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  Speaker 1: The Story of Prince Amed and the Fairy Paribenu at
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  Speaker 1: Bulferi Book. This is a libbox recording. All libbrox recordings
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  Speaker 1: The Bulferi Book by Andrew Lang The Story of Prince
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed and Faeri Paribnu. There was a sultan who had
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  Speaker 1: three sons and a niece. The eldest of the princes
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  Speaker 1: were called Houssain, the second Ali, the youngest Ahmed, and
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  Speaker 1: the princess his niece, Nodur Niar. The princess Noudur Niar
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  Speaker 1: was the daughter of the younger brother of the sultan,
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  Speaker 1: who died and left the princess very young. The sultan
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  Speaker 1: took upon himself at the care of his daughter's education,
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  Speaker 1: and brought her up in his palace with the three princes,
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  Speaker 1: proposing to marry her when she arrived at the proper age,
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  Speaker 1: and to contract an alliance with some neighboring prince by
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  Speaker 1: that means.
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  Speaker 2: But when he perceived that the three.
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  Speaker 1: Princes his sons loved her passionately, he thought more seriously
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  Speaker 1: on that affair, it was very much concerned. The difficulty
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  Speaker 1: he foresaw was to make them agree, and that the
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  Speaker 1: two youngles should consent.
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  Speaker 2: To yell her up to their elder brother.
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  Speaker 1: As they found them positively obstinate, he sent for all
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  Speaker 1: them together and said to them, children, since for your
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  Speaker 1: good and quiet I have not been able.
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  Speaker 2: To persuade you no longer to aspire.
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  Speaker 1: To the princess your cousin, I think it would not
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  Speaker 1: be a miss if everyone travels separately into different countries.
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  Speaker 2: So that you might not meet each other.
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  Speaker 1: And as you know, I am very curious and delight
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  Speaker 1: in everything that singular. I promise my niece in marriage
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  Speaker 1: to him that shall bring me the most extraordinary rarity.
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  Speaker 1: And for the purchase of the rarity you shall go
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  Speaker 1: in search after, and the expense of traveling, I will
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  Speaker 1: give you every one a sum of money. As the
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  Speaker 1: three princes were all always submissed him and obedient to
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  Speaker 1: the Sultan's will, and each flatter himself fortune might prove
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  Speaker 1: farable to him, they all consented to it. The Sultan
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  Speaker 1: paid them the money he promised them, and that very
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  Speaker 1: day they give orders for the preparations for their travels
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  Speaker 1: and took their leave of the Sultan, that they might
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  Speaker 1: be the more ready to go the next morning. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: they all set out the same gate of the city,
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  Speaker 1: each dressed like a merchant, attended by an officer of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: dressed like a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.
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  Speaker 1: They went first day's journey together and lay all at
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  Speaker 1: the inn, where the road was divided into three drifven tracks.
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  Speaker 1: At night, when they were at supper together, they all
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  Speaker 1: agreed to travel for a year and to meet at
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  Speaker 1: ted Inn, and at first that came should wait for
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  Speaker 1: the rest, that as they had all three taken their
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  Speaker 1: live together of Sultan, they might all return together the
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  Speaker 1: next morning by break of day. After they had embraced
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  Speaker 1: and wished each other could success, then mounted their horses
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  Speaker 1: and took each a different road. Prince Usaine, the eldest brother,
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Bisnagard, the capital of the kingdom of that
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  Speaker 1: name and residence of its king. He went and lodged
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  Speaker 1: the cane appointed for foreign merchants, and having learned that
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  Speaker 1: there were four principal divisions where merchants of all sorts
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  Speaker 1: saw their commodities and kept shops, and in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of which stood castle, or rather the King's palace. He
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  Speaker 1: went to one of these divisions the next day. Prince
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  Speaker 1: Usin could not view this division without admiration. It was
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  Speaker 1: large and divided into several streets, all vaulted and shaded
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  Speaker 1: from the sun, and yet very light too.
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  Speaker 2: The shops were all of a size, and all that dealt.
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  Speaker 1: In the same sort of goods lived in one street,
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  Speaker 1: as also the anticraft's men, who kept their shops in
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  Speaker 1: smaller streets. The multitude of shops stalked with all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of merchandise, as fine as linens from several parts of India,
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  Speaker 1: some painted in the most lively colors and representing beasts,
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  Speaker 1: trees and flowers, Silks and broukratees from Parsia, China and
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  Speaker 1: other places. Porcelain both from Japan and China, and pepestries
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  Speaker 1: surprised him so much that he knew not how to
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  Speaker 1: believe his eyes. But when he came to the goldsmith
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  Speaker 1: and jewelers, he was in a kind of ecstasy to
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  Speaker 1: behold such prodigious quantities of rough gold and silver, and
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  Speaker 1: was dazzled by the lusters of pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds,
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  Speaker 1: and other jewels exposed to sail. Another thing Prince Usain
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  Speaker 1: particularly admired was a great number of rose sellers who
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  Speaker 1: crowded the streets, For the Indians are so great lovers
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  Speaker 1: of that flower, that no one will stir without a
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  Speaker 1: nosegay in his hand or a garland on his head.
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  Speaker 1: And the merchants kept him in posting their shops that
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  Speaker 1: he air is perfectly perfumed. After the Princess Jean had
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  Speaker 1: drawn through that division, street by street, he thought fully
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  Speaker 1: employed on the riches he had seen, he was very
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  Speaker 1: much tired, which a merchant, perceiving civilly, invited him to
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  Speaker 1: sit down in his shop. When he accepted, but had
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  Speaker 1: not been set long down long before he saw a
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  Speaker 1: crier pass by which a piece of tapestry on his arm,
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  Speaker 1: about six feet square, and the cry that thirty purses.
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  Speaker 1: The Prince called to the crier and asked to see
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  Speaker 1: the tapestry, which seemed to him to be valid at
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  Speaker 1: an exorbitant price, not only for the size of it,
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  Speaker 1: but meanness of stuff. When he had examined it well,
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  Speaker 1: he told the crier that he could not comprehend how
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  Speaker 1: so small a piece of tapestry, and of so indifferent
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  Speaker 1: appears could be.
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  Speaker 2: Set at a higher price.
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  Speaker 1: The crier, who took him for a merchant, replied, if
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  Speaker 1: this piece seemed so extravagant to you, your amazement.
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  Speaker 2: To be greater and nice till I.
