# 028 - Seven Hundred and Eighteenth Night to Seven Hundred and Twentieth Night

An episode of [Arabian Nights Volume 7 - Tales of Adventure and Intrigue](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1858984052), 12 Dec 2025, 25 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

[0:01] Speaker 1: Section twenty eight of the Book of A Thousand Nights
[0:03] Speaker 1: and the Night, Volume seven. This is a LibriVox recording.
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[0:17] Speaker 1: by Alichinji The Book of A Thousand Nights and the Night,
[0:21] Speaker 1: Volume seven by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton, section
[0:28] Speaker 1: twenty eight. When it was the seven hundred and eighteenth night,
[0:35] Speaker 1: she resumed, it has reached me, auspicious king, that the broker,
[0:40] Speaker 1: having saluted Ali of Cairo with a salaam, asked him
[0:44] Speaker 1: the reason of his enchantment and what had befallen him,
[0:48] Speaker 1: And he answered by telling him all that had passed.
[0:51] Speaker 1: When the broker said to him, will not my daughter
[0:54] Speaker 1: and the handmaids suffice thee? But he answered, needs mis
[0:59] Speaker 1: thy have zai ABLESO? Now suddenly there came a rap
[1:03] Speaker 1: at the door, and the maid said, who is at
[1:06] Speaker 1: the door. The knocker replied, Kama, daughter of Azarayah. The
[1:11] Speaker 1: Jew say, me, is Ali of Cairo with you? Replied
[1:16] Speaker 1: the broker's daughter, O, thou daughter of a dog? If
[1:20] Speaker 1: he be with us, what wilt thou with him, go down,
[1:24] Speaker 1: o maid, and open to her. So the maid let
[1:27] Speaker 1: her in. And when she looked upon Ali, and he
[1:30] Speaker 1: upon her, he said, what bringeth thee hither, O dog's daughter?
[1:35] Speaker 1: Quoth she, I testify that there is no God but
[1:39] Speaker 1: the God, and I testify that Mohammed is the apostle
[1:43] Speaker 1: of God. And having thus islamized, she asked him, two
[1:48] Speaker 1: men in the faith of al Islam give marriage portions
[1:51] Speaker 1: to women? Or two women? Thou are men, quoth he men?
[1:56] Speaker 1: And thy women? Then said she I endower myself for THEE,
[2:02] Speaker 1: bringing THEE as my marriage portion, my dress, together with
[2:06] Speaker 1: the wrath and charger and chains, and the head of
[2:08] Speaker 1: my father, the enemy of Thee, and the foeman of Allah.
[2:13] Speaker 1: And she threw down the Jew's head before him. Now
[2:18] Speaker 1: the cause of her slaying her sire was as follows.
[2:21] Speaker 1: On the night of his turning Ali into a dog,
[2:24] Speaker 1: she saw in a dream a speaker who said to her,
[2:27] Speaker 1: become a moslemer. She did so, and as soon as
[2:31] Speaker 1: she awoke next morning, she expounded Ali slam to her father,
[2:35] Speaker 1: who refused to embrace the faith. So she drog them
[2:39] Speaker 1: with bang and killed him. As for Ali, he took
[2:44] Speaker 1: the gear and said to the broker, metweat to morrow
[2:47] Speaker 1: at the Caliph's divan, that I may take thy daughter
[2:51] Speaker 1: and a handmaid to wife. Then he sat out, rejoicing
[2:55] Speaker 1: to return to the barrack of the forty. On his
[2:59] Speaker 1: way he might as sweet meat Cella, who was beating
[3:01] Speaker 1: hand upon hand and saying, there is no majesty and
[3:05] Speaker 1: there is no mind saving Allah the glorious, The great
[3:10] Speaker 1: folk's labor hath waxed sinful, and man is active only fraud.
[3:16] Speaker 1: Then he said he to Ali, I come to thee
[3:19] Speaker 1: by Allah, taste of this confection. So Ali took a
[3:23] Speaker 1: piece and ate it, and fell down senseless, for there
[3:27] Speaker 1: was bang therein. Whereupon the sweetmeat seller seized the dress
[3:31] Speaker 1: and the charger and the rest of the gear, and
[3:34] Speaker 1: thrusting them into the box where he kept his sweetmeats,
[3:37] Speaker 1: hoisted it up and made off. Presently he met a
[3:41] Speaker 1: kazi who called to him, saying, come hither, or sweetmeat cellar.
