriors free and go with me in bond of chains to my reign that I may pardon thee and make thee a @@ -2851,7 +2838,7 @@ the kettle-drums beat the retreat, the two Kings parted and returned, each to his own place where his people gave him joy of his safety. And the Moslems said to Gharib, “’Tis not thy wont<a id='t60a'></a>, O King, to prolong a fight;” and he replied, “O folk, I have done -battle with many royalties<a id='r56' /><a href='#f56' class='c012'><sup>[56]</sup></a> and champions; but never saw I a +battle with many royalties<a id='r56' href='#f56' class='c012'><sup>[56]</sup></a> and champions; but never saw I a harder hitter than this one. Had I chosen to draw Al-Mahik upon him, I had mashed his bones and made an end of his days: but I delayed with him, thinking to take him prisoner and give him part @@ -2875,12 +2862,12 @@ seat girthed with silken bands; and between the elephant’s ears sat the driver, bearing in hand a hook, wherewith he goaded the beast and directed him right and left. When the elephant drew near Gharib’s horse, and the steed saw a creature it had never -before set eyes on, it took fright;<a id='r57' /><a href='#f57' class='c012'><sup>[57]</sup></a> wherefore Gharib dismounted +before set eyes on, it took fright;<a id='r57' href='#f57' class='c012'><sup>[57]</sup></a> wherefore Gharib dismounted and gave the horse to Kaylajan. Then he drew Al-Mahik and advanced to meet Ra’ad Shah afoot, walking on till he faced the elephant. Now it was Ra’ad Shah’s wont, when he found himself overmatched by any brave, to mount an elephant, taking with him -an implement called the lasso,<a id='r58' /><a href='#f58' class='c012'><sup>[58]</sup></a> which was in the shape of a net, +an implement called the lasso,<a id='r58' href='#f58' class='c012'><sup>[58]</sup></a> which was in the shape of a net, wide at base and narrow at top with a running cord of silk passed through rings along its edges. With this he would attack horsemen and casting the meshes over them, draw the running noose @@ -2899,9 +2886,9 @@ to the confines of the sky and blinded was every eye. The battle waxed fierce and fell, the blood ran in rills, nor did they cease to wage war with lunge of lance and sway of sword in lustiest way, till the day darkened and the night starkened, when the drums -beat the retreat and the two hosts drew asunder.<a id='r59' /><a href='#f59' class='c012'><sup>[59]</sup></a> Now the +beat the retreat and the two hosts drew asunder.<a id='r59' href='#f59' class='c012'><sup>[59]</sup></a> Now the <span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>Moslems were evilly entreated that day by reason of the riders -on elephants and giraffes,<a id='r60' /><a href='#f60' class='c012'><sup>[60]</sup></a> and many of them were killed and +on elephants and giraffes,<a id='r60' href='#f60' class='c012'><sup>[60]</sup></a> and many of them were killed and most of the rest were wounded. This was grievous to Gharib, who commanded the hurt to be medicined and turning to his Chief Officers, asked them what they counselled. Answered they, @@ -2934,7 +2921,7 @@ braves have ye under your hands?”; and they answered, “Ten thousand fighting-men.” Then he carried them into the armoury and armed five thousand of them with harquebuses and other five thousand with cross-bows and taught them to shoot with these -new weapons.<a id='r61' /><a href='#f61' class='c012'><sup>[61]</sup></a> Now as soon as it was day, the Indians came out +new weapons.<a id='r61' href='#f61' class='c012'><sup>[61]</sup></a> Now as soon as it was day, the Indians came out to the field, armed cap-à-pie, with the elephants, giraffes and champions in their van; whereupon Gharib and his men mounted and both hosts drew out and the big drums beat to battle. Then @@ -3022,7 +3009,7 @@ shalt be saved from the fire and the wrath of the All-powerful.” But Tarkanan cried, “I will not die save in my own faith.” Whereupon Gharib drew Al-Mahik and smote him therewith, and he fell to the earth in two pieces, and Allah hurried his soul -to the fire and abiding-place dire.<a id='r62' /><a href='#f62' class='c012'><sup>[62]</sup></a> Then Gharib bade hang his +to the fire and abiding-place dire.<a id='r62' href='#f62' class='c012'><sup>[62]</sup></a> Then Gharib bade hang his body over the palace gate and they hung one-half on the right <span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>hand and the other on the left and waited till day, when Gharib caused Ra’ad Shah don the royal habit and sit down on his @@ -3267,7 +3254,7 @@ smitten you?” So they told him all that had passed and said, the darkness of the night because he had turned Moslem; nor did Gharib come near us.” When the King heard this, he cast his crown to the ground and said, “There is no worth left us!” Then -he turned to his son Ward Shah<a id='r63' /><a href='#f63' class='c012'><sup>[63]</sup></a> and said to him, “O my son, +he turned to his son Ward Shah<a id='r63' href='#f63' class='c012'><sup>[63]</sup></a> and said to him, “O my son, there is none for this affair save thou.” Answered Ward Shah, “By thy life, O my father, I will assuredly bring Gharib and his chiefs of the people in chains and slay all who are with him.” @@ -3349,7 +3336,7 @@ King of the Persians and said to him, “O dog of the Ajams, what moved thee to deal thus with thy daughter? How seest thou me unworthy to be her baron?” And Sabur answered, saying, “O King, punish me not because of that deed which I did; for I -repent me and confronted thee not in fight but in my fear of thee.”<a id='r64' /><a href='#f64' class='c012'><sup>[64]</sup></a> +repent me and confronted thee not in fight but in my fear of thee.”<a id='r64' href='#f64' class='c012'><sup>[64]</sup></a> When Gharib heard these words he bade throw him flat and beat him. So they bastinadoed him, till he could no longer groan, and cast him among the prisoners. Then Gharib expounded Al-Islam @@ -3402,7 +3389,7 @@ tribe of the Jinn, and will be parted from thee twenty years; count, therefore, how many years thou hast been absent in travel.” So he reckoned up the years of his absence and found them eight years and said, “There is no Majesty and there is no Might save -in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!”<a id='r65' /><a href='#f65' class='c012'><sup>[65]</sup></a> Then he sent for all Sabur’s +in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!”<a id='r65' href='#f65' class='c012'><sup>[65]</sup></a> Then he sent for all Sabur’s Governors of towns and strongholds and they came and did him homage. Now one day after this, as he sat in his palace, behold, a cloud of dust appeared in the distance and spread till it walled @@ -3412,7 +3399,7 @@ under the dust cloud and snatching up a horseman of the advancing host, returned and set him down before Gharib, saying, “Ask this fellow, for he is of the army.” Quoth Gharib, “Whose power is this?” and the man answered, “O King, ’tis the army of -Khirad Shah,<a id='r66' /><a href='#f66' class='c012'><sup>[66]</sup></a> King of Shiras, who is come forth to fight thee.” +Khirad Shah,<a id='r66' href='#f66' class='c012'><sup>[66]</sup></a> King of Shiras, who is come forth to fight thee.” Now the cause of Khirad Shah’s coming was this. When Gharib defeated Sabur’s army, as hath been related, and took him prisoner, the King’s son fled, with a handful of his father’s force @@ -3424,7 +3411,7 @@ this case, he said to him, “Lift thy head, O youth, and tell me Arabs, by name Gharib, hath fallen on us and captured the King my sire and slain the Persians making them drain the cup of death.” And he told him all that had passed from first to last. -Quoth Khirad Shah, “Is my wife<a id='r67' /><a href='#f67' class='c012'><sup>[67]</sup></a> well?” and quoth the Prince, +Quoth Khirad Shah, “Is my wife<a id='r67' href='#f67' class='c012'><sup>[67]</sup></a> well?” and quoth the Prince, “Gharib hath taken her.” Cried the King “As my head liveth, I will not leave a Badawi or a Moslem on the face of the earth!” So he wrote letters to his Viceroys, who levied their troops and @@ -3480,7 +3467,7 @@ the voice of weeping and began the ceremonial lamentations for those of them that had been slain. Now King Khirad Shah had a brother Sírán the Sorcerer hight, than whom there was no greater wizard in his day, and he lived apart from his brother in a certain -stronghold, called the Fortalice of Fruits,<a id='r68' /><a href='#f68' class='c012'><sup>[68]</sup></a> in a place abounding in +stronghold, called the Fortalice of Fruits,<a id='r68' href='#f68' class='c012'><sup>[68]</sup></a> in a place abounding in trees and streams and birds and blooms, half a day’s journey from Shiras. So the fugitives betook them thither and went in to Siran the Sorcerer, weeping and wailing aloud. Quoth he, “O folk, @@ -3541,8 +3528,8 @@ say her permitted say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_076fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_076fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c003'>She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the @@ -3583,7 +3570,7 @@ and after I will tell you who I am.” So they brought him water and victual, and he ate and drank and Allah restored to him his reason. Then he asked them, “O folk, what countrymen are ye and what is your Faith?;” and they answered, “We are from -Karaj<a id='r69' /><a href='#f69' class='c012'><sup>[69]</sup></a> and we worship an idol called Minkásh.” Cried Gharib, +Karaj<a id='r69' href='#f69' class='c012'><sup>[69]</sup></a> and we worship an idol called Minkásh.” Cried Gharib, “Perdition to you and your idol! O dogs, none is worthy of worship save Allah who created all things, who saith to a thing Be! and it becometh.” When they heard this, they rose up and fell upon @@ -3665,7 +3652,7 @@ and enter thy religion?” Replied Gharib, “Say:—There is no god but <em>the</em> God and Abraham is the Friend of God.” So the Marid pronounced the profession of Faith and was enrolled among the people of felicity. Now his name was Zalzál, son of -Al-Muzalzil,<a id='r70' /><a href='#f70' class='c012'><sup>[70]</sup></a> one of the Chiefs of the Kings of the Jinn. Then +Al-Muzalzil,<a id='r70' href='#f70' class='c012'><sup>[70]</sup></a> one of the Chiefs of the Kings of the Jinn. Then he unbound Gharib and taking him and the idol, made for the higher air.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -3727,7 +3714,7 @@ brought him out of wrongousness into the way of righteousness, out of Hell into Heaven and out of unfaith to the True Faith.” Whereupon the King cried out to a Marid called Sayyár, saying, “Take this dog and cast him into the Wady of Fire, that he may -perish.” Now this valley was in the “Waste Quarter<a id='r71' /><a href='#f71' class='c012'><sup>[71]</sup></a>” and +perish.” Now this valley was in the “Waste Quarter<a id='r71' href='#f71' class='c012'><sup>[71]</sup></a>” and was thus named from the excess of its heat and the flaming of its fire, which was so fierce that none who went down therein could <span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>live an hour, but was destroyed; and it was compassed about @@ -3793,7 +3780,7 @@ mountain top, and, descending the opposite slope, fared on two days till he came in sight of a walled and bulwarked city, abounding in trees and rills. He walked up to it; but, when he reached the gate, the warders seized on him, and carried him to their Queen, -whose name was Ján Sháh.<a id='r72' /><a href='#f72' class='c012'><sup>[72]</sup></a> Now she was five hundred years +whose name was Ján Sháh.<a id='r72' href='#f72' class='c012'><sup>[72]</sup></a> Now she was five hundred years old, and every man who entered the city, they brought to her and she made him sleep with her, and when he had done his work, she slew him and so had she slain many men. When she @@ -3871,7 +3858,7 @@ night she lay down and said to him, “Come, do thy business.” He replied, “’Tis well;” and, mounting on her breast, seized her by the neck and brake it, nor did he arise from her till life had left her. Then, seeing an open cabinet, he went in and found -there a sword of damascened<a id='r73' /><a href='#f73' class='c012'><sup>[73]</sup></a> steel and a targe of Chinese iron; +there a sword of damascened<a id='r73' href='#f73' class='c012'><sup>[73]</sup></a> steel and a targe of Chinese iron; so he armed himself cap-à-pie and waited till the day. As soon as it was morning, he went forth and stood at the gate of the palace. When the Emirs came and would have gone in to do their @@ -3895,8 +3882,8 @@ ceased saying her permitted say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_084fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_084fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c003'>She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when @@ -3909,7 +3896,7 @@ made them drink the cup of destruction, whilst Allah hurried their souls to Hell-fire, till but few were left of the people of Jan Shah to tell the tale and the rest cried out, “Quarter! Quarter!” and believed in the Requiting King, whom no one thing diverteth -from other thing, the Destroyer of the Jabábirah<a id='r74' /><a href='#f74' class='c012'><sup>[74]</sup></a> and Exterminator +from other thing, the Destroyer of the Jabábirah<a id='r74' href='#f74' class='c012'><sup>[74]</sup></a> and Exterminator of the Akásirah, Lord of this world and of the next. Then <span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>Zalzal saluted Gharib and gave him joy of his safety; and Gharib said to him, “How knowest thou of my case?” and he @@ -3932,7 +3919,7 @@ loaded forty thousand Marids with the treasure and himself taking up Gharib, flew with his host towards the city of Isbanir al-Madain where they arrived at midnight. But as Gharib glanced around he saw the walls invested on all sides by a -conquering army,<a id='r75' /><a href='#f75' class='c012'><sup>[75]</sup></a> as it were the surging sea, so he said to Zalzal, +conquering army,<a id='r75' href='#f75' class='c012'><sup>[75]</sup></a> as it were the surging sea, so he said to Zalzal, “O my brother, what is the cause of this siege and whence came this army?” Then he alighted on the terrace-roof of his palace and cried out, saying, “Ho, Star o’ Morn! Ho, Mahdiyah!” @@ -4053,11 +4040,11 @@ troops, whereupon the rest cried “Quarter! Quarter!” and kissed his stirrups. Finding that they numbered ten thousand horse, he led them to Balkh, where he slew the King of the city and put his men to the rout and made himself master of the riches of the -place. Thence he passed to Núrayn,<a id='r76' /><a href='#f76' class='c012'><sup>[76]</sup></a> at the head of an army of +place. Thence he passed to Núrayn,<a id='r76' href='#f76' class='c012'><sup>[76]</sup></a> at the head of an army of thirty thousand horse, and the Lord of Nurayn came out to him, with treasure and tribute, and did him homage. Then he went on to Samarcand of the Persians and took the city, and after that -to Akhlát<a id='r77' /><a href='#f77' class='c012'><sup>[77]</sup></a> and took that town also; nor was there any city he +to Akhlát<a id='r77' href='#f77' class='c012'><sup>[77]</sup></a> and took that town also; nor was there any city he came to but he captured it. Thus Murad Shah became the head of a mighty host, and all the booty he made and spoils in the sundry cities he divided among his soldiery, who loved him for @@ -4093,7 +4080,7 @@ horses fell down under them, when they dismounted and gripped each other. Then Murad Shah seizing Gharib lifted him up and strove to dash him to the ground; but Gharib caught him by the ears and pulled him with his might, till it seemed to the -youth as if the heavens were falling on the earth<a id='r78' /><a href='#f78' class='c012'><sup>[78]</sup></a> and he cried +youth as if the heavens were falling on the earth<a id='r78' href='#f78' class='c012'><sup>[78]</sup></a> and he cried out, with his heart in his mouth, saying, “I yield myself to thy mercy, O Knight of the Age!” So Gharib bound him,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her @@ -4168,7 +4155,7 @@ all His creatures! This is every thing that hath come down to us of the history of Gharib and Ajib.——And Abdullah bin Ma’amar al-Kaysi hath thus related the tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f1'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. </span><span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>Mayyáfárikín, whose adjective for shortness is “Fárikí”: the place is often mentioned @@ -4644,13 +4631,13 @@ Compare it with the combat between Rustam and his son Sohráb.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c91' class='c008'>OTBAH<a id='r79' /><a href='#f79' class='c012'><sup>[79]</sup></a> AND RAYYA.</h2> + <h2 id='c91' class='c008'>OTBAH<a id='r79' href='#f79' class='c012'><sup>[79]</sup></a> AND RAYYA.</h2> </div> <p class='c014'>I went one year on the pilgrimage to the Holy House of Allah, and when I had accomplished my pilgrimage, I turned back for visitation of the tomb of the Prophet, whom Allah bless and -keep! One night, as I sat in the garden,<a id='r80' /><a href='#f80' class='c012'><sup>[80]</sup></a> between the tomb and +keep! One night, as I sat in the garden,<a id='r80' href='#f80' class='c012'><sup>[80]</sup></a> between the tomb and the pulpit, I heard a low moaning in a soft voice; so I listened to it and it said:—</p> @@ -4712,8 +4699,8 @@ thou want aught?” I rejoined, “I was sitting in the garden and naught hath troubled me this night but thy voice. With my life would I ransom thee! What aileth thee?” He said, “Sit thee down.” So I sat down and he continued, “I am Otbah bin al-Hubáb -bin al-Mundhir bin al-Jamúh the Ansárí.<a id='r81' /><a href='#f81' class='c012'><sup>[81]</sup></a> I went out in -the morning to the Mosque Al-Ahzáb<a id='r82' /><a href='#f82' class='c012'><sup>[82]</sup></a> and occupied myself there +bin al-Mundhir bin al-Jamúh the Ansárí.<a id='r81' href='#f81' class='c012'><sup>[81]</sup></a> I went out in +the morning to the Mosque Al-Ahzáb<a id='r82' href='#f82' class='c012'><sup>[82]</sup></a> and occupied myself there awhile with prayer-bows and prostrations, after which I withdrew apart, to worship privily. But lo! up came women, as they were moons, walking with a swaying gait, and surrounding a damsel of @@ -4724,7 +4711,7 @@ since that time I have had no tidings of her nor come upon any trace of her; and behold, I am distracted and do naught but remove from place to place.” Then he cried out and fell to the <span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>ground fainting. When he came to himself, it was as if the -damask of his cheeks were dyed with safflower,<a id='r83' /><a href='#f83' class='c012'><sup>[83]</sup></a> and he recited +damask of his cheeks were dyed with safflower,<a id='r83' href='#f83' class='c012'><sup>[83]</sup></a> and he recited these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -4740,16 +4727,16 @@ these couplets:—</p> <p class='c003'>Said I, “O Otbah, O son of my uncle, repent to thy Lord and crave pardon for thy sin; for before thee is the terror of standing up to Judgment.” He replied, “Far be it from me so to do. I -shall never leave to love till the two mimosa-gatherers return.”<a id='r84' /><a href='#f84' class='c012'><sup>[84]</sup></a> +shall never leave to love till the two mimosa-gatherers return.”<a id='r84' href='#f84' class='c012'><sup>[84]</sup></a> I abode with him till daybreak, when I said to him, “Come let us go to the Mosque Al-Ahzab.” So we went thither and sat there, till we had prayed the midday prayers, when lo! up came the women; but the damsel was not among them. Quoth they to him, “O Otbah, what thinkest thou of her who seeketh union with thee?” He said, “And what of her?”; and they replied, “Her father hath -taken her and departed to Al-Samawah.”<a id='r85' /><a href='#f85' class='c012'><sup>[85]</sup></a> I asked them the +taken her and departed to Al-Samawah.”<a id='r85' href='#f85' class='c012'><sup>[85]</sup></a> I asked them the name of the damsel and they said, “She is called Rayyá, daughter -of Al-Ghitríf al-Sulami.”<a id='r86' /><a href='#f86' class='c012'><sup>[86]</sup></a> Whereupon Otbah raised his head and +of Al-Ghitríf al-Sulami.”<a id='r86' href='#f86' class='c012'><sup>[86]</sup></a> Whereupon Otbah raised his head and recited these verses:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -4763,7 +4750,7 @@ recited these verses:—</p> <p class='c003'><span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>Then said I to him, “O Otbah, I have brought with me great wealth, wherewith I desire to succour generous men; and by -Allah, I will lavish it before thee,<a id='r87' /><a href='#f87' class='c012'><sup>[87]</sup></a> so thou mayst attain thy +Allah, I will lavish it before thee,<a id='r87' href='#f87' class='c012'><sup>[87]</sup></a> so thou mayst attain thy desire and more than thy desire! Come with me to the assembly of the Ansaris.” So we rose and went, till we entered their assembly, when I salam’d to them and they returned my @@ -4785,7 +4772,7 @@ our need.” He asked, “And what is your need?”; and we answered, “We demand thy noble daughter in marriage for Otbah bin Hubab bin Mundhir the illustrious and well-born.” “O my brethren,” said he, “she whom you demand is owner of -herself, and I will go in to her and tell her.” So he rose in wrath<a id='r88' /><a href='#f88' class='c012'><sup>[88]</sup></a> +herself, and I will go in to her and tell her.” So he rose in wrath<a id='r88' href='#f88' class='c012'><sup>[88]</sup></a> and went in to Rayya, who said to him, “O my papa, why do I see thee show anger?” And he replied, saying, “Certain of the Ansaris have come upon me to demand thy hand of me in marriage.” @@ -4801,14 +4788,14 @@ of thy converse with him.” Said she, “What was that? rejected; wherefore do thou offer them a fair excuse.” “How so?” “Make the dowry heavy to them and they will desist.” “Thou sayst well,” said he, and going out in haste, told the -Ansaris, “The damsel of the tribe<a id='r89' /><a href='#f89' class='c012'><sup>[89]</sup></a> consenteth; but she requireth +Ansaris, “The damsel of the tribe<a id='r89' href='#f89' class='c012'><sup>[89]</sup></a> consenteth; but she requireth a dowry worthy herself. Who engageth for this?” “I,” answered I. Then said he, “I require for her a thousand bracelets of red -gold and five thousand dirhams of the coinage of Hajar<a id='r90' /><a href='#f90' class='c012'><sup>[90]</sup></a> and a -hundred pieces of woollen cloth and striped stuffs<a id='r91' /><a href='#f91' class='c012'><sup>[91]</sup></a> of Al-Yaman +gold and five thousand dirhams of the coinage of Hajar<a id='r90' href='#f90' class='c012'><sup>[90]</sup></a> and a +hundred pieces of woollen cloth and striped stuffs<a id='r91' href='#f91' class='c012'><sup>[91]</sup></a> of Al-Yaman and five bladders of ambergris.” Said I, “Thou shalt have that much; dost thou consent?”; and he said, “I do consent.” So I -despatched to Al-Medinah the Illumined<a id='r92' /><a href='#f92' class='c012'><sup>[92]</sup></a> a party of the Ansaris, +despatched to Al-Medinah the Illumined<a id='r92' href='#f92' class='c012'><sup>[92]</sup></a> a party of the Ansaris, who brought all for which I had become surety; whereupon they slaughtered sheep and cattle and the folk assembled to eat of the food. We abode thus forty days when Ghitrif said to us, “Take @@ -4843,14 +4830,14 @@ I betook me again to Al-Hijaz and entering Al-Medinah the Illumined for pious visitation said in my mind, “By Allah, I will go again to Otbah’s tomb!” So I repaired thither, and, behold, over the grave was a tall tree, on which hung fillets of red and -green and yellow stuffs.<a id='r93' /><a href='#f93' class='c012'><sup>[93]</sup></a> So I asked the people of the place, +green and yellow stuffs.<a id='r93' href='#f93' class='c012'><sup>[93]</sup></a> So I asked the people of the place, “How be this tree called?”; and they answered, “The tree of the Bride and the Bridegroom.” I abode by the tomb a day and a night, then went my way; and this is all I know of Otbah. Almighty Allah have mercy upon him! And they also tell this tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f79'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r79'>79</a>. </span>I cannot understand why Trébutien, iii., 457, writes this word Afba. He remarks @@ -4961,7 +4948,7 @@ person. Briefly the custom still popular throughout Arabia, is African and Fetis </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c96' class='c008'>HIND DAUGHTER OF AL-NU’MAN AND AL-HAJJAJ.<a id='r94' /><a href='#f94' class='c012'><sup>[94]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c96' class='c008'>HIND DAUGHTER OF AL-NU’MAN AND AL-HAJJAJ.<a id='r94' href='#f94' class='c012'><sup>[94]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>It is related that Hind daughter of Al-Nu’man was the fairest @@ -4977,7 +4964,7 @@ and saying:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Hind is an Arab filly purest bred, ✿ Which hath been covered by a mongrel mule;</div> - <div class='line'>An colt of horse she throw by Allah! well; ✿ If mule, it but results from mulish rule.<a id='r95' /><a href='#f95' class='c012'><sup>[95]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>An colt of horse she throw by Allah! well; ✿ If mule, it but results from mulish rule.<a id='r95' href='#f95' class='c012'><sup>[95]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -4992,7 +4979,7 @@ Replied she, “O Ibn Tahir, I gladly agree to this; for know that I never for one day took pleasure in him; so, if we separate, by Allah, I shall never regret him, and these two hundred thousand dirhams I give to thee as a reward for the glad tidings thou -bringest me of my release from yonder dog of the Thakafites.”<a id='r96' /><a href='#f96' class='c012'><sup>[96]</sup></a> +bringest me of my release from yonder dog of the Thakafites.”<a id='r96' href='#f96' class='c012'><sup>[96]</sup></a> After this, the Commander of the Faithful, Abd al-Malik bin <span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>Marwán, heard of her beauty and loveliness, her stature and symmetry, her sweet speech and the amorous grace of her glances @@ -5019,11 +5006,11 @@ the vase.” When the Caliph read her answer, he laughed and wrote to her, citing his saying (whom may Allah bless and keep!) “If a dog lap in the vessel of one of you, let him wash seven times, once thereof with earth,” and adding, “Wash the affront from the -place of use.”<a id='r97' /><a href='#f97' class='c012'><sup>[97]</sup></a> With this she could not gainsay him; so she +place of use.”<a id='r97' href='#f97' class='c012'><sup>[97]</sup></a> With this she could not gainsay him; so she replied to him, saying (after praise and blessing), “O Commander of the Faithful I will not consent save on one condition, and if thou ask me what it is, I reply that Al-Hajjaj lead my camel to -the town where thou tarriest barefoot and clad as he is.”<a id='r98' /><a href='#f98' class='c012'><sup>[98]</sup></a> When +the town where thou tarriest barefoot and clad as he is.”<a id='r98' href='#f98' class='c012'><sup>[98]</sup></a> When the Caliph read her letter, he laughed long and loudly and sent to Al-Hajjaj, bidding him do as she wished. He dared not disobey the order, so he submitted to the Caliph’s commandment and sent @@ -5083,7 +5070,7 @@ ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <p class='c003'>She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that men also tell a tale anent</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f94'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r94'>94</a>. </span>Al-Mas’údí (chapt. xcv.), mentions a Hind bint Asmá and tells a facetious story @@ -5154,11 +5141,11 @@ But the Caliph prized Al-Hajjaj too highly to treat him as in the text.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c99' class='c008'>KHUZAYMAH BIN BISHR AND IKRIMAH AL-FAYYAZ.<a id='r99' /><a href='#f99' class='c012'><sup>[99]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c99' class='c008'>KHUZAYMAH BIN BISHR AND IKRIMAH AL-FAYYAZ.<a id='r99' href='#f99' class='c012'><sup>[99]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>There lived once, in the days of the Caliph Sulayman bin Abd -al-Malik<a id='r100' /><a href='#f100' class='c012'><sup>[100]</sup></a> a man of the Banu Asad, by name Khuzaymah bin +al-Malik<a id='r100' href='#f100' class='c012'><sup>[100]</sup></a> a man of the Banu Asad, by name Khuzaymah bin Bishr, who was famed for bounty and abundant wealth and excellence and righteous dealing with his brethren. He continued thus till times grew strait with him and he became in need of @@ -5170,7 +5157,7 @@ find a change in my brethren; wherefore I am resolved to keep my house till death come to me.” So he shut his door and abode in his home, living on that which he had by him, till it was spent and he knew not what to do. Now Ikrimah al-Raba’í, surnamed -Al-Fayyáz, governor of Mesopotamia,<a id='r101' /><a href='#f101' class='c012'><sup>[101]</sup></a> had known him, and one +Al-Fayyáz, governor of Mesopotamia,<a id='r101' href='#f101' class='c012'><sup>[101]</sup></a> had known him, and one day, as he sat in his audience-chamber, mention was made of Khuzaymah, whereupon quoth Ikrimah, “How is it with him?” And quoth they, “He is in a plight past telling, and hath shut his @@ -5190,7 +5177,7 @@ bridle of Ikrimah’s horse, asked, “Who art thou? My soul be thy ransom!” Answered Ikrimah, “O man I come not to thee at a time like this desiring that thou shouldst know me.” Khuzaymah rejoined, “I will not let thee go till thou make thyself known to -me,” whereupon Ikrimah said “I am hight Jábir Atharát al-Kirám.”<a id='r102' /><a href='#f102' class='c012'><sup>[102]</sup></a> +me,” whereupon Ikrimah said “I am hight Jábir Atharát al-Kirám.”<a id='r102' href='#f102' class='c012'><sup>[102]</sup></a> Quoth Khuzaymah, “Tell me more.” But Ikrimah cried, “No,” and fared forth, whilst Khuzaymah went in to his cousin and said to her, “Rejoice for Allah hath sent us speedy @@ -5213,11 +5200,11 @@ trusteth in that which thou hast told me.” As for Khuzaymah, soon as it was day he made his peace with his creditors and set his affairs in order; after which he got him ready and set out for the Court of Sulayman bin Abd al-Malik, who was then sojourning in -Palestine.<a id='r103' /><a href='#f103' class='c012'><sup>[103]</sup></a> When he came to the royal gate, he sought admission +Palestine.<a id='r103' href='#f103' class='c012'><sup>[103]</sup></a> When he came to the royal gate, he sought admission of the chamberlain, who went in and told the Caliph of his presence. Now he was renowned for his beneficence and Sulayman knew of him; so he bade admit him. When he entered, he saluted the -Caliph after the usual fashion of saluting<a id='r104' /><a href='#f104' class='c012'><sup>[104]</sup></a> and the King asked, “O +Caliph after the usual fashion of saluting<a id='r104' href='#f104' class='c012'><sup>[104]</sup></a> and the King asked, “O Khuzaymah, what hath kept thee so long from us?” Answered he, “Evil case,” and quoth the Caliph, “What hindered thee from having recourse to us?” Quoth he, “My infirmity, O Commander @@ -5228,17 +5215,17 @@ knocked at the door and did thus and thus;” and he went on to tell him of all that had passed between Ikrimah and himself from first to last. Sulayman asked, “Knowest thou the man?” and Khuzaymah answered, “No, O Commander of the Faithful, he was -reserved<a id='r105' /><a href='#f105' class='c012'><sup>[105]</sup></a> and would say naught save:—I am hight Jabir Atharat al-Kiram.” +reserved<a id='r105' href='#f105' class='c012'><sup>[105]</sup></a> and would say naught save:—I am hight Jabir Atharat al-Kiram.” When Sulayman heard this, his heart burned within him for anxiety to discover the man, and he said, “If we knew him, truly we would requite him for his generosity.” Then he bound -for Khuzaymah a banner<a id='r106' /><a href='#f106' class='c012'><sup>[106]</sup></a> and made him Governor of Mesopotamia, +for Khuzaymah a banner<a id='r106' href='#f106' class='c012'><sup>[106]</sup></a> and made him Governor of Mesopotamia, in the stead of Ikrimah al-Fayyaz; and he set out for Al-Jazirah. When he drew near the city, Ikrimah and the people of the place <span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>came forth to meet him and they saluted each other and went on into the town, where Khuzaymah took up his lodging in the Government-house and bade take security for Ikrimah and that he -should be called to account.<a id='r107' /><a href='#f107' class='c012'><sup>[107]</sup></a> So an account was taken against +should be called to account.