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diff --git a/55587-h/55587-h.htm b/55587-h/55587-h.htm index 2721f3c..45e11ee 100644 --- a/55587-h/55587-h.htm +++ b/55587-h/55587-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 IX, by Richard F. Burton</title> - <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> - <style type="text/css"> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Vol 9 (of 10) | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" > + <style> body { margin-left: 8%; margin-right: 10%; } h1 { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: xx-large; } h2 { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: x-large; } @@ -23,11 +22,8 @@ .under { text-decoration: underline; } .color_red { color: red; } .lg-container-b { text-align: center; } - @media handheld { .lg-container-b { clear: both; } } .lg-container-l { text-align: left; } - @media handheld { .lg-container-l { clear: both; } } .linegroup { display: inline-block; text-align: left; } - @media handheld { .linegroup { display: block; margin-left: 1.5em; } } .linegroup .group { margin: 1em auto; } .linegroup .line { text-indent: -3em; padding-left: 3em; } div.linegroup > :first-child { margin-top: 0; } @@ -41,24 +37,18 @@ ol.ol_1 {padding-left: 0; margin-left: 2.78%; margin-top: .5em; margin-bottom: .5em; list-style-type: decimal; } em.gesperrt { font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.2em; margin-right: -0.2em; } - @media handheld { em.gesperrt { font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0; - margin-right: 0;} } div.footnote {margin-left: 2.5em; } div.footnote > :first-child { margin-top: 1em; } div.footnote .label { display: inline-block; width: 0em; text-indent: -2.5em; text-align: right; } div.pbb { page-break-before: always; } hr.pb { border: none; border-bottom: thin solid; margin-bottom: 1em; } - @media handheld { hr.pb { display: none; } } .chapter { clear: both; page-break-before: always; } .figcenter { clear: both; max-width: 100%; margin: 2em auto; text-align: center; } .figcenter img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .id001 { width:40%; } .id002 { width:20%; } .id003 { width:10%; } - @media handheld { .id001 { margin-left:30%; width:40%; } } - @media handheld { .id002 { margin-left:40%; width:20%; } } - @media handheld { .id003 { margin-left:45%; width:10%; } } .ig001 { width:100%; } .table0 { margin: auto; margin-top: 2em; } .table1 { margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; } @@ -69,11 +59,6 @@ p.drop-capi1 { text-indent: 0; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } p.drop-capi1:first-letter { color: transparent; visibility: hidden; margin-left: -1em; } - @media handheld { - img.drop-capi { display: none; visibility: hidden; } - p.drop-capi1:first-letter { color: inherit; visibility: visible; - margin-left: 0em; } - } .c000 { margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } .c001 { margin-top: 1em; } .c002 { text-align: right; } @@ -103,7 +88,6 @@ padding-left: 1.5em; padding-right: .5em; } .c023 { margin-top: .5em; } .c024 { margin-top: 3em; } - @media handheld {.ol_1 li {padding-left: 1em; text-indent: 0em; } } em.gesperrt { font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.2em; margin-right: -0.2em; } img {max-width: 100%; height:auto; } .ph2 { text-indent: 0em; font-weight: bold; font-size: x-large; margin: .75em auto; @@ -112,10 +96,8 @@ border:1px solid silver; margin:2em 10% 0 10%; } .covernote { visibility: hidden; display: none; } div.tnotes p { text-align:left; } - @media handheld { .covernote { visibility: visible; display: block;} } .ph3 {font-size: large; font-weight: bold; } .footnote {font-size: 90%; } - @media handheld {.ol_1 li {padding-left: 1em; text-indent: 0em; } } </style> </head> <body> @@ -129,20 +111,20 @@ </div> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_grid.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_grid.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_forequote.jpg' alt='لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_forequote.jpg' alt='لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> <div class='nf-center'> <div>“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”</div> - <div>(<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Puris omnia pura</span>)</div> + <div>(<span lang="la">Puris omnia pura</span>)</div> </div> </div> @@ -150,7 +132,7 @@ <div class='nf-center-c1'> <div class='nf-center'> - <div>“<span lang="it" xml:lang="it">Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.</span>”</div> + <div>“<span lang="it">Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.</span>”</div> </div> </div> @@ -159,8 +141,8 @@ <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum</span></div> - <div class='line in4'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.</span>”</div> + <div class='line'>“<span lang="la">Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum</span></div> + <div class='line in4'><span lang="la">Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.</span>”</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -170,8 +152,8 @@ <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,</span></div> - <div class='line in4'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.</span>”</div> + <div class='line'>“<span lang="fr">Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,</span></div> + <div class='line in4'><span lang="fr">Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.</span>”</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -184,22 +166,22 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> <div class='c002'>—<span class='sc'>Crichton’s</span> “<cite>History of Arabia</cite>.”</div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_frontis.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_frontis.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='c000'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/i_titlepage_dc.jpg' width='100' alt='' /> + <img class='drop-capi' src='images/i_titlepage_dc.jpg' alt='' style="width: 100px"> </div><p class='drop-capi1'> <span class='large'><em>A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. NOW ENTITULED</em></span></p> <div> - <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Volume IX'><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 IX.</span></h1> + <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Volume IX'><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 IX.</span></h1> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -209,8 +191,8 @@ 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'> @@ -220,7 +202,7 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -245,7 +227,7 @@ of which this is</p> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='ph2'> @@ -288,186 +270,186 @@ it you will take something of the pleasure I have had in writing it.</p> <h2 class='c011'>CONTENTS OF THE NINTH VOLUME.</h2> </div> -<table class='table0' summary='CONTENTS OF THE NINTH VOLUME'> +<table class="table0"> <tr> <th class='c012'></th> <th class='c012'> </th> <th class='c013'><span class='small'>PAGE</span></th> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL (Continued)</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#Page_1'>1</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c014' colspan='3'>(<em>Lane omits, III. 572.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>THE MAN OF UPPER EGYPT AND HIS FRANKISH WIFE</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c19'>19</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c014' colspan='3'>(<em>Lane omits.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>THE RUINED MAN OF BAGHDAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c24'>24</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c014' colspan='3'>(<em>Lane, Anecdote of a Man of Baghdad and His Slave-Girl, III. 572</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS: FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c32'>32</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>a.</em> <span class='sc'>The Mouse and the Cat</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c35'>35</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>b.</em> <span class='sc'>The Fakir and His Jar of Butter</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c40'>40</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>c.</em> <span class='sc'>The Fishes and the Crab</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c43'>43</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>d.</em> <span class='sc'>The Crow and the Serpent</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c46'>46</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>e.</em> <span class='sc'>The Wild Ass and the Jackal</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c48'>48</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>f.</em> <span class='sc'>The Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c50'>50</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>g.</em> <span class='sc'>The Crows and the Hawk</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c53'>53</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>h.</em> <span class='sc'>The Serpent-Charmer and His Wife</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c56'>56</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>i.</em> <span class='sc'>The Spider and the Wind</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c59'>59</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>j.</em> <span class='sc'>The Two Kings</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c65'>65</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_viii'>viii</span> </td> <td class='c012'><em>k.</em> <span class='sc'>The Blind Man and the Cripple</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c67'>67</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>l.</em> <span class='sc'>The Foolish Fisherman</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c93'>93</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>m.</em> <span class='sc'>The Boy and the Thieves</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c95'>95</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>n.</em> <span class='sc'>The Man and His Wife</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c98'>98</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>o.</em> <span class='sc'>The Merchant and the Robbers</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c100'>100</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>p.</em> <span class='sc'>The Jackals and the Wolf</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c103'>103</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>q.</em> <span class='sc'>The Shepherd and the Rogue</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c106'>106</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012'> </td> <td class='c012'><em>r.</em> <span class='sc'>The Francolin and the Tortoises</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c113'>113</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'><span class='sc'>Conclusion of the History of King Wird Khan</span></td> <td class='c013'><a href='#Page_115'>115</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>ABU KIR THE DYER AND ABU SIR THE BARBER</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c134'>134</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c014' colspan='3'>(<em>Lane, III. 580, The Story of Aboo Seer and Aboo Keer.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>ABDULLAH THE FISHERMAN AND ABDULLAH THE MERMAN</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c165'>165</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c014' colspan='3'>(<em>Lane, III. 627. The Story of ’Abd Allah of the Land and ’Abd Allah of the Sea.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABU HASAN, THE MERCHANT OF OMAN</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c188'>188</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>IBRAHIM AND JAMILAH</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c207'>207</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>ABU AL-HASAN OF KHORASAN</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c229'>229</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c246'>246</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c012' colspan='2'>ABDULLAH BIN FAZIL AND HIS BROTHERS</td> <td class='c013'><a href='#c304'>304</a></td> @@ -488,7 +470,7 @@ it you will take something of the pleasure I have had in writing it.</p> <p class='c000'>She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Nur al-Din heard the voice singing these verses he said in himself, “Verily this be the Lady Miriam chanting without hesitation or -doubt or suspicion of one from without.<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c015'><sup>[1]</sup></a> Would Heaven I knew +doubt or suspicion of one from without.<a id='r1' href='#f1' class='c015'><sup>[1]</sup></a> Would Heaven I knew an my thought be true and if it be indeed she herself or other self!” And regrets redoubled upon him and he bemoaned himself and recited these couplets:—</p> @@ -507,7 +489,7 @@ and recited these couplets:—</p> <p class='c000'>When he had made an end of these verses, the Lady Miriam fetched inkcase and paper and wrote therein:—“After honour due -to the Basmalah,<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c015'><sup>[2]</sup></a> may the peace of Allah be upon thee and His +to the Basmalah,<a id='r2' href='#f2' class='c015'><sup>[2]</sup></a> may the peace of Allah be upon thee and His mercy and blessings be! I would have thee know that thy slave-girl Miriam saluteth thee, who longeth sore for thee; and this is her message to thee. As soon as this letter shall fall into thy @@ -516,7 +498,7 @@ that she would have of thee with all diligence and beware with all wariness of transgressing her commandment and of sleeping. When the first third of the night is past, (for that hour is of the most favourable of times) apply thee only to saddling the two -stallions and fare forth with them both to the Sultan’s Gate.<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c015'><sup>[3]</sup></a> If +stallions and fare forth with them both to the Sultan’s Gate.<a id='r3' href='#f3' class='c015'><sup>[3]</sup></a> If any ask thee whither thou wend, answer, I am going to exercise the steeds, and none will hinder thee; for the folk of this city trust to the locking of the gates.” Then she folded the letter in a @@ -553,7 +535,7 @@ made a show of fondness for him and sat down by his side and coaxed him, saying, “O my lord, what is this aversion thou displayest to me? Is it pride or coquetry on thy part? But the current byword saith:—An the salam-salutation be little in demand, -the sitters salute those who stand.<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c015'><sup>[4]</sup></a> So if, O my lord, thou come +the sitters salute those who stand.<a id='r4' href='#f4' class='c015'><sup>[4]</sup></a> So if, O my lord, thou come not to me neither accost me, I will go to thee and accost thee.” Said he, “To thee belong favour and kindness, O Queen of the earth in its length and breadth; and what am I but one of thy @@ -633,7 +615,7 @@ shoulders the couple of saddle-bags. She mistook the black for Nur al-Din and handed him one pair of bags, which he laid on one of the stallions: after which she gave him the other and he set it on the second steed, without word said to discover that it was not -her lover. Then they mounted and rode out of the gate<a id='r5' /><a href='#f5' class='c015'><sup>[5]</sup></a> in +her lover. Then they mounted and rode out of the gate<a id='r5' href='#f5' class='c015'><sup>[5]</sup></a> in silence till presently she asked, “O my lord Nur al-Din, what aileth thee to be silent?” Whereupon the black turned to her and cried angrily, “What sayst thou, O damsel?” When she @@ -652,7 +634,7 @@ abiding-place dire. Then she took the other horse by the bridle and retraced her steps in search of Nur al-Din, whom she found lying, asleep and snoring, in the place where she had appointed him to meet her, hending the halters in hand, yet knowing not his -fingers from his feet. So she dismounted and gave him a cuff,<a id='r6' /><a href='#f6' class='c015'><sup>[6]</sup></a> +fingers from his feet. So she dismounted and gave him a cuff,<a id='r6' href='#f6' class='c015'><sup>[6]</sup></a> whereupon he awoke in affright and said to her, “O my lady, praised be Allah for thy safe coming!” Said she “Rise and back this steed and hold thy tongue!” So he rose and mounted @@ -699,7 +681,7 @@ hearer’s desire:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And when birdies o’er warble its lakelet, it gars ✿ Longing<a id='r7' /><a href='#f7' class='c015'><sup>[7]</sup></a> lover to seek it where morning glows;</div> + <div class='line'>And when birdies o’er warble its lakelet, it gars ✿ Longing<a id='r7' href='#f7' class='c015'><sup>[7]</sup></a> lover to seek it where morning glows;</div> <div class='line'>For likest to Paradise lie its banks ✿ With shade and fruitage and fount that flows.</div> </div> </div> @@ -740,7 +722,7 @@ prostrate on the carpet, knowing not his head from his heels; so he searched the place right and left for his daughter, but found her not; whereat he was troubled sore with concern galore and his wits forlore. Then he bade bring hot water and virgin vinegar -and frankincense<a id='r8' /><a href='#f8' class='c015'><sup>[8]</sup></a> and mingling them together, blew the mixture +and frankincense<a id='r8' href='#f8' class='c015'><sup>[8]</sup></a> and mingling them together, blew the mixture into the Wazir’s nostrils and shook him, whereupon he cast the Bhang forth of his stomach, as it were a bit of cheese. He repeated the process, whereupon the Minister came to himself and @@ -771,7 +753,7 @@ trail of the fugitives till Miriam saw them, when she mounted her charger and baldrick’d her blade and took her arms. Then she said to Nur al-Din, “How is it with thee and how is thy heart for fight and strife and fray?” Said he, “Verily, my steadfastness in -battle-van is as the steadfastness of the stake in bran.<a id='r9' /><a href='#f9' class='c015'><sup>[9]</sup></a>” And he +battle-van is as the steadfastness of the stake in bran.<a id='r9' href='#f9' class='c015'><sup>[9]</sup></a>” And he improvised and said:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> @@ -799,8 +781,8 @@ her time and the unique pearl of her age and tide; for her father had taught her, whilst she was yet little, on steeds to ride and dive deep during the darkness of the night in the battle tide. When the King saw her charging down upon them, he knew her but too -well and turning to his eldest son, said, “O Bartaut,<a id='r10' /><a href='#f10' class='c015'><sup>[10]</sup></a> thou who art -surnamed Ras al-Killaut,<a id='r11' /><a href='#f11' class='c015'><sup>[11]</sup></a> this is assuredly thy sister Miriam who +well and turning to his eldest son, said, “O Bartaut,<a id='r10' href='#f10' class='c015'><sup>[10]</sup></a> thou who art +surnamed Ras al-Killaut,<a id='r11' href='#f11' class='c015'><sup>[11]</sup></a> this is assuredly thy sister Miriam who chargeth upon us, and she seeketh to wage war and fight fray with <span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>us. So go thou out to give her battle: and I enjoin thee by the Messiah and the Faith which is no liar, an thou get the better of @@ -848,7 +830,7 @@ breadth of the valley and manfully enduring the stress of combat singular, whilst all eyes upon them were fixed in admiring surprise: after which they wheeled about and foined and feinted for a long bout and as often as Bartaut opened on his sister Miriam -a gate of war,<a id='r12' /><a href='#f12' class='c015'><sup>[12]</sup></a> she closed it to and put it to naught, of the goodliness +a gate of war,<a id='r12' href='#f12' class='c015'><sup>[12]</sup></a> she closed it to and put it to naught, of the goodliness <span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>of her skill and her art in the use of arms and her cunning of cavalarice. Nor ceased they so doing till the dust overhung their heads vault-wise and they were hidden from men’s eyes; and she @@ -869,7 +851,7 @@ people of the True Faith be whitened and theirs who deny the Compassionate be blackened!” Now when the King saw his eldest son slain, he smote his face and rent his dress and cried out to his second son, saying, “O Bartús, thou who art surnamed -Khara al-Sús,<a id='r13' /><a href='#f13' class='c015'><sup>[13]</sup></a> go forth, O my son, in haste and do battle with thy +Khara al-Sús,<a id='r13' href='#f13' class='c015'><sup>[13]</sup></a> go forth, O my son, in haste and do battle with thy sister Miriam; avenge me the death of thy brother Bartaut and bring her to me a prisoner, abject and humiliated!” He answered, “Hearkening and obedience, O my sire,” and charging down drave @@ -884,14 +866,14 @@ from his nape, and sent him after his brother. Then she wheeled about in the mid-field and plain where cut and thrust are dealed, crying out and saying, “Where be the Knights? Where be the Braves? Where is the one-eyed Wazir, the lameter, of the crooked -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>faith<a id='r14' /><a href='#f14' class='c015'><sup>[14]</sup></a> the worthy believer?” Thereupon the King her father cried +<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>faith<a id='r14' href='#f14' class='c015'><sup>[14]</sup></a> the worthy believer?” Thereupon the King her father cried out with heart in bleeding guise and tear-ulcerated eyes, saying, “She hath slain my second son, by the virtue of the Messiah and the Faith which is no liar!” And he called aloud to his youngest -son, saying, “O Fasyán, surnamed Salh al-Subyán,<a id='r15' /><a href='#f15' class='c015'><sup>[15]</sup></a> go forth, O my +son, saying, “O Fasyán, surnamed Salh al-Subyán,<a id='r15' href='#f15' class='c015'><sup>[15]</sup></a> go forth, O my son, to do battle with thy sister and take of her the blood-wreak for thy brothers and fall on her, come what may; and whether -thou gain or thou lose the day<a id='r16' /><a href='#f16' class='c015'><sup>[16]</sup></a>; and if thou conquer her, slay her +thou gain or thou lose the day<a id='r16' href='#f16' class='c015'><sup>[16]</sup></a>; and if thou conquer her, slay her with foulest slaughter!” So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence @@ -964,7 +946,7 @@ the land, he folded the scroll and calling his Wazir, whom he had appointed in the stead of the monocular Minister, bade him seal it with the seal of the kingdom, and the Officers of state also set hands and seals thereto; after which the King bade the Wazir -<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>bear the letter to Baghdad,<a id='r17' /><a href='#f17' class='c015'><sup>[17]</sup></a> the Palace of Peace, and hand it into +<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>bear the letter to Baghdad,<a id='r17' href='#f17' class='c015'><sup>[17]</sup></a> the Palace of Peace, and hand it into the Caliph’s own hand, saying, “An thou bring her back, thou shalt have of me the fiefs of two Emirs and I will bestow on thee a robe of honour with twofold fringes of gold.” The Wazir set @@ -995,7 +977,7 @@ Now the couriers of the Caliph had foregone them thither by a day and the Emir of Damascus knew that he was commanded to arrest the twain as soon as found, that he might send them to the Caliph. Accordingly, when they entered the city, the secret -police<a id='r18' /><a href='#f18' class='c015'><sup>[18]</sup></a> accosted them and asked them their names. They told +police<a id='r18' href='#f18' class='c015'><sup>[18]</sup></a> accosted them and asked them their names. They told them the truth and acquainted them with their adventure and all that had betided them; whereupon they knew them for those of <span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>whom they were in search and seizing them, carried them before @@ -1013,7 +995,7 @@ of their case: so we laid hands on them and brought them before thee.” The Caliph looked at Miriam and saw that she was slender and shapely of form and stature, the handsomest of the folk of her tide and the unique pearl of her age and her -time; sweet of speech<a id='r19' /><a href='#f19' class='c015'><sup>[19]</sup></a> and fluent of tongue, stable of soul +time; sweet of speech<a id='r19' href='#f19' class='c015'><sup>[19]</sup></a> and fluent of tongue, stable of soul and hearty of heart. Thereupon she kissed the ground between his hands and wished him permanence of glory and prosperity and surcease of evil and enmity. He admired the @@ -1054,12 +1036,12 @@ the sufferings that men suffer!” Then he turned to the Princess and said to her, “Know, O Miriam, that thy father, the King of France, hath written to me anent thee. What sayst thou?” She replied, “O Vicar of Allah on His earth and Executor of the -precepts of His prophet and commands to man’s unworth,<a id='r20' /><a href='#f20' class='c015'><sup>[20]</sup></a> may +precepts of His prophet and commands to man’s unworth,<a id='r20' href='#f20' class='c015'><sup>[20]</sup></a> may He vouchsafe thee eternal prosperity and ward thee from evil and enmity! Thou art Viceregent of Allah in His earth and I have entered thy Faith, for that it is the creed which Truth and Righteousness inspire; and I have left the religion of the Miscreants -who make the Messiah a liar,<a id='r21' /><a href='#f21' class='c015'><sup>[21]</sup></a> and I am become a True +who make the Messiah a liar,<a id='r21' href='#f21' class='c015'><sup>[21]</sup></a> and I am become a True Believer in Allah the Bountiful and in the revelation of His compassionate Apostle. I worship Allah (extolled and exalted be He!) and acknowledge Him to be the One God and prostrate @@ -1068,7 +1050,7 @@ the Caliph:—Verily, I testify that there is no god but <em>the</em> God and I testify that Mohammed is the Messenger of God, whom He sent with the Guidance and the True Faith, that He might make it victorious over every other religion, albeit they who assign -partners to God be averse from it.<a id='r22' /><a href='#f22' class='c015'><sup>[22]</sup></a> Is it therefore in thy competence, +partners to God be averse from it.<a id='r22' href='#f22' class='c015'><sup>[22]</sup></a> Is it therefore in thy competence, O Commander of the Faithful, to comply with the letter of the King of the heretics and send me back to the land of the schismatics who deny The Faith and give partners to the All-wise @@ -1078,7 +1060,7 @@ believe in the divinity of Jesus, for all he was only a creature? hold upon thy skirts on the Day of Muster before the Lord and make my complaint of thee to thy cousin the Apostle of Allah (whom God assain and preserve!) on the Day when wealth -availeth not neither children save one come unto Allah wholehearted<a id='r23' /><a href='#f23' class='c015'><sup>[23]</sup></a>!” +availeth not neither children save one come unto Allah wholehearted<a id='r23' href='#f23' class='c015'><sup>[23]</sup></a>!” Answered the Caliph, “O Miriam, Allah forfend that I should do this ever! How can I send back a Moslemah believer in the one God and in His Apostle to that which Allah @@ -1108,7 +1090,7 @@ Belike he will evil entreat her and deal harshly with her, more by token that she hath slain his sons, and I shall bear blame for her on Resurrection-day. And indeed quoth the Almighty ’Allah will by no means make a way for the Infidels over the -True Believers.<a id='r24' /><a href='#f24' class='c015'><sup>[24]</sup></a>’ So return to thy King and say to him:—Turn +True Believers.<a id='r24' href='#f24' class='c015'><sup>[24]</sup></a>’ So return to thy King and say to him:—Turn from this thing and hope not to come at thy desire thereof.” Now this Wazir was a Zany: so he said to the Caliph, “O <span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>Commander of the Faithful, by the virtue of the Messiah and @@ -1118,14 +1100,14 @@ same Miriam! And if thou send her not back with me of free will, I will hie me to her sire and cause him despatch thee an host, wherewith I will come upon you from the landward and the seaward; and the van whereof shall be at your capital city -whilst the rear is yet on the Euphrates<a id='r25' /><a href='#f25' class='c015'><sup>[25]</sup></a> and they shall lay waste +whilst the rear is yet on the Euphrates<a id='r25' href='#f25' class='c015'><sup>[25]</sup></a> and they shall lay waste thy realms.” When the Caliph heard these words from the accursed Wazir of the King of France, the light in his face became night and he was wroth at his speech with exceeding wrath and said to him, “O damned one, O dog of the Nazarenes, art thou come to such power that thou durst assail me with the King of the Franks?” Then quoth he to his guards, “Take this -accursed and do him die”; and he repeated this couplet<a id='r26' /><a href='#f26' class='c015'><sup>[26]</sup></a>:—</p> +accursed and do him die”; and he repeated this couplet<a id='r26' href='#f26' class='c015'><sup>[26]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -1181,9 +1163,9 @@ and Peopler of the bellies of the tombs. So they were removed from worldly stead and became of the number of the dead; and glory be to the Living One, who dieth not and in whose hand are the keys of the Seen and the Unseen! And a tale was also told -by the Emir Shujá’ al-Din,<a id='r27' /><a href='#f27' class='c015'><sup>[27]</sup></a> Prefect of Cairo anent</p> +by the Emir Shujá’ al-Din,<a id='r27' href='#f27' class='c015'><sup>[27]</sup></a> Prefect of Cairo anent</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f1'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. </span>Arab. “Wa lá rajma ghaybin:” lit. = without stone-throwing (conjecture) of one @@ -1191,7 +1173,7 @@ latent.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f2'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r2'>2</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> saying Bismillah, etc. See vol. v. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54257/54257-h/54257-h.htm#Page_206">206</a>.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r2'>2</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> saying Bismillah, etc. See vol. v. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54257/54257-h/54257-h.htm#Page_206">206</a>.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f3'> @@ -1218,7 +1200,7 @@ person, who after her mate feared to approach the dead blackamoor must have know him to be cowardly as Cairenes generally are. Moreover, he had no shame in his poltroonery like the recreant Fellah-soldiers, in the wretched Sawákin campaign against the noble Súdáni negroids, who excused their running away by saying, “We are Egyptians” -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> too good men and Moslems to lose our lives as becomes you Franks and dog-Christians. +<i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> too good men and Moslems to lose our lives as becomes you Franks and dog-Christians. Yet under Mohammed Ali the Great, Fellah-soldiers conquered the “colligated” Arabs (Pilgrimage iii. 48) of Al-Asír (Ophir) at Bissel and in Wahhabi-land and put the Turks to flight at the battle of Nazíb, and the late General Jochmus assured me that he @@ -1251,18 +1233,18 @@ place where they intended to lie concealed. In both cases the women are the men. </div> <div class='footnote' id='f11'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r11'>11</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Head of Killaut which makes, from the Muhít, “the name of a son of the sons +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r11'>11</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Head of Killaut which makes, from the Muhít, “the name of a son of the sons of the Jinn and the Satans.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f12'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r12'>12</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> attacked her after a new fashion: see vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_136">136</a>.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r12'>12</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> attacked her after a new fashion: see vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_136">136</a>.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f13'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r13'>13</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Weevil’s dung; hence Suez = Suways the little weevil, or “little Sus” from the +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r13'>13</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Weevil’s dung; hence Suez = Suways the little weevil, or “little Sus” from the Maroccan town: see The Mines of Midian p. 74 for a note on the name. Near -Gibraltar is a <span lang="it" xml:lang="it">fiumara</span> called Guadalajara <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Wady al-Khara, of dung. “Bartús” is +Gibraltar is a <span lang="it">fiumara</span> called Guadalajara <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Wady al-Khara, of dung. “Bartús” is evidently formed “on the weight” of “Bartút;” and his metonym is a caricature, a chaff fit for Fellahs.</p> </div> @@ -1300,7 +1282,7 @@ it was built.</p> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r19'>19</a>. </span>The Caliph could not “see” her “sweetness of speech”; so we must understand that he addressed her and found out that she was fluent of tongue. But this idiomatic use of the word “see” is also found in the languages of Southern Europe: so Camoens -(Lus. i. ii.), “<span lang="pt" xml:lang="pt">Ouvi * * * vereis</span>” lit. = “hark, you shall see” which sounds +(Lus. i. ii.), “<span lang="pt">Ouvi * * * vereis</span>” lit. = “hark, you shall see” which sounds Hibernian.</p> </div> @@ -1332,10 +1314,10 @@ see Saturday Review, July 9, 1881.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f25'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r25'>25</a>. </span>Arab. “Furát” from the Arab. “Faruta” = being sweet, as applied to water. Al-Furátáni = the two sweet (rivers), are the Tigris and Euphrates. The Greeks, who -in etymology were satisfied with Greek, derived the latter from <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">εὐφραινεῖν</span> (to gladden, +in etymology were satisfied with Greek, derived the latter from <span lang="el">εὐφραινεῖν</span> (to gladden, lætificare, for which see Pliny and Strabo, although both are correct in explaining -“Tigris”) and Selden remarks hereon, “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Talibus nugis nugantur Græculi.</span>” But not -only the “Græculi”; <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Parkhurst’s good old derivations from the Heb. “Farah” +“Tigris”) and Selden remarks hereon, “<span lang="la">Talibus nugis nugantur Græculi.</span>” But not +only the “Græculi”; <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Parkhurst’s good old derivations from the Heb. “Farah” of fero, fructus, Freya (the Goddess), frayer (to spawn), friand, fry (of fish), etc., etc.</p> </div> @@ -1361,7 +1343,7 @@ So we said to him, “Harkye, such an one, how cometh it that these thy children are white, whilst thou thyself art passing swart?” And he said, “Their mother was a Frankish woman, whom I took prisoner in the days of Al-Malik al-Násir Saláh -al-Dín,<a id='r28' /><a href='#f28' class='c015'><sup>[28]</sup></a> after the battle of Hattín,<a id='r29' /><a href='#f29' class='c015'><sup>[29]</sup></a> when I was a young man.” +al-Dín,<a id='r28' href='#f28' class='c015'><sup>[28]</sup></a> after the battle of Hattín,<a id='r29' href='#f29' class='c015'><sup>[29]</sup></a> when I was a young man.” We asked, “And how gottest thou her?” and he answered, “I had a rare adventure with her.” Quoth we, “Favour us with it;” and quoth he:—With all my heart! You must know that I once @@ -1370,7 +1352,7 @@ and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me, “Carry it to Acre: for there thou wilt haply make good gain by it.” Now Acre was then in the hands of the -Franks<a id='r30' /><a href='#f30' class='c015'><sup>[30]</sup></a>; so I carried my flax thither and sold part of it at six +Franks<a id='r30' href='#f30' class='c015'><sup>[30]</sup></a>; so I carried my flax thither and sold part of it at six months’ credit. One day, as I was selling, behold, there came up a Frankish woman (now ’tis the custom of the women of the Franks to go about the market streets with unveiled faces), to @@ -1428,7 +1410,7 @@ passed, as she were the moon, accompanied by the old woman <span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>who was also angry; whereat my heart sank within me and I said to myself, “Who art thou that thou shouldst refrain from yonder damsel? Art thou Sarí al-Sakatí or Bishr Barefoot or -Junayd of Baghdad or Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz<a id='r31' /><a href='#f31' class='c015'><sup>[31]</sup></a>?” Then I ran after the +Junayd of Baghdad or Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz<a id='r31' href='#f31' class='c015'><sup>[31]</sup></a>?” Then I ran after the old woman and coming up with her said to her, “Bring her to me again;” and said she, “By the virtue of the Messiah, she will not return to thee but for an hundred ducats!” Quoth I, “I will @@ -1462,7 +1444,7 @@ to ease my heart of its pining for the Frankish woman, and in this traffic engaged I abode three years, till there befel between Al-Malik al-Násir and the Franks what befel of the action of Hattin and other encounters and Allah gave him the victory over them, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>so that he took all their Kings prisoners and he opened<a id='r32' /><a href='#f32' class='c015'><sup>[32]</sup></a> the coast<a id='r33' /><a href='#f33' class='c015'><sup>[33]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>so that he took all their Kings prisoners and he opened<a id='r32' href='#f32' class='c015'><sup>[32]</sup></a> the coast<a id='r33' href='#f33' class='c015'><sup>[33]</sup></a> cities by His leave. Now it fortuned one day after this, that a man came to me and sought of me a slave-girl for Al-Malik al-Nasir. Having a handsome handmaid I showed her to him and @@ -1471,7 +1453,7 @@ thereof, leaving ten still due to me, for that there was no more found in the royal treasury that day, because he had expended all his monies in waging war against the Franks. Accordingly they took counsel with him and he said, “Carry him to the -treasury<a id='r34' /><a href='#f34' class='c015'><sup>[34]</sup></a> where are the captives’ lodging and give him his choice +treasury<a id='r34' href='#f34' class='c015'><sup>[34]</sup></a> where are the captives’ lodging and give him his choice among the damsels of the Franks, so he may take one of them for the ten dinars.”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -1504,7 +1486,7 @@ True Faith and I testify that there is no god but <em>the</em> God and that Mohammed is the Messenger of God!” And she made perfect <span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>profession of Al-Islam. Then said I to myself, “By Allah, I will not go in unto her till I have set her free and acquainted the -Kazi.” So I betook myself to Ibn Shaddád<a id='r35' /><a href='#f35' class='c015'><sup>[35]</sup></a> and told him what +Kazi.” So I betook myself to Ibn Shaddád<a id='r35' href='#f35' class='c015'><sup>[35]</sup></a> and told him what had passed and he married me to her. Then I lay with her that night and she conceived; after which the troops departed and we returned to Damascus. But within a few days there came an @@ -1524,7 +1506,7 @@ her into the presence of the Sultan Al-Malik al-Nasir, who was seated, with the envoy of the King of the Franks on his right hand, and I said to him, “This is the woman that is with me.” Then quoth the King and the envoy to her, “Wilt thou go to thy -country or to<a id='r36' /><a href='#f36' class='c015'><sup>[36]</sup></a> thy husband? For Allah hath loosed thy bonds +country or to<a id='r36' href='#f36' class='c015'><sup>[36]</sup></a> thy husband? For Allah hath loosed thy bonds and those of thy fellow captives.” Quoth she to the Sultan, “I am become a Moslemah and am great with child, as by my middle ye may see, and the Franks shall have no more profit of me.” The @@ -1546,10 +1528,10 @@ she dressed you this food. We marvelled at his story and at that which had befallen him of good fortune, and Allah is All-knowing. But men also tell a tale anent the</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f28'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r28'>28</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Saladin. See vol. iv. p. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_116">116</a>.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r28'>28</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Saladin. See vol. iv. p. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_116">116</a>.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f29'> @@ -1561,7 +1543,7 @@ cross verified by Helena) fell into Moslem hands. The Christians begged hard for but Saladin, a conscientious believer, refused to return to them even for ransom “the object of their iniquitous superstition.” His son, however, being of another turn, would have sold it to the Franks who then lacked money to purchase. It presently -disappeared and I should not be surprised if it were still lying, an unknown and <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">inutile +disappeared and I should not be surprised if it were still lying, an unknown and <i><span lang="la">inutile lignum</span></i> in some Cairene mosque.</p> </div> @@ -1577,11 +1559,11 @@ of the others are all recorded in D’Herbelot.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f32'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r32'>32</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> captured, forced open their gates.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r32'>32</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> captured, forced open their gates.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f33'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r33'>33</a>. </span>Arab. “Al-Sáhil” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the seaboard of Syria; properly Phœnicia or the coast-lands +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r33'>33</a>. </span>Arab. “Al-Sáhil” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the seaboard of Syria; properly Phœnicia or the coast-lands of Southern Palestine. So the maritime lowlands of continental Zanzibar are called in the plur. Sawáhil = “the shores” and the people Sawáhílí = Shore-men.</p> </div> @@ -1599,7 +1581,7 @@ under Saladin.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f36'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r36'>36</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “abide with” thy second husband, the Egyptian.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r36'>36</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “abide with” thy second husband, the Egyptian.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> @@ -1624,7 +1606,7 @@ asked, “What is it?;” and she answered, “Do thou sell me; thus shall we be delivered of this strait, thou and I, and I shall be in affluence; for none will buy the like of me save a man of fortune, and with this I will contrive for my return to thee.” He carried -her to the market and the first who saw her was a Háshimí<a id='r37' /><a href='#f37' class='c015'><sup>[37]</sup></a> of +her to the market and the first who saw her was a Háshimí<a id='r37' href='#f37' class='c015'><sup>[37]</sup></a> of Bassorah, a man of good breeding, fine taste and generosity, who bought her for fifteen hundred dinars. (Quoth the young man, the damsel’s owner), When I had received the price, I repented me @@ -1639,7 +1621,7 @@ ware, a man plucked the bag from under my head and ran off with it at speed: whereupon I started up in alarm and affright and would have arisen to run after him; but lo! my feet were bound with a rope and I fell on my face. Then I took to weeping and buffeting -myself, saying, “Thou hast parted with thy soul<a id='r38' /><a href='#f38' class='c015'><sup>[38]</sup></a> and thy wealth +myself, saying, “Thou hast parted with thy soul<a id='r38' href='#f38' class='c015'><sup>[38]</sup></a> and thy wealth is lost!”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -1664,7 +1646,7 @@ bringing me ashore, questioned me of my case. I told them what misadventure had befallen me and they condoled with me. Then an old man of them came to me and said, “Thou hast lost thy money, but why goest thou about to lose thy life and become of -the people of The Fire?<a id='r39' /><a href='#f39' class='c015'><sup>[39]</sup></a> Arise, come with me, that I may see +the people of The Fire?<a id='r39' href='#f39' class='c015'><sup>[39]</sup></a> Arise, come with me, that I may see thy lodging.” I went with him to my house and he sat with me awhile, till I waxed calmer, and becoming tranquil I thanked him and he went away. When he was gone, I was like to kill myself, @@ -1675,17 +1657,17 @@ saying, “Take my advice and hie thee from Baghdad forthright and let this provide thee till thy heart be diverted from the love of her and thou forget her. Thy forbears were Secretaries and Scribes and thy handwriting is fine and thy breeding right good: -<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>seek out, then, whom thou wilt of the Intendants<a id='r40' /><a href='#f40' class='c015'><sup>[40]</sup></a> and throw +<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>seek out, then, whom thou wilt of the Intendants<a id='r40' href='#f40' class='c015'><sup>[40]</sup></a> and throw thyself on his bounty; thus haply Allah shall reunite thee with thy slave-girl.” I hearkened to his words (and indeed my mind was strengthened and I was somewhat comforted) and resolved to -betake myself to Wásit,<a id='r41' /><a href='#f41' class='c015'><sup>[41]</sup></a> where I had kinsfolk. So I went down +betake myself to Wásit,<a id='r41' href='#f41' class='c015'><sup>[41]</sup></a> where I had kinsfolk. So I went down to the river-side, where I saw a ship moored and the sailors embarking goods and goodly stuffs. I asked them to take me with them and carry me to Wasit; but they replied, “We cannot take thee on such wise, for the ship belongeth to a Hashimi.” However I tempted them with promise of passage-money and -they said, “We cannot embark thee on this fashion;<a id='r42' /><a href='#f42' class='c015'><sup>[42]</sup></a> but, if it +they said, “We cannot embark thee on this fashion;<a id='r42' href='#f42' class='c015'><sup>[42]</sup></a> but, if it must be, doff those fine clothes of thine and don sailor’s gear and sit with us as thou wert one of us.” I went away and buying somewhat of sailors’ clothes, put them on; after which I bought @@ -1704,7 +1686,7 @@ art not the first that hath been parted from a beloved!” Wherefore I knew what she suffered for love of me. Then he hung a curtain before her along the gunwale and calling those who ate apart, sat down with them without the curtain; and I enquired -concerning them and behold they were his brethren.<a id='r43' /><a href='#f43' class='c015'><sup>[43]</sup></a> He set +concerning them and behold they were his brethren.<a id='r43' href='#f43' class='c015'><sup>[43]</sup></a> He set before them what they needed of wine and dessert, and they ceased not to press the damsel to sing, till she called for the lute and tuning it, intoned these two couplets:—</p> @@ -1713,14 +1695,14 @@ and tuning it, intoned these two couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>The company left with my love by night, ✿ Nor forbore to fare with my heart’s delight:</div> - <div class='line'>And raged, since their camels off paced, a fire ✿ As of Ghazá<a id='r44' /><a href='#f44' class='c015'><sup>[44]</sup></a>-wood in the lover’s sprite.</div> + <div class='line'>And raged, since their camels off paced, a fire ✿ As of Ghazá<a id='r44' href='#f44' class='c015'><sup>[44]</sup></a>-wood in the lover’s sprite.</div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c000'>Then weeping overpowered her and she threw down the lute and ceased singing; whereat the folk were troubled and I slipped -down a-swoon. They thought I was possessed<a id='r45' /><a href='#f45' class='c015'><sup>[45]</sup></a> and one of them +down a-swoon. They thought I was possessed<a id='r45' href='#f45' class='c015'><sup>[45]</sup></a> and one of them began reciting exorcisms in my ear; nor did they cease to comfort her and beseech her to sing, till she tuned the lute again and chaunted these couplets twain:—</p> @@ -1744,10 +1726,10 @@ troubled but I heartened and hardened myself, saying in thought, “Nothing will serve me to deliver myself from their hands, except I make shift to acquaint her with my presence in the ship, so she may prevent my being set ashore.” Then we sailed when we came -hard by a hamlet<a id='r46' /><a href='#f46' class='c015'><sup>[46]</sup></a> and the skipper said, “Come, let us go ashore.” +hard by a hamlet<a id='r46' href='#f46' class='c015'><sup>[46]</sup></a> and the skipper said, “Come, let us go ashore.” Therewith they all landed, save myself: and as evening fell I rose and going behind the curtain took the lute and changed its accord, -mode<a id='r47' /><a href='#f47' class='c015'><sup>[47]</sup></a> by mode, and tuning it after a fashion of my own,<a id='r48' /><a href='#f48' class='c015'><sup>[48]</sup></a> that +mode<a id='r47' href='#f47' class='c015'><sup>[47]</sup></a> by mode, and tuning it after a fashion of my own,<a id='r48' href='#f48' class='c015'><sup>[48]</sup></a> that <span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>she had learnt of me, returned to my place in the ship;——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -1804,7 +1786,7 @@ and the Hashimi put his head within the curtain and said to her, “Will that content thee?”; whereupon she fell to blessing and thanking him. Then he called a servant and said to him, “Take this young man and do off his clothes and robe him in costly -raiment and incense him<a id='r49' /><a href='#f49' class='c015'><sup>[49]</sup></a> and bring him back to us.” So the +raiment and incense him<a id='r49' href='#f49' class='c015'><sup>[49]</sup></a> and bring him back to us.” So the servant did with me as his master bade him and brought me back to him, and served me with wine, even as the rest of the company. Then the damsel began singing after the goodliest fashion @@ -1888,7 +1870,7 @@ till, one day, as I sat in the shop, behold, there passed by a parcel of people with meat and drink, and I asked the grocer what was <span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>the matter. Quoth he, “This is the day of the pleasure-makers, when all the musicians and dancers of the town go forth with the -young men of fortune to the banks of the Ubullah river<a id='r50' /><a href='#f50' class='c015'><sup>[50]</sup></a> and eat +young men of fortune to the banks of the Ubullah river<a id='r50' href='#f50' class='c015'><sup>[50]</sup></a> and eat and drink among the trees there.” The spirit prompted me to solace myself with the sight of this thing and I said in my mind, “Haply among these people I may foregather with her I love.” @@ -1908,7 +1890,7 @@ came to know of thy loss, she rent her raiment and burnt the lute and fell to buffeting herself and lamenting and when we returned with the Hashimi to Bassorah we said to her, “Leave this weeping and wailing.” Quoth she, “I will don black and make me a tomb -beside the house and abide thereby and repent from singing.<a id='r51' /><a href='#f51' class='c015'><sup>[51]</sup></a> +beside the house and abide thereby and repent from singing.<a id='r51' href='#f51' class='c015'><sup>[51]</sup></a> We allowed her so to do and on this wise she abideth to this day.” Then they carried me to the Hashimi’s house, where I saw the damsel as they had said. When she espied me, she cried out a @@ -1925,17 +1907,17 @@ our need; so, when I went to the house, I found it filled full of furniture and stuffs and carried the damsel thither. Then I betook me to the grocer and told him all that had betided me, begging to hold me guiltless for divorcing his daughter, without offence -on her part; and I paid her her dowry<a id='r52' /><a href='#f52' class='c015'><sup>[52]</sup></a> and what else behoved -me.<a id='r53' /><a href='#f53' class='c015'><sup>[53]</sup></a> I abode with the Hashimi in this way two years and +on her part; and I paid her her dowry<a id='r52' href='#f52' class='c015'><sup>[52]</sup></a> and what else behoved +me.<a id='r53' href='#f53' class='c015'><sup>[53]</sup></a> I abode with the Hashimi in this way two years and became a man of great wealth and was restored to the former estate of prosperity wherein I had been at Baghdad, I and the damsel. And indeed Allah the Bountiful put an end to our troubles and loaded us with the gifts of good fortune and caused our patience to result in the attainment of our desire: wherefore to Him be the praise in this world and the next whereto we are -returning.<a id='r54' /><a href='#f54' class='c015'><sup>[54]</sup></a> And among the tales men tell is that of</p> +returning.<a id='r54' href='#f54' class='c015'><sup>[54]</sup></a> And among the tales men tell is that of</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f37'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r37'>37</a>. </span>A descendant of Háshim, the Apostle’s great-grandfather from whom the Abbasides @@ -1947,11 +1929,11 @@ Ignorance.” He was buried at Ghazzah (Gaza) but his tomb was soon forgotten.</ </div> <div class='footnote' id='f38'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r38'>38</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> thy lover.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r38'>38</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> thy lover.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f39'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r39'>39</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of those destined to hell; the especial home of Moslem suicides.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r39'>39</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of those destined to hell; the especial home of Moslem suicides.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f40'> @@ -1975,11 +1957,11 @@ town between Basrah and Kufah. To this place were applied the famous lines:—</ </div> <div class='footnote' id='f42'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r42'>42</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> robed as thou art.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r42'>42</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> robed as thou art.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f43'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r43'>43</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> his kinsfolk of the Hashimis.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r43'>43</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> his kinsfolk of the Hashimis.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f44'> @@ -2042,7 +2024,7 @@ the woman to sacrifice her rights. See vol. iii. p. <a href="https://www.gutenbe </div> <div class='footnote' id='f53'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r53'>53</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the cost of her maintenance during the four months of single blessedness which +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r53'>53</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the cost of her maintenance during the four months of single blessedness which must or ought to elapse before she can legally marry again.</p> </div> @@ -2051,7 +2033,7 @@ must or ought to elapse before she can legally marry again.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c32' class='c011'>KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.<a id='r55' /><a href='#f55' class='c015'><sup>[55]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c32' class='c011'>KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.