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  Speaker 1: Have orders to raise it to forty persons and not
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  Speaker 1: to part with it under certainly, answered Princess, saying it
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  Speaker 1: must have something very extraordinary in it which I know
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  Speaker 1: nothing of. You have guessed it, sir, replied the crier,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll own it when you come to know that
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  Speaker 1: whoever sits on this piece of tapestry may be transported
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  Speaker 1: in an instant wherever he desires to be, without being
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  Speaker 1: stopped by any obstacle. At this discourse of the crier,
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  Speaker 1: the Prince of the Indies, considering that the principal motive
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  Speaker 1: of his travel was to carry the Sultan his father
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  Speaker 1: home some singular rarity, thought that he could not meet
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  Speaker 1: with any which could give him more satisfaction if the tapestry,
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  Speaker 1: said he to the crier, as virtue you assigned it,
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  Speaker 1: I shall not think forty persons too much, but shall
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  Speaker 1: make you present. Besides, Sir, replied the crier, I have
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  Speaker 1: told you the truth, and it is an easy matter
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  Speaker 1: to convince you of it. As soon as you have
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  Speaker 1: made the bargain for forty persons, on condition I show
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  Speaker 1: you the experiment. But as I suppose you have not
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  Speaker 1: so much about you, and to receive them, I must
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  Speaker 1: go with you to your khan where you lodge. We
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  Speaker 1: live at mastered shop. We will go into the bag shop,
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  Speaker 1: and I will spread the tapestry. And when we have
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  Speaker 1: both set down and you have formed the wish to
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  Speaker 1: be transported into your apartment of the Khan, if we
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  Speaker 1: are not transported chee or it shall be no bargain,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall be at your liberty as to your present.
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  Speaker 1: Though I am paid for my trouble by the seller,
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  Speaker 1: I shall receive it as a favor and be very
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  Speaker 1: much obliged to you and thankful.
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  Speaker 2: On the credit of the crier.
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  Speaker 1: The Prince accepted the conditions and concluded bargain, and having
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  Speaker 1: got the master's leave, they went into his bag shop.
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  Speaker 1: They both sat down on it, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: the Prince formed this wish to be transported in his
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  Speaker 1: apartment at the kemp, he presently found himself and the
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  Speaker 1: crier there, and, as he wanted not a more sufficient
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  Speaker 1: proof of the virtue of the tapestry. He counted the
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  Speaker 1: crier out forty pieces of gold and gave him twenty
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  Speaker 1: pieces for himself. In this manner, Princess Saint became the
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  Speaker 1: possessor of the tapestry, and was overjoyed that at his
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  Speaker 1: arrival at Pisnagar he had found so rare a peace
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  Speaker 1: which he never disputed, would gain him the end of Nearnia.
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  Speaker 1: In short, he looked upon it as an impossible thing
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  Speaker 1: for the Princess his younger brothers to meet with, anything
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  Speaker 1: to be compared with it. It was in his power,
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  Speaker 1: by sitting on his tapestry, to be at place of
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  Speaker 1: meeting that very day. But as he was obliged to
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  Speaker 1: say there for his brothers, as they had a grieved,
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  Speaker 1: and he was curious to see the King of Bisnagar
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  Speaker 1: and his court, and to inform himself to strength lost
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  Speaker 1: customs and religion of the kingdom, it chse to make
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  Speaker 1: a longer boat there and spent some month in satisfying
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  Speaker 1: his curiosity. Prince Usain might have made a longer both
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  Speaker 1: than the kingdom and court of Bisnegar, but he was
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  Speaker 1: so eager to be near the Princess that spreading the tapestry,
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  Speaker 1: He and the officer he had brought with him sat down,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as he had formed this witch, were
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  Speaker 1: transported to the inn at which he and his brothers
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  Speaker 1: were to meet, and where he passed for a merchant
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  Speaker 1: till they came. Prince Ali, Prince Ussain's second brother, who
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  Speaker 1: was designed to travel into Perusia, took the road, having
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  Speaker 1: three days after he parted with his brothers, joined the caravan,
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  Speaker 1: and after four days travel arrived at Chiras, which was
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  Speaker 1: the capital of the Kingdom of Persia.
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  Speaker 2: He repassed for a jeweler.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, Prince Ali, who traveled only for its
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  Speaker 1: pleasure and had brought nothing but just necessaries along with him,
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  Speaker 1: after he had dressed himself, took a walk into that
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  Speaker 1: part of the town which they at Chiras called Bessis,
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  Speaker 1: staying among all the criers who passed backward and forward
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  Speaker 1: with several sorts of goods offering.
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  Speaker 2: To sell them.
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  Speaker 1: He was not a little surprised to see one who
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  Speaker 1: held an ivory telescope in his hand of about the
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  Speaker 1: foot in length and the thickness of a man's thumb.
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  Speaker 2: And cried it to thirty purses.
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  Speaker 1: At first, he thought the crier mad, and to inform
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  Speaker 1: himself when to a shop and settled the merchant who
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  Speaker 1: stood the door. Pray, sir, is not that man, pointed
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  Speaker 1: to the crier who cried the ivory prospective class at
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  Speaker 1: thirty purses, Mad. If he is not, I am very
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  Speaker 1: much deceived. Indeed, Sir, answered the merchant, he was in
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  Speaker 1: his right senses yesterday. I can assure you he is
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  Speaker 1: one of the evilest criers we have, and the most
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  Speaker 1: employed of anyone. Anything valuable is to be sold, and
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  Speaker 1: if he cries the ivory prospective class at thirty proses,
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  Speaker 1: it must be worth as much or more on some
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  Speaker 1: account or other. He will come by presently, and you
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  Speaker 1: will call him, and you shall be satisfied. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: sit under my sofa and dress yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Ali accepted.
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  Speaker 1: The mercans subliging offer, and presently afterward the crier passed by.
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  Speaker 1: The merchant called him by his name, and, pointing to
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  Speaker 1: the prince, said to him, tell that gentleman who asked
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  Speaker 1: me if you were in your right senses, what you
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  Speaker 1: mean by crying that ivory prospective class which seems not
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  Speaker 1: to be worth much at thirty persons, I should very
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  Speaker 1: much amazed myself if I did not know you. The crier,
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  Speaker 1: addressing himself to Prince Ali, said, Sir, you are not
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  Speaker 1: the only person that takes me for a madman. On
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  Speaker 1: account of this prospective class. You shall judge yourself whether
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  Speaker 1: I am or no when I have told you its property,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope you will value it at as high
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  Speaker 1: price as those I have showed it to already, who
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  Speaker 1: had as bad an opinion of me as you. First, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: pursued the crier, presenting the ivory pipe to the Prince.
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  Speaker 1: Observe that this pipe is furnished with a glass at
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  Speaker 1: both ends, and considered that by looking through one of them,
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  Speaker 1: you see whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Object you wish to behold.
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  Speaker 1: I am, said the Prince, rather to make you all
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  Speaker 1: imaginable reparations for the scant life thrown on you, if
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  Speaker 1: you'll make the truth of what you advance appear.
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  Speaker 2: And as he.