<a id='r107' href='#f107' class='c012'><sup>[107]</sup></a> So an account was taken against him and he was found to be in default for much money; whereupon Khuzaymah required of him payment, but he said, “I have no means of paying aught.” Quoth Khuzaymah, “It must be @@ -5300,7 +5287,7 @@ splendid robe of honour and mounted him and gave him much money. Then he carried him to his house and asked his leave to make his excuses to his wife and obtained her pardon. After this he besought him to accompany him to the Caliph, who was then -abiding at Ramlah<a id='r108' /><a href='#f108' class='c012'><sup>[108]</sup></a> and he agreed. So they journeyed thither, +abiding at Ramlah<a id='r108' href='#f108' class='c012'><sup>[108]</sup></a> and he agreed. So they journeyed thither, and when they reached the royal quarters the chamberlain went in and acquainted the Caliph Sulayman bin Abd al-Malik with Khuzaymah’s arrival, whereat he was troubled and said, “What! @@ -5322,7 +5309,7 @@ in a note thy needs each and every, and that which thou desirest.” and that forthwith. Moreover he gave him ten thousand dinars more than he asked for and twenty chests of clothes over and above that he sought, and calling for a spear, bound him a banner -and made him Governor over Armenia and Azarbiján<a id='r109' /><a href='#f109' class='c012'><sup>[109]</sup></a> and +and made him Governor over Armenia and Azarbiján<a id='r109' href='#f109' class='c012'><sup>[109]</sup></a> and Mesopotamia, saying, “Khuzaymah’s case is in thy hands, an thou wilt, continue him in his office, and if thou wilt, degrade him.” And Ikrimah said, “Nay, but I restore him to his office, @@ -5330,7 +5317,7 @@ O Commander of the Faithful.” Then they went out from him and ceased not to be Governors under Sulayman bin Abd al-Malik all the days of his Caliphate. And they also tell a tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f99'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r99'>99</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “The overflowing,” with benefits; on account of his generosity.</p> @@ -5391,7 +5378,7 @@ whom Eusebius calls “Athar” (Pilgrimage iii. 336).</p> <h2 id='c104' class='c008'>YUNUS THE SCRIBE AND THE CALIPH WALID BIN SAHL.</h2> </div> -<p class='c014'>There lived in the reign of the Caliph Hishám,<a id='r110' /><a href='#f110' class='c012'><sup>[110]</sup></a> son of Abd al-Malik, +<p class='c014'>There lived in the reign of the Caliph Hishám,<a id='r110' href='#f110' class='c012'><sup>[110]</sup></a> son of Abd al-Malik, a man called Yúnus the Scribe well-known to the general, and he set out one day on a journey to Damascus, having with him a slave-girl of surpassing beauty and loveliness, whom he had taught @@ -5437,7 +5424,7 @@ dirhams?” Whereto quoth Yunus, “I must have more than that.” He asked, “Will forty thousand content thee?”; but Yunus answered, “That would only settle my debts, and I should remain empty-handed.” Rejoined the stranger, “We will take her -of thee at fifty thousand dirhams<a id='r111' /><a href='#f111' class='c012'><sup>[111]</sup></a> and give thee a suit of clothes +of thee at fifty thousand dirhams<a id='r111' href='#f111' class='c012'><sup>[111]</sup></a> and give thee a suit of clothes to boot and the expenses of thy journey and make thee a sharer in my condition as long as thou livest.” Cried Yunus, “I sell her to thee on these terms.” Then said the young man, “Wilt thou @@ -5469,7 +5456,7 @@ have kept thee long waiting”; but Yunus disclosed nothing to him of the torments of anxiety he had suffered. Then quoth the castrato, “Knowest thou the man who bought the girl of thee?”; and quoth Yunus, “No,” to which the other rejoined, “’Twas Walid -bin Sahl,<a id='r112' /><a href='#f112' class='c012'><sup>[112]</sup></a> the Heir Apparent.” And Yunus was silent. Then +bin Sahl,<a id='r112' href='#f112' class='c012'><sup>[112]</sup></a> the Heir Apparent.” And Yunus was silent. Then said the eunuch, “Ride,” and made him mount a horse he had with him and they rode till they came to a mansion, where they dismounted and entered. Here Yunus found the damsel, who sprang @@ -5556,7 +5543,7 @@ sufficed me and will suffice my heirs after me; nor did I cease to abide with Walid, till he was slain, the mercy of Almighty Allah be on him!” And men tell a tale concerning</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f110'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r110'>110</a>. </span>Tenth Ommiade A.H. 105–125 (= 724–743), a wise and discreet ruler with an @@ -5664,7 +5651,7 @@ once more.” And she recited:—</p> </div> <p class='c003'>Then said the Caliph, “Of what part of this camp art thou?”; and -she replied, “Of its middle in dwelling and of its highest in tent-poles.”<a id='r113' /><a href='#f113' class='c012'><sup>[113]</sup></a> +she replied, “Of its middle in dwelling and of its highest in tent-poles.”<a id='r113' href='#f113' class='c012'><sup>[113]</sup></a> Wherefore he knew that she was the daughter of the tribal chief. “And thou,” quoth she, “of what art thou among the guardians of the horses?”; and quoth he, “Of the highest in tree @@ -5697,7 +5684,7 @@ filled with tears and he condoled with her; but she ceased not to mourn for her father, till she followed him—Allah have mercy on the twain! And a tale is also told of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f113'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r113'>113</a>. </span>The tents of black wool woven by the Badawi women are generally supported by @@ -5716,7 +5703,7 @@ once attract the traveller’s notice.</p> <p class='c014'>The Commander of the Faithful Harun Al-Rashid was exceeding restless one night and rising from his bed, paced from chamber to chamber, but could not compose himself to sleep. As soon as -it was day, he said, “Fetch me Al-Asma’i!”<a id='r114' /><a href='#f114' class='c012'><sup>[114]</sup></a> So the eunuch went +it was day, he said, “Fetch me Al-Asma’i!”<a id='r114' href='#f114' class='c012'><sup>[114]</sup></a> So the eunuch went out and told the doorkeepers; these sent for the poet and when he came, informed the Caliph who bade admit him and said to him, “O Asma’i, I wish thee to tell me the best thou hast heard @@ -5787,11 +5774,11 @@ the first couplet which is this:—</p> </div> <p class='c003'>Quoth I, “An she be fair as her verse hath grace, the thing is -complete in every case.” Then I came down from my bench<a id='r115' /><a href='#f115' class='c012'><sup>[115]</sup></a> and +complete in every case.” Then I came down from my bench<a id='r115' href='#f115' class='c012'><sup>[115]</sup></a> and was about to go away, when behold, the door opened and out came a slave-girl, who said to me, “Sit, O Shaykh!” So I climbed <span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>up and sat down again when she gave me a scroll, wherein was -written, in characters of the utmost beauty, with straight Alifs,<a id='r116' /><a href='#f116' class='c012'><sup>[116]</sup></a> +written, in characters of the utmost beauty, with straight Alifs,<a id='r116' href='#f116' class='c012'><sup>[116]</sup></a> big-bellied Hás and rounded Waws, the following:—We would have the Shaykh (Allah lengthen his days!) to know that we are three maidens, sisters, sitting in friendly converse, who have laid @@ -5800,7 +5787,7 @@ goodliest and sweetest couplet shall have the whole three hundred dinars; and we appoint thee umpire between us: so decide as thou seest best, and the Peace be on thee! Quoth I to the girl, Here to me inkcase and paper. So she went in and, returning -after a little, brought me a silvered inkcase and gilded pens<a id='r117' /><a href='#f117' class='c012'><sup>[117]</sup></a> with +after a little, brought me a silvered inkcase and gilded pens<a id='r117' href='#f117' class='c012'><sup>[117]</sup></a> with which I wrote these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -5851,7 +5838,7 @@ were he not dearer to her than her sprite.” Said the Caliph, “Thou didst well, O Asma’i,” and gave him other three hundred ducats in payment of his story. And I have heard a tale concerning</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f114'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r114'>114</a>. </span>See vol. iv., 159. The author of “Antar,” known to Englishmen by the old translation @@ -5878,7 +5865,7 @@ Arabic alphabet: No. 1 is the most simple and difficult to write calligraphicall </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c113' class='c008'>IBRAHIM OF MOSUL AND THE DEVIL.<a id='r118' /><a href='#f118' class='c012'><sup>[118]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c113' class='c008'>IBRAHIM OF MOSUL AND THE DEVIL.<a id='r118' href='#f118' class='c012'><sup>[118]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>Quoth Abu Ishak Ibrahim al-Mausili:—I asked Al-Rashid once to @@ -5889,7 +5876,7 @@ Sabbath. So I went home and betook myself to making ready meat doors and let none come in to me. However, presently, as I sat in my sitting-chamber, with my women who were looking after my wants, behold, there appeared an old man of comely and -reverend aspect,<a id='r119' /><a href='#f119' class='c012'><sup>[119]</sup></a> clad in white clothes and a shirt of fine stuff +reverend aspect,<a id='r119' href='#f119' class='c012'><sup>[119]</sup></a> clad in white clothes and a shirt of fine stuff with a doctor’s turband on his head and a silver-handled staff in his hand, and the house and porch were full of the perfumes wherewith he was scented. I was greatly vexed at his coming in to me @@ -5905,7 +5892,7 @@ So I drank off a pint of wine and poured him out the like. Then said he, “O Abu Ishak, wilt thou sing us somewhat, so we may hear of thine art that wherein thou excellest high and low?” His words angered me; but I swallowed my anger and taking the lute -played and sang. “Well done, O Abu Ishak!”<a id='r120' /><a href='#f120' class='c012'><sup>[120]</sup></a> said he; whereat +played and sang. “Well done, O Abu Ishak!”<a id='r120' href='#f120' class='c012'><sup>[120]</sup></a> said he; whereat my wrath redoubled and I said to myself, “Is it not enough that he should intrude upon me, without my leave, and importune me thus, but he must call me by name, as though he knew not the @@ -5959,7 +5946,7 @@ of my heart. Then he sang these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Culvers of Liwa!<a id='r121' /><a href='#f121' class='c012'><sup>[121]</sup></a> to your nests return; ✿ Your mournful voices thrill this heart of mine.</div> + <div class='line'>Culvers of Liwa!<a id='r121' href='#f121' class='c012'><sup>[121]</sup></a> to your nests return; ✿ Your mournful voices thrill this heart of mine.</div> <div class='line'>Then back a-copse they flew, and well-nigh took ✿ My life and made me tell my secret pine.</div> <div class='line'>With cooing call they one who’s gone, as though ✿ Their breasts were maddened with the rage of wine:</div> <div class='line'>Ne’er did mine eyes their like for culvers see ✿ Who weep yet tear-drops never dye their eyne.</div> @@ -5976,7 +5963,7 @@ of my heart. Then he sang these couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>The turtle bespake me in bloom of morn ✿ From the cassia-twig and the willow-bough</div> <div class='line'>She moaned with the moaning of love-sick youth ✿ And exposed love-secret I ne’er would show:</div> <div class='line'>They say lover wearies of love when near ✿ And is cured of love an afar he go:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>I tried either cure which ne’er cured my love; ✿ But that nearness is better than farness I know:<a id='r122' /><a href='#f122' class='c012'><sup>[122]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>I tried either cure which ne’er cured my love; ✿ But that nearness is better than farness I know:<a id='r122' href='#f122' class='c012'><sup>[122]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Yet,—the nearness of love shall no ’vantage prove ✿ An whoso thou lovest deny thee of love.</div> </div> </div> @@ -5996,18 +5983,18 @@ They replied, “What old man? By Allah, no one hath gone in to thee this day!” So I returned pondering the matter, when, behold, there arose from one of the corners of the house, a <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vox et præterea nihil</span>, saying, “O Abu Ishak, no harm shall befal thee. -’Tis I, Abú Murrah,<a id='r123' /><a href='#f123' class='c012'><sup>[123]</sup></a> who have been thy cup-companion this day, +’Tis I, Abú Murrah,<a id='r123' href='#f123' class='c012'><sup>[123]</sup></a> who have been thy cup-companion this day, so fear nothing!” Then I mounted and rode to the palace, where I told Al-Rashid what had passed, and he said, “Repeat to me the airs thou heardest from him.” So I took the lute and played and sang them to him; for, behold, they were rooted in my heart. The Caliph was charmed with them and drank thereto, albeit he was no confirmed wine-bibber, saying, “Would he would some -day pleasure us with his company, as he hath pleasured thee!”<a id='r124' /><a href='#f124' class='c012'><sup>[124]</sup></a> +day pleasure us with his company, as he hath pleasured thee!”<a id='r124' href='#f124' class='c012'><sup>[124]</sup></a> Then he ordered me a present and I took it and went away. And men relate this story anent</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f118'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r118'>118</a>. </span><span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span>Lane introduced this tale into vol. i., p. 223, notes on chapt. iii., apparently not @@ -6054,13 +6041,13 @@ Satan!”</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c117' class='c008'>THE LOVERS OF THE BANU UZRAH.<a id='r125' /><a href='#f125' class='c012'><sup>[125]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c117' class='c008'>THE LOVERS OF THE BANU UZRAH.<a id='r125' href='#f125' class='c012'><sup>[125]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>Quoth Masrur the Eunuch:—The Caliph Harun Al-Rashid was very wakeful one night and said to me, “See which of the poets is at the door to-night.” So I went out and finding Jamíl bin -Ma’amar al-Uzrí<a id='r126' /><a href='#f126' class='c012'><sup>[126]</sup></a> in the antechamber, said to him, “Answer the +Ma’amar al-Uzrí<a id='r126' href='#f126' class='c012'><sup>[126]</sup></a> in the antechamber, said to him, “Answer the Commander of the Faithful.” Quoth he, “I hear and I obey,” and going in with me, saluted the Caliph, who returned his greeting and bade him sit down. Then he said to him, “O Jamil, @@ -6072,7 +6059,7 @@ actually beheld.” Quoth Jamil, “’Tis well, O Prince of True Believers; incline thy heart to me and lend me thine ears.” The Caliph took a bolster of red brocade, purfled with gold and stuffed with ostrich-feathers and, laying it under his thighs, propped up -both elbows thereon; then he said to Jamil, “Now<a id='r127' /><a href='#f127' class='c012'><sup>[127]</sup></a> for thy tale, +both elbows thereon; then he said to Jamil, “Now<a id='r127' href='#f127' class='c012'><sup>[127]</sup></a> for thy tale, O Jamil!” Thereupon he begun:—Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that I was once desperately enamoured of a certain girl and used to pay her frequent visits.——And Shahrazad perceived @@ -6096,9 +6083,9 @@ and used often to visit her, because she was my desire and delight <span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>of all the things of this world. After a while, her people removed with her, by reason of scarcity of pasture, and I abode some time without seeing her, till I grew restless for desire and longed for her -sight and the flesh<a id='r128' /><a href='#f128' class='c012'><sup>[128]</sup></a> urged me to journey to her. One night, I +sight and the flesh<a id='r128' href='#f128' class='c012'><sup>[128]</sup></a> urged me to journey to her. One night, I could hold out no longer; so I rose and saddling my she-camel, -bound on my turban and donned my oldest dress.<a id='r129' /><a href='#f129' class='c012'><sup>[129]</sup></a> Then I +bound on my turban and donned my oldest dress.<a id='r129' href='#f129' class='c012'><sup>[129]</sup></a> Then I baldricked myself with my sword and slinging my spear behind me, mounted and rode forth in quest of her. I fared on fast till, one night, it was pitch dark and exceeding black, yet I persisted @@ -6108,7 +6095,7 @@ of the wild beasts. My reason was troubled thereat and my heart sank within me; but for all that my tongue ceased not to call on the name of Almighty Allah. As I went along thus, sleep overtook me and the camel carried me aside out of my road, till, -presently, something<a id='r130' /><a href='#f130' class='c012'><sup>[130]</sup></a> smote me on the head, and I woke, +presently, something<a id='r130' href='#f130' class='c012'><sup>[130]</sup></a> smote me on the head, and I woke, startled and alarmed, and found myself in a pasturage full of trees and streams and birds on the branches, warbling their various speech and notes. As the trees were tangled I alighted and, @@ -6119,7 +6106,7 @@ where to go nor whither the Fates should lead me; but, presently, peering afar into the desert, I espied a fire in its middle depth. So I smote my camel and made for the fire. When I drew near, I saw a tent pitched, and fronted by a spear stuck in the ground, -with a pennon flying<a id='r131' /><a href='#f131' class='c012'><sup>[131]</sup></a> and horses tethered and camels feeding, and +with a pennon flying<a id='r131' href='#f131' class='c012'><sup>[131]</sup></a> and horses tethered and camels feeding, and said in myself, “Doubtless there hangeth some grave matter by this tent, for I see none other than it in the desert.” So I went up thereto and said, “Peace be with you, O people of the tent, @@ -6136,7 +6123,7 @@ cold and gloomy, and I fear lest the wild beasts rend thee in pieces; wherefore do thou alight and abide with me this night in ease and comfort, and to-morrow I will put thee in the right way.” Accordingly, I dismounted and hobbled my she-camel with the -end of her halter;<a id='r132' /><a href='#f132' class='c012'><sup>[132]</sup></a> then I put off my heavy upper clothes and sat +end of her halter;<a id='r132' href='#f132' class='c012'><sup>[132]</sup></a> then I put off my heavy upper clothes and sat down. Presently the young man took a sheep and slaughtered it and kindled a brisk fire; after which he went into the tent and bringing out finely powdered salt and spices, fell to cutting off @@ -6194,7 +6181,7 @@ heard I a softer or sweeter. I raised the curtain which hung between us and saw a damsel (never beheld I a fairer of face), by the young man’s side and they were both weeping and complaining, one to other of the pangs of passion and desire and of the excess -of their longing for union.<a id='r133' /><a href='#f133' class='c012'><sup>[133]</sup></a> Quoth I, “By Allah, I wonder who +of their longing for union.<a id='r133' href='#f133' class='c012'><sup>[133]</sup></a> Quoth I, “By Allah, I wonder who may be this second one! When I entered this tent, there was none therein save this young man.” And after reflection I added, “Doubtless this damsel is of the daughters of the Jinn and is @@ -6210,7 +6197,7 @@ prayed such prayers as are obligatory and which I had deferred. Then I said, “O brother of the Arabs, wilt thou direct me into the right road and thus add to thy favours?” He replied, “At thy leisure, O chief of the Arabs, the term of the guest-rite is -<span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>three days,<a id='r134' /><a href='#f134' class='c012'><sup>[134]</sup></a> and I am not one to let thee go before that time.” So +<span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>three days,<a id='r134' href='#f134' class='c012'><sup>[134]</sup></a> and I am not one to let thee go before that time.” So I abode with him three days, and on the fourth day as we sat talking, I asked him of his name and lineage. Quoth he “As for my lineage, I am of the Banú Odhrah; my name is such an one, @@ -6229,15 +6216,15 @@ man of the Banu Odhrah, who went in to her and carried her to his abiding-place this last year. When she was thus far removed from me and I was prevented from looking on her, the fiery pangs of passion and excess of love-longing and desire drove me to forsake -my clan<a id='r135' /><a href='#f135' class='c012'><sup>[135]</sup></a> and friends and fortune and take up my abode in +my clan<a id='r135' href='#f135' class='c012'><sup>[135]</sup></a> and friends and fortune and take up my abode in this desert, where I have grown used to my solitude.” I asked, “Where are their dwellings?” and he answered, “They are hard by, on the crest of yonder hill; and every night, at the dead time, when all eyes sleep, she stealeth secretly out of the camp, unseen of any one, and I satisfy my desire of her converse and she of -mine.<a id='r136' /><a href='#f136' class='c012'><sup>[136]</sup></a> So I abide thus, solacing myself with her a part of the +mine.<a id='r136' href='#f136' class='c012'><sup>[136]</sup></a> So I abide thus, solacing myself with her a part of the night, till Allah work out that which is to be wrought; either I -shall compass my desire, in spite<a id='r137' /><a href='#f137' class='c012'><sup>[137]</sup></a> of the envious, or Allah will +shall compass my desire, in spite<a id='r137' href='#f137' class='c012'><sup>[137]</sup></a> of the envious, or Allah will <span class='pageno' id='Page_122'>122</span>determine for me and He is the best of determinators.” Now when the youth told me his case, O Commander of the Faithful, I was concerned for him and perplexed by reason of my jealousy @@ -6300,7 +6287,7 @@ coming to me, a lion met her in the way and devoured her, and there remaineth of her but what thou seest.” So saying, he threw down what he had in his hand, and behold, it was the damsel’s turband and what was left of her bones. Then he wept sore and -casting down his bow,<a id='r138' /><a href='#f138' class='c012'><sup>[138]</sup></a> took a bag and went forth again saying, +casting down his bow,<a id='r138' href='#f138' class='c012'><sup>[138]</sup></a> took a bag and went forth again saying, “Stir not hence till I return to thee, if it please Almighty Allah.” He was absent a while and presently returned, bearing in his hand a lion’s head, which he threw on the ground and called for water. @@ -6319,7 +6306,7 @@ and recited these couplets:—</p> </div> <p class='c003'>Then said he to me, “O cousin, I conjure thee by Allah and the -claims of kindred and consanguinity<a id='r139' /><a href='#f139' class='c012'><sup>[139]</sup></a> between us, keep thou my +claims of kindred and consanguinity<a id='r139' href='#f139' class='c012'><sup>[139]</sup></a> between us, keep thou my charge. Thou wilt presently see me dead before thee; whereupon do thou wash me and shroud me and these that remain of my cousin’s bones in this robe and bury us both in one grave and @@ -6343,12 +6330,12 @@ mourning over him. Then I laid him out and did as he had enjoined me, shrouding his cousin’s remains with him in one robe and laying the twain in one grave. I abode by their tomb three days, after which I departed and continued to pay frequent pious -visits<a id='r140' /><a href='#f140' class='c012'><sup>[140]</sup></a> to the place for two years. This then is their story, O +visits<a id='r140' href='#f140' class='c012'><sup>[140]</sup></a> to the place for two years. This then is their story, O Commander of the Faithful! Al-Rashid was pleased with Jamil’s story and rewarded him with a robe of honour and a handsome present. And men also tell a tale concerning</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f125'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r125'>125</a>. </span>Al-Mas’udi, chapt. cxix. (Fr. transl. vii., 351) mentions the Banu Odhrah as famed @@ -6451,10 +6438,10 @@ against the whole business.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c124' class='c008'>THE BADAWI AND HIS WIFE.<a id='r141' /><a href='#f141' class='c012'><sup>[141]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c124' class='c008'>THE BADAWI AND HIS WIFE.<a id='r141' href='#f141' class='c012'><sup>[141]</sup></a></h2> </div> -<p class='c014'>Caliph Mu’áwiyah was sitting one day in his palace<a id='r142' /><a href='#f142' class='c012'><sup>[142]</sup></a> at +<p class='c014'>Caliph Mu’áwiyah was sitting one day in his palace<a id='r142' href='#f142' class='c012'><sup>[142]</sup></a> at Damascus, in a room whose windows were open on all four sides, that the breeze might enter from every quarter. Now it was a day of excessive heat, with no breeze from the hills @@ -6489,16 +6476,16 @@ ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <p class='c003'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the page allowed him to enter, the Badawi saluted the Caliph, who said to him, “Who art thou?” Replied the Arab, “I am a man -of the Banú Tamím.”<a id='r143' /><a href='#f143' class='c012'><sup>[143]</sup></a> “And what bringeth thee here at this +of the Banú Tamím.”<a id='r143' href='#f143' class='c012'><sup>[143]</sup></a> “And what bringeth thee here at this season?” asked Mu’awiyah; and the Arab answered, “I come to thee, complaining and thy protection imploring.” “Against -whom?” “Against Marwan bin al-Hakam,<a id='r144' /><a href='#f144' class='c012'><sup>[144]</sup></a> thy deputy,” replied +whom?” “Against Marwan bin al-Hakam,<a id='r144' href='#f144' class='c012'><sup>[144]</sup></a> thy deputy,” replied he, and began reciting:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mu’áwiyah,<a id='r145' /><a href='#f145' class='c012'><sup>[145]</sup></a> thou gen’rous lord, and best of men that be; ✿ And oh, thou lord of learning, grace and fair humanity,</div> + <div class='line'>Mu’áwiyah,<a id='r145' href='#f145' class='c012'><sup>[145]</sup></a> thou gen’rous lord, and best of men that be; ✿ And oh, thou lord of learning, grace and fair humanity,</div> <div class='line'>Thee-wards I come because my way of life is strait to me: ✿ O help! and let me not despair thine equity to see.</div> <div class='line'>Deign thou redress the wrong that dealt the tyrant whim of him ✿ Who better had my life destroyed than made such wrong to dree.</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>He robbed me of my wife Su’ád and proved him worst of foes, ✿ Stealing mine honour ’mid my folk with foul iniquity;</div> @@ -6532,7 +6519,7 @@ me, and sent me to prison, where I became as I had fallen from heaven and the wind had cast me down in a far land. Then said Marwan to her father, “Wilt thou give her to me to wife, on a present settlement of a thousand dinars and a contingent -dowry of ten thousand dirhams,<a id='r146' /><a href='#f146' class='c012'><sup>[146]</sup></a> and I will engage to free her +dowry of ten thousand dirhams,<a id='r146' href='#f146' class='c012'><sup>[146]</sup></a> and I will engage to free her from yonder wild Arab!” Her father was seduced by the bribe and agreed to the bargain; whereupon Marwan sent for me and looking at me like an angry lion, said to me, “O Arab, divorce @@ -6557,7 +6544,7 @@ spoke these couplets:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c003'>Then he was convulsed,<a id='r147' /><a href='#f147' class='c012'><sup>[147]</sup></a> and his teeth chattered and he fell +<p class='c003'>Then he was convulsed,<a id='r147' href='#f147' class='c012'><sup>[147]</sup></a> and his teeth chattered and he fell down in a fit, squirming like a scotched snake. When Mu’awiyah heard his story and his verse, he said, “Marwan bin al-Hakam hath transgressed against the laws of the Faith and hath violated @@ -6591,7 +6578,7 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou wast invested (woe to thee!)<a id='r148' /><a href='#f148' class='c012'><sup>[148]</sup></a> with rule for thee unfit; ✿ Crave thou of Allah pardon for thy foul adultery.</div> + <div class='line'>Thou wast invested (woe to thee!)<a id='r148' href='#f148' class='c012'><sup>[148]</sup></a> with rule for thee unfit; ✿ Crave thou of Allah pardon for thy foul adultery.</div> <div class='line'>Th’ unhappy youth to us is come complaining ’mid his groans ✿ And asks redress for parting-grief and saddened me through thee.</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span>An oath have I to Allah sworn shall never be forsworn; ✿ Nay, for I’ll do what Faith and Creed command me to decree.</div> <div class='line'>An thou dare cross me in whate’er to thee I now indite ✿ I of thy flesh assuredly will make the vulture free.</div> @@ -6601,7 +6588,7 @@ couplets:—</p> </div> <p class='c003'>Then he folded the letter and, sealing it with his seal, delivered it -to Al-Kumayt<a id='r149' /><a href='#f149' class='c012'><sup>[149]</sup></a> and Nasr bin Zíbán (whom he was wont to employ +to Al-Kumayt<a id='r149' href='#f149' class='c012'><sup>[149]</sup></a> and Nasr bin Zíbán (whom he was wont to employ on weighty matters, because of their trustiness) who took the missive and carried it to Al-Medinah, where they went in to Marwan and saluting him delivered to him the writ and told him @@ -6694,9 +6681,9 @@ love beyond stay and let; and indeed ’tis but just that I bear with him in his adversity, even as I shared with him in prosperity.” <span class='pageno' id='Page_130'>130</span>The Caliph marvelled at her wit and love and constancy and, ordering her ten thousand dirhams, delivered her to the Arab, who -took his wife and went away.<a id='r150' /><a href='#f150' class='c012'><sup>[150]</sup></a> And they likewise tell a tale of</p> +took his wife and went away.<a id='r150' href='#f150' class='c012'><sup>[150]</sup></a> And they likewise tell a tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f141'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r141'>141</a>. </span>Lane transfers this to vol. i. 520 (notes to chapt. vii.); and gives a mere abstract @@ -6768,30 +6755,30 @@ me hope that after all this Mistress Su’ad did not lead her husband a hardish </div> <p class='c014'>The Caliph Harun al-Rashid was sleepless one night; so he sent -for Al-Asma’i and Husayn al-Khalí’a<a id='r151' /><a href='#f151' class='c012'><sup>[151]</sup></a> and said to them, “Tell me +for Al-Asma’i and Husayn al-Khalí’a<a id='r151' href='#f151' class='c012'><sup>[151]</sup></a> and said to them, “Tell me a story you twain and do thou begin, O Husayn.” He said, “’Tis well, O Commander of the Faithful;” and thus began:—Some years ago, I dropped down stream to Bassorah, to present to -Mohammed bin Sulayman al-Rabí’í<a id='r152' /><a href='#f152' class='c012'><sup>[152]</sup></a> a Kasidah or elegy I had +Mohammed bin Sulayman al-Rabí’í<a id='r152' href='#f152' class='c012'><sup>[152]</sup></a> a Kasidah or elegy I had composed in his praise; and he accepted it and bade me abide -with him. One day, I went out to Al-Mirbad,<a id='r153' /><a href='#f153' class='c012'><sup>[153]</sup></a> by way of Al-Muháliyah;<a id='r154' /><a href='#f154' class='c012'><sup>[154]</sup></a> +with him. One day, I went out to Al-Mirbad,<a id='r153' href='#f153' class='c012'><sup>[153]</sup></a> by way of Al-Muháliyah;<a id='r154' href='#f154' class='c012'><sup>[154]</sup></a> and, being oppressed by the excessive heat, went up to a great door, to ask for drink, when I was suddenly aware of a damsel, as she were a branch swaying, with eyes languishing, eyebrows arched and finely pencilled and smooth cheeks rounded, clad in a shift the colour of a pomegranate-flower, and a mantilla -of Sana’á<a id='r155' /><a href='#f155' class='c012'><sup>[155]</sup></a> work; but the perfect whiteness of her body overcame +of Sana’á<a id='r155' href='#f155' class='c012'><sup>[155]</sup></a> work; but the perfect whiteness of her body overcame the redness of her shift, through which glittered two breasts like twin granadoes and a waist, as it were a roll of fine Coptic linen, -with creases like scrolls of pure white paper stuffed with musk.<a id='r156' /><a href='#f156' class='c012'><sup>[156]</sup></a> +with creases like scrolls of pure white paper stuffed with musk.<a id='r156' href='#f156' class='c012'><sup>[156]</sup></a> Moreover, O Prince of True Believers, round her neck was slung an amulet of red gold that fell down between her breasts, and on -<span class='pageno' id='Page_131'>131</span>the plain of her forehead were brow-locks like jet.<a id='r157' /><a href='#f157' class='c012'><sup>[157]</sup></a> Her eyebrows +<span class='pageno' id='Page_131'>131</span>the plain of her forehead were brow-locks like jet.<a id='r157' href='#f157' class='c012'><sup>[157]</sup></a> Her eyebrows joined and her eyes were like lakes; she had an aquiline nose and thereunder shell-like lips showing teeth like pearls. Pleasantness prevailed in every part of her; but she seemed dejected, disturbed, distracted and in the vestibule came and went, walking upon the -hearts of her lovers, whilst her legs<a id='r158' /><a href='#f158' class='c012'><sup>[158]</sup></a> made mute the voices of their +hearts of her lovers, whilst her legs<a id='r158' href='#f158' class='c012'><sup>[158]</sup></a> made mute the voices of their ankle-rings; and indeed she was as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -6869,8 +6856,8 @@ day I had invited the damsels of Bassorah and amongst them a girl belonging to Sírán, who had bought her out of Oman for fourscore thousand dirhams. She loved me and loved me to madness and when she entered she threw herself upon me and well-nigh -tore me in pieces with bites and pinches.<a id='r159' /><a href='#f159' class='c012'><sup>[159]</sup></a> Then we withdrew -apart, to drink wine at our ease, till our meat was ready<a id='r160' /><a href='#f160' class='c012'><sup>[160]</sup></a> and our +tore me in pieces with bites and pinches.