<a id='r55' href='#f55' class='c015'><sup>[55]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c017'>There was once in days of yore and in ages and times long gone @@ -2062,7 +2044,7 @@ beneficent to the poor and loving to his lieges and all the people and-seventy Kings and in his cities three hundred and fifty Kazis. He had three score and ten Wazirs and over every ten of them he set a premier. The chiefest of all his ministers was a man called -Shimás<a id='r56' /><a href='#f56' class='c015'><sup>[56]</sup></a> who was then<a id='r57' /><a href='#f57' class='c015'><sup>[57]</sup></a> two-and-twenty years old, a statesman +Shimás<a id='r56' href='#f56' class='c015'><sup>[56]</sup></a> who was then<a id='r57' href='#f57' class='c015'><sup>[57]</sup></a> two-and-twenty years old, a statesman of pleasant presence and noble nature, sweet of speech and ready in reply; shrewd in all manner of business, skilful withal and sagacious, for all his tender age, a man of good counsel and fine @@ -2070,7 +2052,7 @@ manners versed in all arts and sciences and accomplishments; and the King loved him with exceeding love and cherished him by reason of his proficiency in eloquence and rhetoric and the art of government and for that which Allah had given him of compassion -and brooding care<a id='r58' /><a href='#f58' class='c015'><sup>[58]</sup></a> with his lieges for he was a King just in his +and brooding care<a id='r58' href='#f58' class='c015'><sup>[58]</sup></a> with his lieges for he was a King just in his Kingship and a protector of his peoples, constant in beneficence to great and small and giving them that which befitted them of good governance and bounty and protection and security and a @@ -2079,7 +2061,7 @@ loving to them each and every, high and low, entreating them with kindness and solicitude and governing them in such goodly guise as none had done before him. But, with all this, Almighty Allah had not blessed him with a child, and this was grievous to him and -to the people of his reign. It chanced, one night, as Jali’ad<a id='r59' /><a href='#f59' class='c015'><sup>[59]</sup></a> lay +to the people of his reign. It chanced, one night, as Jali’ad<a id='r59' href='#f59' class='c015'><sup>[59]</sup></a> lay in his bed, occupied with anxious thought of the issue of the affair of his Kingdom, that sleep overcame him and he dreamt that he poured water upon the roots of a tree,——And Shahrazad perceived @@ -2154,8 +2136,8 @@ O King, that there will be born to thee a boy-child who shall inherit the Kingship from thee, after thy long life; but he shall not order himself towards the lieges after thy fashion; nay, he shall transgress thine ordinances and oppress thy subjects, and there -shall befal him what befel the Mouse with the Cat<a id='r60' /><a href='#f60' class='c015'><sup>[60]</sup></a>; and I seek -refuge with Almighty Allah<a id='r61' /><a href='#f61' class='c015'><sup>[61]</sup></a>!” The King asked, “But what is +shall befal him what befel the Mouse with the Cat<a id='r60' href='#f60' class='c015'><sup>[60]</sup></a>; and I seek +refuge with Almighty Allah<a id='r61' href='#f61' class='c015'><sup>[61]</sup></a>!” The King asked, “But what is the story of the Cat and the Mouse?”; and the interpreter answered “May Allah prolong the King’s life! They tell the following tale of</p> @@ -2228,9 +2210,9 @@ Quoth the Mouse, “How can I accept the covenant of one between deal treacherously by me? Were the feud between us aught but one of blood, this were light to me; but it is an enmity of kind between souls, and it is said:—Whoso trusteth himself to his foe -is as one who thrusteth hand into a serpent’s<a id='r62' /><a href='#f62' class='c015'><sup>[62]</sup></a> mouth.” Quoth +is as one who thrusteth hand into a serpent’s<a id='r62' href='#f62' class='c015'><sup>[62]</sup></a> mouth.” Quoth the Cat, full of wrath, “My breast is strait and my soul is faint: -indeed I am <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">in articulo mortis</span></i> and ere long I shall die at thy door +indeed I am <i><span lang="la">in articulo mortis</span></i> and ere long I shall die at thy door and my blood will be on thy head, for that thou hadst it in thy power to save me in mine extremity: and this is my last word to thee.” Herewith the fear of Allah Almighty overcame the Mouse @@ -2249,7 +2231,7 @@ escape. So when the nest-owner would have gone out after his wont, he drew near the Cat; whereupon she seized him and taking him in her claws, began to bite him and shake him and take him in her mouth and lift him up and cast him down and run after -him and cranch him and torture him.<a id='r63' /><a href='#f63' class='c015'><sup>[63]</sup></a> The Mouse cried out for +him and cranch him and torture him.<a id='r63' href='#f63' class='c015'><sup>[63]</sup></a> The Mouse cried out for help, beseeching deliverance of Allah and began to upbraid the Cat, saying, “Where is the covenant thou madest with me and where are the oaths thou swarest to me? Is this my reward from @@ -2308,7 +2290,7 @@ availeth it to sit under the shade of a tree, if there issue fire therefrom, and what is the delight of one who drinketh pure wine, if he be choked thereby, and what doth it profit to quench one’s thirst with sweet cool water, if one be drowned therein? I am Allah’s -servant and thine, O King; but there are three things<a id='r64' /><a href='#f64' class='c015'><sup>[64]</sup></a> whereof it +servant and thine, O King; but there are three things<a id='r64' href='#f64' class='c015'><sup>[64]</sup></a> whereof it besitteth not the understanding to speak, till they be accomplished; to wit, the wayfarer, till he return from his way, the man who is in fight, till he have overcome his foe, and the pregnant woman, till @@ -2330,16 +2312,16 @@ Shimas had enumerated to the King the three things whereof it besitteth not the understanding to speak save after they are done, he continued, “For know, O King, that he, who speaketh of aught before its accomplishment is like the Fakir who had hung over his -head the jar of clarified butter.<a id='r65' /><a href='#f65' class='c015'><sup>[65]</sup></a>” “What is the story of the +head the jar of clarified butter.<a id='r65' href='#f65' class='c015'><sup>[65]</sup></a>” “What is the story of the Fakir,” asked the King, “and what happened to him?” Answered the Wazir, “O King, they tell this tale anent</p> <div> <span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span> - <h3 id='c40' class='c018'><em>THE FAKIR AND HIS JAR OF BUTTER</em>.<a id='r66' /><a href='#f66' class='c015'><sup>[66]</sup></a>”</h3> + <h3 id='c40' class='c018'><em>THE FAKIR AND HIS JAR OF BUTTER</em>.<a id='r66' href='#f66' class='c015'><sup>[66]</sup></a>”</h3> </div> -<p class='c019'>A Fakir<a id='r67' /><a href='#f67' class='c015'><sup>[67]</sup></a> abode once with one of the nobles of a certain town, +<p class='c019'>A Fakir<a id='r67' href='#f67' class='c015'><sup>[67]</sup></a> abode once with one of the nobles of a certain town, who made him a daily allowance of three scones and a little clarified butter and honey. Now such butter was dear in those parts and the Devotee laid all that came to him together in a jar @@ -2347,7 +2329,7 @@ he had, till he filled it and hung it up over his head for safe keeping. One night, as he sat on his bed staff in hand, he fell a-musing upon the butter and the greatness of its price and said in himself:—Needs must I sell all this butter I have by me and buy -with the price an ewe and take to partner therein a Fellah<a id='r68' /><a href='#f68' class='c015'><sup>[68]</sup></a> fellow +with the price an ewe and take to partner therein a Fellah<a id='r68' href='#f68' class='c015'><sup>[68]</sup></a> fellow who hath a ram. The first year she will bear a male lamb and a female and the second a female and a male and these in their turn will bear other males and other females, nor will they give over @@ -2356,7 +2338,7 @@ will I take my share and vent thereof what I will. The males I will sell and buy with them bulls and cows, which will also increase and multiply and become many; after which I will purchase such a piece of land and plant a garden therein and build thereon a -mighty fine<a id='r69' /><a href='#f69' class='c015'><sup>[69]</sup></a> palace. Moreover, I will get me robes and raiment +mighty fine<a id='r69' href='#f69' class='c015'><sup>[69]</sup></a> palace. Moreover, I will get me robes and raiment and slaves and slave-girls and hold a wedding never was seen the like thereof. I will slaughter cattle and make rich meats and sweetmeats and confections and assemble all the musicians and @@ -2372,7 +2354,7 @@ make merry and say to myself, “Verily, hast thou won thy wish,” and will rest from devotion and divine worship. Then in due time my wife will bear me a boy, and I shall rejoice in him and make banquets in his honour and rear him daintily and teach him -philosophy and mathematics and polite letters;<a id='r70' /><a href='#f70' class='c015'><sup>[70]</sup></a> so that I shall +philosophy and mathematics and polite letters;<a id='r70' href='#f70' class='c015'><sup>[70]</sup></a> so that I shall make his name renowned among men and glory in him among the assemblies of the learned; and I will bid him do good and he shall not gainsay me, and I will forbid him from lewdness and @@ -2389,7 +2371,7 @@ cautioned. “Wherefore, O King,” added the Wazir, “it behoveth not a man to speak of aught ere it come to pass.” Answered the King, “Thou sayest sooth! Fair fall thee for a Wazir! Verily the truth thou speakest and righteousness thou counsellest. Indeed, -thy rank with me is such as thou couldst wish<a id='r71' /><a href='#f71' class='c015'><sup>[71]</sup></a> and thou shalt +thy rank with me is such as thou couldst wish<a id='r71' href='#f71' class='c015'><sup>[71]</sup></a> and thou shalt never cease to be accepted of me.” Thereupon the Wazir prostrated himself before the King and wished him permanence of prosperity, saying, “Allah prolong thy days and thy rank upraise! @@ -2418,7 +2400,7 @@ upon them. Then he signed to the seven chief Wazirs, whose head was Shimas, to speak, each after the measure of his wisdom, upon the matter which concerned him the most. So the Grand Wazir Shimas began and sought leave of the King to speak, which -being granted, he spake as follows.<a id='r72' /><a href='#f72' class='c015'><sup>[72]</sup></a> “Praised be Allah who +being granted, he spake as follows.<a id='r72' href='#f72' class='c015'><sup>[72]</sup></a> “Praised be Allah who brought us into existence from non-existence and who favoureth His servants with Kings that observe justice and equity in that wherewith He hath invested them of rule and dominion, and who @@ -2434,15 +2416,15 @@ redress of our wrongs? Indeed, it is of the favour of Allah to the people that their King be assiduous in ordering their affairs and in defending them from their foes; for the end of the enemy’s intent is to subdue his enemy and hold him in his hand; and -many peoples<a id='r73' /><a href='#f73' class='c015'><sup>[73]</sup></a> bring their sons as servants unto Kings, and they +many peoples<a id='r73' href='#f73' class='c015'><sup>[73]</sup></a> bring their sons as servants unto Kings, and they <span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>become with them in the stead of slaves, to the intent that they -may repel ill-willers from them.<a id='r74' /><a href='#f74' class='c015'><sup>[74]</sup></a> As for us, no enemy hath +may repel ill-willers from them.<a id='r74' href='#f74' class='c015'><sup>[74]</sup></a> As for us, no enemy hath trodden our soil in the days of this our King, by reason of this passing good fortune and exceeding happiness, that no describer may avail to describe, for indeed it is above and beyond all description. And verily, O King, thou art worthy of this highest happiness, and we are under thy safeguard and in the shadow of -thy wings, may Allah make fair thy reward and prolong thy life!<a id='r75' /><a href='#f75' class='c015'><sup>[75]</sup></a> +thy wings, may Allah make fair thy reward and prolong thy life!<a id='r75' href='#f75' class='c015'><sup>[75]</sup></a> Indeed, we have long been diligent in supplication to Allah Almighty that He would vouchsafe an answer to our prayers and continue thee to us and grant thee a virtuous son, to be the coolth @@ -2477,7 +2459,7 @@ of us? How shall we contrive and of whom shall we seek counsel for our deliverance?” Thereupon arose one of them, who was the chiefest in wit and age, and cried, “There is nothing will serve us <span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>save that we seek salvation of Allah; but let us consult the Crab -and ask his advice: so come ye all<a id='r76' /><a href='#f76' class='c015'><sup>[76]</sup></a> and hie we himwards and +and ask his advice: so come ye all<a id='r76' href='#f76' class='c015'><sup>[76]</sup></a> and hie we himwards and hear his rede for indeed he is the chiefest and wisest of us all in coming upon the truth.” Each and every approved of the Fish’s advice and betook themselves in a body to the Crab, whom they @@ -2513,7 +2495,7 @@ not cast down the good He hath built up. So ’tis my counsel that <span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>we take patience and await what Allah shall do with us. An death come to us, as is wont, we shall be at rest, and if there befal us aught that calleth for flight, we will flee and depart our land -whither Allah will.”<a id='r77' /><a href='#f77' class='c015'><sup>[77]</sup></a> Answered all the fishes with one voice +whither Allah will.”<a id='r77' href='#f77' class='c015'><sup>[77]</sup></a> Answered all the fishes with one voice “Thou sayst sooth, O our lord: Allah requite thee for us with weal!” Then each returned to his stead, and in a few days the Almighty vouchsafed unto them a violent rain and the place of @@ -2574,7 +2556,7 @@ the hatching-season came round, the Serpent again sallied forth from its place and made for the Crows’ nest: but, as it was coiling up a branch, a kite swooped down on it and struck claws into its head and tare it, whereupon it fell to the ground a-swoon, and the -ants came out upon it and ate it.”<a id='r78' /><a href='#f78' class='c015'><sup>[78]</sup></a> So the Crow and his wife +ants came out upon it and ate it.”<a id='r78' href='#f78' class='c015'><sup>[78]</sup></a> So the Crow and his wife <span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>abode in peace and quiet and bred a numerous brood and thanked Allah for their safety and for the young that were born to them. In like manner, O King, continued the Wazir, “it behoveth us to @@ -2622,7 +2604,7 @@ who is content with that portion which Allah allotteth to him and who giveth Him thanks for that which He hath stablished. And indeed he that is rebellious and seeketh other than the dole which God hath decreed unto him and for him, favoureth the wild Ass -<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>and the Jackal.”<a id='r79' /><a href='#f79' class='c015'><sup>[79]</sup></a> The King asked, “And what is the story of +<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>and the Jackal.”<a id='r79' href='#f79' class='c015'><sup>[79]</sup></a> The King asked, “And what is the story of the twain?”; the Wazir answered, “Hear, O King, the tale of</p> <h3 id='c48' class='c018'><em>THE WILD ASS AND THE JACKAL</em>.”</h3> @@ -2646,7 +2628,7 @@ did his endeavour to get food, but lay coiled up in his earth. And whilst he was thus, behold, one day there came out two hunters trudging in quest of quarry and started a wild Ass. They followed on his trail tracking him all day, till at last one of them shot at -him a forked<a id='r80' /><a href='#f80' class='c015'><sup>[80]</sup></a> arrow, which pierced his vitals and reached his heart +him a forked<a id='r80' href='#f80' class='c015'><sup>[80]</sup></a> arrow, which pierced his vitals and reached his heart and killed him in front of the Jackal’s hole. Then the hunters came up and finding him dead, pulled out the shaft from his heart, but only the wood came away and the forked head abode in the @@ -2659,7 +2641,7 @@ weakness and hunger, and seeing the dead Ass lying at his door, rejoiced with joy exceeding till he was like to fly for delight and said, “Praised be Allah who hath won me my wish without toil! Verily, I had lost hope of coming at a wild Ass or aught else; -and assuredly<a id='r81' /><a href='#f81' class='c015'><sup>[81]</sup></a> the Almighty hath sent him to me and drave him +and assuredly<a id='r81' href='#f81' class='c015'><sup>[81]</sup></a> the Almighty hath sent him to me and drave him fall to my homestead.” Then he sprang on the body and tearing open its belly, thrust in his head and with his nose rummaged about its entrails, till he found the heart and tearing a tid-bit @@ -2718,7 +2700,7 @@ and the Wazir answered, “Hear, O King, the tale of</p> <h3 id='c50' class='c018'><em>THE UNJUST KING AND THE PILGRIM PRINCE</em>.”</h3> -<p class='c019'>There was once in Mauritania-land<a id='r82' /><a href='#f82' class='c015'><sup>[82]</sup></a> a King who exceeded in his +<p class='c019'>There was once in Mauritania-land<a id='r82' href='#f82' class='c015'><sup>[82]</sup></a> a King who exceeded in his rule, a tyrant, violent and over severe, who had no respect for the welfare or protection of his lieges nor of those who entered his realm; and from everyone who came within his Kingdom his @@ -2731,11 +2713,11 @@ which is therein and fared forth serving the Most High, wandering pilgrim-wise over wolds and wastes and bytimes entering towns and cities. One day, he came to his father’s capital and the guards laid hands on him and searched him but found naught -<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>upon him save two gowns, one new and the other old.<a id='r83' /><a href='#f83' class='c015'><sup>[83]</sup></a> So they +<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>upon him save two gowns, one new and the other old.<a id='r83' href='#f83' class='c015'><sup>[83]</sup></a> So they stripped the new one from him and left him the old, after they had entreated him with contumely and contempt; whereat he complained and said, “Woe to you, O ye oppressors! I am a -poor man and a pilgrim,<a id='r84' /><a href='#f84' class='c015'><sup>[84]</sup></a> and what shall this gown by any means +poor man and a pilgrim,<a id='r84' href='#f84' class='c015'><sup>[84]</sup></a> and what shall this gown by any means profit you? Except ye restore it to me, I will go to the King and make complaint to him of you.” They replied, “We act thus by the King’s command: so do what seemeth good to thee.” @@ -2750,12 +2732,12 @@ the gate; and presently when the King came out, he threw himself in his way and after blessing him and wishing him weal, he made his complaint to him informing him how scurvily he had been entreated by the gatekeepers. Lastly he gave him to know -that he was a man of the people of Allah<a id='r85' /><a href='#f85' class='c015'><sup>[85]</sup></a> who had rejected the +that he was a man of the people of Allah<a id='r85' href='#f85' class='c015'><sup>[85]</sup></a> who had rejected the world seeking acceptance of Allah and who went wandering over earth and entering every city and hamlet, whilst all the folk he met gave him alms according to their competence. “I entered this thy city” (continued he), “hoping that the folk would deal -kindly and graciously with me as with others of my condition<a id='r86' /><a href='#f86' class='c015'><sup>[86]</sup></a>; +kindly and graciously with me as with others of my condition<a id='r86' href='#f86' class='c015'><sup>[86]</sup></a>; but thy followers stopped me and stripped me of one of my gowns and loaded me with blows. Wherefore do thou look into my case and take me by the hand and get me back my gown and I will @@ -2763,7 +2745,7 @@ not abide in thy city an hour.” Quoth the unjust King, “Who directed thee to enter this city, unknowing the custom of its King?”; and quoth the pilgrim, “Give me back my gown and do with me what thou wilt.” Now when the King heard this, his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>temper changed for the worse and he said, “O fool,<a id='r87' /><a href='#f87' class='c015'><sup>[87]</sup></a> we stripped +<span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>temper changed for the worse and he said, “O fool,<a id='r87' href='#f87' class='c015'><sup>[87]</sup></a> we stripped thee of thy gown, so thou mightest humble thyself to us; but since thou makest this clamour I will strip thy soul from thee.” Then he commanded to cast him into gaol, where he began to @@ -2783,7 +2765,7 @@ Thou to whom belong the power and the glory to the end of time!” When the gaoler heard the prayer of the poor prisoner he trembled in every limb, and behold, a fire suddenly broke out in the King’s palace and consumed it and all that were therein, -even to the door of the prison,<a id='r88' /><a href='#f88' class='c015'><sup>[88]</sup></a> and none was spared but the +even to the door of the prison,<a id='r88' href='#f88' class='c015'><sup>[88]</sup></a> and none was spared but the gaoler and the pilgrim. Now when the gaoler saw this, he knew that it had not befallen save because of the pilgrim’s prayer; so he loosed him and fleeing with him forth of the burning, betook @@ -2846,7 +2828,7 @@ mildness and benignity, so that they were with him in peace and contentment; and by reason of their wisely ordering their affairs, none of the other birds could avail against them. Presently it chanced that there befel their chief the doom irrevocably appointed -<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>to all creatures and he departed life<a id='r89' /><a href='#f89' class='c015'><sup>[89]</sup></a>; whereupon the others +<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>to all creatures and he departed life<a id='r89' href='#f89' class='c015'><sup>[89]</sup></a>; whereupon the others mourned for him with sore mourning, and what added to their grief was that there abided not amongst them like him one who should fill his place. So they all assembled and took counsel together @@ -2872,7 +2854,7 @@ each to other, “We agreed that which bird soever should be the highest of us we will make king over us, and behold, the Hawk is the highest of us: what say ye to him?” And they all cried out, “We accept of him.” Accordingly they summoned the Hawk and -said to him, “O Father of Good,<a id='r90' /><a href='#f90' class='c015'><sup>[90]</sup></a> we have chosen thee ruler over +said to him, “O Father of Good,<a id='r90' href='#f90' class='c015'><sup>[90]</sup></a> we have chosen thee ruler over us, that thou mayst look into our affair.” The Hawk consented, saying, “Inshallah, ye shall win of me abounding weal.” So they rejoiced and made him their King. But after awhile, he fell to @@ -2954,8 +2936,8 @@ tale of</p> <h3 id='c56' class='c018'><em>THE SERPENT-CHARMER AND HIS WIFE</em>.”</h3> -<p class='c019'>There was once a man, a Serpent-charmer,<a id='r91' /><a href='#f91' class='c015'><sup>[91]</sup></a> who used to train -serpents, and this was his trade; and he had a great basket,<a id='r92' /><a href='#f92' class='c015'><sup>[92]</sup></a> +<p class='c019'>There was once a man, a Serpent-charmer,<a id='r91' href='#f91' class='c015'><sup>[91]</sup></a> who used to train +serpents, and this was his trade; and he had a great basket,<a id='r92' href='#f92' class='c015'><sup>[92]</sup></a> wherein were three snakes but the people of his house knew this not. Every day he used to go round with this pannier about the town gaining his living and that of his family by showing the @@ -3031,7 +3013,7 @@ world is a virtuous sire, and it is said, Whoso hath no progeny his life is without result and he leaveth no memory. As for thee, because of the righteousness of thy justice and thy pious reliance on Allah the Most High, thou hast been vouchsafed this happy -son; yea, this blessed<a id='r93' /><a href='#f93' class='c015'><sup>[93]</sup></a> child cometh as a gift from the Most High +son; yea, this blessed<a id='r93' href='#f93' class='c015'><sup>[93]</sup></a> child cometh as a gift from the Most High Lord to us and to thee, for the excellence of thy governance and the goodliness of thy long-sufferance; and in this thou hast fared even as fared the Spider and the Wind.” Asked the King, @@ -3056,7 +3038,7 @@ answered, “Give ear, O King, to the tale of</p> <h3 id='c59' class='c018'><em>THE SPIDER AND THE WIND</em>.”</h3> -<p class='c019'>A spider once attached herself to a high gate<a id='r94' /><a href='#f94' class='c015'><sup>[94]</sup></a> and a retired +<p class='c019'>A spider once attached herself to a high gate<a id='r94' href='#f94' class='c015'><sup>[94]</sup></a> and a retired and span her web there and dwelt therein in peace, giving thanks to the Almighty, who had made this dwelling-place easy to her and had set her in safety from noxious reptiles. On this wise she @@ -3142,11 +3124,11 @@ the sages and Olema rose and prostrated themselves before Allah and thanked the King; after which they kissed his hands and departed, each to his own house, whilst Jali’ad withdrew into his palace, where, he looked upon the new-born and offered up -prayers for him and named him Wird Khán.<a id='r95' /><a href='#f95' class='c015'><sup>[95]</sup></a> The boy grew up -till he attained the age of twelve,<a id='r96' /><a href='#f96' class='c015'><sup>[96]</sup></a> when the King being minded +prayers for him and named him Wird Khán.<a id='r95' href='#f95' class='c015'><sup>[95]</sup></a> The boy grew up +till he attained the age of twelve,<a id='r96' href='#f96' class='c015'><sup>[96]</sup></a> when the King being minded to have him taught the arts and sciences, bade build him a palace amiddlemost the city, wherein were three hundred and threescore -rooms,<a id='r97' /><a href='#f97' class='c015'><sup>[97]</sup></a> and lodged him therein. Then he assigned him three +rooms,<a id='r97' href='#f97' class='c015'><sup>[97]</sup></a> and lodged him therein. Then he assigned him three wise men of the Olema and bade them not be lax in teaching him day and night and look that there was no kind of learning but they instruct him therein, so he might become versed in all @@ -3202,7 +3184,7 @@ the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King Jali’ad heard the words of his Wazir Shimas, he commanded -the attendance of the keenest-witted<a id='r98' /><a href='#f98' class='c015'><sup>[98]</sup></a> of the Olema and +the attendance of the keenest-witted<a id='r98' href='#f98' class='c015'><sup>[98]</sup></a> of the Olema and most accomplished of the learned and sages of his dominions, and <span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>they all presented themselves on the morrow at the door of the palace, whereupon the King bade admit them. Then entered @@ -3210,7 +3192,7 @@ Shimas and kissed the hands of the Prince, who rose and prostrated himself to the Minister: but Shimas said, “It behoveth not the lion-whelp to prostrate himself to any of the wild beasts, nor besitteth it that Light prostrate itself to shade.” -Quoth the Prince, “Whenas the lion-whelp seeth the leopard,<a id='r99' /><a href='#f99' class='c015'><sup>[99]</sup></a> he +Quoth the Prince, “Whenas the lion-whelp seeth the leopard,<a id='r99' href='#f99' class='c015'><sup>[99]</sup></a> he riseth up to him and prostrateth himself before him, because of his wisdom, and Light prostrateth itself to shade for the purpose of disclosing that which is therewithin.” Quoth Shimas, “True, @@ -3218,7 +3200,7 @@ O my lord; but I would have thee answer me anent whatso I shall ask thee, by leave of His Highness and his lieges.” And the youth said, “And I, with permission of my sire, will answer thee.” So Shimas began and said, “Tell me what is the Eternal, the -Absolute, and what are the two manifestations<a id='r100' /><a href='#f100' class='c015'><sup>[100]</sup></a> thereof and +Absolute, and what are the two manifestations<a id='r100' href='#f100' class='c015'><sup>[100]</sup></a> thereof and whether of the two is the abiding one?” Answered the Prince, “Allah (to whom belong Might and Majesty!) is the Eternal, the Absolute; for that He is Alpha, without beginning, and Omega @@ -3231,7 +3213,7 @@ because this world was created from nothingness and had not its being from any existing thing; wherefore its affair is referable to the first essence. Moreover, it is a commodity swift of ceasing, the works whereof call for requital of action and this postulateth -the reproduction<a id='r101' /><a href='#f101' class='c015'><sup>[101]</sup></a> of whatso passeth away: so the next world is +the reproduction<a id='r101' href='#f101' class='c015'><sup>[101]</sup></a> of whatso passeth away: so the next world is the second manifestation.” (¿) “Now inform me how knowest thou that the world to come is the abiding one of the two existences?”—“Because it is the house of requital for deeds done @@ -3254,7 +3236,7 @@ as steward over them. Whoso doeth the work appointed unto him, the steward bringeth him forth of that straitness; but whoso doeth it not within the stablished term is punished. After awhile, behold, they find honey exuding from the chinks of the -house,<a id='r102' /><a href='#f102' class='c015'><sup>[102]</sup></a> and when they have eaten thereof and tasted its sweetness +house,<a id='r102' href='#f102' class='c015'><sup>[102]</sup></a> and when they have eaten thereof and tasted its sweetness of savour, they slacken in their ordered task and cast it behind their backs. So they patiently suffer the straitness and distress wherein they are, with what they know of the future punishment @@ -3356,7 +3338,7 @@ his excuses, confessing to having saved himself from the unjust King as before related. The just King accepted his excuse and praised him for his wise device and set him on his right hand in his divan and appointed him in his kingdom an abiding inheritance -and a happy life-tide.<a id='r103' /><a href='#f103' class='c015'><sup>[103]</sup></a> Now the just King is the similitude +and a happy life-tide.<a id='r103' href='#f103' class='c015'><sup>[103]</sup></a> Now the just King is the similitude of the future world and the unjust King that of the present world; the jewels that be in the tyrant’s dominions are good deeds and pious works. The merchant is man and the money he hath with @@ -3366,11 +3348,11 @@ this world to leave not a day without seeking the goods of the world to come, so shall he content this world with that which he gaineth of the fatness of the earth and satisfy the other world with that which he spendeth of his life in seeking after it.” (¿) “Are -the spirit<a id='r104' /><a href='#f104' class='c015'><sup>[104]</sup></a> and the body alike in reward and retribution, or is the +the spirit<a id='r104' href='#f104' class='c015'><sup>[104]</sup></a> and the body alike in reward and retribution, or is the body, as the luster of lusts and doer of sinful deeds, and especially affected with punishment?” “The inclination to lusts and sins may be the cause of earning reward by the withholding of the soul -therefrom and the repenting thereof; but the command<a id='r105' /><a href='#f105' class='c015'><sup>[105]</sup></a> is in the +therefrom and the repenting thereof; but the command<a id='r105' href='#f105' class='c015'><sup>[105]</sup></a> is in the hand of Him who doth what He will, and things by their contraries are distinguished. Thus subsistence is necessary to the body, but there is no body without soul; and the purification of the spirit is @@ -3482,7 +3464,7 @@ learning and wisdom, endowed with right judgment, luminous intelligence and a keen wit and excelling, and tell me can desire and lust change these his qualities?”—“Yes; for these two passions, when they enter into a man, alter his wisdom and understanding -and judgment and wit, and he is like the Ossifrage<a id='r106' /><a href='#f106' class='c015'><sup>[106]</sup></a> +and judgment and wit, and he is like the Ossifrage<a id='r106' href='#f106' class='c015'><sup>[106]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>which, for precaution against the hunters, abode in the upper air, of the excess of his subtlety; but, as he was thus, he saw a fowler set up his nets and when the toils were firmly staked down bait @@ -3500,7 +3482,7 @@ considereth the end thereof and refraineth from that which they make fair and represseth with his reason his lust and his concupiscence; for, when these passions urge him to aught, it behoveth him to make his reason like unto a horseman skilled in horsemanship -who mounting a skittish horse, curbeth him with a sharp bit,<a id='r107' /><a href='#f107' class='c015'><sup>[107]</sup></a> +who mounting a skittish horse, curbeth him with a sharp bit,<a id='r107' href='#f107' class='c015'><sup>[107]</sup></a> so that he go aright with him and bear him whither he will. As for the ignorant man, who hath neither knowledge nor judgment, while all things are obscure to him and desire and lust lord it over @@ -3520,7 +3502,7 @@ diverteth him from gaining his living: how then shall he do for his daily bread wherewith he may not dispense?”—“A man’s day <span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>is four-and-twenty hours, and it behoveth him to employ one-third thereof in seeking his living, another in prayer and repose -and the other in the pursuits of knowledge;<a id='r108' /><a href='#f108' class='c015'><sup>[108]</sup></a> for a reasonable man +and the other in the pursuits of knowledge;<a id='r108' href='#f108' class='c015'><sup>[108]</sup></a> for a reasonable man without knowledge is a barren land, which hath no place for tillage, tree-planting or grass-growing. Except it be prepared for tilth and plantation no fruit will profit therein; but, if it be @@ -3528,7 +3510,7 @@ tilled and planted, it bringeth forth goodly fruits. So with the man lacking education; there is no profit in him till knowledge be planted in him: then doth he bear fruit.” (¿) “What sayst thou of knowledge without understanding?”—“It is as the knowledge -of a brute<a id='r109' /><a href='#f109' class='c015'><sup>[109]</sup></a> beast, which hath learnt the hours of its foddering +of a brute<a id='r109' href='#f109' class='c015'><sup>[109]</sup></a> beast, which hath learnt the hours of its foddering and waking, but hath no reason.” (¿) “Thou hast been brief in thine answer here anent; but I accept thy reply. Tell me, how shall I guard myself against the Sultan?”—“By giving @@ -3556,7 +3538,7 @@ wont it was to trap wild beasts for their pelts and cast away the flesh. Now a lion used to come to that place and eat of the carrion; and in course of time, he made friendship with the hunter, who would throw meat to him and wipe his hands on his back, -whilst the lion wagged his tail.<a id='r110' /><a href='#f110' class='c015'><sup>[110]</sup></a> But when the hunter saw his +whilst the lion wagged his tail.<a id='r110' href='#f110' class='c015'><sup>[110]</sup></a> But when the hunter saw his tameness and gentleness and submissiveness to him, he said to himself, “Verily this lion humbleth himself to me and I am master of him, and I see not why I should not mount him and @@ -3617,7 +3599,7 @@ what are the obligations of the lieges to their lord?”——“They shall do whatso he ordereth them with pure intent and obey him in that which pleaseth him and pleaseth Allah and the Apostle of Allah. And the lieges can claim of the lord that he protect -their possessions and guard their women,<a id='r111' /><a href='#f111' class='c015'><sup>[111]</sup></a> even as it is their duty to +their possessions and guard their women,<a id='r111' href='#f111' class='c015'><sup>[111]</sup></a> even as it is their duty to hearken unto him and obey him and expend their lives freely in his defence and give him his lawful due and praise him fairly for that which he bestoweth upon them of his justice and bounty.” @@ -3634,7 +3616,7 @@ of the faith, the fostering of his subjects and the fostering of government; for by the ensuing of these three things, his kingdom shall endure.” (¿) “How doth it behove him to do for his subjects’ weal?”——“By giving them their due and maintaining -their laws and customs<a id='r112' /><a href='#f112' class='c015'><sup>[112]</sup></a> and employing Olema and learned men +their laws and customs<a id='r112' href='#f112' class='c015'><sup>[112]</sup></a> and employing Olema and learned men to teach them and justifying them, one of other, and sparing their blood and defending their goods and lightening their loads and strengthening their hosts.” (¿) “What is the Minister’s claim @@ -3645,7 +3627,7 @@ in judgment, and because of the general advantage to King and commons in case of sound judgment: secondly, that folk may know the goodliness of the degree which the Wazir holdeth in the King’s esteem and therefore look on him with eyes of -veneration and respect and submission<a id='r113' /><a href='#f113' class='c015'><sup>[113]</sup></a>; and thirdly, that the +veneration and respect and submission<a id='r113' href='#f113' class='c015'><sup>[113]</sup></a>; and thirdly, that the Wazir, seeing this from King and subjects, may ward off from them that which they hate and fulfil to them that which they love.” (¿) “I have heard all thou hast said of the attributes of @@ -3697,7 +3679,7 @@ ceased saying her permitted say.</p> youth, the son and heir of King Jali’ad, when questioned by the Wazir upon the subjects aforesaid, returned him satisfactory replies; when Shimas resumed, “I see that brethren are of two kinds, -brethren of trust and brethren of society.<a id='r114' /><a href='#f114' class='c015'><sup>[114]</sup></a> As for the first who be +brethren of trust and brethren of society.<a id='r114' href='#f114' class='c015'><sup>[114]</sup></a> As for the first who be friends, there is due to them that which thou hast set forth; but now tell me of the others who be acquaintances.”——“As for brethren of society thou gettest of them pleasance and goodly @@ -3723,7 +3705,7 @@ ceasing to seek; withal there is no help but that he seek his fortune. The seeker is, however, in two cases; either he gaineth his fortune or he faileth thereof. In the first case, his pleasure consisteth in two conditions; first, in the having gained his fortune, -and secondly, in the laudable<a id='r115' /><a href='#f115' class='c015'><sup>[115]</sup></a> issue of his quest; and in the other +and secondly, in the laudable<a id='r115' href='#f115' class='c015'><sup>[115]</sup></a> issue of his quest; and in the other case, his pleasure consisteth, first, in his readiness to seek his daily bread, secondly, in his abstaining from being a burthen to the folk, and thirdly, in his freedom from liability to blame.” (¿) “What @@ -3749,13 +3731,13 @@ with the obscurity of clear water in a black vessel. Wherefore I <span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>would have thee expound it to me so no iota thereof may remain doubtful to the like of me, to whom its obscurity may present itself in the future, even as it hath presented itself to me in the -past; since Allah, even as He hath made life to be in lymph<a id='r116' /><a href='#f116' class='c015'><sup>[116]</sup></a> and +past; since Allah, even as He hath made life to be in lymph<a id='r116' href='#f116' class='c015'><sup>[116]</sup></a> and strength in food and the cure of the sick in the skill of the leach, so hath He appointed the healing of the fool to be in the learning of the wise. Give ear, therefore, to my speech.” Replied the Wazir, “O luminous of intelligence and master of casuistical questions, thou whose excellence all the Olema attest, by reason of the -goodliness of thy discretion of things and thy distribution<a id='r117' /><a href='#f117' class='c015'><sup>[117]</sup></a> thereof +goodliness of thy discretion of things and thy distribution<a id='r117' href='#f117' class='c015'><sup>[117]</sup></a> thereof and the justness of thine answers to the questions I have asked thee, thou knowest that thou canst enquire of me naught but thou art better able than I to form a just judgment thereon and @@ -3766,10 +3748,10 @@ me from what did the Creator (magnified be His all-might!) create the world, albeit there was before it naught and there is naught seen in this world but it is created from something; and the Divine Creator (extolled and exalted be He!) is able to create -things from nothing,<a id='r118' /><a href='#f118' class='c015'><sup>[118]</sup></a> yet hath His will decreed, for all the perfection +things from nothing,<a id='r118' href='#f118' class='c015'><sup>[118]</sup></a> yet hath His will decreed, for all the perfection of His power and grandeur, that He shall create naught but from something.” The Wazir replied, “As for those, who -fashion vessels of potter’s clay,<a id='r119' /><a href='#f119' class='c015'><sup>[119]</sup></a> and other handicraftsmen, who +fashion vessels of potter’s clay,<a id='r119' href='#f119' class='c015'><sup>[119]</sup></a> and other handicraftsmen, who cannot originate one thing save from another thing, they are themselves only created entities: but, as for the Creator, who hath wrought the world after this wondrous fashion, an thou wouldst @@ -3785,7 +3767,7 @@ of the alternation of Night and Day shall make this clear to thee. When the light goeth and the night cometh, the day is hidden from us and we know not the place where it abideth; and when the night passeth away with its darkness and its terror, the -day cometh and we know not the abiding-place of the night.<a id='r120' /><a href='#f120' class='c015'><sup>[120]</sup></a> In +day cometh and we know not the abiding-place of the night.<a id='r120' href='#f120' class='c015'><sup>[120]</sup></a> In like manner, when the sun riseth upon us, we know not where it hath laid up its light, and when it setteth, we ignore the abiding-place of its setting: and the examples of this among the works of @@ -3794,7 +3776,7 @@ abound in what confoundeth the thought of the keenest-witted of human beings.” Rejoined the Prince, “O sage, thou hast set before me of the power of the Creator what is incapable of denial; but tell me how He called His creatures into existence.” Answered -Shimas, “He created them by the sole power of His one Word,<a id='r121' /><a href='#f121' class='c015'><sup>[121]</sup></a> +Shimas, “He created them by the sole power of His one Word,<a id='r121' href='#f121' class='c015'><sup>[121]</sup></a> which existed before time, and wherewith he created all things.” Quoth the Prince, “Then Allah (be His name magnified and His might glorified!) only willed the existence of created things, before @@ -3817,7 +3799,7 @@ permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that after the King’s son had asked his sire’s Wazir the casuistical questions <span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>aforesaid, and had received a sufficient answer, Shimas said to -him, “O dear my son,<a id='r122' /><a href='#f122' class='c015'><sup>[122]</sup></a> there is no man can tell thee other but this +him, “O dear my son,<a id='r122' href='#f122' class='c015'><sup>[122]</sup></a> there is no man can tell thee other but this I have said, except he twist the words handed down to us of the Holy Law and turn the truths thereof from their evident meaning. And such a perversion is their saying that the Word hath inherent @@ -3845,11 +3827,11 @@ doth the Creator (to whom belong Might and Majesty) love Falsehood or hate it? An thou say He loveth Truth and by it created all things and abhorreth Falsehood, how came the False, which the Creator hateth, to invade the True which He loveth?” Quoth -Shimas, “Verily Allah the Most High created man all Truth<a id='r123' /><a href='#f123' class='c015'><sup>[123]</sup></a>, +Shimas, “Verily Allah the Most High created man all Truth<a id='r123' href='#f123' class='c015'><sup>[123]</sup></a>, loving His name and obeying His word, and on this wise man had <span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>no need of repentance till Falsehood invaded the Truth whereby -he was created by means of the capability<a id='r124' /><a href='#f124' class='c015'><sup>[124]</sup></a> which Allah had placed -in him, being the will and the inclination called lust of lucre.<a id='r125' /><a href='#f125' class='c015'><sup>[125]</sup></a> +he was created by means of the capability<a id='r124' href='#f124' class='c015'><sup>[124]</sup></a> which Allah had placed +in him, being the will and the inclination called lust of lucre.<a id='r125' href='#f125' class='c015'><sup>[125]</sup></a> When the False invaded the True on this wise, right became confounded with wrong, by reason of the will of man and his capability and greed of gain, which is the voluntary side of him @@ -3893,7 +3875,7 @@ obeying Him and meriting mercy and future recompense. What causeth this difference prevailing between them?” Replied Shimas, “The origin of disobedience descending upon mankind is attributable to Iblis, who was the noblest of all that Allah -(magnified be His name!) created of angels<a id='r126' /><a href='#f126' class='c015'><sup>[126]</sup></a> and men and Jinn, +(magnified be His name!) created of angels<a id='r126' href='#f126' class='c015'><sup>[126]</sup></a> and men and Jinn, and the love of the Truth was inherent in him, for he knew naught but this; but whenas he saw himself unique in such dignity, there entered into him pride and conceit, vainglory and arrogance which @@ -3912,12 +3894,12 @@ of the appearance of Falsehood. When the Creator (magnified be the praises of Him and hallowed be the names of Him!) saw the weakness of man and the swiftness of his inclining to his enemy and leaving the truth, He appointed to him, of His mercy, -repentance, that therewith he might arise from the slough<a id='r127' /><a href='#f127' class='c015'><sup>[127]</sup></a> of +repentance, that therewith he might arise from the slough<a id='r127' href='#f127' class='c015'><sup>[127]</sup></a> of inclination to disobedience and taking the arms and armour of <span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>repentance, overcome therewith his foe Iblis and his hosts and return to the Truth, wherein he was created. When Iblis saw that Allah (magnified be His praise!) had appointed him a protracted -term,<a id='r128' /><a href='#f128' class='c015'><sup>[128]</sup></a> he hastened to wage war upon man and to beset +term,<a id='r128' href='#f128' class='c015'><sup>[128]</sup></a> he hastened to wage war upon man and to beset him with wiles, to the intent that he might oust him from the favour of his Lord and make him a partaker with himself in the wrath which he and his hosts had incurred; wherefore Allah @@ -3952,7 +3934,7 @@ depart from His will? Deemest thou not that He is able to turn His creatures from this disobedience and compel them eternally to hold the Truth?” Answered Shimas, “In very sooth Almighty Allah (honoured be His name!) is just and equitable and loving-kind -to the people of His affection.<a id='r129' /><a href='#f129' class='c015'><sup>[129]</sup></a> He created His creatures +to the people of His affection.<a id='r129' href='#f129' class='c015'><sup>[129]</sup></a> He created His creatures with justice and equity and of the inspiration of His justice and the overflowing of His mercy, He gave them kingship over themselves, that they should do whatever they might design. He @@ -3960,13 +3942,13 @@ showeth them the way of righteousness and bestoweth on them the power and ability of doing what they will of good: and if they do the opposite thereof, they fall into destruction and disobedience.” <span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>(¿) “If the Creator, as thou sayest, have granted to -mankind power and ability<a id='r130' /><a href='#f130' class='c015'><sup>[130]</sup></a> and they by reason thereof are empowered +mankind power and ability<a id='r130' href='#f130' class='c015'><sup>[130]</sup></a> and they by reason thereof are empowered to do whatso they will, why then doth He not come between them and that which they desire of wrong and turn them to the right?”—“This is of the greatness of His mercy and the goodliness of His wisdom; for, even as aforetime he showed wrath to Iblis and had no mercy on him, even so he showed -Adam mercy, by means<a id='r131' /><a href='#f131' class='c015'><sup>[131]</sup></a> of repentance, and accepted of him, +Adam mercy, by means<a id='r131' href='#f131' class='c015'><sup>[131]</sup></a> of repentance, and accepted of him, after He had been wroth with him.” (¿) “He is indeed mere Truth, for He it is who requiteth every one according to his works, and there is no Creator save Allah who hath power over @@ -3986,7 +3968,7 @@ ill, for that in it is His ill-will. Indeed, it behoveth thee to know Allah and to please Him by the practice of good, for that He hath bidden us to this and forbidden us to do evil.” (¿) “I see these two things, to wit, good and evil, to be wrought only by the five -senses familiarly known in the body of man, which be the sensorium<a id='r132' /><a href='#f132' class='c015'><sup>[132]</sup></a> +senses familiarly known in the body of man, which be the sensorium<a id='r132' href='#f132' class='c015'><sup>[132]</sup></a> whence proceed speech, hearing, sight, smell and touch. Now I would have thee tell me whether these five senses were created altogether for good or for evil.”—“Apprehend, O man, the @@ -3996,7 +3978,7 @@ so lay it up in thine innermost thought and take it to thy heart. created man with Truth and impressed him with the love thereof and there proceedeth from it no created thing save by the puissance of the Most High, whose trace is in every phenomenon. -He<a id='r133' /><a href='#f133' class='c015'><sup>[133]</sup></a> (extol we Him and exalt we Him!) is not apt but to the +He<a id='r133' href='#f133' class='c015'><sup>[133]</sup></a> (extol we Him and exalt we Him!) is not apt but to the ordering of justice and equity and beneficence, and He created man for the love of Him and set in him a soul, wherein the inclination to lusts was innate and assigned him capability and ableness and @@ -4025,7 +4007,7 @@ man practiseth, they proceed from the body by command of the soul. But the lusts which proceed from the body are of two kinds, the lust of reproduction and the lust of the belly. As for the former, that which pleaseth Allah thereof is that it be not other -than lawful<a id='r134' /><a href='#f134' class='c015'><sup>[134]</sup></a> and He is displeased with it if contrary to His law. +than lawful<a id='r134' href='#f134' class='c015'><sup>[134]</sup></a> and He is displeased with it if contrary to His law. <span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>As for the lust of the belly, eating and drinking, what pleaseth Allah thereof is that each take naught save that which the Almighty hath appointed him be it little or mickle, and praise @@ -4061,7 +4043,7 @@ lusts for us but of His pleasure and volunty and He bade us use them in the way of lawfulness, so they might be to us a good; but, when we use them in the way of sinfulness they are to us an evil. Therefore what of righteous we compass is from Allah Almighty, -and what of wrongous from ourselves<a id='r135' /><a href='#f135' class='c015'><sup>[135]</sup></a> His creatures, not from the +and what of wrongous from ourselves<a id='r135' href='#f135' class='c015'><sup>[135]</sup></a> His creatures, not from the Creator, exalted be He herefor with highmost exaltation!”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -4094,13 +4076,13 @@ its people is secure from its changefulness and even if one have power over it and be content therewith, yet there is no help but that his estate change and removal hasten unto him. Wherefore man can put no trust therein nor profit by that which he enjoyeth -of its gilding and glitter<a id='r136' /><a href='#f136' class='c015'><sup>[136]</sup></a>; and we knowing this will know that the +of its gilding and glitter<a id='r136' href='#f136' class='c015'><sup>[136]</sup></a>; and we knowing this will know that the sorriest of men in condition are those who are deluded by this world and are unmindful of the other world; for that whatso of present ease they enjoy will not even the fear and misery and horrors which will befal them after their removal therefrom. Thus are we certified that, if the creature knew that which will -betide him with the coming of death<a id='r137' /><a href='#f137' class='c015'><sup>[137]</sup></a> and his severance from that +betide him with the coming of death<a id='r137' href='#f137' class='c015'><sup>[137]</sup></a> and his severance from that which he enjoyeth of pleasure and delight, he would cast away the world and that which is therein; for we are certified that the <span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>next life is better for us and more profitable.” Said the Prince, @@ -4122,7 +4104,7 @@ concur all creatures?”—“Men concur in meat and drink, the sweet of sleep, the lust of women and the agonies of death.” (¿) “What are the three things whose foulness none can do away?”—“Folly, meanness of nature, and lying.” (¿) “What is -the best kind of lie,<a id='r138' /><a href='#f138' class='c015'><sup>[138]</sup></a> though all kinds are foul?”—“That which +the best kind of lie,<a id='r138' href='#f138' class='c015'><sup>[138]</sup></a> though all kinds are foul?”—“That which averteth harm from its utterer and bringeth gain.” (¿) “What kind of truthfulness is foul, though all kinds are fair?”—“That of a man glorying in that which he hath and vaunting himself @@ -4135,7 +4117,7 @@ son after thee, and we will be thy servants and lieges.” So the King exhorted the Olema and others who were in the presence to remember that which they had heard and do according thereto and enjoined them to obey his son’s commandment, for that he -made him his heir-apparent,<a id='r139' /><a href='#f139' class='c015'><sup>[139]</sup></a> so he should be the successor of the +made him his heir-apparent,<a id='r139' href='#f139' class='c015'><sup>[139]</sup></a> so he should be the successor of the King his sire; and he took an oath of all the people of his empire, <span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>literates and braves and old men and boys, to mention none other, that they would not oppose him in the succession nor @@ -4181,7 +4163,7 @@ say.</p> <p class='c000'>She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when King Jali’ad charged his son with such injunctions and made him his heir to succeed him in his reign, the Prince said, “O dear -father mine,<a id='r140' /><a href='#f140' class='c015'><sup>[140]</sup></a> thou knowest that I have ever been to thee obedient +father mine,<a id='r140' href='#f140' class='c015'><sup>[140]</sup></a> thou knowest that I have ever been to thee obedient and thy commandment carrying out, mindful of thine injunctions <span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>and thine approof seeking; for thou hast been to me the best of fathers; how, then, after thy death, shall I depart from that which @@ -4198,7 +4180,7 @@ soothfast; when thou promisest, perform; when thou judgest, do justice; when thou hast power, be merciful; deal generously by thy governors and lieutenants; forgive thy foes; be lavish of good offices to thine adversary, and stay thy mischief from him. Observe -also other ten precepts,<a id='r141' /><a href='#f141' class='c015'><sup>[141]</sup></a> wherewith Allah shall profit thee +also other ten precepts,<a id='r141' href='#f141' class='c015'><sup>[141]</sup></a> wherewith Allah shall profit thee among the people of thy realm, to wit, when thou dividest, be just; when thou punishest, oppress not; when thou engagest thyself, fulfil thine engagement; hearken to those that give thee loyal @@ -4222,7 +4204,7 @@ commandment, for that in this is the well-being of your conditions. So be ye constant with him anent that wherein ye were with me and your estate shall prosper and your affairs be fair; for behold, he hath the Kingship over you and is the lord of your -<span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>fortune, and—The Peace?” Then the death-agony<a id='r142' /><a href='#f142' class='c015'><sup>[142]</sup></a> seized him +<span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>fortune, and—The Peace?” Then the death-agony<a id='r142' href='#f142' class='c015'><sup>[142]</sup></a> seized him and his tongue was bridled: so he pressed his son to him and kissed him and gave thanks unto Allah; after which his hour came and his soul fared forth. All his subjects and the people of his @@ -4266,12 +4248,12 @@ for days and months nor cometh there forth from him any commandment to us or to the Wazir or any else. We cannot refer aught of our need to him and he looketh not to the administration of justice nor taketh thought to the condition of any of his subjects, in his -disregard of them.<a id='r143' /><a href='#f143' class='c015'><sup>[143]</sup></a> And behold we are come to acquaint thee with +disregard of them.<a id='r143' href='#f143' class='c015'><sup>[143]</sup></a> And behold we are come to acquaint thee with the truth of things, for that thou art the chiefest and most accomplished of us and it behoveth not that calamity befal a land wherein thou dwellest, seeing that thou art most able of any to amend this King. Wherefore go thou and speak with him: haply -he will hearken to thy word and return unto the way of Allah.”<a id='r144' /><a href='#f144' class='c015'><sup>[144]</sup></a> +he will hearken to thy word and return unto the way of Allah.”