# 027 - Seven Hundred and Fifteenth Night to Seven Hundred and Seventeenth Night

An episode of [Arabian Nights Volume 7 - Tales of Adventure and Intrigue](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1858984052), 11 Dec 2025, 35 min.

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Dive into the enchanting world of Arabian Nights, a mesmerizing collection of stories that have captivated audiences for centuries. This compilation, woven together through the artful storytelling of Shahrazad, features a rich tapestry of myths and folklore from the Indian subcontinent, Persia, and Arabia. Despite the absence of an original manuscript, this timeless collection is believed to have originated between AD 800-900. Among its many treasures are the iconic tales of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. This volume is part of the renowned sixteen-volume translation by Richard Francis Burton, showcasing the allure of these age-old narratives. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) This episode includes AI-generated content.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Section twenty seven of the Book of A Thousand Knights
[0:02] Speaker 1: and a Knight, Volume seven. This is a Liberox recording.
[0:06] Speaker 1: All Liberox recordings are in the public domain. For more
[0:09] Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit liberwoks dot org. Recording
[0:14] Speaker 1: by Tech Savvie. The Book of A Thousand Knights and
[0:17] Speaker 1: a Knight, Volume seven by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton,
[0:24] Speaker 1: Section twenty seven, seven hundred and fifteenth Knight to seven
[0:28] Speaker 1: hundred and seventeenth Knight. When it was seven hundred and
[0:32] Speaker 1: fifteenth knights. She resumed it had reached me o auspicious king,
[0:37] Speaker 1: that when Ali of Egypt put out his hand to
[0:41] Speaker 1: the purse, the bells and rings jingled, and Zurik said,
[0:45] Speaker 1: thy trick hath not deceived me. For all thou comest
[0:49] Speaker 1: disguise as a groom. I knew thee by the grip
[0:51] Speaker 1: of thy hand on the dish and the dirhams, so
[0:55] Speaker 1: saying he threw the lead at him, but he avoided it,
[0:58] Speaker 1: and it fell into the pan full of hot fish,
[1:01] Speaker 1: and broke it, and overturned it fat and all upon
[1:05] Speaker 1: the breast and shoulders of the Kazi, who was passing
[1:09] Speaker 1: the oil ran down inside his clothes to his private parts,
[1:12] Speaker 1: and he cried out, oh, my private ees, what a
[1:17] Speaker 1: sad pickle yourenne alas unhappy I who had plagued me
[1:22] Speaker 1: this trick? Answered the people, Oh, my lord, it was
[1:27] Speaker 1: some small boy that threw a stone into the pan,
[1:30] Speaker 1: But for Allah's word it had been worse. Then they turned, and,
[1:35] Speaker 1: seeing a loaf of lead, and that it was the
[1:37] Speaker 1: rake who had thrown it, rose against him and said
[1:40] Speaker 1: to him, oh, the rake, this is not aloud of Allah.
[1:44] Speaker 1: Take down the purse or it shall go ill. For
[1:47] Speaker 1: thee answered he, I will take it down in Chao Lah. Meanwhile,
[1:54] Speaker 1: Ali returned to the barrack and told his comrades, who cried,
[1:58] Speaker 1: where is the purse all that had passed away? And
[2:02] Speaker 1: they said, thou hast exhausted two thirds of his cunning.
[2:08] Speaker 1: Then he changed his groom's dress for the garb of
[2:11] Speaker 1: a merchant, and going out, met a snake charmer with
[2:15] Speaker 1: a bag of serpents and a wallet containing his kit,
[2:18] Speaker 1: to whom he said, Ba Charma, come and amuse my lads,
[2:22] Speaker 1: and thou shalt have lodges. So he accompanied him to
[2:26] Speaker 1: the barrack, where he fed him, and drugging him with bong,
[2:30] Speaker 1: doveed him his clothes and put them on. Then he
[2:35] Speaker 1: took the bags, and, repairing to Zarek's champ, began to
[2:38] Speaker 1: play the reed pipe coat. Zarek Allah provide thee, but
[2:43] Speaker 1: Ali pulled out the serpents and cast them down before
[2:47] Speaker 1: him whereat the fish cellar, who was afraid of snakes,
[2:51] Speaker 1: fled from them into the inner shop. Thereupon Ali picked
[2:57] Speaker 1: up the reptiles, and, thrusting them back into the bag,
[3:01] Speaker 1: stretched out his hand and caught hold of the end
[3:04] Speaker 1: of the purse. The rings rang again, and the bells
[3:08] Speaker 1: and rattles jangled, and Zuik cried, will thou never cease
[3:13] Speaker 1: to play me tricks? Now thou fearest thyself a serpent charmer,
[3:19] Speaker 1: so saying, he took up a piece of land and
[3:22] Speaker 1: hurled it at Ali, but it missed him and fell
[3:26] Speaker 1: on the head of a groom who was passing by
[3:30] Speaker 1: following his master, a trooper, and knocked him down. Coat
[3:35] Speaker 1: the soldier who fell in, and the folk said, twa
[3:41] Speaker 1: a stone fell from the roof. So the soldier passed on,
[3:45] Speaker 1: and the people, seeing the piece of lead, went to
[3:49] Speaker 1: Zaik and cried to him take down the purse, and
[3:54] Speaker 1: he said, insha awah, I will take you down this
[3:57] Speaker 1: very night. Alice seized not to practice upon Zuik till
[4:03] Speaker 1: he had made seven different attempts, but without taking the purse.