<a id='r159' href='#f159' class='c012'><sup>[159]</sup></a> Then we withdrew +apart, to drink wine at our ease, till our meat was ready<a id='r160' href='#f160' class='c012'><sup>[160]</sup></a> and our <span class='pageno' id='Page_133'>133</span>delight was complete, and she toyed with me and I with her, and now I was upon her and now she was upon me. Presently, the fumes of the wine moved her to strike her hand on the inkle of @@ -6909,11 +6896,11 @@ Then I put the question, “What is his name?” and she replied, to come at him, that I may bring about reunion between you.” Said she, “I will tell thee on condition that thou carry him a note;” and I said, “I have no objection to that.” Then quoth -she, “His name is Zamrah bin al-Mughayrah, hight Abú al-Sakhá,<a id='r161' /><a href='#f161' class='c012'><sup>[161]</sup></a> +she, “His name is Zamrah bin al-Mughayrah, hight Abú al-Sakhá,<a id='r161' href='#f161' class='c012'><sup>[161]</sup></a> and his palace is in the Mirbad.” Therewith she called to those -within for inkcase and paper and tucking up<a id='r162' /><a href='#f162' class='c012'><sup>[162]</sup></a> her sleeves, showed +within for inkcase and paper and tucking up<a id='r162' href='#f162' class='c012'><sup>[162]</sup></a> her sleeves, showed two wrists like broad rings of silver. She then wrote after the -Basmalah as follows, “My lord, the omission of blessings<a id='r163' /><a href='#f163' class='c012'><sup>[163]</sup></a> at the +Basmalah as follows, “My lord, the omission of blessings<a id='r163' href='#f163' class='c012'><sup>[163]</sup></a> at the head of this my letter shows mine insufficiency, and know that had <span class='pageno' id='Page_134'>134</span>my prayer been answered, thou hadst never left me; for how often have I prayed that thou shouldest not leave me, and yet thou @@ -6929,7 +6916,7 @@ and appoint it in requital of the intimacy that was between us in the nights of time past, whereof thou must preserve the memory. My lord, was I not to thee a lover sick with passion? An thou answer my prayer, I will give to thee thanks and to Allah praise; -and so—The Peace!”<a id='r164' /><a href='#f164' class='c012'><sup>[164]</sup></a> Then she gave me the letter and I went +and so—The Peace!”<a id='r164' href='#f164' class='c012'><sup>[164]</sup></a> Then she gave me the letter and I went away. Next morning I repaired to the door of the Viceroy Mohammed bin Sulayman, where I found an assembly of the notables of Bassorah, and amongst them a youth who adorned the @@ -6937,7 +6924,7 @@ gathering and surpassed in beauty and brightness all who were there; and indeed the Emir Mohammed set him above himself. I asked who he was and behold, it was Zamrah himself: so I said in my mind, “Verily, there hath befallen yonder unhappy -one that which hath befallen her<a id='r165' /><a href='#f165' class='c012'><sup>[165]</sup></a>!” Then I betook myself to +one that which hath befallen her<a id='r165' href='#f165' class='c012'><sup>[165]</sup></a>!” Then I betook myself to the Mirbad and stood waiting at the door of his house, till he came riding up in state, when I accosted him and invoking more than usual blessings on him, handed him the missive. When he @@ -6953,7 +6940,7 @@ brought.” So I went out, O Commander of the Faithful, dragging my feet and returning to her asked leave to enter. When she saw me, she asked, “What is behind thee?”; and I answered, “Evil <span class='pageno' id='Page_135'>135</span>and despair.” Quoth she, “Have thou no concern of him. Where -are Allah and His power?”<a id='r166' /><a href='#f166' class='c012'><sup>[166]</sup></a> Then she ordered me five hundred +are Allah and His power?”<a id='r166' href='#f166' class='c012'><sup>[166]</sup></a> Then she ordered me five hundred dinars and I took them and went away. Some days after I passed by the place and saw there horsemen and footmen. So I went in and lo! these were the companions of Zamrah, who were begging @@ -6973,9 +6960,9 @@ showed me the presents and rarities he had sent her, which were of the value of thirty thousand dinars. I saw her again after this, and Zamrah had married her. Quoth Al-Rashid, “Had not Zamrah been beforehand with us, I should certainly have had -to do with her myself.”<a id='r167' /><a href='#f167' class='c012'><sup>[167]</sup></a> And men tell the tale of</p> +to do with her myself.”<a id='r167' href='#f167' class='c012'><sup>[167]</sup></a> And men tell the tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f151'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r151'>151</a>. </span><span class='pageno' id='Page_136'>136</span>Al-Khalí’a has been explained in vol. i. 311: the translation of Al-Mas’udi (vi. 10) @@ -7090,7 +7077,7 @@ Lady Budúr (vol. iv., 228 <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">et seq.</span></i>) </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c136' class='c008'>ISHAK OF MOSUL AND HIS MISTRESS AND THE DEVIL.<a id='r168' /><a href='#f168' class='c012'><sup>[168]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c136' class='c008'>ISHAK OF MOSUL AND HIS MISTRESS AND THE DEVIL.<a id='r168' href='#f168' class='c012'><sup>[168]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>Quoth Ishak bin Ibrahim al-Mausili:—I was in my house one @@ -7105,7 +7092,7 @@ Accordingly he brought me meat and drink, but I had no heart to eat, without someone to keep me company, and I ceased not to look out of window and watch the ways till nightfall, when I bethought myself of a damsel belonging to one of the sons of -Al-Mahdi,<a id='r169' /><a href='#f169' class='c012'><sup>[169]</sup></a> whom I loved and who was skilled in singing and +Al-Mahdi,<a id='r169' href='#f169' class='c012'><sup>[169]</sup></a> whom I loved and who was skilled in singing and playing upon instruments of music, and said to myself, “Were she here with us to-night, my joy would be complete and my night would be abridged of the melancholy and restlessness @@ -7113,10 +7100,10 @@ which are upon me.” At this moment one knocked at the door, saying, “Shall a beloved enter in who standeth at the door?” Quoth I to myself, “Meseems the plant of my desire hath fruited.” So I went to the door and found my mistress, with a -long green skirt<a id='r170' /><a href='#f170' class='c012'><sup>[170]</sup></a> wrapped about her and a kerchief of brocade +long green skirt<a id='r170' href='#f170' class='c012'><sup>[170]</sup></a> wrapped about her and a kerchief of brocade on her head, to fend her from the rain. She was covered with mud to her knees and all that was upon her was drenched with -water from gargoyles<a id='r171' /><a href='#f171' class='c012'><sup>[171]</sup></a> and house-sprouts; in short, she was in +water from gargoyles<a id='r171' href='#f171' class='c012'><sup>[171]</sup></a> and house-sprouts; in short, she was in <span class='pageno' id='Page_137'>137</span>sorry plight. So I said to her, “O my mistress, what bringeth thee hither through all this mud?” Replied she, “Thy messenger came and set forth to me that which was with thee of love and @@ -7235,7 +7222,7 @@ He sinned to Adam who to bow refused, ✿ Yet pimps for all of Adam’s progeny. <p class='c003'>And they tell a tale concerning</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f168'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r168'>168</a>. </span>Lane also omits this tale (iii. 252). See Night dclxxxviii., vol. vii. p. 113 <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">et seq.</span></i>, @@ -7267,7 +7254,7 @@ height of sides 8 in.; and slope at mouth 1 foot 6 in. long.</p> <h2 id='c139' class='c008'>THE LOVERS OF AL-MEDINAH.</h2> </div> -<p class='c014'>Quoth Ibrahim the father of Ishak,<a id='r172' /><a href='#f172' class='c012'><sup>[172]</sup></a> I was ever a devoted friend +<p class='c014'>Quoth Ibrahim the father of Ishak,<a id='r172' href='#f172' class='c012'><sup>[172]</sup></a> I was ever a devoted friend to the Barmecide family. And it so happened to me one day, as I sat at home quite alone, a knock was heard at the door; so my servant went out and returned, saying, “A comely youth is at the @@ -7299,7 +7286,7 @@ He replied, “Recite them to me,” whereupon he recited:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>By Allah, glance of mine! thou hast opprest ✿ My heart, so quench the fire that burns my breast.</div> - <div class='line'>Blames me the world because in him<a id='r173' /><a href='#f173' class='c012'><sup>[173]</sup></a> I live ✿ Yet cannot see him till in shroud I rest.</div> + <div class='line'>Blames me the world because in him<a id='r173' href='#f173' class='c012'><sup>[173]</sup></a> I live ✿ Yet cannot see him till in shroud I rest.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -7324,7 +7311,7 @@ second, that thou drink wine enough to hearten thy heart; and the third, that thou tell me thy tale.” He agreed to this and ate and drank; after which he said:—“I am of the citizens of Al-Medinah and I went forth one day a-pleasuring with my friends; and, -following the road to Al-Akík,<a id='r174' /><a href='#f174' class='c012'><sup>[174]</sup></a> saw a company of girls and +following the road to Al-Akík,<a id='r174' href='#f174' class='c012'><sup>[174]</sup></a> saw a company of girls and amongst them a damsel as she were a branch pearled with dew, with eyes whose sidelong glances were never withdrawn till they had stolen away his soul who looked on them. The maidens @@ -7335,7 +7322,7 @@ her; so I sought her in the streets and markets, but could come on no trace of her; wherefore I fell ill of grief and told my case to one of my kinsmen, who said to me, No harm shall befal thee: the days of spring are not yet past and the skies show sign of -rain,<a id='r175' /><a href='#f175' class='c012'><sup>[175]</sup></a> whereupon she will go forth, and I will go out with thee, and +rain,<a id='r175' href='#f175' class='c012'><sup>[175]</sup></a> whereupon she will go forth, and I will go out with thee, and do thou thy will. His words comforted my heart and I waited till Al-Akik ran with water, when I went forth with my friends and kinsmen and sat in the very same place where I first saw her.” We @@ -7396,12 +7383,12 @@ So, in a little while, they came and the Caliph, sending for the man, commanded him to marry his daughter to her lover; after which he gave him an hundred thousand dinars, and the father went back to his folk. As for the young man, he abode one of -Ja’afar’s cup-companions till there happened what happened;<a id='r176' /><a href='#f176' class='c012'><sup>[176]</sup></a> +Ja’afar’s cup-companions till there happened what happened;<a id='r176' href='#f176' class='c012'><sup>[176]</sup></a> whereupon he returned with his household to Al-Medinah; may Almighty Allah have mercy upon their souls one and all! And they also tell, O auspicious King, a tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f172'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r172'>172</a>. </span>The Mac. and Bul. Edits. have by mistake “Son of Ishak.” Lane has “Is-hak @@ -7451,7 +7438,7 @@ to the weather).</p> <h2 id='c142' class='c008'>AL-MALIK AL-NASIR AND HIS WAZIR.</h2> </div> -<p class='c014'>There was given to Abú Ámir bin Marwán,<a id='r177' /><a href='#f177' class='c012'><sup>[177]</sup></a> a boy of the +<p class='c014'>There was given to Abú Ámir bin Marwán,<a id='r177' href='#f177' class='c012'><sup>[177]</sup></a> a boy of the Christians, than whom never fell eyes on a handsomer. Al-Nasir the conquering Soldan saw him and said to Abu Amir, who was his Wazir, “Whence cometh this boy?” Replied he, “From @@ -7522,7 +7509,7 @@ thou to demand me of him.” This letter he sent to Abu Amir by a little foot-page, whom he enjoined to say, “This is from such an one: the King never speaketh to him.” When the Wazir read the letter and heard the cheating message, he noted the -poison-draught<a id='r178' /><a href='#f178' class='c012'><sup>[178]</sup></a> and wrote on the back of the note these +poison-draught<a id='r178' href='#f178' class='c012'><sup>[178]</sup></a> and wrote on the back of the note these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> @@ -7542,7 +7529,7 @@ thou escape falling into the net?” And he replied, “Because my reason is unentangled in the toils of passion.” And they also tell a tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f177'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r177'>177</a>. </span>He was Wazir to the Great “Saladin” (Saláh al-Din = one conforming with the @@ -7557,11 +7544,11 @@ Great Amawi Mosque of Damascus and I never visited a tomb with more reverence.</ </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c144' class='c008'>THE ROGUERIES OF DALILAH THE CRAFTY AND HER DAUGHTER ZAYNAB THE CONEY-CATCHER.<a id='r179' /><a href='#f179' class='c012'><sup>[179]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c144' class='c008'>THE ROGUERIES OF DALILAH THE CRAFTY AND HER DAUGHTER ZAYNAB THE CONEY-CATCHER.<a id='r179' href='#f179' class='c012'><sup>[179]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>There lived in the time of Harun al-Rashid a man named Ahmad -al-Danaf and another Hasan Shúmán<a id='r180' /><a href='#f180' class='c012'><sup>[180]</sup></a> hight, the twain past +al-Danaf and another Hasan Shúmán<a id='r180' href='#f180' class='c012'><sup>[180]</sup></a> hight, the twain past masters in fraud and feints, who had done rare things in their day; wherefore the Caliph invested them with caftans of honour and made them Captains of the watch for Baghdad (Ahmad of the @@ -7589,11 +7576,11 @@ we abide unemployed and neglected in this house, without estate and without honour, and have none to ask of us.” Now Dalilah’s husband had been town-captain of Baghdad with a monthly wage of one thousand dinars; but he died leaving two daughters, one -married and with a son by name Ahmad al-Lakít<a id='r181' /><a href='#f181' class='c012'><sup>[181]</sup></a> or Ahmad the +married and with a son by name Ahmad al-Lakít<a id='r181' href='#f181' class='c012'><sup>[181]</sup></a> or Ahmad the Abortion; and the other called Zaynab, a spinster. And this Dalilah was a past mistress in all manner of craft and trickery and double dealing; she could wile the very dragon out of his den -and Iblis himself might have learnt deceit of her. Her father<a id='r182' /><a href='#f182' class='c012'><sup>[182]</sup></a> +and Iblis himself might have learnt deceit of her. Her father<a id='r182' href='#f182' class='c012'><sup>[182]</sup></a> had also been governor of the carrier-pigeons to the Caliph with a solde of one thousand dinars a month. He used to rear the birds to carry letters and messages, wherefore in time of need each was @@ -7622,7 +7609,7 @@ rogueries in Baghdad than ever played Calamity Ahmad or Hasan the Pestilent.” So saying, she rose and threw over her face the Lisám-veil and donned clothes such as the poorer Sufis wear, petticoat-trousers falling over her heels, and a gown of -white wool with a broad girdle. She also took a pitcher<a id='r183' /><a href='#f183' class='c012'><sup>[183]</sup></a> and +white wool with a broad girdle. She also took a pitcher<a id='r183' href='#f183' class='c012'><sup>[183]</sup></a> and filled it with water to the neck; after which she set three dinars in the mouth and stopped it up with a plug of palm-fibre. Then she threw round her shoulder, baldrick-wise, a rosary as big as a load @@ -7639,7 +7626,7 @@ knocker. Now this house belonged to the Chief of the Caliph’s Serjeant-ushers, a man of great wealth in fields, houses and allowances, called the Emir Hasan Sharr al-Tarík, or Evil of the Way, and therefor called because his blow forewent his word. He was -married to a fair damsel, Khátún<a id='r184' /><a href='#f184' class='c012'><sup>[184]</sup></a> hight, whom he loved and who +married to a fair damsel, Khátún<a id='r184' href='#f184' class='c012'><sup>[184]</sup></a> hight, whom he loved and who had made him swear, on the night of his going in unto her, that he would take none other to wife over her nor lie abroad for a single night. And so things went on till one day, he went to the @@ -7653,20 +7640,20 @@ out of my sight: from the day I saw thee I have seen naught of good.” “How so?” quoth she. Quoth he, “On the night of my going in unto thee, thou madest me swear to take no other wife over thee, and this very day I have seen each Emir with a son -and some with two. So I minded me of death<a id='r185' /><a href='#f185' class='c012'><sup>[185]</sup></a>; and also that to +and some with two. So I minded me of death<a id='r185' href='#f185' class='c012'><sup>[185]</sup></a>; and also that to me hath been vouchsafed neither son nor daughter and that whoso leaveth no male hath no memory. This, then, is the reason of my anger, for thou art barren; and knowing thee is like planing a rock.” Cried she, “Allah’s name upon thee. Indeed, I have worn out the mortars with beating wool and pounding -drugs,<a id='r186' /><a href='#f186' class='c012'><sup>[186]</sup></a> and I am not to blame; the barrenness is with thee, for +drugs,<a id='r186' href='#f186' class='c012'><sup>[186]</sup></a> and I am not to blame; the barrenness is with thee, for that thou art a snub-nosed mule and thy sperm is weak and watery and impregnateth not neither getteth children.” Said he, “When I return from my journey, I will take another wife;” and she, “My luck is with Allah!” Then he went out from her and both repented of the sharp words spoken each to other. Now as the Emir’s wife looked forth of her lattice, as she were a Bride of -the Hoards<a id='r187' /><a href='#f187' class='c012'><sup>[187]</sup></a> for the jewellery upon her, behold, there stood +the Hoards<a id='r187' href='#f187' class='c012'><sup>[187]</sup></a> for the jewellery upon her, behold, there stood Dalilah espying her and seeing her clad in costly clothes and ornaments, said to herself, “’Twould be a rare trick, O Dalilah, to entice yonder young lady from her husband’s house and strip her @@ -7705,7 +7692,7 @@ Religious enter to my lady so haply she may get a blessing of her, and we too may be blessed, one and all,” the gate-keeper went up to Dalilah and kissed her hand, but she forbade him, saying, “Away from me, lest my ablution be made null and -void.<a id='r188' /><a href='#f188' class='c012'><sup>[188]</sup></a> Thou, also, art of the attracted God-wards and kindly +void.<a id='r188' href='#f188' class='c012'><sup>[188]</sup></a> Thou, also, art of the attracted God-wards and kindly looked upon by Allah’s Saints and under His especial guardianship. May He deliver thee from this servitude, O Abu Ali!” Now the Emir owed three months’ wage to the porter who was @@ -7743,7 +7730,7 @@ journey, I will take another wife, for he hath villages and lands and large allowances, and if he begat children by another, they will possess the money and take the estates from me.” Said Dalilah, “O my daughter, knowest thou not of my master, the -Shaykh Abú al-Hamlát,<a id='r189' /><a href='#f189' class='c012'><sup>[189]</sup></a> whom if any debtor visit, Allah +Shaykh Abú al-Hamlát,<a id='r189' href='#f189' class='c012'><sup>[189]</sup></a> whom if any debtor visit, Allah quitteth him his debt, and if a barren woman, she conceiveth?” Khatun replied, “O my mother, since the day of my wedding I have not gone forth the house, no, not even to pay visits of @@ -7775,11 +7762,11 @@ clothes and jewellery, with the folk coming and going?” Then she said to her, “O my daughter, walk thou behind me, within sight of me, for this thy mother is a woman sorely burdened; everyone who hath a burden casteth it on me and all who have -pious offerings<a id='r190' /><a href='#f190' class='c012'><sup>[190]</sup></a> to make give them to me and kiss my hand.” +pious offerings<a id='r190' href='#f190' class='c012'><sup>[190]</sup></a> to make give them to me and kiss my hand.” So the young lady followed her at a distance, whilst her anklets -tinkled and her hair-coins<a id='r191' /><a href='#f191' class='c012'><sup>[191]</sup></a> clinked as she went, till they reached the +tinkled and her hair-coins<a id='r191' href='#f191' class='c012'><sup>[191]</sup></a> clinked as she went, till they reached the bazar of the merchants. Presently, they came to the shop of a -young merchant, by name Sídí Hasan who was very handsome<a id='r192' /><a href='#f192' class='c012'><sup>[192]</sup></a> +young merchant, by name Sídí Hasan who was very handsome<a id='r192' href='#f192' class='c012'><sup>[192]</sup></a> and had no hair on his face. He saw the lady approaching and fell to casting stolen glances at her, which when the old woman saw, she beckoned to her and said, “Sit down in this shop, @@ -7803,7 +7790,7 @@ Then he continued to the old trot, “O my mother, that whereto thou directest me is well; but this long while my mother saith to me:—I wish to marry thee, but I object replying, I will not marry except on the sight of my own eyes.” Said Dalilah, -“Rise and follow my steps, and I will show her to thee, naked.”<a id='r193' /><a href='#f193' class='c012'><sup>[193]</sup></a> +“Rise and follow my steps, and I will show her to thee, naked.”<a id='r193' href='#f193' class='c012'><sup>[193]</sup></a> So he rose and took a thousand dinars, saying in himself, “Haply we may need to buy somewhat”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -7830,8 +7817,8 @@ the merchant that thou mayest strip them both whilst his shop is still shut?” Then she walked on and Khatun after her, followed by the young merchant, till she came to a dyery, kept by a master dyer, by name Hajj Mohammed, a man of ill-repute; -like the colocasia<a id='r194' /><a href='#f194' class='c012'><sup>[194]</sup></a> seller’s knife cutting male and female, and -loving to eat both figs and pomegranates.<a id='r195' /><a href='#f195' class='c012'><sup>[195]</sup></a> He heard the tinkle of +like the colocasia<a id='r194' href='#f194' class='c012'><sup>[194]</sup></a> seller’s knife cutting male and female, and +loving to eat both figs and pomegranates.<a id='r195' href='#f195' class='c012'><sup>[195]</sup></a> He heard the tinkle of the ankle rings and, raising his head, saw the lady and the young man. Presently the old woman came up to him and, after salaaming to him and sitting down opposite him, asked him, “Art @@ -7874,7 +7861,7 @@ Dalilah answered, “Because here is a son of mine, a natural who knoweth not summer from winter, but goeth ever naked. He is the Shaykh’s deputy and, if he saw a girl like thee come to visit his chief, he would snatch her earrings and tear her ears and rend -her silken robes.<a id='r196' /><a href='#f196' class='c012'><sup>[196]</sup></a> So do thou doff thy jewellery and clothes and +her silken robes.<a id='r196' href='#f196' class='c012'><sup>[196]</sup></a> So do thou doff thy jewellery and clothes and I will keep them for thee, till thou hast made thy pious visitation.” Accordingly the damsel did off her outer dress and jewels and gave them to the old woman, who said, “I will lay them for thee @@ -7972,7 +7959,7 @@ safety, O master! Verily my heart was with thee.” “Why so?” insolvency.” “Who told thee this?” “Thy mother told me, and bade me break the jars and empty the vats, that the Kazi’s officers might find nothing in the shop, if they should come.” “Allah -confound the far One!”<a id='r197' /><a href='#f197' class='c012'><sup>[197]</sup></a> cried the dyer; “My mother died long +confound the far One!”<a id='r197' href='#f197' class='c012'><sup>[197]</sup></a> cried the dyer; “My mother died long ago.” And he beat his breast, exclaiming, “Alas, for the loss of my goods and those of the folk!” The donkey-boy also wept and ejaculated, “Alas, for the loss of my ass!”; and he said to @@ -8045,7 +8032,7 @@ thy house dressed and go forth from it undressed.” So the dyer clad him and the damsel and sent her back to her house where we shall find her after the return of her husband. Then he shut the dyery and said to the young merchant, “Come, let us go and -search for the old woman and hand her over to the Wali,<a id='r198' /><a href='#f198' class='c012'><sup>[198]</sup></a> the +search for the old woman and hand her over to the Wali,<a id='r198' href='#f198' class='c012'><sup>[198]</sup></a> the Chief of Police.” So they and the ass-man repaired to the house of the master of police and made their complaint to him. Quoth <span class='pageno' id='Page_157'>157</span>he, “O folk, what want ye?” and when they told him he rejoined, @@ -8053,7 +8040,7 @@ of the master of police and made their complaint to him. Quoth seek for her and lay hands on her and bring her to me, and I will torture her for you and make her confess.” So they sought for her all round the town; and an account of them will presently be -given.<a id='r199' /><a href='#f199' class='c012'><sup>[199]</sup></a> As for old Dalilah the Wily, she said, “I have a mind to +given.<a id='r199' href='#f199' class='c012'><sup>[199]</sup></a> As for old Dalilah the Wily, she said, “I have a mind to play off another trick,” to her daughter who answered, “O my mother, I fear for thee;” but the beldam cried, “I am like the bean husks which fall, proof against fire and water.” So she rose, and @@ -8117,7 +8104,7 @@ knew him for the son of the Provost of the Merchants. Now the Israelite was a man of great wealth, but would envy his neighbour if he sold and himself did not sell; so espying Dalilah, he said to her, “What seekest thou, O my mistress?” She asked, “Art -thou Master Azariah<a id='r200' /><a href='#f200' class='c012'><sup>[200]</sup></a> the Jew?” having first enquired his name +thou Master Azariah<a id='r200' href='#f200' class='c012'><sup>[200]</sup></a> the Jew?” having first enquired his name of others; and he answered, “Yes.” Quoth she, “This boy’s sister, daughter of the Shahbandar of the Merchants, is a promised bride, and to-day they celebrate her betrothal; and she hath need @@ -8151,7 +8138,7 @@ espied his son seated, naked, in the Jew’s shop and said to the owner, “This is my son.” “’Tis well,” answered the Jew. So he took him up, without asking for his clothes, of the excess of his joy at finding him; but the Jew laid hold of him, saying, “Allah -succour the Caliph against thee!”<a id='r201' /><a href='#f201' class='c012'><sup>[201]</sup></a> The Provost asked, “What +succour the Caliph against thee!”<a id='r201' href='#f201' class='c012'><sup>[201]</sup></a> The Provost asked, “What aileth thee, O Jew?”; and he answered, “Verily the old woman took of me a thousand dinars’ worth of jewellery for thy daughter, and left this lad in pledge for the price; and I had not trusted @@ -8197,7 +8184,7 @@ take this dinar and call him to thee, saying:—Thine ass is with me.” Said the barber, “May I fast for a year, if I do not give him his ass in his fist!” Now he had with him two journeymen, so he said to one of them, “Go, heat the irons.” Then the old woman -went her way and the barber called to the donkey-boy,<a id='r202' /><a href='#f202' class='c012'><sup>[202]</sup></a> saying, +went her way and the barber called to the donkey-boy,<a id='r202' href='#f202' class='c012'><sup>[202]</sup></a> saying, “Thine ass is with me, good fellow! come and take him, and as thou livest, I will give him into thy palm.” So he came to him and the barber carried him into a dark room, where he knocked @@ -8227,7 +8214,7 @@ had betided him and the barber did the like; and the others in turn related to the Moor the tricks the old woman had played them. Then he shut up his shop and went with them to the office of the Police-master to whom they said, “We look to -thee for our case and our coin.”<a id='r203' /><a href='#f203' class='c012'><sup>[203]</sup></a> Quoth the Wali, “And how +thee for our case and our coin.”<a id='r203' href='#f203' class='c012'><sup>[203]</sup></a> Quoth the Wali, “And how many old women are there not in Baghdad! Say me, doth any of you know her?” Quoth the ass-man, “I do; so give me ten of thine officers.” He gave them half a score archers and they @@ -8269,14 +8256,14 @@ story she believed it and asked her, “Where are the slaves?” Dalilah replied, “O my lady, they are asleep under the palace window”; whereupon the dame looked out and seeing the Moorish barber clad in a Mameluke habit and the young merchant as he -were a drunken Mameluke<a id='r204' /><a href='#f204' class='c012'><sup>[204]</sup></a> and the Jew and the dyer and the ass-driver +were a drunken Mameluke<a id='r204' href='#f204' class='c012'><sup>[204]</sup></a> and the Jew and the dyer and the ass-driver as they were shaven Mamelukes, said in herself, “Each of these white slaves is worth more than a thousand dinars.” So she opened her chest and gave the old woman the thousand ducats, saying, “Fare thee forth now and come back anon; when my husband waketh, I will get thee the other two hundred dinars from him.” Answered the old woman, “O my lady, an hundred of them -are thine, under the sherbet-gugglet whereof thou drinkest,<a id='r205' /><a href='#f205' class='c012'><sup>[205]</sup></a> and +are thine, under the sherbet-gugglet whereof thou drinkest,<a id='r205' href='#f205' class='c012'><sup>[205]</sup></a> and the other hundred do thou keep for me against I come back,” presently adding, “Now let me out by the private door.” So she let her out, and the Protector protected her and she made her way @@ -8332,7 +8319,7 @@ will be surety for the old woman. But which of you knoweth her?” They cried, “We all know her: send ten apparitors with us, and we will take her.” So he gave them ten men, and the ass-driver said to them, “Follow me, for I should know her with blue -<span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span>eyes.”<a id='r206' /><a href='#f206' class='c012'><sup>[206]</sup></a> Then they fared forth and lo! they meet old Dalilah +<span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span>eyes.”<a id='r206' href='#f206' class='c012'><sup>[206]</sup></a> Then they fared forth and lo! they meet old Dalilah coming out of a by-street: so they at once laid hands on her and brought her to the office of the Wali who asked her, “Where are the people’s goods?” But she answered, saying, “I have neither @@ -8348,7 +8335,7 @@ home. Presently, the night fell down and sleep overcame the watchmen. Now a certain Badawi had heard one man say to a friend, “Praise be to Allah for thy safe return! Where hast thou been all this time?” Replied the other, “In Baghdad where I -broke my fast on honey-fritters.”<a id='r207' /><a href='#f207' class='c012'><sup>[207]</sup></a> Quoth the Badawi to himself, +broke my fast on honey-fritters.”<a id='r207' href='#f207' class='c012'><sup>[207]</sup></a> Quoth the Badawi to himself, “Needs must I go to Baghdad and eat honey-fritters therein”; for in all his life he had never entered Baghdad nor seen fritters of the sort. So he mounted his stallion and rode on towards Baghdad, @@ -8463,10 +8450,10 @@ the Caliph said to Calamity Ahmad, “I charge thee to bring the old woman before us,” he said, “I will answer for her, O Commander <span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span>of the Faithful!” Then the Caliph kept the Badawi and the five with him, whilst Ahmad and his men went down to their -hall,<a id='r208' /><a href='#f208' class='c012'><sup>[208]</sup></a> saying to one another, “How shall we lay hands on her, +hall,<a id='r208' href='#f208' class='c012'><sup>[208]</sup></a> saying to one another, “How shall we lay hands on her, seeing that there are many old women in the town?” And quoth Ahmad to Hasan Shuman, “What counsellest thou?” Whereupon -quoth one of them, by name Ali Kitf al-Jamal,<a id='r209' /><a href='#f209' class='c012'><sup>[209]</sup></a> to al-Danaf, “Of +quoth one of them, by name Ali Kitf al-Jamal,<a id='r209' href='#f209' class='c012'><sup>[209]</sup></a> to al-Danaf, “Of what dost thou take counsel with Hasan Shuman? Is the Pestilent one any great shakes?” Said Hasan, “O Ali, why dost thou disparage me? By the Most Great Name, I will not company @@ -8502,7 +8489,7 @@ money. So I came hither, for fear of the Dignities, and asked <span class='pageno' id='Page_168'>168</span>the people who would protect me, to which they replied:—None but Ahmad al-Danaf.” Said the men, “From this day forth, thou art under his protection”; and she replied, “Hearten me -by eating a bit and drinking a sup of water.”<a id='r210' /><a href='#f210' class='c012'><sup>[210]</sup></a> They consented +by eating a bit and drinking a sup of water.”<a id='r210' href='#f210' class='c012'><sup>[210]</sup></a> They consented and entering, ate and drank till they were drunken, when she drugged them with Bhang and stripped them of their clothes and arms; and on like wise she did with the three other companions. @@ -8532,7 +8519,7 @@ lo! this strumpet hath caught us! How Hasan Shuman will rejoice over us! But we will wait till it is dark and then go away.” Meanwhile Pestilence Hasan said to the hall-keeper, “Where are the men?”; and as he asked, up they came naked; and he recited -these two couplets<a id='r211' /><a href='#f211' class='c012'><sup>[211]</sup></a>:—</p> +these two couplets<a id='r211' href='#f211' class='c012'><sup>[211]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> @@ -8596,7 +8583,7 @@ it not of lust for their goods, but because I had heard of the tricks which Ahmad al-Danaf and Hasan Shuman played in Baghdad and said to myself:—I too will do the like. And now I have returned the folk their goods.” But the ass-driver rose -and said, “I invoke Allah’s law<a id='r212' /><a href='#f212' class='c012'><sup>[212]</sup></a> between me and her; for it +and said, “I invoke Allah’s law<a id='r212' href='#f212' class='c012'><sup>[212]</sup></a> between me and her; for it sufficed her not to take my ass, but she must needs egg on the Moorish barber to tear out my eye-teeth and fire me on both temples.”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and @@ -8631,7 +8618,7 @@ have that of her father.” The Caliph granted both their requests and she said, “I ask of thee that I may be portress of thy Khan.” Now he had built a Khan of three stories, for the merchants to lodge in, and had assigned to its service forty slaves and also forty -dogs he had brought from the King of the Sulaymániyah,<a id='r213' /><a href='#f213' class='c012'><sup>[213]</sup></a> when +dogs he had brought from the King of the Sulaymániyah,<a id='r213' href='#f213' class='c012'><sup>[213]</sup></a> when he deposed him; and there was in the Khan a cook-slave, who cooked for the chattels and fed the hounds for which he let make collars. Said the Caliph, “O Dalilah, I will write thee a patent @@ -8654,7 +8641,7 @@ dogs that they might keep watch over the place by night. Such were the doings of Dalilah the Wily One in Baghdad and much like them were</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f179'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r179'>179</a>. </span><span class='pageno' id='Page_172'>172</span>This and the next tale are omitted by Lane (iii. 254) on “account of its vulgarity, @@ -8852,11 +8839,11 @@ Sulaymán.”