<a id='r144' href='#f144' class='c015'><sup>[144]</sup></a> So Shimas arose forthright and repairing to the palace, foregathered with the first page he could find and said to him, “Fair my son, I beseech thee ask leave for me to go in to the King, for I @@ -4328,7 +4310,7 @@ as He never vouchsafed unto any of the Kings before thee, and hath fulfilled the measure of his bounties to thee with the Kingship; and He loveth not that thou depart from that wherewith He hath endowed thee unto other than it, by means of thy disobedience -to Him; wherefore it behoveth thee not to levy war against<a id='r145' /><a href='#f145' class='c015'><sup>[145]</sup></a> Him +to Him; wherefore it behoveth thee not to levy war against<a id='r145' href='#f145' class='c015'><sup>[145]</sup></a> Him with thy hoards but of His injunctions to be mindful and unto His commandments obedient. Indeed, I have seen thee, this while past, forget thy sire and his charges and reject his covenant and @@ -4363,7 +4345,7 @@ he turned and found himself far from the bank. But albeit he saw what the stream had done with him, he would not loose the fish and return, but ventured life and gripping it fast with both hands, let his body float with the flow, which carried him on till it cast him -into a whirlpool<a id='r146' /><a href='#f146' class='c015'><sup>[146]</sup></a> none might enter and come out therefrom. With +into a whirlpool<a id='r146' href='#f146' class='c015'><sup>[146]</sup></a> none might enter and come out therefrom. With this he fell to crying out and saying, “Save a drowning man!” And there came to him folk of the keepers of the river and said to him, “What ailed thee to cast thyself into this great peril?” @@ -4384,7 +4366,7 @@ thee from thy duties and look to that which is committed to thee of the rule of thy folk and the maintenance of the order of thy realm, so that none may see fault in thee.” The King asked, “What wouldst thou have me do?” And Shimas answered, “To-morrow, -an thou be well and in good case,<a id='r147' /><a href='#f147' class='c015'><sup>[147]</sup></a> give the folk leave to +an thou be well and in good case,<a id='r147' href='#f147' class='c015'><sup>[147]</sup></a> give the folk leave to come in to thee and look into their affairs and excuse thyself to them and promise them of thine own accord good governance and prosperity.” Quoth the King, “O Shimas, thou hast spoken @@ -4394,7 +4376,7 @@ told the lieges all he had said to him; and, when morning morrowed, the King came forth of his privacy and bade admit the people, to whom he excused himself, promising them that thenceforward he would deal with them as they wished, wherewith they -were content and departed each to his own dwelling.<a id='r148' /><a href='#f148' class='c015'><sup>[148]</sup></a> Then one +were content and departed each to his own dwelling.<a id='r148' href='#f148' class='c015'><sup>[148]</sup></a> Then one of the King’s wives, who was his best-beloved of them and most in honour with him, visited him and seeing him changed of colour <span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>and thoughtful over his affairs, by reason of that which he had @@ -4558,7 +4540,7 @@ thou canst water it when thou wilt.” And she would take neither excuse nor reason from him, but was instant with him in seeking carnal coition. So he arose and lay with her, which when the young men aforesaid saw, they ran upon them and seized -them,<a id='r149' /><a href='#f149' class='c015'><sup>[149]</sup></a> saying, “We will not let you go, for ye are adulterers, and +them,<a id='r149' href='#f149' class='c015'><sup>[149]</sup></a> saying, “We will not let you go, for ye are adulterers, and except we have carnal knowledge of the woman, we will report <span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>you to the police.” Answered the man, “Fie upon you! This is my wife and I am the master of the garden.” They paid no @@ -4597,7 +4579,7 @@ this came to the ears of the favourite wife; whereupon she went in to the King and said to him, “The subjects of a King should be his slaves; but I see, O King, thou art become a slave to thy subjects, because thou standest in awe of them and fearest their -mischief.<a id='r150' /><a href='#f150' class='c015'><sup>[150]</sup></a> They do but desire to make proof of thine inner man; +mischief.<a id='r150' href='#f150' class='c015'><sup>[150]</sup></a> They do but desire to make proof of thine inner man; and if they find thee weak, they will disdain thee; but, if they find thee stout and brave, they will dread thee. On this wise do ill Wazirs with their King, for that their wiles are many; but I will make manifest @@ -4624,7 +4606,7 @@ merchant’s lodging and him sitting eating the noonday dinner. So he asked him, “Dost thou need thee a physician?;” and the trader answered, “I need naught of the kind; but sit thee down and eat with me.” The thief sat down facing him and began to -eat. Now this merchant was a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">belle fourchette</span></i>; and the Robber +eat. Now this merchant was a <i><span lang="fr">belle fourchette</span></i>; and the Robber seeing this, said to himself, “I have found my chance.” Then he turned to his host and said to him, “’Tis but right for me to give thee an admonition; and after thy kindness to me, I cannot hide it @@ -4641,7 +4623,7 @@ find him who knoweth my remedy?”; and the Robber answered “Allah is the Healer; but a physician like myself cureth the sick to the best of his power.” Then the other said, “Show me at once my remedy and give me thereof.” Hereupon he gave -him a powder, wherein was a strong dose of aloes,<a id='r151' /><a href='#f151' class='c015'><sup>[151]</sup></a> saying, “Use +him a powder, wherein was a strong dose of aloes,<a id='r151' href='#f151' class='c015'><sup>[151]</sup></a> saying, “Use <span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span>this to-night;” and he accepted it gratefully. When the night came, the Merchant tasted somewhat of the powder and found it nauseous of gust; nevertheless he misdoubted not of it, but @@ -4650,7 +4632,7 @@ the thief brought him another powder, wherein was yet more aloes, and he took it: it purged him that night, but he bore patiently with this and rejected it not. When the Robber saw that he gave ear unto his word and put trust in him nor would gainsay him in -aught, he brought him a deadly drug<a id='r152' /><a href='#f152' class='c015'><sup>[152]</sup></a> and gave it to him. The +aught, he brought him a deadly drug<a id='r152' href='#f152' class='c015'><sup>[152]</sup></a> and gave it to him. The Merchant swallowed it and no sooner had he done this than that which was in his stomach fell down and his bowels were rent in sunder, and by the morrow he was a dead man; whereupon the @@ -4672,8 +4654,8 @@ from rising against him and taking the Kingship from him but his father’s goodness to us and that which he required from us of oaths and engagements. However, to-morrow, we will all, to the last of us, assemble here with our arms and break down the gate -<span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>of the citadel<a id='r153' /><a href='#f153' class='c015'><sup>[153]</sup></a>; and if he come forth to us and do that which we -wish, no harm is yet done<a id='r154' /><a href='#f154' class='c015'><sup>[154]</sup></a>; else we will go in to him and slay +<span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>of the citadel<a id='r153' href='#f153' class='c015'><sup>[153]</sup></a>; and if he come forth to us and do that which we +wish, no harm is yet done<a id='r154' href='#f154' class='c015'><sup>[154]</sup></a>; else we will go in to him and slay him and put the Kingdom in the hand of other than he.” So the Wazir Shimas went in to him and said, “O King, that grovellest in thy gusts and thy lusts, what is this thou dost with thyself? @@ -4728,7 +4710,7 @@ tale of</p> <h3 id='c103' class='c018'><em>THE JACKALS AND THE WOLF</em>.”</h3> -<p class='c019'>A pack of Jackals<a id='r155' /><a href='#f155' class='c015'><sup>[155]</sup></a> went out one day to seek food, and as they +<p class='c019'>A pack of Jackals<a id='r155' href='#f155' class='c015'><sup>[155]</sup></a> went out one day to seek food, and as they prowled about in quest of this, behold, they happened upon a dead camel and said in themselves, “Verily we have found wherewithal we may live a great while; but we fear lest one of us oppress the @@ -4756,8 +4738,8 @@ myself? Surely, ’tis Allah who hath bestowed it on me by way of <span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>provision without any obligation to any of them. It were best that I keep it for myself, and henceforth I will give them naught.” Accordingly, next morning when the Jackals came to him, as was -their wont, and sought of him their food, saying, “O Abu Sirhán,<a id='r156' /><a href='#f156' class='c015'><sup>[156]</sup></a> -give us our day’s provender,<a id='r157' /><a href='#f157' class='c015'><sup>[157]</sup></a>” he answered saying, “I have +their wont, and sought of him their food, saying, “O Abu Sirhán,<a id='r156' href='#f156' class='c015'><sup>[156]</sup></a> +give us our day’s provender,<a id='r157' href='#f157' class='c015'><sup>[157]</sup></a>” he answered saying, “I have nothing left to give you.” Whereupon they went away in the sorriest plight, saying, “Verily, Allah hath cast us into grievous trouble with this foul traitor, who regardeth not Allah nor feareth @@ -4784,7 +4766,7 @@ So they betook themselves to the Lion and acquainted him with that which had betided them from the Wolf, saying, “We are thy slaves and come to thee imploring thy protection, so thou mayst deliver us from this Wolf, and we will be thy thralls.” When the -Lion heard their story, he was jealous for Almighty Allah<a id='r158' /><a href='#f158' class='c015'><sup>[158]</sup></a> and +Lion heard their story, he was jealous for Almighty Allah<a id='r158' href='#f158' class='c015'><sup>[158]</sup></a> and went with them in quest of the Wolf who, seeing him approach <span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>addressed himself to flight; but the Lion ran after him and seizing him, rent him in pieces and restored their prey to the Jackals. @@ -4823,7 +4805,7 @@ that?” and she answered, “They relate this adventure of</p> <div> <span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span> - <h3 id='c106' class='c018'><em>THE SHEPHERD AND THE ROGUE</em>.<a id='r159' /><a href='#f159' class='c015'><sup>[159]</sup></a></h3> + <h3 id='c106' class='c018'><em>THE SHEPHERD AND THE ROGUE</em>.<a id='r159' href='#f159' class='c015'><sup>[159]</sup></a></h3> </div> <p class='c019'>There was once a Shepherd, who fed a flock of sheep in the wold @@ -4833,7 +4815,7 @@ assiduous in guarding them, sleeping not by night nor neglecting them by day, prowled about him all the livelong night, but could plunder nothing from him. So, when he was weary of striving, he betook himself to another part of the waste and trapping a lion, -skinned him and stuffed his hide with bruised straw<a id='r160' /><a href='#f160' class='c015'><sup>[160]</sup></a>; after which +skinned him and stuffed his hide with bruised straw<a id='r160' href='#f160' class='c015'><sup>[160]</sup></a>; after which he set it up on a high place in the desert, where the Shepherd might see it and be assured thereof. Then he accosted the Shepherd and said to him, “Yonder lion hath sent me to demand @@ -4907,7 +4889,7 @@ secret and lief to thy love; and charge them on the morrow to stand at thy head and bid them suffer none of the folk to enter, save one by one; and all who enter do thou say:—Seize them and do them die. An they agree with thee upon this, to-morrow set -<span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>up thy throne in the Divan<a id='r161' /><a href='#f161' class='c015'><sup>[161]</sup></a> and open thy doors. When the folk +<span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>up thy throne in the Divan<a id='r161' href='#f161' class='c015'><sup>[161]</sup></a> and open thy doors. When the folk see that thou hast opened to them their minds will be set at ease and they will come to thee with a whole heart, and seek admission to thee. Then do thou admit them, one after one, even as I said @@ -4969,7 +4951,7 @@ went from the presence to the ringleaders of the commons and said to them, “To-morrow the Sovran will come forth to you and will deal with you as ye desire.” So they hied them to their homes. On such wise fared it with them; but as regards the Monarch, he -summoned ten slaves of gigantic stature,<a id='r162' /><a href='#f162' class='c015'><sup>[162]</sup></a> men of hard heart and +summoned ten slaves of gigantic stature,<a id='r162' href='#f162' class='c015'><sup>[162]</sup></a> men of hard heart and prow of prowess, whom he had chosen from amongst his father’s body-guards; and said to them, “Ye know the favour, esteem and high rank ye held with my sire and all the bounties, benefits and @@ -5005,11 +4987,11 @@ kill him and hide his corpse.” The slaves answered, “We hearken to thy hest and obey thy order”: whereupon he gave them gifts and dismissed them for the night. On the morrow he summoned the thralls and bade set up the royal seat: then he donned his -kingly robes and taking the Book of law-cases<a id='r163' /><a href='#f163' class='c015'><sup>[163]</sup></a> in his hands, +kingly robes and taking the Book of law-cases<a id='r163' href='#f163' class='c015'><sup>[163]</sup></a> in his hands, posted the ten slaves before him and commanded to open the doors. So they opened the doors and the herald proclaimed aloud, saying, “Whoso hath authority, let him come to the King’s -carpet<a id='r164' /><a href='#f164' class='c015'><sup>[164]</sup></a>!” Whereupon up came the Wazirs and Prefects and +carpet<a id='r164' href='#f164' class='c015'><sup>[164]</sup></a>!” Whereupon up came the Wazirs and Prefects and Chamberlains and stood, each in his rank. Then the King bade admit them, one after one, and the first to enter was Shimas, according to the custom of the Grand Wazir; but no sooner had @@ -5017,15 +4999,15 @@ he presented himself before the King, and ere he could beware, the ten slaves gat about him, and dragging him into the adjoining chamber, despatched him. On like wise did they with the rest of the Wazirs and Olema and Notables, slaying them, one after -other, till they made a clean finish.<a id='r165' /><a href='#f165' class='c015'><sup>[165]</sup></a> Then the King called the +other, till they made a clean finish.<a id='r165' href='#f165' class='c015'><sup>[165]</sup></a> Then the King called the <span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span>headsmen and bade them ply sword upon all who remained of the folk of valour and stowre: so they fell on them and left none whom they knew for a man of mettle but they slew him, sparing -only the <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">proletaires</span> and the refuse of the people. These they +only the <span lang="fr">proletaires</span> and the refuse of the people. These they drove away and they returned each to his folk, whilst the King secluded himself with his pleasures and surrendered his soul to its lusts, working tyranny, oppression and violence, till he outraced all -the men of evil who had forerun him.<a id='r166' /><a href='#f166' class='c015'><sup>[166]</sup></a> Now this King’s dominion +the men of evil who had forerun him.<a id='r166' href='#f166' class='c015'><sup>[166]</sup></a> Now this King’s dominion was a mine of gold and silver and jacinths and jewels and the neighbouring rulers, one and all, envied him this empire and looked for calamity to betide him. Moreover, one of them, the King of @@ -5052,7 +5034,7 @@ thee; wherefore do thou give ear to my word and obey the commandment of me and build me an impregnable castle amiddlemost the sea * An thou can not do this, depart thy realm and with thy life go flee * for I will send unto thee, from the farthest ends of -Hind, twelve hordes<a id='r167' /><a href='#f167' class='c015'><sup>[167]</sup></a> of horse, each twelve thousand fighting-men +Hind, twelve hordes<a id='r167' href='#f167' class='c015'><sup>[167]</sup></a> of horse, each twelve thousand fighting-men strong, who shall enter thy land and spoil thy goods and slay thy men and carry thy women into captivity * Moreover, I will make <span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>my Wazir, Badí’a captain over them and bid him lay strait siege @@ -5171,7 +5153,7 @@ seeking ease for himself, and plucked out his wing-feathers, one by one, in accordance with the rede approved of by the Tortoise; then he took up his abode with them and contented himself with the little ease and transient pleasure he enjoyed. Presently up -came a Weasel<a id='r168' /><a href='#f168' class='c015'><sup>[168]</sup></a> and glancing at the Francolin, saw that his wings +came a Weasel<a id='r168' href='#f168' class='c015'><sup>[168]</sup></a> and glancing at the Francolin, saw that his wings were plucked, so that he could not fly, whereat he rejoiced with joy exceeding and said to himself, “Verily yonder Francolin is fat of flesh and scant of feather.” So he went up to him and seized @@ -5247,7 +5229,7 @@ chief of his council; but right soon thou shalt see how Allah will do with him by reason of his sins against them and how He shall avenge them of him.” The other boy asked, “What can Allah do now that they are dead?”; and his fellow answered, “Know that -the King of Outer Hind<a id='r169' /><a href='#f169' class='c015'><sup>[169]</sup></a> maketh light of our monarch, and hath +the King of Outer Hind<a id='r169' href='#f169' class='c015'><sup>[169]</sup></a> maketh light of our monarch, and hath sent him a letter berating him and saying to him:—Build me a castle amiddlemost the sea, or I will send unto thee Badi’a my Wazir, with twelve hordes of horse, each twelve thousand strong, @@ -5274,7 +5256,7 @@ himself and his subjects and thou art right in that which thou sayest. But tell me, O my son, whence knowest thou that the King of Outer Hind hath written him a letter, berating him and bespeaking him with the grievous speech whereof thou tellest?” -The boy replied, “O brother, I know this from the sand<a id='r170' /><a href='#f170' class='c015'><sup>[170]</sup></a> wherewith +The boy replied, “O brother, I know this from the sand<a id='r170' href='#f170' class='c015'><sup>[170]</sup></a> wherewith I take compt of night and day and from the saying of the ancients:—No mystery from Allah is hidden; for the sons of Adam have in them a spiritual virtue which discovereth to them @@ -5351,7 +5333,7 @@ King said, “And where is he?” “’Tis he who speaketh with me at this present,” said the boy. Rejoined the King, “Thou sayst sooth, O friend,” and bade set him a chair beside his own, whereon he made him sit and called for meat and drink. Then they -<span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span>talked awhile and the King said, “Ho thou the Wazir,<a id='r171' /><a href='#f171' class='c015'><sup>[171]</sup></a> in our +<span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span>talked awhile and the King said, “Ho thou the Wazir,<a id='r171' href='#f171' class='c015'><sup>[171]</sup></a> in our talk yesternight thou toldest me that thou hadst a device whereby thou couldst defend us from the malice of the King of Hind. What is this contrivance and how shall we manœuvre to ward off @@ -5368,12 +5350,12 @@ dear boy, was Shimas indeed thy sire?” The boy replied, Whereupon the King bowed his head, whilst the tears ran from his eyes, and he craved pardon of Allah. Then said he, “O boy, indeed I did this of my ignorance and by the evil counsel of the -women; for ‘Great indeed is their malice’<a id='r172' /><a href='#f172' class='c015'><sup>[172]</sup></a>: but I beseech thee to +women; for ‘Great indeed is their malice’<a id='r172' href='#f172' class='c015'><sup>[172]</sup></a>: but I beseech thee to forgive me and I will set thee in thy father’s stead and make thy rank higher than his rank. Moreover, an thou do away from us this retribution sent down from Heaven, I will deck thy neck with a collar of gold and mount thee on the goodliest of steeds and bid -the crier make proclamation before thee, saying:—This is the lief<a id='r173' /><a href='#f173' class='c015'><sup>[173]</sup></a> +the crier make proclamation before thee, saying:—This is the lief<a id='r173' href='#f173' class='c015'><sup>[173]</sup></a> boy, the Wazir who sitteth in the second seat after the King! And touching what thou sayest of the women, I have it in mind to do vengeance on them at such time as Almighty Allah shall @@ -5446,7 +5428,7 @@ conferred gifts upon him and installing him in his father’s office, sent him away rejoicing. And as soon as expired the three days of delay which he had appointed, the courier presented himself and going in to the King, demanded the answer; but he put him -off to another day; whereupon he went to the end of the carpet-room<a id='r174' /><a href='#f174' class='c015'><sup>[174]</sup></a> +off to another day; whereupon he went to the end of the carpet-room<a id='r174' href='#f174' class='c015'><sup>[174]</sup></a> and spake with unseemly speech, even as the boy had foresaid. Then he betook himself to the bazar and cried, “Ho, people of this city, I am a courier of the King of Outer Hind and @@ -5475,7 +5457,7 @@ O puissant potentate.” Quoth the King, “Write the reply forthright, on account of the courier, for that he is appointed a term and we have delayed him another day.” Quoth the boy, “With the readiest hearkening and obedience,” and pulling out paper -and inkcase<a id='r175' /><a href='#f175' class='c015'><sup>[175]</sup></a> wrote as follows:——And Shahrazad perceived the +and inkcase<a id='r175' href='#f175' class='c015'><sup>[175]</sup></a> wrote as follows:——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <div class='ph3'> @@ -5531,10 +5513,10 @@ the Almighty hath given me the victory over thee, for that thou hast transgressed against me and rebelled without due cause. Know, therefore, that thou hast merited retribution from the Lord and from me; but I fear Allah in respect of thee and thy -subjects<a id='r176' /><a href='#f176' class='c015'><sup>[176]</sup></a> and will not take horse against thee except after warning. +subjects<a id='r176' href='#f176' class='c015'><sup>[176]</sup></a> and will not take horse against thee except after warning. Wherefore, an thou also fear Allah, hasten to send me this year’s tribute; else will I not turn from my design to ride forth against -thee with a thousand thousand<a id='r177' /><a href='#f177' class='c015'><sup>[177]</sup></a> and an hundred thousand fighting-men, +thee with a thousand thousand<a id='r177' href='#f177' class='c015'><sup>[177]</sup></a> and an hundred thousand fighting-men, all furious giants on elephants, and I will range them round about my Wazir and bid him besiege thee three years, in lieu of the three days’ delay thou appointedst to thy messenger, and I @@ -5558,7 +5540,7 @@ So he told him all he had seen with his own eyes and heard with his own ears; whereat the King’s wit was confounded and he said, “Out on thee! What tale is this thou tellest me of the like of this King?” Answered the courier, “O mighty monarch, -here am I in thy presence,<a id='r178' /><a href='#f178' class='c015'><sup>[178]</sup></a> but open the letter and read it, and +here am I in thy presence,<a id='r178' href='#f178' class='c015'><sup>[178]</sup></a> but open the letter and read it, and the truth of my speech will be manifest to thee.” So the King opened the letter and read it and seeing the semblance of the boy who had written it, made sure of the loss of his kingdom and was @@ -5614,7 +5596,7 @@ affairs and of the maintenance of thy defences and neglectful of the interests of thy kingdom; so we let write unto thee what should arouse thy spirit. But, when we saw that thou returnedest us the like of this reply, our heart was set at ease for thee, -may Allah give thee enjoyment<a id='r179' /><a href='#f179' class='c015'><sup>[179]</sup></a> of thy kingdom and stablish +may Allah give thee enjoyment<a id='r179' href='#f179' class='c015'><sup>[179]</sup></a> of thy kingdom and stablish thee in thy dignity! And so peace be with thee.” Then he <span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>despatched the letter and the presents to Wird Khan with an escort of an hundred horse,——And Shahrazad perceived the @@ -5648,11 +5630,11 @@ The King thanked him for this and bestowed upon him honours and largesse and gave to all his men what befitted them and made ready presents to send by them and bade the boy Wazir indite an answer to their King’s letter. So the boy wrote a reply, -wherein, after an address<a id='r180' /><a href='#f180' class='c015'><sup>[180]</sup></a> beautiful exceedingly, he touched +wherein, after an address<a id='r180' href='#f180' class='c015'><sup>[180]</sup></a> beautiful exceedingly, he touched briefly on the question of reconciliation and praised the good breeding of the envoy and of his mounted men, and showed it, when duly finished, to the King who said to him, “Read it, O -thou dear boy, that we may know what is written<a id='r181' /><a href='#f181' class='c015'><sup>[181]</sup></a> therein.” +thou dear boy, that we may know what is written<a id='r181' href='#f181' class='c015'><sup>[181]</sup></a> therein.” So the boy read the letter in the presence of the hundred horse, <span class='pageno' id='Page_127'>127</span>and the King and all present marvelled at its ordinance of style and sense. Then the King sealed the letter and delivering it to @@ -5833,7 +5815,7 @@ be plucked out from thy reign; and we pray Him to withhold from thy people scarcity and calamity and sow among them the seed of love and friendship and cause them to enjoy of this world its prosperity and of the next felicity, of His grace and bounty -and hidden mercies. Amen!<a id='r182' /><a href='#f182' class='c015'><sup>[182]</sup></a> For He is over all things Omnipotent +and hidden mercies. Amen!<a id='r182' href='#f182' class='c015'><sup>[182]</sup></a> For He is over all things Omnipotent and there is naught difficult unto Him, to Him all things tend.” When the King heard the Wazir’s prayer, he was mightily rejoiced and inclined to him with his whole heart, saying, “Know, @@ -5961,7 +5943,7 @@ grievous lamentation. Thus Allah gave them their reward of abjection in this world and prepared for them torment in the world to come; nor did they cease to abide in that murky and noisome place, whilst every day one or other of them died, till they all -perished, even to the last of them;<a id='r183' /><a href='#f183' class='c015'><sup>[183]</sup></a> and the report of this event +perished, even to the last of them;<a id='r183' href='#f183' class='c015'><sup>[183]</sup></a> and the report of this event was bruited abroad in all lands and countries. This is the end of the story of the King and his Wazirs and subjects, and praise be to Allah who causeth peoples to pass away, and quickeneth the @@ -5969,13 +5951,13 @@ bones that rot in decay; Him who alone is worthy to be glorified and magnified alway and hallowed for ever and aye! And amongst the tales they tell is one of</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f55'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r55'>55</a>. </span>Lane omits because it is “extremely puerile” this most characteristic tale, one of the two oldest in The Nights which Al-Mas’udi mentions as belonging to the Hazár Afsáneh (See Terminal Essay). Von Hammer (Preface in Trébutien’s translation p. xxv.) -refers the fables to an Indian (Egyptian?) origin and remarks, “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">sous le rapport de leur +refers the fables to an Indian (Egyptian?) origin and remarks, “<span lang="fr">sous le rapport de leur antiquité et de la morale qu’ils renferment, elles méritent la plus grande attention, mais d’un autre côté elles ne sont rien moins qu’ amusantes.</span>”</p> </div> @@ -5985,7 +5967,7 @@ d’un autre côté elles ne sont rien moins qu’ amusantes.</span>”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f57'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r57'>57</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> When the tale begins.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r57'>57</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> When the tale begins.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f58'> @@ -5994,7 +5976,7 @@ d’un autre côté elles ne sont rien moins qu’ amusantes.</span>”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f59'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r59'>59</a>. </span>The Bresl. Edit. (viii. 3) writes “Kil’ád”: Trébutien (iii. 1) “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">le roi Djilia.</span>”</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r59'>59</a>. </span>The Bresl. Edit. (viii. 3) writes “Kil’ád”: Trébutien (iii. 1) “<span lang="fr">le roi Djilia.</span>”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f60'> @@ -6009,7 +5991,7 @@ In our European adaptations the mouse becomes a rat.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f62'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r62'>62</a>. </span>Arab. “Af’à,” pl. Afá’í = <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ὄφις</span>, both being derived from O. Egypt. Hfi, a +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r62'>62</a>. </span>Arab. “Af’à,” pl. Afá’í = <span lang="el">ὄφις</span>, both being derived from O. Egypt. Hfi, a worm, snake. Af’à is applied to many species of the larger ophidia, all supposed to be venomous, and synonymous with “Sall” (a malignant viper) in Al-Mutalammis. See Preston’s Al-Hariri, p. 101.</p> @@ -6044,7 +6026,7 @@ Glass;” the Persian version of the Hitopadesa or “Anwár-i-Suhayli” (Light by Husayn Vá’iz; the Foolish Sachali of “Indian Fairy Tales” (Miss Stokes); the allusion in Rabelais to the fate of the “Shoemaker and his pitcher of milk” and the “Dialogues of creatures moralised” (1516), whence probably La Fontaine drew his -fable, “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La Laitière et le Pot au lait.</span>”</p> +fable, “<span lang="fr">La Laitière et le Pot au lait.</span>”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f67'> @@ -6071,7 +6053,7 @@ spoken or written.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f71'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r71'>71</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I esteem thee as thou deservest.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r71'>71</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I esteem thee as thou deservest.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f72'> @@ -6085,7 +6067,7 @@ peoples.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f74'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r74'>74</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the parents.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r74'>74</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the parents.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f75'> @@ -6098,11 +6080,11 @@ he has attacked and mastered all the difficulties of its abstruser passages.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f76'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r76'>76</a>. </span>Arab. “Halummú” plur. of “Halumma” = draw near! The latter form is used by some tribes for all three numbers; others affect a dual and a plural (as in the text). -Preston (Al-Hariri, p. 210) derives it from Heb. <span lang="iw" xml:lang="iw">הלום</span> but the geographers of Kufah +Preston (Al-Hariri, p. 210) derives it from Heb. <span lang="he">הלום</span> but the geographers of Kufah and Basrah (who were not etymologists) are divided about its origin. He translates -(p. 221) “Halumma Jarran” = being the rest of the tale in continuation with this, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> +(p. 221) “Halumma Jarran” = being the rest of the tale in continuation with this, <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> in accordance with it, like our “and so forth.” And in p. 271, he makes Halumma = -Hayya <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> hither! (to prayer, etc).</p> +Hayya <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> hither! (to prayer, etc).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f77'> @@ -6153,7 +6135,7 @@ certainly.</p> whose relation to “Mauritania” see vol. vii. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54778/54778-h/54778-h.htm#Page_220">220</a>. It is almost synonymous with “Al-Gharb” = the West whence Portugal borrowed the two Algarves, one being in Southern Europe and the other over the straits about Tangier-Ceuta; fronting Spanish -Trafalgar, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Taraf al-Gharb, the edge of the West. I have noted (Pilgrimage i. 9) +Trafalgar, <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Taraf al-Gharb, the edge of the West. I have noted (Pilgrimage i. 9) the late Captain Peel’s mis-translation “Cape of Laurels” (Al-Ghár).</p> </div> @@ -6169,7 +6151,7 @@ to be confounded with the “pilgrim” proper.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f85'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r85'>85</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> a Religious, a wandering beggar.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r85'>85</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> a Religious, a wandering beggar.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f86'> @@ -6238,7 +6220,7 @@ or seven, the age at which royal education outside the Harem usually begins.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f97'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r97'>97</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> One for each day in the Moslem year. For these object-lessons, somewhat in +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r97'>97</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> One for each day in the Moslem year. For these object-lessons, somewhat in Kindergarten style, see the Book of Sindibad or The Malice of Women (vol. vi. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54525/54525-h/54525-h.htm#Page_126">126</a>).</p> </div> @@ -6253,21 +6235,21 @@ leopard is the lion’s Wazir.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f100'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r100'>100</a>. </span>Arab. “Kaun” lit. = Being, existence. Trébutien (iii. 20), has it, “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Qu’est-ce que +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r100'>100</a>. </span>Arab. “Kaun” lit. = Being, existence. Trébutien (iii. 20), has it, “<span lang="fr">Qu’est-ce que l’être (God), l’existence (Creation), l’être dans l’existence (the world), et la durée de l’être dans l’existence</span> (the other world).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f101'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r101'>101</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> for the purpose of requital. All the above is orthodox Moslem doctrine, which +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r101'>101</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> for the purpose of requital. All the above is orthodox Moslem doctrine, which utterly ignores the dictum “ex nihilo nihil fit;” and which would look upon Creation -by Law (Darwinism) as opposed to Creation by miracle (<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> the Mosaic cosmogony) +by Law (Darwinism) as opposed to Creation by miracle (<i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> the Mosaic cosmogony) as rank blasphemy. On the other hand the Eternity of Matter and its transcendental essence are tenets held by a host of Gnostics, philosophers and Eastern Agnostics.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f102'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r102'>102</a>. </span>This is a Moslem <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lieu commun</span></i>; usually man is likened to one suspended in a +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r102'>102</a>. </span>This is a Moslem <i><span lang="fr">lieu commun</span></i>; usually man is likened to one suspended in a bottomless well by a thin rope at which a rodent is continually gnawing and who amuses himself in licking a few drops of honey left by bees on the revetement.</p> </div> @@ -6380,7 +6362,7 @@ this essential point.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f114'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r114'>114</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> friends and acquaintances.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r114'>114</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> friends and acquaintances.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f115'> @@ -6412,7 +6394,7 @@ not done it.</p> between things objective as a dead body and states of things as death. We begin by giving a name, for facility of intercourse, to phases, phenomena and conditions of matter; and, having created the word we proceed to supply it with a fanciful entity, -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> “The Mind (a useful term to express the aggregate action of the brain, nervous +<i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> “The Mind (a useful term to express the aggregate action of the brain, nervous system etc.) of man is immortal.” The next step is personification as Time with his forelock, Death with his skull and Night (the absence of light) with her starry mantle. For poetry this abuse of language is a sine qua non, but it is deadly foe to all true @@ -6420,7 +6402,7 @@ philosophy.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f121'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r121'>121</a>. </span>Christians would naturally understand this “One Word” to be the <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">λόγος</span> of the +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r121'>121</a>. </span>Christians would naturally understand this “One Word” to be the <span lang="el">λόγος</span> of the Platonists, adopted by St. John (comparatively a late writer) and by the Alexandrian school, Jewish (as Philo Judæus) and Christian. But here the tale-teller alludes to the Divine Word “Kun” (be!) whereby the worlds came into existence.</p> @@ -6439,12 +6421,12 @@ who transgressed His commandment and erred in his obedience and brought falsehoo upon himself of his own will.” Here he borrows from the Bresl. Edit. viii. 84 (five first lines). But the doctrine is rather Jewish and Christian than Moslem: Al-Mas’údi (ii. 389) introduces a Copt in the presence of Ibn Tutún saying, “Prince, these people -(designing a Jew) pretend that Allah Almighty created Adam (<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> mankind) after His +(designing a Jew) pretend that Allah Almighty created Adam (<i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> mankind) after His own image” (’Alà Súrati-h).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f124'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r124'>124</a>. </span>Arab. “Istitá’ah” = ableness <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> “Al-hajj ’inda ’l-Istitá’ah” = Pilgrimage when +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r124'>124</a>. </span>Arab. “Istitá’ah” = ableness <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> “Al-hajj ’inda ’l-Istitá’ah” = Pilgrimage when a man is able thereto (by easy circumstances).</p> </div> @@ -6471,26 +6453,26 @@ Sciolists.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f128'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r128'>128</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Allowing the Devil to go about the world and seduce mankind until Doomsday +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r128'>128</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Allowing the Devil to go about the world and seduce mankind until Doomsday when “auld Sootie’s” occupation will be gone. Surely “Providence” might have managed better.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f129'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r129'>129</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> to those who deserve His love.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r129'>129</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> to those who deserve His love.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f130'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r130'>130</a>. </span>Here “Istitá’ah” would mean capability of action, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> freewill, which is a mere +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r130'>130</a>. </span>Here “Istitá’ah” would mean capability of action, <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> freewill, which is a mere word like “free trade.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f131'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r131'>131</a>. </span>Arab. “Bi al-taubah” which may also mean “for (on account of his) penitence.” The reader will note how the learned Shimas “dodges” the real question. He is -asked why the “Omnipotent, Omniscient did not prevent (<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> why He created) sin?” -He answers that He kindly permitted (<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> created and sanctioned) it that man might -repent. <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Proh pudor!</span> If any one thus reasoned of mundane matters he would be +asked why the “Omnipotent, Omniscient did not prevent (<i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> why He created) sin?” +He answers that He kindly permitted (<i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> created and sanctioned) it that man might +repent. <span lang="la">Proh pudor!</span> If any one thus reasoned of mundane matters he would be looked upon as the merest fool.</p> </div> @@ -6499,7 +6481,7 @@ looked upon as the merest fool.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f133'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r133'>133</a>. </span>Mr. Payne translates “it” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the Truth; but the formula following the word shows +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r133'>133</a>. </span>Mr. Payne translates “it” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the Truth; but the formula following the word shows that Allah is meant.</p> </div> @@ -6538,9 +6520,9 @@ it has laid before man the only possible and intelligible idea of a future state <div class='footnote' id='f138'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r138'>138</a>. </span>See vol. vi. p. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54525/54525-h/54525-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>. The only lie which degrades a man in his own estimation and in -that of others, is that told for fear of telling the truth. <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Au reste</span></i>, human society and +that of others, is that told for fear of telling the truth. <i><span lang="fr">Au reste</span></i>, human society and civilised intercourse are built upon a system of conventional lying; and many droll -stories illustrate the consequences of disregarding the dictum, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">la vérité n’est pas toujours +stories illustrate the consequences of disregarding the dictum, <i><span lang="fr">la vérité n’est pas toujours bonne à dire</span></i>.</p> </div> @@ -6671,7 +6653,7 @@ in p. 40, “Morocco and the Moors” by John Drummond Hay (Murray, 1861).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f158'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r158'>158</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He resolved to do them justice and win a reward from Heaven.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r158'>158</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He resolved to do them justice and win a reward from Heaven.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f159'> @@ -6705,11 +6687,11 @@ country.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f164'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r164'>164</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> sit before the King as referee, etc.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r164'>164</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> sit before the King as referee, etc.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f165'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r165'>165</a>. </span>This massacre of refractory chiefs is one of the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">grand moyens</span></i> of Eastern state-craft, +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r165'>165</a>. </span>This massacre of refractory chiefs is one of the <i><span lang="fr">grand moyens</span></i> of Eastern state-craft, and it is almost always successful because circumstances require it; popular opinion approves of it and it is planned and carried out with discretion and secrecy. The two familiar instances in our century are the massacre of the Mamelukes by Mohammed Ali @@ -6737,7 +6719,7 @@ had preserved instead of the classical “India” or the poetical “Ind.”</p </div> <div class='footnote' id='f170'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r170'>170</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by geomancy: see vol. iii. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52564/52564-h/52564-h.htm#Page_269">269</a> for a note on Al-Raml. The passage is not in +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r170'>170</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by geomancy: see vol. iii. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52564/52564-h/52564-h.htm#Page_269">269</a> for a note on Al-Raml. The passage is not in the Mac. Edit.</p> </div> @@ -6764,7 +6746,7 @@ compelled to be satisfied with Khadív (vulg. written Khedive, and pronounced ev </div> <div class='footnote' id='f174'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r174'>174</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The Throne room.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r174'>174</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The Throne room.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f175'> @@ -6774,19 +6756,19 @@ British Museum inscribed, “Amásis the good god and Lord of the two Lands.”< </div> <div class='footnote' id='f176'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r176'>176</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I am governed by the fear of Allah in my dealings to thee and thy subjects.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r176'>176</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I am governed by the fear of Allah in my dealings to thee and thy subjects.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f177'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r177'>177</a>. </span>Arabic has no single word for million although the Moroccans have adopted -“Milyún” from the Spaniards (see p. 100 of the <span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Rudimentos del Árabe vulgar que se +“Milyún” from the Spaniards (see p. 100 of the <span lang="es">Rudimentos del Árabe vulgar que se habla en el imperio de Marruccos por El P. Fr. Josè de Lerchundi, Madrid 1872</span>). This lack of the higher numerals, the reverse of the Hindu languages, makes Arabic “arithmology” very primitive and almost as cumbrous as the Chinese.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f178'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r178'>178</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I am thy slave to slay or to pardon.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r178'>178</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I am thy slave to slay or to pardon.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f179'> @@ -6829,7 +6811,7 @@ West and nowhere faster than in England.</p> </div> <p class='c017'>There dwelt once, in Alexandria city, two men, of whom one was -a dyer, by name Abú Kír, and the other a barber Abú Sír;<a id='r184' /><a href='#f184' class='c015'><sup>[184]</sup></a> and +a dyer, by name Abú Kír, and the other a barber Abú Sír;<a id='r184' href='#f184' class='c015'><sup>[184]</sup></a> and they were neighbours in the market-street, where their shops stood side by side. The dyer was a swindler and a liar, an exceeding wicked wight, as if indeed his head-temples were hewn out of a @@ -6873,7 +6855,7 @@ her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that every time the owner of an article came to the dyer he would put him off with -any pretext<a id='r185' /><a href='#f185' class='c015'><sup>[185]</sup></a> and would swear to him; nor would he cease to +any pretext<a id='r185' href='#f185' class='c015'><sup>[185]</sup></a> and would swear to him; nor would he cease to promise and swear to him, as often as he came, till the customer lost patience and said, “How often wilt thou say to me, ‘To-morrow?’ Give me my stuff: I will not have it dyed.” @@ -6907,7 +6889,7 @@ stuff and say, “Give me my wage in advance and come to-morrow and take the stuff.” So the stranger would advance him the money and wend his way; whereupon Abu Kir would carry the cloth to the market-street and sell it and with its price buy meat -and vegetables and tobacco<a id='r186' /><a href='#f186' class='c015'><sup>[186]</sup></a> and fruit and what not else he needed; +and vegetables and tobacco<a id='r186' href='#f186' class='c015'><sup>[186]</sup></a> and fruit and what not else he needed; but, whenever he saw any one who had given him stuff to dye standing at the door of his shop, he would not come forth to him or even show himself to him. On this wise he abode years and @@ -6922,9 +6904,9 @@ shop, nailed up the door, in presence of a number of Moslems, and sealed it, for that he saw therein naught save some broken pans of earthenware to stand him instead of his stuff; after which the serjeant took the key, saying to the neighbours, “Tell him to bring -back this man’s cloth then come to me<a id='r187' /><a href='#f187' class='c015'><sup>[187]</sup></a> and take his shop key;” +back this man’s cloth then come to me<a id='r187' href='#f187' class='c015'><sup>[187]</sup></a> and take his shop key;” and went his way, he and the man. Then said Abu Sir to Abu -Kir, “What ill business is this?<a id='r188' /><a href='#f188' class='c015'><sup>[188]</sup></a> Whoever bringeth thee aught +Kir, “What ill business is this?<a id='r188' href='#f188' class='c015'><sup>[188]</sup></a> Whoever bringeth thee aught thou losest it for him. What hath become of this angry man’s stuff?” Answered the dyer, “O my neighbour, ’twas stolen from me.” “Prodigious!” exclaimed the barber. “Whenever any one @@ -6937,7 +6919,7 @@ dyer answered, “Whenever any one giveth me aught to dye, I sell it and spend the price.” Quoth Abu Sir, “Is this permitted thee of Allah?” and quoth Abu Kir, “I do this only out of poverty, because business is slack with me and I am poor and have -nothing.”<a id='r189' /><a href='#f189' class='c015'><sup>[189]</sup></a> And he went on to complain to him of the dulness +nothing.”<a id='r189' href='#f189' class='c015'><sup>[189]</sup></a> And he went on to complain to him of the dulness of his trade and his lack of means. Abu Sir in like manner lamented the little profit of his own calling, saying, “I am a master of my craft and have not my equal in this city; but no one @@ -6981,7 +6963,7 @@ which decision Abu Kir rejoiced and improvised these lines:—</p> <p class='c000'>When they agreed to travel together Abu Kir said to Abu Sir, “O my neighbour, we are become brethren and there is no difference -between us, so it behoveth us to recite the Fátihah<a id='r190' /><a href='#f190' class='c015'><sup>[190]</sup></a> that he of us +between us, so it behoveth us to recite the Fátihah<a id='r190' href='#f190' class='c015'><sup>[190]</sup></a> that he of us who gets work shall of his gain feed him who is out of work, and whatever is left, we will lay in a chest; and when we return to Alexandria, we will divide it fairly and equally.” “So be it,” @@ -6989,7 +6971,7 @@ replied Abu Sir, and they repeated the Opening Chapter of the Koran on this understanding. Then Abu Sir locked up his shop and gave the key to its owner, whilst Abu Kir left his door locked and sealed and let the key lie with the Kazi’s serjeant; after which -they took their baggage and embarked on the morrow in a galleon<a id='r191' /><a href='#f191' class='c015'><sup>[191]</sup></a> +they took their baggage and embarked on the morrow in a galleon<a id='r191' href='#f191' class='c015'><sup>[191]</sup></a> upon the salt sea. They set sail the same day and fortune attended them, for, of Abu Sir’s great good luck, there was not a barber in the ship albeit it carried an hundred and twenty men, besides @@ -7002,10 +6984,10 @@ will say to me:—Come hither, O barber, and shave me, and I will shave him for a scone or a silver bit or a draught of water: so shall we profit by this, I and thou too.” “There’s no harm in that,” replied the dyer and laid down his head and slept, whilst -the barber took his gear and water-tasse<a id='r192' /><a href='#f192' class='c015'><sup>[192]</sup></a> and throwing over his +the barber took his gear and water-tasse<a id='r192' href='#f192' class='c015'><sup>[192]</sup></a> and throwing over his shoulder a rag, to serve as napkin (because he was poor), passed among the passengers. Quoth one of them, “Ho, master, come -and shave me.” So he shaved him, and the man gave him a half-dirham;<a id='r193' /><a href='#f193' class='c015'><sup>[193]</sup></a> +and shave me.” So he shaved him, and the man gave him a half-dirham;<a id='r193' href='#f193' class='c015'><sup>[193]</sup></a> whereupon quoth Abu Sir, “O my brother, I have no use for this bit; hadst thou given me a scone ’twere more blessed to me in this sea, for I have a shipmate and we are short of provision.” @@ -7020,10 +7002,10 @@ demand, because there was no other barber on board. Also he bargained with every one who said to him, “Ho, master, shave me!” for two loaves and a half-dirham, and they gave him whatever he sought, so that, by sundown, he had collected thirty loaves -and thirty silvers with store of cheese and olives and botargoes.<a id='r194' /><a href='#f194' class='c015'><sup>[194]</sup></a> +and thirty silvers with store of cheese and olives and botargoes.<a id='r194' href='#f194' class='c015'><sup>[194]</sup></a> And besides these he got from the passengers whatever he asked for and was soon in possession of things galore. Amongst -the rest he shaved the Captain,<a id='r195' /><a href='#f195' class='c015'><sup>[195]</sup></a> to whom he complained of his +the rest he shaved the Captain,<a id='r195' href='#f195' class='c015'><sup>[195]</sup></a> to whom he complained of his lack of victual for the voyage, and the skipper said to him, “Thou art welcome to bring thy comrade every night and sup with me and have no care for that so long as ye sail with us.” Then he @@ -7061,7 +7043,7 @@ supper and come back, for we tarry for thee.” Then he set apart a porringer of Kabábs and putting therein some of each dish, till there was enough for ten, gave it to Abu Sir, saying, “Take this to thy chum.” He took it and carried it to the dyer, whom he -found grinding away with his dog-teeth<a id='r196' /><a href='#f196' class='c015'><sup>[196]</sup></a> at the food which was +found grinding away with his dog-teeth<a id='r196' href='#f196' class='c015'><sup>[196]</sup></a> at the food which was before him, as he were a camel, and heaping mouthful on mouthful in his hurry. Quoth Abu Sir, “Did I not say to thee:—Eat <span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span>not of this? Indeed the Captain is a kindly man. See what @@ -7071,7 +7053,7 @@ he snatched it from him and fell upon his food, ravening for it and resembling a grinning dog or a raging lion or a Rukh pouncing on a pigeon or one well-nigh dead for hunger who seeing meat falls ravenously to eat. Then Abu Sir left him and going back to -the Captain, supped and enjoyed himself and drank coffee<a id='r197' /><a href='#f197' class='c015'><sup>[197]</sup></a> with +the Captain, supped and enjoyed himself and drank coffee<a id='r197' href='#f197' class='c015'><sup>[197]</sup></a> with him; after which he returned to Abu Kir and found that he had eaten all that was in the porringer and thrown it aside, empty.