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  Speaker 1: Had the ivory pipe in his hand, after he had
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  Speaker 1: looked at the two classes, he said, show you which
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  Speaker 1: at these ends I must look, that I may be satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: The cry presently showed him, and he looked through, wishing
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  Speaker 1: at the same time to see the Sultan its father,
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  Speaker 1: whom he immediately beheld in perfect health, sat on his
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  Speaker 1: throne in the midst of discounsel. Afterward, as there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the world so dear to him. After the
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  Speaker 1: Sultan as a Princess Narnihar, he wished to see her,
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  Speaker 1: and saw her at Chatouolt, laughing and in a pleasant
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  Speaker 1: humor with her women about her. Prince Ali wanted no
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  Speaker 1: other proof to be persuaded that this prospective class was
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable thing in the world, and believed that
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  Speaker 1: if he should neglect to process it, he should never
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  Speaker 1: meet again with such another rarity. He therefore took the
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  Speaker 1: crier with him to the cairn, where he lodged, and
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  Speaker 1: counted him out the money and received the prospective class.
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  Speaker 1: Prince Ali was overjoyed at his bargain and persuaded himself
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  Speaker 1: that as his brother would not be able to meet
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  Speaker 1: with anything soererr and admirable, the Princess Narnier would, with
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  Speaker 1: the recompense of his fatigue and trouble. There he thought
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  Speaker 1: of nothing but visiting the court of Percy and Cognito
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  Speaker 1: and seeing whatever was curious in Chiraz and thereabouts till
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  Speaker 1: the caravan with which she came returned back to the Indies.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the caravan news read it set out.
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  Speaker 1: The Prince joined them and arrived happily without any accident
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  Speaker 1: or trouble. Otherwise than laugh at the journey and fatigued
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  Speaker 1: traveling at the place of Rendezvous, where he found Prince
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  Speaker 1: Usain and both waited for Prince Ahmed. Prince Ahmed who
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  Speaker 1: took the road of summar kand the next day after
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  Speaker 1: his arrival there went, as his brother said, done into
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  Speaker 1: the best stain, where he had not walked long, but
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  Speaker 1: heard the crier, who had an artificial apple in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: cried at five and thirty purses up in wich. He
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  Speaker 1: stopped the crier and said to him, let me see
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  Speaker 1: that apple, and tell me what virtue and extraordinary properties
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  Speaker 1: it has be valued at so high rate, Sir, said
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  Speaker 1: the crier, giving it into its hand.
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  Speaker 2: If you look it.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of this apple, it is very worthless. But if
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  Speaker 1: you consider its propert use, virtues and great use and
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  Speaker 1: benefited these mankind, you will see no price for it,
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  Speaker 1: and that he who possesses it is master of a
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  Speaker 1: great treasure. In short, it cures all sick persons of
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  Speaker 1: the most mortal diseases, and if the patient is dying,
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  Speaker 1: it will recover it immediately and restore him to profit health.
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  Speaker 1: And this is done after the easiest man in the world,
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  Speaker 1: which is by the patient's smell in the apple. If
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  Speaker 1: I may believe you, replied Miss Ahmed, the virtue of
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  Speaker 1: this apple are wonderful, and it is invaluable. But what
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  Speaker 1: ground have I for all you tell me to be
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  Speaker 1: persuade the truth of this manner, Sir replied the crier.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is known and averred by the whole city
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  Speaker 1: of summar Kand but without going any further, as all
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  Speaker 1: these merchants you see here and hear what they say,
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  Speaker 1: you'll find several of them will tell you they have
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  Speaker 1: not been alive this day if they had not made
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  Speaker 1: use of this excellent remedy. And that you may better
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  Speaker 1: comprehend what it is. I must tell it is fruit
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  Speaker 1: of duty and experimented the celebrated philosopher of the city,
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  Speaker 1: who oblive himself all his lifetime to study of knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the virtues of plants and minerals, and at last
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  Speaker 1: attained to this composition by which he performed such surprising
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  Speaker 1: cures in this sound as will never be forgot, but
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  Speaker 1: died suddenly himself before he could apply his sovereign remedy,
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  Speaker 1: and left his wife and the great many young children
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  Speaker 1: behind him in very different circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Who to support.
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  Speaker 1: Their family and provide for her children is resolved to
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  Speaker 1: sell it. While the crown informed Prince Ahmed as virtues
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  Speaker 1: of the artificial apple, a great many persons came about
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  Speaker 1: them and confirmed what he said. And one among the
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  Speaker 1: read said he had the friend dangerously ill whose life
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  Speaker 1: was despaired of, and that was a favoral opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: show Prince Ahmed the experiment, upon which Prince Ahmed told
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  Speaker 1: the crier he would give him forty princes if he
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  Speaker 1: cured sick person. The crier, who had ordered to sell
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  Speaker 1: itate the price, said to Prince Ahmed, come, sir, let
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  Speaker 1: us go and make the experiment, and the apple shall
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  Speaker 1: be yours, and I can assure you that.
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  Speaker 2: It will always have the desired effect.
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  Speaker 1: In short, the experiment succeeded, and the Prince, after he
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  Speaker 1: had counted out to the cry of forty persons, and
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  Speaker 1: he had levered the apple to him, waited patiently for
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  Speaker 1: the first caravan that to return to the Indies, and
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  Speaker 1: arrived in perfect health at the inn, where the Princesussaying
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  Speaker 1: and Ali waited for him. When the princess met, they
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  Speaker 1: showed each other their pressures and immediately sought through the
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  Speaker 1: glass that the princess was dying. The then sat down
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  Speaker 1: on the carpet, wished themselves with her, and were there
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  Speaker 1: in a moment. Prince Ahmed no sooner perceived himself in
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  Speaker 1: not only Art's chamber than he rose off the tapestry,
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  Speaker 1: as did all of the other two princes, and went
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  Speaker 1: to the bedside and put the apple under her nose.
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  Speaker 1: Some moments after, the princess opened her eyes and turned
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  Speaker 1: her head from one side to another, looking at persons
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  Speaker 1: who stood about her, and then rose up in the
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  Speaker 1: bed and asked to be dressed, just as if she
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  Speaker 1: had wakened out of a sound sleep, the women having
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  Speaker 1: presently informed her in a manner that showed their joy,
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  Speaker 1: that she was obliged to three princes for the sudden
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  Speaker 1: recovery of her health, and particularly to Prince aml She
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  Speaker 1: immediately expressed a joy to see them and thanked them
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  Speaker 1: all together, and afterwards Prince Ahmed in particular while the
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  Speaker 1: princess was dressing. The princess went to throw themselves at
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  Speaker 1: Sultan their father's feet, and paid their respects to him.