</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c172' class='c008'>THE ADVENTURES OF MERCURY ALI OF CAIRO.<a id='r214' /><a href='#f214' class='c012'><sup>[214]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c172' class='c008'>THE ADVENTURES OF MERCURY ALI OF CAIRO.<a id='r214' href='#f214' class='c012'><sup>[214]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>Now as regards the works of Mercury ’Alí; there lived once at -Cairo,<a id='r215' /><a href='#f215' class='c012'><sup>[215]</sup></a> in the days of Saláh the Egyptian, who was Chief of the +Cairo,<a id='r215' href='#f215' class='c012'><sup>[215]</sup></a> in the days of Saláh the Egyptian, who was Chief of the Cairo Police and had forty men under him, a sharper named Ali, for whom the Master of Police used to set snares and think that he had fallen therein; but, when they sought for him, they found @@ -8880,7 +8867,7 @@ before him, out of fear of him. Presently, he turned and saw a water-carrier trudging along, with his skin and gugglet, crying out and saying, “O exchange! There is no drink but what raisins make, there is no love-delight but what of the lover we take and -none sitteth in the place of honour save the sensible freke<a id='r216' /><a href='#f216' class='c012'><sup>[216]</sup></a>!” So +none sitteth in the place of honour save the sensible freke<a id='r216' href='#f216' class='c012'><sup>[216]</sup></a>!” So he said to him, “Here, give me to drink!” The water-carrier looked at him and gave him the gugglet which he took and gazing into it, shook it up and lastly poured it out on the ground. @@ -8918,7 +8905,7 @@ speaketh in these two couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Watered steel-blade, the world perfection calls, ✿ Drunk with the viper poison foes appals,</div> - <div class='line'>Cuts lively, burns the blood whene’er it falls; ✿ And picks up gems from pave of marble halls;<a id='r217' /><a href='#f217' class='c012'><sup>[217]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Cuts lively, burns the blood whene’er it falls; ✿ And picks up gems from pave of marble halls;<a id='r217' href='#f217' class='c012'><sup>[217]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -9075,7 +9062,7 @@ said, “What seekest thou?” Replied Ali, “O my uncle, I see brought hands to help thee?” Rejoined the other, “O my son, I hired two lads and clothed them and put in each one’s pocket two hundred dinars; and they helped me till we came to the -Dervishes’ Convent,<a id='r218' /><a href='#f218' class='c012'><sup>[218]</sup></a> when they ran away.” Quoth Ali, “Whither +Dervishes’ Convent,<a id='r218' href='#f218' class='c012'><sup>[218]</sup></a> when they ran away.” Quoth Ali, “Whither are you bound?” and quoth the Syrian, “to Aleppo,” when Ali said, “I will lend thee a hand.” Accordingly they loaded the beasts and the Provost mounted his she-mule and they set out @@ -9100,7 +9087,7 @@ themselves and him on whom the lot fell they would throw to the beast. So they drew lots and the lot fell not save upon the Provost of the Merchants. And lo! the lion cut off their way awaiting his pray, wherefore the Provost was sore distressed -and said to the leader, “Allah disappoint the fortunes<a id='r219' /><a href='#f219' class='c012'><sup>[219]</sup></a> of the far +and said to the leader, “Allah disappoint the fortunes<a id='r219' href='#f219' class='c012'><sup>[219]</sup></a> of the far one and bring his journey to naught! I charge thee, after my death, give my loads to my children.” Quoth Ali the Clever One, “What meaneth all this?” So they told him the case and @@ -9110,7 +9097,7 @@ and told him of this and he said, “If he slay him, I will give him <span class='pageno' id='Page_178'>178</span>a thousand dinars,” and said the other merchants, “We will reward him likewise one and all.” With this Ali put off his mantle and there appeared upon him a suit of steel; then he -took a chopper of steel<a id='r220' /><a href='#f220' class='c012'><sup>[220]</sup></a> and opening it turned the screw; after +took a chopper of steel<a id='r220' href='#f220' class='c012'><sup>[220]</sup></a> and opening it turned the screw; after which he went forth alone and standing in the road before the lion, cried out to him. The lion ran at him, but Ali of Cairo smote him between the eyes with his chopper and cut him in @@ -9131,7 +9118,7 @@ together. Then he seized one of the Arab’s horses and mounting it cried out to the Badawi Chief, saying, “Come out to fight me with spears!” Moreover he shook his bells and the Arab’s mare took fright at the noise and Ali struck the chief’s spear and broke -it. Then he smote him on the neck and cut off his head.<a id='r221' /><a href='#f221' class='c012'><sup>[221]</sup></a> When +it. Then he smote him on the neck and cut off his head.<a id='r221' href='#f221' class='c012'><sup>[221]</sup></a> When the Badawin saw their chief fall, they ran at Ali, but he cried out, saying, “Allaho Akbar—God is Most Great!”—and, falling on them broke them and put them to flight. Then he raised the Chief’s head @@ -9142,9 +9129,9 @@ committed it to the Syrian caravan-leader, saying, “When thou returnest to Cairo, ask for my barracks and give these monies to my deputy.” Then he slept that night and on the morrow he entered the city and threading the streets enquired for Calamity -<span class='pageno' id='Page_179'>179</span>Ahmad’s quarters; but none would direct him thereto.<a id='r222' /><a href='#f222' class='c012'><sup>[222]</sup></a> So he +<span class='pageno' id='Page_179'>179</span>Ahmad’s quarters; but none would direct him thereto.<a id='r222' href='#f222' class='c012'><sup>[222]</sup></a> So he walked on, till he came to the square Al-Nafz, where he saw -children at play, and amongst them a lad called Ahmad al-Lakít,<a id='r223' /><a href='#f223' class='c012'><sup>[223]</sup></a> +children at play, and amongst them a lad called Ahmad al-Lakít,<a id='r223' href='#f223' class='c012'><sup>[223]</sup></a> and said to himself, “O my Ali, thou shalt not get news of them but from their little ones.” Then he turned and seeing a sweetmeat-seller bought Halwá of him and called to the children; but @@ -9160,7 +9147,7 @@ all day for Ahmad al-Danaf’s barrack, but none would direct me thereto; so this dinar is thine an thou wilt guide me thither.” Quoth the lad, “I will run before thee and do thou keep up with me, till I come to the place, when I will catch up a pebble with -my foot<a id='r224' /><a href='#f224' class='c012'><sup>[224]</sup></a> and kick it against the door; and so shalt thou know it.” +my foot<a id='r224' href='#f224' class='c012'><sup>[224]</sup></a> and kick it against the door; and so shalt thou know it.” Accordingly he ran on and Ali after him, till they came to the place, when the boy caught up a pebble between his toes and kicked it against the door so as to make the place known.——And @@ -9189,7 +9176,7 @@ door; that is the knock of Quicksilver Ali the Cairene.” So he opened the door and Ali entered and saluted with the salam Ahmad who embraced him, and the Forty greeted him. Then Calamity Ahmad gave him a suit of clothes, saying, “When the -Caliph made me captain, he clothed my lads and I kept this suit<a id='r225' /><a href='#f225' class='c012'><sup>[225]</sup></a> +Caliph made me captain, he clothed my lads and I kept this suit<a id='r225' href='#f225' class='c012'><sup>[225]</sup></a> for thee.” Then they seated him in the place of honour and setting on meat they ate well and drink they drank hard and made merry till the morning, when Ahmad said to Ali, “Beware @@ -9207,7 +9194,7 @@ Ali sat in the barrack, his breast became straitened and his soul troubled and he said in himself, “Come, let us up and thread the ways of Baghdad and broaden my bosom.” So he went out and walked from street to street, till he came to the middle bazar, -where he entered a cook-shop and dined;<a id='r226' /><a href='#f226' class='c012'><sup>[226]</sup></a> after which he went out +where he entered a cook-shop and dined;<a id='r226' href='#f226' class='c012'><sup>[226]</sup></a> after which he went out to wash his hands. Presently he saw forty slaves, with felt bonnets and steel cutlasses, come walking, two by two; and last of all came Dalilah the Wily, mounted on a she-mule, with a gilded @@ -9237,9 +9224,9 @@ passed from market to market, till she saw Ali the Cairene coming, when she went up to him and rubbed her shoulder against him. Then she turned and said, “Allah give long life to folk of discrimination!” Quoth he, “How goodly is thy form! To whom -dost thou belong?”; and quoth she, “To the gallant<a id='r227' /><a href='#f227' class='c012'><sup>[227]</sup></a> like thee;” +dost thou belong?”; and quoth she, “To the gallant<a id='r227' href='#f227' class='c012'><sup>[227]</sup></a> like thee;” and he said, “Art thou wife or spinster?” “Married,” said she. -Asked Ali, “Shall it be in my lodging or thine?”<a id='r228' /><a href='#f228' class='c012'><sup>[228]</sup></a> and she +Asked Ali, “Shall it be in my lodging or thine?”<a id='r228' href='#f228' class='c012'><sup>[228]</sup></a> and she answered, “I am a merchant’s daughter and a merchant’s wife and in all my life I have never been out of doors till to-day, and my only reason was that when I made ready food and thought to @@ -9256,10 +9243,10 @@ day other than this;” and she said, “By the Mighty Name, it may not be but thou shalt go home with me as my guest this very day and I will take thee to fast friend.” So he followed her till she came to a house with a lofty porch and a wooden bolt on the -door and said to him, “Open this lock.”<a id='r229' /><a href='#f229' class='c012'><sup>[229]</sup></a> Asked he “Where is +door and said to him, “Open this lock.”<a id='r229' href='#f229' class='c012'><sup>[229]</sup></a> Asked he “Where is the key?”; and she answered, “’Tis lost.” Quoth he, “Whoso openeth a lock without a key is a knave whom it behoveth the -ruler to punish, and I know not how to open doors without keys?<a id='r230' /><a href='#f230' class='c012'><sup>[230]</sup></a>” +ruler to punish, and I know not how to open doors without keys?<a id='r230' href='#f230' class='c012'><sup>[230]</sup></a>” With this she raised her veil and showed him her face, whereat he took one glance of eyes that cost him a thousand sighs. Then she let fall her veil on the lock and repeating over it the names of the @@ -9275,7 +9262,7 @@ his hands, whilst he washed them. Now whilst they were on this wise, she cried out and beat upon her breast, saying, “My husband had a signet-ring of ruby, which was pledged to him for five hundred dinars, and I put it on; but ’twas too large for me, so I -straitened it with wax, and when I let down the bucket,<a id='r231' /><a href='#f231' class='c012'><sup>[231]</sup></a> that +straitened it with wax, and when I let down the bucket,<a id='r231' href='#f231' class='c012'><sup>[231]</sup></a> that ring must have dropped into the well. So turn thy face to the door, the while I doff my dress and go down into the well and fetch it.” Quoth Ali, “’Twere shame on me that thou shouldst @@ -9304,7 +9291,7 @@ ceased to say her permitted say.</p> of Cairo was in the well, Zaynab donned her mantilla and, taking his clothes, returned to her mother and said, “I have stripped Ali the Egyptian and cast him into the Emir Hasan’s well, whence -alas for his chance of escaping!”<a id='r232' /><a href='#f232' class='c012'><sup>[232]</sup></a> Presently, the Emir Hasan, +alas for his chance of escaping!”<a id='r232' href='#f232' class='c012'><sup>[232]</sup></a> Presently, the Emir Hasan, the master of the house, who had been absent at the Divan, came home and, finding the door open, said to his Syce, “Why didst thou not draw the bolt?” “O my lord,” replied the groom, @@ -9327,9 +9314,9 @@ another and crying out, “Ifrit! Ifrit!” The Emir looked at Ali and seeing him a young man, said to him, “Art thou a thief?” “No,” replied Ali; “Then what dost thou in the well?” asked the Emir; and Ali answered, “I was asleep and dreamt a wet -dream;<a id='r233' /><a href='#f233' class='c012'><sup>[233]</sup></a> so I went down to the Tigris to wash myself and dived, +dream;<a id='r233' href='#f233' class='c012'><sup>[233]</sup></a> so I went down to the Tigris to wash myself and dived, whereupon the current carried me under the earth and I came up -in this well.” Quoth the other, “Tell the truth.”<a id='r234' /><a href='#f234' class='c012'><sup>[234]</sup></a> So Ali told +in this well.” Quoth the other, “Tell the truth.”<a id='r234' href='#f234' class='c012'><sup>[234]</sup></a> So Ali told him all that had befallen him, and the Emir gave him an old <span class='pageno' id='Page_184'>184</span>gown and let him go. He returned to Calamity Ahmad’s lodging and related to him all that had passed. Quoth Ahmad, “Did I @@ -9354,7 +9341,7 @@ her.” “I will well.” So Hasan made Ali put off his clothes; and, taking a cauldron heated therein somewhat as it were pitch, wherewith he anointed him and he became like unto a blackamoor slave. Moreover, he smeared his lips and cheeks and pencilled -his eyes with red Kohl.<a id='r235' /><a href='#f235' class='c012'><sup>[235]</sup></a> Then he clad him in a slave’s habit and +his eyes with red Kohl.<a id='r235' href='#f235' class='c012'><sup>[235]</sup></a> Then he clad him in a slave’s habit and giving him a tray of kabobs and wine, said to him, “There is a black cook in the Khan who requires from the bazar only meat; and thou art now become his like; so go thou to him civilly and @@ -9364,7 +9351,7 @@ beer-ken. He will answer thee, I have been too busy: on my hands be forty slaves, for whom I cook dinner and supper, besides making ready a tray for Dalilah and the like for her daughter Zaynab and the dogs’ food. And do thou say to him, Come, let -us eat kabobs and lush swipes.<a id='r236' /><a href='#f236' class='c012'><sup>[236]</sup></a> Then go with him into the +us eat kabobs and lush swipes.<a id='r236' href='#f236' class='c012'><sup>[236]</sup></a> Then go with him into the saloon and make him drunken and question him of his service, how many dishes and what dishes he hath to cook, and ask him of <span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span>the dogs’ food and the keys of the kitchen and the larder; and he @@ -9385,7 +9372,7 @@ have been busy cooking for the slaves and the dogs.” Then he took him and making him drunken, questioned him of his work. Quoth the kitchener, “Every day I cook five dishes for dinner and the like for supper; and yesterday they sought of me a sixth -dish,<a id='r237' /><a href='#f237' class='c012'><sup>[237]</sup></a> yellow rice,<a id='r238' /><a href='#f238' class='c012'><sup>[238]</sup></a> and a seventh, a mess of cooked pomegranate +dish,<a id='r237' href='#f237' class='c012'><sup>[237]</sup></a> yellow rice,<a id='r238' href='#f238' class='c012'><sup>[238]</sup></a> and a seventh, a mess of cooked pomegranate seed.” Ali asked, “And what is the order of thy service?” and the slave answered, “First I serve up Zaynab’s tray, next Dalilah’s; then I feed the slaves and give the dogs their sufficiency of meat, @@ -9432,10 +9419,10 @@ am Sa’adu’llah.” Then she fetched unguent of proof, with which she anointed Ali’s forearm and rubbed it; but the black did not come off; whereupon quoth the slaves, “Let him go and dress us our dinner.” Quoth Dalilah, “If he be indeed your cousin, he -knoweth what you sought of him yesternight<a id='r239' /><a href='#f239' class='c012'><sup>[239]</sup></a> and how many +knoweth what you sought of him yesternight<a id='r239' href='#f239' class='c012'><sup>[239]</sup></a> and how many dishes he cooketh every day.” So they asked him of this and he said, “Every day I cook you five dishes for the morning and the -like for the evening meal, lentils and rice and broth and stew<a id='r240' /><a href='#f240' class='c012'><sup>[240]</sup></a> and +like for the evening meal, lentils and rice and broth and stew<a id='r240' href='#f240' class='c012'><sup>[240]</sup></a> and sherbet of roses; and yesternight ye sought of me a sixth dish and a seventh, to wit yellow rice and cooked pomegranate seed.” And the slaves said “Right!” Then quoth Dalilah, “In with him and @@ -9499,7 +9486,7 @@ revenge? He hath done this deed in requital of that which thou diddest with him and he had it in his power to do with thee other than this thing; but he refrained therefrom out of courtesy and a desire that there should be love and friendship between us.” -So saying, she doffed her man’s gear and donned woman’s attire<a id='r241' /><a href='#f241' class='c012'><sup>[241]</sup></a> +So saying, she doffed her man’s gear and donned woman’s attire<a id='r241' href='#f241' class='c012'><sup>[241]</sup></a> and, tying the kerchief of peace about her neck, repaired to Ahmad al-Danaf’s barrack. Now when Ali entered with the clothes and the carrier-pigeons, Hasan Shuman gave the hall-keeper the price @@ -9553,7 +9540,7 @@ is this, O harlot? Dost thou wish to bereave us of our brother Ali of Cairo?” Then she returned to the Khan and said to her daughter, “Ali the Egyptian seeketh thee in marriage.” Whereat Zaynab rejoiced, for she loved him because of his chaste forbearance -towards her,<a id='r242' /><a href='#f242' class='c012'><sup>[242]</sup></a> and asked her mother what had passed. So +towards her,<a id='r242' href='#f242' class='c012'><sup>[242]</sup></a> and asked her mother what had passed. So she told her, adding, “I made it a condition that he should demand thy hand of thine uncle, so I might make him fall into destruction.” Meanwhile Ali turned to his fellows and asked them, @@ -9577,7 +9564,7 @@ at his feet scone-like circles of lead; and whenever a thief thinketh to take him unawares and maketh a snatch at the purse he casteth at him a load of lead and slayeth him or doeth him a damage. So O Ali, wert thou to tackle him, thou wouldst be as one who -jostleth a funeral cortège, unknowing who is dead;<a id='r243' /><a href='#f243' class='c012'><sup>[243]</sup></a> for thou art no +jostleth a funeral cortège, unknowing who is dead;<a id='r243' href='#f243' class='c012'><sup>[243]</sup></a> for thou art no match for him, and we fear his mischief for thee. Indeed, thou hast no call to marry Zaynab, and he who leaveth a thing alone liveth without it.” Cried Ali, “This were shame, O comrades; @@ -9585,7 +9572,7 @@ needs must I take the purse: but bring me a young lady’s habit.” So they brought him women’s clothes and he clad himself therein and stained his hands with Henna, and modestly hung down his veil. Then he took a lamb and killing it, cut out the long -intestine<a id='r244' /><a href='#f244' class='c012'><sup>[244]</sup></a> which he cleaned and tied up below; moreover he filled +intestine<a id='r244' href='#f244' class='c012'><sup>[244]</sup></a> which he cleaned and tied up below; moreover he filled <span class='pageno' id='Page_191'>191</span>it with the blood and bound it between his thighs; after which he donned petticoat-trousers and walking boots. He also made himself a pair of false breasts with birds’ crops and filled them @@ -9633,7 +9620,7 @@ off to the barrack and told Hasan Shuman what had happened, after which he put off his woman’s gear and donning a groom’s habit which was brought to him by his chief took a dish and five dirhams. Then he returned to Zurayk’s shop and the fishmonger -said to him, “What dost thou want, O my master?”<a id='r245' /><a href='#f245' class='c012'><sup>[245]</sup></a> He showed +said to him, “What dost thou want, O my master?”<a id='r245' href='#f245' class='c012'><sup>[245]</sup></a> He showed him the dirhams and Zurayk would have given him of the fish in the tray, but he said, “I will have none save hot fish.” So he set fish in the earthen pan and finding the fire dead, went in to @@ -9742,7 +9729,7 @@ found every one asleep. Presently there came a rap at the door and Zurayk asked, “Who is there?” “Ali of Cairo,” answered the <span class='pageno' id='Page_195'>195</span>knocker; and Zurayk said, “Hast thou brought the purse?” So Ali thought it was Hasan Shuman and replied, “I have brought -it;<a id='r246' /><a href='#f246' class='c012'><sup>[246]</sup></a> open the door.” Quoth Zurayk, “Impossible that I open to +it;<a id='r246' href='#f246' class='c012'><sup>[246]</sup></a> open the door.” Quoth Zurayk, “Impossible that I open to thee till I see the purse; for thy chief and I have laid a wager about it.” Said Ali, “Put out thy hand.” So he put out his hand through the hole in the side-door and Ali laid the purse in it; @@ -9759,13 +9746,13 @@ didst thou not say to me, I am sworn never to open the door till thou show me the purse?” Quoth Hasan, “By Allah, ’twas not I who took it, but Zurayk!” Quoth Ali, “Needs must I get it again,” and repaired to the house of the wedding, where he heard -the buffoon<a id='r247' /><a href='#f247' class='c012'><sup>[247]</sup></a> say, “Bravo,<a id='r248' /><a href='#f248' class='c012'><sup>[248]</sup></a> O Abu Abdallah! Good luck to thee +the buffoon<a id='r247' href='#f247' class='c012'><sup>[247]</sup></a> say, “Bravo,<a id='r248' href='#f248' class='c012'><sup>[248]</sup></a> O Abu Abdallah! Good luck to thee with thy son!” Said Ali, “My luck is in the ascendant,” and going to the fishmonger’s lodging, climbed over the back wall of the house and found his wife asleep. So he drugged her with Bhang and clad himself in her clothes. Then he took the child in his arms and went round, searching, till he found a palm-leaf -<span class='pageno' id='Page_196'>196</span>basket containing buns,<a id='r249' /><a href='#f249' class='c012'><sup>[249]</sup></a> which Zurayk of his niggardliness, had +<span class='pageno' id='Page_196'>196</span>basket containing buns,<a id='r249' href='#f249' class='c012'><sup>[249]</sup></a> which Zurayk of his niggardliness, had kept from the Greater Feast. Presently, the fishmonger returned and knocked at the door, whereupon Ali imitated his wife’s voice and asked, “Who is at the door?” “Abu Abdallah,” answered @@ -9838,7 +9825,7 @@ say her permitted say.</p> Zurayk replied to Shuman, “She hath sworn that none shall ride astraddle upon her breast save the man who bringeth her the clothes of Kamar, daughter of Azariah the Jew and her -crown and girdle and pantoufle<a id='r250' /><a href='#f250' class='c012'><sup>[250]</sup></a> of gold,” Ali cried, “If I do +crown and girdle and pantoufle<a id='r250' href='#f250' class='c012'><sup>[250]</sup></a> of gold,” Ali cried, “If I do not bring her the clothes this very night, I renounce my claim to her.” Rejoined Zurayk, “O Ali, thou art a dead man if thou play any of thy pranks on Kamar.” “Why so?” asked Ali and the @@ -9854,7 +9841,7 @@ Cairo, the prigs of Al-Irak, the master-thieves of Ajam-land? Whoso prevaileth to take this dress, ’tis his. So all the long fingered ones essayed the adventure, but failed to take it, and he turned them by his magic into apes and asses.” But Ali said, “I -will assuredly take it, and Zaynab shall be displayed therein.”<a id='r251' /><a href='#f251' class='c012'><sup>[251]</sup></a> +will assuredly take it, and Zaynab shall be displayed therein.”<a id='r251' href='#f251' class='c012'><sup>[251]</sup></a> So he went to the shop of the Jew and found him a man of stern and forbidding aspect, seated with scales and stone-weights and gold and silver and nests of drawers and so forth before him, and @@ -9912,7 +9899,7 @@ The Jew drew round him a circle which became a wall over against him, and drank on till the morning, when he said to Ali, “I will ride thee to-day and give the she-mule a rest.” So he locked up the dress, the charger, the rod and the charms in a -cupboard<a id='r252' /><a href='#f252' class='c012'><sup>[252]</sup></a> and conjured over Ali, who followed him. Then he +cupboard<a id='r252' href='#f252' class='c012'><sup>[252]</sup></a> and conjured over Ali, who followed him. Then he set the saddle-bags on his back and mounting, fared forth of the Castle, whereupon it disappeared from sight and he rode into Baghdad, till he came to his shop, where he alighted and emptied @@ -9960,8 +9947,8 @@ ceased saying her permitted say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_200fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_200fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c003'>She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when @@ -10030,7 +10017,7 @@ butcher’s hands, bore him to the palace and set him down before the Jew, who took a cup of water and conjuring over it, sprinkled him therewith, saying, “Return to thine own shape.” And he straightway became a man again as before. The Jew’s daughter -Kamar,<a id='r253' /><a href='#f253' class='c012'><sup>[253]</sup></a> seeing him to be a handsome young man, fell in love with +Kamar,<a id='r253' href='#f253' class='c012'><sup>[253]</sup></a> seeing him to be a handsome young man, fell in love with him and he fell in love with her; and she said to him, “O unlucky one, why dost thou go about to take my dress, enforcing my father to deal thus with thee?” Quoth he, “I have engaged to get it for @@ -10048,7 +10035,7 @@ became a dog, and the Jew and his daughter drank together till the morning, when the father laid up the dress and charger and mounted his mule. Then he conjured over the dog, which followed him, as he rode towards the town, and all dogs barked at -Ali<a id='r254' /><a href='#f254' class='c012'><sup>[254]</sup></a> as he passed, till he came to the shop of a broker, a seller of +Ali<a id='r254' href='#f254' class='c012'><sup>[254]</sup></a> as he passed, till he came to the shop of a broker, a seller of second-hand goods, who rose and drove away the dogs, and Ali lay down before him. The Jew turned and looked for him, but <span class='pageno' id='Page_203'>203</span>finding him not, passed onwards. Presently, the broker shut up @@ -10083,7 +10070,7 @@ shop in Baghdad, I opened his books and read in them, till I became skilled in the Cabbala-science. One day, he was warm with wine and would have me lie with him, but I objected, saying, I may not grant thee this except thou become a Moslem. He -refused and I said to him, Now for the Sultan’s market.<a id='r255' /><a href='#f255' class='c012'><sup>[255]</sup></a> So he +refused and I said to him, Now for the Sultan’s market.<a id='r255' href='#f255' class='c012'><sup>[255]</sup></a> So he sold me to thee and I taught my young mistress, making it a condition with her that she should do naught without my counsel, and that whoso might wed her should wed me also, one night for @@ -10149,9 +10136,9 @@ he kept his sweetmeats hoisted it up and made off. Presently he met a Kazi, who called to him, saying, “Come hither, O sweetmeat seller!” So he went up to him and setting down his sack laid the tray of sweetmeats upon it and asked, “What dost thou -want?” “Halwá and dragées,<a id='r256' /><a href='#f256' class='c012'><sup>[256]</sup></a>” answered the Kazi and, taking +want?” “Halwá and dragées,<a id='r256' href='#f256' class='c012'><sup>[256]</sup></a>” answered the Kazi and, taking some in his hand, said, “Both of these are adulterated.” Then -he brought out sweetmeats from his breast-pocket<a id='r257' /><a href='#f257' class='c012'><sup>[257]</sup></a> and gave them +he brought out sweetmeats from his breast-pocket<a id='r257' href='#f257' class='c012'><sup>[257]</sup></a> and gave them to the sweetmeat-seller, saying, “Look at this fashion; how excellent it is! Eat of it and make the like of it.” So he ate and fell down senseless, for the sweetmeats were drugged with @@ -10164,7 +10151,7 @@ Calamity Ahmad said to his men, “O lads, go and seek for your brother Ali of Cairo.” So they sallied forth in quest of him and among the rest Hasan Shuman the Pestilence, disguised in a Kazi’s gear. He came upon the sweetmeat-seller and, knowing him -for Ahmad al-Lakit<a id='r258' /><a href='#f258' class='c012'><sup>[258]</sup></a> suspected him of having played some trick +for Ahmad al-Lakit<a id='r258' href='#f258' class='c012'><sup>[258]</sup></a> suspected him of having played some trick upon Ali; so he drugged him and did as we have seen. Meanwhile, the other Forty fared about the streets and highways making search in different directions, and amongst them Ali @@ -10252,7 +10239,7 @@ last, and the Caliph said, “I had not thought thou wouldst kill him, for that he was a sorcerer.” Ali replied, “O Commander of the Faithful, my Lord made me prevail to his slaughter.” Then the Caliph sent the Chief of Police to the Jew’s palace, where he -found him lying headless; so he laid the body on a bier,<a id='r259' /><a href='#f259' class='c012'><sup>[259]</sup></a> and +found him lying headless; so he laid the body on a bier,<a id='r259' href='#f259' class='c012'><sup>[259]</sup></a> and carried it to Al-Rashid, who commanded to burn it. Whereat, behold, up came Kamar and kissing the ground before the Caliph, informed him that she was the daughter of Jew Azariah and that @@ -10307,10 +10294,10 @@ befallen him and kept it in store with other histories for the people of Mohammed the Best of Men. And Ali and his wives and comrades abode in all solace of life, and its joyance, till there came to them the Destroyer of Delights and Sunderer of Societies; -and Allah (be He extolled and exalted!) is All-knowing!<a id='r260' /><a href='#f260' class='c012'><sup>[260]</sup></a> And +and Allah (be He extolled and exalted!) is All-knowing!<a id='r260' href='#f260' class='c012'><sup>[260]</sup></a> And also men relate the tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f214'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r214'>214</a>. </span>This is a sequel to the Story of Dalilah and both are highly relished by Arabs. The @@ -10641,7 +10628,7 @@ of Moses’ exposure, also the large hearse on which tribal chiefs were carried </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c209' class='c008'>ARDASHIR AND HAYAT AL-NUFUS.<a id='r261' /><a href='#f261' class='c012'><sup>[261]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c209' class='c008'>ARDASHIR AND HAYAT AL-NUFUS.<a id='r261' href='#f261' class='c012'><sup>[261]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c014'>There was once in the city of Shíráz a mighty King called Sayf @@ -10656,7 +10643,7 @@ Allah!” So they mixed him drugs, which he used and knew his wife carnally, and she conceived by leave of the Most High Lord, who saith to a thing, “Be,” and it becometh. When her months were accomplished, she gave birth to a male child like the moon, -whom his father named Ardashir,<a id='r262' /><a href='#f262' class='c012'><sup>[262]</sup></a> and he grew up and throve and +whom his father named Ardashir,<a id='r262' href='#f262' class='c012'><sup>[262]</sup></a> and he grew up and throve and applied himself to the study of learning and letters, till he attained the age of fifteen. Now there was in Al-Irak a King called Abd al-Kádir who had a daughter, by name Hayát @@ -10681,7 +10668,7 @@ should borrow money for the necessary expenses; and he said, al-Kadir’s dominions and slain his men and plundered his treasures and blotted out his traces!” When the report of this reached Ardashir he rose from his carpet-bed, and going in to his -father, kissed ground<a id='r263' /><a href='#f263' class='c012'><sup>[263]</sup></a> between his hands and said, “O mighty +father, kissed ground<a id='r263' href='#f263' class='c012'><sup>[263]</sup></a> between his hands and said, “O mighty King, trouble not thyself with aught of this thing”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -10790,7 +10777,7 @@ joy and recited these couplets:—</p> <p class='c003'>Now when they entered the White City they asked for the Merchants’ Khan, a place of moneyed men; and when shown the -hostelry they hired three magazines and on receiving the keys<a id='r264' /><a href='#f264' class='c012'><sup>[264]</sup></a> +hostelry they hired three magazines and on receiving the keys<a id='r264' href='#f264' class='c012'><sup>[264]</sup></a> they laid up therein all their goods and gear. They abode in the Khan till they were rested, when the Wazir applied himself to devise a device for the Prince,——And Shahrazad perceived the @@ -10828,10 +10815,10 @@ robe the Prince and himself in their richest raiment and, putting a purse of a thousand dinars in his breast-pocket, went forth and walked about the city, whilst all who looked upon them marvelled at the beauty of the King’s son, saying, “Glory be to Him -who created this youth ’of vile water’<a id='r265' /><a href='#f265' class='c012'><sup>[265]</sup></a>! Blessed be Allah +who created this youth ’of vile water’<a id='r265' href='#f265' class='c012'><sup>[265]</sup></a>! Blessed be Allah excellentest of Creators!” Great was the talk anent him and some said, “This is no mortal, ’this is naught save a noble -angel’”;<a id='r266' /><a href='#f266' class='c012'><sup>[266]</sup></a> and others, “Hath Rizwán, the doorkeeper of the +angel’”;<a id='r266' href='#f266' class='c012'><sup>[266]</sup></a> and others, “Hath Rizwán, the doorkeeper of the Eden-garden, left the gate of Paradise unguarded, that this youth hath come forth?” The people followed them to the stuff-market, where they entered and stood, till there came up to them @@ -10873,7 +10860,7 @@ was straitened. Meanwhile, the Wazir daily promised him the attainment of his desire and the case so continued for a time till, one morning, as the youth sat in the shop, there came up an old woman of respectable semblance and dignified presence -clad in raiment of devotees<a id='r267' /><a href='#f267' class='c012'><sup>[267]</sup></a> and followed by two slave-girls like +clad in raiment of devotees<a id='r267' href='#f267' class='c012'><sup>[267]</sup></a> and followed by two slave-girls like moons. She stopped before the shop and, having considered the Prince awhile, cried, “Glory be to God who fashioned that face and perfected that figure!” Then she saluted him and he @@ -10984,7 +10971,7 @@ wrote these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>O Hayát al-Nufús, be gen’rous, and incline ✿ To one who loving thee for parting’s doomed to pine.