[3:46] Speaker 1: So he went up to him, and, setting down his sack,
[3:49] Speaker 1: laid the tray of sweetmeats upon it, and asked what
[3:52] Speaker 1: dost thou want? Haloi and ragets answered the kazi and
[3:58] Speaker 1: taking some in his hands, said, both of these are adulterated.
[4:03] Speaker 1: Then he brought out sweetmeats from his breast pocket and
[4:06] Speaker 1: gave them to the sweetmeat cellar, saying, look at this fashion,
[4:10] Speaker 1: how excellent it is. Eat of it and make the
[4:14] Speaker 1: like of it. So he ate and fell down senseless,
[4:18] Speaker 1: for the sweetmeats were drug with bang. Whereupon the Kazi
[4:22] Speaker 1: bundled him into the sack and made off with them
[4:25] Speaker 1: charger and chest and all to the barrack of the forte.
[4:29] Speaker 1: Now the judging question was Hassan Schumann, and the reason
[4:33] Speaker 1: of this was as follows. When Ali had been gone
[4:36] Speaker 1: some days in quest of the dress, and they heard
[4:38] Speaker 1: no news of him, Calamity Ahmad said to his men, O, lads,
[4:43] Speaker 1: go and seek for your brother Ali of Cairo. So
[4:47] Speaker 1: they sallied forth in quest of them, and among the
[4:50] Speaker 1: rest Hazzan Schumann the pestilence. Disguising a Kazi skire. He
[4:55] Speaker 1: came upon the sweetmeat cellar, and, knowing him for Ahmad
[4:58] Speaker 1: al la Kit, suspected him of having played some trick
[5:02] Speaker 1: upon Ali. So he drugged them and did as we
[5:05] Speaker 1: have seen. Meanwhile, the other forty fared about the streets
[5:10] Speaker 1: and highways, making search in different directions, and amongst them
[5:14] Speaker 1: Ali kit val Jamal, who was spying a crowd, made
[5:18] Speaker 1: towards the people and found the cairene Ali lying drugged
[5:21] Speaker 1: and senseless in their midst. So he revived them, and
[5:25] Speaker 1: he came to himself, and seeing the folk flocking around him,
[5:29] Speaker 1: asked where am I answered, Ali camel's shoulder and his comrades.
[5:34] Speaker 1: We found thee lying hair drugged, but know not who
[5:38] Speaker 1: drug thee quoth Ali. Twas a certain sweetmeat seller who
[5:43] Speaker 1: drugged me and took the gear from me. But where
[5:45] Speaker 1: is he gone? Quothing his comrades, We have seen nothing
[5:49] Speaker 1: of them. But come rise and go home with us.
[5:54] Speaker 1: So they returned to the barrack, where they found Ahmad
[5:57] Speaker 1: al Danav, who greeted Ali and inquired if he had
[6:00] Speaker 1: brought the dress. He replied, I was coming hither with
[6:04] Speaker 1: it and other matters included a jew's head. When a
[6:07] Speaker 1: sweetmeat seller met me and drugged me with bang and
[6:10] Speaker 1: took them from me. Then he told him the whole tale,
[6:14] Speaker 1: ending with if I come across that man of goodies again,
[6:17] Speaker 1: I will requite him. Presently, Hassan Schumann came out of
[6:22] Speaker 1: a closet and said to him, hast thou got in
[6:25] Speaker 1: the gear? O Ali? So he told him what had
[6:28] Speaker 1: befallen him, and added, if I know whither the rascal
[6:31] Speaker 1: is gone, and where to find the knave, I would
[6:34] Speaker 1: pay him out. Knowest thou whither he went? Answered Hassan,
[6:39] Speaker 1: I know where he is, and opening the door of
[6:42] Speaker 1: the closet, showed him the sweetmeat cella within, drugged and senseless.
[6:47] Speaker 1: Then he aroused them, and he opened his eyes, and
[6:50] Speaker 1: finding himself in presence of mercury, Ali and calamity, Akhmad
[6:54] Speaker 1: and the forty started up and said where am i?