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  Speaker 1: But when they came before him, they found he had
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  Speaker 1: been informed of their arrival by the chief of the
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  Speaker 1: princess eunuchs, and by what means the princess had been
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  Speaker 1: perfectly cured. Sultan received and embraced them with the greatest joy,
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  Speaker 1: both for their return and recovered the princess his niece,
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  Speaker 1: whom he loved as well as if she had been
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  Speaker 1: his own daughter, and who had been given over by
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the positions. After the usual ceremonies and compliments, the princess
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: presented each his rarity, Prince Usain his tapestry, which he
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: had taken care not to leaves behind him in the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Prince's chamber, Prince Ali his ivory prospective class, and Prince
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Ahmed is artificial apple. And after each had commanded their present,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: when they put it into the Sultan's hands, they begged
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of him to pronounce their fate and declared to which
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: of them he would give the Princess Naruniyar for a wife.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: According to his promise. The Sultan of the Indies, having
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: heard without interrupting them, all that princess could represent further
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: about their rarities, and being well informed of what had
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: happened in relation to the the princess, the Runeihar's cure
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: remained sometimes silent, as if you were thinking on what
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: answer he should make. At last he broke the silence
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and said to them, I would declare for one of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you children with a great deal of pleasure if I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: could do it with justice. That consider whether I can
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: do it or not. This true, Prince Ahmed, the princess
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: my niece is obliged to your artificial apple for a cure.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: But I must ask you whether or no you could
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: have been so serviceable to her if he had not
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: known by Prince Ali's prospective class the danger she was in,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and if princesus Saints Tapestry had not brought you so
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: soon your prospective class, Prince Ali, and from you and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: your brothers that you are like to lose the princess
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to your cousin, and there he must own the great obligation.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You must also grant that knowledge would have been of
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: no service without your artificial apple.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And the Tapestry.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And lastly, Prince ausaying the Princess would be very ingredful.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It should should not shue acknowledgment of the service of
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: your tapestry, which was so necessary a means stored or cure.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But consider tould.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Have been a little used if you had not been
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: acquainted with the Prince's illness by Prince Ali's glass, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Prince Ahmed had not applied this artificial apple. Therefore, as
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: neither tapestry, ivory, prospective glass nor artificial apple at least
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: preferenced one before the other. But on the contrary, there
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is a perfect equality. I cannot quaint the Princess to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Ali one of you. And the only fruit we have
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: reaped from your travels is the glory of having equally
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: contributed to restore or health. If all this be true,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: added the Sultan, you see that I must have recourse
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to other means to determine certainly in the choice I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: are to make along you, And that as there is
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: enough between this and night.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'll do it to day.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Go and get each of you a bow and arrow,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and repair to the great plain where they exercised horses.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I'll succumb to Yum and the clara I'll give the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Princess Narunihar to him that shoots the forthst the three princes,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and nothing to say against decision at Sultan. When they
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: were out of his presence, they each provided themselves to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the bow and arrow, which they delivered to one of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: their officers, and went to the plane appointed, followed by
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a great concourse of people. Sultan did not make them
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: wait long for him, and as soon as he arrived,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Prince Usain, as the eldest, took his bow and arrow
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and shot first. Prince Ali shot next, and mulched behind him,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and Prince Ahmed last of all. But it so happened
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that nobody could see where his arrow fell, and notwithstanding
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: all the diligence that was used by himself and everybody else,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: he does not be found far or near. And though
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it was believed that he shot furthus, and that he
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: therefore deserved the Princess Nruniar, it was however necessary that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: his arrow should be found to make the matter more
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: evident than certain. And notwithstanding his remonstrance, the Sultan just
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in favor of Prince Ali and give orders for preparations
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to be made for the wedding, which was celebrated a
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: few days after with great magnificence, Prince Ussain would not
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: honored feast with his presence. In short, his grief was
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: so valid and insupportable that he left to court and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: renounced all right of succession to the crown to turn hermit.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Prince Ahmed too did not come to Prince Ali's and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the Princess Nruniara's wedding any more than his brother Ussain,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: but did not renounce the world as he had done.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But as he could not imagine what had become of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: his herald is sole away from his attendance, and so
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: search after it that he might not have anything to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: reproach himself with. With his intent, he went to the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: place where the Princess Hussaints and alleys were gathered up,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and going straight forward from there, looking carefully on both
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: sides of him, he went so far that the last
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: he began to think his laborers all in vain. But
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: yet he could not help going forward till he came
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to some steep, craggy rocks, which were bounds to its journey,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and were situated in a barren country, about four leagues
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: distance from where he set out. When Prince Hahmed came
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: pretty night to these rocks, he perceived an arrow, which
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: he gathered up, looked earnestly at it, and was in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the greatest astonishment to find it was the same. He
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: shout away. Certainly, said he to himself. Neither I nor
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: any man leaving could shoot an arrow so far, And
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in finding it lay flat, not still into the ground,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it shows that it dripounded against the rock. There must
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: be some mystery in this, said he to himself again.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And it may be adventurous to me, perhaps fortune to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: make me amends for depriving me of what I thought
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the greatest happiness, may have reserved the greater blessing for
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: my comfort. As these rocks were full of caves, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: some of those who caves were deep, the Prince entered
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: into one, and, looking about, kest his eyes on an
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: iron door, which seemed to have no lock, but he
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: feared it was fastened. However, thrusting against it, it opened
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and discovered easy descent, but no steps, which he walked down.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: With his arrow in his hand. At first he.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Thought he was going to a dark, obscure place, but
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: presently a quite different slight succeeded, at which she came
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: out of and entering into a large, specious place. At
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: about fifty or sixty paces distant, he perceived a magnific
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and pallace which he had not done time enough to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: look at. At same time, a lady of majestic port
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and air advanced as far as the porch, attended by
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a large troop of ladies, so finely dressed and beautiful
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that it was difficult to distinguish which was a mistress.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: As soon as Prince Ahmed perceived the lady, he made
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: all imaginable haste to go and pay his respects. And lady,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: on her part, seeing him coming, prevented him from addressing
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: his discourse to her first, but said to him, come nearer,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Prince Ahmed, you well welcome. It was no small surprise
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to the Prince to hear himself named in the place
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: he had never heard of, though so nigh to his
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: father's capital, that he could not comprehend how he should
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: be known to a lady who was stranger to him.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: At last, he returned lady's compliment by throwing himself at
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: her feet, and rising up again, said to her, Madam,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I return you a thousand thanks for the assurance you
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: give me of a welcome to a place where I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: believed my imprudent curiosity and may be penetrated too far.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: But Madam, may I, without being guilty of ill manners,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: dare to ask you by what adventure you know me?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And how you, who live in the same neighborhood with me,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: should be so great a stranger to me. Prince said, Lady,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: let us go into the hall. There I will gratify