</div> <div class='line'>I was in all delight, in gladsomest of life, ✿ But now I am distraught with sufferings condign.</div> - <div class='line'>To wakefulness I cling through longsomeness of night ✿ And with me sorrow chats<a id='r268' /><a href='#f268' class='c012'><sup>[268]</sup></a> through each sad eve of mine;</div> + <div class='line'>To wakefulness I cling through longsomeness of night ✿ And with me sorrow chats<a id='r268' href='#f268' class='c012'><sup>[268]</sup></a> through each sad eve of mine;</div> <div class='line'>Pity a lover sad, a sore afflicted wretch ✿ Whose eyelids ever ulcered are with tearful brine;</div> <div class='line'>And when the morning comes at last, the real morn ✿ He finds him drunken and distraught with passion’s wine.</div> </div> @@ -11012,7 +10999,7 @@ unions and jewels wherewith it was broidered, and all who were present marvelled at it. The Princess examined it and, judging it to be worth no less than a whole year’s revenue of her father’s kingdom, said to the old woman, “O my nurse, cometh this dress -from him or from another?”<a id='r269' /><a href='#f269' class='c012'><sup>[269]</sup></a> Replied she, “From him;” and +from him or from another?”<a id='r269' href='#f269' class='c012'><sup>[269]</sup></a> Replied she, “From him;” and Hayat al-Nufus asked, “Is this trader of our town or a stranger?” The old woman answered, “He is a foreigner, O my lady, newly come hither; and by Allah he hath servants and slaves; and he @@ -11027,7 +11014,7 @@ would take naught thereof, saying:—’Tis a gift from me to the King’s daughter; for it beseemeth none but her; and if she will not accept it, I make thee a present of it.” Cried the Princess, “By Allah, this is indeed marvellous generosity and wondrous -munificence! But I fear the issue of his affair, lest haply<a id='r270' /><a href='#f270' class='c012'><sup>[270]</sup></a> he be +munificence! But I fear the issue of his affair, lest haply<a id='r270' href='#f270' class='c012'><sup>[270]</sup></a> he be brought to necessity. Why didst thou not ask him, O my nurse, if he had any desire, that we might fulfil it for him?” The nurse replied, “O my lady, I did ask him, and he said to me:—I have @@ -11040,11 +11027,11 @@ thee, O nurse! What is the name of this dog who durst write this language to a King’s daughter? What affinity is there between me and this hound that he should address me thus? By Almighty Allah, Lord of the well Zemzem and of the Hatim -<span class='pageno' id='Page_219'>219</span>Wall,<a id='r271' /><a href='#f271' class='c012'><sup>[271]</sup></a> but that I fear the Omnipotent, the Most High, I would +<span class='pageno' id='Page_219'>219</span>Wall,<a id='r271' href='#f271' class='c012'><sup>[271]</sup></a> but that I fear the Omnipotent, the Most High, I would send and bind the cur’s hands behind him and slit his nostrils, and shear off his nose and ears and after, by way of example, crucify him on the gate of the bazar wherein is his booth!” When the old -woman heard these words, she waxed yellow; her side muscles<a id='r272' /><a href='#f272' class='c012'><sup>[272]</sup></a> +woman heard these words, she waxed yellow; her side muscles<a id='r272' href='#f272' class='c012'><sup>[272]</sup></a> quivered and her tongue clave to her mouth; but she heartened her heart and said, “Softly, O my lady! What is there in his letter to trouble thee thus? Is it aught but a memorial containing @@ -11122,7 +11109,7 @@ thou diddest?” He replied, “O my mother what shall I do for a subtle device? Behold, she writeth to me, threatening me with death and crucifixion and forbidding me from writing to her; and I, by Allah, see my death to be better than my life; but I beg -thee of thy grace<a id='r273' /><a href='#f273' class='c012'><sup>[273]</sup></a> to carry her another letter from me.” She +thee of thy grace<a id='r273' href='#f273' class='c012'><sup>[273]</sup></a> to carry her another letter from me.” She <span class='pageno' id='Page_221'>221</span>said, “Write and I warrant I’ll bring thee an answer. By Allah, I will assuredly venture my life to win for thee thy wish, though I die to pleasure thee!” He thanked her and kissing her hands, @@ -11171,7 +11158,7 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>Ho, thou heedless of Time and his sore despight! ✿ Ho, thou heart whom hopes of my favours excite!</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_222'>222</span>Think O pride-full! would’st win for thyself the skies? ✿ Would’st attain to the moon shining clear and bright?</div> <div class='line'>I will burn thee with fire that shall ne’er be quenched, ✿ Or will slay thee with scymitar’s sharpest bite!</div> - <div class='line'>Leave it, friend, and ’scape the tormenting pains, ✿ Such as turn hair-partings<a id='r274' /><a href='#f274' class='c012'><sup>[274]</sup></a> from black to white.</div> + <div class='line'>Leave it, friend, and ’scape the tormenting pains, ✿ Such as turn hair-partings<a id='r274' href='#f274' class='c012'><sup>[274]</sup></a> from black to white.</div> <div class='line'>Take my warning and fly from the road of love; ✿ Draw thee back from a course nor seemly nor right!</div> </div> </div> @@ -11349,7 +11336,7 @@ wrote these verses:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Long have I chid thee but my chiding hindereth thee not ✿ How often would my verse with writ o’ hand ensnare thee, ah!</div> <div class='line'>Then keep thy passion hidden deep and ever unrevealed, ✿ And if thou dare gainsay me Earth shall no more bear thee, ah!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>And if, despite my warning, thou dost to such words return ✿ Death’s Messenger<a id='r275' /><a href='#f275' class='c012'><sup>[275]</sup></a> shall go his rounds and dead declare thee, ah!</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>And if, despite my warning, thou dost to such words return ✿ Death’s Messenger<a id='r275' href='#f275' class='c012'><sup>[275]</sup></a> shall go his rounds and dead declare thee, ah!</div> <div class='line'>Soon shall the wold’s fierce chilling blast o’erblow that corse o’ thine; ✿ And birds o’ the wild with ravening bills and beaks shall tear thee, ah!</div> <div class='line'>Return to righteous course; perchance that same will profit thee; ✿ If bent on wilful aims and lewd I fain forswear thee, ah!</div> </div> @@ -11373,7 +11360,7 @@ he indited these couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>I am distraught for her with passing agonies ✿ And find no friend, O folk! to hear my plaint and plea.</div> <div class='line'>How long, when Night hath drooped her pinions o’er the world ✿ Shall I lament in public as in privacy?</div> <div class='line'>For love of you I cannot find forgetfulness; ✿ And how forget when Patience taketh wings to flee?</div> - <div class='line'>O thou wild parting-bird<a id='r276' /><a href='#f276' class='c012'><sup>[276]</sup></a> say is she safe and sure ✿ From shift and change of time and the world’s cruelty?</div> + <div class='line'>O thou wild parting-bird<a id='r276' href='#f276' class='c012'><sup>[276]</sup></a> say is she safe and sure ✿ From shift and change of time and the world’s cruelty?</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -11421,7 +11408,7 @@ the joyance of sleep, she dreamt a dream and ’twas this, that she went down into the garden, where she saw a fowler set up his net and strew corn thereabout, after which he withdrew and sat down afar off to await what game should fall into it. Ere an hour had -passed the birds flocked to pick up the corn and a male pigeon<a id='r277' /><a href='#f277' class='c012'><sup>[277]</sup></a> +passed the birds flocked to pick up the corn and a male pigeon<a id='r277' href='#f277' class='c012'><sup>[277]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_228'>228</span>fell into the net and struggled in it, whereat all the others took fright and fled from him. His mate was amongst them, but she returned to him after the shortest delay; and, coming up to the net, @@ -11483,7 +11470,7 @@ garden: do thou hide thee in some place or other; and, when thou espiest her, come forth and show thyself to her. When she seeth thee, she will fall in love with thee; for thou art fair to look upon and love covereth all things. So keep thine eyes cool -and clear<a id='r278' /><a href='#f278' class='c012'><sup>[278]</sup></a> and be of good cheer, O my son, for needs must I +and clear<a id='r278' href='#f278' class='c012'><sup>[278]</sup></a> and be of good cheer, O my son, for needs must I bring about union between thee and her.” The young Prince kissed her hand and thanked her and gave her three pieces of Alexandrian silk and three of satin of various colours, and with @@ -11609,7 +11596,7 @@ Allah Almighty, there must be no parting between us, night or day.” Next morning the Wazir went to the Prince’s shop and sent for the syndic of the builders; then he carried him and his men to the garth, where the Gardener rejoiced in their sight. He -gave them the price of rations<a id='r279' /><a href='#f279' class='c012'><sup>[279]</sup></a> and what was needful to the workmen +gave them the price of rations<a id='r279' href='#f279' class='c012'><sup>[279]</sup></a> and what was needful to the workmen for the restoration of the pavilion, and they repaired it and stucco’d it and decorated it. Then said the Minister to the painters, “Harkye, my masters, listen to my words and apprehend @@ -11639,7 +11626,7 @@ gladden your hearts, over and above your wage.” The painters, hearing these words, applied themselves with all diligence to do what he required of them and wrought it out in masterly style; and when they had made an end of the work, they showed it to -the Wazir who, seeing his so-called dream set forth as it was<a id='r280' /><a href='#f280' class='c012'><sup>[280]</sup></a> +the Wazir who, seeing his so-called dream set forth as it was<a id='r280' href='#f280' class='c012'><sup>[280]</sup></a> was pleased and thanked them and rewarded them munificently. Presently, the Prince came in, according to his custom, and entered the pavilion, unweeting what the Wazir had done. So @@ -11862,7 +11849,7 @@ relent.” “Hearkening and obedience,” quoth the Gardener; “but, O my lord, do thou come with me to my house, where thou shalt night with my children and my family and none shall reproach this to us.” Quoth Ardashir, “O uncle, I must be alone -when I am angry.”<a id='r281' /><a href='#f281' class='c012'><sup>[281]</sup></a> The old man said, “It irketh me that thou +when I am angry.”<a id='r281' href='#f281' class='c012'><sup>[281]</sup></a> The old man said, “It irketh me that thou shouldst lie solitary in the garden, when I have a house.” But Ardashir said, “O uncle, I have an aim in this, that the trouble of my mind may be dispelled from me and I know that in this lies @@ -11886,7 +11873,7 @@ set his water-ways and channels in order and, going to Ardashir, said to him, “O my lord, the King’s daughter is mistress of this garden; and I have only to crave thy pardon, for the place is thy place and I live only in thy favours, except that my tongue -is under thy feet.<a id='r282' /><a href='#f282' class='c012'><sup>[282]</sup></a> I must tell thee that the Princess Hayat al-Nufus +is under thy feet.<a id='r282' href='#f282' class='c012'><sup>[282]</sup></a> I must tell thee that the Princess Hayat al-Nufus hath a mind to visit it to-morrow at the first of the day and hath bidden me leave none therein who might look upon her. So I would have thee of thy favour go forth of the garden this @@ -11922,7 +11909,7 @@ thy family.” Then he put his hand to his purse and pulled out five hundred ducats, which he gave to him saying, “Take this gold and lay it out on thy family, that thy heart may be at ease concerning them.” When the Shaykh looked upon the gold, his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_240'>240</span>life seemed a light thing to him<a id='r283' /><a href='#f283' class='c012'><sup>[283]</sup></a> and he suffered the Prince to +<span class='pageno' id='Page_240'>240</span>life seemed a light thing to him<a id='r283' href='#f283' class='c012'><sup>[283]</sup></a> and he suffered the Prince to tarry where he was, charging him straitly not to show himself in the garden. Then he left him loitering about. Meanwhile, when the eunuchs went in to the Princess at break of day, she bade @@ -11933,7 +11920,7 @@ whole was that which tongue refuseth to explain, whereat was confounded the brain and whose love would embrave the craven’s strain. On her head she set a crown of red gold, inlaid with pearls and gems and she tripped in pattens of cloth of gold, -embroidered with fresh pearls<a id='r284' /><a href='#f284' class='c012'><sup>[284]</sup></a> and adorned with all manner +embroidered with fresh pearls<a id='r284' href='#f284' class='c012'><sup>[284]</sup></a> and adorned with all manner precious stones. Then she put her hand upon the old woman’s shoulder and commanded to go forth by the privy door; but the nurse looked at the garden and, seeing it full of eunuchs and @@ -12007,7 +11994,7 @@ from the purse-keeperess and kiss the earth before the King’s daughter and bless her and wend thy way.” Hearing these words he took the gold and kissed the ground before Hayat al-Nufus, calling down blessings on her. Then he returned to his house, -and his family rejoiced in him and blessed him<a id='r285' /><a href='#f285' class='c012'><sup>[285]</sup></a> who had been +and his family rejoiced in him and blessed him<a id='r285' href='#f285' class='c012'><sup>[285]</sup></a> who had been the prime cause of this business.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -12075,7 +12062,7 @@ Almighty Allah hath created. And especially ’tis thus with man; for he starveth himself to feed his wife, strippeth himself to clothe her, angereth his family to please her and disobeyeth and denieth his parents to endow her. She knoweth his secrets and concealeth -them and she cannot endure from him a single hour.<a id='r286' /><a href='#f286' class='c012'><sup>[286]</sup></a> An he be +them and she cannot endure from him a single hour.<a id='r286' href='#f286' class='c012'><sup>[286]</sup></a> An he be absent from her one night, her eyes sleep not, nor is there a dearer to her than he: she loveth him more than her parents and they lie down to sleep in each other’s arms, with his hand under her @@ -12085,7 +12072,7 @@ neck and her hand under his neck, even as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I made my wrist her pillow and I lay with her in litter; ✿ And I said to Night “Be long!” while the full moon showed glitter:</div> - <div class='line'>Ah me, it <em>was</em> a night, Allah never made its like; ✿ Whose first was sweetest sweet and whose last was bitt’rest bitter!<a id='r287' /><a href='#f287' class='c012'><sup>[287]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Ah me, it <em>was</em> a night, Allah never made its like; ✿ Whose first was sweetest sweet and whose last was bitt’rest bitter!<a id='r287' href='#f287' class='c012'><sup>[287]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12141,7 +12128,7 @@ so he sighed from his heart-core and improvised these couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Whenas mine eyes behold her loveliness, ✿ My heart is torn with love’s own ecstasy.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_245'>245</span>I wake o’erthrown, cast-down on face of earth ✿ Nor can the Princess<a id='r288' /><a href='#f288' class='c012'><sup>[288]</sup></a> my sore torment see.</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_245'>245</span>I wake o’erthrown, cast-down on face of earth ✿ Nor can the Princess<a id='r288' href='#f288' class='c012'><sup>[288]</sup></a> my sore torment see.</div> <div class='line'>She turned and ravished this sad Love-thrall’d sprite; ✿ Mercy, by Allah, ruth; nay, sympathy!</div> <div class='line'>O Lord, afford me union, deign Thou soothe ✿ My soul, ere grave-niche house this corse of me;</div> <div class='line'>I’ll kiss her ten times ten times, and times ten ✿ For lover’s wasted cheek the kisses be!</div> @@ -12227,7 +12214,7 @@ these couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>Sun riseth sheen from her brilliant brow, ✿ And her cheek shows the rosiest afterglow:</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_247'>247</span>And when both appear to the looker-on, ✿ The skyline star ne’er for shame will show:</div> <div class='line'>An the leven flash from those smiling lips, ✿ Morn breaks and the rays dusk and gloom o’erthrow.</div> - <div class='line'>And when with her graceful shape she sways, ✿ Droops leafiest Bán-tree<a id='r289' /><a href='#f289' class='c012'><sup>[289]</sup></a> for envy low:</div> + <div class='line'>And when with her graceful shape she sways, ✿ Droops leafiest Bán-tree<a id='r289' href='#f289' class='c012'><sup>[289]</sup></a> for envy low:</div> <div class='line'>Me her sight suffices; naught crave I more: ✿ Lord of Men and Morn, be her guard from foe!</div> <div class='line'>The full moon borrows a part of her charms; ✿ The sun would rival but fails his lowe.</div> <div class='line'>Whence could Sol aspire to that bending grace? ✿ Whence should Luna see such wit and such mind-gifts know?</div> @@ -12257,7 +12244,7 @@ eyes; whereupon his soul returned to him and he fell to complaining to her of that he had endured for stress of love and tyranny of longing and excess of transport and distraction and all he had suffered for the hardness of her heart. Hearing those -words she kissed his hands and feet and bared her head,<a id='r290' /><a href='#f290' class='c012'><sup>[290]</sup></a> whereupon +words she kissed his hands and feet and bared her head,<a id='r290' href='#f290' class='c012'><sup>[290]</sup></a> whereupon the gloom gathered and the full moons dawned therein. Then said she to him, “O my beloved and term of all my wishes, would the day of estrangement had never been and Allah grant it may @@ -12272,7 +12259,7 @@ together, whilst she recited these couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>Thus eke are thine eyebrows a bow that shot ✿ My bosom with shafts of fiercest lowe:</div> <div class='line'>From thy cheeks’ rich crop cometh Paradise; ✿ How, then, shall my heart the rich crop forego?</div> <div class='line'>Thy graceful shape is a blooming branch, ✿ And shall pluck the fruits who shall bear that bough.</div> - <div class='line'>Perforce thou drawest me, robst my sleep; ✿ In thy love I strip me and shameless show:<a id='r291' /><a href='#f291' class='c012'><sup>[291]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Perforce thou drawest me, robst my sleep; ✿ In thy love I strip me and shameless show:<a id='r291' href='#f291' class='c012'><sup>[291]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Allah lend thee the rays of most righteous light, ✿ Draw the farthest near and a tryst bestow:</div> <div class='line'>Then have ruth on the vitals thy love hath seared, ✿ And the heart that flies to thy side the mo’e!</div> </div> @@ -12301,7 +12288,7 @@ desolation and improvised these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>O my heart’s desire! grows my misery ✿ From the stress of love, and what cure for me?</div> <div class='line'>By thy face, like dawn when it lights the dark, ✿ And thy hair whose hue beareth night-tide’s blee,</div> - <div class='line'>And thy form like the branch which in grace inclines ✿ To Zephyr’s<a id='r292' /><a href='#f292' class='c012'><sup>[292]</sup></a> breath blowing fain and free,</div> + <div class='line'>And thy form like the branch which in grace inclines ✿ To Zephyr’s<a id='r292' href='#f292' class='c012'><sup>[292]</sup></a> breath blowing fain and free,</div> <div class='line'>By the glance of thine eyes like the fawn’s soft gaze, ✿ When she views pursuer of high degree,</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_249'>249</span>And thy waist down borne by the weight of hips, ✿ These so heavy and that lacking gravity,</div> <div class='line'>By the wine of thy lip-dew, the sweetest of drink, ✿ Fresh water and musk in its purity,</div> @@ -12348,9 +12335,9 @@ dinars, and a head-kerchief fringed with all manner gems. Then <span class='pageno' id='Page_250'>250</span>said she to him, “O my son, hast thou a mind to foregather with Hayat al-Nufus?”; and he replied, “Yes.” So she took a pair of tweezers and pulled out the hairs of his face and pencilled his -eyes with Kohl.<a id='r293' /><a href='#f293' class='c012'><sup>[293]</sup></a> Then she stripped him and painted him with -Henna<a id='r294' /><a href='#f294' class='c012'><sup>[294]</sup></a> from his nails to his shoulders and from his insteps to his -thighs and tattooed<a id='r295' /><a href='#f295' class='c012'><sup>[295]</sup></a> him about the body, till he was like red +eyes with Kohl.<a id='r293' href='#f293' class='c012'><sup>[293]</sup></a> Then she stripped him and painted him with +Henna<a id='r294' href='#f294' class='c012'><sup>[294]</sup></a> from his nails to his shoulders and from his insteps to his +thighs and tattooed<a id='r295' href='#f295' class='c012'><sup>[295]</sup></a> him about the body, till he was like red roses upon alabaster slabs. After a little, she washed him and dried him and bringing out a shift and a pair of petticoat-trousers made him put them on. Then she clad him in the royal suit @@ -12525,7 +12512,7 @@ nine-and-twenty grains, to whose price a King’s treasures might not suffice. Quoth Abd-al-Kadir, “This rivière beseemeth none but my daughter Hayat al-Nufus;” and, turning to an eunuch, whose jaw-teeth the Princess had knocked out for reasons best -known to herself,<a id='r296' /><a href='#f296' class='c012'><sup>[296]</sup></a> he called to him and said, “Carry the necklace +known to herself,<a id='r296' href='#f296' class='c012'><sup>[296]</sup></a> he called to him and said, “Carry the necklace to thy lady and say to her:—One of the Kings hath sent thy father this, as a present, and its price may not be paid with money; put it on thy neck.” The slave took the necklace, @@ -12600,7 +12587,7 @@ her, the chief and his men entered the Princess’s apartment where he found her standing up, dissolved in railing tears, and the Prince by her side; so he said to them, “Lie down on the bed, as thou wast and let him do likewise.” The King’s daughter -feared for her lover<a id='r297' /><a href='#f297' class='c012'><sup>[297]</sup></a> and said to him, “This is no time for +feared for her lover<a id='r297' href='#f297' class='c012'><sup>[297]</sup></a> and said to him, “This is no time for resistance.” So they both lay down and the eunuchs covered them up and carried the twain into the King’s presence. Thereupon Abd al-Kadir pulled off the coverings and the Princess @@ -12657,7 +12644,7 @@ came to the warders with gilded swords in tents star-studded. Passing these, he made his way through Emirs and Wazirs and Nabobs and Chamberlains, to the pavilion of the Sultan, and found him a mighty King. When the King’s officers saw him, they -cried out to him, saying, “Kiss ground! Kiss ground!”<a id='r298' /><a href='#f298' class='c012'><sup>[298]</sup></a> He did +cried out to him, saying, “Kiss ground! Kiss ground!”<a id='r298' href='#f298' class='c012'><sup>[298]</sup></a> He did so and would have risen, but they cried out at him a second and a third time. So he kissed the earth again and again and raised his head and would have stood up, but fell down at full length for excess @@ -12682,7 +12669,7 @@ lord in haste and tell him this, ere evil befal him.” Answered the Minister, “To hear is to obey!” and turned to go away, when the Chamberlains cried out to him, saying, “Kiss ground! Kiss ground!” So he kissed the ground a score of times and rose -not till his life-breath was in his nostrils.<a id='r299' /><a href='#f299' class='c012'><sup>[299]</sup></a> Then he left the King’s +not till his life-breath was in his nostrils.<a id='r299' href='#f299' class='c012'><sup>[299]</sup></a> Then he left the King’s high court and returned to the city, full of anxious thought concerning the affair of this King and the multitude of his troops, and going in to King Abd al-Kadir, pale with fear and trembling @@ -12797,7 +12784,7 @@ depart not, till he have made him set her free and taken surety from and made covenant with him, that he will not go about to put her to death nor work her aught of harm. This is her last word to thee, may Allah not desolate her of thee, and so The -Peace!”<a id='r300' /><a href='#f300' class='c012'><sup>[300]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and +Peace!”<a id='r300' href='#f300' class='c012'><sup>[300]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <div class='ph3'> @@ -12839,7 +12826,7 @@ the man of just judgment.” Quoth the King, “I hear and consent;” and sending for the treasures he had laid up from <span class='pageno' id='Page_262'>262</span>time past, brought out all manner precious things and showed them to his son, who was pleased with them. Then he called -his Wazir and bade him bear the present with him<a id='r301' /><a href='#f301' class='c012'><sup>[301]</sup></a> to King Abd +his Wazir and bade him bear the present with him<a id='r301' href='#f301' class='c012'><sup>[301]</sup></a> to King Abd al-Kadir and demand his daughter in marriage for Ardashir, saying, “Accept the present and return him a reply.” Now from the time of Ardashir’s departure, King Abd al-Kadir had been @@ -12953,7 +12940,7 @@ joyance of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and Severer of societies; the Depopulator of palaces and the Garnerer of graveyards. And men also relate the tale of</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f261'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r261'>261</a>. </span>Omitted by Lane (iii. 252) “because little more than a repetition” of Taj al-Mulúk @@ -13181,7 +13168,7 @@ if it were seen in full (Pilgrimage i. 214).</p> closely it exhales a “very powerful spermatic odour,” hence it became a favourite with women as the tea-rose with us. He finds it on the nails of mummies, and identifies it with the Kupros of the ancient Greeks (the moderns call it Kene or Kena) and the -<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Βότρυς τῆς κύπρου</span> (<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Botrus cypri</span>) of Solomon’s Song (i. 14). The Hebr. is “Copher,” +<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Βότρυς τῆς κύπρου</span> (<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Botrus cypri</span>) of Solomon’s Song (i. 14). The Hebr. is “Copher,” a well-known word which the A. V. translates by “a cluster of camphire (?) in the vineyards of En-gedi”; and a note on iv. 13 ineptly adds, “or, cypress.” The Revised Edit. amends it to “a cluster of henna-flowers.” The Solomonic (?) description is very @@ -13238,7 +13225,7 @@ Syria. It often occurs in the Bresl. Edit.</p> </div> <p class='c014'>There was once in days of yore and in ages and times long gone -before, in Ajam-land, a King Shahrimán<a id='r302' /><a href='#f302' class='c012'><sup>[302]</sup></a> hight, whose abiding-place +before, in Ajam-land, a King Shahrimán<a id='r302' href='#f302' class='c012'><sup>[302]</sup></a> hight, whose abiding-place was Khorásán. He owned an hundred concubines, but by <span class='pageno' id='Page_265'>265</span>none of them had he been blessed with boon of child, male or female, all the days of his life. One day, among the days, he @@ -13251,7 +13238,7 @@ of his Mamelukes came in to him and said, “O my lord, at the door is a slave-girl with her merchant, and fairer than she eye hath never seen.” Quoth the King, “Hither to me with merchant and maid!”; and both came in to him. Now when Shahriman -beheld the girl, he saw that she was like a Rudaynian lance,<a id='r303' /><a href='#f303' class='c012'><sup>[303]</sup></a> and +beheld the girl, he saw that she was like a Rudaynian lance,<a id='r303' href='#f303' class='c012'><sup>[303]</sup></a> and she was wrapped in a veil of gold-purfled silk. The merchant uncovered her face, whereupon the place was illumined by her beauty and her seven tresses hung down to her anklets like @@ -13282,7 +13269,7 @@ to thee.” The King robed him with a splendid robe of honour and ordered him ten thousand ducats, whereupon he kissed his hands, thanking him for his bounty and beneficence, and went his ways. Then the King committed the damsel to the tire-women, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_266'>266</span>saying, “Amend ye the case of this maiden<a id='r304' /><a href='#f304' class='c012'><sup>[304]</sup></a> and adorn her and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_266'>266</span>saying, “Amend ye the case of this maiden<a id='r304' href='#f304' class='c012'><sup>[304]</sup></a> and adorn her and furnish her a bower and set her therein.” And he bade his chamberlains carry her everything she needed and shut all the doors upon her. Now his capital wherein he dwelt, was called the @@ -13307,7 +13294,7 @@ them amend her case and set her in a bower, and ordered his chamberlains to shut all the doors upon her when they had lodged her in a chamber whose latticed casements overlooked the main. Then Shahriman went in to her; but she spake not to him neither -took any note of him.<a id='r305' /><a href='#f305' class='c012'><sup>[305]</sup></a> Quoth he, “’Twould seem she hath been +took any note of him.<a id='r305' href='#f305' class='c012'><sup>[305]</sup></a> Quoth he, “’Twould seem she hath been with folk who have not taught her manners.” Then he looked at the damsel and saw her surpassing beauty and loveliness and symmetry and perfect grace, with a face like the rondure of the @@ -13343,7 +13330,7 @@ exceeding love and falling upon her, took her maidenhead and found her a pure virgin; whereat he rejoiced with excessive joy and said in himself, “By Allah, ’tis a wonder that a girl so fair of form and face should have been left by the merchants a clean maid -as she is!”<a id='r306' /><a href='#f306' class='c012'><sup>[306]</sup></a> Then he devoted himself altogether to her, heeding +as she is!”<a id='r306' href='#f306' class='c012'><sup>[306]</sup></a> Then he devoted himself altogether to her, heeding none other and forsaking all his concubines and favourites, and tarried with her a whole year as it were a single day. Still she spoke not till, one morning he said to her (and indeed the love of @@ -13363,7 +13350,7 @@ in his face; whereat it seemed to him as if lightning filled the chamber. Then she said, “O magnanimous liege lord, and <span class='pageno' id='Page_268'>268</span>valorous lion, Allah hath answered thy prayer, for I am with child by thee and the time of my delivery is near at hand, though -I know not if the unborn babe be male or female.<a id='r307' /><a href='#f307' class='c012'><sup>[307]</sup></a> But, had I not +I know not if the unborn babe be male or female.<a id='r307' href='#f307' class='c012'><sup>[307]</sup></a> But, had I not conceived by thee, I had not spoken to thee one word.” When the King heard her speech, his face shone with joy and gladness and he kissed her head and hands for excess of delight, saying, @@ -13389,14 +13376,14 @@ at thy service and I also am become thy bondman; but, as for thy saying:—I am parted from my mother and brother and family, tell me where they are and I will send and fetch them to thee.” Thereupon she answered, “Know, then, O auspicious King, that I am called -Julnár<a id='r308' /><a href='#f308' class='c012'><sup>[308]</sup></a> the Sea-born and that my father was of the Kings of the +Julnár<a id='r308' href='#f308' class='c012'><sup>[308]</sup></a> the Sea-born and that my father was of the Kings of the <span class='pageno' id='Page_269'>269</span>Main. He died and left us his reign, but while we were yet unsettled, behold, one of the other Kings arose against us and took the realm from our hands. I have a brother called Sálih, and my mother also is a woman of the sea; but I fell out with my brother “The Pious” and swore that I would throw myself into the hands of a man of the folk of the land. So I came forth of the sea and -sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine,<a id='r309' /><a href='#f309' class='c012'><sup>[309]</sup></a> where a +sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine,<a id='r309' href='#f309' class='c012'><sup>[309]</sup></a> where a passer-by found me and, carrying me to his house, besought me of love-liesse; but I smote him on the head, so that he all but died; whereupon he carried me forth and sold me to the merchant from @@ -13425,7 +13412,7 @@ permitted say.