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195-204

  • When the stranger arrived (and turned) from the road, the physician brought him into the presence of the king. 195
  • Proudly and delicately they conducted him to the king of kings, that he might burn (like a moth) on that candle of Tiráz.
  • The king beheld him, showed great regard (for him), and entrusted to him the treasure house (full) of gold.
  • Then the physician said to him: “O mighty Sultan, give the handmaiden to this lord,
  • In order that the handmaiden may be happy in union with him, and that the water of union with him may put out the fire (of passion).”
  • The king bestowed on him that moon-faced one and wedded those twain (who were) craving (each other's) company. 200
  • During the space of six months they were satisfying their desire, till the girl was wholly restored to health.
  • Thereafter he prepared for him a potion, so that when he drank it he began to dwindle away before her.
  • When because of sickness his beauty remained not, the soul of the girl remained not in his pestilence (deadly toils).
  • Since he became ugly and ill-favoured and sallow-cheeked, little by little he became cold (irksome and unpleasing) in her heart.