[4:08] Speaker 1: Then he returned the snake charmer his clothes and kit
[4:12] Speaker 1: and gave him due benevolence. After which he went back
[4:16] Speaker 1: to Zuik's shop and heard him say, if I leave
[4:21] Speaker 1: the purse here to night, he will dig through the
[4:24] Speaker 1: shop wall and take it. I will carry it home
[4:27] Speaker 1: with me. So he arose and shut the shop. Then
[4:32] Speaker 1: he took down the purse, and putting it in his bosom,
[4:34] Speaker 1: set out home till he came near his house when
[4:38] Speaker 1: he saw a wedding in a neighbor's lodging, and said
[4:40] Speaker 1: to himself, I will hide home and give my wife
[4:46] Speaker 1: the purse, and doned my fine clothes and returned to
[4:50] Speaker 1: the marriage, and Ali followed him. Now Zuik had married
[4:56] Speaker 1: a black girl, one of the freed women of the
[4:59] Speaker 1: Vizir Zaphfar, and she had borne him a son, whom
[5:04] Speaker 1: he had named Abdullah, and he had promised her to
[5:07] Speaker 1: spend the money in the purse on the occasion of
[5:10] Speaker 1: the boy's circumcision and of his marriage procession. So he
[5:15] Speaker 1: went into his house, and as he entered, his wife
[5:18] Speaker 1: saw that his face was overcast, and asked him what
[5:23] Speaker 1: had caused thy sadness? Quoth he Allah had afflicted me
[5:28] Speaker 1: this day with a rascal who had made seven attempts
[5:31] Speaker 1: to get the purse. But without a wail and quot
[5:36] Speaker 1: she give it to me, that I may lay it
[5:40] Speaker 1: up against the boy's festival day. Now, Ali, who had
[5:45] Speaker 1: followed him, lay hidden in the closet, whence he could
[5:48] Speaker 1: see and hear all. So he gave her the purse
[5:52] Speaker 1: and changed his clothes, saying, keep the purse safely, o
[5:57] Speaker 1: um Abdullah, for I am going to a wedding. She said,
[6:03] Speaker 1: take thy sleep a while. So he lay down and
[6:06] Speaker 1: fell asleep. Presently Ali rose, and, going on tiptoe to
[6:10] Speaker 1: the purse, took it and went to the house of
[6:13] Speaker 1: the wedding, and stood there looking on at the fun Now, meanwhile,
[6:18] Speaker 1: Zurek dreamt that he saw a bird fly away with
[6:21] Speaker 1: the purse, and, awaking in afright, said to his wife Rice,
[6:28] Speaker 1: look for the purse. So she looked, and, finding it gone,
[6:32] Speaker 1: buffeted her face and said, alas the blackness of thy fortune.
[6:38] Speaker 1: Oh Abdullah a Sharka had taken the purse called Zuik
[6:47] Speaker 1: by a law, it can be none other than that
[6:50] Speaker 1: rascal Ali, who had plagued me all day. He had
[6:53] Speaker 1: followed me home and seized the purse. And there is
[6:56] Speaker 1: no help but that I go and get it back.
[7:00] Speaker 1: Coot she except thou bringest, I will lock on thee
[7:05] Speaker 1: the door and leave thee to pass the night in
[7:08] Speaker 1: the street. So he went up to the house of
[7:11] Speaker 1: the wedding, and, seeing Ali looking on, said to himself,
[7:16] Speaker 1: this is he who took the purse. But he lodgeth
[7:20] Speaker 1: with Ahmed al dnav. So he forewent him to the barrack, and,
[7:26] Speaker 1: climbing up at the back, dropped down into the saloon,
[7:29] Speaker 1: where he found every one asleep. Presently, there came a
[7:34] Speaker 1: rap at the door, and Zurik asked who is there?
[7:39] Speaker 1: Ali of Cairo answered the knocker, and Zurik said, hast
[7:45] Speaker 1: thou brought the purse. So Ali thought it was Hassan
[7:49] Speaker 1: Schumann and replied, I have brought it. Opened the door,
[7:55] Speaker 1: called Zurik. Impossible that I opened to thee till I
[8:00] Speaker 1: see the purse for thy chief. And I have laid
[8:03] Speaker 1: a wager about it, said Ali, put out thy hand.