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her @@ -7100,18 +7082,18 @@ fared thus twenty days until the galleon cast anchor in the harbour of a city; whereupon they took leave of the skipper and landing, entered the town and hired them a closet in a Khan. Abu Sir furnished it and buying a cooking pot and a platter and -spoons<a id='r198' /><a href='#f198' class='c015'><sup>[198]</sup></a> and what else they needed, fetched meat and cooked it; +spoons<a id='r198' href='#f198' class='c015'><sup>[198]</sup></a> and what else they needed, fetched meat and cooked it; but Abu Kir fell asleep the moment he entered the Caravanserai -and awoke not till Abu Sir aroused him and set the tray of food<a id='r199' /><a href='#f199' class='c015'><sup>[199]</sup></a> +and awoke not till Abu Sir aroused him and set the tray of food<a id='r199' href='#f199' class='c015'><sup>[199]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_142'>142</span>before him. When he awoke, he ate and saying to Abu Sir, “Blame me not, for I am giddy,” fell asleep again. Thus he did forty days, whilst, every day, the barber took his gear and making -the round of the city, wrought for that which fell to his lot,<a id='r200' /><a href='#f200' class='c015'><sup>[200]</sup></a> and +the round of the city, wrought for that which fell to his lot,<a id='r200' href='#f200' class='c015'><sup>[200]</sup></a> and returning, found the dyer asleep and aroused him. The moment he awoke he fell ravenously upon the food, eating as one who cannot have his fill nor be satisfied; after which he went asleep again. On this wise he passed other forty days and whenever the -barber said to him, “Sit up and be comfortable<a id='r201' /><a href='#f201' class='c015'><sup>[201]</sup></a> and go forth +barber said to him, “Sit up and be comfortable<a id='r201' href='#f201' class='c015'><sup>[201]</sup></a> and go forth and take an airing in the city, for ’tis a gay place and a pleasant and hath not its equal among the cities,” he would reply, “Blame me not, for I am giddy.” Abu Sir cared not to hurt his feelings @@ -7170,7 +7152,7 @@ and the dyers of the town, adding, “I can dye various kinds of red, such as rose-colour and jujube-colour and various kinds of green, such as grass-green and pistachio-green and olive and parrot’s wing, and various kinds of black, such as coal-black and -Kohl-black, and various shades of yellow, such as orange<a id='r202' /><a href='#f202' class='c015'><sup>[202]</sup></a><a id='t143'></a> and +Kohl-black, and various shades of yellow, such as orange<a id='r202' href='#f202' class='c015'><sup>[202]</sup></a><a id='t143'></a> and lemon-colour,” and went on to name to him the rest of the colours. Then said he, “O King of the age, all the dyers in thy city can not turn out of hand any one of these tincts, for they know not how to @@ -7217,7 +7199,7 @@ him that they had done building the dyery and that there needed but the price of the dye-stuffs and gear to set it going. Quoth the King, “Take these four thousand dinars to thy capital and let me see the first fruits of thy dyery.” So he took the money and went -to the market where, finding dye-stuffs<a id='r203' /><a href='#f203' class='c015'><sup>[203]</sup></a> plentiful and well-nigh +to the market where, finding dye-stuffs<a id='r203' href='#f203' class='c015'><sup>[203]</sup></a> plentiful and well-nigh worthless, he bought all he needed of materials for dyeing; and the King sent him five hundred pieces of stuff, which he set himself to dye of all colours and then he spread them before the @@ -7248,7 +7230,7 @@ unconscious for three successive days, at the end of which the Concierge of the Khan, chancing to look at the door, observed that it was locked and bethought himself that he had not seen and heard aught of the two companions for some time. So he said in -his mind, “Haply they have made off, without paying rent,<a id='r204' /><a href='#f204' class='c015'><sup>[204]</sup></a> or +his mind, “Haply they have made off, without paying rent,<a id='r204' href='#f204' class='c015'><sup>[204]</sup></a> or perhaps they are dead, or what is to do with them?” And he waited till sunset, when he went up to the door and heard the barber groaning within. He saw the key in the lock; so he @@ -7272,7 +7254,7 @@ requite him his deed.” So he went away and cooked him some broth, whereof he ladled out a plateful and brought it to him; nor did he cease to tend him and maintain him with his own monies for two months’ space, when the barber -sweated<a id='r205' /><a href='#f205' class='c015'><sup>[205]</sup></a> and the Almighty made him whole of his sickness. +sweated<a id='r205' href='#f205' class='c015'><sup>[205]</sup></a> and the Almighty made him whole of his sickness. Then he stood up and said to the porter, “An ever the Most High Lord enable me, I will surely requite thee thy kindness to me; but none requiteth save the Lord of His bounty!” @@ -7290,7 +7272,7 @@ hight; and whenever he dyeth new stuff, we all flock to him and divert ourselves by gazing upon his handiwork, for we have no dyers in our land who know how to stain with these colours; and indeed there befel him with the dyers who are in the city that -which befel.”<a id='r206' /><a href='#f206' class='c015'><sup>[206]</sup></a> And he went on to tell him all that had passed +which befel.”<a id='r206' href='#f206' class='c015'><sup>[206]</sup></a> And he went on to tell him all that had passed between Abu Kir and the master-dyers and how he had complained of them to the Sultan who took him by the hand and <span class='pageno' id='Page_147'>147</span>built him that dyery and gave him this and that: brief, he recounted @@ -7316,7 +7298,7 @@ saw him and salute him and entreat him with honour and make much of him; but, when eye fell upon eye, the dyer said to him, “O scoundrel, how many a time have I bidden thee stand not at the door of the workshop? Hast thou a mind to disgrace me -with the folk, thief<a id='r207' /><a href='#f207' class='c015'><sup>[207]</sup></a> that thou art? Seize him.” So the blackamoors +with the folk, thief<a id='r207' href='#f207' class='c015'><sup>[207]</sup></a> that thou art? Seize him.” So the blackamoors ran at him and laid hold of him; and the dyer rose up from his seat and said, “Throw him.” Accordingly they threw him down and Abu Kir took a stick and dealt him an hundred @@ -7400,7 +7382,7 @@ confounded at its decorations. So the people crowded to this spectacle, whose like they had never in their lives seen, and solaced themselves by staring at it and saying, “What is this thing?” To which Abu Sir replied, “This is a Hammam;” and they -marvelled thereat. Then he heated water and set the bath a-working,<a id='r208' /><a href='#f208' class='c015'><sup>[208]</sup></a> +marvelled thereat. Then he heated water and set the bath a-working,<a id='r208' href='#f208' class='c015'><sup>[208]</sup></a> and he made a jetting fountain in the great basin, which ravished the wit of all who saw it of the people of the city. Furthermore, he sought of the King ten Mamelukes not yet come @@ -7420,13 +7402,13 @@ the Baths, where he put off his clothes and entered; then Abu Sir came in to him and rubbed his body with the bag-gloves, peeling from his skin dirt-rolls like lamp-wicks and showing them <span class='pageno' id='Page_150'>150</span>to the King, who rejoiced therein, and clapping his hand upon -his limbs heard them ring again for very smoothness and cleanliness<a id='r209' /><a href='#f209' class='c015'><sup>[209]</sup></a>; +his limbs heard them ring again for very smoothness and cleanliness<a id='r209' href='#f209' class='c015'><sup>[209]</sup></a>; after which thorough washing Abu Sir mingled rose-water with the water of the tank and the King went down therein. When he came forth, his body was refreshed and he felt a lightness and liveliness such as he had never known in his life. Then the barber made him sit on the daïs and the boys proceeded to -shampoo him, whilst the censers fumed with the finest lign-aloes.<a id='r210' /><a href='#f210' class='c015'><sup>[210]</sup></a> +shampoo him, whilst the censers fumed with the finest lign-aloes.<a id='r210' href='#f210' class='c015'><sup>[210]</sup></a> Then said the King, “O master is this the Hammam?”; and Abu Sir said, “Yes.” Quoth the King, “As my head liveth, my city is not become a city indeed but by this Bath,” presently adding, @@ -7438,7 +7420,7 @@ age! All men are not alike, but there are amongst them rich and poor, and if I take of each a thousand dinars, the Hammam will stand empty, for the poor man cannot pay this price.” Asked the King, “How then wilt thou do for the price!”; and the barber -answered, “I will leave it to their generosity.<a id='r211' /><a href='#f211' class='c015'><sup>[211]</sup></a> Each who can +answered, “I will leave it to their generosity.<a id='r211' href='#f211' class='c015'><sup>[211]</sup></a> Each who can afford aught shall pay that which his soul grudgeth not to give, and we will take from every man after the measure of his means. On this wise will the folk come to us and he who is wealthy shall @@ -7448,7 +7430,7 @@ be at work and prosper exceedingly; but a thousand dinars is a Monarch’s gift, and not every man can avail to this.” The Lords <span class='pageno' id='Page_151'>151</span>of the Realm confirmed Abu Sir’s words, saying, “This is the truth, O King of the age! Thinkest thou that all folk are like -unto thee, O glorious King<a id='r212' /><a href='#f212' class='c015'><sup>[212]</sup></a>?” The King replied, “Ye say sooth; +unto thee, O glorious King<a id='r212' href='#f212' class='c015'><sup>[212]</sup></a>?” The King replied, “Ye say sooth; but this man is a stranger and poor and ’tis incumbent on us to deal generously with him, for that he hath made in our city this Hammam whose like we have never in our lives seen and without @@ -7484,7 +7466,7 @@ of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> number of the Nobles who were washed with the King that day were four hundred souls; so that the total of that which they gave him was forty thousand dinars, besides four hundred Mamelukes and -a like number of negroes and slave-girls.<a id='r213' /><a href='#f213' class='c015'><sup>[213]</sup></a> Moreover the King +a like number of negroes and slave-girls.<a id='r213' href='#f213' class='c015'><sup>[213]</sup></a> Moreover the King gave him ten thousand dinars, besides ten white slaves and ten handmaidens and a like number of blackamoors; whereupon coming forward Abu Sir kissed the ground before him and said, @@ -7506,13 +7488,13 @@ mighty host, and thou hast not the wherewithal to maintain them; but wilt thou sell them to me for an hundred dinars a head?” Said Abu Sir, “I sell them to thee at that price.” So the King sent to his treasurer for the coin and he brought it and gave Abu -Sir the whole of the price without abatement<a id='r214' /><a href='#f214' class='c015'><sup>[214]</sup></a> and in full tale; +Sir the whole of the price without abatement<a id='r214' href='#f214' class='c015'><sup>[214]</sup></a> and in full tale; after which the King restored the slaves to their owners, saying, “Let each of you who knoweth his slaves take them; for they are a gift from me to you.” So they obeyed his bidding and took each what belonged to him; whilst Abu Sir said to the King, “Allah ease thee, O King of the age, even as thou hast eased me -of these Ghuls, whose bellies none may fill save Allah<a id='r215' /><a href='#f215' class='c015'><sup>[215]</sup></a>!” The +of these Ghuls, whose bellies none may fill save Allah<a id='r215' href='#f215' class='c015'><sup>[215]</sup></a>!” The King laughed, and said he spake sooth; then, taking the Grandees of his Realm from the Hammam returned to his palace; but the barber passed the night in counting out his gold and laying it up @@ -7522,13 +7504,13 @@ serve him. Now when morning morrowed, he opened the Hammam and sent out a crier to cry, saying, “Whoso entereth the Baths and washeth shall give that which he can afford and which his generosity requireth him to give.” Then he seated himself -by the pay-chest<a id='r216' /><a href='#f216' class='c015'><sup>[216]</sup></a> and customers flocked in upon him, each putting +by the pay-chest<a id='r216' href='#f216' class='c015'><sup>[216]</sup></a> and customers flocked in upon him, each putting <span class='pageno' id='Page_153'>153</span>down that which was easy to him, nor had eventide evened ere the chest was full of the good gifts of Allah the Most High. Presently the Queen desired to go to the Hammam, and when this came to Abu Sir’s knowledge, he divided the day on her account into two parts, appointing that between dawn and noon to men and that -between midday and sundown to women.<a id='r217' /><a href='#f217' class='c015'><sup>[217]</sup></a> As soon as the Queen +between midday and sundown to women.<a id='r217' href='#f217' class='c015'><sup>[217]</sup></a> As soon as the Queen came, he stationed a handmaid behind the pay-chest; for he had taught four slave-girls the service of the Hammam, so that they were become expert bath-women and tire-women. When the Queen @@ -7583,7 +7565,7 @@ we have sinned against thee; but would that thou hadst discovered thyself to me and said, I am such an one! Indeed the fault is with thee, for that thou madest not thyself known unto me, more especially seeing that I was distracted for much business.” -Replied Abu Sir, “Allah pardon thee,<a id='r218' /><a href='#f218' class='c015'><sup>[218]</sup></a> O my comrade! This +Replied Abu Sir, “Allah pardon thee,<a id='r218' href='#f218' class='c015'><sup>[218]</sup></a> O my comrade! This was foreordained in the Secret Purpose, and reparation is with Allah. Enter and put off thy clothes and bathe at thine ease.” Said the dyer, “I conjure thee, by Allah, O my brother, forgive @@ -7630,7 +7612,7 @@ upon such doings! Thou art my comrade, and there is no difference between us.” Then Abu Kir observed, “By Allah, O my comrade, this is a mighty fine Hammam of thine, but there lacketh somewhat in its ordinance.” Asked Abu Sir, “And what is -that?” and Abu Kir answered, “It is the depilatory,<a id='r219' /><a href='#f219' class='c015'><sup>[219]</sup></a> to wit, the +that?” and Abu Kir answered, “It is the depilatory,<a id='r219' href='#f219' class='c015'><sup>[219]</sup></a> to wit, the paste compounded of yellow arsenic and quicklime which removeth the hair with comfort. Do thou prepare it and next time the King cometh, present it to him, teaching him how he shall cause the @@ -7673,8 +7655,8 @@ whereat I was present, amongst a number of others; and as I stood amongst the folk, I heard them open out on the Kings and name them, one after other, till they came to the name of the King of this city, whereupon the King of the Christians cried -out Alas! and said, “None vexeth me<a id='r220' /><a href='#f220' class='c015'><sup>[220]</sup></a> in the world, but the King -of such a city!<a id='r221' /><a href='#f221' class='c015'><sup>[221]</sup></a> Whosoever will contrive me his slaughter I will +out Alas! and said, “None vexeth me<a id='r220' href='#f220' class='c015'><sup>[220]</sup></a> in the world, but the King +of such a city!<a id='r221' href='#f221' class='c015'><sup>[221]</sup></a> Whosoever will contrive me his slaughter I will give him all he shall ask.” So I went up to him and said, “An I compass for thee his slaughter, wilt thou set me free, me and my <span class='pageno' id='Page_157'>157</span>wife and my children?” The King replied “Yes; and I will @@ -7688,7 +7670,7 @@ to kill him?; and quoth he:—By the simplest of all devices; for I have compounded him somewhat wherein is poison; so, when he cometh to the bath, I shall say to him:—Take this paste and anoint therewith thy parts below the waist for it will cause the -hair<a id='r222' /><a href='#f222' class='c015'><sup>[222]</sup></a> to drop off. So he will take it and apply it to himself and +hair<a id='r222' href='#f222' class='c015'><sup>[222]</sup></a> to drop off. So he will take it and apply it to himself and the poison will work in him a day and a night, till it reacheth his heart and destroyeth him; and meanwhile I shall have made off and none will know that it was I slew him.” “When I @@ -7717,7 +7699,7 @@ lime unslacked and tie its mouth over his head. Then lay where thou wilt see me sitting at the lattice. Do thou say to me:—Shall I cast him in? and if I answer, “Cast him!” throw the sack into the sea, so the quicklime may be slaked on him -to the intent that he shall die drowned and burnt.”<a id='r223' /><a href='#f223' class='c015'><sup>[223]</sup></a> “Hearkening +to the intent that he shall die drowned and burnt.”<a id='r223' href='#f223' class='c015'><sup>[223]</sup></a> “Hearkening and obeying;” quoth the Captain and taking Abu Sir from the presence carried him to an island facing the King’s palace, where he said to him, “Ho thou, I once visited thy Hammam and thou @@ -7758,14 +7740,14 @@ me on this island till some galleon sail from our city to thy native land, when I will send thee thither therein.” Abu Sir kissed his hand and thanked him for that; after which the Captain fetched the quicklime and set it in a sack, together with a great stone, the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_159'>159</span>size of a man, saying, “I put my trust in Allah!”<a id='r224' /><a href='#f224' class='c015'><sup>[224]</sup></a> Then he gave +<span class='pageno' id='Page_159'>159</span>size of a man, saying, “I put my trust in Allah!”<a id='r224' href='#f224' class='c015'><sup>[224]</sup></a> Then he gave the barber a net, saying, “Cast this net into the sea, so haply thou mayst take somewhat of fish. For I am bound to supply the King’s kitchen with fish every day; but to-day I have been distracted from fishing by this calamity which hath befallen thee, and I fear lest the cook’s boys come to me in quest of fish and find none. So, an thou take aught, they will find it and thou wilt veil -my face,<a id='r225' /><a href='#f225' class='c015'><sup>[225]</sup></a> whilst I go and play off my practice in front of the +my face,<a id='r225' href='#f225' class='c015'><sup>[225]</sup></a> whilst I go and play off my practice in front of the palace and feign to cast thee into the sea.” Answered Abu Sir, “I will fish the while; go thou and God help thee!” So the Captain set the sack in the boat and paddled till he came under @@ -7795,7 +7777,7 @@ Then he cut its throat with a knife he had with him; but the knife stuck in its gills and there he saw the King’s signet-ring; <span class='pageno' id='Page_160'>160</span>for the fish had swallowed it and Destiny had driven it to that island, where it had fallen into the net. He took the ring and -drew it on his little finger,<a id='r226' /><a href='#f226' class='c015'><sup>[226]</sup></a> not knowing its peculiar properties. +drew it on his little finger,<a id='r226' href='#f226' class='c015'><sup>[226]</sup></a> not knowing its peculiar properties. Presently, up came two of the cook’s boys in quest of fish and seeing Abu Sir, said to him, “O man, whither is the Captain gone?” “I know not,” said he and signed to them with his @@ -7812,7 +7794,7 @@ said, “Who slew these two men?” “By Allah, O my brother I wot not!” “Thou sayst sooth; but tell me whence hadst thou that ring?” “I found it in this fish’s gills.” “True,” said the Captain, “for I saw it fall flashing from the King’s palace and -disappear in the sea, what time he signed towards thee,<a id='r227' /><a href='#f227' class='c015'><sup>[227]</sup></a> saying, +disappear in the sea, what time he signed towards thee,<a id='r227' href='#f227' class='c015'><sup>[227]</sup></a> saying, Cast him in. So I cast the sack into the water, and it was then that the ring slipped from his finger and fell into the sea, where this fish swallowed it, and Allah drave it to thee, so that thou @@ -7835,8 +7817,8 @@ he embarked him in the boat and bore him back to the city;——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_158fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_158fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -7941,7 +7923,7 @@ such and such by him?” And the workmen said to him, “Is not this he whom thou badest us seize and beat?” Therewith Abu Kir’s baseness was made manifest to the King and he was certified that he merited torture yet sorer than the torments of Munkar and -Nakír.<a id='r228' /><a href='#f228' class='c015'><sup>[228]</sup></a> So he said to his guards, “Take him and parade him +Nakír.<a id='r228' href='#f228' class='c015'><sup>[228]</sup></a> So he said to his guards, “Take him and parade him about the city and the markets;”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -7993,12 +7975,12 @@ over the door these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Man is known among men as his deeds attest; ✿ Which make noble origin manifest:</div> <div class='line'>Backbite not, lest other men bite thy back; ✿ Who saith aught, the same shall to him be addrest:</div> - <div class='line'>Shun immodest words and indecent speech ✿ When thou speakest in earnest or e’en in jest.<a id='r229' /><a href='#f229' class='c015'><sup>[229]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Shun immodest words and indecent speech ✿ When thou speakest in earnest or e’en in jest.<a id='r229' href='#f229' class='c015'><sup>[229]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>We bear with the dog which behaves itself ✿ But the lion is chained lest he prove a pest:</div> - <div class='line'>And the desert carcases swim the main ✿ While union-pearls on the sand-bank rest<a id='r230' /><a href='#f230' class='c015'><sup>[230]</sup></a>:</div> + <div class='line'>And the desert carcases swim the main ✿ While union-pearls on the sand-bank rest<a id='r230' href='#f230' class='c015'><sup>[230]</sup></a>:</div> <div class='line'>No sparrow would hustle the sparrow-hawk, ✿ Were it not by folly and weakness prest:</div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span>A-sky is written on page of air, ✿ “Who doth kindly of kindness shall have the best!”</div> - <div class='line'>’Ware of gathering sugar from bitter gourd:<a id='r231' /><a href='#f231' class='c015'><sup>[231]</sup></a> ✿ ’Twill prove to its origin like in taste.</div> + <div class='line'>’Ware of gathering sugar from bitter gourd:<a id='r231' href='#f231' class='c015'><sup>[231]</sup></a> ✿ ’Twill prove to its origin like in taste.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -8011,7 +7993,7 @@ reached us of their history, and glory be to Him who endureth for ever and aye and by whose will interchange the night and the day. And of the stories they tell is one anent</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f184'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r184'>184</a>. </span>Abú Sír is a manifest corruption of the old Egyptian Pousiri, the Busiris of our @@ -8068,7 +8050,7 @@ already noted “Carrack” = harrák; to which add Uskuf in Marocco pronounced <div class='footnote' id='f192'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r192'>192</a>. </span>The patient is usually lathered in a big basin of tinned brass, a “Mambrino’s helmet” with a break in the rim to fit the throat; but the poorer classes carry only a small cup -with water instead of soap and water ignoring the Italian proverb, “<span lang="it" xml:lang="it">Barba ben saponata +with water instead of soap and water ignoring the Italian proverb, “<span lang="it">Barba ben saponata mezza fatta</span>” = well lathered is half shaved. A napkin fringed at either end is usually thrown over the Figaro’s shoulder and used to wipe the razor.</p> </div> @@ -8114,11 +8096,11 @@ vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_ </div> <div class='footnote' id='f200'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r200'>200</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> gaining much one day and little another.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r200'>200</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> gaining much one day and little another.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f201'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r201'>201</a>. </span>Lit. “Rest thyself” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by changing posture.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r201'>201</a>. </span>Lit. “Rest thyself” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by changing posture.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f202'> @@ -8127,7 +8109,7 @@ vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_ <div class='footnote' id='f203'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r203'>203</a>. </span>Arab. “Nílah” lit. = indigo, but here applied to all the materials for dyeing. The -word is the Sansk. <span lang="sa" xml:lang="sa">नील</span> growth probably came from India although during the +word is the Sansk. <span lang="sa">नील</span> growth probably came from India although during the Crusaders’ occupation of Jerusalem it was cultivated in the valley of the lower Jordan. I need hardly say that it has nothing to do with the word “Nile” whose origin is still sub judice. And yet I lately met a sciolist who pompously announced to me this philological @@ -8158,7 +8140,7 @@ chance befel him.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f208'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r208'>208</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> he turned on the water, hot and cold.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r208'>208</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> he turned on the water, hot and cold.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f209'> @@ -8196,7 +8178,7 @@ in the coffee-house assembly.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f214'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r214'>214</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the treasurer did not, as is the custom of such gentry, demand and receive a large +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r214'>214</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the treasurer did not, as is the custom of such gentry, demand and receive a large “Bakhshish” on the occasion.</p> </div> @@ -8207,7 +8189,7 @@ in the coffee-house assembly.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f216'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r216'>216</a>. </span>In the first room of the Hammam, called the Maslakh or stripping-place, the keeper sits by a large chest in which he deposits the purses and valuables of his customers and -also makes it the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">caisse</span></i> for the pay. Something of the kind is now done in the absurdly +also makes it the <i><span lang="fr">caisse</span></i> for the pay. Something of the kind is now done in the absurdly called “Turkish Baths” of London.</p> </div> @@ -8260,12 +8242,12 @@ the Court of Alcinöus.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f225'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r225'>225</a>. </span>Bresl. Edit. xi. 32: <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> save me from disgrace.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r225'>225</a>. </span>Bresl. Edit. xi. 32: <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> save me from disgrace.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f226'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r226'>226</a>. </span>Arab. “Khinsir” or “Khinsar,” the little finger or the middle finger. In Arabic -each has its own name or names which is also that of the corresponding toe <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Ibhám +each has its own name or names which is also that of the corresponding toe <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Ibhám (thumb); Sabbábah, Musabbah or Da”áah (forefinger); Wastá (medius); Binsir (annularis, ring-finger) and Khinsar (minimus). There are also names for the several spaces between the fingers. See the English Arabic Dictionary (London, Kegan Paul @@ -8298,7 +8280,7 @@ that I was translating “The Nights”: needless to say that it is utterly inap </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c165' class='c011'>ABDULLAH<a id='r232' /><a href='#f232' class='c015'><sup>[232]</sup></a> THE FISHERMAN AND ABDULLAH THE MERMAN.</h2> + <h2 id='c165' class='c011'>ABDULLAH<a id='r232' href='#f232' class='c015'><sup>[232]</sup></a> THE FISHERMAN AND ABDULLAH THE MERMAN.</h2> </div> <p class='c017'>There was once a Fisherman named Abdullah, who had a large @@ -8326,11 +8308,11 @@ but found no catch in it, and threw it a third and a fourth and a fifth time; still not a single fish came up. So he removed to another place beseeching his daily bread of Allah Almighty and thus he kept working till the end of the day, but caught not so -much as a minnow;<a id='r233' /><a href='#f233' class='c015'><sup>[233]</sup></a> whereat he fell a-marvelling in himself and +much as a minnow;<a id='r233' href='#f233' class='c015'><sup>[233]</sup></a> whereat he fell a-marvelling in himself and said self-communing, “Hath Allah then created this new-born child without lot of provision? This may never, never be. He who slitteth the corners of the lips hath pledged Himself for its -provision, because Almighty Allah is the Bountiful, the Provider!”<a id='r234' /><a href='#f234' class='c015'><sup>[234]</sup></a> +provision, because Almighty Allah is the Bountiful, the Provider!”<a id='r234' href='#f234' class='c015'><sup>[234]</sup></a> So saying, he shouldered his net and turned him homewards, broken-spirited and heavy at heart about his family, for that he had left them without food, more by token that his wife was in the @@ -8353,7 +8335,7 @@ and I will leave thee this net in pawn till the morrow.” Rejoined the baker, “Nay, my poor fellow, this net is thy shop and the door of thy daily subsistence; so an thou pawn it, wherewithal wilt <span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span>thou fish? Tell me how much will suffice thee?”; and replied the -fisherman, “Ten half-dirhams’ worth.”<a id='r235' /><a href='#f235' class='c015'><sup>[235]</sup></a> So he gave him ten Nusfs’ +fisherman, “Ten half-dirhams’ worth.”<a id='r235' href='#f235' class='c015'><sup>[235]</sup></a> So he gave him ten Nusfs’ worth of bread and ten in silver saying, “Take these ten Nusfs and cook thyself a mess of meat therewith; so wilt thou owe me twenty, for which bring me fish to-morrow; but, an thou catch @@ -8383,10 +8365,10 @@ whom he found sitting up, soothing the children, who were weeping for hunger, and saying to them, “At once your father will be here with what ye may eat.” So he set the bread before them and they ate, whilst he told his wife what had befallen him, and she said, -“Allah is bountiful.”<a id='r236' /><a href='#f236' class='c015'><sup>[236]</sup></a> On the morrow, he shouldered his net and +“Allah is bountiful.”<a id='r236' href='#f236' class='c015'><sup>[236]</sup></a> On the morrow, he shouldered his net and went forth of his house, saying, “I beseech thee, O Lord, to vouchsafe me this day that which shall whiten my face with the -baker!”<a id='r237' /><a href='#f237' class='c015'><sup>[237]</sup></a> When he came to the sea-shore, he proceeded to cast +baker!”<a id='r237' href='#f237' class='c015'><sup>[237]</sup></a> When he came to the sea-shore, he proceeded to cast his net and pull it in; but there came up no fish therein; and he ceased not to toil thus till ended day but he caught nothing. Then he set out homewards, in great concern, and the way to his @@ -8399,7 +8381,7 @@ fisherman! Come and take thy bread and spending-money. Meseems thou forgettest.” Quoth Abdullah, “By Allah, I had not forgotten; but I was ashamed to face thee, because I have caught no fish this day;” and quoth the baker, “Be not ashamed. -Said I not to thee, At thy leisure,<a id='r238' /><a href='#f238' class='c015'><sup>[238]</sup></a> till better luck betide thee?” +Said I not to thee, At thy leisure,<a id='r238' href='#f238' class='c015'><sup>[238]</sup></a> till better luck betide thee?” Then he gave him the bread and the ten Nusfs and he returned and told his wife, who said, “Allah is bountiful. Better luck shall yet betide thee and thou shalt give the baker his due, Inshallah.” @@ -8407,10 +8389,10 @@ He ceased not doing on this wise forty days, betaking himself daily to the sea, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, and returning home without fish; and still he took bread and spending-money of the baker, who never once named the fish -to him nor neglected him nor kept him waiting like the folk,<a id='r239' /><a href='#f239' class='c015'><sup>[239]</sup></a> but +to him nor neglected him nor kept him waiting like the folk,<a id='r239' href='#f239' class='c015'><sup>[239]</sup></a> but gave him the bread and the ten half-dirhams without delay. Whenever the fisherman said to him, “O my brother, reckon with -me,” he would say, “Be off:<a id='r240' /><a href='#f240' class='c015'><sup>[240]</sup></a> this is no time for reckoning. Wait +me,” he would say, “Be off:<a id='r240' href='#f240' class='c015'><sup>[240]</sup></a> this is no time for reckoning. Wait till better luck betide thee, and then I will reckon with thee.” And the fisherman would bless him and go away thanking him. On the one-and-fortieth day, he said to his wife, “I have a mind @@ -8448,9 +8430,9 @@ sorest grief. Then he turned to another place, so he might remove from the stench of the dead donkey, and cast his net there and waited a full hour: then he drew it in and found it heavy. Thereupon quoth he, “Good; we are hauling up all the dead donkeys in -the sea and ridding it of its rubbish.<a id='r241' /><a href='#f241' class='c015'><sup>[241]</sup></a>” However he gave not over +the sea and ridding it of its rubbish.<a id='r241' href='#f241' class='c015'><sup>[241]</sup></a>” However he gave not over tugging at the net, till blood came from the palms of his hands, -and when he got it ashore, he saw a man<a id='r242' /><a href='#f242' class='c015'><sup>[242]</sup></a> in it and took him for +and when he got it ashore, he saw a man<a id='r242' href='#f242' class='c015'><sup>[242]</sup></a> in it and took him for one of the Ifrits of the lord Solomon, whom he was wont to imprison in cucurbits of brass and cast him into the main, believing that the vessel had burst for length of years and that the Ifrit had @@ -8470,7 +8452,7 @@ and show loving-kindness unto the creatures of the Almighty, and but that I fear and dread to be of the disobedient, I had torn thy net; but I accept that which the Lord hath decreed unto me; wherefore by setting me free thou becomest my owner and I thy -captive. Wilt thou then set me free for the love<a id='r243' /><a href='#f243' class='c015'><sup>[243]</sup></a> of Almighty +captive. Wilt thou then set me free for the love<a id='r243' href='#f243' class='c015'><sup>[243]</sup></a> of Almighty Allah and make a covenant with me and become my comrade? I will come to thee every day in this place, and do thou come to me and bring me a gift of the fruits of the land. For with you @@ -8479,7 +8461,7 @@ and so forth, and all thou bringest me will be acceptable unto me. Moreover, with us are coral and pearls and chrysolites and emeralds and rubies and other gems, and I will fill thee the basket, wherein thou bringest me the fruit, with precious stones of -the jewels of the sea.<a id='r244' /><a href='#f244' class='c015'><sup>[244]</sup></a> What sayst thou to this, O my brother?” +the jewels of the sea.<a id='r244' href='#f244' class='c015'><sup>[244]</sup></a> What sayst thou to this, O my brother?” Quoth the fisherman, “Be the Opening Chapter of the Koran between thee and me upon this!” So they recited together the Fátihah, and the fisherman loosed the Merman from the net and @@ -8489,8 +8471,8 @@ out and say, “Where art thou, O Abdullah, O Merman?”; and I will be with thee.”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_168fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_168fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_171'>171</span></div> @@ -8514,7 +8496,7 @@ of the Sea; but tarry here till I go and fetch thee a present.” And the fisherman repented him of having released him and said to himself, “How know I that he will come back to me? Indeed, he beguiled me, so that I loosed him, and now he will laugh at -me.<a id='r245' /><a href='#f245' class='c015'><sup>[245]</sup></a> Had I kept him, I might have made a show of him for the +me.<a id='r245' href='#f245' class='c015'><sup>[245]</sup></a> Had I kept him, I might have made a show of him for the diversion of the city-folk and taken silver from all men and gone with him to the houses of the great.” And he repented him of having set him free and said, “Thou hast let thy prey from thy @@ -8522,7 +8504,7 @@ hand away.” But, as he was thus bemoaning his folly in releasing the prisoner, behold, Abdullah the merman returned to him, with both hands full of pearls and coral and smaragds and rubies and other gems, and said to him, “Take these, O my brother, and -excuse me; had I a fish-basket<a id='r246' /><a href='#f246' class='c015'><sup>[246]</sup></a> I would have filled it for thee.” +excuse me; had I a fish-basket<a id='r246' href='#f246' class='c015'><sup>[246]</sup></a> I would have filled it for thee.” Abdullah the fisherman rejoiced and took the jewels from the Merman who said to him, “Every day come hither, before sunrise,” and farewelling him, went down into the sea; whilst the other returned @@ -8565,7 +8547,7 @@ sea with it, was absent a full hour, after which time he came up, with the fish-basket full of all kinds of gems and jewels. The fisherman set it on his head and went away; and, when he came to the oven, the baker said to him, “O my lord, I have baked -thee forty bunns<a id='r247' /><a href='#f247' class='c015'><sup>[247]</sup></a> and have sent them to thy house; and now I +thee forty bunns<a id='r247' href='#f247' class='c015'><sup>[247]</sup></a> and have sent them to thy house; and now I will bake some firsts and as soon as all is done, I will bring it to thy house and go and fetch thee greens and meat.” Abdullah handed to him three handsful of jewels out of the fish-basket and @@ -8616,12 +8598,12 @@ saying her permitted say.</p> King’s wife sent to the King to say, “These are not my property; nay, these gems are finer than those of my necklace. So oppress not this man; but, if he will sell them, buy them for -thy daughter Umm al-Su’úd,<a id='r248' /><a href='#f248' class='c015'><sup>[248]</sup></a> that we may set them in a necklace +thy daughter Umm al-Su’úd,<a id='r248' href='#f248' class='c015'><sup>[248]</sup></a> that we may set them in a necklace <span class='pageno' id='Page_174'>174</span>for her.” When the eunuch returned and told the King what the Queen said, he damned the Syndic of the jewellers, -him and his company, with the damnation of Ád and Thamúd,<a id='r249' /><a href='#f249' class='c015'><sup>[249]</sup></a> +him and his company, with the damnation of Ád and Thamúd,<a id='r249' href='#f249' class='c015'><sup>[249]</sup></a> and they said to him, “O King of the age, we knew this man for -a poor fisherman and deemed such things too much for him,<a id='r250' /><a href='#f250' class='c015'><sup>[250]</sup></a> so +a poor fisherman and deemed such things too much for him,<a id='r250' href='#f250' class='c015'><sup>[250]</sup></a> so we supposed that he had stolen them.” Cried the King, “O ye filthy villains, begrudge ye a True Believer good fortune? Why did ye not make due enquiry of him? Haply Allah Almighty @@ -8638,7 +8620,7 @@ him of his friendship with the Merman, adding, “We have made a covenant together that I shall bring him every day a basket full of fruit and that he shall fill me the basket with these jewels.” Quoth the King, O man this is thy lucky lot; but wealth needeth -rank,<a id='r251' /><a href='#f251' class='c015'><sup>[251]</sup></a> I will defend thee for the present against men’s domineering; +rank,<a id='r251' href='#f251' class='c015'><sup>[251]</sup></a> I will defend thee for the present against men’s domineering; but haply I shall be deposed or die and another rule in my stead, and he shall slay thee because of his love of the goods of this world and his covetousness. So I am minded to marry thee @@ -8660,7 +8642,7 @@ one daughter, Umm al-Su’ud hight. Meanwhile the Queen entreated Abdullah’s wife with honour and bestowed favours on her and made her Waziress to her. Then the King bade draw up the marriage contract between his daughter and Abdullah of the -Land<a id='r252' /><a href='#f252' class='c015'><sup>[252]</sup></a> who assigned to her, as her dower, all the gems and +Land<a id='r252' href='#f252' class='c015'><sup>[252]</sup></a> who assigned to her, as her dower, all the gems and precious stones in his possession, and they opened the gates of festival. The King commanded by proclamation to decorate the city, in honour of his daughter’s wedding. Then Abdullah went @@ -8721,8 +8703,8 @@ feelings.” Quoth the King, “What is his name?”; and quoth the <span class='pageno' id='Page_177'>177</span>fisherman “His name is Abdullah the Baker; and my name is Abdullah of the Land and that of my friend the merman Abdullah of the Sea.” Rejoined the King, “And my name also is Abdullah; -and the servants of Allah<a id='r253' /><a href='#f253' class='c015'><sup>[253]</sup></a> are all brethren. So send and fetch thy -friend the baker, that I may make him my Wazir of the left.”<a id='r254' /><a href='#f254' class='c015'><sup>[254]</sup></a> +and the servants of Allah<a id='r253' href='#f253' class='c015'><sup>[253]</sup></a> are all brethren. So send and fetch thy +friend the baker, that I may make him my Wazir of the left.”<a id='r254' href='#f254' class='c015'><sup>[254]</sup></a> So he sent for the baker who speedily came to the presence, and the King invested him with the Wazirial uniform and made him Wazir of the left, making Abdullah of the Land his Wazir of the @@ -8748,7 +8730,7 @@ when fruit failed from the gardens, he carried him raisins and almonds and filberts and walnuts and figs and so forth; and all that he brought for him the Merman accepted and returned him the fish-basket full of jewels according to his custom. Now it -chanced one day that he carried him the crate, full of dry<a id='r255' /><a href='#f255' class='c015'><sup>[255]</sup></a> +chanced one day that he carried him the crate, full of dry<a id='r255' href='#f255' class='c015'><sup>[255]</sup></a> fruits as was his wont, and his friend took them from him. Then they sat down to converse, Abdullah the fisherman on the beach and Abdullah the Merman in the water near the shore, and discoursed; @@ -8756,24 +8738,24 @@ and the talk went round between them, till it fell upon the subject of sepulchres; whereat quoth the Merman, “O my brother, they say that the Prophet (whom Allah assain and save!) is buried with you on the land. Knowest thou his tomb?” -Abdullah replied, “Yes; it lieth in a city called Yathrib.<a id='r256' /><a href='#f256' class='c015'><sup>[256]</sup></a>” Asked +Abdullah replied, “Yes; it lieth in a city called Yathrib.<a id='r256' href='#f256' class='c015'><sup>[256]</sup></a>” Asked <span class='pageno' id='Page_178'>178</span>the Merman, “And do the people of the land visit it?” “Yes,” answered the fisherman, and the other said, “I give you joy, O -people of the land, of visiting<a id='r257' /><a href='#f257' class='c015'><sup>[257]</sup></a> that noble Prophet and compassionate, +people of the land, of visiting<a id='r257' href='#f257' class='c015'><sup>[257]</sup></a> that noble Prophet and compassionate, which whoso visiteth meriteth his intercession! Hast thou made such visitation, O my brother?” Replied the fisherman, -“No: for I was poor and had not the necessary sum<a id='r258' /><a href='#f258' class='c015'><sup>[258]</sup></a> to +“No: for I was poor and had not the necessary sum<a id='r258' href='#f258' class='c015'><sup>[258]</sup></a> to spend by the way, nor have I been in easy case but since I knew thee and thou bestowedst on me this good fortune. But such visitation behoveth me after I have pilgrimed to the Holy House -of Allah<a id='r259' /><a href='#f259' class='c015'><sup>[259]</sup></a> and naught withholdeth me therefrom but my love to +of Allah<a id='r259' href='#f259' class='c015'><sup>[259]</sup></a> and naught withholdeth me therefrom but my love to thee, because I cannot leave thee for one day.” Rejoined the Merman, “And dost thou set the love of me before the visitation of the tomb of Mohammed (whom Allah assain and save!), who shall intercede for thee on the Day of Review before Allah and shall save thee from the Fire and through whose intercession thou shalt enter Paradise? And dost thou, for the -love of the world, neglect to visit the tomb of thy Prophet<a id='r260' /><a href='#f260' class='c015'><sup>[260]</sup></a> +love of the world, neglect to visit the tomb of thy Prophet<a id='r260' href='#f260' class='c015'><sup>[260]</sup></a> Mohammed, whom God bless and preserve?” Replied Abdullah, “No, by Allah, I set the visitation of the Prophet’s tomb above all else, and I crave thy leave to pray before it this year.” @@ -8805,14 +8787,14 @@ then, taking the fish-basket disappeared in the depths. He was absent awhile, and presently returned with an unguent as it were the fat of beef, yellow as gold and sweet of savour. Asked the fisherman, “What is this, O my brother?”; and answered the -Merman, “’Tis the liver-fat of a kind of fish called the Dandán,<a id='r261' /><a href='#f261' class='c015'><sup>[261]</sup></a> +Merman, “’Tis the liver-fat of a kind of fish called the Dandán,<a id='r261' href='#f261' class='c015'><sup>[261]</sup></a> which is the biggest of all fishes and the fiercest of our foes. His bulk is greater than that of any beast of the land, and were he to meet a camel or an elephant, he would swallow it at a single mouthful.” Abdullah enquired, “O my brother, what doth this baleful beast?”; and the Merman replied, “He eateth of the beasts of the sea. Hast thou not heard the saying:—Like the -fishes of the sea: forcible eateth feeble?<a id='r262' /><a href='#f262' class='c015'><sup>[262]</sup></a>” “True; but have you +fishes of the sea: forcible eateth feeble?<a id='r262' href='#f262' class='c015'><sup>[262]</sup></a>” “True; but have you many of these Dandans in the sea?” “Yes, there be many of them with us. None can tell their tale save Almighty Allah.” <span class='pageno' id='Page_180'>180</span>“Verily, I fear lest, if I go down with thee into the deep a creature @@ -8860,19 +8842,19 @@ would, he rose to the sea-face, and if he would, he sank to the base. And he beheld the water as it were a tent over his head; yet it wrought him no hurt. Then said the Merman to him, “What seest thou, O my brother?”; and said he, “O my brother, -I see naught save weal<a id='r263' /><a href='#f263' class='c015'><sup>[263]</sup></a>; and indeed thou spakest truth in that +I see naught save weal<a id='r263' href='#f263' class='c015'><sup>[263]</sup></a>; and indeed thou spakest truth in that <span class='pageno' id='Page_181'>181</span>which thou saidst to me; for the water doth me no hurt.” Quoth the Merman, “Follow me.” So he followed him and they ceased not faring on from place to place, whilst Abdullah discovered before him and on his right and left mountains of water and solaced himself by gazing thereon and on the various sorts of fish, some great and some small, which disported themselves in the main. Some -of them favoured buffaloes<a id='r264' /><a href='#f264' class='c015'><sup>[264]</sup></a> others oxen and others dogs and yet +of them favoured buffaloes<a id='r264' href='#f264' class='c015'><sup>[264]</sup></a> others oxen and others dogs and yet others human beings; but all to which they drew near fled, whenas they saw the fisherman, who said to the Merman, “O my brother, how is it that I see all the fish, to which we draw near, flee from us afar?” Said the other, “Because they fear thee, for all things -that Allah hath made fear the son of Adam.<a id='r265' /><a href='#f265' class='c015'><sup>[265]</sup></a>” The fisherman +that Allah hath made fear the son of Adam.<a id='r265' href='#f265' class='c015'><sup>[265]</sup></a>” The fisherman ceased not to divert himself with the marvels of the deep, till they came to a high mountain and fared on beside it. Suddenly, he heard a mighty loud cry and turning, saw some black thing, the @@ -8895,7 +8877,7 @@ women, there being no male among them; so he said to his companion, women?” “This is the city of women; for its inhabitants are of the women of the sea.” “Are there any males among them?” “No!” “Then how do they conceive and bear young, without -males<a id='r266' /><a href='#f266' class='c015'><sup>[266]</sup></a>?” “The King of the sea banisheth them hither and they +males<a id='r266' href='#f266' class='c015'><sup>[266]</sup></a>?” “The King of the sea banisheth them hither and they conceive not neither bear children. All the women of the sea, with whom he is wroth, he sendeth to this city, and they cannot leave it; for, should one of them come forth therefrom, any of @@ -8906,7 +8888,7 @@ than this in the sea?”; and the Merman answered, “There are many.” Quoth the fisherman, “And is there a Sultan over you in the sea?” “Yes,” quoth the Merman. Then said Abdullah “O my brother, I have indeed seen many marvels in the main!” -But the Merman said, “And what hast thou seen of its marvels<a id='r267' /><a href='#f267' class='c015'><sup>[267]</sup></a>? +But the Merman said, “And what hast thou seen of its marvels<a id='r267' href='#f267' class='c015'><sup>[267]</sup></a>? Hast thou not heard the saying:—The marvels of the sea are more manifold than the marvels of the land?” “True,” rejoined the fisherman and fell to gazing upon those women, whom he saw @@ -8919,7 +8901,7 @@ the women aforesaid and having tails; but there was neither selling nor buying amongst them, as with the people of the land, nor were they clothed, but went all naked and with their shame uncovered. Said Abdullah “O my brother, I see males and -females alike with their shame exposed<a id='r268' /><a href='#f268' class='c015'><sup>[268]</sup></a>,” and the other said, +females alike with their shame exposed<a id='r268' href='#f268' class='c015'><sup>[268]</sup></a>,” and the other said, “This is because the folk of the sea have no clothes.” Asked <span class='pageno' id='Page_183'>183</span>the fisherman, “And how do they when they marry?” The Merman answered, “They do not marry; but every one who @@ -8972,7 +8954,7 @@ broiled and boiled?” “We broil fish with fire and boil it in water and dress it in various ways and make many dishes of it.” “And how should we come by fire in the sea? We know not broiled nor boiled nor aught else of the kind.” “We also fry it in olive-oil -and oil of sesame<a id='r269' /><a href='#f269' class='c015'><sup>[269]</sup></a>.” “How should we come by olive-oil and oil +and oil of sesame<a id='r269' href='#f269' class='c015'><sup>[269]</sup></a>.” “How should we come by olive-oil and oil of sesame in the sea? Verily we know nothing of that thou namest.” “True, but O my brother, thou hast shown me many cities; yet hast thou not shown me thine own city.” “As for @@ -8991,7 +8973,7 @@ the mountains; as are also those of every other city of the sea. For whoso is minded to make him a house must repair to the King and say to him, ‘I wish to make me a house in such a place.’ Whereupon the King sends with him a band of the fish -called ‘Peckers,’<a id='r270' /><a href='#f270' class='c015'><sup>[270]</sup></a> which have beaks that crumble the hardest rock, +called ‘Peckers,’<a id='r270' href='#f270' class='c015'><sup>[270]</sup></a> which have beaks that crumble the hardest rock, appointing for their wage a certain quantum of fish. They betake themselves to the mountain chosen by the intended owner and therein pierce the house, whilst the owner catcheth fish for them @@ -8999,19 +8981,19 @@ and feedeth them, till the cave is finished, when they wend their <span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span>ways and the house-owner taketh up his abode therein. On such wise do all the people of the sea; they traffic not one with other nor serve each other save by means of fish; and their food is fish -and they themselves are a kind of fish<a id='r271' /><a href='#f271' class='c015'><sup>[271]</sup></a>.” Then he said to him, +and they themselves are a kind of fish<a id='r271' href='#f271' class='c015'><sup>[271]</sup></a>.” Then he said to him, “Enter!” So Abdullah entered and the Merman cried out, saying, “Ho, daughter mine!” when behold, there came to him a damsel with a face like the rondure of the moon and hair long, hips heavy, eyes black-edged and waist slender; but she was naked and had a tail. When she saw Abdullah of the Land she said to -her sire, “O my father, what is this No<a id='r272' /><a href='#f272' class='c015'><sup>[272]</sup></a>-tail thou hast brought +her sire, “O my father, what is this No<a id='r272' href='#f272' class='c015'><sup>[272]</sup></a>-tail thou hast brought with thee?” He replied, “O my daughter this is my friend of the land, from whom I used to bring thee the fruits of the ground. Come hither and salute him with the salam.” So she came forward and saluted the fisherman with loquent tongue and eloquent speech; and her father said to her, “Bring meat for our guest, by -whose visit a blessing hath betided us<a id='r273' /><a href='#f273' class='c015'><sup>[273]</sup></a>:” whereupon she brought +whose visit a blessing hath betided us<a id='r273' href='#f273' class='c015'><sup>[273]</sup></a>:” whereupon she brought him two great fishes, each the bigness of a lamb, and the Merman said to him, “Eat.” So he ate for stress of hunger, despite himself; because he was tired of eating fish and they had naught else @@ -9028,8 +9010,8 @@ make me a butt and a laughing-stock for thy children and thy consort?”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_182fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_182fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -9120,7 +9102,7 @@ albeit the Almighty setteth the soul therein as a deposit; and yet, when he taketh it again, it is grievous to you and ye weep and mourn? Since it is hard for thee to give up the deposit of Allah, how shall it be easy to thee to give up the deposit of the -Prophet?<a id='r274' /><a href='#f274' class='c015'><sup>[274]</sup></a> Wherefore we need not your companionship.” Saying +Prophet?<a id='r274' href='#f274' class='c015'><sup>[274]</sup></a> Wherefore we need not your companionship.” Saying <span class='pageno' id='Page_188'>188</span>thus he left him and disappeared in the sea. Thereupon Abdullah of the Land donned his dress and taking the jewels, went up to the King, who met him lovingly and rejoiced at his return saying, @@ -9128,7 +9110,7 @@ the King, who met him lovingly and rejoiced at his return saying, absence from me this while?” So he told him his tale and acquainted him with that which he had seen of marvels in the sea, whereat the King wondered. Then he told him what -Abdullah the Merman had said<a id='r275' /><a href='#f275' class='c015'><sup>[275]</sup></a>; and the King replied, “Indeed +Abdullah the Merman had said<a id='r275' href='#f275' class='c015'><sup>[275]</sup></a>; and the King replied, “Indeed ’twas thou wast at fault to tell him this.” Nevertheless, he continued for some time to go down to the shore and call upon Abdullah of the Sea, but he answered him not nor came to him; @@ -9142,7 +9124,7 @@ who over all things is Omnipotent and is gracious to His servants and knoweth their every intent! And amongst the tales they tell is one anent</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f232'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r232'>232</a>. </span>The tale begins upon the model of “Júdar and his Brethren,” vi. 213. Its hero’s @@ -9162,7 +9144,7 @@ marjoram and eat it fried even when half putrid.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f234'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r234'>234</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by declaring in the Koran (lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), that +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r234'>234</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by declaring in the Koran (lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), that each creature hath its appointed term and lot; especially “Thinketh man that he shall be left uncared for?” (xl. 36).</p> </div> @@ -9306,7 +9288,7 @@ ii. 285–87.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f255'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r255'>255</a>. </span>Arab. “Nukl,” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">quatre mendiants</span></i> as opposed to “Fákihah” = fresh fruit. +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r255'>255</a>. </span>Arab. “Nukl,” <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> the <i><span lang="fr">quatre mendiants</span></i> as opposed to “Fákihah” = fresh fruit. The Persians, a people who delight in gross practical jokes, get the confectioner to coat with sugar the droppings of sheep and goats and hand them to the bulk of the party. This pleasant confection is called “Nukl-i-peshkil”—dung-dragées.</p> @@ -9314,7 +9296,7 @@ This pleasant confection is called “Nukl-i-peshkil”—dung-dragées.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f256'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r256'>256</a>. </span>The older name of Madínat al-Nabi, the city of the Prophet; vulg. called Al-Medinah -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">per excellentiam</span></i>. See vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_114">114</a>. In the Mac. and Bul. texts we have +<i><span lang="la">per excellentiam</span></i>. See vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_114">114</a>. In the Mac. and Bul. texts we have “Tayyibah” = the goodly, one of the many titles of that Holy City: see Pilgrimage ii. 119.</p> </div> @@ -9341,18 +9323,18 @@ recklessness and inconsequence of the British-Indian “fellow subject.”