The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . at their master in this manner, they put their hands uponthe hilts of their swords, and would have fallen upon him and cut himin pieces; but the people said to them, This is a Wezeer, and this isthe son of a Wezeer, and perhaps they may make peace with eachother, and ye will incur the anger of both of them; or perhaps a blowmay fall upon your master, and ye will all of you die the most igno-minious of deaths: it is advisable, therefore, that ye interfere notbetween them.—And when Alee Noor
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . at their master in this manner, they put their hands uponthe hilts of their swords, and would have fallen upon him and cut himin pieces; but the people said to them, This is a Wezeer, and this isthe son of a Wezeer, and perhaps they may make peace with eachother, and ye will incur the anger of both of them; or perhaps a blowmay fall upon your master, and ye will all of you die the most igno-minious of deaths: it is advisable, therefore, that ye interfere notbetween them.—And when Alee Noor-ed-Deen had ceased from beat-ing the Wezeer, he took his slave-girl, and returned to his house. The Wezeer, the son of Sawee, then immediately arose, and hisdress, which before was white, was now dyed with three colours, thecolour of mud, and the colour of blood, and the colour of ashes ;17 andwhen he beheld himself in this condition, he took a round mat,18 andhung it to his neck, and took in his hand two bundles of coarse grass,19and wenr and stood beneath the palace of the Sultan, and cried out,. AND HNKKS-Eri-JELEES. /&5 0 King of the age ! I am oppressed ! —So they brought him beforethe King, who looked at him attentively, and saw that he was hisWezeer, El-Moeen the son of Sawee. He said, therefore, Who hathdone thus unto thee ?—and the Wezeer cried and moaned, andrepeated these two verses :— Shall fortune oppress me while thou existest; and the dogs devour me when thou art a lion ?Shall all else who are dry drink freely from thy tanks, and I thirst in thine asylum when thou art as rain ? —0 my lord, he continued, thus is every one who loveth thee andserveth thee: these afflictions always befall him.—And who, said theKing again, hath done thus unto thee ?—Know, answered the Wezeer,that I went forth to-day to the market of the female slaves with theidea of buying a cook-maid, and saw in the market a slave-girl thelike of whom I had never in my life beheld, and
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