[8:10] Speaker 1: So he put out his hand through the hole in
[8:12] Speaker 1: the side door, and Ali laid the purse in it,
[8:15] Speaker 1: whereupon Zurek took it, and, going forth as he had
[8:19] Speaker 1: come in, returned to the wedding. Ali stood for a
[8:23] Speaker 1: long while at the door, but none opened to him,
[8:26] Speaker 1: And at last he gave a thundering knock that awoke
[8:29] Speaker 1: all the men, and he said, that is Ali of
[8:33] Speaker 1: Cairo's peculiar wrap. So the hall keeper opened to him,
[8:38] Speaker 1: and Hassan Schumann said to him, hast thou brought the purse,
[8:44] Speaker 1: replied Ali, enough of jesting, o Shuman. Didst thou not
[8:50] Speaker 1: swear that thou wouldst not open to me till I
[8:52] Speaker 1: showed thee the purse? And did I not give it
[8:55] Speaker 1: to thee through the hole in the side door? And
[8:59] Speaker 1: did'st thou not say to me? I am sworn never
[9:02] Speaker 1: to open the door till thou show me the purse.
[9:06] Speaker 1: Kot Hassan by Allah twat not I who took it,
[9:12] Speaker 1: But Tzurek Ali needs must I get it again? And
[9:18] Speaker 1: repaired to the house of the wedding, where he heard
[9:20] Speaker 1: the buffoon say Bravo o Abu Abdullah, good luck to
[9:27] Speaker 1: thee with thy son, said Ali, my luck is an ascendant,
[9:33] Speaker 1: and going to the fishmonger's lodging, climbed over the black
[9:36] Speaker 1: wall of the house and found his wife asleep. So
[9:40] Speaker 1: he drugged her with bang and clad himself in clothes.
[9:44] Speaker 1: Then he took the child in his arms and went
[9:46] Speaker 1: round searching till he found a palm leaf basket containing
[9:50] Speaker 1: buns with zurek of his niggardliness had kept from the
[9:55] Speaker 1: greater feast. Presently, the fishmonger returned and knocked at the door,
[10:00] Speaker 1: whereupon Ali imitated his wife's voice and asked, who is
[10:06] Speaker 1: at the door. Abu Abdullah answered Zurik, and Ali said,
[10:14] Speaker 1: I swore that I would not open the door to
[10:17] Speaker 1: thee except thou broughtest back the purse, cooed the fishmonger.
[10:23] Speaker 1: I have brought it, cried all here with it into
[10:27] Speaker 1: my hand before I opened the door, And Zurich answered, saying,
[10:33] Speaker 1: let down the basket and take it therein. So sharper
[10:37] Speaker 1: Ali let down the basket and the other put the
[10:39] Speaker 1: purse therein, whereupon Ali took it and drug the child.
[10:43] Speaker 1: Then he aroused the woman and making off by the
[10:49] Speaker 1: back way as he had entered, returned with the child
[10:52] Speaker 1: and the purse and the basket of cakes to the barrack,
[10:55] Speaker 1: and showed them all to the forty, who praised his dexterity.
[10:59] Speaker 1: There he gave them cakes, which they ate, and made
[11:03] Speaker 1: over the boy to her san Schumann, saying, this is
[11:06] Speaker 1: the rake's child. Hide it by thee. So he hid it, and,
[11:11] Speaker 1: fetching a lamp, gave it to the hollkeeper, who cooked
[11:14] Speaker 1: it whole, wrapped in a cloth, and laid it out
[11:17] Speaker 1: shrouded as it were a dead body. Meanwhile, the rake
[11:21] Speaker 1: stood awhile waiting at the door. Then gave a knock
[11:25] Speaker 1: like thunder, and his wife said to him, hast thou
[11:29] Speaker 1: brought the purse? He replied, didst thou not take it
[11:35] Speaker 1: up in the basket? Thou didst let down? But now,
[11:39] Speaker 1: and she rejoined, I let no basket down to thee,
[11:43] Speaker 1: nor have I set eyes on the purse coat he
[11:48] Speaker 1: by a law the shop had been beforehand with me
[11:52] Speaker 1: and had taken the purse again. Then he searched the
[11:55] Speaker 1: house and found the basket of cake's gone and the
[11:58] Speaker 1: child missing, and cried out, saying allahs my child. Whereupon
[12:04] Speaker 1: the woman beat her breast and said, I and thee
[12:07] Speaker 1: to the Wazir, for none had killed my son, save
[12:11] Speaker 1: the sharper and all because of thee, cried the Rake.
[12:15] Speaker 1: I will answer for him. So he tied the handkerchief
[12:18] Speaker 1: of truce bout his neck, and, going to Ahmed al
[12:22] Speaker 1: Dunov's lodging, knocked at the door. The hall keeper admitted him,
[12:26] Speaker 1: and as he entered has San Schumann asked him, what
[12:31] Speaker 1: bringeth thee here? He answered, do ye in secede with
[12:36] Speaker 1: Ali the cairene to restore me my child, and I
[12:41] Speaker 1: will yield to him the purse of gold kot Hassan
[12:47] Speaker 1: Allah required thee o Ali. Why didst thou not tell
[12:51] Speaker 1: me he was his child? Who had befallen him? Cried
[12:57] Speaker 1: the Rake, and Hassan replied, we gave him raisins to eat,
[13:02] Speaker 1: and he choked and died. And this is he, quoth
[13:05] Speaker 1: zurrake alas my son, What shall I say to his mother?