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you in your request. After these words, the lady led
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Prince Hammed into all. Then she sat down on the sofa,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and when the Prince, by her ancient trea, have done
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the same, she said, you are surprised. You say that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I should know you and not be known by you.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But you will be no longer surprised when I inform
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: you who I am. You are undoubtedly sensible that your
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: religion teaches you to believe that the world is inhabited
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: by genies as well as men. I am the daughter
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of one of the most powerful and singuished genies, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: my name is Paribnu. The only thing that I have
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to add is that you seem to be worthy of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a more happy faith than that of possessing the princess
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: nruny heart, And as you might attend to it. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: was present when you drew your herod and first saw
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it would not go beyond princess saints. I took it
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in the air and gave it necessary motion to strike
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: against the rock near which you found it. And I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: tell you that it lies in your power to make
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: use of the federal opportunity which presented itself to make
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you happy. As the fairy Perivenue pronounced these last words
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: with a different shne and looked at the same time
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: genderly upon Prince Hahmed, with the mother's plush on her cheeks,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it was no heart matter for the prince to comprehend
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: what happiness she meant. He presently considered that the Princess
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Narni heart could never be eased, and that Fairy Parivenue
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: excelled her infinitely in beauty, agreeableness, and as much as
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: he could conjecture but magnificence of the balace in immense riches.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: He blessed the moment that he thought of seeking after
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: his arrow a second time, and yelled into his love.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Madam replied, he should I all my life have the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: happiness of being your slave and the admirer of the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: many charms which ravish my soul. I should think myself
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the most blessed of men. Pardon me the boldness which
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: inspired me to ask this favor, and don't refuse to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: admit me into your court a prince who is entirely
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: devoted to you, Prince, answered the fairy, Will it not
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: pleasure your faith to me as well? I give you
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: mind to you, Yes, madam, replied the prince, in an
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: ecstasy of joy. What can I do better? And the
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: greater pleasure? Yes, my Sultaness, my queen, I'll give you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: my heart without least reserve, answered the fairy. You are
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: my husband and I am your wife. But as I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: suppose pursued she, that you have eate nothing to day,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a slight repast shall be seerved up for you while
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: preparations are making for our wedding feasts at night. And
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: then I will show you the apartments of my palace,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and you shall just if this always not mean this
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: part of it. Some of the fairies women who came
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: into the halt with them and guessed her intentions, went
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: immediately out and returned presently with some excellent meats and wines.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: When Prince Ahmed Ate and drank as much as he
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: cared for. The fairy perivenue carried him through all departments
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and all sorts of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: fine jewels intermixed with puruls, agate, jasper porfiry, and all
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: sorts of most precious marbles, but not mention the richest
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of furniture, which was instible. There was such a profuseness
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: throat that the prince, instead of ever having seen anything
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: like it, on that he could not have imagined that
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: there was anything in the world that could come up
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to it. Prince said the fairy. If you admire my
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: palace so much, which indeed is very beautiful, what would
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you say to the palaces of the chief of our genies,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: which are much more beautiful, specious, and magnificent. I could
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: also charming with my gardens, but will let sat alone
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: until another time. Night draws near, and it will be
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: time to go to supper. The next all, which fairy
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: led the Prince into, and where the clothes was laid
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: for the feast, was the last apartment the Prince had
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: not seen, and not in the least inferior to the others.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: At this interest into it, he admired the infinite numbers
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: of scorns of wax scandal proofing with amber, the multitude
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of which, instead of being confused, were placed with such
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: just a symmetry as formed an agreeable and pleasant site.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: A large size table was set out with all sorts
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of gold plate, so finally rough that workmanship was much
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: more valuable than the weight of the gold. Several shores
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: of beautiful women, richly dressed and whose voices were ravishing,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: began a concert, accompanied with all sorts of most ceremonious instruments,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: And when they were set down at the table, the
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: fairy Privenue took care to help Prince Ahmed to the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: most delicate meats, which she named as she invited him
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to eat of them, and which the Prince found to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: be so exquisitely nice that he commanded them with exaggeration,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and said that the entertainment far suppressed those of men,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: if one also the same excellence in the wines, which
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: neither he nor the fairy tasted, till the dessert was
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: served up, which consisted that of jos this sweet meats
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and fruits. The wedding feast was continued next day, or
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: rather this following celebration were a continual feast. At the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: end of six months, Prince Ahmed, who always loved and
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: honored Sultan his father, conceived the great desire to know
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: how he was, and that desire could not be satisfied
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: without this Going to see. He told the fairy of
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: it and desire she should give him.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Leave.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Prince said, she go when you please, but first, don't
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: take it amiss that I give you some advice how
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: you shall behave yourself where you are going.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: First, I don't think it proper.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: For you to tell the Sultan your father of your marriage,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: nor of my quality, nor the place where you have been.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Beg of him to be satisfied in knowing you are
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: happy and desire no more, and let him know that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the sole end of your visit is to make him
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: easy and inform me of your fate. She appointed twenty gentlemen,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: well mounted and equipped to attend him. When all was ready,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Prince Hahmed took his live fairy, embraced her, and renewed
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: his promise to return soon. Then his horse, which as
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: most finely cap a riisons and was as beautiful a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: creature as an insultant of Indie stables was led to him,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and he mounted him with an extraordinary grace, and after
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: he had beat her last that year, set forward on
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: his journey. As it was not a great way to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: his father's capital. Prince Hahmed soon arrived there. The people,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: glad to see him again, received him with acclamations of joy,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and followed him in cross to the Sultan's apartment. The
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Sultan received and embraced him with great joy, complaining at
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the same time with the fatherly tenderness of affliction his
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: long absence had been to him, which he said was
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the more great reviews for that fortune. Having decided in.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Favor Prince Ali's brother, he.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Was afraid he might have committed some res action. Prince
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: told the story of his adventurous without speaking of the fairy,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: whom he said that he must not mention, and ended,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the only favor I ask of your majesty is to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: give me lives, to come often and pay my respects,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and to know how you do. Son, answered Sultan of
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: in this I cannot refuse. You'd leave you ask me,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: but I should much.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Rather you would resolve to stay with me.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: At least tell me where I may send to you.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: If you should fail to come, or when I may
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: think your presence necessary, Sir replied Prince Ahmed. What your
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Majesty asks of me is part of mystery. I spoke
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to your Majesty of I beg of you to give
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: me leaves to remain silent on this head, for I