[6:57] Speaker 1: And who hath laid hands on me? Replied Schumann, twas
[7:02] Speaker 1: I laid hands on thee. And Ali cried, O, perfidious wretch,
[7:07] Speaker 1: wilt thou play thy pranks on me? And he would
[7:10] Speaker 1: have slain him, But Hassan said to him, hold thy hand,
[7:14] Speaker 1: for this fellow is become thy kinsman. How my kinsman,
[7:19] Speaker 1: quoth Ali, And quoth Hassan, this is Ahmad Alakid, son
[7:24] Speaker 1: of thine AB's sister. Then said Ali to the prisoner,
[7:28] Speaker 1: why didst thou thus o la kit? And he replied,
[7:32] Speaker 1: my grandmother the Lilah de Wili bade me do it
[7:37] Speaker 1: only because Zuraik, the fishmonger, foregathered with the old woman
[7:40] Speaker 1: and said, mercury Aali of Cairo is a sharper and
[7:44] Speaker 1: a past master in knavery, and he wilt certainly slay
[7:47] Speaker 1: the Jew and bring hither the dress. So she sent
[7:51] Speaker 1: for me and said to me, o, Ahmad, dost thou know?
[7:55] Speaker 1: Ali of Cairo, answered I, indeed I do, And twas
[7:59] Speaker 1: I directed him to Ahmad Aaldanov's lodging when he first
[8:02] Speaker 1: came to Baghdad. Quoth she go and set thine nets
[8:07] Speaker 1: for him, and if he have brought back the gear,
[8:09] Speaker 1: put a sheet on him and take it from him.
[8:13] Speaker 1: So I went round about the highways of the city
[8:16] Speaker 1: till I met a sweetmeat cellar, and, buying his clothes
[8:19] Speaker 1: and stock in trade and gear for ten in hours,
[8:21] Speaker 1: did what was done. Thereupon, quoth Ali go back to
[8:26] Speaker 1: thy grandmother and Zuraik, and tell them that I have
[8:29] Speaker 1: brought the gear and the Jew's head, and tell them
[8:32] Speaker 1: to meet me to morrow at the Caliph's divan there
[8:34] Speaker 1: to receive thine arm's dowry and calamity. Ahmad rejoiced in
[8:39] Speaker 1: this and said, we have not wasted our pains in
[8:42] Speaker 1: rearing thee o Ali. Next morning, Ali took the dress,
[8:46] Speaker 1: the charger, the rod, and the chains of gold, together
[8:49] Speaker 1: with the head of Azarayah the jew mounted on a pike,
[8:52] Speaker 1: and went up, accompanied by Ahmad Aaldanav and the forty
[8:56] Speaker 1: to the divan with a kiss ground before the Caliph
[9:00] Speaker 1: and Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased, saying
[9:04] Speaker 1: her permitted say when it was the seven hundred and
[9:11] Speaker 1: nineteenth night. She said, it hath reached me o auspicious king,
[9:17] Speaker 1: that when Ali the Cairine went up to the Caliph's
[9:20] Speaker 1: divan accompanied by his uncle Ahmad al Danav and his lads,
[9:24] Speaker 1: they kissed ground before the Caliph, who turned and, seeing
[9:28] Speaker 1: a youth of the most valiant aspect, inquired of calamity
[9:31] Speaker 1: Ahmad concerning him, and he replied, O, Commander of the Faithful,
[9:36] Speaker 1: this is Mercury Ali, the Egyptian captain of the brave
[9:39] Speaker 1: boys of Cairo, and he is the first of my lads.
[9:43] Speaker 1: And the Caliph loved him for the valor that shone
[9:46] Speaker 1: from between his eyes, testifying for him, and nought against him.
[9:51] Speaker 1: Then Ali rose, and, casting the Jew's head down before him, said,
[9:56] Speaker 1: may thine every enemy be like this one, O prince
[9:59] Speaker 1: of true believers, quoth a rashid whose head is this?