</p> <div class='footnote' id='f260'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r260'>260</a>. </span>When Moslems apply “Nabí!” to Mohammed it is in the peculiar sense of “prophet” -(<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">προφήτης</span>) = one who speaks <em>before</em> the people, not one who predicts, as such +(<span lang="el">προφήτης</span>) = one who speaks <em>before</em> the people, not one who predicts, as such foresight was abjured by the Apostle. Dr. A. Neubauer (The Athenæum No. 3031) finds the root of “Nabí!” in the Assyrian Nabu and Heb. Noob (occurring in Exod. vii. i. -“Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> orator, speaker before the people), and -holds it to be a Canaanite term which supplanted “Roeh” (the Seer) <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> 1 Samuel ix. +“Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> orator, speaker before the people), and +holds it to be a Canaanite term which supplanted “Roeh” (the Seer) <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> 1 Samuel ix. 9. The learned Hebraist traces the cult of Nebo, a secondary deity in Assyria to Palestine and Phœnicia, Palmyra, Edessa (in the Nebok of Abgar) and Hierapolis in Syria or Mabug (Nabog?).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f261'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r261'>261</a>. </span>I cannot find “Dandán” even in <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Lib. Quintus de Aquaticis Animalibus</span> of the learned +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r261'>261</a>. </span>I cannot find “Dandán” even in <span lang="la">Lib. Quintus de Aquaticis Animalibus</span> of the learned Sam. Bochart’s “Hierozoïcon” (London, 1663) and must conjecture that as “Dandán” in Persian means a tooth (vol. ii. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51775/51775-h/51775-h.htm#Page_83">83</a>) the writer applied it to a sun-fish or some such well-fanged monster of the deep.</p> @@ -9363,11 +9345,11 @@ well-fanged monster of the deep.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f263'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r263'>263</a>. </span>An euphemistic answer, <i><span lang="de" xml:lang="de">unbernfen</span></i> as the Germans say.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r263'>263</a>. </span>An euphemistic answer, <i><span lang="de">unbernfen</span></i> as the Germans say.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f264'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r264'>264</a>. </span>It is a temptation to derive this word from <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bœuf à l’eau</span></i>, but I fear that the theory +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r264'>264</a>. </span>It is a temptation to derive this word from <i><span lang="fr">bœuf à l’eau</span></i>, but I fear that the theory will not hold water. The “buffaloes” of Alexandria laughed it to scorn.</p> </div> @@ -9415,7 +9397,7 @@ the difference in a Scotch kilt worn by a Highlander and a cockney sportsman.</p <div class='footnote' id='f269'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r269'>269</a>. </span>Arab. “Shíraj” = oil extracted from rape seed but especially from sesame. The Persians pronounce it “Síraj” (apparently unaware that it is their own word -“Shírah” = juice in Arabic garb) and have coined a participle “Musayrij” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i>, Bú-imusayrij, +“Shírah” = juice in Arabic garb) and have coined a participle “Musayrij” <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i>, Bú-imusayrij, taint of sesame-oil applied especially to the Jews who very wisely prefer, in Persia and elsewhere, oil which is wholesome to butter which is not. The Moslems, however, declare that its immoderate use in cooking taints the exudations of the skin.</p> @@ -9448,7 +9430,7 @@ faces.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f275'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r275'>275</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> about rejoicing over the newborns and mourning over the dead.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r275'>275</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> about rejoicing over the newborns and mourning over the dead.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> @@ -9481,8 +9463,8 @@ of the river, are windows and balconies one facing other, and it may be we shall hear or see from one of these somewhat wherewith our hearts may be heartened.” Ja’afar’s counsel pleased the Caliph, so he rose from his place and taking with him the -Wazir and his brother Al-Fazl and Isaac<a id='r276' /><a href='#f276' class='c015'><sup>[276]</sup></a> the boon-companion -and Abu Nowas and Abu Dalaf<a id='r277' /><a href='#f277' class='c015'><sup>[277]</sup></a> and Masrur the Sworder——And +Wazir and his brother Al-Fazl and Isaac<a id='r276' href='#f276' class='c015'><sup>[276]</sup></a> the boon-companion +and Abu Nowas and Abu Dalaf<a id='r277' href='#f277' class='c015'><sup>[277]</sup></a> and Masrur the Sworder——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -9511,8 +9493,8 @@ and chanting these couplets:—</p> <div class='line'>“How long this repining from joys and delight? ✿ Wake up for this life is a borrowed ware!”</div> <div class='line'>Take the cup from the hand of the friend who is dear ✿ With languishing eyelids and languorous air.</div> <div class='line'>I sowed on his cheek a fresh rose, which amid ✿ His side-locks the fruit of granado-tree bare.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>Thou wouldst deem that the place where he tare his fair cheek<a id='r278' /><a href='#f278' class='c015'><sup>[278]</sup></a> ✿ Were ashes, while cheeks hues incendiary wear.</div> - <div class='line'>Quoth the blamer, “Forget him! But where’s my excuse ✿ When his side-face is growing the downiest hair<a id='r279' /><a href='#f279' class='c015'><sup>[279]</sup></a>?”</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>Thou wouldst deem that the place where he tare his fair cheek<a id='r278' href='#f278' class='c015'><sup>[278]</sup></a> ✿ Were ashes, while cheeks hues incendiary wear.</div> + <div class='line'>Quoth the blamer, “Forget him! But where’s my excuse ✿ When his side-face is growing the downiest hair<a id='r279' href='#f279' class='c015'><sup>[279]</sup></a>?”</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -9531,8 +9513,8 @@ of tongue, who said to them, “Well come and welcome, O lords that honour me with your presence! Enter in all comfort and convenience!” So they went in (and he with them) to a saloon with four faces, whose ceiling was decorated with gold and its -walls adorned with ultramarine.<a id='r280' /><a href='#f280' class='c015'><sup>[280]</sup></a> At its upper end was a daïs, -whereon stood a goodly row of seats<a id='r281' /><a href='#f281' class='c015'><sup>[281]</sup></a> and thereon sat an hundred +walls adorned with ultramarine.<a id='r280' href='#f280' class='c015'><sup>[280]</sup></a> At its upper end was a daïs, +whereon stood a goodly row of seats<a id='r281' href='#f281' class='c015'><sup>[281]</sup></a> and thereon sat an hundred damsels like moons. The house-master cried out to them and they came down from their seats. Then he turned to Ja’afar and said to him “O my lord, I know not the honourable of you from @@ -9588,7 +9570,7 @@ lines:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>She sits it in lap like a mother fond ✿ And she strikes the strings that can make it speak:</div> - <div class='line'>And ne’er smiteth her right an injurious touch ✿ But her left repairs of her right the wreak.<a id='r282' /><a href='#f282' class='c015'><sup>[282]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>And ne’er smiteth her right an injurious touch ✿ But her left repairs of her right the wreak.<a id='r282' href='#f282' class='c015'><sup>[282]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -9603,7 +9585,7 @@ began improvising these couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>An Time my lover restore me I’ll blame him fain, ✿ Saying, “Pass, O my dear, the bowl and in passing drain</div> <div class='line'>The wine which hath never mixed with the heart of man ✿ But he passes to joy from annoy and to pleasure from pain.”</div> - <div class='line'>Then Zephyr arose to his task of sustaining the cup: ✿ Didst e’er see full Moon that in hand the star hath ta’en?<a id='r283' /><a href='#f283' class='c015'><sup>[283]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Then Zephyr arose to his task of sustaining the cup: ✿ Didst e’er see full Moon that in hand the star hath ta’en?<a id='r283' href='#f283' class='c015'><sup>[283]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>How oft I talked thro’ the night, when its rounded Lune ✿ Shed on darkness of Tigris ’bank a beamy rain!</div> <div class='line'>And when Luna sank in the West ’twas as though she’d wave ✿ O’er the length of the watery waste a gilded glaive.</div> </div> @@ -9768,11 +9750,11 @@ is to do?”; and he answered, saying, “This is the night of our remarkablest nights, when all souls embark on the river and divert themselves by gazing one upon other. Hast thou a mind to go up to the roof and solace thyself by looking at the folk?” “Yes,” -answered I, and went up to the terrace-roof,<a id='r284' /><a href='#f284' class='c015'><sup>[284]</sup></a> whence I could see a +answered I, and went up to the terrace-roof,<a id='r284' href='#f284' class='c015'><sup>[284]</sup></a> whence I could see a <span class='pageno' id='Page_196'>196</span>gathering of people with flambeaux and cressets, and great mirth and merriment. Then I went up to the end of the roof and beheld there, behind a goodly curtain, a little chamber in whose midst -stood a couch of juniper<a id='r285' /><a href='#f285' class='c015'><sup>[285]</sup></a>-wood plated with shimmering gold and +stood a couch of juniper<a id='r285' href='#f285' class='c015'><sup>[285]</sup></a>-wood plated with shimmering gold and covered with a handsome carpet. On this sat a lovely young lady, confounding all beholders with her beauty and comeliness and symmetry and perfect grace, and by her side a youth, whose hand @@ -9787,7 +9769,7 @@ she hath captivated my heart and soul.” “This is the daughter of Tahir ibn al-Alaa; she is our mistress and we are all her handmaids; but knowest thou, O Abu al-Hasan, what be the price of her night and her day?” “No!” “Five hundred dinars, for she -is a regret to the heart of Kings!”<a id='r286' /><a href='#f286' class='c015'><sup>[286]</sup></a> “By Allah, I will spend all I +is a regret to the heart of Kings!”<a id='r286' href='#f286' class='c015'><sup>[286]</sup></a> “By Allah, I will spend all I have on this damsel!” So saying I lay, heartsore for desire, through the livelong night till the morning, when I repaired to the Hammam and presently donned a suit of the richest royal raiment @@ -9838,7 +9820,7 @@ verses:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>And how excellent is the saying of another!<a id='r287' /><a href='#f287' class='c015'><sup>[287]</sup></a>—</p> +<p class='c000'>And how excellent is the saying of another!<a id='r287' href='#f287' class='c015'><sup>[287]</sup></a>—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -9887,7 +9869,7 @@ repeated these two couplets:—</p> <div class='nf-center-c1'> <div class='nf-center c006'> <div>I thought of estrangement in her embrace     ✿ And my eyes rained tears red as ’Andam-wood.</div> - <div>So I wiped the drops on that long white neck; ✿ For camphor<a id='r288' /><a href='#f288' class='c015'><sup>[288]</sup></a> is wont to stay flow of blood.</div> + <div>So I wiped the drops on that long white neck; ✿ For camphor<a id='r288' href='#f288' class='c015'><sup>[288]</sup></a> is wont to stay flow of blood.</div> </div> </div> @@ -9940,7 +9922,7 @@ merchant abideth with him and hath spent all his capital, to entertain him three days; then doth he put him out and he may return to us nevermore. But keep thou thy secret and conceal thy case and I will so contrive that thou shalt abide with me till -such time as Allah will;<a id='r289' /><a href='#f289' class='c015'><sup>[289]</sup></a> for, indeed, there is in my heart a great +such time as Allah will;<a id='r289' href='#f289' class='c015'><sup>[289]</sup></a> for, indeed, there is in my heart a great love for thee. Thou must know that all my father’s money is under my hand and he wotteth not its full tale; so, every morning, I will give thee a purse of five hundred dinars which do thou offer @@ -10040,11 +10022,11 @@ with all the jewels that were thereon, for which I thanked him, and each and every of the merchants present praised him. Presently I carried all this to the jewel-market and sat there to sell and buy. Now among the precious stones was a round amulet of the handiwork -of the masters,<a id='r290' /><a href='#f290' class='c015'><sup>[290]</sup></a> weighing half a pound: it was red of the +of the masters,<a id='r290' href='#f290' class='c015'><sup>[290]</sup></a> weighing half a pound: it was red of the brightest, a carnelian on both whose sides were graven characts and characters, like the tracks of ants; but I knew not its worth. I sold and bought a whole year, at the end of which I took the -amulet<a id='r291' /><a href='#f291' class='c015'><sup>[291]</sup></a> and said, “This hath been with me some while, and I +amulet<a id='r291' href='#f291' class='c015'><sup>[291]</sup></a> and said, “This hath been with me some while, and I <span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span>know not what it is nor what may be its value.” So I gave it to the broker who took it and went round with it and returned, saying, “None of the merchants will give me more than ten dirhams for @@ -10096,7 +10078,7 @@ day there overcame it this pallor thou seest. Then said I to him, “Tell me the reason of this and what is the use of this amulet.” And he answered, saying, “Know that the King of Hind hath a daughter, never was seen a thing fairer than she, and she is -possessed with a falling sickness.<a id='r292' /><a href='#f292' class='c015'><sup>[292]</sup></a>” So the King summoned the +possessed with a falling sickness.<a id='r292' href='#f292' class='c015'><sup>[292]</sup></a>” So the King summoned the Scribes and men of science and Divines, but none of them could relieve her of this. Now I was present in the assembly; so I said to him, “O King, I know a man called Sa’adu’lláh the Babylonian, @@ -10138,7 +10120,7 @@ the Princess’s necklace. It chanced, one day, that she embarked with her women in a ship and went for a sail on the sea. Presently, one of her maids put out her hand to her, to sport with her, and the necklace brake asunder and fell into the waves. From that -hour the possessor<a id='r293' /><a href='#f293' class='c015'><sup>[293]</sup></a> of the Princess returned to her, wherefore +hour the possessor<a id='r293' href='#f293' class='c015'><sup>[293]</sup></a> of the Princess returned to her, wherefore great grief betided the King and he gave me much money, saying, “Go thou to Shaykh Sa’adu’llah and let him make her another amulet, in lieu of that which is lost.” I journeyed to Babel, @@ -10158,7 +10140,7 @@ I saw the balcony broken down and the lattice builded up; so I stood awhile, pondering my case and the shifts of Time, till there came up a serving-man, and I questioned him, saying, “What hath God done with Tahir ibn al-Alaa?” He answered, “O my brother, -he hath repented to Almighty Allah.<a id='r294' /><a href='#f294' class='c015'><sup>[294]</sup></a>” Quoth I, “What was the +he hath repented to Almighty Allah.<a id='r294' href='#f294' class='c015'><sup>[294]</sup></a>” Quoth I, “What was the cause of his repentance?”; and quoth he, “O my brother, in such a year there came to him a merchant, by name Abu al-Hasan the Omani, who abode with his daughter awhile, till his wealth was all @@ -10175,7 +10157,7 @@ girls, for grief of that which hath befallen him, and hath repented to Almighty Allah.” Then asked I, “What wouldst thou say to him who should direct thee to Abu al-Hasan the Omani?”; and he answered, “Allah upon thee, O my brother, that thou do this -and quicken my poverty and the poverty of my parents<a id='r295' /><a href='#f295' class='c015'><sup>[295]</sup></a>!” I +and quicken my poverty and the poverty of my parents<a id='r295' href='#f295' class='c015'><sup>[295]</sup></a>!” I rejoined, “Go to her father and say to him, Thou owest me the reward for good news, for that Abu al-Hasan the Omani standeth at the door.” With this he set off trotting, as he were a mule @@ -10228,7 +10210,7 @@ never saw I nor heard I aught more wondrous.” When he was seated in the palace of the Caliphate, he cried, “O Masrur!” who replied, “Here am I, O my lord!” Then said he, “Bring the year’s tribute of Bassorah and Baghdad and Khorasan, and set it -in this recess.<a id='r296' /><a href='#f296' class='c015'><sup>[296]</sup></a>” Accordingly he laid the three tributes together +in this recess.<a id='r296' href='#f296' class='c015'><sup>[296]</sup></a>” Accordingly he laid the three tributes together and they were a vast sum of money, whose tale none might tell save Allah. Then the Caliph bade draw a curtain before the recess and said to Ja’afar, “Fetch me Abu al-Hasan.” Replied @@ -10242,7 +10224,7 @@ Quoth the Caliph, “Draw back yonder curtain.” Thereupon Abu al-Hasan drew back the curtain from the recess and was confounded and perplexed at the mass of money he saw there. Said Al-Rashid, “O Abu al-Hasan, whether is the more, -this money or that thou didst lose by the amulet<a id='r297' /><a href='#f297' class='c015'><sup>[297]</sup></a>?”; and he +this money or that thou didst lose by the amulet<a id='r297' href='#f297' class='c015'><sup>[297]</sup></a>?”; and he answered, “This is many times the greater, O Commander of the Faithful!” Quoth the Caliph, “Bear witness, all ye who are present, that I give this money to this young man.” So Abu @@ -10263,10 +10245,10 @@ departed to the mercy of Almighty Allah; and glory be to Him who dieth not the Lord of the Seen and the Unseen! And among tales they tell is one touching</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f276'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r276'>276</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Ishak of Mosul, for whom see vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_119">119</a>. The Bresl. Edit. has Fazíl for +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r276'>276</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Ishak of Mosul, for whom see vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_119">119</a>. The Bresl. Edit. has Fazíl for Fazl.</p> </div> @@ -10280,7 +10262,7 @@ for a loss, a death, etc.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f279'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r279'>279</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> When he is in the very prime of life and able to administer <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">fiers coups de canif</span></i>.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r279'>279</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> When he is in the very prime of life and able to administer <i><span lang="fr">fiers coups de canif</span></i>.</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -10307,17 +10289,17 @@ damsels.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f282'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r282'>282</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> As she untunes the lute by “pinching” the strings over-excitedly with her right, +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r282'>282</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> As she untunes the lute by “pinching” the strings over-excitedly with her right, her other hand retunes it by turning the pegs.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f283'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r283'>283</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The slim cupbearer (Zephyr) and fair-faced girl (Moon) handed round the +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r283'>283</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The slim cupbearer (Zephyr) and fair-faced girl (Moon) handed round the bubbling bowl (star).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f284'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r284'>284</a>. </span>Arab. “Al-Sath” whence the Span. <span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Azotea</span>. The lines that follow are from the +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r284'>284</a>. </span>Arab. “Al-Sath” whence the Span. <span lang="es">Azotea</span>. The lines that follow are from the Bresl. Edit. v. 110.</p> </div> @@ -10332,7 +10314,7 @@ friend Dr. Leared (London: Sampson Low, 1876).</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f286'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r286'>286</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Kings might sigh for her in vain.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r286'>286</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Kings might sigh for her in vain.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f287'> @@ -10345,11 +10327,11 @@ the idea of a corpse.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f289'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r289'>289</a>. </span>Arab. “Ilà má sháa’ lláh” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as long as you like.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r289'>289</a>. </span>Arab. “Ilà má sháa’ lláh” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as long as you like.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f290'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r290'>290</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of gramarye.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r290'>290</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of gramarye.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f291'> @@ -10371,7 +10353,7 @@ know better.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f294'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r294'>294</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He hath renounced his infamous traffic.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r294'>294</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He hath renounced his infamous traffic.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f295'> @@ -10385,15 +10367,15 @@ prop. a hall, an open saloon.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f297'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r297'>297</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by selling it for thirty thousand gold pieces, when he might have got a million +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r297'>297</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> by selling it for thirty thousand gold pieces, when he might have got a million for it.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c207' class='c011'>IBRAHIM AND JAMILAH.<a id='r298' /><a href='#f298' class='c015'><sup>[298]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c207' class='c011'>IBRAHIM AND JAMILAH.<a id='r298' href='#f298' class='c015'><sup>[298]</sup></a></h2> </div> -<p class='c017'>Al-Khasíb,<a id='r299' /><a href='#f299' class='c015'><sup>[299]</sup></a> Wazir of Egypt, had a son named Ibrahím, than +<p class='c017'>Al-Khasíb,<a id='r299' href='#f299' class='c015'><sup>[299]</sup></a> Wazir of Egypt, had a son named Ibrahím, than whom there was none goodlier, and of his fear for him, he suffered him not to go forth, save to the Friday prayers. One day, as the youth was returning from the mosque, he came upon an old man, @@ -10404,7 +10386,7 @@ woman which all but spoke, never was seen on the earth’s face one more beautiful; and as this captivated his reason and confounded his wit, he said to the old man, “O Shaykh, sell me this picture.” <span class='pageno' id='Page_208'>208</span>The bookseller kissed ground between his hands and said, “O my -lord, ’tis thine without price.<a id='r300' /><a href='#f300' class='c015'><sup>[300]</sup></a>” Ibrahim gave him an hundred +lord, ’tis thine without price.<a id='r300' href='#f300' class='c015'><sup>[300]</sup></a>” Ibrahim gave him an hundred dinars and taking the book in which was the picture, fell to gazing upon it and weeping night and day, abstaining from meat and drink and sleep. Then said he in his mind, “An I ask the bookseller @@ -10441,7 +10423,7 @@ to the value of thirty thousand dinars, waited till the morning, when he went out, without telling any, and presently overtook a caravan. Here he saw a Badawi and asked him, “O uncle, what distance is between me and Baghdad?”; and the other answered, -“O my son, where art thou, and where is Baghdad<a id='r301' /><a href='#f301' class='c015'><sup>[301]</sup></a>? Verily, +“O my son, where art thou, and where is Baghdad<a id='r301' href='#f301' class='c015'><sup>[301]</sup></a>? Verily, between thee and it is two months’ journey.” Quoth Ibrahim, “O nuncle, an thou wilt guide me to Baghdad, I will give thee an hundred dinars and this mare under me that is worth other @@ -10468,7 +10450,7 @@ who returned his salutation and bidding him welcome, made him sit down and asked him of his case. Quoth Ibrahim, “I am a stranger man and desire of thy favour that thou look me out a house in this street where I may take up my abode.” With this -the other cried out, saying, “Ho, Ghazálah<a id='r302' /><a href='#f302' class='c015'><sup>[302]</sup></a>!”; and there came +the other cried out, saying, “Ho, Ghazálah<a id='r302' href='#f302' class='c015'><sup>[302]</sup></a>!”; and there came forth to him a slave-girl, who said, “At thy service, O my lord!” Said her master, “Take some servants and fare ye all and every to such a house and clean it and furnish it with whatso is needful @@ -10479,7 +10461,7 @@ The other answered, “O bright of face, I will take no rent of thee whilst thou abidest therein.” Ibrahim thanked him for this and the old man called another slave-girl, whereupon there came forth to him a damsel like the sun, to whom said he, “Bring chess.” -So she brought it and one of the servants set the cloth;<a id='r303' /><a href='#f303' class='c015'><sup>[303]</sup></a> whereupon +So she brought it and one of the servants set the cloth;<a id='r303' href='#f303' class='c015'><sup>[303]</sup></a> whereupon said the Shaykh to Ibrahim, “Wilt thou play with me?”; and he answered, “Yes.” So they played several games and Ibrahim beat him, when his adversary exclaimed, “Well done, O youth! @@ -10551,7 +10533,7 @@ hear and I obey,” and rising, opened a closet and brought out a number of books, wherein he had painted the same picture. Then said he, “Know, O my son, that the original of this portrait is my cousin, the daughter of my father’s brother, whose name is Abú -al-Lays.<a id='r304' /><a href='#f304' class='c015'><sup>[304]</sup></a> She dwelleth in Bassorah of which city her father is +al-Lays.<a id='r304' href='#f304' class='c015'><sup>[304]</sup></a> She dwelleth in Bassorah of which city her father is governor, and her name is Jamílah—the beautiful. There is not on the face of the earth a fairer than she; but she is averse from men and cannot hear the word ‘man’ pronounced in her presence. @@ -10560,7 +10542,7 @@ marry me to her, and was lavish of wealth to him; but he would not consent thereto: and when his daughter knew of this she was indignant and sent to me to say, amongst other things:—An thou have wit, tarry not in this town; else wilt thou perish and thy sin -shall be on thine own neck.<a id='r305' /><a href='#f305' class='c015'><sup>[305]</sup></a> For she is a virago of viragoes. +shall be on thine own neck.<a id='r305' href='#f305' class='c015'><sup>[305]</sup></a> For she is a virago of viragoes. Accordingly I left Bassorah, broken-hearted, and limned this likeness of her in books and scattered them abroad in various lands, so haply they might fall into the hands of a comely youth like @@ -10593,7 +10575,7 @@ gotten our hire of our lord.” However he replied, “Take this by way of largesse; and I will not acquaint him therewith.” So they took it and blessed him. Then the youth landed and entering the town asked, “Where do the merchants lodge?” and was -answered, “In a Khan called the Khan of Hamadán.”<a id='r306' /><a href='#f306' class='c015'><sup>[306]</sup></a> So he +answered, “In a Khan called the Khan of Hamadán.”<a id='r306' href='#f306' class='c015'><sup>[306]</sup></a> So he walked to the market wherein stood the Khan, and all eyes were fixed upon him and men’s sight was attracted to him by reason of his exceeding beauty and loveliness. He entered the caravanserai, @@ -10604,7 +10586,7 @@ which Ibrahim said to him, “O uncle, hast thou a nice chamber?” He replied, “Yes,” and taking him and the sailor, opened to them a handsome room decorated with gold, and said, “O youth, this chamber befitteth thee.” Ibrahim pulled out two dinars and gave -them to him, saying, “Take these to key-money.”<a id='r307' /><a href='#f307' class='c015'><sup>[307]</sup></a> And the +them to him, saying, “Take these to key-money.”<a id='r307' href='#f307' class='c015'><sup>[307]</sup></a> And the <span class='pageno' id='Page_213'>213</span>porter took them and blessed him. Then the youth Ibrahim sent the sailor back to the ship and entered the room, where the doorkeeper abode with him and served him, saying, “O my lord, thy @@ -10614,20 +10596,20 @@ wine.” Accordingly the doorkeeper went to the market; and, buying ten dirhams’ worth of victual, brought it back to Ibrahim and gave him the other ten dirhams. But he cried to him, “Spend them on thyself;” whereat the porter rejoiced with passing joy. -Then he ate a scone with a little kitchen<a id='r308' /><a href='#f308' class='c015'><sup>[308]</sup></a> and gave the rest to the +Then he ate a scone with a little kitchen<a id='r308' href='#f308' class='c015'><sup>[308]</sup></a> and gave the rest to the concierge, adding, “Carry this to the people of thy household.” The porter carried it to his family and said to them, “Methinketh there is not on the face of the earth a more generous than the young man who has come to lodge with us this day, nor yet a pleasanter than he. An he abide with us, we shall grow rich.” Then he returned to Ibrahim and found him weeping; so he sat -down and began to rub<a id='r309' /><a href='#f309' class='c015'><sup>[309]</sup></a> his feet and kiss them, saying, “O my +down and began to rub<a id='r309' href='#f309' class='c015'><sup>[309]</sup></a> his feet and kiss them, saying, “O my lord, wherefore weepest thou? May Allah not make thee weep!” Said Ibrahim, “O uncle, I have a mind to drink with thee this night;” and the porter replied, “Hearing and obeying!” So he gave him five dinars and said, “Buy us fresh fruit and wine;” and presently added other five, saying, “With these buy also for -us dessert<a id='r310' /><a href='#f310' class='c015'><sup>[310]</sup></a> and flowers and five fat fowls and bring me a lute.” +us dessert<a id='r310' href='#f310' class='c015'><sup>[310]</sup></a> and flowers and five fat fowls and bring me a lute.” The doorkeeper went out and, buying what he had ordered, said to his wife, “Strain this wine and cook us this food and look thou dress it daintily, for this young man overwhelmeth us with his @@ -10654,7 +10636,7 @@ the following verses:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_214'>214</span>O my friend! an I rendered my life, my sprite, ✿ My wealth and whatever the world can unite;</div> - <div class='line'>Nay, th’ Eternal Garden and Paradise<a id='r311' /><a href='#f311' class='c015'><sup>[311]</sup></a> ✿ For an hour of Union my heart would buy’t!</div> + <div class='line'>Nay, th’ Eternal Garden and Paradise<a id='r311' href='#f311' class='c015'><sup>[311]</sup></a> ✿ For an hour of Union my heart would buy’t!</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -10710,7 +10692,7 @@ and he took them, amazed at his beauty and generosity. Then said he, “By Allah, O youth, for this conduct of thine needs must be a cause, this is no matter of sewing up a pocket. But tell me the truth of thy case. An thou be in love with one of these -boys,<a id='r312' /><a href='#f312' class='c015'><sup>[312]</sup></a> by Allah, there is not among them a comelier than thou, +boys,<a id='r312' href='#f312' class='c015'><sup>[312]</sup></a> by Allah, there is not among them a comelier than thou, for they are each and every as the dust at thy feet; and behold, they are all thy slaves and at thy command. Or if it be other than this, tell me.” Replied Ibrahim, “O uncle, this is no place @@ -10720,7 +10702,7 @@ So saying, he rose up in haste and took the youth by the hand and carrying him into a chamber behind the shop, said, “Now tell me thy tale, O youth!” Accordingly Ibrahim related his story first and last to the tailor, who was amazed at his speech -and cried, “O youth, fear Allah for thyself:<a id='r313' /><a href='#f313' class='c015'><sup>[313]</sup></a> indeed she of whom +and cried, “O youth, fear Allah for thyself:<a id='r313' href='#f313' class='c015'><sup>[313]</sup></a> indeed she of whom thou speakest is a virago and averse from men. Wherefore, O my brother, do thou guard thy tongue, else thou wilt destroy thyself.” When Ibrahim heard the hunchback’s words, he wept with sore @@ -10738,9 +10720,9 @@ kindly with thee.” Next morning, the youth donned his richest dress and taking a purse of gold, repaired to the Gobbo and saluted him. Then he sat down and said, “O uncle, keep thy word with me.” Quoth the hunchback, “Arise forthright and take -thee three fat fowls and three ounces<a id='r314' /><a href='#f314' class='c015'><sup>[314]</sup></a> of sugar-candy and two +thee three fat fowls and three ounces<a id='r314' href='#f314' class='c015'><sup>[314]</sup></a> of sugar-candy and two small jugs which do thou fill with wine; also a cup. Lay all -these in a budget<a id='r315' /><a href='#f315' class='c015'><sup>[315]</sup></a> and to-morrow, after the morning-prayers, take +these in a budget<a id='r315' href='#f315' class='c015'><sup>[315]</sup></a> and to-morrow, after the morning-prayers, take boat with them, saying to the boatman:—I would have thee row me down the river below Bassorah. An he say to thee, “I cannot go farther than a parasang” do thou answer:—As thou wilt; but, @@ -10817,7 +10799,7 @@ presently adding, “But, O my son, had not affection for thee sunk thou wert lost, thou and my brother and the doorkeeper of the Khan and his wife. For know that this flower-garden hath not its like on the face of the earth and that it is called the Garden -of the Wild Heifer,<a id='r316' /><a href='#f316' class='c015'><sup>[316]</sup></a> nor hath any entered it in all my life long, +of the Wild Heifer,<a id='r316' href='#f316' class='c015'><sup>[316]</sup></a> nor hath any entered it in all my life long, save the Sultan and myself and its mistress Jamilah; and I have dwelt here twenty years and never yet saw any else attain to this stead. Every forty days the Lady Jamilah cometh hither in a @@ -10841,8 +10823,8 @@ and small, and water jetting in gerbes from their mouths; and when, by reason of the issuing forth of the water, they attuned themselves to various tones, it seemed to the hearer as though he were in Eden. Round the pavilion ran a channel of water, turning -a Persian wheel<a id='r317' /><a href='#f317' class='c015'><sup>[317]</sup></a> whose buckets<a id='r318' /><a href='#f318' class='c015'><sup>[318]</sup></a> were silvern covered with brocade. -To the left of the pavilion<a id='r319' /><a href='#f319' class='c015'><sup>[319]</sup></a> was a lattice of silver, giving +a Persian wheel<a id='r317' href='#f317' class='c015'><sup>[317]</sup></a> whose buckets<a id='r318' href='#f318' class='c015'><sup>[318]</sup></a> were silvern covered with brocade. +To the left of the pavilion<a id='r319' href='#f319' class='c015'><sup>[319]</sup></a> was a lattice of silver, giving upon a green park, wherein were all manner wild cattle and gazelles and hares, and on the right hand was another lattice, <span class='pageno' id='Page_219'>219</span>overlooking a meadow full of birds of all sorts, warbling in various @@ -10854,13 +10836,13 @@ Then he rose and was absent awhile and presently returned with a tray, full of fowls and quails and other dainties including sweetmeats of sugar, which he set before Ibrahim, saying, “Eat thy sufficiency.” So he ate his fill, whereat the keeper rejoiced and -cried, “By Allah, this is the fashion of Kings and sons of Kings<a id='r320' /><a href='#f320' class='c015'><sup>[320]</sup></a>!” +cried, “By Allah, this is the fashion of Kings and sons of Kings<a id='r320' href='#f320' class='c015'><sup>[320]</sup></a>!” Then said he, “O Ibrahim, what hast thou in yonder bag?” Accordingly he opened it before him and the keeper said, “Carry it with thee; ’twill serve thee when the Lady Jamilah cometh; for when once she is come, I shall not be able to bring thee food.” Then he rose and taking the youth by the hand, brought him to -a place fronting the pavilion, where he made him an arbour<a id='r321' /><a href='#f321' class='c015'><sup>[321]</sup></a> among +a place fronting the pavilion, where he made him an arbour<a id='r321' href='#f321' class='c015'><sup>[321]</sup></a> among the trees and said to him, “Get thee up here, and when she cometh thou wilt see her and she will not see thee. This is the best I can do for thee and on Allah be our dependence! Whenas @@ -10893,7 +10875,7 @@ dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> keeper came to Ibrahim Khasib-son in the Garden he said to him, <span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>“Rise, O my son, and go up into the arbour; for the slave-girls are come to order the place and she cometh after them. So beware -lest thou spit or sneeze or blow thy nose<a id='r322' /><a href='#f322' class='c015'><sup>[322]</sup></a>; else we are dead men, +lest thou spit or sneeze or blow thy nose<a id='r322' href='#f322' class='c015'><sup>[322]</sup></a>; else we are dead men, I and thou.” Hereupon Ibrahim rose and went up into his nest, whilst the keeper fared forth, saying, “Allah grant thee safety, O my son!” Presently behold, up came four slave-girls, whose @@ -10932,25 +10914,25 @@ myself, weeping-eyed, recited these two couplets:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>Then said the old Kahramánah<a id='r323' /><a href='#f323' class='c015'><sup>[323]</sup></a> to the girls, “Let ten of you arise +<p class='c000'>Then said the old Kahramánah<a id='r323' href='#f323' class='c015'><sup>[323]</sup></a> to the girls, “Let ten of you arise and dance and sing.” And Ibrahim when looking at them said in himself, “I wish the lady Jamilah would dance.” When the handmaidens had made an end of their pavane, they gathered round the Princess and said to her, “O my lady, we long for thee to dance amongst us, so the measure of our joy may be fulfilled, for never saw we a more delicious day than this.” Quoth Ibrahim -to himself, “Doubtless the gates of Heaven are open<a id='r324' /><a href='#f324' class='c015'><sup>[324]</sup></a> and Allah +to himself, “Doubtless the gates of Heaven are open<a id='r324' href='#f324' class='c015'><sup>[324]</sup></a> and Allah hath granted my prayer.” Then the damsels bussed her feet and said to her, “By Allah, we never saw thee broadened of breast as to-day!” Nor did they cease exciting her, till she doffed her -outer dress and stood in a shift of cloth of gold,<a id='r325' /><a href='#f325' class='c015'><sup>[325]</sup></a> broidered with +outer dress and stood in a shift of cloth of gold,<a id='r325' href='#f325' class='c015'><sup>[325]</sup></a> broidered with various jewels, showing breasts which stood out like pomegranates and unveiling a face as it were the moon on the night of fulness. Then she began to dance, and Ibrahim beheld motions he had never in his life seen their like, for she showed such wondrous skill and marvellous invention, that she made men forget the dancing of bubbles in wine-cups and called to mind the inclining of the -turbands from head<a id='r326' /><a href='#f326' class='c015'><sup>[326]</sup></a>-tops: even as saith of her the poet<a id='r327' /><a href='#f327' class='c015'><sup>[327]</sup></a>:—</p> +turbands from head<a id='r326' href='#f326' class='c015'><sup>[326]</sup></a>-tops: even as saith of her the poet<a id='r327' href='#f327' class='c015'><sup>[327]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -10961,7 +10943,7 @@ turbands from head<a id='r326' /><a href='#f326' class='c015'><sup>[326]</sup></ </div> </div> -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_222'>222</span>And as quoth another<a id='r328' /><a href='#f328' class='c015'><sup>[328]</sup></a>:—</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_222'>222</span>And as quoth another<a id='r328' href='#f328' class='c015'><sup>[328]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -10986,7 +10968,7 @@ weeping, and she to wiping away my tears with her hand and saying, “O youth, tell me who thou art, and what brought thee hither.” I kissed the ground before her and seized her skirt; and she said, “No harm shall come to thee; for, by Allah, no male -hath ever filled mine eyes<a id='r329' /><a href='#f329' class='c015'><sup>[329]</sup></a> but thyself! Tell me, then, who thou +hath ever filled mine eyes<a id='r329' href='#f329' class='c015'><sup>[329]</sup></a> but thyself! Tell me, then, who thou art.” So I recited to her my story from first to last, whereat she marvelled and said to me, “O my lord, I conjure thee by Allah, tell me if thou be Ibrahim bin al-Khasib?” I replied, “Yes!” and she @@ -11038,7 +11020,7 @@ when the Lady Jamilah returned to her women, she said to them, “Come, let us go back to our palace.” They replied, “Why should we return now, seeing that we use to abide here three days?” Quoth she, “I feel an exceeding oppression in myself, as though I -were sick, and I fear lest this increase upon me.”<a id='r330' /><a href='#f330' class='c015'><sup>[330]</sup></a> So they +were sick, and I fear lest this increase upon me.”<a id='r330' href='#f330' class='c015'><sup>[330]</sup></a> So they answered, “We hear and obey,” and donning their walking-dresses went down to the river-bank and embarked in a boat; whereupon behold, the keeper of the garden came up to Ibrahim and said to @@ -11046,16 +11028,16 @@ him, knowing not what had happened, “O Ibrahim, thou hast not had the luck to enjoy the sight of her, and I fear lest she have seen thee, for ’tis her wont to tarry here three days.” Replied Ibrahim, “She saw me not nor I her; for she came not forth of -the pavilion.”<a id='r331' /><a href='#f331' class='c015'><sup>[331]</sup></a> Rejoined the keeper, “True, O my son, for, had +the pavilion.”<a id='r331' href='#f331' class='c015'><sup>[331]</sup></a> Rejoined the keeper, “True, O my son, for, had she seen thee, we were both dead men: but abide with me till she come again next week, and thou shalt see her and take thy fill of looking at her.” Replied the Prince, “O my lord, I have with <span class='pageno' id='Page_224'>224</span>me money and fear for it: I also left men behind me and I dread -lest they take advantage of my absence.”<a id='r332' /><a href='#f332' class='c015'><sup>[332]</sup></a> He retorted, “O my +lest they take advantage of my absence.”<a id='r332' href='#f332' class='c015'><sup>[332]</sup></a> He retorted, “O my son ’tis grievous to me to part with thee;” and he embraced and farewelled him. Then Ibrahim returned to the Khan where he lodged, and foregathering with the doorkeeper, took of him all his -property and the porter said, “Good news, Inshallah!”<a id='r333' /><a href='#f333' class='c015'><sup>[333]</sup></a> But +property and the porter said, “Good news, Inshallah!”<a id='r333' href='#f333' class='c015'><sup>[333]</sup></a> But Ibrahim said, “I have found no way to my want, and now I am minded to return to my people.” Whereupon the porter wept; then taking up his baggage, he carried them to the ship and abade @@ -11067,12 +11049,12 @@ arrows and in the other a bared blade, and she asked him, “Art thou Ibrahim, son of Al-Khasib, lord of Egypt?” “He I am,” answered the Prince; and she said, “What ne’er-do-well art thou, who comest to debauch the daughters of Kings? Come: speak -with the Sultan.”<a id='r334' /><a href='#f334' class='c015'><sup>[334]</sup></a> Therewith (quoth Ibrahim) I fell down in a -swoon and the sailors died<a id='r335' /><a href='#f335' class='c015'><sup>[335]</sup></a> in their skins for fear; but, when she +with the Sultan.”<a id='r334' href='#f334' class='c015'><sup>[334]</sup></a> Therewith (quoth Ibrahim) I fell down in a +swoon and the sailors died<a id='r335' href='#f335' class='c015'><sup>[335]</sup></a> in their skins for fear; but, when she saw what had betided me, she pulled off her beard and throwing down her sword, ungirdled her waist whereupon I knew her for the Lady Jamilah and said to her, “By Allah, thou hast rent my -heart in sunder!”<a id='r336' /><a href='#f336' class='c015'><sup>[336]</sup></a> adding to the boatmen, “Hasten the vessel’s +heart in sunder!”<a id='r336' href='#f336' class='c015'><sup>[336]</sup></a> adding to the boatmen, “Hasten the vessel’s speed.” So they shook out the sail and putting off, fared on with all diligence; nor was it many days ere we made Baghdad, where suddenly we saw a ship lying by the river-bank. When her sailors @@ -11084,16 +11066,16 @@ beheld Abu al-Kasim al-Sandalani who when he saw us exclaimed, have a need to be satisfied!” Then he turned to me and said, <span class='pageno' id='Page_225'>225</span>“Praised be Allah for safety! Hast thou accomplished thine errand?” I replied, “Yes!” Now Abu al-Kasim had a flambeau -before him; so he brought it near our boat,<a id='r337' /><a href='#f337' class='c015'><sup>[337]</sup></a> and when Jamilah +before him; so he brought it near our boat,<a id='r337' href='#f337' class='c015'><sup>[337]</sup></a> and when Jamilah saw him, she was troubled and her colour changed: but, when he saw her, he said, “Fare ye in Allah’s safety. I am bound to Bassorah, on business for the Sultan; but the gift is for him who -is present.”<a id='r338' /><a href='#f338' class='c015'><sup>[338]</sup></a> Then he brought out a box of sweetmeats, wherein +is present.”<a id='r338' href='#f338' class='c015'><sup>[338]</sup></a> Then he brought out a box of sweetmeats, wherein was Bhang and threw it into our boat: whereupon quoth I to Jamilah, “O coolth of mine eyes, eat of this.” But she wept and said, “O Ibrahim, wottest thou who that is?” and said I, “Yes, ’tis such an one.” Replied she, “He is my first cousin, son of my -father’s brother<a id='r339' /><a href='#f339' class='c015'><sup>[339]</sup></a> who sought me aforetime in marriage of my sire; +father’s brother<a id='r339' href='#f339' class='c015'><sup>[339]</sup></a> who sought me aforetime in marriage of my sire; but I would not accept of him. And now he is gone to Bassorah and most like he will tell my father of us.” I rejoined, “O my lady he will not reach Bassorah, till we are at Mosul.” But we @@ -11105,9 +11087,9 @@ my nostrils. With this, I opened my eyes and found myself naked and cast out among ruins; so I buffeted my face and said in myself, “Doubtless this is a trick Al-Sandalani hath played me.” But I knew not whither I should wend, for I had upon me naught -save my bag-trousers.<a id='r340' /><a href='#f340' class='c015'><sup>[340]</sup></a> However, I rose and walked on a little, +save my bag-trousers.<a id='r340' href='#f340' class='c015'><sup>[340]</sup></a> However, I rose and walked on a little, till I suddenly espied the Chief of Police coming towards me, with -a posse of men with swords and targes;<a id='r341' /><a href='#f341' class='c015'><sup>[341]</sup></a> whereat I took fright and +a posse of men with swords and targes;<a id='r341' href='#f341' class='c015'><sup>[341]</sup></a> whereat I took fright and seeing a ruined Hammam hid myself there. Presently, my foot stumbled upon something; so I put my hand to it, and it became befouled with blood. I wiped my hand upon my bag-trousers, @@ -11119,7 +11101,7 @@ in one of the corner-cabinets of the Hammam. Presently the Wali stopped at the bath-door and said, “Enter this place and search.” So ten of them entered with cressets, and I of my fear retired behind a wall and looking upon the corpse, saw it to be that -of a young lady<a id='r342' /><a href='#f342' class='c015'><sup>[342]</sup></a> with a face like the full moon; and her head lay +of a young lady<a id='r342' href='#f342' class='c015'><sup>[342]</sup></a> with a face like the full moon; and her head lay on one side and her body clad in costly raiment on the other. When I saw this, my heart fluttered with affright. Then the Chief of Police entered and said, “Search the corners of the bath.” So @@ -11151,7 +11133,7 @@ continued:—Then they carried me before the Wali and he, seeing the bloodstains on my hand, cried, “This needeth no proof: strike off his head!” Now hearing these words, I wept with sore weeping the tears streaming from my eyes and recited these two -couplets<a id='r343' /><a href='#f343' class='c015'><sup>[343]</sup></a>:—</p> +couplets<a id='r343' href='#f343' class='c015'><sup>[343]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -11190,7 +11172,7 @@ on the rug of blood. When the Wali saw the Chamberlain, he recognised him and alighted to him and as he asked, “What young man is that and what is his case?” The Chief told him how the matter was and the Chamberlain said (and indeed he -knew him not for the son of the Sultan<a id='r344' /><a href='#f344' class='c015'><sup>[344]</sup></a>) “Verily this young man +knew him not for the son of the Sultan<a id='r344' href='#f344' class='c015'><sup>[344]</sup></a>) “Verily this young man hath not the face of one who murthereth.” And he bade loose his bonds; so they loosed him and the Chamberlain said, “Bring him to me!” and they brought him, but the officer knew him not his @@ -11204,7 +11186,7 @@ straitly and knowing him right well, threw himself at his feet; which when the Wali saw, his colour changed; and the Chamberlain cried to him, “Fie upon thee, O tyrant! Was it thine intent to slay the son of my master Al-Khasib, Wazir of Egypt?” The -Chief of Police kissed his skirt, saying “O my lord,<a id='r345' /><a href='#f345' class='c015'><sup>[345]</sup></a> how should +Chief of Police kissed his skirt, saying “O my lord,<a id='r345' href='#f345' class='c015'><sup>[345]</sup></a> how should I know him? We found him in this plight and saw the girl lying slain by his side.” Rejoined the Chamberlain, “Out on thee! Thou art not fit for the office. This is a lad of fifteen and he hath @@ -11245,7 +11227,7 @@ to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies; and glory be to the Living who dieth not! They also relate, O auspicious King, a tale anent</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f298'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r298'>298</a>. </span>The tale is not in the Bresl. Edit.</p> @@ -11275,7 +11257,7 @@ the price.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f301'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r301'>301</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The distance is enormous.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r301'>301</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The distance is enormous.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f302'> @@ -11289,7 +11271,7 @@ late years spread far and wide, especially the backgammon board.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f304'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r304'>304</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “Father of the Lion.”</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r304'>304</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “Father of the Lion.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f305'> @@ -11309,7 +11291,7 @@ the French denier à Dieu, given to the concierge on like occasions.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f308'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r308'>308</a>. </span>Arab. ’Udm, a relish, the Scotch “kitchen,” Lat. <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Opsonium</span>, Ital. <span lang="it" xml:lang="it">Companatico</span> and +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r308'>308</a>. </span>Arab. ’Udm, a relish, the Scotch “kitchen,” Lat. <span lang="la">Opsonium</span>, Ital. <span lang="it">Companatico</span> and our “by-meat.” See vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/53254-h/53254-h.htm#Page_128">128</a>.</p> </div> @@ -11330,7 +11312,7 @@ our “by-meat.” See vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254/5 </div> <div class='footnote' id='f313'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r313'>313</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “Have some regard for thy life.”</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r313'>313</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “Have some regard for thy life.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f314'> @@ -11339,7 +11321,7 @@ As an ounce it weighs differently in every country and in Barbary (Mauritania) w we call Morocco, it is a nominal coin containing twelve Flús (fulús) now about = a penny. It is a direct descendant from the “Uk” or “Wuk” (ounce) of the hieroglyphs (See Sharpe’s Egypt or any other Manual) and first appeared in Europe as the -Greek <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">οὐγκία</span>.</p> +Greek <span lang="el">οὐγκία</span>.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f315'> @@ -11348,7 +11330,7 @@ Greek <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">οὐγκία</span>.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f316'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r316'>316</a>. </span>Arab. “Lúlúah,” which may mean the Union-pearl; but here used in the sense of -“wild cow,” the bubalus antelope, alluding to the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">farouche</span></i> nature of Miss Jamilah. We +“wild cow,” the bubalus antelope, alluding to the <i><span lang="fr">farouche</span></i> nature of Miss Jamilah. We are also told infrà that the park was full of “Wuhúsh” = wild cattle.</p> </div> @@ -11368,7 +11350,7 @@ wheel: usually they are of coarse pottery.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f320'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r320'>320</a>. </span>Easterns greatly respect a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">belle fourchette</span></i>, especially when the eater is a lover.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r320'>320</a>. </span>Easterns greatly respect a <i><span lang="fr">belle fourchette</span></i>, especially when the eater is a lover.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f321'> @@ -11424,8 +11406,8 @@ i. 540.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f329'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r329'>329</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> none hath pleased me. I have quoted the popular saying, “The son of the -quarter filleth not the eye.” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> women prefer stranger faces.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r329'>329</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> none hath pleased me. I have quoted the popular saying, “The son of the +quarter filleth not the eye.” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> women prefer stranger faces.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f330'> @@ -11478,7 +11460,7 @@ of the lioness and the lamb sometimes seen in real life.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f338'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r338'>338</a>. </span>A popular saying, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">les absents ont toujours tort</span>.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r338'>338</a>. </span>A popular saying, <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, <span lang="fr">les absents ont toujours tort</span>.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f339'> @@ -11526,13 +11508,13 @@ Maulá-i-Idrís, the patron saint of the Sunset Land, debased to “Muley Drís. </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c229' class='c011'>ABU AL-HASAN OF KHORASAN.<a id='r346' /><a href='#f346' class='c015'><sup>[346]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c229' class='c011'>ABU AL-HASAN OF KHORASAN.