[13:11] Speaker 1: Then he rose, and opening the shroud, saw it was
[13:15] Speaker 1: a lamb, barbecued and said, thou make sport of me,
[13:20] Speaker 1: o Ali. Then they gave him the child and calamity.
[13:24] Speaker 1: Ahmed said to him, thou didst hang up the purse,
[13:28] Speaker 1: proclaiming that it should be the property of any sharpener
[13:32] Speaker 1: who should be able to take it. And Ali had
[13:35] Speaker 1: taken it. So this is the very property of our Cairene.
[13:40] Speaker 1: Zurich answered, I make him a present of it. But
[13:45] Speaker 1: Ali said to him, do thou accept it on account
[13:49] Speaker 1: of thy knees Zenib, And Zurich replied, I accept it.
[13:55] Speaker 1: Then quote the fodi we demand of thee Zenab in
[13:59] Speaker 1: marriage for Ali of Cairo. But Kothi I have no
[14:05] Speaker 1: control over her save of kindness. Hassan asked, dost thou
[14:12] Speaker 1: grant our suit and he answered, yes, I will grant
[14:16] Speaker 1: her in marriage to him who can avail to her
[14:19] Speaker 1: mahar or marriage settlement. And what is her dowry? Inquired
[14:24] Speaker 1: Hassan and Zurek replied she had sworn that none shall
[14:29] Speaker 1: mount her breast save the man who bringeth her the
[14:31] Speaker 1: robe of Kamar, daughter of Azariah the Jew, and the
[14:36] Speaker 1: rest of her gear. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of
[14:40] Speaker 1: day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it
[14:44] Speaker 1: was seven hundred and sixteenth night, she said it had
[14:50] Speaker 1: reached me O auspicious King that when Zurek replied to Shimin,
[14:55] Speaker 1: she had sworn that none shall ride a straddle upon
[14:59] Speaker 1: her breast, save the man who bringeth her clothes of Kaman,
[15:04] Speaker 1: daughter of Azaria the Jew, and a crown and girdle
[15:08] Speaker 1: and pantoufol of gold. Ali cried, If I do not
[15:15] Speaker 1: bring her the clothes this very night, I renounce my
[15:18] Speaker 1: claim to her, rejoined zuray O Ali, thou art a
[15:23] Speaker 1: dead man if thou play any of thy pranks on Kamar.
[15:28] Speaker 1: Why so asked Ali, and the other answered her father
[15:34] Speaker 1: jew Asyria is of skillful, willy, perfidious magician, who had
[15:40] Speaker 1: the gin at his service. He owneth without the city
[15:43] Speaker 1: a castle whose walls are one brick of gold and
[15:47] Speaker 1: one of silver, and which is visible to the folk
[15:51] Speaker 1: only whilst he is therein where he goes forth it disappereth.
[15:56] Speaker 1: He brought his daughter in this dress I speak of
[15:59] Speaker 1: from an inch to treasure, And every day he layeth
[16:02] Speaker 1: in a charge of gold, and opening the windows of
[16:06] Speaker 1: the palace, crieth out where are the shoppers of Cairo,
[16:11] Speaker 1: the prigs of al Iraq? The master thives of ajam land.
[16:16] Speaker 1: Whoso prevaileth to take dis dress tasas so all the
[16:21] Speaker 1: long fingered once essayed the adventure, but failed to take it,
[16:25] Speaker 1: and he turned them by his magic into apes and asses.
[16:29] Speaker 1: But Ali said, I will assuredly take it, and Zanub
[16:34] Speaker 1: shall be displayed Therein. So he went to the shop
[16:37] Speaker 1: of the Jew and found him a man of stern
[16:40] Speaker 1: and forbidding aspect seated with scales and stone weights, and
[16:44] Speaker 1: gold and silver, and nests of drawers, and so forth
[16:47] Speaker 1: before him, and ash mule tethered hard by. Presently he rose, and,
[16:53] Speaker 1: shutting his shop, laid the gold and silver in two purses,
[16:56] Speaker 1: which he placed in a pair of saddle bags, and
[16:59] Speaker 1: set on she mules back. Then he mounted and rode
[17:03] Speaker 1: till he reached the city outskirts, followed without his knowledge
[17:07] Speaker 1: by Ali, when he took out some dust from a
[17:09] Speaker 1: pocket purse, and, muttering over it, sprinkled it upon the air.