[10:05] Speaker 1: And quoth Ali tis the head of Azara'ah. The Jew
[10:09] Speaker 1: who slew him, asked the Caliph. So Ali related to
[10:13] Speaker 1: him all that that passed from first to last, And
[10:16] Speaker 1: the Caliph said, I had not thought thou wouldst kill him,
[10:21] Speaker 1: for that he was a sorcerer. Ali replied, O, Commander
[10:26] Speaker 1: of the Faithful, my Lord made me prevail to his laughter.
[10:30] Speaker 1: Then the Caliph sent the chief of police to the
[10:33] Speaker 1: Jew's palace, where he found him lying headless. So he
[10:36] Speaker 1: laid the body on a bier and carried it to
[10:39] Speaker 1: a rashid, who commanded to burn it. Whereat behold. Ab
[10:44] Speaker 1: came Kamar, and, kissing the ground before the Caliph, informed
[10:47] Speaker 1: him that she was the daughter of Jew Azara'ah and
[10:50] Speaker 1: that she had become a moslemer. Then she renewed her
[10:54] Speaker 1: profession of faith before the Commander of the Faithful and
[10:58] Speaker 1: said to him, be thou maid intercessor with Chapar Ali,
[11:02] Speaker 1: that he take me to wife. She also appointed him
[11:05] Speaker 1: her guardian to consent to her marriage with the Cairine,
[11:09] Speaker 1: to whom he gave the Jew's palace and all its contents, saying,
[11:13] Speaker 1: ask a boon of me, quoth Ali, I beg of
[11:17] Speaker 1: thee to let me stand on thy carpet and eat
[11:20] Speaker 1: of thy table. And quoth the Caliph, O Ali hast
[11:24] Speaker 1: thou any lads, He replied, I have forty lads, but
[11:27] Speaker 1: they are in Cairo. Rejoined the Caliph, Send to Cairo
[11:32] Speaker 1: and fetch them hither, presently, adding but O Ali hast
[11:36] Speaker 1: thou a barrack for them? No, answered Ali, and Hassan
[11:40] Speaker 1: Schumann said, I may him a present of my barrack,
[11:44] Speaker 1: with all that is the ren O commander of the faithful. However,
[11:48] Speaker 1: the Caliph retorted, saying, thy lodging is thine own, o Hassan.
[11:53] Speaker 1: And he bade his treasurer give the court architect ten
[11:56] Speaker 1: thousand dinars that he might build Ali a hall with
[12:00] Speaker 1: dayes and forty sleeping closets for his lads. Then said he, Oh,
[12:06] Speaker 1: Ali hast thou any further, wish that we may command
[12:09] Speaker 1: its fulfillment. And said Ali, O king of the Age,
[12:13] Speaker 1: be thou my intercessor with Delilah de Wilie that she
[12:16] Speaker 1: gave me her daughter Zainab to wife and take the
[12:19] Speaker 1: dress and gear of Azarayah's girl in lieu of Dawa.
[12:25] Speaker 1: Tlilah accepted the Caliph's intercession and accept the charger and
[12:28] Speaker 1: dress and what not, and they drew up the marriage
[12:31] Speaker 1: contracts between Ali and Zinap and Kamar, the Jew's daughter
[12:35] Speaker 1: and the broker's daughter and the handmaid. Moreover, the Caliph
[12:39] Speaker 1: assigned him assault with a table morning and evening, and
[12:43] Speaker 1: stipens and allowances for fodder, all of the most liberal.
[12:48] Speaker 1: Then Ali de Cairine fell to make him ready for
[12:51] Speaker 1: the wedding festivities. And after thirty days he sent a
[12:54] Speaker 1: letter to his comrades in Cairo, wherein he gave them
[12:57] Speaker 1: to know the favors and honors which the Caliph had
[13:00] Speaker 1: bestowed upon him, and said, I have married four maidens,
[13:04] Speaker 1: and needs must he come to the wedding. So after
[13:08] Speaker 1: a reasonable time the forty lads arrived, and they held
[13:11] Speaker 1: high festival. He honed them in his barrack and entreated
[13:15] Speaker 1: them with the utmost regard, and presented them to the Caliph,
[13:19] Speaker 1: who bestowed on them robes of honor and largesse. Then
[13:23] Speaker 1: the tiring women displayed Zigna before Ali in the dress
[13:26] Speaker 1: of the Jew's daughter, and he went in unto her
[13:29] Speaker 1: and founded a pearl and thridden and a philly by
[13:32] Speaker 1: all save himself unridden. Then he went in andto the
[13:37] Speaker 1: three other maidens, and found them accomplished in beauty and loveliness.