<a id='r346' href='#f346' class='c015'><sup>[346]</sup></a></h2> </div> -<p class='c017'>The Caliph Al-Mu’tazid Bi ’llah<a id='r347' /><a href='#f347' class='c015'><sup>[347]</sup></a> was a high-spirited Prince and +<p class='c017'>The Caliph Al-Mu’tazid Bi ’llah<a id='r347' href='#f347' class='c015'><sup>[347]</sup></a> was a high-spirited Prince and a noble-minded lord; he had in Baghdad six hundred Wazirs and of the affairs of the folk naught was hidden from him. He -went forth one day, he and Ibn Hamdún,<a id='r348' /><a href='#f348' class='c015'><sup>[348]</sup></a> to divert himself with +went forth one day, he and Ibn Hamdún,<a id='r348' href='#f348' class='c015'><sup>[348]</sup></a> to divert himself with observing his lieges and hearing the latest news of the people; and, being overtaken with the heats of noonday, they turned aside from the main thoroughfare into a little by-street, at the @@ -11547,12 +11529,12 @@ Caliph marvelled at their speech and said, “This is a proof of the house-master’s liberality: there is no help but that we go in to him and note his generosity, and this shall be a means of favour betiding him from us.” So he said to the eunuch, “Ask leave of -thy lord for the admission of a company<a id='r349' /><a href='#f349' class='c015'><sup>[349]</sup></a> of strangers.” For in +thy lord for the admission of a company<a id='r349' href='#f349' class='c015'><sup>[349]</sup></a> of strangers.” For in those days it was the Caliph’s wont, whenas he was minded to observe his subjects, to disguise himself in merchant’s garb. The eunuch went in and told his master, who rejoiced and rising, came out to them in person. He was fair of favour and fine of -form and he appeared clad in a tunic of Níshápúr<a id='r350' /><a href='#f350' class='c015'><sup>[350]</sup></a> silk and a gold +form and he appeared clad in a tunic of Níshápúr<a id='r350' href='#f350' class='c015'><sup>[350]</sup></a> silk and a gold laced mantle; and he dripped with scented waters and wore on his hand a signet ring of rubies. When he saw them, he said to them, “Well come and welcome to the lords who favour us with @@ -11612,13 +11594,13 @@ Then he set before us dried fruits and confections and drew between us and the damsels a curtain of brocade, with tassels of silk and rings of gold. The Caliph paid no heed to all this, but said to the host, who knew not who was in his company, “Art -thou noble?”<a id='r351' /><a href='#f351' class='c015'><sup>[351]</sup></a> Said he, “No, my lord; I am but a man of the +thou noble?”<a id='r351' href='#f351' class='c015'><sup>[351]</sup></a> Said he, “No, my lord; I am but a man of the sons of the merchants and am known among the folk as Abú al-Hasan Ali, son of Ahmad of Khorasan.” Quoth the Caliph, “Dost thou know me, O man?”; and quoth he, “By Allah, O my lord, I have no knowledge of either of your honours!” Then said I to him, “O man, this is the Commander of the Faithful, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_232'>232</span>Al-Mu’tazid Bi’llah grandson of Al-Mutawakkil alà’llah.”<a id='r352' /><a href='#f352' class='c015'><sup>[352]</sup></a> Whereupon +<span class='pageno' id='Page_232'>232</span>Al-Mu’tazid Bi’llah grandson of Al-Mutawakkil alà’llah.”<a id='r352' href='#f352' class='c015'><sup>[352]</sup></a> Whereupon he rose and kissed the ground before the Caliph, trembling for fear of him, and said, “O Prince of True Believers, I conjure thee, by the virtue of thy pious forbears, an thou have seen in me @@ -11635,7 +11617,7 @@ thou reproachest to me, O Commander of the Faithful?” Quoth the Caliph, “Since I entered thy mansion and looked upon its grandeur, I have noted the furniture and vessels therein, nay even to thy clothes, and behold, on all of them is the name of -my grandfather Al-Mutawakkil ala ’llah.”<a id='r353' /><a href='#f353' class='c015'><sup>[353]</sup></a> Answered Abu al-Hasan, +my grandfather Al-Mutawakkil ala ’llah.”<a id='r353' href='#f353' class='c015'><sup>[353]</sup></a> Answered Abu al-Hasan, “Yes, O Commander of the Faithful (the Almighty protect thee), truth is thine inner garb and sincerity is thine outer garment and none may speak otherwise than truly in @@ -11787,7 +11769,7 @@ of chagrin? Tell me what aileth thee.” So I told him all that had befallen me with her and he said, “O my son, this is indeed one of the handmaidens of the palace of the Commander of the Faithful and haply she is the Caliph’s favourite concubine: so do -thou reckon the money as spent for the sake of Almighty Allah<a id='r354' /><a href='#f354' class='c015'><sup>[354]</sup></a> +thou reckon the money as spent for the sake of Almighty Allah<a id='r354' href='#f354' class='c015'><sup>[354]</sup></a> and occupy thyself no more with her. An she come again, beware lest she have to do with thee and tell me of this, that I may devise thee some device lest perdition betide thee.” Then he @@ -11813,7 +11795,7 @@ lattice giving upon the river bank and said to me, “Yonder is one by whom thou shalt win thy wish; but first tear thy pocket and go to him and bid him sew it up. When he hath done this, give him ten dinars.” “I hear and obey,” answered I and taking with -me two pieces<a id='r355' /><a href='#f355' class='c015'><sup>[355]</sup></a> of Greek brocade, went to the tailor and bade him +me two pieces<a id='r355' href='#f355' class='c015'><sup>[355]</sup></a> of Greek brocade, went to the tailor and bade him make of them four suits, two with long-sleeved coats and two without. When he had finished cutting them out and sewing them, I gave him to his hire much more than of wont, and he put @@ -11839,7 +11821,7 @@ them to shame! How long shall they seduce the folk? Knowest thou her name?” Said I, “No;” and said he, “Describe her to me.” So I described her to him and he cried, “Out on it! This is the lutanist of the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil and his pet concubine. -But she hath a Mameluke<a id='r356' /><a href='#f356' class='c015'><sup>[356]</sup></a> and do thou make friends with him; it +But she hath a Mameluke<a id='r356' href='#f356' class='c015'><sup>[356]</sup></a> and do thou make friends with him; it may be he shall become the means of thy having access to her.” Now as we were talking, behold, out walked the servant in question from the palace, as he were a moon on the fourteenth @@ -11856,7 +11838,7 @@ home and fetching a suit embroidered with jewels and jacinths, worth three thousand dinars, returned therewith and gave it to him. He accepted it and carrying me into a room within the palace, said to me, “What is thy name among the merchants?” -<span class='pageno' id='Page_238'>238</span>Said I, “I am a man of them.<a id='r357' /><a href='#f357' class='c015'><sup>[357]</sup></a>” He continued, “Verily I misdoubt +<span class='pageno' id='Page_238'>238</span>Said I, “I am a man of them.<a id='r357' href='#f357' class='c015'><sup>[357]</sup></a>” He continued, “Verily I misdoubt me of thine affair.” I asked, “Why so?” and he answered, “Because thou hast bestowed on me a costly gift and won my heart therewith, and I make certain that thou art Abu al-Hasan of @@ -11875,7 +11857,7 @@ that had passed between me and thee and she is minded to foregather with thee. So stay with me till the end of the day.” Accordingly I stayed with him till dark, when the Mameluke brought me a shirt of gold-inwoven stuff and a suit of the Caliph’s -apparel and clothing me therein, incensed me<a id='r358' /><a href='#f358' class='c015'><sup>[358]</sup></a> and I became like +apparel and clothing me therein, incensed me<a id='r358' href='#f358' class='c015'><sup>[358]</sup></a> and I became like the Commander of the Faithful. Then he brought me to a gallery with rows of rooms on either side and said to me, “These are the lodgings of the Chief of the slave-girls; and when thou @@ -11898,7 +11880,7 @@ say.</p> Mameluke said to Abu Hasan, “When thou passest along the gallery set down at each door a bean for ’tis the custom of the Caliph so to do, till thou come to the second passage on thy right -hand, when thou wilt see a door with a marble threshold.<a id='r359' /><a href='#f359' class='c015'><sup>[359]</sup></a> Touch +hand, when thou wilt see a door with a marble threshold.<a id='r359' href='#f359' class='c015'><sup>[359]</sup></a> Touch <span class='pageno' id='Page_239'>239</span>it with thy hand or, an thou wilt, count the doors which are so many, and enter the one whose marks are thus and thus. There thy mistress will see thee and take thee in with her. As for thy @@ -11909,7 +11891,7 @@ reached the middle of the gallery, I heard a great clatter and saw the light of flambeaux coming towards me. As the light drew near me, I looked at it and behold, the Caliph himself, came surrounded by the slave-girls carrying waxen lights, and I heard one -of the women<a id='r360' /><a href='#f360' class='c015'><sup>[360]</sup></a> say to another, “O my sister, have we two Caliphs? +of the women<a id='r360' href='#f360' class='c015'><sup>[360]</sup></a> say to another, “O my sister, have we two Caliphs? Verily, the Caliph whose perfumes and essences I smelt, hath already passed by my room and he hath laid the bean at my door, as his wont; and now I see the light of his flambeaux, and here @@ -11960,7 +11942,7 @@ thou not chagrined, and how thou didst follow her to the river bank and madest sign as thou wouldst kiss the earth in her honour; and her heart is yet more aflame for thee than is thine for her. But how camest thou hither? Was it by her order or without it? -She hath indeed imperilled thy life<a id='r361' /><a href='#f361' class='c015'><sup>[361]</sup></a>. But what seekest thou in +She hath indeed imperilled thy life<a id='r361' href='#f361' class='c015'><sup>[361]</sup></a>. But what seekest thou in this assignation with her?” I replied, “By Allah, O my lady, ’tis I who have imperilled my own life, and my aim in foregathering with her is but to look on her and hear her pretty speech.” She @@ -12019,11 +12001,11 @@ that I lavish my heart’s blood to devise this.” Now as we were in talk, behold, we heard a great noise and turning, saw the Caliph making for her chamber, so engrossed was he by the thought of her; whereupon she took me, O Prince of True Believers and hid me -in a souterrain<a id='r362' /><a href='#f362' class='c015'><sup>[362]</sup></a> and shut down the trap-door upon me. Then she +in a souterrain<a id='r362' href='#f362' class='c015'><sup>[362]</sup></a> and shut down the trap-door upon me. Then she <span class='pageno' id='Page_242'>242</span>went out to meet the Caliph, who entered and sat down, whilst she stood between his hands to serve him, and commanded to bring wine. Now the Caliph loved a damsel by name Banjah, -who was the mother of Al-Mu’tazz bi ’llah<a id='r363' /><a href='#f363' class='c015'><sup>[363]</sup></a>; but they had fallen +who was the mother of Al-Mu’tazz bi ’llah<a id='r363' href='#f363' class='c015'><sup>[363]</sup></a>; but they had fallen out and parted; and in the pride of her beauty and loveliness she would not make peace with him, nor would Al-Mutawakkil, for the dignity of the Caliphate and the kingship, make peace with @@ -12065,7 +12047,7 @@ Then she sang also these couplets:—</p> <p class='c000'>The Caliph was delighted and said, “O Shajarat al-Durr, ask a <span class='pageno' id='Page_243'>243</span>boon of me.” She replied, “O Commander of the Faithful, I ask of thee my freedom, for the sake of the reward thou wilt obtain -therein.<a id='r364' /><a href='#f364' class='c015'><sup>[364]</sup></a>” Quoth he, “Thou art free for the love of Allah;” +therein.<a id='r364' href='#f364' class='c015'><sup>[364]</sup></a>” Quoth he, “Thou art free for the love of Allah;” whereupon she kissed ground before him. He resumed, “Take the lute and sing me somewhat on the subject of my slave-girl, of whom I am enamoured with warmest love: the folk seek my @@ -12075,7 +12057,7 @@ two couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My charmer who spellest my piety<a id='r365' /><a href='#f365' class='c015'><sup>[365]</sup></a> ✿ On all accounts I’ll have thee, have thee,</div> + <div class='line'>My charmer who spellest my piety<a id='r365' href='#f365' class='c015'><sup>[365]</sup></a> ✿ On all accounts I’ll have thee, have thee,</div> <div class='line'>Or by humble suit which besitteth Love ✿ Or by force more fitting my sovranty.</div> </div> </div> @@ -12085,7 +12067,7 @@ two couplets:—</p> and sing me a song setting out my case with three damsels who hold the reins of my heart and make rest depart; and they are thyself and that wilful one and another I will not name, who hath -not her like.<a id='r366' /><a href='#f366' class='c015'><sup>[366]</sup></a> So she took the lute and playing a lively measure, +not her like.<a id='r366' href='#f366' class='c015'><sup>[366]</sup></a> So she took the lute and playing a lively measure, sang these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> @@ -12145,9 +12127,9 @@ of the Faithful, ’twas my ignorance and passion and my confidence in thy clemency and generosity that drave me to this.” And I wept and kissed the ground before him. Then said he, “I pardon you both,” and bade me be seated. So I sat down and -he sent for the Kazi Ahmad ibn Abi Duwád<a id='r367' /><a href='#f367' class='c015'><sup>[367]</sup></a> and married me to +he sent for the Kazi Ahmad ibn Abi Duwád<a id='r367' href='#f367' class='c015'><sup>[367]</sup></a> and married me to <span class='pageno' id='Page_245'>245</span>her. Then he commanded to make over all that was hers to me -and they displayed her to me<a id='r368' /><a href='#f368' class='c015'><sup>[368]</sup></a> in her lodging. After three days, +and they displayed her to me<a id='r368' href='#f368' class='c015'><sup>[368]</sup></a> in her lodging. After three days, I went forth and transported all her goods and gear to my own house; so every thing thou hast seen, O Commander of the Faithful, in my house and whereof thou misdoubtest, is of her @@ -12156,12 +12138,12 @@ that Al-Mutawakkil is a generous man and I fear lest he remember us with ill mind, or that some one of the envious remind him of us; wherefore I purpose to do somewhat that may ensure us against this.” Quoth I, “And what is that?;” and quoth she, “I -mean to ask his leave to go the pilgrimage and repent<a id='r369' /><a href='#f369' class='c015'><sup>[369]</sup></a> of singing.” +mean to ask his leave to go the pilgrimage and repent<a id='r369' href='#f369' class='c015'><sup>[369]</sup></a> of singing.” I replied, “Right is this rede thou redest;” but, as we were talking, behold, in came a messenger from the Caliph to seek her, for that Al-Mutawakkil loved her singing. So she went with the officer and did her service to the Caliph, who said to her, “Sever not -thyself from us;”<a id='r370' /><a href='#f370' class='c015'><sup>[370]</sup></a> and she answered, “I hear and I obey.” Now it +thyself from us;”<a id='r370' href='#f370' class='c015'><sup>[370]</sup></a> and she answered, “I hear and I obey.” Now it chanced one day, after this, she went to him, he having sent for her, as was his wont; but, before I knew, she came back, with her raiment rent and her eyes full of tears. At this I was alarmed, @@ -12171,19 +12153,19 @@ Al-Mutawakkil wroth with us?” She replied, “Where is Al-Mutawakkil? Indeed Al-Mutawakkil’s rule is ended and his trace is blotted out!” Cried I, “Tell me what has happened;” and she, “He was seated behind the curtain, drinking, with -Al-Fath bin Khákán<a id='r371' /><a href='#f371' class='c015'><sup>[371]</sup></a> and Sadakah bin Sadakah, when his son -Al-Muntasir fell upon him, with a company of the Turks,<a id='r372' /><a href='#f372' class='c015'><sup>[372]</sup></a> and slew +Al-Fath bin Khákán<a id='r371' href='#f371' class='c015'><sup>[371]</sup></a> and Sadakah bin Sadakah, when his son +Al-Muntasir fell upon him, with a company of the Turks,<a id='r372' href='#f372' class='c015'><sup>[372]</sup></a> and slew him; and merriment was turned to misery and joy to weeping and wailing for annoy. So I fled, I and the slave-girl, and Allah saved us.” When I heard this, O Commander of the Faithful, I arose forthright and went down stream to Bassorah, where the news <span class='pageno' id='Page_246'>246</span>reached me of the falling out of war between Al-Muntasir and -Al-Musta’ín bi ’llah;<a id='r373' /><a href='#f373' class='c015'><sup>[373]</sup></a> wherefore I was affrighted and transported +Al-Musta’ín bi ’llah;<a id='r373' href='#f373' class='c015'><sup>[373]</sup></a> wherefore I was affrighted and transported my wife and all my wealth to Bassorah. This, then, is my tale, O Prince of True Believers, nor have I added to or taken from it a single syllable. So all that thou seest in my house, bearing the name of thy grandfather Al-Mutawakkil, is of his bounty to us, -and the fount of our fortune is from thy noble sources;<a id='r374' /><a href='#f374' class='c015'><sup>[374]</sup></a> for indeed +and the fount of our fortune is from thy noble sources;<a id='r374' href='#f374' class='c015'><sup>[374]</sup></a> for indeed ye are people of munificence and a mine of beneficence.” The Caliph marvelled at his story and rejoiced therein with joy exceeding: and Abu al-Hasan brought forth to him the lady and @@ -12196,7 +12178,7 @@ parted them and they took up their abode in the tombs, after having dwelt under palace-domes; and glory be to Allah, the King Merciful of doom. And they also tell a tale concerning</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f346'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r346'>346</a>. </span>Lane omits this tale because “it is very similar, but inferior in interest, to the @@ -12262,7 +12244,7 @@ vol. iii. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52564/52564-h/52564-h.htm#Pag </div> <div class='footnote' id='f354'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r354'>354</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as if it were given away in charity.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r354'>354</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as if it were given away in charity.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f355'> @@ -12281,7 +12263,7 @@ The formula is still popular.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f358'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r358'>358</a>. </span>Arab. “Bakhkharaní” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> fumigated me with burning aloes-wood, Calumba or +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r358'>358</a>. </span>Arab. “Bakhkharaní” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> fumigated me with burning aloes-wood, Calumba or similar material.</p> </div> @@ -12292,7 +12274,7 @@ Mameluke Soldans’ sepulchres near Cairo I found a granite slab bearing the “ </div> <div class='footnote' id='f360'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r360'>360</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> One of the concubines by whose door he had passed.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r360'>360</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> One of the concubines by whose door he had passed.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f361'> @@ -12313,7 +12295,7 @@ him and kill him—his death being related in various ways.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f364'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r364'>364</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The reward from Allah for thy good deed.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r364'>364</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The reward from Allah for thy good deed.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f365'> @@ -12338,7 +12320,7 @@ sense of displaying her as both were in the palace.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f369'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r369'>369</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> renounce the craft which though not sinful (harám) is makrúh or religiously +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r369'>369</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> renounce the craft which though not sinful (harám) is makrúh or religiously unpraiseworthy; Mohammed having objected to music and indeed to the arts in general.</p> </div> @@ -12371,15 +12353,15 @@ him, by his Chamberlain Sa’id bin Salíh.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c246' class='c011'>KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.<a id='r375' /><a href='#f375' class='c015'><sup>[375]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c246' class='c011'>KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.<a id='r375' href='#f375' class='c015'><sup>[375]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c017'>There was once, in time of old, a merchant hight Abd al-Rahmán, whom Allah had blessed with a son and daughter, and for their <span class='pageno' id='Page_247'>247</span>much beauty and loveliness, he named the girl Kaubab al-Sabáh -and the boy Kamar al-Zamán.<a id='r376' /><a href='#f376' class='c015'><sup>[376]</sup></a> When he saw what Allah had +and the boy Kamar al-Zamán.<a id='r376' href='#f376' class='c015'><sup>[376]</sup></a> When he saw what Allah had vouchsafed the twain of beauty and loveliness, brilliancy and -symmetry, he feared for them the evil eyes<a id='r377' /><a href='#f377' class='c015'><sup>[377]</sup></a> of the espiers and the +symmetry, he feared for them the evil eyes<a id='r377' href='#f377' class='c015'><sup>[377]</sup></a> of the espiers and the jibing tongues of the jealous and the craft of the crafty and the wiles of the wicked and shut them up from the folk in a mansion for the space of fourteen years, during which time none saw them @@ -12446,7 +12428,7 @@ and accosted him, kissing his hand and saluting him with the salam. Quoth one, “Indeed the sun hath risen in such a place and blazeth in the bazar,” and another, “The rising-place of the full moon is in such a quarter;” and a third, “The new moon of -the Festival<a id='r378' /><a href='#f378' class='c015'><sup>[378]</sup></a> hath appeared to the creatures of Allah.” And +the Festival<a id='r378' href='#f378' class='c015'><sup>[378]</sup></a> hath appeared to the creatures of Allah.” And they went on to allude to the boy in talk and call down blessings upon him. But his father scolded the folk for following his son to gaze upon him, because he was abashed at their talk, but he @@ -12484,13 +12466,13 @@ poured forth copious tears and recited these two couplets:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_250'>250</span>A wand uprising from a sandy knoll, ✿ Like full moon shining brightest sheen, I saw;</div> - <div class='line'>And said, “What is thy name?” Replied he “Lúlú” ✿ “What (asked I) Lily?” and he answered “Lá, lá!”<a id='r379' /><a href='#f379' class='c015'><sup>[379]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>And said, “What is thy name?” Replied he “Lúlú” ✿ “What (asked I) Lily?” and he answered “Lá, lá!”<a id='r379' href='#f379' class='c015'><sup>[379]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c000'>Then the Dervish fell to walking, now drawing near and now -moving away,<a id='r380' /><a href='#f380' class='c015'><sup>[380]</sup></a> and wiping his gray hairs with his right hand, whilst +moving away,<a id='r380' href='#f380' class='c015'><sup>[380]</sup></a> and wiping his gray hairs with his right hand, whilst the heart of the crowd was cloven asunder for awe of him. When he looked upon the boy, his eyes were dazzled and his wit confounded, and exemplified in him was the saying of the poet:—</p> @@ -12498,26 +12480,26 @@ and exemplified in him was the saying of the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>While that fair-faced boy abode in the place, ✿ Moon of breakfast-fête he lit by his face,<a id='r381' /><a href='#f381' class='c015'><sup>[381]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>While that fair-faced boy abode in the place, ✿ Moon of breakfast-fête he lit by his face,<a id='r381' href='#f381' class='c015'><sup>[381]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>Lo! there came a Shaykh with leisurely pace ✿ A reverend trusting to Allah’s grace,</div> <div class='line in12'>And ascetic signals his gait display’d.</div> <div class='line'>He had studied Love both by day and night ✿ And had special knowledge of Wrong and Right;</div> <div class='line'>Both for lad and lass had repined his sprite, ✿ And his form like toothpick was lean and slight,</div> <div class='line in12'>And old bones with faded skin were o’erlaid.</div> - <div class='line'>In such arts our Shaykh was an Ajamí<a id='r382' /><a href='#f382' class='c015'><sup>[382]</sup></a> ✿ With a catamite ever in company;</div> - <div class='line'>In the love of woman, a Platonist he<a id='r383' /><a href='#f383' class='c015'><sup>[383]</sup></a> ✿ But in either versed to the full degree,</div> - <div class='line in12'>And Zaynab to him was the same as Zayd.<a id='r384' /><a href='#f384' class='c015'><sup>[384]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Distraught by the Fair he adored the Fair ✿ O’er Spring-camp wailed, bewept ruins bare.<a id='r385' /><a href='#f385' class='c015'><sup>[385]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>In such arts our Shaykh was an Ajamí<a id='r382' href='#f382' class='c015'><sup>[382]</sup></a> ✿ With a catamite ever in company;</div> + <div class='line'>In the love of woman, a Platonist he<a id='r383' href='#f383' class='c015'><sup>[383]</sup></a> ✿ But in either versed to the full degree,</div> + <div class='line in12'>And Zaynab to him was the same as Zayd.<a id='r384' href='#f384' class='c015'><sup>[384]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Distraught by the Fair he adored the Fair ✿ O’er Spring-camp wailed, bewept ruins bare.<a id='r385' href='#f385' class='c015'><sup>[385]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_251'>251</span>Dry branch thou hadst deemed him for stress o’ care, ✿ Which the morning breeze swayeth here and there,</div> <div class='line in12'>For only the stone is all hardness made!</div> <div class='line'>In the lore of Love he was wondrous wise ✿ And wide awake with all-seeing eyes.</div> <div class='line'>Its rough and its smooth he had tried and tries ✿ And hugged buck and doe in the self-same guise</div> - <div class='line in12'>And with greybeard and beardless alike he play’d.<a id='r386' /><a href='#f386' class='c015'><sup>[386]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line in12'>And with greybeard and beardless alike he play’d.<a id='r386' href='#f386' class='c015'><sup>[386]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>Then he came up to the boy and gave him a root<a id='r387' /><a href='#f387' class='c015'><sup>[387]</sup></a> of sweet basil, +<p class='c000'>Then he came up to the boy and gave him a root<a id='r387' href='#f387' class='c015'><sup>[387]</sup></a> of sweet basil, whereupon his father put forth his hand to his pouch and brought out for him some small matter of silver, saying, “Take thy portion, O Dervish, and wend thy ways.” He took the dirhams, but sat @@ -12604,7 +12586,7 @@ poet:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Indeed my heart loves all the lovely boys ✿ As girls; nor am I slow to such delight,</div> - <div class='line'>But, though I sight them every night and morn, ✿ I’m neither of Lot’s folk<a id='r388' /><a href='#f388' class='c015'><sup>[388]</sup></a> nor wencher-wight.</div> + <div class='line'>But, though I sight them every night and morn, ✿ I’m neither of Lot’s folk<a id='r388' href='#f388' class='c015'><sup>[388]</sup></a> nor wencher-wight.</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12614,7 +12596,7 @@ wend my way, for I will lie no longer in this lodging.” Therewith he rose to his feet; but the boy caught hold of him, saying, “Look at the fairness of my face and the cramoisy of my cheeks and the softness of my sides and the lusciousness of my lips.” Moreover -he discovered to him calves that would shame wine and cup-carrier<a id='r389' /><a href='#f389' class='c015'><sup>[389]</sup></a> +he discovered to him calves that would shame wine and cup-carrier<a id='r389' href='#f389' class='c015'><sup>[389]</sup></a> and gazed on him with fixed glance that would baffle enchanter and enchantments; for he was passing of loveliness and full of blandishment, even as saith of him one of the poets @@ -12624,7 +12606,7 @@ who sang:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I can’t forget him, since he rose and showed with fair design ✿ Those calves of legs whose pearly shine make light in nightly gloom:</div> - <div class='line'>Wonder not an my flesh uprise as though ’twere Judgment-day ✿ When every shank shall barèd be and that is Day of Doom.<a id='r390' /><a href='#f390' class='c015'><sup>[390]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Wonder not an my flesh uprise as though ’twere Judgment-day ✿ When every shank shall barèd be and that is Day of Doom.<a id='r390' href='#f390' class='c015'><sup>[390]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -12638,13 +12620,13 @@ thou art safe from hurt, and leave this hebetude for ’tis a bad habit.” And he went on to discover to him his hidden beauties, striving to turn the reins of his reason with his bendings in graceful guise, whilst the Dervish turned away his face and said, “I -seek refuge with Allah! Have some shame, O my son<a id='r391' /><a href='#f391' class='c015'><sup>[391]</sup></a>! This +seek refuge with Allah! Have some shame, O my son<a id='r391' href='#f391' class='c015'><sup>[391]</sup></a>! This is a forbidden thing I deem and I will not do it, no, not even in dream.” The boy pressed upon him, but the Dervish got free from him and turning towards Meccah addressed himself to his devotions. Now when the boy saw him praying, he left him till he -had prayed a two-bow prayer and saluted,<a id='r392' /><a href='#f392' class='c015'><sup>[392]</sup></a> when he would have -accosted him again; but the Dervish again repeated the intent<a id='r393' /><a href='#f393' class='c015'><sup>[393]</sup></a> +had prayed a two-bow prayer and saluted,<a id='r392' href='#f392' class='c015'><sup>[392]</sup></a> when he would have +accosted him again; but the Dervish again repeated the intent<a id='r393' href='#f393' class='c015'><sup>[393]</sup></a> and prayed a second two-bow prayer, and thus he did a third and a fourth and a fifth time. Quoth the lad, “What prayers are these? Art thou minded to take flight upon the clouds? Thou @@ -12674,10 +12656,10 @@ purposing in myself, if I saw thee sue him for sin, to come in upon thee and kill thee. But, when I saw what thou didst, I knew thee for one of those who are virtuous to the end. Now Allah upon thee, tell me the cause of thy weeping!” The Dervish -sighed and said, “O my lord, chafe not a closed<a id='r394' /><a href='#f394' class='c015'><sup>[394]</sup></a> wound.” But +sighed and said, “O my lord, chafe not a closed<a id='r394' href='#f394' class='c015'><sup>[394]</sup></a> wound.” But the merchant said, “There is no help but thou tell me;” and the other began:—Know thou that I am a Dervish who wander in -the lands and the countries, and take warning by the display<a id='r395' /><a href='#f395' class='c015'><sup>[395]</sup></a> of +the lands and the countries, and take warning by the display<a id='r395' href='#f395' class='c015'><sup>[395]</sup></a> of the Creator of Night and Day. It chanced that one Friday I entered the city of Bassorah in the undurn.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -12706,7 +12688,7 @@ anhungred so I took hot bread from a baker’s oven and going into the shop of an oilman, spread the bread with clarified butter and honey and ate. Then I entered the shop of a sherbet-seller and drank what I would; after which, seeing a coffee-shop open, I -went in and found the pots on the fire, full of coffee;<a id='r396' /><a href='#f396' class='c015'><sup>[396]</sup></a> but there +went in and found the pots on the fire, full of coffee;<a id='r396' href='#f396' class='c015'><sup>[396]</sup></a> but there was no one there. So I drank my fill and said, “Verily, this is a <span class='pageno' id='Page_256'>256</span>wondrous thing! It seemeth as though Death had stricken the people of this city and they had all died this very hour, or as if they @@ -12732,7 +12714,7 @@ where I lay hid, she pulled up her horse and said, “O damsels, I hear a noise of somewhat within yonder shop: so do ye search it, lest haply there be one hidden there, with intent to enjoy a look at us, whilst we have our faces unveiled.” So they searched the -shop opposite the coffee-house<a id='r397' /><a href='#f397' class='c015'><sup>[397]</sup></a> wherein I lay hid, whilst I abode +shop opposite the coffee-house<a id='r397' href='#f397' class='c015'><sup>[397]</sup></a> wherein I lay hid, whilst I abode in terror; and presently I saw them come forth with a man and they said to her, “O our lady, we found a man there and here he is before thee.” Quoth she to the damsel with the sword, “Smite @@ -12778,7 +12760,7 @@ I may travel and amuse myself by viewing the countries of men.” Abd al-Rahman, seeing his son enamoured of travel, acquainted his wife with this, saying, “Verily thy son would have me provide him with goods, so he may fare therewith to far regions, albeit -Travel is Travail.<a id='r398' /><a href='#f398' class='c015'><sup>[398]</sup></a>” Quoth she, “What is there to displease thee +Travel is Travail.<a id='r398' href='#f398' class='c015'><sup>[398]</sup></a>” Quoth she, “What is there to displease thee in this? Such is the wont of the sons of the merchants and they all vie one with other in glorifying globe-trotting and gain.” Quoth he, “Most of the merchants are poor and seek growth of @@ -12854,7 +12836,7 @@ kenned nor knew in other than this city. As for the people of Bassorah they are dying of this annoy; for every Friday forenoon they shut up the dogs and cats, to hinder them from going about the market-streets, and all the people of the city enter the -cathedral-mosques, where they lock the doors on them,<a id='r399' /><a href='#f399' class='c015'><sup>[399]</sup></a> and not +cathedral-mosques, where they lock the doors on them,<a id='r399' href='#f399' class='c015'><sup>[399]</sup></a> and not one of them can pass about the bazar nor even look out of casement; nor knoweth any the cause of this calamity. But, O my son, to-night I will question my wife concerning the reason @@ -12892,7 +12874,7 @@ they were afraid and said, O King of the age, a jewel is soon spoilt and there are few who can pierce them without injury, for most of them have a flaw. So do not thou impose upon us a task to which we are unable; for our hands cannot avail to drill -this jewel. However, our Shaykh<a id='r400' /><a href='#f400' class='c015'><sup>[400]</sup></a> is more experienced than we.” +this jewel. However, our Shaykh<a id='r400' href='#f400' class='c015'><sup>[400]</sup></a> is more experienced than we.” Asked the King, “And who is your Shaykh?”; and they answered, “Master Obayd: he is more versed than we in this art and hath wealth galore and of skill great store. Therefore do thou send @@ -12918,7 +12900,7 @@ they be in the mosques or in the houses and the doors be locked upon them, and that every shop of the town be left open. Then will I ride with my slave-women through the heart of the city and none shall look on me from window or lattice; and every one -whom I find abroad I will kill.”<a id='r401' /><a href='#f401' class='c015'><sup>[401]</sup></a> So he went in to the King +whom I find abroad I will kill.”<a id='r401' href='#f401' class='c015'><sup>[401]</sup></a> So he went in to the King and begged of him this boon, which he granted him and caused proclamation to be made amongst the Bassorites——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted @@ -12959,9 +12941,9 @@ hundred sequins, with which do thou repair to the jewel market and ask for the shop of Master Obayd, the Shaykh of the Jewellers. Go thither and thou wilt find him seated in his shop, clad in rich clothes, with workmen under his hand. Salute him and -sit down on the front shelf of his shop;<a id='r402' /><a href='#f402' class='c015'><sup>[402]</sup></a> then pull out the jewel +sit down on the front shelf of his shop;<a id='r402' href='#f402' class='c015'><sup>[402]</sup></a> then pull out the jewel and give it to him, saying, “O master, take this stone and fashion -it into a seal-ring for me with gold. Make it not large, a Miskál<a id='r403' /><a href='#f403' class='c015'><sup>[403]</sup></a> +it into a seal-ring for me with gold. Make it not large, a Miskál<a id='r403' href='#f403' class='c015'><sup>[403]</sup></a> in weight and no more; but let the fashion of it be thy fairest.” Then give him twenty dinars and to each of his prentices a dinar. Sit with him awhile and talk with him and if a beggar approach @@ -12982,7 +12964,7 @@ made him sit down. Then he brought out the jewel and said, with gold. Let it be the weight of a Miskal and no more, but fashion it excellently.” Then he pulled out twenty dinars and gave them to him, saying, “This is the fee for chasing and the -price of the ring shall remain.”<a id='r404' /><a href='#f404' class='c015'><sup>[404]</sup></a> And he gave each of the +price of the ring shall remain.”<a id='r404' href='#f404' class='c015'><sup>[404]</sup></a> And he gave each of the apprentices a gold piece, wherefore they loved him, and so did Master Obayd. Then he sat talking with the jeweller and whenever a beggar came up to him, he gave him a gold piece and they @@ -12990,9 +12972,9 @@ all marvelled at his generosity. Now Master Obayd had tools <span class='pageno' id='Page_263'>263</span>at home, like those he had in the shop, and whenever he was minded to do any unusual piece of work, it was his custom to carry it home and do it there, that his journeymen might not learn -the secrets of his wonderful workmanship.<a id='r405' /><a href='#f405' class='c015'><sup>[405]</sup></a> His wife used to sit +the secrets of his wonderful workmanship.<a id='r405' href='#f405' class='c015'><sup>[405]</sup></a> His wife used to sit before him, and when she was sitting thus and he looking upon -her,<a id='r406' /><a href='#f406' class='c015'><sup>[406]</sup></a> he would fashion all manner of marvellously wroughten +her,<a id='r406' href='#f406' class='c015'><sup>[406]</sup></a> he would fashion all manner of marvellously wroughten trinkets, such as were fit for none but kings. So he went home and sat down to mould the ring with admirable workmanship. When his wife saw him thus engaged, she asked him, “What wilt @@ -13074,11 +13056,11 @@ booteth not to fashion it over again.” Then he brought out to him another stone worth seven hundred sequins and said to him, “Set this for me: ’tis a finer gem.” Moreover he gave him thirty dinars and to each of his workmen two. Quoth Obayd, “O my -lord we will take the price of the ring when we have made it.”<a id='r407' /><a href='#f407' class='c015'><sup>[407]</sup></a> +lord we will take the price of the ring when we have made it.”<a id='r407' href='#f407' class='c015'><sup>[407]</sup></a> But Kamar al-Zaman said, “This is for the chasing, and the price of the ring remains over.” So saying, he went away home, leaving the jeweller and his men amazed at the excess of his generosity. -Presently the jeweller returned to his wife and said, “O Halímah,<a id='r408' /><a href='#f408' class='c015'><sup>[408]</sup></a> +Presently the jeweller returned to his wife and said, “O Halímah,<a id='r408' href='#f408' class='c015'><sup>[408]</sup></a> never did I set eyes on a more generous than this young man, and as for thee, thy luck is good, for he hath given me the ring without price, saying, Give it to one of thy slave-women.” And he told @@ -13128,7 +13110,7 @@ away, whilst the jeweller returned home and said to his wife, “How generous is this young merchant! Never did I set eyes on a more open-handed or a comelier than he, no, nor a sweeter of speech.” And he went on to recount to her his charms and -generosity and was loud in his praise. Cried she, “O thou lack-tact,<a id='r409' /><a href='#f409' class='c015'><sup>[409]</sup></a> +generosity and was loud in his praise. Cried she, “O thou lack-tact,<a id='r409' href='#f409' class='c015'><sup>[409]</sup></a> since thou notest these qualities in him, and indeed he hath given thee two seal-rings of price, it behoveth thee to invite him and make him an entertainment and entreat him lovingly. When @@ -13193,7 +13175,7 @@ not its match. Halimah saw him, as he entered, and was ate and drank; after which appeared coffee and sherbets, and the jeweller ceased not to entertain him with talk till eventide, when they prayed the obligatory prayers. Then entered a handmaid -with two cups<a id='r410' /><a href='#f410' class='c015'><sup>[410]</sup></a> of night drink, which when they had drunk, +with two cups<a id='r410' href='#f410' class='c015'><sup>[410]</sup></a> of night drink, which when they had drunk, drowsiness overcame them and they slept. Presently in came the jeweller’s wife and seeing them asleep, looked upon Kamar al-Zaman’s face and her wit was confounded at his beauty. Said she, @@ -13206,11 +13188,11 @@ ran out into her mouth; but with all this, her fire was not quenched nor her thirst assuaged. She ceased not to kiss and clip him and twine leg with leg, till the fore-brow of Morn grew white and the dawn broke forth in light; when she put in his pocket four -cockals<a id='r411' /><a href='#f411' class='c015'><sup>[411]</sup></a> and went away. Then she sent her maid with something +cockals<a id='r411' href='#f411' class='c015'><sup>[411]</sup></a> and went away. Then she sent her maid with something like snuff, which she applied to their nostrils and they sneezed and awoke, when the slave-girl said, “O my lords, prayer is a duty; so rise ye and pray the dawn-prayer.” And she brought them -basin and ewer.<a id='r412' /><a href='#f412' class='c015'><sup>[412]</sup></a> Quoth Kaman al-Zamar “O master, ’tis late and +basin and ewer.<a id='r412' href='#f412' class='c015'><sup>[412]</sup></a> Quoth Kaman al-Zamar “O master, ’tis late and we have overslept ourselves;” and quoth the jeweller, “O my friend verily the air of this room is heavy; for, whenever I sleep in it, this happens to me.” Rejoined Kamar al-Zaman, “True,” @@ -13226,7 +13208,7 @@ I have by me a guest like thee, he complaineth in the morning of the mosquito-bites, and this happeneth only when he is like thee beardless. If he be bearded the mosquitoes sting him not, and naught hindereth them from me but my beard. It seems mosquitoes -love not bearded men.”<a id='r413' /><a href='#f413' class='c015'><sup>[413]</sup></a> Rejoined Kamar al-Zaman, “True.” +love not bearded men.”<a id='r413' href='#f413' class='c015'><sup>[413]</sup></a> Rejoined Kamar al-Zaman, “True.” Then the maid brought them early breakfast and they broke their fast and went out. Kamar al-Zaman betook himself to the old woman, who exclaimed, when she saw him, “I see the marks of @@ -13247,7 +13229,7 @@ save this?” And he answered, “I found four cockals in my pocket.” Quoth she, “Show them to me.” So he gave them to her and she laughed and said, “Thy mistress laid these in thy pocket.” He asked, “How so?” And she answered, “’Tis as if -she said to thee, in the language of signs:<a id='r414' /><a href='#f414' class='c015'><sup>[414]</sup></a>—An thou wert in love, +she said to thee, in the language of signs:<a id='r414' href='#f414' class='c015'><sup>[414]</sup></a>—An thou wert in love, thou wouldst not sleep, for a lover sleepeth not: but thou has not ceased to be a child and fit for nothing but to play with these cockals. So what drave thee to fall in love with the fair? Now @@ -13260,7 +13242,7 @@ hasten not to fall asleep, and on the morrow bring me five passed, and I will perfect for thee the device.” Answered he, “I hear and obey,” and went back to the Khan. Thus it befel him; but as regards the jeweller’s wife, she said to her husband, -“Is the guest gone?” Answered he, “Yes, but, O Halimah,<a id='r415' /><a href='#f415' class='c015'><sup>[415]</sup></a> the +“Is the guest gone?” Answered he, “Yes, but, O Halimah,<a id='r415' href='#f415' class='c015'><sup>[415]</sup></a> the mosquitoes plagued him last night and scarified his cheeks and lips, and indeed I was abashed before him.” She rejoined, “This is the wont of the mosquitoes of our saloon; for they love none @@ -13302,7 +13284,7 @@ and when I woke at dawn I found nothing but a knife in my pocket.” Exclaimed the old trot, “May Allah protect thee from her this next night! For she saith to thee by this sign, An thou sleep again, I will cut thy throat. Thou wilt once more be bidden to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_271'>271</span>the jeweller’s house to-night,<a id='r416' /><a href='#f416' class='c015'><sup>[416]</sup></a> and if thou sleep, she will slay thee.” +<span class='pageno' id='Page_271'>271</span>the jeweller’s house to-night,<a id='r416' href='#f416' class='c015'><sup>[416]</sup></a> and if thou sleep, she will slay thee.” Said he, “What is to be done?”; and said she, “Tell me what thou atest and drankest before sleeping.” Quoth he, “We supped as was our wont and prayed the night-prayer, after which there came in @@ -13332,7 +13314,7 @@ girl returned, she saw him lying down and going to her mistress said, “He hath drunk off the cup and fallen asleep;” whereupon quoth Halimah to herself, “Verily, his death is better than his life.” Then, taking a sharp knife, she went in to him, saying, -“Three times, and thou notedst not the sign, O fool!<a id='r417' /><a href='#f417' class='c015'><sup>[417]</sup></a> So now I +“Three times, and thou notedst not the sign, O fool!<a id='r417' href='#f417' class='c015'><sup>[417]</sup></a> So now I will rip up thy maw.” When he saw her making for him knife in hand, he opened his eyes and rose, laughing; whereupon said she, “’Twas not of thine own wit, that thou camest at the meaning of @@ -13348,9 +13330,9 @@ thy thought, and to-morrow night my husband will come to thee and invite thee. Do thou come with him and tell me and I will consider what remaineth to be done.” Answered he, “There is no harm in that!” Then he spent the rest of the night with her in -embracing and clipping, plying the particle of copulation in concert<a id='r418' /><a href='#f418' class='c015'><sup>[418]</sup></a> -and joining the conjunctive with the conjoined,<a id='r419' /><a href='#f419' class='c015'><sup>[419]</sup></a> whilst her husband -was as a cast-out nunnation of construction.<a id='r420' /><a href='#f420' class='c015'><sup>[420]</sup></a> And they ceased +embracing and clipping, plying the particle of copulation in concert<a id='r418' href='#f418' class='c015'><sup>[418]</sup></a> +and joining the conjunctive with the conjoined,<a id='r419' href='#f419' class='c015'><sup>[419]</sup></a> whilst her husband +was as a cast-out nunnation of construction.<a id='r420' href='#f420' class='c015'><sup>[420]</sup></a> And they ceased not to be thus till morning, when she said to him, “’Tis not a night of thee that will content me, nor a day; no, nor yet a month nor a year; but it’s my intent to abide @@ -13366,7 +13348,7 @@ gainsay me not.” He replied, “I hear and I obey: in me there is none opposition.” Then said she, “Go to the Khan and, when <span class='pageno' id='Page_273'>273</span>my husband cometh to thee and inviteth thee, say to him:—O my brother, a son of Adam is apt to be burdensome, and when his -visits grow over frequent, both generous and niggard loathe him.<a id='r421' /><a href='#f421' class='c015'><sup>[421]</sup></a> +visits grow over frequent, both generous and niggard loathe him.<a id='r421' href='#f421' class='c015'><sup>[421]</sup></a> How then shall I go with thee every night and lie I and thee, on the saloon? An thou wax not chagrined with me, thy Harim will bear me grudge, for that I hinder thee from thine. Therefore @@ -13391,8 +13373,8 @@ crone, and related to her what had passed,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_270fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_270fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -13425,7 +13407,7 @@ have a house adjoining mine, which is my own property: so go thou with me to-night and to-morrow I will have the house untenanted for thee.” Accordingly he went with him and they supped and prayed the night-prayer, after which the jeweller drank -the cup of drugged<a id='r422' /><a href='#f422' class='c015'><sup>[422]</sup></a> liquor and fell asleep: but in Kamar al-Zaman’s +the cup of drugged<a id='r422' href='#f422' class='c015'><sup>[422]</sup></a> liquor and fell asleep: but in Kamar al-Zaman’s cup there was no trick; so he drank it and slept not. Then came the jeweller’s wife and sat chatting with him through the dark hours, whilst her husband lay like a corpse. When he @@ -13436,7 +13418,7 @@ him, whereupon Kamar al-Zaman took up his abode therein and transported thither all his baggage. The jeweller passed that evening with him, then went to his own house. On the next day, his wife sent for a cunning builder and bribed him with money -to make her an underground-way<a id='r423' /><a href='#f423' class='c015'><sup>[423]</sup></a> from her chamber to Kamar +to make her an underground-way<a id='r423' href='#f423' class='c015'><sup>[423]</sup></a> from her chamber to Kamar al-Zaman’s house, with a trap-door under the earth. So, before the youth was ware, she came in to him with two bags of money and he said to her, “Whence comest thou?” She showed him @@ -13473,7 +13455,7 @@ knife I bought to-day and tell me if I have the worst or the best of the bargain. He will know it, but will be ashamed to say to thee, This is my knife; so he will ask thee, Whence didst thou buy it and for how much?; and do thou make answer:—I saw two -Levantines<a id='r424' /><a href='#f424' class='c015'><sup>[424]</sup></a> disputing and one said to the other, Where hast thou +Levantines<a id='r424' href='#f424' class='c015'><sup>[424]</sup></a> disputing and one said to the other, Where hast thou been? Quoth his companion, I have been with my mistress, and whenever I foregather with her, she giveth me ten dirhams; but this day she said to me, My hand is empty of silver for thee to-day, @@ -13544,7 +13526,7 @@ flamed in the jeweller’s heart and suspicion was sore upon him and he said to himself, “Needs must I get up and go look for the knife and cut down doubt with certainty.” So he rose and repaired to his house and went in to his wife, snorting like a -dragon;<a id='r425' /><a href='#f425' class='c015'><sup>[425]</sup></a> and she said to him, “What mattereth thee, O my lord?” +dragon;<a id='r425' href='#f425' class='c015'><sup>[425]</sup></a> and she said to him, “What mattereth thee, O my lord?” He asked, “Where is my knife?” and she answered, “In the chest,” and smote hand upon breast, saying, “O my grief! Belike thou hast fallen out with some one and art come to fetch the knife @@ -13585,7 +13567,7 @@ Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!”; and she too exclaimed, “O man, there is something the matter with thee. Tell me what it is.” He replied, “What shall I say? Verily, I am bewildered by these chances!” And he -recited these couplets<a id='r426' /><a href='#f426' class='c015'><sup>[426]</sup></a>:—</p> +recited these couplets<a id='r426' href='#f426' class='c015'><sup>[426]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -13620,7 +13602,7 @@ me and make proof of my perfidy; and, had I not shown thee the knife and the watch, thou hadst been certified of my treason. But since, O man, thou deemest me this ill deme, henceforth I will never again break with thee bread nor drain with thee drink, -for I loathe thee with the loathing of prohibition.<a id='r427' /><a href='#f427' class='c015'><sup>[427]</sup></a>” So he gentled +for I loathe thee with the loathing of prohibition.<a id='r427' href='#f427' class='c015'><sup>[427]</sup></a>” So he gentled her and excused himself till he had appeased her and returned, repenting him of having bespoken her thus, to his shop, where he sat——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to @@ -13645,7 +13627,7 @@ whereupon quoth his wife, “Where is the merchant?”; and quoth he, “In his lodgings.” She asked, “Is the friendship between thee and him grown cold?” and he answered, “By Allah, I have taken a dislike to him, because of that which hath betided me -from him.”<a id='r428' /><a href='#f428' class='c015'><sup>[428]</sup></a> Quoth she, “Go fetch him, to please me.” So he +from him.”<a id='r428' href='#f428' class='c015'><sup>[428]</sup></a> Quoth she, “Go fetch him, to please me.” So he arose and went in to Kamar al-Zaman in his house; where he saw his own goods strewn about and knew them. At this sight, fire was kindled in his heart and he fell a-sighing. Quoth @@ -13681,7 +13663,7 @@ Accordingly they arose and prayed the dawn-prayer and brake their fast and drank coffee, after which Obayd repaired to his shop and Kamar al-Zaman betook himself to his own house. Presently, in came Halimah to him by the tunnel, in the guise of a slave-girl, -and indeed she was by birth a slave-girl.<a id='r429' /><a href='#f429' class='c015'><sup>[429]</sup></a> Then he went out and +and indeed she was by birth a slave-girl.<a id='r429' href='#f429' class='c015'><sup>[429]</sup></a> Then he went out and she walked behind him, till he came to the jeweller’s shop and saluting him, sat down and said, “O master, I went into the Khan of Al-Yasirjiyah to-day, to look about me, and saw this damsel in @@ -13748,7 +13730,7 @@ him who said:—</p> </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>Nor that of another:<a id='r430' /><a href='#f430' class='c015'><sup>[430]</sup></a>—</p> +<p class='c000'>Nor that of another:<a id='r430' href='#f430' class='c015'><sup>[430]</sup></a>—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -13773,7 +13755,7 @@ him who said:—</p> <p class='c000'>Said she, “Here am I sitting in my chamber; so go thou to him forthright and knock at the door and contrive to go in to him quickly. An thou see the damsel with him ’tis a slave-girl of his -who resembleth me (and Glory be to Him who hath no resemblance!<a id='r431' /><a href='#f431' class='c015'><sup>[431]</sup></a>) +who resembleth me (and Glory be to Him who hath no resemblance!<a id='r431' href='#f431' class='c015'><sup>[431]</sup></a>) But, an thou see no slave-girl with him, then am I myself she whom thou sawest with him in the shop, and thine ill thought of me will be stablished.” “True,” answered Obayd, and @@ -13807,12 +13789,12 @@ ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the young lady forewent her spouse by the souterrain as he fared through the -door and sat down in her upper chamber;<a id='r432' /><a href='#f432' class='c015'><sup>[432]</sup></a> so as soon as he entered +door and sat down in her upper chamber;<a id='r432' href='#f432' class='c015'><sup>[432]</sup></a> so as soon as he entered she asked him, “What hast thou seen?” and he answered, “I found her with her master; and she resembleth thee.” Then said she, “Off to thy shop and let this suffice thee of ignoble suspicion and never again deem ill of me.” Said he, “So be it: accord me -pardon for what is past.” And she, “Allah grant thee grace!”;<a id='r433' /><a href='#f433' class='c015'><sup>[433]</sup></a> +pardon for what is past.” And she, “Allah grant thee grace!”;<a id='r433' href='#f433' class='c015'><sup>[433]</sup></a> whereupon he kissed her right and left and went back to his shop. Then she again betook herself to Kamar al-Zaman through the underground passage, with four bags of money, and said to him, @@ -13835,7 +13817,7 @@ reply and return to me and tell me; for I can no more: I have done my best, by cozening him, to anger him with me and cause him to put me away, but I find him none the less infatuated with me. So nothing will serve us but to depart to thine own country.” -And quoth he, “O rare! an but swevens prove true!”<a id='r434' /><a href='#f434' class='c015'><sup>[434]</sup></a> Then he +And quoth he, “O rare! an but swevens prove true!”<a id='r434' href='#f434' class='c015'><sup>[434]</sup></a> Then he went to the jeweller’s shop and sitting down by him, said to him, “O master, I set out for home in three days’ time, and am come to farewell thee. So I would have thee reckon what I owe thee for @@ -13888,7 +13870,7 @@ us.” So he accepted her from him and said to Halimah, “Kiss thy lord’s hand.” Accordingly, she came out from the litter and kissing Obayd’s hand, remounted, whilst he looked hard at her. Then said Kamar al-Zaman, “I commend thee to Allah, O Master -Obayd! Acquit my conscience of responsibility.<a id='r435' /><a href='#f435' class='c015'><sup>[435]</sup></a>” Answered +Obayd! Acquit my conscience of responsibility.<a id='r435' href='#f435' class='c015'><sup>[435]</sup></a>” Answered the jeweller, “Allah acquit thee! and carry thee safe to thy family!” Then he bade him farewell and went to his shop weeping, and indeed it was grievous to him to part from Kamar @@ -13917,7 +13899,7 @@ Halimah said to Kamar al-Zaman, “An thou wish for safety, travel with me by other than the wonted way,” he replied, “Hearing and obeying;” and, taking a road other than that used by folk, fared on without ceasing from region to region till -he reached the confines of Egypt-land<a id='r436' /><a href='#f436' class='c015'><sup>[436]</sup></a> and sent his sire a letter +he reached the confines of Egypt-land<a id='r436' href='#f436' class='c015'><sup>[436]</sup></a> and sent his sire a letter by a runner. Now his father the merchant Abd al-Rahman was sitting in the market among the merchants, with a heart on fire for separation from his son, because no news of the youth had @@ -13925,7 +13907,7 @@ reached him since the day of his departure; and while he was in such case the runner came up and cried, “O my lords, which of you is called the merchant Abd al-Rahman?” They said, “What wouldst thou of him?”; and he said, “I have a letter for him -from his son Kamar al-Zaman, whom I left at Al-Arísh.<a id='r437' /><a href='#f437' class='c015'><sup>[437]</sup></a>” At +from his son Kamar al-Zaman, whom I left at Al-Arísh.