[17:13] Speaker 1: No sooner had he done this than Shapa Ali saw
[17:17] Speaker 1: a castle which had not its like, and the Jew
[17:20] Speaker 1: mounted the steps upon his beast, which was a subject jinny,
[17:24] Speaker 1: after which he dismounted, and, taking the saddle bags off
[17:27] Speaker 1: her back, dismissed the she mule, and she vanished. Then
[17:31] Speaker 1: he entered the castle, sat down presently hears and opening
[17:35] Speaker 1: the lattices, took a vand of gold, which he set
[17:38] Speaker 1: up in the open window, and hanging there too a
[17:42] Speaker 1: golden charger by chains of the same metal, laid it
[17:46] Speaker 1: in the dress. While Ali watched him from behind the door.
[17:49] Speaker 1: And presently he cried out, saying, where are the sharpers
[17:54] Speaker 1: of Cairo, Where are the prigs of all Iraq? The
[17:57] Speaker 1: master thieves of ajum land? Whoso can take this dress
[18:01] Speaker 1: by his sleigh? There says Then he pronounced certain magical words,
[18:06] Speaker 1: and a tray of food spread itself before him. He
[18:10] Speaker 1: ate and conjured a second time, whereupon the trade disappeared,
[18:14] Speaker 1: And yet a third time, when a table of wine
[18:16] Speaker 1: was placed between his hands and he drank, cought Ali,
[18:22] Speaker 1: I know not how I am to take the dress,
[18:25] Speaker 1: except if he be drunken. Then he stole up behind
[18:29] Speaker 1: the jew winjer and grip. But the other turned and conjured,
[18:33] Speaker 1: saying to his hand hold with the sword, whereupon Ali's
[18:38] Speaker 1: right arm was held and abode half way in the air,
[18:42] Speaker 1: handing the hangar. He put out his left hand to
[18:46] Speaker 1: the weapon, but it also stood fixed in the air,
[18:49] Speaker 1: and so with his right foot, leaving him standing on
[18:52] Speaker 1: one foot. Then the Jew dispelled the charm from him,
[18:56] Speaker 1: and Ali became as before. Presently, Azaria struck a table
[19:01] Speaker 1: of sand and found that the thief's name was Mercury
[19:04] Speaker 1: Ali of Cairo. So he turned to him and said,
[19:08] Speaker 1: come nearer, Who art thou and what do thou hear?
[19:12] Speaker 1: He replied, I am Ali of Cairo, of the band
[19:17] Speaker 1: of Ahmed al Danath. I sought the hand of Zane,
[19:21] Speaker 1: a daughter of Dalilah the Villi, and she demanded thy
[19:25] Speaker 1: daughter's dress to her dowry. So do thou give it
[19:29] Speaker 1: to me and become a Muslim? And thou wouldt save
[19:32] Speaker 1: thy life, rejoined the Jew. After my death, many have
[19:38] Speaker 1: gone about to steal the dress, but failed to take
[19:42] Speaker 1: it from me. Wherefore, an thou deign be advised, thou
[19:46] Speaker 1: wilt be gone and save thyself, For they only seek
[19:49] Speaker 1: the dress of thee that thou mayst fall into destruction.
[19:53] Speaker 1: And indeed, had I not seen by jamancy that thy
[19:57] Speaker 1: fortune override it, my fortune I had spitten thy neck.
[20:03] Speaker 1: Ali rejoiced to hear that his luck overcame that of
[20:06] Speaker 1: the Jew, and said to him, there is no help
[20:10] Speaker 1: for it. But I must have the dress, and thou
[20:13] Speaker 1: must become a true believer, asked the Jew, is this
[20:17] Speaker 1: thy will and last word? And Ali answered yes. So
[20:23] Speaker 1: the Jew took a cup, and, filling it with water,
[20:25] Speaker 1: conjured over it and said to Ali, come forth from
[20:29] Speaker 1: this shape of man into form of an ass. Then
[20:33] Speaker 1: he sprinkled him with the water, and straightway he became
[20:36] Speaker 1: a donkey with hoofs and long ears, and fell to
[20:40] Speaker 1: brain after the manner of ass nines. The Jew drew
[20:44] Speaker 1: round him a circle which became a ball over against him,
[20:48] Speaker 1: and drank on till the morning, when he said to Ali,
[20:52] Speaker 1: I will ride die to day and give the she
[20:55] Speaker 1: mule a rest. So he locked up the dress, the charger,
[20:59] Speaker 1: the rock, and the charms in a cupboard and conjured
[21:02] Speaker 1: o'er Ali, who followed him. Then he set the saddle
[21:06] Speaker 1: bags on his back, and mounting, fared forth of the castle,
[21:10] Speaker 1: whereupon it disappeared from sight, and rode into Bagdad till
[21:14] Speaker 1: he came to his shop, where he alighted and emptied
[21:17] Speaker 1: the bags of gold and silver into trays before him.
[21:20] Speaker 1: As for Ali, he was tied up by the shop door,
[21:23] Speaker 1: where he stood in his assina inform, hearing and understanding
[21:28] Speaker 1: all that passed without being able to speak and behold up.