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: shall come so frequently that I am afraid that I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: shall sooner be thought troublesome than be the accused of
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: netluseness in my duty. The Sultan of the Indies pressed
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Prince Hammet no more, but said to him, son, I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: penetrate no farther into our secrets, but.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Leave you at your liberty.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: But can I show you that you couldnt do me
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a greater pleasure than to come and by your presence
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: restored to me the joy I have not felt this
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: long time, and that you shall always be welcome when
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you come, without interrupting your business or pleasure. Prince hammeb
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: stayed with three days at Sultan his father's court, and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: forced returned to the fairy Paribnu, who did not expect
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: him so soon. A month after Prince Ahm had returned
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: from paying a visit to his father, as the fairy
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Paribonu had absurd that the prince, since the time that
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: he gave her an account of his journey, is discoursed
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: with his father and leave he asked to go and
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: see him often, and had never talked of Sultan, as
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: if there had been no such person in the world,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: whereas before he was always speaking of him. She thought
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: he forgot on her account. Therefore she took an opportunity
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to say to him one day, Prince, tell me, have
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you forgot Sultan your father? Don't you remember the promise
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you made to go and.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: See him often?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: For my part, I have not forgot what he told
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: me to return, and so put you in mind of it,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that you may not be long before you acquit yourself
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: of your promise. So Prince Hamed went next morning with
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: the same attendance as before, but much finer and himself
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: more magnificently mounted, equipped and dressed, and was received by
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Sultan with the same joy and satisfaction. For several months
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: he constantly paid his visits, always in the richer and
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: finer equipage. At last, some viziers, the Sultan's favorite, who
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: judged of Prince Hammed's grandeur and power, but figury cut
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: made Sultan jealous of his son, saying it was to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: be feared he might infil himself into the people's favor
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and dethrone him. The Sultan of the Indies was so
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: far from thinking that Prince Ahmed could be capable of
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: so pernicious a design as his favorites would make him
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: believe that, he said to them, you are mistaken. My
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: son loves me, and I am certain of his tenderness
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and fidelity, as I have given him no reason to
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: be disgusted. But favorites went on abusing Prince Ahmed till
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the Sultan said, be it as it will. I don't
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: believe my son Ahmed is so wicked that you would
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: persuade me he is. However, I am obliged to you
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: for your good advice and on dispute, but that it
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: proceeds from your good intentions, the Sultan of the Indies said,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: is that his favorites might not know the impressions their
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: discourse have made on his mind, which had so alarmed
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: him that he resolved to have Prince Ahmed, much unknown
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: to his grand Vizier.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Sue sent for a female magician who was introduced by
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: a back door in to his apartment.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Go immediately, he said, and follow my son and watch him,
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  Speaker 1: so well as to find out where he retires, and
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  Speaker 1: bring me word. The magician left Sultan, and, knowing the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: place where Prince Ahmed found this arrow, went immediately thitter
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and hid herself near the rocks, so that nobody could
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: see her. The next morning, Prince Ahmed set out by daybreak,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: without taking leave either of Sultan or any of his court.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: According to custom. The magician, seeing him coming, followed him
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: with her eyes till on a sudden she lost sight
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: of em and his attendants.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: As the rocks were very step.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: And craggy, they were an insurmountable barrier, so that magician
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: just that there were but two things for it, either
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: that the Prince retired into some cavern or on a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: boat of genius of fairies. Thereupon she came out of
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the place where she was hid and went directly to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the hollow way, which she traced till she came to
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the further end, and looking carefully about on all sides,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: but notwithstanding all her diligence, could perceive no opening, not
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: so much as the iron gate which Prince Hammed discovered,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: which was to be seen and opened to none but men,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and only such whose presence was agreeable to the fairy Peribanu.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: The magician, who saw it, was in vain for her
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: search any further, was obliged to be satisfied with the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: discovery she had made, and returned to give the Sultan
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: an account.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: The Sultan was.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Very well pleased with magicians conduct, and said to her,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: do you as you think fit. I'll wait patiently the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: event of your promises, and to encourage her with the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: represent of a diamond of great value. As Prince Hammet
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: had obtained the fairy Peribanus leave to go to the
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Sultan of the Indies court once a month, he never failed,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and the magician, knowing the time, went.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: A day or two, be fought to the foot of
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: the rock, where she.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Lost sight of the Prince and his attendants, and waited there.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: The next morning, Prince Ahmed went out as usual at
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: iron Gate with same attendance as before, and passed by
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: a magician whom he knew not to be such, and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: seeing her lie with her head against the rock and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: complaining as if she were in great pain, he pitied her,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: churned his horse about, went to her and asked her
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: what was met.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: With her and what he could do to ease her.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: The artful sorceress looked at Prince in a pitiful manner,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: without ever lifting up her head, and answered in broken
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: words and sights, as if she could hardly fetch her breath,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: that she was going to the capital city, but on
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the way theater she was taken with so volunt a
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: fever that her strength failed her, and she was forced
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: to lie down where he saw her, far from any
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: habitation and without any hopes of assistance. Good woman replied
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Prince Ahmed, you are not so far from help as
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you imagine. I am ready to assist you and convey
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: you where you will meet with the speedy cure. Only
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: get up and let one of my people take you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: behind him. At this worst magician, who pretended sickness only
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: to know where the Prince lived and what he did,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: refused not charitable offer he made her, and that her
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: actions might correspond to their words, she made many pretended
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: vain endeavors to get up. At the same time, two
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: of the Prince's attendants, alighting off their horses, helped her
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: up and set her behind another, and mounted their horses
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: again and followed the Prince, who turned back to the
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: iron gate, which was opened by one of its retinue,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: who rode before, and when he came into the outward
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: court of the ferry, without dismounting himself, he sent to.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Tell her he wanted to speak with her.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: The very Parivenu came with all imaginable haste, not knowing
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: what made Prince Hahmed return so soon, who, not giving
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: her time to ask him the reason, said, Princess Azarre,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you'd have compassion on this good book, pointing to the magician,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: who was held up by two of his retinue, I
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: founder in the condition you see her in, and promise
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: her with the assistance she stands in need of. And
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I am persuaded that you, out of your own goodness
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: as well as upon my entrgy, would not abandon her.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: The fairy Paribnu, whoe her eyes fixed upon the pretended
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: sick woman all the time that the Prince was talking
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to her, ordered two of her women who followed her
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: to take her from the two men that held her
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and carry her into an apartment of the palace and
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: take as much care of her as she would herself,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: while the two women executed Farie's commands. She went up