<a id='r437' href='#f437' class='c015'><sup>[437]</sup></a>” At this Abd al-Rahman rejoiced and his breast was broadened and the merchants rejoiced for him and gave him joy of his son’s safety. Then he opened the letter and read as follows:—“From @@ -13933,11 +13915,11 @@ Kamar al-Zaman to the merchant Abd al-Rahman. And after Peace be upon thee and upon all the merchants! An ye ask concerning us, to Allah be the praise and the thanks. Indeed we have sold and bought and gained and are come back in health, -wealth and weal.” Whereupon Abd al-Rahman opened the door<a id='r438' /><a href='#f438' class='c015'><sup>[438]</sup></a> +wealth and weal.” Whereupon Abd al-Rahman opened the door<a id='r438' href='#f438' class='c015'><sup>[438]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_287'>287</span>of rejoicing and made banquets and gave feasts and entertainments galore, sending for instruments of music and addressing himself to festivities after rarest fashion. When Kamar al-Zaman -came to Al-Sálihiyah,<a id='r439' /><a href='#f439' class='c015'><sup>[439]</sup></a> his father and all the merchants went forth +came to Al-Sálihiyah,<a id='r439' href='#f439' class='c015'><sup>[439]</sup></a> his father and all the merchants went forth to meet him, and Abd al-Rahman embraced him and strained him to his bosom and sobbed till he swooned away. When he came to himself he said, “Oh, ’tis a boon day O my son, whereon the @@ -13959,19 +13941,19 @@ eyes and he recited also these two couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Moon o’ the Time,<a id='r440' /><a href='#f440' class='c015'><sup>[440]</sup></a> shows unveilèd light; ✿ And, his journey done, at our door doth alight:</div> - <div class='line'>His locks as the nights of his absence are black ✿ And the sun upstands from his collar’s<a id='r441' /><a href='#f441' class='c015'><sup>[441]</sup></a> white.</div> + <div class='line'>The Moon o’ the Time,<a id='r440' href='#f440' class='c015'><sup>[440]</sup></a> shows unveilèd light; ✿ And, his journey done, at our door doth alight:</div> + <div class='line'>His locks as the nights of his absence are black ✿ And the sun upstands from his collar’s<a id='r441' href='#f441' class='c015'><sup>[441]</sup></a> white.</div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c000'>Then the merchants came up to him and saluting him, saw with him many loads and servants and a travelling litter enclosed in a -spacious circle.<a id='r442' /><a href='#f442' class='c015'><sup>[442]</sup></a> So they took him and carried him home; and +spacious circle.<a id='r442' href='#f442' class='c015'><sup>[442]</sup></a> So they took him and carried him home; and when Halimah came forth from the litter, his father held her a seduction to all who beheld her. So they opened her an upper chamber, as it were a treasure from which the talismans had been -loosed;<a id='r443' /><a href='#f443' class='c015'><sup>[443]</sup></a> and when his mother saw her, she was ravished with her +loosed;<a id='r443' href='#f443' class='c015'><sup>[443]</sup></a> and when his mother saw her, she was ravished with her <span class='pageno' id='Page_288'>288</span>and deemed her a Queen of the wives of the Kings. So she rejoiced in her and questioned her; and she answered, “I am wife to thy son;” and the mother rejoined, “Since he is wedded to thee @@ -13980,7 +13962,7 @@ in thee and in my son.” On this wise it befel her; but as regards the merchant Abd al-Rahman, when the folk had dispersed and each had wended his way, he foregathered with his son and said to him, “O my son, what is this slave-girl thou hast brought with -thee and for how much didst thou buy her<a id='r444' /><a href='#f444' class='c015'><sup>[444]</sup></a>?” Kamar al-Zaman +thee and for how much didst thou buy her<a id='r444' href='#f444' class='c015'><sup>[444]</sup></a>?” Kamar al-Zaman said, “O my father, she is no slave-girl; but ’tis she who was the cause of my going abroad.” Asked his sire, “How so?”; and he answered, “’Tis she whom the Dervish described to us the @@ -14032,7 +14014,7 @@ which she had done with her spouse. Meanwhile Abd al-Rahman sent out the marriage-brokers to look out a maid of birth and worth for his son, and the women ceased not to make search, and as often as they saw one girl, they heard of a fairer than she, till -they came to the house of the Shaykh al-Islam<a id='r445' /><a href='#f445' class='c015'><sup>[445]</sup></a> and saw his +they came to the house of the Shaykh al-Islam<a id='r445' href='#f445' class='c015'><sup>[445]</sup></a> and saw his daughter. In her they found a virgin whose equal was not in Cairo for beauty and loveliness, symmetry and perfect grace, and she was a thousand-fold handsomer than the wife of Obayd. So @@ -14041,10 +14023,10 @@ to her father and sought her in wedlock of him. Then they wrote out the marriage contract and made her a splendid wedding; after which Abd al-Rahman gave bride-feasts and held open house forty days. On the first day, he invited the doctors of the law and they -held a splendid nativity<a id='r446' /><a href='#f446' class='c015'><sup>[446]</sup></a>: and on the morrow, he invited all the +held a splendid nativity<a id='r446' href='#f446' class='c015'><sup>[446]</sup></a>: and on the morrow, he invited all the <span class='pageno' id='Page_290'>290</span>merchants, and so on during the rest of the forty days, making a banquet every day to one or other class of folk, till he had bidden -all the Olema and Emirs and Antients<a id='r447' /><a href='#f447' class='c015'><sup>[447]</sup></a> and Magistrates, whilst the +all the Olema and Emirs and Antients<a id='r447' href='#f447' class='c015'><sup>[447]</sup></a> and Magistrates, whilst the kettle-drums were drummed and the pipes were piped and the merchant sat to greet the guests, with his son by his side, that he might solace himself by gazing on the folk, as they ate from the @@ -14053,18 +14035,18 @@ quarter with lamps and there came every one of the mimes and jugglers and mountebanks and played all manner play; and indeed it was a peerless wedding. On the last day he invited the Fakirs, the poor and the needy, far and near, and they flocked in troops -and ate, whilst the merchant sat, with his son by his side.<a id='r448' /><a href='#f448' class='c015'><sup>[448]</sup></a> And +and ate, whilst the merchant sat, with his son by his side.<a id='r448' href='#f448' class='c015'><sup>[448]</sup></a> And among the paupers, behold, entered Shaykh Obayd the jeweller and he was naked and weary and bare on his face the marks of wayfare. When Kamar al-Zaman saw him, he knew him and said to his sire, “Look, O my father, at yonder poor man who is but now come in by the door.” So he looked and saw him clad in -worn clothes and on him a patched gown<a id='r449' /><a href='#f449' class='c015'><sup>[449]</sup></a> worth two dirhams: his +worn clothes and on him a patched gown<a id='r449' href='#f449' class='c015'><sup>[449]</sup></a> worth two dirhams: his face was yellow and he was covered with dust and was as he were -an offcast of the pilgrims.<a id='r450' /><a href='#f450' class='c015'><sup>[450]</sup></a> He was groaning as groaneth a sick +an offcast of the pilgrims.<a id='r450' href='#f450' class='c015'><sup>[450]</sup></a> He was groaning as groaneth a sick man in need, walking with a tottering gait and swaying now to the right and then to the left, and in him was realized his saying who -said<a id='r451' /><a href='#f451' class='c015'><sup>[451]</sup></a>:—</p> +said<a id='r451' href='#f451' class='c015'><sup>[451]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -14097,7 +14079,7 @@ said<a id='r451' /><a href='#f451' class='c015'><sup>[451]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>If generous youth be blessed with luck and wealth, ✿ Displeasures fly his path and perils fleet:</div> <div class='line'>His enviers pimp for him and par’site-wise ✿ E’en without tryst his mistress hastes to meet.</div> - <div class='line'>When loud he farts they say “How well he sings!” ✿ And when he fizzles<a id='r452' /><a href='#f452' class='c015'><sup>[452]</sup></a> cry they, “Oh, how sweet!”</div> + <div class='line'>When loud he farts they say “How well he sings!” ✿ And when he fizzles<a id='r452' href='#f452' class='c015'><sup>[452]</sup></a> cry they, “Oh, how sweet!”</div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -14126,7 +14108,7 @@ was on this wise. When he had farewelled Kamar al-Zaman, he went to his shop and thence going home, laid his hand on the door, whereupon it opened and he entered and found neither his wife nor the slave-girl, but saw the house in sorriest plight, quoting in -mute speech his saying who said<a id='r453' /><a href='#f453' class='c015'><sup>[453]</sup></a>:—</p> +mute speech his saying who said<a id='r453' href='#f453' class='c015'><sup>[453]</sup></a>:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> @@ -14166,9 +14148,9 @@ for solacing ourselves with the sight of the city, and sweareth that he will not march except he carry us with him, me and my wife. So, O my son, I make thee my steward in the shop, and if the King ask for me, say thou to him:—He is gone with his Harim -to the Holy House of Allah<a id='r454' /><a href='#f454' class='c015'><sup>[454]</sup></a>.” Then he sold some of his effects +to the Holy House of Allah<a id='r454' href='#f454' class='c015'><sup>[454]</sup></a>.” Then he sold some of his effects and bought camels and mules and Mamelukes, together with a -slave-girl<a id='r455' /><a href='#f455' class='c015'><sup>[455]</sup></a>, and placing her in a litter, set out from Bassorah after +slave-girl<a id='r455' href='#f455' class='c015'><sup>[455]</sup></a>, and placing her in a litter, set out from Bassorah after ten days. His friends farewelled him and none doubted but that he had taken his wife and gone on the Pilgrimage, and the folk rejoiced in this, for that Allah had delivered them from being shut @@ -14178,8 +14160,8 @@ may no more be boxed up in the mosques and houses <span class='pageno' id='Page_293'>293</span>every Friday!”; for that this usage had caused the people of Bassorah exceeding vexation. Quoth another, “Methinks he will not return from this journey, by reason of the much-praying of the -people of Bassorah against him<a id='r456' /><a href='#f456' class='c015'><sup>[456]</sup></a>.” And yet another, “An he -return, ’twill not be but in reversed case<a id='r457' /><a href='#f457' class='c015'><sup>[457]</sup></a>.” So the folk rejoiced +people of Bassorah against him<a id='r456' href='#f456' class='c015'><sup>[456]</sup></a>.” And yet another, “An he +return, ’twill not be but in reversed case<a id='r457' href='#f457' class='c015'><sup>[457]</sup></a>.” So the folk rejoiced with exceeding joy in the jeweller’s departure, after they had been in mighty great chagrin, and even their cats and dogs were comforted. When Friday came round, however, the crier proclaimed @@ -14193,12 +14175,12 @@ pilgrimage to the Holy House of Allah: so the cause of our restraint hath ceased to be, and why therefore are we now shut up?” Quoth the King, “How came this traitor to depart without telling me? But, when he cometh back from his journey, all will not be -save well<a id='r458' /><a href='#f458' class='c015'><sup>[458]</sup></a>: so go ye to your shops and sell and buy, for this +save well<a id='r458' href='#f458' class='c015'><sup>[458]</sup></a>: so go ye to your shops and sell and buy, for this vexation is removed from you.” Thus far concerning the King and the Bassorites; but as for the jeweller, he fared on ten days’ journey, and as he drew near Baghdad, there befel him that which had befallen Kamar al-Zaman, before his entering Bassorah; for -the Arabs<a id='r459' /><a href='#f459' class='c015'><sup>[459]</sup></a> came out upon him and stripped him and took all he +the Arabs<a id='r459' href='#f459' class='c015'><sup>[459]</sup></a> came out upon him and stripped him and took all he had and he escaped only by feigning himself dead. As soon as they were gone, he rose and fared on, naked as he was, till he came to a village, where Allah inclined to him the hearts of certain @@ -14231,7 +14213,7 @@ salam, and they both wept with sore weeping. Then he seated him by his side and Abd al-Rahman said to his son, “O destitute of good taste, this is no way to receive friends! Send him first to the Hammam and despatch after him a suit of clothes of the -choicest, worth a thousand dinars<a id='r460' /><a href='#f460' class='c015'><sup>[460]</sup></a>.” Accordingly they carried +choicest, worth a thousand dinars<a id='r460' href='#f460' class='c015'><sup>[460]</sup></a>.” Accordingly they carried him to the bath, where they washed his body and clad him in a costly suit, and he became as he were Consul of the Merchants. Meanwhile the bystanders questioned Kamar al-Zaman of him, @@ -14291,15 +14273,15 @@ of him who saith:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>O who praisest Time with the fairest appraise, ✿ Knowest thou what Time hath made and unmade?</div> - <div class='line'>What thou dost at least be it kindly done,<a id='r461' /><a href='#f461' class='c015'><sup>[461]</sup></a> ✿ For with pay he pays shall man be repaid.</div> + <div class='line'>What thou dost at least be it kindly done,<a id='r461' href='#f461' class='c015'><sup>[461]</sup></a> ✿ For with pay he pays shall man be repaid.</div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c000'>As they were talking and telling the tale, behold, up came Obayd -as he were Consul<a id='r462' /><a href='#f462' class='c015'><sup>[462]</sup></a> of the Merchants; whereupon they all rose to +as he were Consul<a id='r462' href='#f462' class='c015'><sup>[462]</sup></a> of the Merchants; whereupon they all rose to salute him and seated him in the place of honour. Then said -Kamar al-Zaman to him, “O my friend, verily, thy day<a id='r463' /><a href='#f463' class='c015'><sup>[463]</sup></a> is blessed +Kamar al-Zaman to him, “O my friend, verily, thy day<a id='r463' href='#f463' class='c015'><sup>[463]</sup></a> is blessed and fortunate! There is no need to relate to me a thing that befel me before thee. If the Arabs have stripped thee and robbed thee of thy wealth, verily our money is the ransom of our bodies, so let @@ -14351,16 +14333,16 @@ asked him, “Was the fault with my son or with thy wife?” He answered, “By Allah, thy son was not to blame, for men must needs lust after women, and ’tis the bounden duty of women to defend themselves from men. So the sin lieth with my wife, who -played me false and did with me these deeds<a id='r464' /><a href='#f464' class='c015'><sup>[464]</sup></a>.” Then Abd al-Rahman +played me false and did with me these deeds<a id='r464' href='#f464' class='c015'><sup>[464]</sup></a>.” Then Abd al-Rahman arose and taking his son aside, said to him, “O my son, we have proved his wife and know her to be a traitress; and now I mean to prove him and see if he be a man of honour and manliness, -or a wittol.<a id='r465' /><a href='#f465' class='c015'><sup>[465]</sup></a>” “How so?” asked Kamar al-Zaman; and +or a wittol.<a id='r465' href='#f465' class='c015'><sup>[465]</sup></a>” “How so?” asked Kamar al-Zaman; and Abd al-Rahman answered, “I mean to urge him to make peace with his wife, and if he consent thereto and forgive her, I will smite him with a sword and slay him and kill her after, her and her maid, for there is no good in the life of a cuckold and a -quean<a id='r466' /><a href='#f466' class='c015'><sup>[466]</sup></a>; but, if he turn from her with aversion I will marry him to +quean<a id='r466' href='#f466' class='c015'><sup>[466]</sup></a>; but, if he turn from her with aversion I will marry him to thy sister and give him more of wealth than that thou tookest from him.” Then he went back to Obayd and said to him, “O master, verily, the commerce of women requireth patience and magnanimity @@ -14381,7 +14363,7 @@ he who hath the power and pardoneth, his reward is with Allah. Now this woman is thy wife and thy companion and she hath long consorted with thee; wherefore it behoveth that thou entreat her with indulgence which in fellowship is of the essentials of success. -Furthermore, women fail in wit and Faith,<a id='r467' /><a href='#f467' class='c015'><sup>[467]</sup></a> and if she have sinned, +Furthermore, women fail in wit and Faith,<a id='r467' href='#f467' class='c015'><sup>[467]</sup></a> and if she have sinned, she repenteth and Inshallah she will not again return to that which she whilome did. So ’tis my rede that thou make peace with her and I will restore thee more than the good @@ -14440,10 +14422,10 @@ and in any case I console myself with his saying who said:—</p> <p class='c000'>It cannot be but he will bethink him of my affect and converse and ask for me, wherefore I will not turn from loving him nor change from passion for him, though I perish in prison; for he is -my love and my leach<a id='r468' /><a href='#f468' class='c015'><sup>[468]</sup></a> and my reliance is on him that he will yet +my love and my leach<a id='r468' href='#f468' class='c015'><sup>[468]</sup></a> and my reliance is on him that he will yet return to me and deal fondly with me.” When the jeweller heard his wife’s words, he went in to her and said to her, “O traitress, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_300'>300</span>thy hope in him is as the hope of Iblis<a id='r469' /><a href='#f469' class='c015'><sup>[469]</sup></a> in Heaven. All these +<span class='pageno' id='Page_300'>300</span>thy hope in him is as the hope of Iblis<a id='r469' href='#f469' class='c015'><sup>[469]</sup></a> in Heaven. All these vices were in thee and I knew not thereof; for, had I been ware of one single vice, I had not kept thee with me an hour. But now I am certified of this in thee, it behoveth me to do thee die, @@ -14462,7 +14444,7 @@ clutched her with both hands and repeated these two couplets:—</p> <p class='c000'>Then he pressed hardly upon her windpipe and brake her neck, whereupon her handmaid cried out “Alas, my mistress!” Said he, “O harlot, ’tis thou who art to blame for all this, for that thou -knewest this evil inclination to be in her and toldest me not.<a id='r470' /><a href='#f470' class='c015'><sup>[470]</sup></a>” +knewest this evil inclination to be in her and toldest me not.<a id='r470' href='#f470' class='c015'><sup>[470]</sup></a>” Then he seized upon her and strangled her. All this happened while Abd al-Rahman stood, brand in hand, behind the door espying with his eyes and hearing with his ears. Now when Obayd the @@ -14488,7 +14470,7 @@ and “May Allah compensate thee!” And they washed and shrouded them and buried them, and none knew the truth of the matter. Then Abd al-Rahman sent for the Shaykh al-Islam and all the notables and said, “O Shaykh, draw up the contract of -marriage between my daughter Kaukab al-Saláh<a id='r471' /><a href='#f471' class='c015'><sup>[471]</sup></a> and Master +marriage between my daughter Kaukab al-Saláh<a id='r471' href='#f471' class='c015'><sup>[471]</sup></a> and Master Obayd the jeweller and set down that her dowry hath been paid to me in full.” So he wrote out the contract and Abd al-Rahman gave the company to drink of sherbets, and they made one @@ -14496,7 +14478,7 @@ wedding festival for the two brides the daughter of the Shaykh al-Islam and Kamar al-Zaman’s sister; and paraded them in one litter on one and the same night; after which they carried Kamar al-Zaman and Obayd in procession together and brought them -in to their brides.<a id='r472' /><a href='#f472' class='c015'><sup>[472]</sup></a> When the jeweller went in to Abd al-Rahman’s +in to their brides.<a id='r472' href='#f472' class='c015'><sup>[472]</sup></a> When the jeweller went in to Abd al-Rahman’s daughter, he found her handsomer than Halimah and a thousand-fold lovelier. So he took her maidenhead and on the morrow, he went to the Hammam with Kamar al-Zaman. Then he abode @@ -14517,7 +14499,7 @@ returning to thy wife and sojourning in thine own home; so it were the righter rede that thou carry thy wife with thee; and after, an thou desire to return to us, return and welcome to you both; for we are folk who know not divorce and no woman of us -marrieth twice, nor do we lightly discard a man.”<a id='r473' /><a href='#f473' class='c015'><sup>[473]</sup></a> Quoth +marrieth twice, nor do we lightly discard a man.”<a id='r473' href='#f473' class='c015'><sup>[473]</sup></a> Quoth Obayd, “Uncle, I fear me thy daughter will not consent to journey with me to my own country.” Replied Abd al-Rahman, “O my son, we have no women amongst us who gainsay their spouses, @@ -14529,7 +14511,7 @@ whilst I was a maid, and when I married, the ordering all passed into the hands of my lord and master, nor will I gainsay him.” Quoth Obayd, “Allah bless thee and thy father, and have mercy on the womb that bare thee and the loins that begat thee!” Then -he cut his thongs<a id='r474' /><a href='#f474' class='c015'><sup>[474]</sup></a> and applied himself to making ready for his +he cut his thongs<a id='r474' href='#f474' class='c015'><sup>[474]</sup></a> and applied himself to making ready for his journey. His father-in-law gave him much good and they took leave each of other, after which the jeweller and his wife journeyed on without ceasing, till they reached Bassorah where his kinsmen @@ -14575,13 +14557,13 @@ her dead husband with a Sultan, how shall she be compared with one who replaced her husband, whilst he was yet alive, with a youth of unknown extraction and condition, and especially when this was in lewd carriage and not by way of lawful -marriage? So he who deemeth all women alike,<a id='r475' /><a href='#f475' class='c015'><sup>[475]</sup></a> there is no remedy +marriage? So he who deemeth all women alike,<a id='r475' href='#f475' class='c015'><sup>[475]</sup></a> there is no remedy <span class='pageno' id='Page_304'>304</span>for the disease of his insanity. And glory be to Him to whom belongeth the empire of the Seen and the Unseen and He is the Living, who dieth not! And among the tales they tell, O auspicious King, is one of</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f375'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r375'>375</a>. </span>Lane rejects this tale because it is “extremely objectionable; far more so than the @@ -14597,14 +14579,14 @@ Sind when Sir Charles Napier hanged every husband who cut down an adulterous wif I have elsewhere noticed the ignorant idea that Moslems deny to women souls and seats in Paradise, whilst Mohammed canonised two women in his own family. The theory arose with the “Fathers” of the Christian Church who simply exaggerated the misogyny -of St. Paul. St. Ambrose commenting on Corinthians i. ii., boldly says:—“<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Feminas ad +of St. Paul. St. Ambrose commenting on Corinthians i. ii., boldly says:—“<span lang="la">Feminas ad imaginem Dei factas non esse.</span>” St. Thomas Aquinas and his school adopted the -Aristotelian view, “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mulier est erratum naturæ, et mas occasionatus, et per accidens +Aristotelian view, “<span lang="la">Mulier est erratum naturæ, et mas occasionatus, et per accidens generatur; atque idèo est monstrum.</span>” For other instances see Bayle s. v. Gediacus -(Revd. Simon of Brandebourg) who in 1695 published a “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Defensio Sexus muliebris</span>,” a -refutation of an anti-Socinian satire or squib, “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Disputatio perjucunda, Mulieres homines +(Revd. Simon of Brandebourg) who in 1695 published a “<span lang="la">Defensio Sexus muliebris</span>,” a +refutation of an anti-Socinian satire or squib, “<span lang="la">Disputatio perjucunda, Mulieres homines non esse</span>,” Parisiis, 1693. But when Islam arose in the seventh century, the Christian -learned cleverly affixed the stigma of their own misogyny upon the Moslems <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ad captandas +learned cleverly affixed the stigma of their own misogyny upon the Moslems <span lang="la">ad captandas fœminas</span> and in Southern Europe the calumny still bears fruit. Mohammed (Koran, chapt. xxiv.) commands for the first time, in the sixth year of his mission, the veiling and, by inference, the seclusion of women, which was apparently unknown to the Badawin @@ -14617,7 +14599,7 @@ morals which are bred by European and especially by English civilisation. For th reason it enables women to enjoy fullest intimacy and friendship with one another, and we know that the best of both sexes are those who prefer the society of their own as opposed to “quite the lady’s man” and “quite the gentleman’s woman.” It also adds -an important item to social decorum by abolishing <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> such indecencies as the “ballroom +an important item to social decorum by abolishing <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> such indecencies as the “ballroom <em>flirtation</em>”—a word which must be borrowed from us, not translated by foreigners. And especially it gives to religious meetings, a tone which the presence of women modifies and not for the better. Perhaps, the best form is that semi-seclusion of the sex, @@ -14691,7 +14673,7 @@ and Bul. Edit. have “Ajami.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f385'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r385'>385</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He wrote “Kasídahs (= odes, elegies) after the fashion of the “Suspended +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r385'>385</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He wrote “Kasídahs (= odes, elegies) after the fashion of the “Suspended Poems” which mostly open with the lover gazing upon the traces of the camp where his beloved had dwelt. The exaggerated conventionalism of such exordium shows that these early poems had been preceded by a host of earlier pieces which had been adopted as @@ -14736,7 +14718,7 @@ known to the West.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f392'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r392'>392</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Angels and men saying, “The Peace (of God) be on us and on all righteous +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r392'>392</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Angels and men saying, “The Peace (of God) be on us and on all righteous servants of Allah!” This ends every prayer.</p> </div> @@ -14752,7 +14734,7 @@ vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_ </div> <div class='footnote' id='f395'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r395'>395</a>. </span>Arab. “Ásár” lit. traces <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the works, the mighty signs and marvels.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r395'>395</a>. </span>Arab. “Ásár” lit. traces <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the works, the mighty signs and marvels.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f396'> @@ -14782,7 +14764,7 @@ the Christians will rise up against the Moslems during prayers and will repeat t </div> <div class='footnote' id='f400'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r400'>400</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the syndic of the Guild of Jewellers.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r400'>400</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the syndic of the Guild of Jewellers.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f401'> @@ -14799,7 +14781,7 @@ the Christians will rise up against the Moslems during prayers and will repeat t </div> <div class='footnote' id='f404'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r404'>404</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> over and above the value of the gold, etc.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r404'>404</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> over and above the value of the gold, etc.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f405'> @@ -14838,13 +14820,13 @@ hedonist.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f411'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r411'>411</a>. </span>Arab. “Awáshik” a rare word, which Dozy translates “osselet” (or osselle) and Mr. Payne, “hucklebones,” concerning which he has obliged me with this note. -Chambaud renders osselet by “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">petit os avec lequel les enfants jouent.</span>” Hucklebone is +Chambaud renders osselet by “<span lang="fr">petit os avec lequel les enfants jouent.</span>” Hucklebone is the hip-bone but in the plural it applies to our cockals or cockles: Latham gives “hucklebone,” (or cockal), one of the small vertebræ of the coccygis, and Littleton translates “Talus,” a hucklebone, a bone to play with like a dye, a play called cockal. (So also in Rider). Hucklebones and knucklebones are syn.: but the latter is modern and liable to give a false idea, besides being tautological. It has nothing to do with the -knuckles and derives from the German “<span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Knöchel</span>” (dialectically Knöchelein) a bonelet.</p> +knuckles and derives from the German “<span lang="de">Knöchel</span>” (dialectically Knöchelein) a bonelet.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f412'> @@ -14889,8 +14871,8 @@ a grammatical term for relative pronoun or particle.</p> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r420'>420</a>. </span>Arab. “Tanwín al-Izáfah ma’zúl” = the nunnation in construction cast out. “Tanwín” (nunnation) is pronouncing the vowels of the case-endings of a noun with n—un for u (nominative)—in for i (genitive) and—an for a (accusative). This nunnation -expresses indefiniteness, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> “Malikun” = a king, any king. When the noun is made -definite by the Ma’rifah or article (al), the Tanwín must be dropped, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Al-Maliku +expresses indefiniteness, <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> “Malikun” = a king, any king. When the noun is made +definite by the Ma’rifah or article (al), the Tanwín must be dropped, <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Al-Maliku = the King; Al-Malikun being a grammatical absurdity. In construction or regimen (izáfah) the nunnation must also disappear, as Maliku ’l-Hindi = the King of Hind (a King of Hind would be Malikun min Mulúki ’l-Hindi = a King from amongst the @@ -14914,12 +14896,12 @@ tazid hubban” = call rarely that friendship last fairly. So the verse of Al-Mu </div> </div> -<p class='c000'>Preston quotes Jesus ben Sirach, <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">μὴ ἔμπιπτε ἵνα μὴ ἐπωσθῇς, καὶ μὴ μακρὰν ἀφίστω +<p class='c000'>Preston quotes Jesus ben Sirach, <span lang="el">μὴ ἔμπιπτε ἵνα μὴ ἐπωσθῇς, καὶ μὴ μακρὰν ἀφίστω ἵνα μὴ ἐπιλησθῇς</span>. Also Al-Hariri (Ass. xv. of “The Legal”; De Sacy p. 478 l. 2.) “Visit not your friend more than one day in a month, nor stop longer than that with him!” Also Ass. xvi. 487, 8. “Multiply not visits to thy friend.” None so disliked as one visiting too often (Preston p. 352). In the Cent nouvelles (52) Nouvelles (No. lii.) -the dying father says to his son:—<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Jamais ne vous hantez tant en l’ostel de votre voisin +the dying father says to his son:—<span lang="fr">Jamais ne vous hantez tant en l’ostel de votre voisin que l’on vous y serve de pain bis</span>. In these matters Moslems follow the preaching and practice of the Apostle, who was about as hearty and genial as the “Great Washington.” But the Arab had a fund of dry humour which the Anglo-American lacked altogether.</p> @@ -14927,7 +14909,7 @@ But the Arab had a fund of dry humour which the Anglo-American lacked altogether <div class='footnote' id='f422'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r422'>422</a>. </span>Arab. “’Amal” = action, operation. In Hindostani it is used (often with an -Alif for an Ayn) as intoxication <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Amal pání strong waters and applied to Sharáb +Alif for an Ayn) as intoxication <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Amal pání strong waters and applied to Sharáb (wine), Bozah (Beer), Tádí (toddy or the fermented juice of the Tád, <em>Borassus flabelliformis</em>), Naryáli (juice of the cocoa-nut tree), Saynddi (of the wild date, <em>Elate Sylvestris</em>), Afyún (opium and its preparations as post = poppy seeds) and various forms of <em>Cannabis @@ -14967,7 +14949,7 @@ here and in host of places elevates the tone of the book.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f427'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r427'>427</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as one loathes that which is prohibited, and with a loathing which makes it +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r427'>427</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as one loathes that which is prohibited, and with a loathing which makes it unlawful for me to cohabit with thee.</p> </div> @@ -15040,11 +15022,11 @@ a rock (plur. Bíbán) from the Coptic “Bíb.”</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f439'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r439'>439</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “The Holy,” a town some three marches (60 miles) N. East of Cairo; thus showing +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r439'>439</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> “The Holy,” a town some three marches (60 miles) N. East of Cairo; thus showing the honour done to our unheroic hero. There is also a Sálihiyah quarter or suburb of Damascus famous for its cemetery of holy men; but the facetious Cits change the name to Zálliniyah = causing to stray; in allusion to its Kurdish population. Baron von -Hammer reads “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">le faubourg Adelieh</span>” built by Al-Malik Al-Adil and founded a +Hammer reads “<span lang="fr">le faubourg Adelieh</span>” built by Al-Malik Al-Adil and founded a chronological argument on a clerical error.</p> </div> @@ -15054,7 +15036,7 @@ as in the West, and worthy only of a pickpocket in either place.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f441'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r441'>441</a>. </span>Arab. “Azrár” plur. of “Zirr” and lit. = “buttons,” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of his robe collar from +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r441'>441</a>. </span>Arab. “Azrár” plur. of “Zirr” and lit. = “buttons,” <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of his robe collar from which his white neck and face appear shining as the sun.</p> </div> @@ -15064,7 +15046,7 @@ during the halt.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f443'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r443'>443</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> it was so richly ornamented that it resembled an enchanted hoard whose spells, +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r443'>443</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> it was so richly ornamented that it resembled an enchanted hoard whose spells, hiding it from sight, had been broken by some happy treasure seeker.</p> </div> @@ -15109,7 +15091,7 @@ a striped and hooded cloak of woollen stuff.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f450'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r450'>450</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> a broken down pilgrim left to die on the road.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r450'>450</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> a broken down pilgrim left to die on the road.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f451'> @@ -15142,16 +15124,16 @@ into the different Harims to learn news of the lady who had eloped.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f457'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r457'>457</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> on account of the King taking offence at his unceremonious departure.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r457'>457</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> on account of the King taking offence at his unceremonious departure.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f458'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r458'>458</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> It will be the worse for him.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r458'>458</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> It will be the worse for him.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f459'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r459'>459</a>. </span>I would here remind the reader that “’Arabiyyun” pl. ’Urb is a man of pure -Arab race, whether of the Ahl al-Madar (= people of mortar, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> citizens) or Ahl al-Wabar +Arab race, whether of the Ahl al-Madar (= people of mortar, <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> citizens) or Ahl al-Wabar (= tents of goat or camel’s hair); whereas “A’rábiyyun” pl. A’ráb is one who dwells in the Desert whether Arab or not. Hence the verse:—</p> @@ -15171,7 +15153,7 @@ Eastern Rome while the Dirham is the silver denarius, whence denier, danaro, dí etc., etc. The oldest dinars date from A. H. 91–92 (= 714–15) and we find the following description of one struck in A. H. 96 by Al-Walid the VI. Ommiade:—</p> -<table class='table1' summary=''> +<table class="table1"> <tr> <td class='c021' rowspan='2'>Obverse.</td> <td class='blt c022'>Area. “There is no iláh but Allah: He is one: He hath no partner.”</td> @@ -15180,14 +15162,14 @@ description of one struck in A. H. 96 by Al-Walid the VI. Ommiade:—</p> <td class='blt c022'>Circle. “Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah who hath sent him with the true Guidance and Religion that he manifest it above all other Creeds.”</td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c021' rowspan='2'>Reverse.</td> <td class='blt c022'>Area. “Allah is one: Allah is Eternal: He begetteth not, nor is He begot.”</td> </tr> <tr> - <td class='blt c022'>Circle. “Bismillah: This Dinar was struck <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">anno</span> 96.”</td> + <td class='blt c022'>Circle. “Bismillah: This Dinar was struck <span lang="la">anno</span> 96.”</td> </tr> </table> @@ -15207,7 +15189,7 @@ is preached.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f463'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r463'>463</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of thy coming, a popular compliment.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r463'>463</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of thy coming, a popular compliment.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f464'> @@ -15224,7 +15206,7 @@ occurring in conversation.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f466'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r466'>466</a>. </span>This is taking the law into one’s own hands with a witness; yet amongst races who -preserve the Pundonor in full and pristine force, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> the Afghans and the Persian Iliyát, +preserve the Pundonor in full and pristine force, <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> the Afghans and the Persian Iliyát, the killing so far from being considered murder or even justifiable homicide would be highly commended by public opinion.</p> </div> @@ -15238,8 +15220,8 @@ went farther,</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Toutes êtez, serez ou fûtes,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">De faict ou de volonté, putes.</span></div> + <div class='line'><span lang="fr">Toutes êtez, serez ou fûtes,</span></div> + <div class='line'><span lang="fr">De faict ou de volonté, putes.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -15272,8 +15254,8 @@ ill conduct. But even Othello did not kill Emilia.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f471'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r471'>471</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Star of the Morning: the first word occurs in Bar Cokba Barchocheba = Son -of the Star, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, which was to come out of Jacob (Numbers xxiv, 17). The root, which +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r471'>471</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Star of the Morning: the first word occurs in Bar Cokba Barchocheba = Son +of the Star, <i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, which was to come out of Jacob (Numbers xxiv, 17). The root, which does not occur in Heb., is Kaukab to shine. This Rabbi Akilah was also called Bar Cozla = Son of the Lie.</p> </div> @@ -15290,7 +15272,7 @@ upon but not exaggerated.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f474'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r474'>474</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> those of his water skins for the journey, which as usual required patching and +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r474'>474</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> those of his water skins for the journey, which as usual required patching and supplying with fresh handles after long lying dry.</p> </div> @@ -15316,14 +15298,14 @@ wrong kill them. Christians place them upon a pedestal, the observed of all obse expose them to every danger and if they fall, accuse and abuse them instead of themselves. And England is so grandly logical that her law, under certain circumstances, holds that Mrs. A. has committed adultery with Mr. B. but Mr. B. has not committed -adultery with Mrs. A. Can any absurdity be more absurd? Only “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">summum jus, +adultery with Mrs. A. Can any absurdity be more absurd? Only “<span lang="fr">summum jus, summa injuria</span>.” See my Terminal Essay. I shall have more to say upon this curious subject, the treatment of women who can be thoroughly guarded only by two things, firstly their hearts and secondly by the “Spanish Padlock.”</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c304' class='c011'>ABDULLAH BIN FAZIL AND HIS BROTHERS<a id='r476' /><a href='#f476' class='c015'><sup>[476]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c304' class='c011'>ABDULLAH BIN FAZIL AND HIS BROTHERS<a id='r476' href='#f476' class='c015'><sup>[476]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c017'>The Caliph Harun al-Rashid was one day examining the tributes @@ -15342,7 +15324,7 @@ what then, can be his excuse for that, in this time, he hath neither sent it nor sent to show cause for not doing so?” And quoth the Minister, “O Commander of the Faithful, if it please thee, we will send him a messenger.” Rejoined the Caliph, “Send him Abu -Ishak al-Mausili,<a id='r477' /><a href='#f477' class='c015'><sup>[477]</sup></a> the boon companion,” and Ja’afar, “Hearkening +Ishak al-Mausili,<a id='r477' href='#f477' class='c015'><sup>[477]</sup></a> the boon companion,” and Ja’afar, “Hearkening <span class='pageno' id='Page_305'>305</span>and obedience to Allah and to thee, O Prince of True Believers!” Then he returned to his house and summoning Abu Ishak, wrote him a royal writ and said to him, “Go to Abdullah bin Fazil, @@ -15385,10 +15367,10 @@ So he lay down and the viceroy lay down beside him on another couch; but wakefulness possessed Abu Ishak and he fell to meditating on the metres of prosody and poetical composition, for <span class='pageno' id='Page_306'>306</span>that he was one of the primest of the Caliph’s boon-companions -and he had a mighty fine fore-arm<a id='r478' /><a href='#f478' class='c015'><sup>[478]</sup></a> in producing verses and +and he had a mighty fine fore-arm<a id='r478' href='#f478' class='c015'><sup>[478]</sup></a> in producing verses and pleasant stories; nor did he leave to lie awake improvising poetry till half the night was past. Presently, behold, Abdullah bin -Fazil arose, and girding his middle, opened a locker,<a id='r479' /><a href='#f479' class='c015'><sup>[479]</sup></a> whence he +Fazil arose, and girding his middle, opened a locker,<a id='r479' href='#f479' class='c015'><sup>[479]</sup></a> whence he brought out a whip; then, taking a lighted waxen taper, he went forth by the door of the saloon.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -15450,7 +15432,7 @@ night pondering this affair neither did sleep visit him for excess of wonderment, and he ceased not to say in himself, “I wonder what can be the meaning of this!” Nor did he leave wondering till day break, when they arose and prayed the dawn-prayer. Then -they set the breakfast<a id='r480' /><a href='#f480' class='c015'><sup>[480]</sup></a> before them and they ate and drank coffee, +they set the breakfast<a id='r480' href='#f480' class='c015'><sup>[480]</sup></a> before them and they ate and drank coffee, after which they went out to the divan. Now Abu Ishak’s thought was occupied with this mystery all day long but he concealed the matter and questioned not Abdullah thereof. Next @@ -15490,7 +15472,7 @@ bring him to thee, him and the two dogs.” But quoth the Caliph, whole affair and say, I’ve no dogs. But if I send thee and thou say to him, I saw them with mine own eyes, he will not be able to deny that. Wherefore nothing will serve but that thou go and -fetch him and the two dogs; otherwise I will surely slay thee.”<a id='r481' /><a href='#f481' class='c015'><sup>[481]</sup></a>——And +fetch him and the two dogs; otherwise I will surely slay thee.”<a id='r481' href='#f481' class='c015'><sup>[481]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -15510,8 +15492,8 @@ serve but that thou go and fetch him and the two dogs; otherwise I will surely slay thee.” Abu Ishak replied, “Hearing and obeying, <span class='pageno' id='Page_309'>309</span>O Commander of the Faithful: Allah is our aidance and good is the Agent. He spake sooth who said, “Man’s wrong is -from the tongue;<a id='r482' /><a href='#f482' class='c015'><sup>[482]</sup></a> and ’tis I who sinned against myself in telling -thee. But write me a royal rescript<a id='r483' /><a href='#f483' class='c015'><sup>[483]</sup></a> and I will go to him and +from the tongue;<a id='r482' href='#f482' class='c015'><sup>[482]</sup></a> and ’tis I who sinned against myself in telling +thee. But write me a royal rescript<a id='r483' href='#f483' class='c015'><sup>[483]</sup></a> and I will go to him and bring him back to thee.” So the Caliph gave him an autograph and he took it and repaired to Bassorah. Seeing him come in the governor said, “Allah forfend us from the mischief of thy @@ -15537,10 +15519,10 @@ for thou art my friend. Were it other than thou, I had denied the affair and given him the lie. But now I will go with thee and carry the two dogs with me, though this be to me ruin-rife and the ending of my term of life.” Rejoined the other, “Allah -will veil<a id='r484' /><a href='#f484' class='c015'><sup>[484]</sup></a> thee, even as thou hast veiled my face with the Caliph!” +will veil<a id='r484' href='#f484' class='c015'><sup>[484]</sup></a> thee, even as thou hast veiled my face with the Caliph!” Then Abdullah took a present beseeming the Commander of the Faithful and mounting the dogs with him, each on a camel, bound -with chains<a id='r485' /><a href='#f485' class='c015'><sup>[485]</sup></a> of gold, journeyed with Abu Ishak to Baghdad, +with chains<a id='r485' href='#f485' class='c015'><sup>[485]</sup></a> of gold, journeyed with Abu Ishak to Baghdad, where he went in to the Caliph and kissed ground before him. He deigned bid him sit; so he sat down and brought the two dogs before Al-Rashid, who said to him, “What be these dogs, @@ -15557,7 +15539,7 @@ were men and are become dogs?”; and he answered, “An thou give me leave, O Prince of True Believers, I will acquaint thee with the truth of the circumstance.” Said Al-Rashid, “Tell me and ’ware of leasing, for ’tis of the fashion of the hypocrites, and -look thou tell truth, for that is the Ark<a id='r486' /><a href='#f486' class='c015'><sup>[486]</sup></a> of safety and the mark +look thou tell truth, for that is the Ark<a id='r486' href='#f486' class='c015'><sup>[486]</sup></a> of safety and the mark of virtuous men.” Rejoined Abdullah, “Know then, O viceregent of Allah, when I tell thee the story of these dogs, they will both bear witness against me: an I speak sooth they will certify it and @@ -15576,7 +15558,7 @@ brought him up and reared him well, till he grew to manhood when he married him to our mother and died. Our mother conceived a first time and bare this my first brother, whom our sire named Mansúr; then she conceived again and bare this my -second brother, whom he named Násir<a id='r487' /><a href='#f487' class='c015'><sup>[487]</sup></a>; after which she conceived +second brother, whom he named Násir<a id='r487' href='#f487' class='c015'><sup>[487]</sup></a>; after which she conceived a third time and bare me, whom he named Abdullah. My <span class='pageno' id='Page_311'>311</span>father reared us all three till we came to man’s estate, when he died, leaving us a house and a shop full of coloured stuffs of all @@ -15585,26 +15567,26 @@ sixty thousand dinars. We washed him and buried him to the ruth of his Lord, after which we built him a splendid monument and let pray for him prayers for the deliverance of his soul from the fire and held perlections of the Koran and gave alms on his -behalf, till the forty days<a id='r488' /><a href='#f488' class='c015'><sup>[488]</sup></a> were past; when I called together the +behalf, till the forty days<a id='r488' href='#f488' class='c015'><sup>[488]</sup></a> were past; when I called together the merchants and nobles of the folk and made them a sumptuous entertainment. As soon as they had eaten, I said to them, “O merchants, verily this world is ephemeral, but the next world is eternal, and extolled be the perfection of Him who endureth always after His creatures have passed away! Know ye why I have called you together this blessed day?” And they answered, -“Extolled be Allah sole Scient of the hidden things.<a id='r489' /><a href='#f489' class='c015'><sup>[489]</sup></a>” Quoth +“Extolled be Allah sole Scient of the hidden things.<a id='r489' href='#f489' class='c015'><sup>[489]</sup></a>” Quoth I, “My father died, leaving much of money, and I fear lest any -have a claim against him for a debt or a pledge<a id='r490' /><a href='#f490' class='c015'><sup>[490]</sup></a> or what not else, +have a claim against him for a debt or a pledge<a id='r490' href='#f490' class='c015'><sup>[490]</sup></a> or what not else, and I desire to discharge my father’s obligations towards the folk. So whoso hath any demand on him, let him say:—He oweth me so and so, and I will satisfy it to him, that I may acquit the -responsibility of my sire.<a id='r491' /><a href='#f491' class='c015'><sup>[491]</sup></a>” The merchants replied, “O Abdullah, +responsibility of my sire.<a id='r491' href='#f491' class='c015'><sup>[491]</sup></a>” The merchants replied, “O Abdullah, verily the goods of this world stand not in stead of those of the world to come, and we are no fraudful folk, but all of us know the lawful from the unlawful and fear Almighty Allah and abstain from devouring the substance of the orphan. We know that thy father (Allah have mercy on him!) still let his money lie with the -folk,<a id='r492' /><a href='#f492' class='c015'><sup>[492]</sup></a> nor did he suffer any man’s claim on him to go un-quitted, +folk,<a id='r492' href='#f492' class='c015'><sup>[492]</sup></a> nor did he suffer any man’s claim on him to go un-quitted, <span class='pageno' id='Page_312'>312</span>and we have ever heard him declare:—I am fearful of the people’s substance. He used always to say in his prayers, O my God, Thou art my stay and my hope! Let me not die while in debt. @@ -15641,7 +15623,7 @@ hand and peace is priceless.” I abode thus a whole year, during which time Allah opened the door of fortune to me and I gained great gains, till I became possessed of the like of that which our father had left us. One day, as I sat in my shop, with -two fur pelisses on me, one of sable and the other of meniver,<a id='r493' /><a href='#f493' class='c015'><sup>[493]</sup></a> for +two fur pelisses on me, one of sable and the other of meniver,<a id='r493' href='#f493' class='c015'><sup>[493]</sup></a> for <span class='pageno' id='Page_313'>313</span>it was the season of winter and the time of the excessive cold, behold, there came up to me my two brothers, each clad in a ragged shirt and nothing more, and their lips were white with cold, @@ -15666,7 +15648,7 @@ reason fled my head. So I rose and embraced them and wept over their condition: then I put on one of them the pelisse of sable and on the other the fur coat of meniver and, carrying them to the Hammam, sent thither for each of them a suit of apparel such as -befitted a merchant worth a thousand.<a id='r494' /><a href='#f494' class='c015'><sup>[494]</sup></a> When they had washed and +befitted a merchant worth a thousand.<a id='r494' href='#f494' class='c015'><sup>[494]</sup></a> When they had washed and donned each his suit, I carried them to my house where, seeing them well nigh famished, I set a tray of food before them and ate with them, caressing them and comforting them. (Then he again @@ -15674,12 +15656,12 @@ turned to the two dogs and said to them, “Was this so, O my brothers?”; and they bent their heads and lowered their eyes.) So Abdullah continued:—When they had eaten, O Vicar of Allah, quoth I to them, “What hath befallen you and where are your -goods?”; and quoth they, “We fared up the river,<a id='r495' /><a href='#f495' class='c015'><sup>[495]</sup></a> till we came to +goods?”; and quoth they, “We fared up the river,<a id='r495' href='#f495' class='c015'><sup>[495]</sup></a> till we came to a city called Cufa, where we sold for ten dinars the piece of stuff that had cost half a ducat and that which cost us a ducat for twenty. So we profited greatly and bought Persian stuffs at the rate of ten sequins per piece of silk worth forty in Bassorah. Thence -we removed to a city called Al-Karkh<a id='r496' /><a href='#f496' class='c015'><sup>[496]</sup></a> where we sold and bought +we removed to a city called Al-Karkh<a id='r496' href='#f496' class='c015'><sup>[496]</sup></a> where we sold and bought <span class='pageno' id='Page_314'>314</span>and made gain galore and amassed of wealth great store.” And they went on to set forth to me the places and the profits. So I said to them, “Since ye had such good luck and lot, how cometh @@ -15690,7 +15672,7 @@ goods, we freighted a ship therewith and set sail, intending for Bassorah. We fared on three days and on the fourth day we saw the sea rise and fall and roar and foam and swell and dash, whilst the waves clashed together with a crash, striking out sparks like -fire<a id='r497' /><a href='#f497' class='c015'><sup>[497]</sup></a> in the darks. The winds blew contrary for us and our craft +fire<a id='r497' href='#f497' class='c015'><sup>[497]</sup></a> in the darks. The winds blew contrary for us and our craft struck upon the point of a bill-projected rock, where it brake up and plunged us into the river, and all we had with us was lost in the waters. We abode struggling on the surface a day and a night, @@ -15723,7 +15705,7 @@ he distributed into three equal parts, and we each took one. Then said I to them, “O my brothers, Allah blesseth a man in his daily bread, if he be in his own country: so let each of you open him a shop and sit therein to get his living; and he to whom aught is -ordained in the Secret Purpose,<a id='r498' /><a href='#f498' class='c015'><sup>[498]</sup></a> needs must he get it.” Accordingly, +ordained in the Secret Purpose,<a id='r498' href='#f498' class='c015'><sup>[498]</sup></a> needs must he get it.” Accordingly, <span class='pageno' id='Page_315'>315</span>I helped each of them to open a shop and filled it for him with goods, saying to them, “Sell and buy and keep your monies and spend naught thereof; for all ye need of meat and drink and so @@ -15751,9 +15733,9 @@ on till we came to a city of the cities, where we sold and bought and made great cheape. Thence we went on to another place, and we ceased not to pass from land to land and port to port, selling and buying and profiting, till we had gotten us great wealth -and much advantage. Presently, we came to a mountain,<a id='r499' /><a href='#f499' class='c015'><sup>[499]</sup></a> where +and much advantage. Presently, we came to a mountain,<a id='r499' href='#f499' class='c015'><sup>[499]</sup></a> where the captain cast anchor and said to us, “O passengers, go ye -ashore; ye shall be saved from this day,<a id='r500' /><a href='#f500' class='c015'><sup>[500]</sup></a> and make search; it +ashore; ye shall be saved from this day,<a id='r500' href='#f500' class='c015'><sup>[500]</sup></a> and make search; it may be ye shall find water.” So all landed I amongst the crowd, and dispersed about the island in search of water. As for me, I climbed to the top of the mountain, and whilst I went along, lo @@ -15762,7 +15744,7 @@ dragon, foul of favour and frightful of form, hotly pursuing her. Presently he overtook her and clipping her, seized her by the head and wound his tail about her tail, whereupon she cried out and I <span class='pageno' id='Page_316'>316</span>knew that he purposed to rape her. So I was moved to ruth for -her and taking up a lump of granite,<a id='r501' /><a href='#f501' class='c015'><sup>[501]</sup></a> five pounds or more in +her and taking up a lump of granite,<a id='r501' href='#f501' class='c015'><sup>[501]</sup></a> five pounds or more in weight, hurled it at the dragon. It smote him on the head and crushed it, and ere I knew, the white snake changed and became a young girl bright with beauty and loveliness and brilliancy and @@ -15771,7 +15753,7 @@ me and kissing my hands, said to me, “Allah veil thee with twofold veils, one from shame in this world and the other from the flame in the world to come on the day of the Great Upstanding, the day when neither wealth nor children shall avail save to him -who shall come to Allah with a sound heart!”