[21:32] Speaker 1: Came a young merchant, from whom fortune had played the tyrant,
[21:35] Speaker 1: and who could find no easier way of earning his
[21:38] Speaker 1: livelihood than water caring. So he brought his wife's bracelets
[21:42] Speaker 1: to the Jew and said to him, give me the
[21:45] Speaker 1: price of these bracelets, that I may buy me an ass.
[21:49] Speaker 1: Asked the Jew, what wilt thou do with him? And
[21:53] Speaker 1: the other answered, oh, master, I mean to fetch water
[21:57] Speaker 1: from the river on his back and earn by living thereby,
[22:01] Speaker 1: coote the Jew take this ass of mine. So he
[22:06] Speaker 1: sold him the bracelets, and received the ass shaped Ali
[22:09] Speaker 1: of Cairo in part payment, and carried him home. Coat
[22:13] Speaker 1: Ali to himself, if the osman clapped the panel on thee,
[22:17] Speaker 1: and load thee with water skins, and go with thee
[22:20] Speaker 1: half a score journey's a day, he will ruin thy hand,
[22:24] Speaker 1: thou wilt die. So when the water carrier's wife came
[22:28] Speaker 1: to bring him his fadther, he buttered her with his head,
[22:31] Speaker 1: and she fell on her back, whereupon he sprang on her,
[22:34] Speaker 1: and spitting her brow with his mouth foot out and
[22:37] Speaker 1: displayed that which his begetter left him. She cried aloud,
[22:41] Speaker 1: and the neighbors came to her assistance and beat him
[22:43] Speaker 1: and raised him off her breast. When her husband, the
[22:47] Speaker 1: intended water carrier, came home, she said to him, now
[22:51] Speaker 1: either DeVos me or return the ass to his owner.
[22:56] Speaker 1: He asked what had happened, and she answered, this is
[23:01] Speaker 1: the devil in the guise of a donkey. He sprang
[23:04] Speaker 1: upon me, and had not the neighbors beaten him off
[23:07] Speaker 1: my bosom. He had done with me a foul thing.
[23:12] Speaker 1: So he carried ass back to the Jew, who said
[23:15] Speaker 1: to him, wherefore hast thou brought him back? And he replied,
[23:22] Speaker 1: he did a foul thing with my wife. So the
[23:25] Speaker 1: Jew gave him his money again and went away. And
[23:29] Speaker 1: Azaria said to Ali, hast thou recourse to k neighby,
[23:36] Speaker 1: unlucky wretch, that thou art in order that? And Shahrazad
[23:42] Speaker 1: perceived the dawn of the day and ceased, saying her
[23:45] Speaker 1: perd say when he was seven hundred and seventeenth night,
[23:50] Speaker 1: she continued, it had reached me a auspicious king, that
[23:55] Speaker 1: when the water carrier brought back the ass, its jew
[23:58] Speaker 1: owner returned to him the monies, and turning to Ali
[24:02] Speaker 1: of Cairo, said, hast thou recourse to neighboring, unlucky wretch,
[24:06] Speaker 1: that thou art in order that he may return thee
[24:09] Speaker 1: to me. But since it pleased thee to be an ass,
[24:13] Speaker 1: I will make thee a spectacle and a laughing stalk
[24:16] Speaker 1: to great and small. Then he mounted him and rode
[24:20] Speaker 1: till he came without the city. When he brought out
[24:23] Speaker 1: the ashes in powder, and, conjuring over it, sprinkled it
[24:26] Speaker 1: upon the air, and immediately the castle appeared. He entered, and,
[24:31] Speaker 1: taking the saddle bags off the ass's back, set up
[24:34] Speaker 1: the rod and hung it to the charger, wherein were
[24:37] Speaker 1: the clothes, proclaiming aloud, where be the clever ones of
[24:42] Speaker 1: all quarters who may avail to take this dress? Then
[24:46] Speaker 1: he conjured as before, and meat was set before him,
[24:49] Speaker 1: and he ate, and then wine he drank, after which
[24:52] Speaker 1: he took a cup of water, and, muttering certain words, thereover,
[24:55] Speaker 1: sprinkled it on the ass, Ali, saying, quit this and
[25:00] Speaker 1: return to thy former shape. Ali straightway became a man
[25:05] Speaker 1: once more, and Azaria said to him, oh Ali, take
[25:11] Speaker 1: good advice, and be content with my mischief. Thou hast
[25:14] Speaker 1: no call to me Arizana, knowing to take my daughter's dress.