</p> </div> <p class='c003'>She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when -Julnar<a id='r310' /><a href='#f310' class='c012'><sup>[310]</sup></a> the Sea-born, answering the question of King Shahriman, +Julnar<a id='r310' href='#f310' class='c012'><sup>[310]</sup></a> the Sea-born, answering the question of King Shahriman, told him her past from first to last, the King thanked her and kissed her between the eyes, saying, “By Allah, O my lady and light of mine eyes, I cannot bear to be parted from thee one hour; @@ -13557,7 +13544,7 @@ seek but ease for thee, without travail or trouble. Wherefore, an thou be in unease, arise and go with us to our land and our folk; but, an thou be at thine ease here, in honour and happiness, this is our wish and our will; for we desire naught save thy welfare in -any case.”<a id='r311' /><a href='#f311' class='c012'><sup>[311]</sup></a> Quoth she, “By Allah, I am here in the utmost ease +any case.”<a id='r311' href='#f311' class='c012'><sup>[311]</sup></a> Quoth she, “By Allah, I am here in the utmost ease and solace and honour and grace!” When the King heard what she said, he joyed with a heart set at rest and thanked her silently for this; the love of her redoubled on him and entered his heart-core @@ -13611,7 +13598,7 @@ boy, as he were the moon at its full; whereat the utmost joy betided the King, for that he had never in his life been vouchsafed son or daughter. So they held high festival and decorated the city seven days, in the extreme of joy and jollity: and on the -seventh day came Queen Julnar’s mother, Faráshah Hight,<a id='r312' /><a href='#f312' class='c012'><sup>[312]</sup></a> and +seventh day came Queen Julnar’s mother, Faráshah Hight,<a id='r312' href='#f312' class='c012'><sup>[312]</sup></a> and brother and cousins, whenas they knew of her delivery.——And Shahrazad perceived the light of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -13626,15 +13613,15 @@ say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_274fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_274fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c003'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Julnar was brought to bed and was visited by her people, the King received them with joy at their coming and said to them, “I said that I would not give my son a name till you should come and -name him of your knowledge.” So they named him Badr Básim,<a id='r313' /><a href='#f313' class='c012'><sup>[313]</sup></a> +name him of your knowledge.” So they named him Badr Básim,<a id='r313' href='#f313' class='c012'><sup>[313]</sup></a> and all agreed upon this name. Then they showed the child to his uncle Salih, who took him in his arms and arising began to walk about the chamber with him in all directions right and left. @@ -13687,7 +13674,7 @@ the land were unable to present.” So she thanked her brother for his deed and he said, “O King of the Age, thou hast the prior claim on us and it behoves us to thank thee, for thou hast entreated our sister with kindness and we have entered thy dwelling and -eaten of thy victual;” and the poet saith<a id='r314' /><a href='#f314' class='c012'><sup>[314]</sup></a>:—</p> +eaten of thy victual;” and the poet saith<a id='r314' href='#f314' class='c012'><sup>[314]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -13747,7 +13734,7 @@ spear-play and horsemanship and what not else behoveth the sons of Kings; nor was there one of the children of the folk of the city, men or women, but would talk of the youth’s charms, for he <span class='pageno' id='Page_277'>277</span>was of surpassing beauty and perfection, even such an one as is -praised in the saying of the poet:<a id='r315' /><a href='#f315' class='c012'><sup>[315]</sup></a>—</p> +praised in the saying of the poet:<a id='r315' href='#f315' class='c012'><sup>[315]</sup></a>—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -13763,8 +13750,8 @@ praised in the saying of the poet:<a id='r315' /><a href='#f315' class='c012'><s <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Upsprings from table of his lovely cheek<a id='r316' /><a href='#f316' class='c012'><sup>[316]</sup></a> ✿ A growth like broidery my wonder is:</div> - <div class='line'>As ’twere a lamp that burns through night hung up ✿ Beneath the gloom<a id='r317' /><a href='#f317' class='c012'><sup>[317]</sup></a> in chains of ambergris.</div> + <div class='line'>Upsprings from table of his lovely cheek<a id='r316' href='#f316' class='c012'><sup>[316]</sup></a> ✿ A growth like broidery my wonder is:</div> + <div class='line'>As ’twere a lamp that burns through night hung up ✿ Beneath the gloom<a id='r317' href='#f317' class='c012'><sup>[317]</sup></a> in chains of ambergris.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -13861,7 +13848,7 @@ talk ensued between the twain and they spake of King Badr Basim and his beauty and loveliness, his symmetry and skill in cavalarice and cleverness and good breeding. Now Badr was propped upon his elbow hard by them; and, hearing his mother and uncle -speak of him, he feigned sleep and listened to their talk.<a id='r318' /><a href='#f318' class='c012'><sup>[318]</sup></a> +speak of him, he feigned sleep and listened to their talk.<a id='r318' href='#f318' class='c012'><sup>[318]</sup></a> Presently Salih said to his sister, “Thy son is now seventeen years old and is unmarried, and I fear least mishap befal him and he have no son; wherefore it is my desire to marry him to a Princess @@ -13871,7 +13858,7 @@ them all.” So Salih proceeded to enumerate them to her, one by one, but to each she said, “I like not this one for my son; I will not marry him but to one who is his equal in beauty and loveliness and wit and piety and good breeding and magnanimity and -dominion and rank and lineage.”<a id='r319' /><a href='#f319' class='c012'><sup>[319]</sup></a> Quoth Salih, “I know none +dominion and rank and lineage.”<a id='r319' href='#f319' class='c012'><sup>[319]</sup></a> Quoth Salih, “I know none other of the daughters of the Kings of the sea, for I have numbered to thee more than an hundred girls and not one of them pleaseth thee: but see, O my sister, whether thy son be @@ -13888,7 +13875,7 @@ through this;” for, as saith the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Love, at first sight, is a spurt of spray;<a id='r320' /><a href='#f320' class='c012'><sup>[320]</sup></a> ✿ But a spreading sea when it gaineth sway.</div> + <div class='line'>Love, at first sight, is a spurt of spray;<a id='r320' href='#f320' class='c012'><sup>[320]</sup></a> ✿ But a spreading sea when it gaineth sway.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -13911,7 +13898,7 @@ lest he be awake;” and the poet saith:—</p> <p class='c003'>But Julnar said, “Speak out and be brief and fear not, O my brother.” So he said, “By Allah, O my sister, none is worthy of -thy son save the Princess Jauharah, daughter of King Al-Samandal,<a id='r321' /><a href='#f321' class='c012'><sup>[321]</sup></a> +thy son save the Princess Jauharah, daughter of King Al-Samandal,<a id='r321' href='#f321' class='c012'><sup>[321]</sup></a> for that she is like unto him in beauty and loveliness and brilliancy and perfection; nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and @@ -13919,7 +13906,7 @@ seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her cheek is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite. When she -turneth she shameth the wild cattle<a id='r322' /><a href='#f322' class='c012'><sup>[322]</sup></a> and the gazelles and when +turneth she shameth the wild cattle<a id='r322' href='#f322' class='c012'><sup>[322]</sup></a> and the gazelles and when she walketh, she breedeth envy in the willow branch: when she unveileth her face outshineth sun and moon and all who look upon her she enslaveth soon: sweet-lipped and soft-sided indeed is she.” @@ -13975,7 +13962,7 @@ the King, “Come, O my uncle, let us go forth to the garden.” So their solace awhile, after which King Badr lay down under a shady tree, thinking to rest and sleep; but he remembered his uncle’s description of the maiden and her beauty and loveliness and shed -railing tears, reciting these two couplets<a id='r323' /><a href='#f323' class='c012'><sup>[323]</sup></a>:—</p> +railing tears, reciting these two couplets<a id='r323' href='#f323' class='c012'><sup>[323]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -14133,7 +14120,7 @@ dost thou gift me with this gift? Tell me thy tale and acquaint me with thy requirement. An its accomplishment be in my power I will straightway accomplish it to thee and spare thee toil and trouble; and if I be unable thereunto, Allah compelleth not any -soul aught beyond its power.”<a id='r324' /><a href='#f324' class='c012'><sup>[324]</sup></a> So Salih rose and kissing ground +soul aught beyond its power.”<a id='r324' href='#f324' class='c012'><sup>[324]</sup></a> So Salih rose and kissing ground three times, said, “O King of the Age, that which I desire thou art indeed able to do; it is in thy power and thou art master thereof; and I impose not on the King a difficulty, nor am I Jinn-demented, @@ -14142,7 +14129,7 @@ availeth not; for one of the sages saith:—An thou wouldst be complied with ask that which can be readily supplied. Wherefore, that of which I am come in quest, the King (whom Allah preserve!) is able to grant.” The King replied, “Ask what thou wouldst -have, and state thy case and seek thy need.” Then said Salih,<a id='r325' /><a href='#f325' class='c012'><sup>[325]</sup></a> +have, and state thy case and seek thy need.” Then said Salih,<a id='r325' href='#f325' class='c012'><sup>[325]</sup></a> “O King of the Age, know that I come as a suitor, seeking the unique pearl and the hoarded jewel, the Princess Jauharah, daughter of our lord the King; wherefore, O King disappoint @@ -14168,18 +14155,18 @@ more excellent of rank and lineage; and he is the champion of the people of his day. Wherefore, if thou grant my request, O King of the Age thou wilt have set the thing in its stead; but, if thou deal arrogantly with us, thou wilt not use us justly nor travel with -us the ’road which is straight<a id='r326' /><a href='#f326' class='c012'><sup>[326]</sup></a>.’ Moreover, O King, thou knowest +us the ’road which is straight<a id='r326' href='#f326' class='c012'><sup>[326]</sup></a>.’ Moreover, O King, thou knowest that the Princess Jauharah, the daughter of our lord the King, must needs be wedded and bedded, for the sage saith, a girl’s lot is either -grace of marriage or the grave.<a id='r327' /><a href='#f327' class='c012'><sup>[327]</sup></a> Wherefore, an thou mean to +grace of marriage or the grave.<a id='r327' href='#f327' class='c012'><sup>[327]</sup></a> Wherefore, an thou mean to marry her, my sister’s son is worthier of her than any other man.” Now when King Al-Samandal heard Salih’s words, he was wroth with exceeding wrath; his reason well nigh fled and his soul was like to depart his body for rage, and he cried, “O dog, shall the like of thee dare to bespeak me thus and name my -daughter in the assemblies,<a id='r328' /><a href='#f328' class='c012'><sup>[328]</sup></a> saying that the son of thy sister +daughter in the assemblies,<a id='r328' href='#f328' class='c012'><sup>[328]</sup></a> saying that the son of thy sister Julnar is a match for her? Who art thou and who is this sister -of thine and who is her son and who was his father,<a id='r329' /><a href='#f329' class='c012'><sup>[329]</sup></a> that thou +of thine and who is her son and who was his father,<a id='r329' href='#f329' class='c012'><sup>[329]</sup></a> that thou durst say to me such say and address me with such address? What are ye all, in comparison with my daughter, but dogs?” And he cried out to his pages, saying, “Take yonder gallows-bird’s @@ -14247,7 +14234,7 @@ on her and question her of her condition; and, if she be indeed the she, I will demand her in wedlock of herself and so win my wish.” So he stood up and said to her, “O end of all desire, who art thou and who brought thee hither?” She looked at Badr -Basim and seeing him to be as the full moon,<a id='r330' /><a href='#f330' class='c012'><sup>[330]</sup></a> when it shineth from +Basim and seeing him to be as the full moon,<a id='r330' href='#f330' class='c012'><sup>[330]</sup></a> when it shineth from under the black cloud, slender of shape and sweet of smile, answered, “O fair of fashion, I am Princess Jauharah, daughter of King Al-Samandal, and I took refuge in this place, because @@ -14312,14 +14299,14 @@ him; whereat passion and desire for her redoubled on him and doubting not but she loved him, he trusted in her, and returned her kisses and caresses. Presently he said to her, “By Allah, O Princess, my uncle Salih set forth to me not a fortieth part of thy -charms; no, nor a quarter-carat<a id='r331' /><a href='#f331' class='c012'><sup>[331]</sup></a> of the four-and-twenty.” Then +charms; no, nor a quarter-carat<a id='r331' href='#f331' class='c012'><sup>[331]</sup></a> of the four-and-twenty.” Then Jauharah pressed him to her bosom and pronounced some unintelligible words; then spat on his face, saying, “Quit this form of man and take shape of bird, the handsomest of birds, white of robe, with red bill and legs.” Hardly had she spoken, when <span class='pageno' id='Page_290'>290</span>King Badr Basim found himself transformed into a bird, the handsomest of birds, who shook himself and stood looking at her. -Now Jauharah had with her one of her slave-girls, by name Marsínah;<a id='r332' /><a href='#f332' class='c012'><sup>[332]</sup></a> +Now Jauharah had with her one of her slave-girls, by name Marsínah;<a id='r332' href='#f332' class='c012'><sup>[332]</sup></a> so she called her and said to her, “By Allah, but that I fear for the life of my father, who is his uncle’s prisoner, I would kill him! Allah never requite him with good! How unlucky @@ -14429,7 +14416,7 @@ I will not sell him!” Then he carried the bird up to the King’s palace and when the King saw it, its beauty and grace pleased him and the red colour of its beak and legs. So he sent an eunuch to buy it, who accosted the fowler and said to him, “Wilt thou sell -this bird?” Answered he, “Nay, ’tis a gift from me to the King”<a id='r333' /><a href='#f333' class='c012'><sup>[333]</sup></a> +this bird?” Answered he, “Nay, ’tis a gift from me to the King”<a id='r333' href='#f333' class='c012'><sup>[333]</sup></a> So the eunuch carried the bird to the King and told him what the man had said; and he took it and gave the fowler ten dinars, whereupon he kissed ground and fared forth. Then the eunuch @@ -14482,7 +14469,7 @@ man like thyself: he is King Badr Basim son of King Shariman and his mother is Julnar the Sea-born,” quoth the King, “And how came he in this shape?”; and quoth she, “Princess Jauharah, daughter of King Al-Samandal, hath enchanted him:” and told -him all that had passed with King Badr Basim from first to last.<a id='r334' /><a href='#f334' class='c012'><sup>[334]</sup></a> +him all that had passed with King Badr Basim from first to last.<a id='r334' href='#f334' class='c012'><sup>[334]</sup></a> The King marvelled exceedingly at his wife’s words and conjured her, on his life, to free Badr from his enchantment (for she was the notablest enchantress of her age), and not leave him in torment, @@ -14491,7 +14478,7 @@ witch as she is! How little is her faith and how great her craft and perfidy!” Said the Queen, “Do thou say to him:—O Badr Basim, enter yonder closet!” So the King bade him enter the closet and he went in obediently. Then the Queen veiled her face -and taking in her hand a cup of water,<a id='r335' /><a href='#f335' class='c012'><sup>[335]</sup></a> entered the closet, where +and taking in her hand a cup of water,<a id='r335' href='#f335' class='c012'><sup>[335]</sup></a> entered the closet, where she pronounced over the water certain incomprehensible words ending with, “By the virtue of these mighty names and holy verses and by the majesty of Allah Almighty, Creator of heaven and @@ -14528,7 +14515,7 @@ sailed over the sea ten successive days with a favouring wind; but, on the eleventh day, the ocean became troubled with exceeding trouble, the ship rose and fell and the sailors were powerless to govern her. So they drifted at the mercy of the waves, till the -craft neared a rock in mid-sea which fell upon her<a id='r336' /><a href='#f336' class='c012'><sup>[336]</sup></a> and broke her +craft neared a rock in mid-sea which fell upon her<a id='r336' href='#f336' class='c012'><sup>[336]</sup></a> and broke her up and all on board were drowned, save King Badr Basim who got astride one of the planks of the vessel, after having been nigh upon destruction. The plank ceased not to be borne by the set of the @@ -14549,7 +14536,7 @@ place, found none therein and marvelled at this, saying, “Would I knew to whom doth this city belong, wherein is no lord nor any liege, and whence came these mules and asses and horses that hindered me from landing?” And he mused over his case. Then -he walked on at hazard till he espied an old man, a grocer.<a id='r337' /><a href='#f337' class='c012'><sup>[337]</sup></a> So +he walked on at hazard till he espied an old man, a grocer.<a id='r337' href='#f337' class='c012'><sup>[337]</sup></a> So he saluted him and the other returned his salam and seeing him to be a handsome young man, said to him, “O youth, whence comest thou and what brought thee to this city?” Badr told him his @@ -14595,7 +14582,7 @@ their solicitude for thee, fearing that haply she should do with thee like as she had done with them. She possessed herself of this city and seized it from its citizens by sorcery and her name is Queen Láb, which being interpreted, meaneth in Arabic ’Almanac of the -Sun.’”<a id='r338' /><a href='#f338' class='c012'><sup>[338]</sup></a> When Badr Basim heard what the old man said, he was +Sun.’”<a id='r338' href='#f338' class='c012'><sup>[338]</sup></a> When Badr Basim heard what the old man said, he was affrighted with sore affright and trembled like reed in wind saying in himself, “Hardly do I feel me free from the affliction wherein I was by reason of sorcery, when Destiny casteth me into yet sorrier @@ -14647,7 +14634,7 @@ from me and not enchant him?” Said she, “Yes,” and said he, any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars, -saying, “Use this.”<a id='r339' /><a href='#f339' class='c012'><sup>[339]</sup></a> Then she took Badr Basim and carried him +saying, “Use this.”<a id='r339' href='#f339' class='c012'><sup>[339]</sup></a> Then she took Badr Basim and carried him off, as he were the full moon on its fourteenth night, whilst all the folk, seeing his beauty, were grieved for him and said, “By Allah, verily, this youth deserveth not to be bewitched by yonder @@ -14698,7 +14685,7 @@ the damsels sing, and they sang all manner modes till it seemed to Badr Basim as if the palace danced with him for joy. His sense was ecstasied and his breast broadened, and he forgot his strangerhood and said in himself, “Verily, this Queen is young -and beautiful<a id='r340' /><a href='#f340' class='c012'><sup>[340]</sup></a> and I will never leave her; for her kingdom is +and beautiful<a id='r340' href='#f340' class='c012'><sup>[340]</sup></a> and I will never leave her; for her kingdom is vaster than my kingdom and she is fairer than Princess Jauharah.” So he ceased not to drink with her till eventide came, when they lighted the lamps and waxen candles and diffused censer-perfumes; @@ -14729,7 +14716,7 @@ the drinking-gear and they drank. Presently, the Queen arose and taking Badr Basim by the hand, sat down with him on chairs and bade bring food, whereof they ate, and washed their hands. Then the damsels fetched the drinking-gear and fruits and flowers -<span class='pageno' id='Page_300'>300</span>and confections, and they ceased not to eat and drink,<a id='r341' /><a href='#f341' class='c012'><sup>[341]</sup></a> whilst the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_300'>300</span>and confections, and they ceased not to eat and drink,<a id='r341' href='#f341' class='c012'><sup>[341]</sup></a> whilst the singing-girls sang various airs till the evening. They gave not over eating and drinking and merry-making for a space of forty days, when the Queen said to him, “O Badr Basim, say me @@ -14772,7 +14759,7 @@ and mounting, rode to the shop of the Shaykh, the grocer, who welcomed him and rose to him and embracing him said to him, “How hast thou fared with yonder idolatress?” He replied, “I was well in health and happiness till this last night,” and told him -what had passed in the garden with the black bird.<a id='r342' /><a href='#f342' class='c012'><sup>[342]</sup></a><a id='t301'></a> Now when +what had passed in the garden with the black bird.<a id='r342' href='#f342' class='c012'><sup>[342]</sup></a><a id='t301'></a> Now when the old man heard his words, he said, “Beware of her, for know that the birds upon the trees were all young men and strangers, whom she loved and enchanted and turned into birds. That @@ -14819,7 +14806,7 @@ saw him, she rose and seating him and welcoming him brought him meat and drink and the two ate till they had enough and washed their hands; after which she called for wine and they drank till the night was well nigh half spent, when she plied him -with cup after cup till he was drunken and lost sense<a id='r343' /><a href='#f343' class='c012'><sup>[343]</sup></a> and wit. +with cup after cup till he was drunken and lost sense<a id='r343' href='#f343' class='c012'><sup>[343]</sup></a> and wit. When she saw him thus, she said to him, “I conjure thee by Allah and by whatso thou worshippest, if I ask thee a question wilt thou inform me rightly and answer me truly?” And he being @@ -14855,7 +14842,7 @@ washed his face and asked her leave to visit the Shaykh his uncle. She gave him permission and he repaired to Abdallah and told him what had passed. The old man laughed and said, “By Allah, this miscreant witch plotteth mischief against thee; but reck thou -not of her ever!” Then he gave him a pound of parched corn<a id='r344' /><a href='#f344' class='c012'><sup>[344]</sup></a> +not of her ever!” Then he gave him a pound of parched corn<a id='r344' href='#f344' class='c012'><sup>[344]</sup></a> and said to him, “Take this with thee and know that, when she seeth it, she will ask thee:—What is this and what wilt thou do with it? Do thou answer:—Abundance of good things is good; @@ -14909,7 +14896,7 @@ her, rode forth to find the Shaykh. But when the old man saw her, he rose and said to her, “Almighty Allah confound thee, O accursed woman!” Then quoth he to Badr, “O my son, there is no more tarrying for thee in this city; so ride her and fare with -her whither thou wilt and beware lest thou commit the bridle<a id='r345' /><a href='#f345' class='c012'><sup>[345]</sup></a> to +her whither thou wilt and beware lest thou commit the bridle<a id='r345' href='#f345' class='c012'><sup>[345]</sup></a> to any.” King Badr thanked him and farewelling him, fared on three days, without ceasing, till he drew near another city and there met him an old man, gray-headed and comely, who said to him, @@ -14977,7 +14964,7 @@ said, “There is no help but that I take the city from her and make thee Queen thereof in her stead.” Then he whistled a loud whistle and there came forth to him an Ifrit with four wings, to whom he said, “Take up this damsel and carry her to the city of -Julnar the Sea-born and her mother Faráshah<a id='r346' /><a href='#f346' class='c012'><sup>[346]</sup></a> for they twain are +Julnar the Sea-born and her mother Faráshah<a id='r346' href='#f346' class='c012'><sup>[346]</sup></a> for they twain are the most powerful magicians on face of earth.” And he said to the damsel, “When thou comest thither, tell them that King Badr Basim is Queen Lab’s captive.” Then the Ifrit took up his load @@ -15027,7 +15014,7 @@ handsome girls that were therein. But, when King Badr Basim saw the trouble they were taking in this matter, he said to Julnar, “O my mother, leave this thing, for none will content me save Jauharah, daughter of King Al-Samandal; for that she is indeed -a jewel,<a id='r347' /><a href='#f347' class='c012'><sup>[347]</sup></a> according to her name.” Replied Julnar, “I know that +a jewel,<a id='r347' href='#f347' class='c012'><sup>[347]</sup></a> according to her name.” Replied Julnar, “I know that which thou seekest;” and bade forthright bring Al-Samandal the King. As soon as he was present, she sent for Badr Basim and acquainted him with the King’s coming, whereupon he went in to @@ -15063,10 +15050,10 @@ kinsfolk. And they ceased not from living the most delectable of life and the most solaceful of days, eating and drinking and enjoying every luxury, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of Societies; and this is the end of -their story,<a id='r348' /><a href='#f348' class='c012'><sup>[348]</sup></a> may Allah have mercy on them all! Moreover, O +their story,<a id='r348' href='#f348' class='c012'><sup>[348]</sup></a> may Allah have mercy on them all! Moreover, O auspicious King, a tale is also told anent</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f302'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r302'>302</a>. </span>In the Mac. Edit. “Shahzamán,” a corruption of Sháh Zamán = King of the Age. @@ -15221,7 +15208,7 @@ hoarded jewel”: the offensive part of the speech was using the girl’s name.< </div> <div class='footnote' id='f331'> -<p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r331'>331</a>. </span>Arab. Kirát (<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">κεράτιον</span>) the bean of the <em>Abrus precatorius</em>, used as a weight in +<p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r331'>331</a>. </span>Arab. Kirát (<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">κεράτιον</span>) the bean of the <em>Abrus precatorius</em>, used as a weight in Arabia and India and as a bead for decoration in Africa. It is equal to four Kamhahs or wheat-grains and about 3 grs. avoir.; and being the twenty-fourth of a miskal, it is applied to that proportion of everything. Thus the Arabs say of a perfect man, “He is @@ -15343,7 +15330,7 @@ bin Sabáik, who ruled over Khorásán-land and used every year to go on razzia into the countries of the Miscreants in Hind and Sind and China and the lands of Máwarannahr beyond the Oxus and other regions of the barbarians and what not else. He was a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_309'>309</span>just King, a valiant and a generous, and loved table-talk<a id='r349' /><a href='#f349' class='c012'><sup>[349]</sup></a> and tales +<span class='pageno' id='Page_309'>309</span>just King, a valiant and a generous, and loved table-talk<a id='r349' href='#f349' class='c012'><sup>[349]</sup></a> and tales and verses and anecdotes and histories and entertaining stories and legends of the ancients. Whoso knew a rare recital and related it to him in such fashion as to please him he would bestow @@ -15448,7 +15435,7 @@ place, when he met a young man running and stumbling over his skirts. So he asked to him, “Wherefore runnest thou in such eagerness and whither dost thou press?” And he answered, “There is an elder here, a man of learning, who every day at this -time taketh his seat on a stool<a id='r350' /><a href='#f350' class='c012'><sup>[350]</sup></a> and relateth tales and stories and +time taketh his seat on a stool<a id='r350' href='#f350' class='c012'><sup>[350]</sup></a> and relateth tales and stories and delectable anecdotes, whereof never heard any the like; and I am running to get me a place near him and fear I shall find no room, because of the much folk.” Quoth the Mameluke, “Take me @@ -15486,7 +15473,7 @@ hundred dinars by way of price and ten to boot as a gratuity and take it on the conditions of which thou speakest.” Said the old man, “Then go and fetch the gold pieces, and take that thou seekest.” So the messenger kissed his hands and joyful and happy returned -to his lodging, where he laid an hundred and ten dinars<a id='r351' /><a href='#f351' class='c012'><sup>[351]</sup></a> in a +to his lodging, where he laid an hundred and ten dinars<a id='r351' href='#f351' class='c012'><sup>[351]</sup></a> in a purse he had by him. As soon as morning morrowed, he donned his clothes and taking the dinars, repaired to the story-teller, whom he found seated at the door of his house. So he saluted @@ -15494,7 +15481,7 @@ him and the other returned his salam. Then he gave him the gold and the old man took it and carrying the messenger into his house made him sit down in a convenient place, when he set before him inkcase and reed-pen and paper and giving him a book, said -to him, “Write out what thou seekest of the night-story<a id='r352' /><a href='#f352' class='c012'><sup>[352]</sup></a> of Sayf +to him, “Write out what thou seekest of the night-story<a id='r352' href='#f352' class='c012'><sup>[352]</sup></a> of Sayf al-Muluk from this book.” Accordingly the Mameluke fell to work and wrote till he had made an end of his copy, when he read it to the old man, and he corrected it and presently said to him, @@ -15552,15 +15539,15 @@ him one of his Chief Wazirs and seated him on his right hand. Then he caused the scribes write the story in letters of gold and lay it up in his privy treasures; and whenever his breast was <span class='pageno' id='Page_314'>314</span>straitened, he would summon Hasan and he would read him the -story,<a id='r353' /><a href='#f353' class='c012'><sup>[353]</sup></a> which was as follows:—</p> +story,<a id='r353' href='#f353' class='c012'><sup>[353]</sup></a> which was as follows:—</p> <h3 id='c314' class='c015'><em>STORY OF PRINCE SAYF AL-MULUK AND THE PRINCESS BADI’A AL-JAMAL.</em></h3> <p class='c016'>There was once, in days of old and in ages and times long told, -a King in Egypt called Asim bin Safwán,<a id='r354' /><a href='#f354' class='c012'><sup>[354]</sup></a> who was a liberal and +a King in Egypt called Asim bin Safwán,<a id='r354' href='#f354' class='c012'><sup>[354]</sup></a> who was a liberal and beneficent sovran, venerable and majestic. He owned many cities and sconces and fortresses and troops and warriors and had a -Wazir named Fáris bin Sálih,<a id='r355' /><a href='#f355' class='c012'><sup>[355]</sup></a> and he and all his subjects +Wazir named Fáris bin Sálih,<a id='r355' href='#f355' class='c012'><sup>[355]</sup></a> and he and all his subjects worshipped the sun and the fire, instead of the All-powerful Sire, the Glorious, the Victorious. Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; @@ -15580,7 +15567,7 @@ none will bear me in memory nor will there remain any mention of me in the world.” Then he became drowned in the sea of thought and for the much thronging of griefs and anxieties upon his heart, like travellers faring for the well, he shed tears and -descending from his throne, sat down upon the floor,<a id='r356' /><a href='#f356' class='c012'><sup>[356]</sup></a> weeping +descending from his throne, sat down upon the floor,<a id='r356' href='#f356' class='c012'><sup>[356]</sup></a> weeping and humbling himself before the Lord. Now when the Wazir and <span class='pageno' id='Page_315'>315</span>notables of the realm and others who were present in the assembly saw him do thus with his royal person, they feared for their lives @@ -15595,7 +15582,7 @@ Grandees, and inform me who hath thwarted thee, O my liege lord, that we may all fall on him and tear his soul from his two sides.” But he spake not neither raised his head; whereupon the Minister kissed ground before him a second time and said to him, -“O Master,<a id='r357' /><a href='#f357' class='c012'><sup>[357]</sup></a> I am even as thy son and thy slave, nay, I have +“O Master,<a id='r357' href='#f357' class='c012'><sup>[357]</sup></a> I am even as thy son and thy slave, nay, I have reared thee; yet know I not the cause of thy cark and chagrin and of this thy case; and who should know but I who should stand in my stead between thy hands? Tell me therefore why this weeping @@ -15639,8 +15626,8 @@ have I never been blest with boon of child and cease not day and night from cark and care and concern; so how shall we do, I and thou?” Quoth Asim, “O Wazir, hast thou no device or shift in this matter?” and quoth the Minister, “Know, O King -that I have heard of a Sovran in the land of Sabá<a id='r358' /><a href='#f358' class='c012'><sup>[358]</sup></a> by name -Solomon David-son (upon the twain be the Peace!),<a id='r359' /><a href='#f359' class='c012'><sup>[359]</sup></a> who pretendeth +that I have heard of a Sovran in the land of Sabá<a id='r358' href='#f358' class='c012'><sup>[358]</sup></a> by name +Solomon David-son (upon the twain be the Peace!),<a id='r359' href='#f359' class='c012'><sup>[359]</sup></a> who pretendeth to prophetship and avoucheth that he hath a mighty Lord who can do all things and whose kingdom is in the Heavens and who hath dominion over all mankind and birds and beasts and @@ -15694,7 +15681,7 @@ Barkhiyá to meet him with honour and with victual at the halting-places; and when he cometh to thy presence, say unto him:—Verily, thy King hath sent thee in quest of this and that and thy business is thus and thus. Then do thou propound to him The -Saving Faith.”<a id='r360' /><a href='#f360' class='c012'><sup>[360]</sup></a> Whereupon Solomon bade his Wazir make +Saving Faith.”