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: to Prince Hahmed, and whispering in his ears, said, Prince,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: this woman is not so sick as she pretends to be,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: and I am very much mistaken if she is not
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: an impostor who will be the cause of a great
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: trouble to you. But not be concerned. Let what will
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: be devised against you be persuaded that I will lever
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: you out of all the snares that shall be laid
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: for you, go and pursue your journey. The discoursed fairies
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: did not in the least frighten Prince Ahmed. My princess,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: said he, as I have not remember I ever did
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: or design anybody an injury. I cannot believe anybody can
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: have a thought of doing me one, and if they have,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I shall not never at least for bear doing good
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: whenever I have an opportunity. Then he went back to
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: his father's palace. In the meantime, the two women carried
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Magician into a very fine apartment, richly furnished. First, they
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: set her down upon a sofa with their bags of
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: wooted with a cushion of gold brocade, while they made
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the bed on the same sofa before her, the quilt
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: of which was finally embroidered with silk, the sheets of
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the finest linen, and the coverlet clothes of gold on
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: he had put her into bed for the old sorceress
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: pretended that her fever was so violent she could not.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Help herself in the least. One of the women went.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Out and returned soon again with the china dish in
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: her hand full of a certain liquor, which she presented
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: the musician, while the other helped her to sit up.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Drink this liquor, said she. It is one of the
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: fountain of Lions and the sovereign remedy against all fevers whatsoever.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: You'll find the effect of it in less than an
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: hour's time. The musician dissembled better took it after a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: great deal of entregy.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: But at last she took the.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: China dish, and holding back her head, swallowed down the liquor.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: When she was laid down again, the two women covered
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: her up. Lie quiet, said she who brought her the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: china cup, and get a little sleep if you can.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: We'll leave you and hope to find you profited cure
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: when it come again. An hour ends. The two women
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: came again at the time they said they should, and
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: found the magician up and dressed and sitting up on
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the oh admirable poaching. She said, it was rough, it
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: secure much sooner than you chow me, it would, and
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I shall be able to prosecute my journey. The two women,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: who were fairies, as well as their mistress, after they
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: had told Magician how glad they were that she was
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: cured so soon, walked before her and conducted her through
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: several apartments, all more noble than that orine. She lay
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently furnished
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: of all the palace. Fairy Paribanou set in this all
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: on a throne of massive gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: and prows of an extraordinary size, and attended on each
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly clothed.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: At sight of so.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Much majesty, Mutician was not only dazzled, but was so
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: amazed that, after she had prostrated herself before the throne,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: she could not open her lips to thank Fairy as
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: she proposed. However, Paribunus savored the trouble and said to her,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: good woman, I am glad I have an opportunity to
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: oblige you and to see you are able to pursue
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: your journey. I want obtain you, but perhaps you may
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: not be displeased to see my palace. Follow my women
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: and they will show it to you. Then the magician
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: went back and related to the Sultan of the Indies
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: all that had happened, and how very rich Prince Ahmed
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: was since his marriage with the fairy, richer than all
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: the kings in the world, and how there was danger
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: that he should come and take the throne from his father.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Though the Sultan of the Indians was very well persuaded
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: that Prince Ahmed's natural disposition was good, yet he could
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: not help being concerned at the discourse of the old sorceress,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: to whom, when she was thinking her relieve, he said,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I thank THEE for the pains thou hast taken, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I wholesome advice. I am so sensible of the great
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: importance it is to me that I shall deliver it
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: upon it in council. Now the favorites advice that the
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: prince should be killed, but magician advised differently. Make him
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: give you all kinds of wonderful things by the fairy's help,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: till she tirees of him and sends him away. As
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: for example, every time your Majesty goes into the field,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: you are obliged to be at a great expense, not
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: only in pavilions and tents for your army, but likewise
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: in meles and camels to carry their baggage. Now, might
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: not you engage him to use his interest with fairy
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: to procure you a scent which might be carried in
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: a man's hand, and which should be so large as
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: to shelter your whole army against bad weather. When the
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: magician had finished her speech, the Sultan asked his favorites
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: if they get anything better to propose, and, finding them
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: all silent determined, followed the magician's advice as the most
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: reasonable and most agreeable to his mouth.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Government.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Next day Sultan did best magician that advised him, and
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: asks for a pavilion. Prince Ahmed never expected that Sultan
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: his father was of ask such a thing, which at
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: first appeared so difficult, not so impossible. Though he knew
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: not absolutely how great power of genius and fairies was,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: he doubted where it extended so far as to compass
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: such a tent that his father desired. At last, he replied,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: though it is with the greatest reluctance imaginable, I would
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: not feel to ask favor of my wife your Majesty desires,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: but would not promise you to obtain it. And if
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I should not have honors to come again to pyram
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: my respects, that shall be decided. I have not had success,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: but beforehand I desire you to forgive me, and consider
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: that you or yourself have reduced me to this extremity.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Son replied the Sultan of the Indies, I should be
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: very sorry if what I ask of you should cause
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: me the displeasure of never seeing you more. I find
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: you don't know the power a husband has of her wife,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: and yours would show that her love to you was
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: very indifferent. If she, with the power she ass of
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: a fairy, should refuse to so trifling a request as this,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I desire you to ask of her.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: For my sake.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: The prince went back and was very sad for fear
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: of offending the fairy. She kept pressing him to tell
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: her what was the matter, and at last he said, Madam,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: you may have observed that etherter, I have been content
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: with your love and have never asked you any other favor. Consider, then,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I conjure you that it is not I but Sulten,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: my father, who indiscreetly, or at least I think so,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: begged of your pavilion large enough to shelter him, escort
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: and the army from the violence of the weather, and
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: which a man may carry in his hand.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: But remember, it.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Is to sult my father asked this favor, Prince replied
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the fairy, smiling, I am sorry that so small a
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: man to disserve you and make it so uneasy as
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: you appeared to me. Then the fairy sent for a treasurer,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: to whom, when she came she said, Nortien, which was
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: her name, bring me the largest pavilion in my treasury.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Norkiem returned presently with pavilion which she could not only
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: hold in her hand, but in the palm of her
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: hand when she shut her fingers, and presented it to
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: her mistress, who gave it to Prince Hammed to look at.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: When Prince Hahmed saw the pavilion, which the fairy called
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: largest in the treasury, he fancied she had the mind
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: to jest with him, and there happened the mark of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: his surprise appeared presently in this countenance, which pory when
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: you perceiving brust out laughing what prince cried she, do
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: you think.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: I jest with you?