[13:43] Speaker 1: After this it befel that Ali of Cairo was one
[13:46] Speaker 1: night on guard by the Caliph, who said to him,
[13:50] Speaker 1: I wish Thee o Ali to tell me all that
[13:52] Speaker 1: hath befallen thee from first to last, with the Lailah
[13:56] Speaker 1: de Waili, and Zina the Konicatcha, and Zuraik the fisher.
[14:01] Speaker 1: So Ali related to him all his adventures, and the
[14:04] Speaker 1: commander of the Faithful bade recall them and laid them
[14:07] Speaker 1: up in the royal mouniment rooms. So they wrote down
[14:11] Speaker 1: all that had befallen him and kept it in store
[14:14] Speaker 1: with other histories for the people of Mohammed. The best
[14:16] Speaker 1: of men, and Dli and his wives and comrades abode
[14:21] Speaker 1: in all solace of life and his giants till they
[14:24] Speaker 1: came to them, the destroyer of delights and sunderer of societies,
[14:29] Speaker 1: and Allah be he extolled and Exalted is all knowing,
[14:35] Speaker 1: and also men relate the tale of Ardasher and Hai'at
[14:39] Speaker 1: al Nufus. There was once in the city of Shiraz
[14:44] Speaker 1: a miter king called Saif al Ahazam Shah, who had
[14:48] Speaker 1: grown old without being blessed with a son. So he
[14:52] Speaker 1: summoned the physicists and physicians and said to them, I
[14:56] Speaker 1: am now in years, and ye know my case and
[14:59] Speaker 1: the state the kingdom and its ordinance. And I fear
[15:02] Speaker 1: for my subjects after me, for thou up to this
[15:06] Speaker 1: present I have not been vouchsafed a son. Thereupon they replied,
[15:12] Speaker 1: we will compound thee as somewhat of drugs, wherein shall
[15:15] Speaker 1: be efficacy, if it please Almighty Allah. So they mixed
[15:21] Speaker 1: them drugs, which he used and knew His wife Carnalie,
[15:25] Speaker 1: and she conceived by leave of the most high Lord
[15:28] Speaker 1: who saith to a thing be, and it becometh. When
[15:33] Speaker 1: her months were accomplished, she gave birth to a male
[15:36] Speaker 1: child like the moon, whom his father named Ardasher. And
[15:41] Speaker 1: he grew up and throve and applied himself to the
[15:44] Speaker 1: study of learning and letters till he attained the age
[15:47] Speaker 1: of fifteen. Now there was in Alirak, a king called
[15:53] Speaker 1: Abdal Kadir, who had a daughter by name Hayat al Nufus,
[15:57] Speaker 1: and she was like the rising full moon. But she
[16:00] Speaker 1: had a hatredful man, and the folk very hardly dead
[16:04] Speaker 1: name mankind in a presence. The kings of the Cusroys
[16:09] Speaker 1: had sought her in marriage of a sire, but when
[16:12] Speaker 1: he spoke with her thereof, she said, never will I
[16:16] Speaker 1: do this, and if thou force me there too, I
[16:19] Speaker 1: will slay myself. Now Prince Adashir heard of her fame
[16:25] Speaker 1: and fell in love with her and told his father, who,
[16:28] Speaker 1: seeing his case, took pity on him and promised him
[16:31] Speaker 1: day by day that he should marry her. So he
[16:35] Speaker 1: despatches Wazir to demand her in Wedgelock, but King abdal
[16:39] Speaker 1: Kadir refused, And when the minister returned to King saiyfh
[16:43] Speaker 1: ala Asam and acquainted him with what had befallen his
[16:46] Speaker 1: mission and the failure thereof, he was wroth with exceeding
[16:50] Speaker 1: wrath and cried, shalt the like of me send to
[16:53] Speaker 1: one of the kings on her acquisition, and he accomplished it.