<a id='r360' href='#f360' class='c012'><sup>[360]</sup></a> Whereupon Solomon bade his Wazir make ready a company of his retainers and go forth to meet the <span class='pageno' id='Page_318'>318</span>Minister of Egypt with honour and sumptuous provision at the halting-places. So Asaf made ready all that was needed for their @@ -15706,7 +15693,7 @@ and welcome and fair welcome to the coming guests! Rejoice in the certain winning of your wish! Be your souls of good cheer and your eyes cool and clear and your breasts be broadened!” Quoth Faris in himself, “Who acquainted him with this?”; and -he said to Asaf,<a id='r361' /><a href='#f361' class='c012'><sup>[361]</sup></a> “O my lord, and who gave thee to know of us +he said to Asaf,<a id='r361' href='#f361' class='c012'><sup>[361]</sup></a> “O my lord, and who gave thee to know of us and our need?” “It was Solomon son of David (on whom be the Peace!), told us of this!” “And who told our lord Solomon?” “The Lord of the heaven and the earth told him, the God of all @@ -15719,7 +15706,7 @@ whiles it setteth, but our Lord is ever present and never absent and He over all things is Omnipotent!” Then they journeyed on a little while till they came to the land Saba and drew near the throne of Solomon David-son, (upon the twain be peace!), who -commanded his hosts of men and Jinn and others<a id='r362' /><a href='#f362' class='c012'><sup>[362]</sup></a> to form line on +commanded his hosts of men and Jinn and others<a id='r362' href='#f362' class='c012'><sup>[362]</sup></a> to form line on their road. So the beasts of the sea and the elephants and leopards and lynxes and all beasts of the land ranged themselves in espalier on either side of the way, after their several kinds, and similarly @@ -15748,7 +15735,7 @@ let him stand, but let none stand to do me worship.” So they obeyed him and the Wazir Faris and some of his intimates sat down, whilst certain of the lesser sort remained afoot to wait on him. When they had sat awhile, the servants spread the tables -and they all, men and beasts, ate their sufficiency.<a id='r363' /><a href='#f363' class='c012'><sup>[363]</sup></a> Then Solomon +and they all, men and beasts, ate their sufficiency.<a id='r363' href='#f363' class='c012'><sup>[363]</sup></a> Then Solomon bade Faris expound his errand, that it might be accomplished, saying, “Speak and hide naught of that wherefor thou art come; for I know why ye come and what is your errand, which is thus @@ -15791,7 +15778,7 @@ said is indeed sooth and verity; but when we discoursed of this matter, none was with the King and myself, nor was any ware of our case; who, then told thee of all these things?” Answered Solomon, “They were told to me by my Lord who knoweth whatso -is concealed<a id='r364' /><a href='#f364' class='c012'><sup>[364]</sup></a> from the eye and what is hidden in the breasts.” +is concealed<a id='r364' href='#f364' class='c012'><sup>[364]</sup></a> from the eye and what is hidden in the breasts.” Quoth Faris, “O Prophet of Allah, verily this is none other than a mighty Lord and an omnipotent God!” And he Islamized with all his many. Then said Solomon to him, “Thou hast with thee @@ -15819,7 +15806,7 @@ their tails and throw it away. The rest of the flesh cook and cook well and give it to your wives to eat: then lie with them that night and, by Allah’s leave, they shall conceive and bear male children.” Moreover, he gave him a seal-ring a sword and -a wrapper containing two tunics<a id='r365' /><a href='#f365' class='c012'><sup>[365]</sup></a> embroidered with gold and +a wrapper containing two tunics<a id='r365' href='#f365' class='c012'><sup>[365]</sup></a> embroidered with gold and jewels, saying, “O Wazir Faris, when your sons grow up to man’s estate, give to each of them one of these tunics.” Then said he, “In the name of Allah! May the Almighty accomplish @@ -15852,19 +15839,19 @@ Minister took two bows and two bolts and repairing to the tree indicated by Solomon, clomb up into it and there sat in silence till the mid-day heat had passed away and it was near upon the <span class='pageno' id='Page_322'>322</span>hour of mid-afternoon prayer, when they descended and looking -about them saw a serpent-couple<a id='r366' /><a href='#f366' class='c012'><sup>[366]</sup></a> issue from the roots of the +about them saw a serpent-couple<a id='r366' href='#f366' class='c012'><sup>[366]</sup></a> issue from the roots of the tree. The King gazed at them, marvelling to see them ringed with collars of gold about their necks, and said to Faris, “O Wazir, verily these snakes have golden torques! By Allah, this is forsooth a rare thing! Let us catch them and set them in a cage and keep them to look upon.” But the Minister said, -“These hath Allah created for profitable use;<a id='r367' /><a href='#f367' class='c012'><sup>[367]</sup></a> so do thou +“These hath Allah created for profitable use;<a id='r367' href='#f367' class='c012'><sup>[367]</sup></a> so do thou shoot one and I will shoot the other with these our shafts.” Accordingly they shot at them with arrows and slew them; after which they cut off a span’s length of their heads and tails and threw it away. Then they carried the rest to the King’s palace, where they called the kitchener and giving him that -flesh said, “Dress this meat daintily, with onion-sauce<a id='r368' /><a href='#f368' class='c012'><sup>[368]</sup></a> and +flesh said, “Dress this meat daintily, with onion-sauce<a id='r368' href='#f368' class='c012'><sup>[368]</sup></a> and spices, and ladle it out into two saucers and bring them hither at such an hour, without delay!”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -15904,17 +15891,17 @@ haste, rejoicing, and finding the King alone, with cheek on palm, pondering this thing, kissed ground between his hands and acquainted him with his wife’s pregnancy. When the King heard his words, he sprang to his feet and in the excess of his -joy, he kissed<a id='r369' /><a href='#f369' class='c012'><sup>[369]</sup></a> the eunuch’s hands and head and doffing the +joy, he kissed<a id='r369' href='#f369' class='c012'><sup>[369]</sup></a> the eunuch’s hands and head and doffing the clothes he had on, gave them to him. Moreover, he said to those who were present in his assembly, “Whoso loveth me, let -him bestow largesse upon this man.”<a id='r370' /><a href='#f370' class='c012'><sup>[370]</sup></a> And they gave him of +him bestow largesse upon this man.”<a id='r370' href='#f370' class='c012'><sup>[370]</sup></a> And they gave him of coin and jewels and jacinths and horses and mules and estates and gardens what was beyond count or calculation. At that moment in came the Wazir Faris and said to Asim, “O my master, but now I was sitting alone at home and absorbed in thought, pondering the matter of the pregnancy and saying to myself:—Would I wot an this thing be true and whether -my wife Khátún<a id='r371' /><a href='#f371' class='c012'><sup>[371]</sup></a> have conceived or not! when, behold, an +my wife Khátún<a id='r371' href='#f371' class='c012'><sup>[371]</sup></a> have conceived or not! when, behold, an eunuch came in to me and brought me the glad tidings that his lady was indeed pregnant, for that her colour was changed and the child stirred in her womb; whereupon, in my joy, I @@ -15926,19 +15913,19 @@ beneficence, made gift to us of the True Faith and brought us out of night into light, and hath been bountiful to us, of His <span class='pageno' id='Page_324'>324</span>favour and benevolence; wherefore I am minded to solace the folk and cause them to rejoice.” Quoth Faris, “Do what thou -wilt,”<a id='r372' /><a href='#f372' class='c012'><sup>[372]</sup></a> and quoth the King, “O Wazir, go down without stay +wilt,”<a id='r372' href='#f372' class='c012'><sup>[372]</sup></a> and quoth the King, “O Wazir, go down without stay or delay and set free all who are in the prisons, both criminals and debtors, and whoso transgresseth after this, we will requite as he deserveth even to the striking off of his head. Moreover, we forgive the people three years’ taxes, and do thou set up -kitchens all around about the city walls<a id='r373' /><a href='#f373' class='c012'><sup>[373]</sup></a> and bid the kitcheners hang +kitchens all around about the city walls<a id='r373' href='#f373' class='c012'><sup>[373]</sup></a> and bid the kitcheners hang over the fire all kinds of cooking pots and cook all manner of meats, continuing their cooking night and day, and let all comers, both of our citizens and of the neighbouring countries, far and near, eat and drink and carry to their houses. And do thou command the people to make holiday and decorate the city seven days and shut -not the taverns night nor day;<a id='r374' /><a href='#f374' class='c012'><sup>[374]</sup></a> and if thou delay I will behead -thee!”<a id='r375' /><a href='#f375' class='c012'><sup>[375]</sup></a> So he did as the King bade him and the folk decorated +not the taverns night nor day;<a id='r374' href='#f374' class='c012'><sup>[374]</sup></a> and if thou delay I will behead +thee!”<a id='r375' href='#f375' class='c012'><sup>[375]</sup></a> So he did as the King bade him and the folk decorated the city and citadel and bulwarks after the goodliest fashion and, donning their richest attire, passed their time in feasting and sporting and making merry, till the days of the Queen’s pregnancy were @@ -15946,7 +15933,7 @@ accomplished and she was taken, one night, with labour pains hard before dawn. Then the King bade summon all the Olema and astronomers, mathematicians and men of learning, astrologers, scientists and scribes in the city, and they assembled and sat -awaiting the throwing of a bead into the cup<a id='r376' /><a href='#f376' class='c012'><sup>[376]</sup></a> which was to be the +awaiting the throwing of a bead into the cup<a id='r376' href='#f376' class='c012'><sup>[376]</sup></a> which was to be the signal to the Astrophils, as well as to the nurses and attendants, that the child was born. Presently, as they sat in expectation, the Queen gave birth to a boy like a slice of the moon when @@ -15982,12 +15969,12 @@ passed over them, they brought them before the King and said to him, “What wilt thou name the twain?” Quoth he, “Do ye name them;” but quoth they, “None nameth the son save his sire.” So he said, “Name my son Sayf al-Muluk, after my -grandfather, and the Minister’s son Sái’d.”<a id='r377' /><a href='#f377' class='c012'><sup>[377]</sup></a> Then he bestowed +grandfather, and the Minister’s son Sái’d.”<a id='r377' href='#f377' class='c012'><sup>[377]</sup></a> Then he bestowed robes of honour on the nurses wet and dry and said to them, “Be ye ruthful over them and rear them after the goodliest fashion.” So they brought up the two boys diligently till they reached the age of five, when the King committed them to a doctor of -Sciences<a id='r378' /><a href='#f378' class='c012'><sup>[378]</sup></a> who taught them to read the Koran and write. When +Sciences<a id='r378' href='#f378' class='c012'><sup>[378]</sup></a> who taught them to read the Koran and write. When they were ten years old, King Asim gave them in charge to masters, <span class='pageno' id='Page_326'>326</span>who instructed them in cavalarice and shooting with shafts and lunging with lance and play of Polo and the like till, by the time @@ -16017,7 +16004,7 @@ neglect not their case, but guide them to goodness and in the way that is straight.” Quoth the King, “Write letters and send them by couriers to all the countries and cities and sconces and fortresses that be under our hands, bidding their chiefs be present on -such a day at the Horse-course of the Elephant.”<a id='r379' /><a href='#f379' class='c012'><sup>[379]</sup></a> So the Wazir +such a day at the Horse-course of the Elephant.”<a id='r379' href='#f379' class='c012'><sup>[379]</sup></a> So the Wazir <span class='pageno' id='Page_327'>327</span>went out without stay or delay and despatched letters of this purport to all the deputies and governors of fortresses and others under King Asim; and he commanded also that all in the city @@ -16030,13 +16017,13 @@ his bidding. Then he and all his Nabobs and Chamberlains and Emirs sallied forth, and he commanded proclamation be made to the people, saying, “In the name of Allah, come forth to the Maydán!” So all the Emirs and Wazirs and Governors -of provinces and Feudatories<a id='r380' /><a href='#f380' class='c012'><sup>[380]</sup></a> came forth to the place of +of provinces and Feudatories<a id='r380' href='#f380' class='c012'><sup>[380]</sup></a> came forth to the place of assembly and, entering the royal pavilion, addressed themselves to the service of the King as was their wont, and abode in their several stations some sitting and others standing, till all the people were gathered together, when the King bade spread the tables and they ate and drank and prayed -for him. Then he commanded the Chamberlains<a id='r381' /><a href='#f381' class='c012'><sup>[381]</sup></a> to proclaim +for him. Then he commanded the Chamberlains<a id='r381' href='#f381' class='c012'><sup>[381]</sup></a> to proclaim to the people that they should not depart: so they made proclamation to them, saying, “Let none of you fare hence till he have heard the King’s words!” So they withdrew the curtains @@ -16055,7 +16042,7 @@ Allah (extolled and exalted be He!) vouchsafed us the knowledge of the True Faith and brought us out of darkness unto light, and directed us to the religion of Al-Islam. Know that I am become <span class='pageno' id='Page_328'>328</span>a very old man, feeble and decrepit, and I desire to take up my -abode in a hermitage<a id='r382' /><a href='#f382' class='c012'><sup>[382]</sup></a> there to worship Allah Almighty and crave +abode in a hermitage<a id='r382' href='#f382' class='c012'><sup>[382]</sup></a> there to worship Allah Almighty and crave His pardon for past offences and make this my son Sayf al-Muluk ruler. Ye know full well that he is a comely youth, eloquent, liberal, learned, versed in affairs, intelligent, equitable; wherefore @@ -16070,9 +16057,9 @@ thy blackamoor slaves we would obey him and hearken to thy word and accept thy command: how much more then with thy son Sayf al-Muluk? Indeed, we accept of him and approve him on our eyes and heads!” So King Asim bin Safwan arose and -came down from his seat and seating his son on the great throne,<a id='r383' /><a href='#f383' class='c012'><sup>[383]</sup></a> +came down from his seat and seating his son on the great throne,<a id='r383' href='#f383' class='c012'><sup>[383]</sup></a> took the crown from his own head and set it on the head of Sayf -al-Muluk and girt his middle with the royal girdle.<a id='r384' /><a href='#f384' class='c012'><sup>[384]</sup></a> Then he sat +al-Muluk and girt his middle with the royal girdle.<a id='r384' href='#f384' class='c012'><sup>[384]</sup></a> Then he sat down beside his son on the throne of his kingship, whilst the Emirs and Wazirs and Lords of the land and all the rest of the folk rose and kissed ground before him, saying, “Indeed, he is @@ -16122,7 +16109,7 @@ made distribution of money to the men-at-arms and gave guerdons, and the provincials abode in the city a full week ere they departed each to his own country and place. Then King Asim carried his son and his Wazir Sa’id back to the palace which was in the city -and bade the treasurer bring the seal-ring and signet,<a id='r385' /><a href='#f385' class='c012'><sup>[385]</sup></a> sword and +and bade the treasurer bring the seal-ring and signet,<a id='r385' href='#f385' class='c012'><sup>[385]</sup></a> sword and wrapper; which being done, he said to the two young men, “O my sons, come hither and let each of you choose two of these things and take them.” The first to make choice was Sayf al-Muluk, @@ -16139,7 +16126,7 @@ price is in this wrapper my father gave me!” So he took it together with a candle and descended from the couch leaving Sa’id sleeping and carried the bundle into a closet, where he opened it and found within a tunic of the fabric of the Jánn. He spread it out and saw -on the lining<a id='r386' /><a href='#f386' class='c012'><sup>[386]</sup></a> of the back, the portraiture wroughten in gold of a girl +on the lining<a id='r386' href='#f386' class='c012'><sup>[386]</sup></a> of the back, the portraiture wroughten in gold of a girl and marvellous was her loveliness; and no sooner had he set eyes on the figure than his reason fled his head and he became Jinn-mad for love thereof, so that he fell down in a swoon and presently @@ -16149,7 +16136,7 @@ and breast and kissing her. And he recited these verses:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Love, at the first, is a spurt of spray<a id='r387' /><a href='#f387' class='c012'><sup>[387]</sup></a> ✿ Which Doom disposes and Fates display;</div> + <div class='line'>Love, at the first, is a spurt of spray<a id='r387' href='#f387' class='c012'><sup>[387]</sup></a> ✿ Which Doom disposes and Fates display;</div> <div class='line'>Till, when deep diveth youth in passion-sea ✿ Unbearable sorrows his soul waylay.</div> </div> </div> @@ -16190,7 +16177,7 @@ tell me not what aileth thee, I will slay myself and see thee no longer in this case.” Whereupon Sayf al-Muluk raised his head towards the Wazir and answered him, “O my brother, I am ashamed to tell thee what hath betided me;” but Sa’id said, “I -conjure thee by Allah, Lord of Lords, Liberator of Necks,<a id='r388' /><a href='#f388' class='c012'><sup>[388]</sup></a> Causer +conjure thee by Allah, Lord of Lords, Liberator of Necks,<a id='r388' href='#f388' class='c012'><sup>[388]</sup></a> Causer of causes, the One, the Ruthful, the Gift-full, the Bountiful, that thou tell me what aileth thee and be not abashed at me, for I am thy slave and thy Minister and counsellor in all thine affairs!” @@ -16200,7 +16187,7 @@ saw written, as a crown over its head, in letters of pearl, these words, “This is the counterfeit presentment of Badi’a al-Jamal, daughter of Shahyál bin Shárukh, a King of the Kings of the true-believing Jann who have taken up their abode in the city of -Babel and sojourn in the garden of Iram, Son of ’Ad the Greater”<a id='r389' /><a href='#f389' class='c012'><sup>[389]</sup></a>——And +Babel and sojourn in the garden of Iram, Son of ’Ad the Greater”<a id='r389' href='#f389' class='c012'><sup>[389]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -16283,7 +16270,7 @@ but now thou knowest my case, look how thou mayest do to cure me.” Rejoined his father, “What is to be done? Were this one of the daughters of men we might devise a device for coming at her; but she is a King’s daughter of the Jinns and who can woo -and win her, save it be Solomon David-son, and hardly he?<a id='r390' /><a href='#f390' class='c012'><sup>[390]</sup></a> +and win her, save it be Solomon David-son, and hardly he?<a id='r390' href='#f390' class='c012'><sup>[390]</sup></a> However, O my son, do thou arise forthright and hearten thy heart and take horse and ride out a-hunting or to weapon-play in the Maydan. Divert thyself with eating and drinking and put away @@ -16298,11 +16285,11 @@ question them thereof. Peradventure, Allah will lead us to the city of Babel and the garden of Iram.” So King Asim bade summon all the merchants in the city and strangers and sea-captains and, as each came, enquired of him anent the city of -Babel and its peninsula<a id='r391' /><a href='#f391' class='c012'><sup>[391]</sup></a> and the garden of Iram; but none of +Babel and its peninsula<a id='r391' href='#f391' class='c012'><sup>[391]</sup></a> and the garden of Iram; but none of them knew these places nor could any give him tidings thereof. However, when the <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">séance</span> broke up, one of them said, “O King <span class='pageno' id='Page_334'>334</span>of the Age, an thou be minded to ken this thing, up and hie thee -to the land of China; for it hath a vast city<a id='r392' /><a href='#f392' class='c012'><sup>[392]</sup></a> and a safe wherein +to the land of China; for it hath a vast city<a id='r392' href='#f392' class='c012'><sup>[392]</sup></a> and a safe wherein are store of rarities and things of price and folk of all kinds; and thou shalt not come to the knowledge of this city and garden but from its folk; it may be one of them will direct thee to that thou @@ -16344,14 +16331,14 @@ necessaries and warlike gear, as much as he required. When the ships were laden with water and victual, weapons and troops, Sayf al-Muluk’s father and mother farewelled him and King Asim said, “Depart, O my son, and travel in weal and health and safety. I -commend thee to Him with Whom deposits are not lost.”<a id='r393' /><a href='#f393' class='c012'><sup>[393]</sup></a> So the +commend thee to Him with Whom deposits are not lost.”<a id='r393' href='#f393' class='c012'><sup>[393]</sup></a> So the Prince bade adieu to his parents and embarked, with his brother <span class='pageno' id='Page_335'>335</span>Sa’id, and they weighed anchor and sailed till they came to the City of China. When the Chinamen heard of the coming of forty ships, full of armed men and stores, weapons and hoards, they made sure that these were enemies come to battle with them and siege them; so they bolted the gates of the town and made ready -the mangonels.<a id='r394' /><a href='#f394' class='c012'><sup>[394]</sup></a> But Sayf al-Muluk, hearing of this, sent two of +the mangonels.<a id='r394' href='#f394' class='c012'><sup>[394]</sup></a> But Sayf al-Muluk, hearing of this, sent two of his Chief Mamelukes to the King of China, bidding them say to him, “This is Sayf al-Muluk, son of King Asim of Egypt, who is come to thy city as a guest, to divert himself by viewing thy @@ -16361,7 +16348,7 @@ he will return and will not disquiet thee nor the people of thy capital.” They presented themselves at the city gates and said, “We are messengers from King Sayf al-Muluk.” Whereupon the townsfolk opened the gates and carried them to their King, whose -name was Faghfúr<a id='r395' /><a href='#f395' class='c012'><sup>[395]</sup></a> Sháh and between whom and King Asim +name was Faghfúr<a id='r395' href='#f395' class='c012'><sup>[395]</sup></a> Sháh and between whom and King Asim there had erst been acquaintance. So, when he heard that the new-comer Prince was the son of King Asim, he bestowed robes of honour on the messengers and, bidding open the gates, made @@ -16378,7 +16365,7 @@ to the city, which they entered with cymbals clashing and drums <span class='pageno' id='Page_336'>336</span>beating in token of rejoicing. There they abode in the enjoyment of fair entertainment for forty days, at the end of which quoth the King of China to Sayf al-Muluk, “O son of my brother, how is -thy case<a id='r396' /><a href='#f396' class='c012'><sup>[396]</sup></a>? Doth my country please thee?”; and quoth Sayf al-Muluk, +thy case<a id='r396' href='#f396' class='c012'><sup>[396]</sup></a>? Doth my country please thee?”; and quoth Sayf al-Muluk, “May Allah Almighty long honour it with thee, O King!” Said Faghfur, “Naught hath brought thee hither save some need which hath occurred to thee; and whatso thou desirest of my @@ -16399,17 +16386,17 @@ Garden of Iram, but none of them returned him a reply, whereupon he was bewildered and wist not what to do; but one of the sea-captains said to him, “O auspicious King, an thou wouldst know of this city and that garden up and hie thee to the Islands -of the Indian realm.”<a id='r397' /><a href='#f397' class='c012'><sup>[397]</sup></a> Thereupon Sayf al-Muluk bade bring the +of the Indian realm.”<a id='r397' href='#f397' class='c012'><sup>[397]</sup></a> Thereupon Sayf al-Muluk bade bring the ships; which being done, they freighted them with vivers and water and all that they needed, and the Prince and his Wazir re-embarked, with all their men, after they had farewelled King Faghfur Shah. They sailed the seas four months with a fair wind, in safety and satisfaction till it chanced that one day of the days there came out upon them a wind and the billows buffeted them -from all quarters. The rain and hail<a id='r398' /><a href='#f398' class='c012'><sup>[398]</sup></a> descended on them and +from all quarters. The rain and hail<a id='r398' href='#f398' class='c012'><sup>[398]</sup></a> descended on them and during twenty days the sea was troubled for the violence of the wind; wherefor the ships drave one against other and brake -up, as did the carracks<a id='r399' /><a href='#f399' class='c012'><sup>[399]</sup></a> and all on board were drowned, except +up, as did the carracks<a id='r399' href='#f399' class='c012'><sup>[399]</sup></a> and all on board were drowned, except <span class='pageno' id='Page_337'>337</span>Sayf al-Muluk and some of his servants, who saved themselves in a little cock-boat. Then the wind fell by the decree of Allah Almighty and the sun shone out; whereupon Sayf al-Muluk @@ -16458,7 +16445,7 @@ recited these couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>By the Compassionate, I’m dazed about my case, for lo! Troubles and griefs beset me sore; I know not whence they grow.</div> - <div class='line'>I will be patient, so the folk, that I against a thing Bitt’rer than very aloes’ self,<a id='r400' /><a href='#f400' class='c012'><sup>[400]</sup></a> endurèd have, may know.</div> + <div class='line'>I will be patient, so the folk, that I against a thing Bitt’rer than very aloes’ self,<a id='r400' href='#f400' class='c012'><sup>[400]</sup></a> endurèd have, may know.</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_338'>338</span>Less bitter than my patience is the taste of aloes-juice; I’ve borne with patience what’s more hot than coals with fire aglow.</div> <div class='line'>In this my trouble what resource have I, save to commit My case to Him who orders all that is, for weal or woe?</div> </div> @@ -16489,7 +16476,7 @@ who had made his way to that island; so he joyed with exceeding joy at sight of him and went close up to him, knowing not what was decreed to him in the Secret Purpose nor what was writ upon his brow. But, when he drew near, the stranger in human shape -leapt upon him, for he was a Marid,<a id='r401' /><a href='#f401' class='c012'><sup>[401]</sup></a> and riding upon his shoulder-blades +leapt upon him, for he was a Marid,<a id='r401' href='#f401' class='c012'><sup>[401]</sup></a> and riding upon his shoulder-blades and twisting one of his legs about his neck, let the other hang down upon his back, saying, “Walk on, fellow; for there is no escape for thee from me and thou art become mine ass.” @@ -16512,7 +16499,7 @@ they went up to it and one of the men gave it a kick, when lo! it was a thing of human semblance, long of eyes and cloven of head and hidden under one of his ears, for he was wont, whenas he lay down to sleep, to spread one ear under his head and cover his face -with the other ear.<a id='r402' /><a href='#f402' class='c012'><sup>[402]</sup></a> He snatched up the Mameluke who had +with the other ear.<a id='r402' href='#f402' class='c012'><sup>[402]</sup></a> He snatched up the Mameluke who had kicked him and carried him off into the middle of the island, and behold, it was all full of Ghuls who eat the sons of Adam. The man cried out to his fellows, “Save yourselves, for this is the @@ -16524,7 +16511,7 @@ to another island, where they found a high mountain. So they climbed to the top and there saw a thick copse. Now they were sore anhungered; so they took to eating of the fruits; but, before they were aware, there came upon them from among the trees -black men of terrible aspect, each fifty cubits high with eye-teeth<a id='r403' /><a href='#f403' class='c012'><sup>[403]</sup></a> +black men of terrible aspect, each fifty cubits high with eye-teeth<a id='r403' href='#f403' class='c012'><sup>[403]</sup></a> protruding from their mouths like elephants’ tusks; and, laying hands on Sayf al-Muluk and his company, carried them to their King, whom they found seated on a piece of black felt laid on a @@ -16586,7 +16573,7 @@ the King of the blacks delighted in the sound of their voices. And so they continued for a long time. Now this King had a daughter married in another island who, hearing that her father had birds with sweet voices, sent a messenger to him seeking of -him some of them. So he sent her, by her Cossid,<a id='r404' /><a href='#f404' class='c012'><sup>[404]</sup></a> Sayf al-Muluk +him some of them. So he sent her, by her Cossid,<a id='r404' href='#f404' class='c012'><sup>[404]</sup></a> Sayf al-Muluk and three of his men in four cages; and, when she saw them, <span class='pageno' id='Page_341'>341</span>they pleased her and she bade hang them up in a place over her head. The Prince fell to marvelling at that which had befallen @@ -16623,7 +16610,7 @@ and her heart was at ease concerning them, being assured that they could not escape from the island. So they used to absent themselves from her two and three days at a time and go round about the desert parts in all directions, gathering firewood, which -they brought to the Princess’s kitchen; and thus they abode five<a id='r405' /><a href='#f405' class='c012'><sup>[405]</sup></a> +they brought to the Princess’s kitchen; and thus they abode five<a id='r405' href='#f405' class='c012'><sup>[405]</sup></a> years. Now one day it so chanced that the Prince and his men were sitting on the sea-shore, devising of what had befallen, and Sayf al-Muluk, seeing himself and his men in such case, bethought @@ -16649,7 +16636,7 @@ Allah Almighty shall deliver us and help us to escape from this island.” They asked, “And how wilt thou do?”; and he answered, “Let us cut some of these long pieces of wood, and twist ropes of their bark and bind them one with another, and make of them a -raft<a id='r406' /><a href='#f406' class='c012'><sup>[406]</sup></a> which we will launch and load with these fruits: then we will +raft<a id='r406' href='#f406' class='c012'><sup>[406]</sup></a> which we will launch and load with these fruits: then we will fashion us paddles and embark on the raft after breaking our bonds with the axe. It may be that Almighty Allah will make it the means of our deliverance from this accursed woman and vouchsafe @@ -16684,10 +16671,10 @@ sea in their raft and paddled on four months, knowing not whither the craft carried them, till their provaunt failed them and they were suffering the severest extreme of hunger and thirst, when behold, the sea waxed troubled and foamed and rose in high waves, and -there came forth upon them a frightful crocodile,<a id='r407' /><a href='#f407' class='c012'><sup>[407]</sup></a> which put out +there came forth upon them a frightful crocodile,<a id='r407' href='#f407' class='c012'><sup>[407]</sup></a> which put out its claw and catching up one of the Mamelukes swallowed him. At the sight of this horror Sayf al-Muluk wept bitterly and he and -the two men<a id='r408' /><a href='#f408' class='c012'><sup>[408]</sup></a> that remained to him pushed off from the place +the two men<a id='r408' href='#f408' class='c012'><sup>[408]</sup></a> that remained to him pushed off from the place where they had seen the crocodile, sore affrighted. After this they continued drifting on till one day they espied a mountain terrible tall and spiring high in air, whereat they rejoiced, when presently @@ -16702,7 +16689,7 @@ he reached the mountain-top, where he looked about and found a copse, and walking among the trees fell to eating of the fruits. Presently, he saw among the branches more than twenty great apes, each bigger than a he-mule, whereat he was seized with exceeding -fear. The apes came down and surrounded him;<a id='r409' /><a href='#f409' class='c012'><sup>[409]</sup></a> then +fear. The apes came down and surrounded him;<a id='r409' href='#f409' class='c012'><sup>[409]</sup></a> then <span class='pageno' id='Page_344'>344</span>they forewent him, signing to him to follow them, and walked on, and he too, till he came to a castle, tall of base and strong of build whose ordinance was one brick of gold and one of silver. @@ -16723,7 +16710,7 @@ King Asim bin Safwan”; and told him all that had passed with him, from first to last. Whereupon the youth arose and stood in his service, saying, “O King of the Age, I was erst in Egypt and heard that thou hadst gone to the land of China; but where is -this land and where lies China-land?<a id='r410' /><a href='#f410' class='c012'><sup>[410]</sup></a> Verily, this is a wondrous +this land and where lies China-land?<a id='r410' href='#f410' class='c012'><sup>[410]</sup></a> Verily, this is a wondrous thing and marvellous matter!” Answered the Prince, “Sooth thou speakest but, when I left China-land, I set out, intending for the land of Hind and a stormy wind arose and the sea boiled and @@ -16742,8 +16729,8 @@ in pursuit thereof and make quest of every one so peradventure place wherein is the appointed term of my days, and I shall die my death.” Then the youth turned with a sign to one of the apes, and he went out and was absent awhile, after which he -returned with other apes girt with silken zones.<a id='r411' /><a href='#f411' class='c012'><sup>[411]</sup></a> They brought -the trays and set on near<a id='r412' /><a href='#f412' class='c012'><sup>[412]</sup></a> an hundred chargers of gold and saucers +returned with other apes girt with silken zones.