The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ore me, and we ate together, and I conversed with him tillnight, when he lodged me in a place by his shop, and brought me abed and coverlet; and, after I had remained with him three days, hesaid to me, Dost thou not know any trade by which to make gain ?51I answered, I am acquainted with the law, a student of sciences, awriter, and an arithmetician.—Thy occupation, he said, is profitless inour country : there is no one in our city acquainted with science orwriting, but only with getting mo
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ore me, and we ate together, and I conversed with him tillnight, when he lodged me in a place by his shop, and brought me abed and coverlet; and, after I had remained with him three days, hesaid to me, Dost thou not know any trade by which to make gain ?51I answered, I am acquainted with the law, a student of sciences, awriter, and an arithmetician.—Thy occupation, he said, is profitless inour country : there is no one in our city acquainted with science orwriting, but only with getting money. Verily, I replied, I knownothing but what I have told thee.—Gird thyself, then, said he, andtake an axe and a rope, and cut firewood in the desert, and so obtainthy subsistence until God dispel thy affliction ; but acquaint no onewith thy history, else they will kill thee. He then bought for me anaxe and a rope, and sent me with a party of wood-cutters, giving thema charge respecting me. Accordingly, I went forth with them, and,cut some wood, and brought back a load upon my head, and sold it. Hls.^-JS. for half a piece of gold, part of which I expended in food, laying bythe remainder. Thus I continued for the space of a year, after which I went oneday into the desert, according to my custom, to cut firewood; and,finding there a tract with abundance of wood, I entered it, and cameto a tree, around which I dug; and as I was removing the earth fromits roots, the axe struck against a ring of brass; and I cleared awaythe earth from it, and found that it was affixed to a trap-door of wood,which I immediately removed. Beneath it appeared a staircase, whichI descended; and at the bottom of this I entered a door, and beheld apalace, strongly constructed, where I found a lady, like a pearl ofhigh price, whose aspect banished from the heart all anxiety and griefand affliction. At the sight of her I prostrated myself in adoration of THE STORY OF THE SECOND ROYAL MENDICANT. 113 her
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