[16:56] Speaker 1: Not then he bade a herald make proclamation to his troops,
[17:02] Speaker 1: bidden them bring out the tents and equip them for
[17:04] Speaker 1: war with all diligence, though they should borrow money for
[17:07] Speaker 1: the necessary expenses. And he said, I will on no
[17:11] Speaker 1: wise turn back till I have late ways King AaB
[17:14] Speaker 1: dal Kadir's dominions and slain his men and blundered his
[17:19] Speaker 1: treasures and blotted out his traces. When the report of
[17:24] Speaker 1: this reached Adashir, he rose from his carpet bed, and
[17:27] Speaker 1: going in to his father, kissed ground between his hands
[17:30] Speaker 1: and said, ohmy King, trouble not thyself with aught of
[17:34] Speaker 1: this thing. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and
[17:39] Speaker 1: ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the
[17:45] Speaker 1: seven hundred and twentieth night, she continued it hath reached me,
[17:51] Speaker 1: O auspicious King, that when report of this reached the prince,
[17:55] Speaker 1: he went in to his sire the King, and kissing
[17:58] Speaker 1: ground between his hands, said, O, mighty King, trouble not
[18:02] Speaker 1: thy soul with aught of this thing. And levy not
[18:05] Speaker 1: thy champions and armies, neither spend thy moneys. Thou art
[18:10] Speaker 1: stronger than he, And if thou lose upon him this
[18:14] Speaker 1: thy host, thou wilt lay waste his cities and dominions,
[18:18] Speaker 1: and spoil his good, and slay his strong man and himself.
[18:23] Speaker 1: But when his daughter shall come to know what hath
[18:25] Speaker 1: befallen her father and his people by reason of her,
[18:28] Speaker 1: she will slay herself, and I shall die on her account,
[18:32] Speaker 1: for I can never live after her. No, never asked
[18:37] Speaker 1: the king, and what then thinkest thou to do, o
[18:40] Speaker 1: my son? And the Prince answered, I will don a
[18:44] Speaker 1: merchant's habit, and cast about how I may win to
[18:47] Speaker 1: the princess and compass my desire of her. Quoth Syphala
[18:52] Speaker 1: assam art Thou determined upon this, and quoth the Prince, yes, o,
[18:58] Speaker 1: my sire. Whereupon the King called to his Wazir and
[19:02] Speaker 1: said to him, do thou journey with my son the
[19:05] Speaker 1: core of my heart, and help him to win his well,
[19:09] Speaker 1: and watch over him and guide him with thy sound judgment.
[19:13] Speaker 1: For thou standest to him even in my stead. I
[19:18] Speaker 1: hear and obey, answered the minister, And the King gave
[19:22] Speaker 1: his son three hundred thousand dinars in gold, and great
[19:25] Speaker 1: store of jewels and precious stones, and goldsmiths, war and
[19:28] Speaker 1: stuffs and other things of price. Then Prince Adasher went
[19:33] Speaker 1: in to his mother and kissed the hands and asked
[19:36] Speaker 1: the blessing. She blessed them, and forthright opening her treasures,
[19:41] Speaker 1: brought out to him necklaces and trinkets, and apparel, and
[19:45] Speaker 1: all manner of other costly objects halted up from the
[19:48] Speaker 1: time of the bygone kings, whose price may not be
[19:51] Speaker 1: even with coin. Moreover, he took with him of his
[19:56] Speaker 1: mameluks and Negro slaves and cattle, all that he needed
[19:59] Speaker 1: for the road, and clad himself in the wazir, and
[20:02] Speaker 1: the company in trader's gear. Then he fell wealthy parents
[20:07] Speaker 1: and kinsfolk and friends, and setting out fared on over
[20:11] Speaker 1: walls and wastes, all hours of the day and watches
[20:14] Speaker 1: of the night. And when as the way was long
[20:17] Speaker 1: sum upon him, he improvides these couplets, My longing bread
[20:23] Speaker 1: of love with minor knees forever grows, nor against all
[20:28] Speaker 1: the wrongs of time. One succorer arose, when players and
[20:33] Speaker 1: the fishes showing the sky the rise, I watch, as worshiper,
[20:38] Speaker 1: within whose breast a pious burning clothes for star or morn,
[20:43] Speaker 1: I spear, until at last, when it is seen, I
[20:47] Speaker 1: mat it with my passion and my fancy swoes and throws.