<a id='r411' href='#f411' class='c012'><sup>[411]</sup></a> They brought +the trays and set on near<a id='r412' href='#f412' class='c012'><sup>[412]</sup></a> an hundred chargers of gold and saucers of silver, containing all manner of meats. Then they stood, after the manner of servants between the hands of Kings, till the youth signalled to the Chamberlains, who sat down, and he whose wont @@ -16783,7 +16770,7 @@ waste and all the wold filled with apes, whose number none knew save Allah Almighty. Quoth he, “Here be great plenty of apes, for they cover the whole country: but why are they assembled <span class='pageno' id='Page_346'>346</span>at this hour?” Quoth the youth, “This is their custom. Every -Sabbath,<a id='r413' /><a href='#f413' class='c012'><sup>[413]</sup></a> all the apes in the island come hither, some from two +Sabbath,<a id='r413' href='#f413' class='c012'><sup>[413]</sup></a> all the apes in the island come hither, some from two and three days’ distance, and stand here till I awake from sleep and put forth my head from this lattice, when they kiss ground before me and go about their business.” So saying, he put his @@ -16792,7 +16779,7 @@ the earth before him and went their way. Sayf al-Muluk abode with the young man a whole month when he farewelled him and departed, escorted by a party of nigh a hundred apes, which the young man bade escort him. They journeyed with him seven -days, till they came to the limits of their islands,<a id='r414' /><a href='#f414' class='c012'><sup>[414]</sup></a> when they took +days, till they came to the limits of their islands,<a id='r414' href='#f414' class='c012'><sup>[414]</sup></a> when they took leave of him and returned to their places, while Sayf al-Muluk fared on alone over mount and hill, desert and plain, four months’ journey, one day anhungered and the next satiated, now eating @@ -16805,7 +16792,7 @@ So he made towards it and when he drew near, he saw that it was a palace tall of base. Now he who built it was Japhet son of Noah (on whom be peace!) and it is of this palace that God the Most High speaketh in His precious Book, whenas He saith, “And an -abandoned well and a high-builded palace.”<a id='r415' /><a href='#f415' class='c012'><sup>[415]</sup></a> Sayf al-Muluk sat +abandoned well and a high-builded palace.”<a id='r415' href='#f415' class='c012'><sup>[415]</sup></a> Sayf al-Muluk sat <span class='pageno' id='Page_347'>347</span>down at the gate and said in his mind, “Would I knew what is within yonder palace and what King dwelleth there and who shall acquaint me whether its folk are men or Jinn? Who will tell me @@ -16815,7 +16802,7 @@ Almighty entered the palace and walked on, till he had counted seven vestibules; yet saw no one. Presently looking to his right he beheld three doors, while before him was a fourth, over which hung a curtain. So he went up to this and raising the curtain, -found himself in a great hall<a id='r416' /><a href='#f416' class='c012'><sup>[416]</sup></a> spread with silken carpets. At the +found himself in a great hall<a id='r416' href='#f416' class='c012'><sup>[416]</sup></a> spread with silken carpets. At the upper end rose a throne of gold whereon sat a damsel, whose face was like the moon, arrayed in royal raiment and beautified as she were a bride on the night of her displaying; and at the foot of @@ -16823,7 +16810,7 @@ the throne was a table of forty trays spread with golden and silvern dishes full of dainty viands. The Prince went up and saluted her, and she returned his salam, saying, “Art thou of mankind or of the Jinn?” Replied he, “I am a man of the best -of mankind;<a id='r417' /><a href='#f417' class='c012'><sup>[417]</sup></a> for I am a King, son of a King.” She rejoined, +of mankind;<a id='r417' href='#f417' class='c012'><sup>[417]</sup></a> for I am a King, son of a King.” She rejoined, “What seekest thou? Up with thee and eat of yonder food, and after tell me thy past from first to last and how thou camest hither.” So he sat down at the table and removing the cover @@ -16833,7 +16820,7 @@ by the damsel who asked him, “Who art thou and what is thy name and whence comest thou and who brought thee hither?” He answered, “Indeed my story is a long but do thou first tell me who and what and whence thou art and why thou dwellest -in this place alone.” She rejoined, “My name is Daulat Khátún<a id='r418' /><a href='#f418' class='c012'><sup>[418]</sup></a> +in this place alone.” She rejoined, “My name is Daulat Khátún<a id='r418' href='#f418' class='c012'><sup>[418]</sup></a> and I am the daughter of the King of Hind. My father dwelleth in the Capital-city of Sarandíb and hath a great and goodly garden, there is no goodlier in all the land of Hind or its dependencies; @@ -16849,7 +16836,7 @@ me down in this palace and straightway without stay or delay became a handsome young man daintily apparelled, who said to me:—Now dost thou know me? Replied I:—No, O my lord; and he said:—I am the Blue King, Sovran of the Jann; my father -dwelleth in the Castle Al-Kulzum<a id='r419' /><a href='#f419' class='c012'><sup>[419]</sup></a> hight, and hath under his +dwelleth in the Castle Al-Kulzum<a id='r419' href='#f419' class='c012'><sup>[419]</sup></a> hight, and hath under his hand six hundred thousand Jinn, flyers and divers. It chanced that while passing on my way I saw thee and fell in love with thee for thy lovely form: so I swooped down on thee and snatched thee @@ -16878,7 +16865,7 @@ damsel said to Sayf al-Muluk, “Then the King of the Jann, after he had acquainted me with his case, embraced me and kissed me, saying:—Abide here and fear nothing; whereupon he went away from me for an hour and presently returned with these -<span class='pageno' id='Page_349'>349</span>tables and carpets and furniture. He comes to me every Third<a id='r420' /><a href='#f420' class='c012'><sup>[420]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_349'>349</span>tables and carpets and furniture. He comes to me every Third<a id='r420' href='#f420' class='c012'><sup>[420]</sup></a> and abideth with me three days and on Friday, at the time of mid-afternoon prayer, he departeth and is absent till the following Third. When he is here, he eateth and drinketh and kisseth and @@ -16898,7 +16885,7 @@ eyes ran over with railing tears and she cried, “O Badi’a al-Jamal, I had not thought this of thee! Alack for our luck! O Badi’a al-Jamal, dost thou not remember me nor say:—My sister Daulat Khatun whither is she gone?” And her weeping redoubled, -lamenting for that Badi’a al-Jamal had forgotten her.<a id='r421' /><a href='#f421' class='c012'><sup>[421]</sup></a> +lamenting for that Badi’a al-Jamal had forgotten her.<a id='r421' href='#f421' class='c012'><sup>[421]</sup></a> Then said Sayf al-Muluk, “O Daulat Khatun, thou art a mortal and she is a Jinniyah: how then can she be thy sister?” Replied the Princess, “She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it @@ -16912,7 +16899,7 @@ of my mother, who sent her what she sought and invited her to visit her. So she came to her with Badi’a al-Jamal and my mother suckled the child, who with her mother tarried with us in the garden two months. And before wending her ways the -mother of Badi’a al-Jamal gave my mother somewhat,<a id='r422' /><a href='#f422' class='c012'><sup>[422]</sup></a> saying:—When +mother of Badi’a al-Jamal gave my mother somewhat,<a id='r422' href='#f422' class='c012'><sup>[422]</sup></a> saying:—When thou hast need of me, I will come to thee a middlemost the <span class='pageno' id='Page_350'>350</span>garden, and departed to her own land; but she and her daughter used to visit us every year and abide with us awhile before returning @@ -16935,7 +16922,7 @@ his soul?”; and she answered, “Many a time have I questioned him thereof but he would not tell me, till one day I pressed him and he waxed wroth with me and said to me:—How often wilt thou ask me of my soul? What hast thou to do with my soul? -I rejoined:——O Hátim,<a id='r423' /><a href='#f423' class='c012'><sup>[423]</sup></a> there remaineth none to me but thou, +I rejoined:——O Hátim,<a id='r423' href='#f423' class='c012'><sup>[423]</sup></a> there remaineth none to me but thou, except Allah; and my life dependeth on thy life and whilst thou livest, all is well for me; so, except I care for thy soul and set it in the apple of this mine eye, how shall I live in thine absence? @@ -16946,15 +16933,15 @@ that I should lose my soul at the hands of the son of a king of mankind. So I took it and set it in the crop of a sparrow, and shut up the bird in a box. The box I set in a casket, and enclosing this in seven other caskets and seven chests, laid the -whole in a alabastrine coffer,<a id='r424' /><a href='#f424' class='c012'><sup>[424]</sup></a> which I buried within the marge of +whole in a alabastrine coffer,<a id='r424' href='#f424' class='c012'><sup>[424]</sup></a> which I buried within the marge of yon earth-circling sea; for that these parts are far from the world of men and none of them can win hither. So now see I have told thee what thou wouldst know, and do thou tell none thereof, for it is a secret between me and thee.”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_350fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_350fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_351'>351</span></div> @@ -17013,10 +17000,10 @@ Daulat Khatun, “We are delivered from the hand of yonder accursed; what shall we do now?”; and Sayf al-Muluk replied, “It behoveth us to ask aid of Allah Almighty who hath afflicted us; belike He will direct us and help us to escape from this our -strait.” So saying, he arose and pulling up<a id='r425' /><a href='#f425' class='c012'><sup>[425]</sup></a> half a score of the +strait.” So saying, he arose and pulling up<a id='r425' href='#f425' class='c012'><sup>[425]</sup></a> half a score of the doors of the palace, which were of sandal-wood and lign-aloes with nails of gold and silver, bound them together with ropes of silk -and floss<a id='r426' /><a href='#f426' class='c012'><sup>[426]</sup></a>-silk and fine linen and wrought of them a raft, which he +and floss<a id='r426' href='#f426' class='c012'><sup>[426]</sup></a>-silk and fine linen and wrought of them a raft, which he and the Princess aided each other to hale down to the sea-shore. They launched it upon the water till it floated and, making it fast to the beach, returned to the palace, whence they removed all the @@ -17033,7 +17020,7 @@ and their souls were straitened; so they prayed Allah to vouchsafe them deliverance from that danger. But all this time when they lay down to sleep, Sayf al-Muluk set Daulat Khatun behind him and laid a naked brand at his back, so that, when he turned in -sleep the sword was between them.<a id='r427' /><a href='#f427' class='c012'><sup>[427]</sup></a> At last it chanced one night, +sleep the sword was between them.<a id='r427' href='#f427' class='c012'><sup>[427]</sup></a> At last it chanced one night, <span class='pageno' id='Page_353'>353</span>when Sayf al-Muluk was asleep and Daulat Khatun awake, that behold, the raft drifted landwards and entered a port wherein were ships. The Princess saw the ships and heard a man, he being the @@ -17044,14 +17031,14 @@ and waking the Prince said to him, “Ask the captain the name of the city and harbour.” Thereupon Sayf al-Muluk arose and said to the captain, “O my brother, how is this harbour hight and what be the names of yonder city and its King?” Replied the -Captain, “O false face!<a id='r428' /><a href='#f428' class='c012'><sup>[428]</sup></a> O frosty beard! an thou knew not the +Captain, “O false face!<a id='r428' href='#f428' class='c012'><sup>[428]</sup></a> O frosty beard! an thou knew not the name of this port and city, how camest thou hither?” Quoth Sayf al-Muluk, “I am a stranger and had taken passage in a merchant ship which was wrecked and sank with all on board; but I saved myself on a plank and made my way hither; wherefore I asked thee the name of the place, and in asking is no offence.” Then said the captain, “This is the city of ’Amáriyah and this -harbour is called Kamín al-Bahrayn.”<a id='r429' /><a href='#f429' class='c012'><sup>[429]</sup></a> When the Princess heard +harbour is called Kamín al-Bahrayn.”<a id='r429' href='#f429' class='c012'><sup>[429]</sup></a> When the Princess heard this she rejoiced with exceeding joy and said, “Praised be Allah!” He asked, “What is to do?”; and she answered, “O Sayf al-Muluk, rejoice in succour near hand; for the King of this city is @@ -17071,12 +17058,12 @@ dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <p class='c003'>She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Daulat Khatun said to Sayf al-Muluk, “Rejoice in safety near hand; for the King of this city is my uncle, my father’s brother -<span class='pageno' id='Page_354'>354</span>and his name is ’Áli al-Mulúk,”<a id='r430' /><a href='#f430' class='c012'><sup>[430]</sup></a> adding, “Say thou then to the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_354'>354</span>and his name is ’Áli al-Mulúk,”<a id='r430' href='#f430' class='c012'><sup>[430]</sup></a> adding, “Say thou then to the captain:—Is the Sultan of the city, Ali al-Muluk, well?” He asked but the captain was wroth with him and cried, “Thou sayest:—I am a stranger and never in my life came hither. Who then told thee the name of the lord of the city?” When Daulat Khatun -heard this, she rejoiced and knew him for Mu’ín al-Dín,<a id='r431' /><a href='#f431' class='c012'><sup>[431]</sup></a> one of her +heard this, she rejoiced and knew him for Mu’ín al-Dín,<a id='r431' href='#f431' class='c012'><sup>[431]</sup></a> one of her father’s captains. Now he had fared forth in search of her, after she was lost and finding her not, he never ceased cruising till he came to her uncle’s city. Then she bade Sayf al-Muluk say to @@ -17084,7 +17071,7 @@ him, “O Captain Mu’in al-Din, come and speak with thy mistress!” So he called out to him as she bade, whereat he was wroth with exceeding wrath and answered, “O dog, O thief, O spy, who art thou and how knowest thou me?” Then he said to -one of the sailors, “Give me an ash<a id='r432' /><a href='#f432' class='c012'><sup>[432]</sup></a>-stave, that I may go to +one of the sailors, “Give me an ash<a id='r432' href='#f432' class='c012'><sup>[432]</sup></a>-stave, that I may go to yonder plaguing Arab and break his head.” So he took the stick and made for Sayf al-Muluk, but, when he came to the raft, he saw a something, wondrous, beauteous, which confounded his @@ -17099,7 +17086,7 @@ riding up to the palace, craved an audience of the King; whereupon the chamberlain went in to the presence and said, “Captain Mu’in al-Din is come to bring thee good news; so bid he be brought in.” The King bade admit him; accordingly he entered -and kissing ground<a id='r433' /><a href='#f433' class='c012'><sup>[433]</sup></a> said to him, “O King, thou owest me a gift +and kissing ground<a id='r433' href='#f433' class='c012'><sup>[433]</sup></a> said to him, “O King, thou owest me a gift for glad tidings; for thy brother’s daughter Daulat Khatun hath reached our city safe and sound, and is now on a raft in the harbour, in company with a young man like the moon on the @@ -17187,7 +17174,7 @@ drifted with us a whole month, when the wind cast us, by the ordinance of Allah Almighty, upon an island. So we landed and entering among the trees took to eating of the fruits, for we were anhungred. Whilst we were busy eating, there fell on us unawares, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_357'>357</span>folk like Ifrits<a id='r434' /><a href='#f434' class='c012'><sup>[434]</sup></a> and springing on our shoulders rode us<a id='r435' /><a href='#f435' class='c012'><sup>[435]</sup></a> and said +<span class='pageno' id='Page_357'>357</span>folk like Ifrits<a id='r434' href='#f434' class='c012'><sup>[434]</sup></a> and springing on our shoulders rode us<a id='r435' href='#f435' class='c012'><sup>[435]</sup></a> and said to us, “Go on with us; for ye are become our asses.” So I said to him who had mounted me, “What art thou and why mountest thou me?” At this he twisted one of his legs about my neck, till @@ -17196,7 +17183,7 @@ other leg, till I thought he had broken my backbone. So I fell to the ground on my face, having no strength left in me for famine and thirst. From my fall he knew that I was hungry and taking me by the hand, led me to a tree laden with fruit which was a -pear-tree<a id='r436' /><a href='#f436' class='c012'><sup>[436]</sup></a> and said to me, “Eat thy fill of this tree.” So I ate +pear-tree<a id='r436' href='#f436' class='c012'><sup>[436]</sup></a> and said to me, “Eat thy fill of this tree.” So I ate till I had enough and rose to walk against my will; but, ere I had fared afar the creature turned and leaping on my shoulders again drove me on, now walking, now running and now trotting, and he @@ -17210,7 +17197,7 @@ awhile and presently returning thither, found that the sun had wroughten on the grape-juice and it was become wine. So we used to drink it till we were drunken and our faces flushed and we fell to singing and dancing and running about in the merriment -of drunkenness<a id='r437' /><a href='#f437' class='c012'><sup>[437]</sup></a>; whereupon our masters said to us, “What is it +of drunkenness<a id='r437' href='#f437' class='c012'><sup>[437]</sup></a>; whereupon our masters said to us, “What is it that reddeneth your faces and maketh you dance and sing?” We replied, “Ask us not, what is your quest in questioning us hereof?” But they insisted, saying, “You must tell us so that @@ -17219,7 +17206,7 @@ we may know the truth of the case,” till we told them how we drink thereof”; but quoth we, “The grapes are spent.” So they brought us to a Wady, whose length we knew not from its breadth nor its beginning from its end wherein were vines each bunch of -grapes on them weighing twenty pounds<a id='r438' /><a href='#f438' class='c012'><sup>[438]</sup></a> by the scale and all +grapes on them weighing twenty pounds<a id='r438' href='#f438' class='c012'><sup>[438]</sup></a> by the scale and all within easy reach, and they said, “Gather of these.” So we gathered a mighty great store of grapes and finding there a big trench bigger than the great tank in the King’s garden we filled @@ -17273,7 +17260,7 @@ the Mamelukes fared on till we came to a thick copse full of fruit and there busied ourselves with eating, and behold, presently up came a man tall of stature long of beard and lengthy of ear, with eyes like cressets driving before him and feeding a great -flock of sheep:<a id='r439' /><a href='#f439' class='c012'><sup>[439]</sup></a> When he saw us he rejoiced and said to us, +flock of sheep:<a id='r439' href='#f439' class='c012'><sup>[439]</sup></a> When he saw us he rejoiced and said to us, “Well come, and fair welcome to you! Draw near me that I may slaughter you an ewe of these sheep and roast it and give you to eat.” Quoth we, “Where is thine abode?” And quoth @@ -17282,7 +17269,7 @@ to a cave and enter therein, for you will see many guests like yourselves; and do ye sit with them, whilst we make ready for you the guest-meal.” We believed him so fared on, as he bade us, till we came to the cavern, where we found many guests, Sons -of Adam like ourselves, but they were all blinded<a id='r440' /><a href='#f440' class='c012'><sup>[440]</sup></a>; and when +of Adam like ourselves, but they were all blinded<a id='r440' href='#f440' class='c012'><sup>[440]</sup></a>; and when we entered, one said, “I’m sick”; and another, “I’m weak.” So we cried to them, “What is this you say and what is the cause of your sickness and weakness?” They asked, “Who are @@ -17293,7 +17280,7 @@ Glorious, the Great? This is a Ghul who devoureth the Sons of Adam and he hath blinded us and meaneth to eat us.” Said <span class='pageno' id='Page_360'>360</span>we, “And how did he blind you?” and they replied, “Even as he will blind yourselves anon.” Quoth we, “And how so?” -And quoth they, “He will bring you bowls of soured milk<a id='r441' /><a href='#f441' class='c012'><sup>[441]</sup></a> and +And quoth they, “He will bring you bowls of soured milk<a id='r441' href='#f441' class='c012'><sup>[441]</sup></a> and will say to you:—Ye are weary with wayfare: take this milk and drink it. And when ye have drunken thereof, ye will become blind like us.” Said I to myself, “There is no escape for us but @@ -17327,7 +17314,7 @@ me; but I found no place of refuge from him nor whence I might escape into the open country, for the cave was stopped up with stones; wherefore I was bewildered and said to the blind men, “How shall I do with this accursed?” Replied one of them, “O Sa’id, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_361'>361</span>with a run and a spring mount up to yonder niche<a id='r442' /><a href='#f442' class='c012'><sup>[442]</sup></a> and thou wilt +<span class='pageno' id='Page_361'>361</span>with a run and a spring mount up to yonder niche<a id='r442' href='#f442' class='c012'><sup>[442]</sup></a> and thou wilt find there a sharpened scymitar of copper: bring it to me and I will tell thee what to do.” So I clombed to the niche and taking the blade, returned to the blind man, who said to me, “Smite him @@ -17370,13 +17357,13 @@ drinking the generous grape-juice till it so chanced one day, as we sat upon the beach, we caught sight of a ship looming large in the distance; so we made signs for the crew and holla’d to them.” They feared to draw near, knowing that the island was inhabited -by a Ghul<a id='r443' /><a href='#f443' class='c012'><sup>[443]</sup></a> who ate Adamites, and would have sheered off; but +by a Ghul<a id='r443' href='#f443' class='c012'><sup>[443]</sup></a> who ate Adamites, and would have sheered off; but <span class='pageno' id='Page_362'>362</span>we ran down to the marge of the sea and made signs to them, with our turband-ends and shouted to them, whereupon one of the sailors, who was sharp of sight, said to the rest, “Harkye, comrades, I see these men formed like ourselves, for they have not the fashion of Ghuls.” So they made for us, little by little, -till they drew near us in the dinghy<a id='r444' /><a href='#f444' class='c012'><sup>[444]</sup></a> and were certified that we +till they drew near us in the dinghy<a id='r444' href='#f444' class='c012'><sup>[444]</sup></a> and were certified that we were indeed human beings, when they saluted us and we returned their salam and gave them the glad tidings of the slaying of the accursed, wherefore they thanked us. Then we carried to the @@ -17386,7 +17373,7 @@ days and months, and embarking, sailed on with a fair breeze three days; at the end of which the wind veered round against us and the air became exceeding dark; nor had an hour passed before the wind drave the craft on to a rock, where it broke up -and its planks were torn asunder.<a id='r445' /><a href='#f445' class='c012'><sup>[445]</sup></a> However, the Great God +and its planks were torn asunder.<a id='r445' href='#f445' class='c012'><sup>[445]</sup></a> However, the Great God decreed that I should lay hold of one of the planks, which I bestrode, and it bore me along two days, for the wind had fallen fair again, and I paddled with my feet awhile, till Allah the @@ -17416,7 +17403,7 @@ endeavour for him, that he may attain his aim, if it please Allah Almighty.” And she turned to Sayf al-Muluk and said to him, “Be of good cheer and keep thine eyes cool and clear.” Then she rose and going in to her mother, said to her, “Come with me -forthright and let us purify ourselves and make fumigations<a id='r446' /><a href='#f446' class='c012'><sup>[446]</sup></a> that +forthright and let us purify ourselves and make fumigations<a id='r446' href='#f446' class='c012'><sup>[446]</sup></a> that Badi’a al-Jamal and her mother may come and see me and rejoice in me.” Answered the Queen, “With love and goodly gree;” and rising, betook herself to the garden and burnt off these @@ -17425,7 +17412,7 @@ Badi’a al-Jamal and her mother made their appearance. The Queen of Hind foregathered with the other Queen and acquainted her with her daughter’s safe return, whereat she rejoiced; and Badi’a al-Jamal and Daulat Khatun foregathered likewise and -rejoiced in each other. Then they pitched the pavilions<a id='r447' /><a href='#f447' class='c012'><sup>[447]</sup></a> and +rejoiced in each other. Then they pitched the pavilions<a id='r447' href='#f447' class='c012'><sup>[447]</sup></a> and dressed dainty viands and made ready the place of entertainment; whilst the two Princesses withdrew to a tent apart and ate together and drank and made merry; after which they sat down to converse, @@ -17438,7 +17425,7 @@ Castle of Japhet son of Noah, whither the son of the Blue King carried me off till Sayf al-Muluk slew the Jinni and brought me back to my sire;” and she told her to boot all that the Prince had undergone of hardships and horrors before he came to the -Castle.<a id='r448' /><a href='#f448' class='c012'><sup>[448]</sup></a> Badi’a al-Jamal marvelled at her tale and said, “By +Castle.<a id='r448' href='#f448' class='c012'><sup>[448]</sup></a> Badi’a al-Jamal marvelled at her tale and said, “By Allah, O my sister, this is the most wondrous of wonders! This <span class='pageno' id='Page_364'>364</span>Sayf al-Muluk is indeed a man! But why did he leave his father and mother and betake himself to travel and expose himself to @@ -17527,7 +17514,7 @@ and transport overcame him and he recited these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O passing Fair<a id='r449' /><a href='#f449' class='c012'><sup>[449]</sup></a> I have none else but thee; ✿ Pity this slave in thy love’s slavery!</div> + <div class='line'>O passing Fair<a id='r449' href='#f449' class='c012'><sup>[449]</sup></a> I have none else but thee; ✿ Pity this slave in thy love’s slavery!</div> <div class='line'>Thou art my search, my joy and my desire! ✿ None save thyself shall love this heart of me:</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_366'>366</span>Would Heaven I knew thou knewest of my wails ✿ Night-long and eyelids oped by memory.</div> <div class='line'>Bid sleep to sojourn on these eyen-lids ✿ Haply in vision I thy sight shall see.</div> @@ -17580,20 +17567,20 @@ reciting these two couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>By Allah, by th’ Almighty, by his right<a id='r450' /><a href='#f450' class='c012'><sup>[450]</sup></a> ✿ Who read the Koran-Chapter “Fátir”<a id='r451' /><a href='#f451' class='c012'><sup>[451]</sup></a> hight;</div> + <div class='line'>By Allah, by th’ Almighty, by his right<a id='r450' href='#f450' class='c012'><sup>[450]</sup></a> ✿ Who read the Koran-Chapter “Fátir”<a id='r451' href='#f451' class='c012'><sup>[451]</sup></a> hight;</div> <div class='line'>Ne’er roam my glances o’er the charms I see; ✿ Thy grace, rare beauty, is my talk by night.</div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c003'><span class='pageno' id='Page_367'>367</span>So he joined him and the twain walked about the garden together -solacing themselves and ate of its fruits. Such was their case;<a id='r452' /><a href='#f452' class='c012'><sup>[452]</sup></a> but +solacing themselves and ate of its fruits. Such was their case;<a id='r452' href='#f452' class='c012'><sup>[452]</sup></a> but as regards the two Princesses, they came to the pavilion and entering therein after the eunuchs had richly furnished it, according to command, sat down on the couch of gold, beside which was a window that gave upon the garden. The castratos then set before them all manner rich meats and they ate, Daulat Khatun feeding -her foster-sister by mouthfuls,<a id='r453' /><a href='#f453' class='c012'><sup>[453]</sup></a> till she was satisfied; when she +her foster-sister by mouthfuls,<a id='r453' href='#f453' class='c012'><sup>[453]</sup></a> till she was satisfied; when she called for divers kinds of sweetmeats, and when the neutrals brought them, they ate what they would of them and washed their hands. After this Daulat Khatun made ready wine and its service, @@ -17719,7 +17706,7 @@ overcame Sayf al-Muluk and he recited these couplets:—</p> <p class='c003'>After this mutual troth-plighting, Sayf al-Muluk arose and walked in the garden and Badi’a al-Jamal arose also and went forth also afoot followed by a slave-girl bearing somewhat of food and a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_370'>370</span>flask<a id='r454' /><a href='#f454' class='c012'><sup>[454]</sup></a> of wine. The Princess sat down and the damsel set the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_370'>370</span>flask<a id='r454' href='#f454' class='c012'><sup>[454]</sup></a> of wine. The Princess sat down and the damsel set the meat and wine before her: nor remained they long ere they were joined by Sayf al-Muluk, who was received with greeting and the two embraced and sat them down.——And Shahrazad perceived @@ -17747,9 +17734,9 @@ silk. Enter the pavilion heartening thyself and thou wilt see inside it an ancient dame sitting on a couch of red gold set with pearls and jewels. Salute her with respect and courtesy; then look at the foot of the couch, where thou wilt descry -a pair of sandals<a id='r455' /><a href='#f455' class='c012'><sup>[455]</sup></a> of cloth interwoven with bars of gold, +a pair of sandals<a id='r455' href='#f455' class='c012'><sup>[455]</sup></a> of cloth interwoven with bars of gold, embroidered with jewels. Take them and kiss them and lay them -on thy head<a id='r456' /><a href='#f456' class='c012'><sup>[456]</sup></a>; then put them under thy right armpit and stand +on thy head<a id='r456' href='#f456' class='c012'><sup>[456]</sup></a>; then put them under thy right armpit and stand before the old woman, in silence and with thy head bowed down. If she ask thee, Who art thou and how camest thou hither and who led thee to this land? And why hast thou taken up the @@ -17776,7 +17763,7 @@ led thee to this land, and why hast thou taken up the sandals and what is thy need that I give heed to it? do thou come forward in haste and salute her with the salam and say to her:—O my lady, I am she who brought him hither and he is the King’s son of -Egypt.<a id='r457' /><a href='#f457' class='c012'><sup>[457]</sup></a> ’Tis he who went to the High-builded Castle and slew +Egypt.<a id='r457' href='#f457' class='c012'><sup>[457]</sup></a> ’Tis he who went to the High-builded Castle and slew the son of the Blue King and delivered the Princess Daulat Khatun from the Castle of Japhet son of Noah and brought her back safe to her father: and I have brought him to thee, that he may give @@ -17789,7 +17776,7 @@ all praiseworthy qualities. An she ask thee, What is his need? do thou make answer, My lady saluteth thee and saith to thee, <span class='pageno' id='Page_372'>372</span>how long shall she sit at home, a maid and unmarried? Indeed, the time is longsome upon her for she is as a magazine wherein -wheat is heaped up.<a id='r458' /><a href='#f458' class='c012'><sup>[458]</sup></a> What then is thine intent in leaving her +wheat is heaped up.<a id='r458' href='#f458' class='c012'><sup>[458]</sup></a> What then is thine intent in leaving her without a mate and why dost thou not marry her in thy life-tide and that of her mother, like other girls? If she say, How shall we do to marry her? An she have any one in mind, let her tell @@ -17809,7 +17796,7 @@ man and forbid her not from him for he is young and passing comely and King of Egypt, nor wilt thou find a goodlier than he; and if ye will not give her to him, she will slay herself and marry none neither man nor Jinn.” “And,” continued Badi’a al-Jamal, -“Look thou, O Marjanah, <i><span lang="it" xml:lang="it">ma mie</span></i>,<a id='r459' /><a href='#f459' class='c012'><sup>[459]</sup></a> how thou mayst do with my +“Look thou, O Marjanah, <i><span lang="it" xml:lang="it">ma mie</span></i>,<a id='r459' href='#f459' class='c012'><sup>[459]</sup></a> how thou mayst do with my grandmother, to win her consent, and beguile her with soft words, so haply she may do my desire.” Quoth the damsel, “O my lady, upon my head and eyes will I serve thee and do what shall @@ -17828,14 +17815,14 @@ had enjoined him. Quoth the ancient dame, “Who art thou and what is thy country; whence comest thou and who brought thee hither and what may be thy wish? Wherefore dost thou take the sandals and kiss them and when didst thou ask of me a favour -which I did not grant?” With this in came Marjanah<a id='r460' /><a href='#f460' class='c012'><sup>[460]</sup></a> and +which I did not grant?” With this in came Marjanah<a id='r460' href='#f460' class='c012'><sup>[460]</sup></a> and saluting her reverently and worshipfully, repeated to her what Badi’a al-Jamal had told her; which when the old Queen heard, she cried out at her and was wroth with her and said, “How shall there be accord between man and Jinn?”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<hr class='c013' /> +<hr class='c013' > <div class='footnote' id='f349'> <p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r349'>349</a>. </span>Arab. “Munádamah,” = conversation over the cup (Lane), used somewhat in the @@ -18093,7 +18080,7 @@ text.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f394'> -<p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r394'>394</a>. </span>Arab. “Al-Manjaníkát” plur. of manjanik, from Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Μάγγανον</span>, Lat. Manganum +<p class='c003'><span class='label'><a href='#r394'>394</a>. </span>Arab. “Al-Manjaníkát” plur. of manjanik, from Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Μάγγανον</span>, Lat. Manganum (Engl. Mangonel from the dim. Mangonella). Ducange Glossarium, s.v. The Greek is applied originally to defensive weapons, then to the artillery of the day, Ballista, catapults, etc. The kindred Arab. form “Manjanín” is applied chiefly to the Noria or @@ -18534,8 +18521,8 @@ Mythology, London, Whittaker, 1833).</p> </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_373.jpg' alt='والسلام' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id003'> +<img src='images/i_373.jpg' alt='والسلام' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='chapter'> @@ -19062,7 +19049,7 @@ Mythology, London, Whittaker, 1833).</p> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> + <hr class='pb c000' > </div> <div class='tnotes'> diff --git a/54778-h/images/cover.jpg b/54778-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differindex b94e4f8..f1b4e58 100644 --- a/54778-h/images/cover.jpg +++ b/54778-h/images/cover.jpg |