[25:18] Speaker 1: For this no easy matter for thee. So leave greed
[25:22] Speaker 1: and will be better for I the else will I
[25:26] Speaker 1: turn thee into a bear or a n ape, or
[25:28] Speaker 1: set on thee an infant, who will cast thee behind
[25:32] Speaker 1: the mountain calf? He replied, I have engaged to take
[25:38] Speaker 1: the dress, and needs must I have it, And thou
[25:41] Speaker 1: must slam size or I will slay thee. Rejoined the Jew, Ali,
[25:50] Speaker 1: thou art like a walnut. Unless it be broken, it
[25:53] Speaker 1: cannot be eaten. Then he took a cup of water,
[25:57] Speaker 1: and conjuring over it, spinkled Ali with somewhat thereof, saying
[26:02] Speaker 1: take thy shape of bear. Whereupon he instantly became a bear,
[26:06] Speaker 1: and the Jew put a collar about his neck, muzzled them,
[26:09] Speaker 1: and chained him to a picket of iron. Then he
[26:14] Speaker 1: sat down and ate and drank now and then, throwing
[26:18] Speaker 1: him a morsel off his oats, and emptying the dregs
[26:21] Speaker 1: of the cup over him till the morning. And he
[26:23] Speaker 1: rose and laid by the tray, and dressed and conjured
[26:27] Speaker 1: over the bear, which followed him to the shop. There
[26:30] Speaker 1: the Jew sat down and and emptied the gold and
[26:33] Speaker 1: silver into the trees. Before Ali, after binding him by
[26:36] Speaker 1: the chain, and the bear. There a boat, seeing and comprehending,
[26:40] Speaker 1: but not able to speak. Presently, up came a man
[26:44] Speaker 1: and a merchant, who accosted the Jew and said to him, O, master,
[26:49] Speaker 1: wilt thou sell me yonder bear? I have a wife
[26:52] Speaker 1: who is my cousin and is sick. And they had
[26:54] Speaker 1: prescribed for her to eat bear's flesh, and annoyed herself
[26:59] Speaker 1: with bear's grease. At this, the Jew rejoiced and said
[27:03] Speaker 1: to himself, I'll sell him to this merchant, so he'd
[27:06] Speaker 1: laughter him, and we be at peace from him. And
[27:10] Speaker 1: Ali also said, in his mind, by all law this
[27:15] Speaker 1: fellow meaneth to slaughter, But deliverance is with THEE Almighty.
[27:19] Speaker 1: Then said the Jew, he is a present from me THEE.
[27:26] Speaker 1: So the merchant took him and carried him into the butcher,
[27:29] Speaker 1: to whom he said, ring thy tools and company me.
[27:34] Speaker 1: The butcher took his knives and followed the merchant to
[27:37] Speaker 1: his house, where he bound the beast and fell to
[27:39] Speaker 1: sharpening his blade. But when he went up to him
[27:43] Speaker 1: to slaughter him, the bear escaped from his hands, and
[27:46] Speaker 1: rising into the air, disappeared from sight between heaven and earth,
[27:50] Speaker 1: nor did he cease flying till he alighted at the
[27:53] Speaker 1: Jew's castle. Now the reason thereof was on this wise.
[27:57] Speaker 1: When the Jew returned home, his daughter questioned him of Ali,
[28:01] Speaker 1: and he told her what had happened. Whereupon she said,
[28:05] Speaker 1: summon and Jenny, and ask him of the youth whether
[28:09] Speaker 1: he be indeed mercury Ali another who seeketh to put
[28:15] Speaker 1: a sheet on thee Sir Aziia called the ginny by
[28:19] Speaker 1: conjurations and questioned him of Ali, and he replied, this
[28:24] Speaker 1: is Ali of Cairo himself. The butcher had pinioned him
[28:29] Speaker 1: and wetted his knife to slaughter. En quot the Jew,
[28:33] Speaker 1: go snatcha and bring him hither Here the butcher cut
[28:36] Speaker 1: his throat, so the ginny flew off, and, snatching Ali
[28:40] Speaker 1: out of the butcher's hands, pull him to the palace
[28:43] Speaker 1: and set him down before the Jew, who took a
[28:45] Speaker 1: cup of water, and, conjuring over it, sprinkled him therewith,
[28:49] Speaker 1: saying return on thine own shape, and he straightway became
[28:54] Speaker 1: a man again as before. The Jew's daughter Kumar, seeing
[28:59] Speaker 1: him to be a handsome young man, fell in love
[29:01] Speaker 1: with him, and he fell in love with her. And
[29:04] Speaker 1: she said to him, O, unlucky one, why dost thou
[29:10] Speaker 1: go about to take my dress enforcing my father to
[29:14] Speaker 1: deal thus with thee? Co he I have engaged to
[29:19] Speaker 1: get it for Zanab and the coneycatcher that I may
[29:23] Speaker 1: wed her therewith, and she said, others than thou have
[29:28] Speaker 1: laid pranks with my father to get my dress, but
[29:30] Speaker 1: could not win to it presently, adding so put away
[29:35] Speaker 1: this thought from THEE. But he answered, needs must I
[29:40] Speaker 1: have it, and thy father must become a Muslim, else
[29:43] Speaker 1: I will slay him. And then said the Jew, see, O,
[29:50] Speaker 1: my daughter, how this unlucky fellow seeketh his own destruction,
[29:54] Speaker 1: adding now I will turn THEE into a dog. So
[29:59] Speaker 1: it took a cor graving with characters and full of water,
[30:02] Speaker 1: and conjuring over it, sprinkled some of it upon Ali, saying,
[30:08] Speaker 1: take thou form of dog, whereupon he straightway became a dog,
[30:12] Speaker 1: and the Jew and his daughters drank together till the morning,
[30:15] Speaker 1: when the father laid up the dress and charger and
[30:18] Speaker 1: mounted his mule. Then he conjured over the dog, which
[30:22] Speaker 1: followed him as he rode towards the town, and all
[30:25] Speaker 1: dogs barked at Ali as he passed, till he came
[30:29] Speaker 1: to the shop of a broker, a seller of the
[30:32] Speaker 1: second hand goods, who rose and drove away the dogs,
[30:35] Speaker 1: and Ali lay down before him. The jew turned and
[30:40] Speaker 1: looked for him, but, finding him not, passed onwards. Presently.