[20:51] Speaker 1: I swear by you that never from your love have
[20:54] Speaker 1: I been loosed, nor tom I save a watcher who
[20:59] Speaker 1: have slumbered. Nothing knows, though hart appear, my hope to win,
[21:05] Speaker 1: though languor eye increase, and after thee my patience fails,
[21:10] Speaker 1: and ne'er a helper shows. Yet will I wait till
[21:14] Speaker 1: Allah shall be pleased to join our loves. I'll mortify
[21:18] Speaker 1: the jealous, and I'll mock me of my foes. When
[21:22] Speaker 1: he entered his verse, he swooned away, and the wazir
[21:25] Speaker 1: sprinkle rose water on him, till the prince came to himself,
[21:29] Speaker 1: when the minister said to him, O King's son possessed
[21:33] Speaker 1: thy soul in patience, for the consequence of patience is consolation.
[21:38] Speaker 1: And behold thou art on the way to whatso thou wishest.
[21:44] Speaker 1: And he ceased not to be speaking fair and comfort
[21:47] Speaker 1: him till his trouble subsided, and they continued their journey
[21:50] Speaker 1: with all diligence. Presently, the prince again became impatient of
[21:55] Speaker 1: the length of the way, and bethought him of his
[21:58] Speaker 1: beloved and recited couplets longsome his absence, restlessness increaseth and
[22:06] Speaker 1: despite and burn my vitals in the blaze my love longing.
[22:11] Speaker 1: Slight grows my hair gray from pains and pangs which
[22:16] Speaker 1: I am doomed to bear for pine, while tear flirts
[22:20] Speaker 1: stream from my eyes and soar offend my sight. I
[22:25] Speaker 1: swear O hope of me, O end of every wish
[22:28] Speaker 1: and will by him who made mankind and every branch
[22:32] Speaker 1: with leafage dight, a passion loath for thee O my desire,
[22:37] Speaker 1: I must endure, and both ste that to bear such load,
[22:41] Speaker 1: no lover hath the might question the night of me,
[22:46] Speaker 1: and NEI thy soul shall satisfy mine. Eyelids never close
[22:51] Speaker 1: in sleep throughout the livelong night. Then he wept with
[22:57] Speaker 1: sore weeping and plaint of that he suffered for dress
[23:00] Speaker 1: of love longing. But there was here comfort to him,
[23:03] Speaker 1: and spoke him fair, promising him the winning of his wish,
[23:08] Speaker 1: after which they fared on again for a few days.
[23:11] Speaker 1: When they drew near to the White City, the capital
[23:14] Speaker 1: of King abdal Kadir, soon after sunrise. Then said the
[23:19] Speaker 1: minister to the Prince, rejoice, O King's son in all good,
[23:23] Speaker 1: for see yonder is the white city that which thou
[23:26] Speaker 1: seekest whereat. The Prince rejoiced with exceeding joy and recited
[23:32] Speaker 1: these couplets. My friends are yearning, heart distraught for him,
[23:38] Speaker 1: longing abides, and we sore pains a brim. I mourn
[23:42] Speaker 1: like childless mother, Nor can find one to console me
[23:46] Speaker 1: when the light grows dim. Yet when the breezes blow
[23:50] Speaker 1: from off thy land, I feel the freshness shed on
[23:53] Speaker 1: heart and limb, and railed mine eyes like water laden clouds.
[23:59] Speaker 1: While in a t s c sheard by heart, I
[24:02] Speaker 1: swim now. When they entered the White city, they asked
[24:07] Speaker 1: for the merchant's khan, a place of moneyed men, and
[24:10] Speaker 1: when shown the hostelry, they had three magazines, and on
[24:14] Speaker 1: receiving the keys, they laid up the rain all their
[24:17] Speaker 1: goods than gere. They abode in the khan till they
[24:21] Speaker 1: were rested. When the Wazir applied himself to devise a
[24:24] Speaker 1: device for the Prince, and Shahrazad perceived the dawn of
[24:28] Speaker 1: day and ceased saying her permitted say. End of section
[24:34] Speaker 1: twenty eight. Recording by Ali Chinji Riska, South Wales, United
[24:40] Speaker 1: Kingdom

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