The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ng within myself, I will drink a cup :—andI drank it, and then drank the second, and the third, and so on tothe number of ten ; and being already stricken by love, I fell uponthe floor as one slain. Thus I remained until day came, and I awoke,and found myself outside the garden, with a large sharp knife uponmy stomach, and an iron dirhem ;30 and I trembled with fear, andtook them with me and returned to the house. I found my cousin saying, I am in this house wretched andsorrowful, with no
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ng within myself, I will drink a cup :—andI drank it, and then drank the second, and the third, and so on tothe number of ten ; and being already stricken by love, I fell uponthe floor as one slain. Thus I remained until day came, and I awoke,and found myself outside the garden, with a large sharp knife uponmy stomach, and an iron dirhem ;30 and I trembled with fear, andtook them with me and returned to the house. I found my cousin saying, I am in this house wretched andsorrowful, with no relief but weeping. And as I entered, I felldown prostrate, throwing the knife and dirhem from my hand, andfainted; and when I recovered, I acquainted her with that which hadbefallen me, and said to her, I shall not attain my desire. Hergrief increased at witnessing my weeping and my excessive passion,and she said to me, I have failed of success in cautioning thee againstsleeping; for thou wouldst not attend to my advice: my words profitthee nothing. But I replied, I conjure thee by Allah that thou. explain to me the meaning ot the knife and the iron dirhem. So she said, As to the dirhem, she alluded by it to her right eye,31 and intimated that she swore by it, and said, By the Lord of all creatures, and by my right eye,32 if thou come again and sleep I will assuredly slaughter thee with this knife !—I fear for thee, therefore, O son of my uncle, from her malice ; and my heart is full of grief on thine account, and I cannot talk. If, then, thou art confident in thyself that, if thou return to her, thou wilt not sleep, return to her, and beware of sleeping, and so shalt thou attain thy desire; but if thou know that, shouldst thou go to her again, thou wilt sleep as usual, and so go to her and sleep, she will slaughter hat then, said I, is to be done, 0 daughter of my uncle ? I conjure thee by Allah to help me in this affliction—She replied, On my head and my eye :
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