[30:44] Speaker 1: The broker shut up his shop and went home, followed
[30:47] Speaker 1: by the dog, which, when his daughter saw entered the house,
[30:51] Speaker 1: she veiled her face and said, Oh, my Papa, dost
[30:56] Speaker 1: thou bring a strange man into me? He replied, oh,
[31:00] Speaker 1: my daughter, this is a dog coat. She not, so
[31:05] Speaker 1: this Ali, the Cairine whom the Geosaria had enchanted, And
[31:11] Speaker 1: she turned to the dog and said to him Artna
[31:15] Speaker 1: Ali of Cairo, and he signed to her with his
[31:20] Speaker 1: head yes. Then her father asked her why did the
[31:25] Speaker 1: jew enchant him, and she answered because of his daughter
[31:31] Speaker 1: command's dress. But I can release him, said the broker,
[31:36] Speaker 1: And thou canst indeed do him this good office. Now
[31:40] Speaker 1: is the time, and she if he will marry me,
[31:45] Speaker 1: I will release him. And he signed to her with
[31:49] Speaker 1: his head yes. So she took a cup of water,
[31:53] Speaker 1: graving with certain signs and conjuring over it was about
[31:57] Speaker 1: to sprinkle ali therewith. When lo and behold, she heard
[32:02] Speaker 1: a great cry, and the cup fell from her hand.
[32:05] Speaker 1: She turned and found that it was her father's handmaid
[32:09] Speaker 1: who had cried out, And she said to her, O,
[32:13] Speaker 1: my mistress, it's thus thou keepest the covenant between me
[32:18] Speaker 1: and thee. None taught THEE this art save I, and
[32:22] Speaker 1: thou didst agree with me? That thou wouldst do not
[32:25] Speaker 1: without consulting me, and that whoso married THEE should marry
[32:29] Speaker 1: me also, and that one knight should be mine, and
[32:33] Speaker 1: one night thine. And the broker's daughter said, tis well.
[32:40] Speaker 1: When the broker heard the maid's words, he asked his
[32:43] Speaker 1: daughter who taught the maid? And she answered, O, my papa,
[32:48] Speaker 1: inquire of herself. So he put the question, and she replied, no, O,
[32:56] Speaker 1: my lord. That when I was with Azariah the Jew,
[33:00] Speaker 1: I used to spy upon him and listened to him
[33:03] Speaker 1: when he performed his grandmuv. And when he went forth
[33:08] Speaker 1: to his shop in Baghdad, I opened these books and
[33:12] Speaker 1: reading them till I became skilled in the Kabbalah signs.
[33:16] Speaker 1: One day he was warm with wine and would help
[33:19] Speaker 1: me lie with him. By objected, saying, I may not
[33:24] Speaker 1: grant THEE this except thou become AMOUSLM. He refused, and
[33:29] Speaker 1: I said to him, now for the Sultan's market. So
[33:35] Speaker 1: he sold me to THEE, and I taught my young mistress,
[33:38] Speaker 1: making it a condition with her that she should do
[33:41] Speaker 1: not without my counsel, and that whoso might wed her
[33:45] Speaker 1: should wed me also, one night for me, and one
[33:48] Speaker 1: night for her. Then she took a cup of water, and,
[33:51] Speaker 1: conjuring over it, sprinkled the dog. Therewith, saying, return thou
[33:56] Speaker 1: to form of a man, and he straight away will
[34:00] Speaker 1: restored to his former shape. Whereupon the broker saluted him
[34:03] Speaker 1: with the salam and asked him the reason for his enchantment.
[34:07] Speaker 1: So Ali told him all that had passed, and Shahrazad
[34:11] Speaker 1: perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her
[34:14] Speaker 1: permitted say. End of section twenty seven. Recording by tech
[34:18] Speaker 1: savv www dot tech Savvy, dot word dress dot com

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