The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . nd placed it before them. The young man, therefore, and thedamsel and the sheykh Ibraheem advanced and ate; and when theyhad finished, they washed their hands, and Noor-ed-Deen said, ByAllah, 0 fisherman, thou hast done us a kindness this night. Thenputting his hand into his pocket, he took forth for him three pieces ofgold, of those which Senjer had presented to him when he was settingforth on his journey, and said, O fisherman, excuse me; for, by Allah,if I had known thee before the even
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . nd placed it before them. The young man, therefore, and thedamsel and the sheykh Ibraheem advanced and ate; and when theyhad finished, they washed their hands, and Noor-ed-Deen said, ByAllah, 0 fisherman, thou hast done us a kindness this night. Thenputting his hand into his pocket, he took forth for him three pieces ofgold, of those which Senjer had presented to him when he was settingforth on his journey, and said, O fisherman, excuse me; for, by Allah,if I had known thee before the events that have lately happened to me,I would have extracted the bitterness of poverty from thy heart: buttake this as accordant with my present circumstances. So saying, hethrew the pieces of gold to the Khaleefeh, who took them, and kissedthem,34 and put them in his pocket. The object of the Khaleefeh indoing this was only that he might hear the damsel sing : so he said tohim, Thou hast treated me with beneficence, and abundantly recom-pensed me ; but T be^ 0f thv unbounded indulgence that this damsel. may sing an air, that I may bear her. Noor-ed-Deen therefore said,0 Enees-el-Jelees ! She replied, Yes.—By my life, said he, sing tous something for the gratification of this fisherman ; for he desireth tohear thee. And when she had heard what her master said, she tookthe lute, and tried it with her fingers, after she had twisted its pegs,and sang to it these two verses :— The fingers of many a fawn-like damsel have played upon the lute, and the soul hath been ravished by the hath made the deaf to hear her songs; and the dumb hath exclaimed, Thou hast excelled in thy singing ! Then she played again, in an extraordinary manner, so as to charm theminds of her hearers, and sang the following couplet:— We are honoured by your visiting our abode, and your splendour hath dispelledthe darkness of the moonless night: It is therefore incumbent upon me to perfume my dwelling
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