<a id='r502' /><a href='#f502' class='c015'><sup>[502]</sup></a> And presently +who shall come to Allah with a sound heart!”<a id='r502' href='#f502' class='c015'><sup>[502]</sup></a> And presently she continued, “O mortal, thou hast saved my honour and I am indebted to thee for kindness, wherefore it behoveth me to requite thee.” So saying, she signed with her hand to the earth, which @@ -15796,7 +15778,7 @@ who said:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>How many a night have I spent in woes ✿ That would grizzle the suckling-babe with fear:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_317'>317</span>But morrowed not morn ere to me there came ✿ ‘Aidance from Allah and victory near.’<a id='r503' /><a href='#f503' class='c015'><sup>[503]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_317'>317</span>But morrowed not morn ere to me there came ✿ ‘Aidance from Allah and victory near.’<a id='r503' href='#f503' class='c015'><sup>[503]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -15807,7 +15789,7 @@ skirts, the Captain said to us, “O folk, go ashore and seek for water.” So we all landed and sought water but found none, whereat we were sore afflicted because we were suffering for want of it. As for me, I climbed up to the mountain-top -and on the other side thereof I saw a spacious circle<a id='r504' /><a href='#f504' class='c015'><sup>[504]</sup></a> distant +and on the other side thereof I saw a spacious circle<a id='r504' href='#f504' class='c015'><sup>[504]</sup></a> distant from us an hour’s journey or more. Presently I called my companions and as soon as they all rejoined me, said to them “Look at yonder basin behind this mountain; for I see therein a city @@ -15877,7 +15859,7 @@ and found him stone. Presently, as I walked adown the broadways, and saw that this was every where the case, I met an old woman bearing on her head a bundle of clothes ready for washing; so I went up to her and examining her, saw that she was stone, -and the bundle of clothes on her head was stone also.<a id='r505' /><a href='#f505' class='c015'><sup>[505]</sup></a> Then I +and the bundle of clothes on her head was stone also.<a id='r505' href='#f505' class='c015'><sup>[505]</sup></a> Then I fared for the market, where I saw an oilman with his scales set up and fronted by various kinds of wares such as cheese and so forth, all of stone. Moreover, I saw all manner of tradesmen @@ -15920,7 +15902,7 @@ therein. Here I found an audience-chamber, full of Grandees and Wazirs and Officers and Emirs, seated upon chairs and every one of them stone. Moreover, I saw a throne of red gold, crusted with pearls and gems, and seated thereon a son of Adam arrayed in -the most sumptuous raiment and bearing on his head a Chosröan<a id='r506' /><a href='#f506' class='c015'><sup>[506]</sup></a> +the most sumptuous raiment and bearing on his head a Chosröan<a id='r506' href='#f506' class='c015'><sup>[506]</sup></a> crown, diademed with the finest stones that shed a light like the light of day; but, when I came up to him, I found him stone. Then I went on to the gate of the Harim and entering, found @@ -15929,18 +15911,18 @@ myself in the Queen’s presence-chamber, wherein I saw a throne thereon. On her head she wore a crown diademed with finest jewels, and round about her were women like moons, seated upon chairs and clad in the most sumptuous clothing of all colours. -There also the eunuchry, with their hands upon their breasts,<a id='r507' /><a href='#f507' class='c015'><sup>[507]</sup></a> +There also the eunuchry, with their hands upon their breasts,<a id='r507' href='#f507' class='c015'><sup>[507]</sup></a> were standing in the attitude of service, and indeed this hall confounded the beholder’s wits with what was therein of quaint gilding and rare painting and curious carving and fine furniture. -There hung the most brilliant lustres<a id='r508' /><a href='#f508' class='c015'><sup>[508]</sup></a> of limpid crystal, and in -every globe<a id='r509' /><a href='#f509' class='c015'><sup>[509]</sup></a> of the crystal was an unique jewel, whose price +There hung the most brilliant lustres<a id='r508' href='#f508' class='c015'><sup>[508]</sup></a> of limpid crystal, and in +every globe<a id='r509' href='#f509' class='c015'><sup>[509]</sup></a> of the crystal was an unique jewel, whose price money might not fulfil. So I threw down that which was with me, O Prince of True Believers, and fell to taking of these jewels what I could carry, bewildered as to what I should bear away and what I should leave; for indeed I saw the place as it were a treasure of the treasures of the cities. Presently I espied a -wicket<a id='r510' /><a href='#f510' class='c015'><sup>[510]</sup></a> standing open and within it a staircase: so I entered +wicket<a id='r510' href='#f510' class='c015'><sup>[510]</sup></a> standing open and within it a staircase: so I entered and mounting forty steps, heard a human voice reciting the Koran in a low tone. I walked towards that sound till I came to the main door hung with a silken curtain, laced with wires of @@ -15949,7 +15931,7 @@ emeralds which gave forth a light like the light of stars. The voice came from behind the curtain: so I raised it and discovered a gilded door, whose beauty amazed the mind. I passed through the door and found myself in a saloon as it were a hoard upon -earth’s surface<a id='r511' /><a href='#f511' class='c015'><sup>[511]</sup></a> and therein a girl as she were the sun shining +earth’s surface<a id='r511' href='#f511' class='c015'><sup>[511]</sup></a> and therein a girl as she were the sun shining fullest sheen in the zenith of a sky serene. She was robed in the costliest of raiment and decked with ornaments the most precious that could be and withal she was of passing beauty and loveliness, @@ -15963,7 +15945,7 @@ she of whom the sayer spake when he said:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>My best salam to what that robe enrobes of symmetry, ✿ And what that blooming garth of cheek enguards of rosy blee:</div> <div class='line'>It seems as though the Pleiades depend upon her brow; ✿ And other lights of Night in knots upon her breast we see:</div> - <div class='line'>Did she but don a garment weft of Rose’s softest leaf, ✿ The leaf of Rose would draw her blood<a id='r512' /><a href='#f512' class='c015'><sup>[512]</sup></a> when pluckt that fruit from tree:</div> + <div class='line'>Did she but don a garment weft of Rose’s softest leaf, ✿ The leaf of Rose would draw her blood<a id='r512' href='#f512' class='c015'><sup>[512]</sup></a> when pluckt that fruit from tree:</div> <div class='line'>And did she crache in Ocean’s face, next Morn would see a change ✿ To sweeter than the honeycomb of what was briny sea:</div> <div class='line'>And did she deign her favours grant to grey-beard staff-en-propped ✿ He’d wake and rend the lion’s limbs for might and valiancy.</div> </div> @@ -15991,7 +15973,7 @@ sight:—</p> <p class='c000'>When I heard her voice of melody reciting the sublime Koran, my heart quoted from her killing glances, ‘Peace, a word from a compassionating -Lord;’<a id='r513' /><a href='#f513' class='c015'><sup>[513]</sup></a> but I stammered<a id='r514' /><a href='#f514' class='c015'><sup>[514]</sup></a> in my speech and could not +Lord;’<a id='r513' href='#f513' class='c015'><sup>[513]</sup></a> but I stammered<a id='r514' href='#f514' class='c015'><sup>[514]</sup></a> in my speech and could not say the salam-salutation aright, for my mind and sight were confounded and I was become as saith the bard:—</p> @@ -16030,7 +16012,7 @@ hand a thousand thousand and sixty thousand troopers. The number of the Emirs of his Empire was four-and-twenty thousand, all of them Governors and Dignitaries. He was obeyed by a thousand cities, besides towns, hamlets and villages; and sconces -and citadels, and the Emirs<a id='r515' /><a href='#f515' class='c015'><sup>[515]</sup></a> of the wild Arabs under his hand were +and citadels, and the Emirs<a id='r515' href='#f515' class='c015'><sup>[515]</sup></a> of the wild Arabs under his hand were a thousand in number, each commanding twenty thousand horse. Moreover, he had monies and treasures and precious stones and jewels and things of price, such as eye never saw nor of which ear @@ -16052,7 +16034,7 @@ daughter to the King of the Stone-city, thus continued:—Verily, O Abdullah my father had monies and hoards, such as eye never saw and of which ear never heard. He used to debel Kings and do to death champions and braves in battle and in the field of -fight, so that the Conquerors feared him and the Chosroës<a id='r516' /><a href='#f516' class='c015'><sup>[516]</sup></a> humbled +fight, so that the Conquerors feared him and the Chosroës<a id='r516' href='#f516' class='c015'><sup>[516]</sup></a> humbled <span class='pageno' id='Page_324'>324</span>themselves to him. For all this, he was a miscreant in creed ascribing to Allah partnership and adoring idols, instead of the Lord of worship; and all his troops were of images fain in lieu of @@ -16060,9 +16042,9 @@ the All-knowing Sovereign. One day of the days as he sat on the throne of his Kingship, compassed about with the Grandees of his realm, suddenly there came in to him a Personage, whose face illumined the whole Divan with its light. My father looked at him -and saw him clad in a garb of green,<a id='r517' /><a href='#f517' class='c015'><sup>[517]</sup></a> tall of stature and with +and saw him clad in a garb of green,<a id='r517' href='#f517' class='c015'><sup>[517]</sup></a> tall of stature and with hands that reached beneath his knees. He was of reverend aspect -and awesome and the light<a id='r518' /><a href='#f518' class='c015'><sup>[518]</sup></a> shone from his face. Said he to my +and awesome and the light<a id='r518' href='#f518' class='c015'><sup>[518]</sup></a> shone from his face. Said he to my sire, “O rebel, O idolater, how long wilt thou take pride in worshipping idols and abandoning the service of the All-knowing King? Say:—I testify that there is no god but <em>the</em> God and that @@ -16071,7 +16053,7 @@ Al-Islam, thou and thy tribe; and put away from you the worship of idols, for they neither suffice man’s need nor intercede. None is worshipful save Allah alone, who raised up the heavens without columns and spread out the earths like carpets in mercy to His -creatures.”<a id='r519' /><a href='#f519' class='c015'><sup>[519]</sup></a> Quoth my father, “Who art thou, O man who +creatures.”<a id='r519' href='#f519' class='c015'><sup>[519]</sup></a> Quoth my father, “Who art thou, O man who rejectest the worship of idols, that thou sayst thus? Fearest thou not that the idols will be wroth with thee?” He replied, “The idols are stones; their anger cannot prejudice me nor their favour @@ -16082,7 +16064,7 @@ pray my Lord to be wroth with them, and ye shall descry the difference between the anger of the creature and that of the Creator. For your idols, ye fashioned them yourselves and the Satans clad themselves therewith as with clothing, and they it is who spake to -you from within the bellies of the images,<a id='r520' /><a href='#f520' class='c015'><sup>[520]</sup></a> for your idols are +you from within the bellies of the images,<a id='r520' href='#f520' class='c015'><sup>[520]</sup></a> for your idols are made and the maker is my God to whom naught is impossible. An the True appear to you, do ye follow it, and if the False appear to you do ye leave it.” Cried they, “Give us a proof of thy god, @@ -16094,7 +16076,7 @@ behind a curtain, whence I could look upon my father’s Divan, and I had an idol of emerald whose bigness was as the bigness of a son of Adam. My father demanded it, so I sent it to the Divan, where they set it down beside that of my sire, which was of -jacinth, whilst the Wazir’s idol was of diamond.<a id='r521' /><a href='#f521' class='c015'><sup>[521]</sup></a> As for those of +jacinth, whilst the Wazir’s idol was of diamond.<a id='r521' href='#f521' class='c015'><sup>[521]</sup></a> As for those of the Grandees and Notables, some were of balass-ruby and some of carnelian, others of coral or Comorin aloes-wood and yet others of ebony or silver or gold; and each had his own idol, after the @@ -16103,7 +16085,7 @@ soldiers and of the people were some of granite, some of wood, some of pottery and some of mud; and all were of various hues yellow and red; green, black and white. Then said the Personage to my sire, “Pray your idol and these idols to be wroth with me.” -So they aligned the idols in a Divan,<a id='r522' /><a href='#f522' class='c015'><sup>[522]</sup></a> setting my father’s idol +So they aligned the idols in a Divan,<a id='r522' href='#f522' class='c015'><sup>[522]</sup></a> setting my father’s idol on a chair of gold at the upper end, with mine by its side, and ranking the others each according to the condition of him who owned it and worshipped it. Then my father arose and prostrating @@ -16117,7 +16099,7 @@ And he went on to supplicate the idol; but the idol returned him no reply neither bespoke him with aught of speech; whereupon quoth he, “O my god, this is not of thy wont, for thou usedst to answer me, when I addressed thee. How cometh it that I see -<span class='pageno' id='Page_326'>326</span>thee silent and speaking not? Art thou unheeding or asleep?<a id='r523' /><a href='#f523' class='c015'><sup>[523]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_326'>326</span>thee silent and speaking not? Art thou unheeding or asleep?<a id='r523' href='#f523' class='c015'><sup>[523]</sup></a> Awake; succour me and speak to me!” And he shook it with his hand; but it spake not neither stirred from its stead. Thereupon quoth the Personage, “What aileth thine idol that it speaketh @@ -16152,10 +16134,10 @@ aught impossible to Thee, and Thou over all things are omnipotent!” And Allah transformed the people of this city into stones; but, as for me, when I saw the manifest proof of His deity, <span class='pageno' id='Page_327'>327</span>I submitted myself to Him and was saved from that which befel -the rest. Then the Personage drew near me and said “Felicity<a id='r524' /><a href='#f524' class='c015'><sup>[524]</sup></a> +the rest. Then the Personage drew near me and said “Felicity<a id='r524' href='#f524' class='c015'><sup>[524]</sup></a> was fore-ordained of Allah to thee and in this a purpose had He.” And he went on to instruct me and I took unto him the oath and -covenant.<a id='r525' /><a href='#f525' class='c015'><sup>[525]</sup></a> I was then seven years of age and am now thirty +covenant.<a id='r525' href='#f525' class='c015'><sup>[525]</sup></a> I was then seven years of age and am now thirty years old. Then said I to him, “O my lord, all that is in the city and all its citizens are become stones by thine effectual prayer, and I am saved, for that I embraced Al-Islam at thy hands. @@ -16196,12 +16178,12 @@ tarried long from us, and our hearts were troubled for thee.” And the captain of the ship said to me, “O merchant Abdullah, the wind hath been fair for us this great while, and thou hast hindered us from setting sail.” And I answered, “There is no harm in -that: ofttimes slow<a id='r526' /><a href='#f526' class='c015'><sup>[526]</sup></a> is sure and my absence hath wrought us naught +that: ofttimes slow<a id='r526' href='#f526' class='c015'><sup>[526]</sup></a> is sure and my absence hath wrought us naught but advantage, for indeed, there hath betided me therein the attainment of our hopes and God-gifted is he who said:—</p> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_326fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_326fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> @@ -16236,7 +16218,7 @@ Abdullah bin Fazil said to his shipmates and to his two brothers, But they said, “By Allah, had we gone, we had not dared to go in to the King of the city!” Then I said to my brothers, “No harm shall befal you; for that which I have will suffice us -all and this is our lot.<a id='r527' /><a href='#f527' class='c015'><sup>[527]</sup></a>” So I divided my booty into four parts +all and this is our lot.<a id='r527' href='#f527' class='c015'><sup>[527]</sup></a>” So I divided my booty into four parts according to our number and gave one to each of my brothers and to the Captain, taking the fourth for myself, setting aside somewhat for the servants and sailors, who rejoiced and blessed me: @@ -16310,14 +16292,14 @@ was she whom I had seen in snake form on the mountain and had rescued from the dragon which had wound his tail around her. Then said to her the lady who sat upon the throne, “Why hast thou brought hither this mortal?”; and she replied, “O my -mother, this is he who was the means of veiling my honour<a id='r528' /><a href='#f528' class='c015'><sup>[528]</sup></a> among +mother, this is he who was the means of veiling my honour<a id='r528' href='#f528' class='c015'><sup>[528]</sup></a> among the maidens of the Jinn.” Then quoth she to me, “Knowest thou who I am?”; and quoth I, “No.” Said she, I am she who was on such a mountain, where the black dragon strave with me and would have forced my honour, but thou slewest him.” And I said, “I saw but a white snake with the dragon.” She rejoined, “’Tis I who was the white snake; but I am the daughter of the -Red King, Sovran of the Jann and my name is Sa’ídah.<a id='r529' /><a href='#f529' class='c015'><sup>[529]</sup></a> She who +Red King, Sovran of the Jann and my name is Sa’ídah.<a id='r529' href='#f529' class='c015'><sup>[529]</sup></a> She who <span class='pageno' id='Page_331'>331</span>sitteth there is my mother and her name is Mubárakah, wife of the Red King. The black dragon who attacked me and would have done away my honour was Wazir to the Black King, Darfíl by @@ -16344,7 +16326,7 @@ I struggled with him, till he wearied me and mounted me, meaning to have his lustful will of me: but thou camest and smotest him with the stone and slewest him. Then I returned to my own shape and showed myself to thee, saying:—I am indebted to thee -for a service such as is not lost save with the son of adultery.<a id='r530' /><a href='#f530' class='c015'><sup>[530]</sup></a> So, +for a service such as is not lost save with the son of adultery.<a id='r530' href='#f530' class='c015'><sup>[530]</sup></a> So, when I saw thy brothers do with thee this treachery and throw thee into the sea, I hastened to thee and saved thee from destruction, and now honour is due to thee from my mother and my @@ -16352,7 +16334,7 @@ father.” Then she said to the Queen, “O my mother, do thou honour him as deserveth he who saved my virtue.” So the Queen said to me, “Welcome, O mortal! Indeed thou hast done us a kindly deed which meriteth honour.” Presently she ordered -me a treasure-suit,<a id='r531' /><a href='#f531' class='c015'><sup>[531]</sup></a> worth a mint of money, and store of gems and +me a treasure-suit,<a id='r531' href='#f531' class='c015'><sup>[531]</sup></a> worth a mint of money, and store of gems and precious stones, and said, “Take him and carry him in to the King.” Accordingly, they carried me in to the King in his Divan, <span class='pageno' id='Page_332'>332</span>where I found him seated on his throne, with his Marids and @@ -16371,7 +16353,7 @@ splash of my fall, when my brothers cast me into the sea, and said, “What is that which hath fallen overboard?” Whereupon my brothers fell to weeping and beating of breasts and replied, “Alas, for our brother’s loss! He thought to do his need over -the ship’s side<a id='r532' /><a href='#f532' class='c015'><sup>[532]</sup></a> and fell into the water!” Then they laid their +the ship’s side<a id='r532' href='#f532' class='c015'><sup>[532]</sup></a> and fell into the water!” Then they laid their hands on my good, but there befel dispute between them because of the damsel, each saying, “None shall have her but I.” And they abode jangling and wrangling each with other and remembered @@ -16425,7 +16407,7 @@ in aught.” Moreover, she said to me, “When thou comest to Bassorah, examine all thy property and if there lack aught thereof, tell me and I will bring it to thee, in whose hands and in what place soever it may be, and will change him who took it into a -dog. When thou hast magazined thy goods, clap a collar<a id='r533' /><a href='#f533' class='c015'><sup>[533]</sup></a> of +dog. When thou hast magazined thy goods, clap a collar<a id='r533' href='#f533' class='c015'><sup>[533]</sup></a> of wood on the neck of each of these two traitors and tie them to the leg of a couch and shut them up by themselves. Moreover, every night, at midnight, do thou go down to them and beat each of @@ -16438,7 +16420,7 @@ neck and lashed them to the mast, and she went her way. On the morrow we entered Bassorah and the merchants came out to meet me and saluted me, and no one of them enquired of my brothers. But they looked at the dogs and said to me, “Ho, -such and such,<a id='r534' /><a href='#f534' class='c015'><sup>[534]</sup></a> what wilt thou do with these two dogs thou hast +such and such,<a id='r534' href='#f534' class='c015'><sup>[534]</sup></a> what wilt thou do with these two dogs thou hast brought with thee?” Quoth I, “I reared them on this voyage and have brought them home with me.” And they laughed at them, knowing not that they were my brothers. When I reached @@ -16464,7 +16446,7 @@ for me to put fetters of iron on their necks, I went to a goldsmith and bade him make them collars and chains of gold. He did this and I put the collars on their necks and chained them up, as she bade me; and next night I beat them both in mine own despite. -This befel in the Caliphate of Al-Mahdi,<a id='r535' /><a href='#f535' class='c015'><sup>[535]</sup></a> third of the sons of +This befel in the Caliphate of Al-Mahdi,<a id='r535' href='#f535' class='c015'><sup>[535]</sup></a> third of the sons of Al-Abbas, and I commended myself to him by sending him <span class='pageno' id='Page_335'>335</span>presents, so he invested me with the government and made me viceroy of Bassorah. On this wise I abode some time and after a @@ -16502,7 +16484,7 @@ shall be naught save weal.” Quoth Abdullah, “O my lord, as thy head liveth, if I leave them one night unbeaten, Sa’idah will come to me and beat me, and I have no body to brook beating.” <span class='pageno' id='Page_336'>336</span>Quoth the Caliph, “Fear not, for I will give thee a writing under -my hand.<a id='r536' /><a href='#f536' class='c015'><sup>[536]</sup></a> An she come to thee, do thou give her the paper and +my hand.<a id='r536' href='#f536' class='c015'><sup>[536]</sup></a> An she come to thee, do thou give her the paper and if, when she has read it, she spare thee, the favour will be hers; but, if she obey not my bidding, commit thy business to Allah and let her beat thee a bout and suppose that thou hast forgotten to @@ -16526,7 +16508,7 @@ to him, “Did not the Caliph rely on some great support, he had never forbidden me from beating them.” So he entered his lodging and doffed the collars from the dogs’ necks, saying, “I put my trust in Allah,” and fell to comforting them and saying, -“No harm shall befal you; for the Caliph, fifth<a id='r537' /><a href='#f537' class='c015'><sup>[537]</sup></a> of the sons of +“No harm shall befal you; for the Caliph, fifth<a id='r537' href='#f537' class='c015'><sup>[537]</sup></a> of the sons of Al-Abbas, hath pledged himself for your deliverance and I have forgiven you. An it please Allah the Most High, the time is come and ye shall be delivered this blessed night; so rejoice ye in @@ -16535,8 +16517,8 @@ words, they fell to whining with the whining of dogs,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_337fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_337fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_337'>337</span></div> @@ -16561,9 +16543,9 @@ bade the dogs sit. So they sat down and ate with him from the tray, whilst his officers stood gaping and marvelling at his eating with dogs and all said, “Is he mad or are his wits gone wrong? How can the Viceroy of Bassorah city, he who is greater than a -Wazir, eat with dogs? Knoweth he not that the dog is unclean<a id='r538' /><a href='#f538' class='c015'><sup>[538]</sup></a>?” +Wazir, eat with dogs? Knoweth he not that the dog is unclean<a id='r538' href='#f538' class='c015'><sup>[538]</sup></a>?” And they stared at the dogs, as they ate with him as servants eat -with their lords,<a id='r539' /><a href='#f539' class='c015'><sup>[539]</sup></a> knowing not that they were his brothers; nor did +with their lords,<a id='r539' href='#f539' class='c015'><sup>[539]</sup></a> knowing not that they were his brothers; nor did they cease staring at them, till they had made an end of eating, when Abdullah washed his hands and the dogs also put out their paws and washed; whereupon all who were present began to laugh @@ -16607,7 +16589,7 @@ contradict us in our commandments, we will contrary you in yours and traverse your ordinances; but, an ye obey our bidding and further our orders, we will indeed do the like with yours. Wherefore I bid thee hurt them no hurt, and if thou believe in Allah -and in His Apostle, it behoveth thee to obey and us to command.<a id='r540' /><a href='#f540' class='c015'><sup>[540]</sup></a> +and in His Apostle, it behoveth thee to obey and us to command.<a id='r540' href='#f540' class='c015'><sup>[540]</sup></a> So an thou spare them, I will requite thee with that whereto my Lord shall enable me; and the token of obedience is that thou remove thine enchantment from these two men, so they @@ -16632,9 +16614,9 @@ destroy us to the last of us; so do not thou impose on us that which we are unable.” Quoth she, “O my father, if the monarch of mankind were wroth with us, what could he do with us?”; and quoth her sire, “He hath power over us for several reasons. In -the first place, he is a man and hath thus pre-eminence over us<a id='r541' /><a href='#f541' class='c015'><sup>[541]</sup></a>; +the first place, he is a man and hath thus pre-eminence over us<a id='r541' href='#f541' class='c015'><sup>[541]</sup></a>; secondly he is the Vicar of Allah; and thirdly, he is constant in -praying the dawn-prayer of two bows<a id='r542' /><a href='#f542' class='c015'><sup>[542]</sup></a>; therefore were all the +praying the dawn-prayer of two bows<a id='r542' href='#f542' class='c015'><sup>[542]</sup></a>; therefore were all the tribes of the Jinn assembled together against him from the Seven Worlds they could do him no hurt. But he, should he be wroth with us would pray the dawn-prayer of two bows and cry out @@ -16667,7 +16649,7 @@ saying, “Verily, the damned Devil lured us and covetise deluded us: but our Lord hath requited us after our deserts, and forgiveness is of the signs of the noble.” And they went on to supplicate their brother and weep and profess repentance for that -which had befallen him from them<a id='r543' /><a href='#f543' class='c015'><sup>[543]</sup></a>. Then quoth he to them, +which had befallen him from them<a id='r543' href='#f543' class='c015'><sup>[543]</sup></a>. Then quoth he to them, “What did ye with my wife whom I brought from the City of Stone?” Quoth they, “When Satan tempted us and we cast thee into the sea, there arose strife between us, each saying, I @@ -16677,7 +16659,7 @@ sea; so she came up from the cabin and said to us:—Contend not because of me, for I will not belong to either of you. My husband is gone into the sea and I will follow him. So saying, she cast herself overboard and died.” Exclaimed Abdullah, “In very sooth -she died a martyr<a id='r544' /><a href='#f544' class='c015'><sup>[544]</sup></a>! But there is no Majesty and there is no +she died a martyr<a id='r544' href='#f544' class='c015'><sup>[544]</sup></a>! But there is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!” Then he wept for her with sore weeping and said to his brothers, “It was not well of you to do this deed and bereave me of my wife.” They @@ -16685,7 +16667,7 @@ answered, “Indeed, we have sinned, but our Lord hath requited us our misdeed and this was a thing which Allah decreed unto us, ere He created us.” And he accepted their excuse; but Sa’idah said to him, “Have they done all these things to thee and wilt -thou forgive them?” He replied, “O my sister, whoso hath power<a id='r545' /><a href='#f545' class='c015'><sup>[545]</sup></a> +thou forgive them?” He replied, “O my sister, whoso hath power<a id='r545' href='#f545' class='c015'><sup>[545]</sup></a> and spareth, for Allah’s reward he prepareth.” Then said she, “Be on thy guard against them, for they are traitors;” and farewelled him and fared forth.——And Shahrazad perceived the @@ -16739,12 +16721,12 @@ and how she had transmewed his brothers from canine to human form, adding, “And here they are before thee, O Commander of the Faithful!” The Caliph looked at them and seeing two young men like moons, said, “Allah requite thee for me with good, O -Abdullah, for that thou hast acquainted me with an advantage<a id='r546' /><a href='#f546' class='c015'><sup>[546]</sup></a> I +Abdullah, for that thou hast acquainted me with an advantage<a id='r546' href='#f546' class='c015'><sup>[546]</sup></a> I <span class='pageno' id='Page_342'>342</span>knew not! Henceforth, Inshallah, I will never leave to pray these two-bow orisons before the breaking of the dawn, what while I live.” Then he reproved Abdullah’s brothers for their past transgressions against him and they excused themselves before -the Caliph, who said, “Join hands<a id='r547' /><a href='#f547' class='c015'><sup>[547]</sup></a> and forgive one another and +the Caliph, who said, “Join hands<a id='r547' href='#f547' class='c015'><sup>[547]</sup></a> and forgive one another and Allah pardon what is past!” Upon which he turned to Abdullah and said to him, “O Abdullah, make thy brothers thine assistants and be careful of them.” Then he charged them to be obedient @@ -16753,7 +16735,7 @@ bestowed on them abundant largesse. So they went down from the Caliph’s Divan whilst he rejoiced in this advantage he had obtained by the action aforesaid, to wit, persistence in praying two inclinations before dawn, and exclaimed, He spake truth who -said, “The misfortune of one tribe fortuneth another tribe.”<a id='r548' /><a href='#f548' class='c015'><sup>[548]</sup></a> +said, “The misfortune of one tribe fortuneth another tribe.”<a id='r548' href='#f548' class='c015'><sup>[548]</sup></a> On this wise befel it to them from the Caliph; but as regards Abdullah, he left Baghdad carrying with him his brothers in all honour and dignity and increase of quality, and fared on till they @@ -16832,7 +16814,7 @@ Allah-gifted is he who said these couplets:—</p> <p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_344'>344</span>And he went on to admonish his brothers and bid them to equity and forbid them from tyranny, doubting not but they would love -him the better for his boon of good counsel<a id='r549' /><a href='#f549' class='c015'><sup>[549]</sup></a> and he relied upon +him the better for his boon of good counsel<a id='r549' href='#f549' class='c015'><sup>[549]</sup></a> and he relied upon them and honoured them with the utmost honour; but notwithstanding all his generosity to them, they only waxed in envy and hatred of him, till, one day, the two being together alone, @@ -16938,7 +16920,7 @@ better than thy life.” Then they gripped him by the throat and throttled him, till he lost his senses and abode without motion; so that they deemed him dead. Now the pavilion wherein they were overlooked the river; so they cast him into the water; but, when -he fell, Allah sent to his aid a dolphin<a id='r550' /><a href='#f550' class='c015'><sup>[550]</sup></a> who was accustomed to +he fell, Allah sent to his aid a dolphin<a id='r550' href='#f550' class='c015'><sup>[550]</sup></a> who was accustomed to come under that pavilion because the kitchen had a window that gave upon the stream; and, as often as they slaughtered any beast there, it was their wont to throw the refuse into the river @@ -16968,7 +16950,7 @@ passing feeble by reason of the shock, and the chief of the caravan proceeded to medicine him with such simples as he knew, what while they ceased not faring on till they had travelled thirty days’ journey from Bassorah and came to a city in the land of the -Persians, by name ’Aúj.<a id='r551' /><a href='#f551' class='c015'><sup>[551]</sup></a> Here they alighted at a Khan and +Persians, by name ’Aúj.<a id='r551' href='#f551' class='c015'><sup>[551]</sup></a> Here they alighted at a Khan and spread Abdullah a bed, where he lay groaning all night and troubling the folk with his groans. And when morning morrowed the concierge of the Khan came to the chief of the caravan and @@ -16976,7 +16958,7 @@ said to him, “What is this sick man thou hast with thee? Verily, he disturbeth us.” Quoth the chief, “I found him by the way, on the river-bank and well nigh drowned; and I have tended him, but to no effect, for he recovereth not.” Said the porter, “Show -him to the Shaykhah<a id='r552' /><a href='#f552' class='c015'><sup>[552]</sup></a> Rájihah.” “Who is this Religious?” +him to the Shaykhah<a id='r552' href='#f552' class='c015'><sup>[552]</sup></a> Rájihah.” “Who is this Religious?” asked the chief of the caravan, and the door-keeper answered, “There is with us a holy woman, a clean maid and a comely, called Rajihah, to whom they present whoso hath any ailment; @@ -16984,9 +16966,9 @@ and he passeth a single night in her house and awaketh on the morrow, whole and ailing nothing.” Quoth the chief, “Direct me to her;” and quoth the porter, “Take up thy sick man.” So he took up Abdullah and the doorkeeper forewent him, till he came -to a hermitage, where he saw folk entering with many an <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ex voto</span> +to a hermitage, where he saw folk entering with many an <span lang="la">ex voto</span> offering and other folk coming forth, rejoicing. The porter went -in, till he came to the curtain,<a id='r553' /><a href='#f553' class='c015'><sup>[553]</sup></a> and said, “Permission, O Shaykhah +in, till he came to the curtain,<a id='r553' href='#f553' class='c015'><sup>[553]</sup></a> and said, “Permission, O Shaykhah <span class='pageno' id='Page_348'>348</span>Rajihah! Take this sick man.” Said she, “Bring him within the curtain;” and the porter said to Abdullah, “Enter.” So he entered and looking upon the holy woman, saw her to be his wife @@ -17009,7 +16991,7 @@ worship, and all the people of these parts seek my prayers.” Then she rubbed him and by the ordinance of Allah the Most High, he became whole. Now Al-Khizr used to come to her every Friday night, and it chanced that the day of Abdullah’s -coming was a Thursday.<a id='r554' /><a href='#f554' class='c015'><sup>[554]</sup></a> Accordingly, when the night darkened +coming was a Thursday.<a id='r554' href='#f554' class='c015'><sup>[554]</sup></a> Accordingly, when the night darkened he and she sat, after a supper of the richest meats, awaiting the coming of Al-Khizr, who made his appearance anon and carrying them forth of the hermitage, set them down in Abdullah’s palace @@ -17024,7 +17006,7 @@ Then they made ready a present and sent it to the Caliph, acquainting him with these tidings and suing from him the government of Bassorah. He sent for them and questioned them and they told him the false tale we have recounted, whereupon he -<span class='pageno' id='Page_349'>349</span>was exceeding wroth.<a id='r555' /><a href='#f555' class='c015'><sup>[555]</sup></a> So that night he prayed a two-bow +<span class='pageno' id='Page_349'>349</span>was exceeding wroth.<a id='r555' href='#f555' class='c015'><sup>[555]</sup></a> So that night he prayed a two-bow prayer before daybreak, as of his wont, and called upon the tribes of the Jinn, who came before him subject-wise, and he questioned them of Abdullah: when they sware to him that none of them had @@ -17048,7 +17030,7 @@ Delights and the Severer of societies; and extolled be the perfection of the Living, who dieth not! Moreover, O auspicious King, I have heard a tale anent.</p> -<hr class='c016' /> +<hr class='c016' > <div class='footnote' id='f476'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r476'>476</a>. </span>Lane owns that this is “one of the most entertaining tales in the work,” but he @@ -17058,14 +17040,14 @@ his publisher and thus compelled to cut out some of the best stories in The Nigh </div> <div class='footnote' id='f477'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r477'>477</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Ibrahim of Mosul, the musician poet often mentioned in The Nights. I must +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r477'>477</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Ibrahim of Mosul, the musician poet often mentioned in The Nights. I must again warn the reader that the name is pronounced Is-hák (like Isaac with a central aspirate) not Ishák. This is not unnecessary when we hear Tait-shill for Tait’s hill and “Frederick-shall” for Friedrich, shall.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f478'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r478'>478</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He was a proficient, an adept.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r478'>478</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> He was a proficient, an adept.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f479'> @@ -17144,7 +17126,7 @@ Moslem friend with a loan.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f492'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r492'>492</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> he did not press them for payment; and, it must be remembered, he received +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r492'>492</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> he did not press them for payment; and, it must be remembered, he received no interest upon his monies, this being forbidden in the Koran.</p> </div> @@ -17187,7 +17169,7 @@ once.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f500'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r500'>500</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> ye shall be spared this day’s miseries. See my Pilgrimage vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_314">314</a>, and the +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r500'>500</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> ye shall be spared this day’s miseries. See my Pilgrimage vol. i. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51252/51252-h/51252-h.htm#Page_314">314</a>, and the delight with which we glided into Marsá Damghah.</p> </div> @@ -17248,7 +17230,7 @@ by Christian commentators on Mark x. 25, and Luke xviii. 25.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f511'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r511'>511</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> A “Kanz” (enchanted treasury) usually hidden underground but opened by a +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r511'>511</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> A “Kanz” (enchanted treasury) usually hidden underground but opened by a counter-spell and transferred to earth’s face. The reader will note the gorgeousness of the picture.</p> </div> @@ -17283,7 +17265,7 @@ which galloped off with her and killed her.” It will be remembered that the tr princess, in the well-known German popular tale, is discovered by a similar incident to that of the myrtle-leaf. I quote this excellent note from Mr. Payne (ix. 148), only regretting that annotation did not enter into his plan of producing The Nights. -Amongst Hindu story-tellers a phenomenal softness of the skin is a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lieu commun</span></i>: see +Amongst Hindu story-tellers a phenomenal softness of the skin is a <i><span lang="fr">lieu commun</span></i>: see Vikram and the Vampire (p. 285, “Of the marvellous delicacy of their Queens”); and the Tale of the Sybarite might be referred to in the lines given above.</p> </div> @@ -17299,7 +17281,7 @@ is reserved (for the good) in recompense of their works” (Koran lxx. 17). The Paradise of eating, drinking, and copulating which Mr. Palgrave (Arabia, i. 368) calls “an everlasting brothel between forty celestial concubines” was preached solely to the baser sort of humanity which can understand and appreciate only the pleasures of the -flesh. To talk of spiritual joys before the Badawin would have been a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">non-sens</span></i>, even as +flesh. To talk of spiritual joys before the Badawin would have been a <i><span lang="fr">non-sens</span></i>, even as it would be to the roughs of our great cities.</p> </div> @@ -17323,7 +17305,7 @@ Prophet,” for whom see vol. iv. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53254 </div> <div class='footnote' id='f518'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r518'>518</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of salvation supposed to radiate from all Prophets, esp. from Mohammed.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r518'>518</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of salvation supposed to radiate from all Prophets, esp. from Mohammed.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f519'> @@ -17350,7 +17332,7 @@ this suggests cutting, as nothing can be less ornamental than the uncut stone.</ </div> <div class='footnote' id='f522'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r522'>522</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as if they were holding a “Durbar”; the King’s idol in the Sadr or place of +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r522'>522</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as if they were holding a “Durbar”; the King’s idol in the Sadr or place of honour and the others ranged about it in their several ranks.</p> </div> @@ -17358,7 +17340,7 @@ honour and the others ranged about it in their several ranks.</p> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r523'>523</a>. </span>These words are probably borrowed from the taunts of Elijah to the priests of Baal (I Kings xviii. 27). Both Jews and Moslems wilfully ignored the proper use of the image or idol which was to serve as a Keblah or direction of prayer and an object upon -which to concentrate thought and looked only to the abuse of the <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ignobile vulgus</span> who +which to concentrate thought and looked only to the abuse of the <span lang="la">ignobile vulgus</span> who believe in its intrinsic powers. Christendom has perpetuated the dispute: Romanism affects statues and pictures! Greek orthodoxy pictures and not statues and the so-called Protestantism ousts both.</p> @@ -17380,11 +17362,11 @@ opposed to “Ajal” (haste), precipitate action condemned in the Koran lxv. 38 </div> <div class='footnote' id='f527'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r527'>527</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I have been lucky enough to get this and we will share it amongst us.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r527'>527</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> I have been lucky enough to get this and we will share it amongst us.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f528'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r528'>528</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of saving me from being ravished.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r528'>528</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> of saving me from being ravished.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f529'> @@ -17393,16 +17375,16 @@ that the bearers were Moslemahs.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f530'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r530'>530</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the base-born from whom base deeds may be expected.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r530'>530</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the base-born from whom base deeds may be expected.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f531'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r531'>531</a>. </span>Arab. “Badlat Kunúzíyah” = such a dress as would be found in enchanted hoards -(Kunúz): <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Prince Esterhazy’s diamond jacket.</p> +(Kunúz): <i><span lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Prince Esterhazy’s diamond jacket.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f532'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r532'>532</a>. </span>The <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lieu d’aisance</span></i> in Eastern crafts is usually a wooden cage or framework fastened +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r532'>532</a>. </span>The <i><span lang="fr">lieu d’aisance</span></i> in Eastern crafts is usually a wooden cage or framework fastened outside the gunwale, very cleanly but in foul weather very uncomfortable and even dangerous.</p> </div> @@ -17410,7 +17392,7 @@ dangerous.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f533'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r533'>533</a>. </span>Arab. “Ghull,” a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which -still show in England the <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">veteris vestigia ruris</span>. See Davis, “The Chinese,” i. 241. +still show in England the <span lang="la">veteris vestigia ruris</span>. See Davis, “The Chinese,” i. 241. According to Al-Siyúti (p. 362) the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil ordered the Christians to wear these Ghulls round the neck, yellow head-gear and girdles, to use wooden stirrups and to place figures of devils before their houses. The writer of The Nights presently @@ -17463,7 +17445,7 @@ which may also mean “decorously and respectfully,” according to the vowel-po </div> <div class='footnote' id='f540'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r540'>540</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as the Viceregent of Allah and Vicar of the Prophet.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r540'>540</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> as the Viceregent of Allah and Vicar of the Prophet.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f541'> @@ -17483,12 +17465,12 @@ which may also mean “decorously and respectfully,” according to the vowel-po </div> <div class='footnote' id='f545'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r545'>545</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> if he have the power to revenge himself. The sentiment is Christian rather +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r545'>545</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> if he have the power to revenge himself. The sentiment is Christian rather than Moslem.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f546'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r546'>546</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the power acquired (as we afterwards learn) by the regular praying of the dawn-prayer. +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r546'>546</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> the power acquired (as we afterwards learn) by the regular praying of the dawn-prayer. It is not often that The Nights condescend to point a moral or inculcate a lesson as here; and we are truly thankful for the immunity.</p> </div> @@ -17509,7 +17491,7 @@ also been quoted.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f550'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r550'>550</a>. </span>Arab. “Dárfíl” = the Gr. <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">δελφίς</span> later <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">δελφίν</span> suggesting that the writer had read +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r550'>550</a>. </span>Arab. “Dárfíl” = the Gr. <span lang="el">δελφίς</span> later <span lang="el">δελφίν</span> suggesting that the writer had read of Arion in Herodotus i. 23.</p> </div> @@ -17521,7 +17503,7 @@ be Aúk in Sístán where stood the heretical city “Shádrak,” chapt. cxxii. </div> <div class='footnote' id='f552'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r552'>552</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The excellent (or surpassing) Religious. Shaykhah, the fem. of Shaykh, is a +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r552'>552</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> The excellent (or surpassing) Religious. Shaykhah, the fem. of Shaykh, is a she-chief, even the head of the dancing-girls will be entitled “Shaykhah.”</p> </div> @@ -17537,7 +17519,7 @@ Friday night.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f555'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r555'>555</a>. </span><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> with Sa’idah.</p> +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r555'>555</a>. </span><i><span lang="la">i.e.</span></i> with Sa’idah.</p> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -17546,8 +17528,8 @@ Friday night.</p> </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_349.jpg' alt='والسلام' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id003'> +<img src='images/i_349.jpg' alt='والسلام' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='chapter'> @@ -17569,7 +17551,7 @@ Friday night.</p> <li class='c023'>Adím al-Zauk = lack-tact, <a href='#Page_206'>206</a></li> <li class='c023'>Admiral (fishing for the King’s table), <a href='#Page_159'>159</a></li> <li class='c023'>Adultery (son of = base born), <a href='#Page_331'>331</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Af’à = <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">ὄφις</span> (a snake), <a href='#Page_37'>37</a></li> + <li class='c023'>Af’à = <span lang="el">ὄφις</span> (a snake), <a href='#Page_37'>37</a></li> <li class='c023'>Ahd (Al-) wa al-Misák = oath and covenant, <a href='#Page_327'>327</a></li> <li class='c023'>Ahmad bin Abí Duwád (High Chancellor to the Abbasides), <a href='#Page_244'>244</a></li> <li class='c023'>“Aidance from Allah and victory are near”, <a href='#Page_317'>317</a></li> @@ -17611,7 +17593,7 @@ Friday night.</p> <li class='c023'>A-Sharíf anta = art thou a noble?, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a></li> <li class='c023'>’Atsah = sneezing, <a href='#Page_220'>220</a></li> <li class='c023'>’Aúj = Persian town Kúch (?), <a href='#Page_347'>347</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Awák = pl. of Ukíyyah <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">q.v.</span></i>, <a href='#Page_216'>216</a></li> + <li class='c023'>Awák = pl. of Ukíyyah <i><span lang="la">q.v.</span></i>, <a href='#Page_216'>216</a></li> <li class='c023'>’Awáshik = hucklebones, cockles, <a href='#Page_268'>268</a></li> <li class='c023'>Az’ar = having thin hair; tailless, <a href='#Page_185'>185</a></li> <li class='c023'>Azím (in the slang sense of “mighty fine”), <a href='#Page_40'>40</a></li> @@ -17641,7 +17623,7 @@ Friday night.</p> <ul> <li>Mu’tazid (Al-), <a href='#Page_229'>229</a></li> <li>Mutawakkil (Al-), <a href='#Page_232'>232</a></li> - <li>Mu’tasim (Al-), <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> + <li>Mu’tasim (Al-), <i><span lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> </ul> </li> <li class='c023'>Carelessness of the story-teller, <a href='#Page_4'>4</a></li> @@ -17778,7 +17760,7 @@ Friday night.</p> <li class='c023'>Junayd al-Baghdádí (Sufi ascetic), <a href='#Page_21'>21</a></li> <li class='c006'>Kabasa = he shampoo’d, <a href='#Page_213'>213</a></li> <li class='c023'>Kádús (pl. Kawádís) = pot of a water-wheel, <a href='#Page_218'>218</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">q.v.</span></i>, <a href='#Page_172'>172</a></li> + <li class='c023'>Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn” <i><span lang="la">q.v.</span></i>, <a href='#Page_172'>172</a></li> <li class='c023'>Kahramánah = duenna etc., <a href='#Page_221'>221</a></li> <li class='c023'>Kahwah (Al-) = coffee-house, <a href='#Page_256'>256</a></li> <li class='c023'>Kallim al-Sultán (formula of summoning), <a href='#Page_224'>224</a></li> @@ -17859,7 +17841,7 @@ Friday night.</p> <li class='c023'>Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, <a href='#Page_310'>310</a></li> <li class='c023'>Ma’rifah = article, <a href='#Page_272'>272</a></li> <li class='c023'>Martyrdom of the drowned, <a href='#Page_340'>340</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Massacre (the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">grand moyen</span></i> of Eastern state-craft), <a href='#Page_110'>110</a></li> + <li class='c023'>Massacre (the <i><span lang="fr">grand moyen</span></i> of Eastern state-craft), <a href='#Page_110'>110</a></li> <li class='c023'>Matárik (pl. of Mitrak) = targes, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a></li> <li class='c023'>Matta’aka ’lláh = Allah permit thee to enjoy, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a></li> <li class='c023'>Maulid = nativity, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a></li> @@ -17887,13 +17869,13 @@ Friday night.</p> <li class='c023'>Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), <a href='#Page_330'>330</a></li> <li class='c023'>Muhárabah = doing battle, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a></li> <li class='c023'>Munázarah = dispute, <a href='#Page_243'>243</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Munázirah = like (fem.), <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> + <li class='c023'>Munázirah = like (fem.), <i><span lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> <li class='c023'>Munkar and Nákir, <a href='#Page_163'>163</a></li> <li class='c023'><span class='pageno' id='Page_356'>356</span>Musáfahah = joining hands, <a href='#Page_342'>342</a></li> <li class='c023'>Music (forbidden by Mohammed), <a href='#Page_31'>31</a></li> <li class='c023'>Musta’ín bi ’lláh (Caliph), <a href='#Page_246'>246</a></li> <li class='c023'>Mu’tasím (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), <a href='#Page_232'>232</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Mutawakkil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh (Caliph), <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">ib.</span></i></li> + <li class='c023'>Mutawakkil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh (Caliph), <i><span lang="fr">ib.</span></i></li> <li class='c023'>Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), <a href='#Page_229'>229</a></li> <li class='c023'>Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), <a href='#Page_242'>242</a></li> <li class='c023'>Muunah = provender, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a></li> @@ -17913,7 +17895,7 @@ Friday night.</p> <li class='c023'>New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a>; <a href='#Page_250'>250</a></li> <li class='c023'>Nimr = leopard, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a></li> <li class='c023'>Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, <a href='#Page_254'>254</a></li> - <li class='c023'>Nukl = <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">quatre mendiants</span>, dessert, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a>; <a href='#Page_213'>213</a></li> + <li class='c023'>Nukl = <span lang="fr">quatre mendiants</span>, dessert, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a>; <a href='#Page_213'>213</a></li> <li class='c023'>Nusf = half-dirham, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>; <a href='#Page_167'>167</a></li> <li class='c023'>Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, <a href='#Page_243'>243</a></li> <li class='c006'>“Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), <a href='#Page_308'>308</a></li> @@ -18119,7 +18101,7 @@ Friday night.</p> </ul> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='tnotes'> diff --git a/55587-h/images/cover.jpg b/55587-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differindex b94e4f8..f1b4e58 100644 --- a/55587-h/images/cover.jpg +++ b/55587-h/images/cover.jpg |