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: You'll see presently that I am in earnest. Nurse Yem
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: said she to her treasurer, taking the tent out of
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Prince Hahmed's ants, go and set it up that the
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Prince made just whatever it may be, large enough for
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Sultani's father. The treasurer went immediately with it out of
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the palace and carried it a great way off. And
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: when she had set it up one and reached the
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: very palace at which signed the Prince, thinking it small,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: found it large enough to shelter two greater armies than
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: that of Sultani's father's. And then said to Periivenue, I
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: asked my Princess Sulten, pardon for my incredology. After what
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: I have seen, I believe there is nothing impossible to you.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: You see, said the fairy, that pavilion is larger than
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: what your father may have occasioned for. For you must
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: know that it has one property, that it is larger
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: or smaller according to the army it distcover.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: The treasurer took.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Down the tent again and brought it to the Prince,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: who took it, and, without saying any longer than till
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: the next day, mounted his horse and went with the
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: same attendants to the so and his father. The Sultan,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: who was persuaded that there could be any such thing
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: as such a tent as he asked for, was in
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: great surprise at the Prince's diligence. He took the tent,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: and after he had admired its smallness, his amazements was
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: so great that he could not recover himself. When the
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: tent was set up in the great blame which we
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: have before mentioned, if on it large enough sheltered an
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: army twice as large as he could bring into the field.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: But Sultan was not yet satisfied. Son said he, I
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: have already expressed to you how much I am obliged
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: to you for the presence of the tent you have
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: procured me, that I look upon it as most valuable
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: thing in all my treasury. But you must do one
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: thing more for me, which will be every whit as
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: agreeable to me. I am informed that the fairy, your
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: spouse makes use of a certain orter called the war
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: of the Fountain of Life, which cures all sorts of fevers,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: even the most dangerous. And as I am perfectly well persuaded,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: my helf is dear to you, I don't doubt but
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: you will ask her for a bottle of that water
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: from me and bring it to me as a sovereign medicine,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: which I make use of when I have occasion. Do
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: me this other important piece of service, and thereby complete
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: the duty of a good son toward the tender father.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: The prince returned and told the fairy what his father
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: had said.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: There's a great.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Deal of wickedness in this demand, she answered, as you'll understand,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: But I'm a going to tell you. The Fountain of
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Lions is situated in the middle of a court of
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: a great castle, the entrance into which is guided by
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: four fierce lions, two of which sleep alternately while the
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: other two are awake. But don't let that frighten you.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I'll give you means to pass by them without any danger.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: The fairy, parible know, was at that time.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Very hard at work, and.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: As he had several clues of thread by her she
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: took up one, and presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said, first,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: take this shoe of thread. I'll tell you presently the
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: use of it. In second place, you must have two horses,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: one you must ride yourself, and the other you must sleep,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: which must be loaded with the ship cut into four
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: quarters that must be killed today. In the third place,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: you must be provided with a bottle, which I'll give
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: you to bring the water in. Set out early tomorrow morning,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: and when you have passed the iron gates through the
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: clue of thread before you, which will roll till it
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: comes to the gate of the castle, follow it. And
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: when it stops, as the gates will be open, it
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: will sit for lions. The two that our wake will
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: by the roaring wake the other two. But don't be frightened,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: but throw each of them a quarter of minston, and
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: then clap spurs to your horse and rifor the fountain.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Fill your butter without alighting, and then return with the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: same expedition. The lens will be so busy eating they
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: will let you pass by them. Prince Ahmed set out
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: next morning at the time appointed by the fairy and
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: fother the directions exactly when he arrived.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: At the gates of the castle. He distributed the quarters.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Of mutton among the four lions, and, passing through the
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: midst of them, bravely got to the fountain, filled this bottle,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and returned back as safe and sound as he went.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: When he had gone a little distance from the castle gates,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: he turned him about, and, perceiving two of the lions
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: coming after him, he threw his saber and prepared himself
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: for defense. But as he went forward he saw one
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: of them turned out to the road at some distance,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: and showed by this head and tail, that he did
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: not come to do him any arm, but only to
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: go before him, and that the other stayed behind follow
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: He put his sword up again in its cabboard, guarded.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: In this manner, he arrived at the capital of the Indies,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: but lyons never left him till they had conducted him
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to the gates of Sultan's Palace, after which they returned
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the same way they came, though not without threatening all
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: that saw them. For all they went in a very
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: gentle manner and show no fierceness. A great many officers
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: came to attend the prince. While he dismounted his horse
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: and afterward conducted him into the Sultan's apartment, who was
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: at that time surrounded with his favorites. He approached toward
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: the throne, laid the battle at Sultan's feet, and kissed
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: the rich tapestry which covered his footstool, And then stead,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I have brought you, Sir, the elthful water, which your
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  Speaker 1: Majesty desire so much to keep among your other rarities
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: in your treasury, but at the same time wish to
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: such extraordinary health as never.
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  Speaker 2: Travocation to make use of it.
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  Speaker 1: After the Prince had made an end of this compliment,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the Sultan placed him on his right hand and then
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  Speaker 1: said to him, son, I am very much obliged to
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  Speaker 1: you for this valuable.
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  Speaker 2: Present, as also for the.
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  Speaker 1: Great danger you have exposed yourself to open my account,
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  Speaker 1: which I have been informed of by a magician who
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: knows the fountains of lions. But do me the pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: continued he to inform me by what address, or rather
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  Speaker 1: by what incredible power you have been secured. Sir, replied
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  Speaker 1: Prince Ahmed, I have no share in compliments. Your Majesty
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  Speaker 1: is pleased to make me. All the honor is due
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  Speaker 1: to the fairy. My spouse, whose good advice I followed.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Then he informed the Sultan what those directions were, and
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: by the relation of this this expedition, let him know
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: how well he had behaved himself. When he had done,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: the Sultan, who showed out work all demonstrations of great joy,
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  Speaker 1: but secretly became more jealous, returned into an inward apartment
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  Speaker 1: where is sent for the magician. The musician, at her arrival,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: saved the Sultan the trouble to tell her of the
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: success of Prince Hammet's journey, which she had heard of
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  Speaker 1: before she came, and therefore was prepared at an infallible means.
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  Speaker 1: As she pretended this means, she communicated to the Sultan,
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  Speaker 1: who declared it next day to the Prince in the midst.
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  Speaker 2: Of all his courtiers.
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  Speaker 1: In these words, son said, he, I have warnt things
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  Speaker 1: more to ask of you, after which I shall expect
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  Speaker 1: nothing more from your obedience nor your interest with your wife.
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  Speaker 2: This request is.
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  Speaker 1: To bring me a man not above a foot and
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  Speaker 1: a half eye, and whose beauty is thirty feet long,
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  Speaker 1: who carries a bar of iron upon his shoulders of
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: five a hundred weight, which uses as a quarter step.
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  Speaker 1: Prince Ahmed who did not believe that there was such
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a man in the world as his father described, would
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: gladly have excused himself. But the Sultan persisted in this
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: man and told him the fairy could do more incredible things.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: The next day, the prince returned to his dear Parivenaul,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: to whom he told his father's new demand, which he
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: said he looked upon to be a thing more impossible
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: than to first. For added, he I cannot imagine there
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: can be such a man in the world without doubt
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: he has a mind to try, whether or no I
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  Speaker 1: am so silly as to go about it, or he
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: has a design on my ruin. In short, how can
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you suppose that I should lay hold of a man
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  Speaker 1: so well armed though he is but little? What arms
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  Speaker 1: can I accuse of to reduce him to my will?
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  Speaker 1: If there are any means I beg, you'll tell them
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  Speaker 1: and let me come off with honor this time. Don't
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: affright yourself, prince replied the fairy. You ran a risk
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: in fetch in the water of Fountain of Lions for
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  Speaker 1: your father, but there's no danger in finding out this
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  Speaker 1: man who is my brother sky spar but so far
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  Speaker 1: from being like me though we both had the same father.
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  Speaker 1: That he is of so violent a nature that nothing
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: can prevent his giving cruel marks of his resentment.
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  Speaker 2: For a slight offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yet on the other hand, it's so good as to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: oblige anyone in whatever they desire. He is made exactly
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: as sudden your father as described him, and as no
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: other arms than a bar of iron, a five hundred
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  Speaker 1: pounds eight without which he never stirs, and which makes
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: him respected. I'll send for him, and you shall use
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  Speaker 1: of the truth of what I tell you, But be
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: sure to prepare yourself against being frightened at his extraordinary
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: figure when you see him. What my queen replied, Prince Ahmed.
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  Speaker 2: Do you say, Shaivar is her brother?
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  Speaker 1: Let him be never so ugly or deformed.
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  Speaker 2: I shall be so far.
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  Speaker 1: From being frightened at sight of him dead as our brother,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I shall honor and love him. The fairy ordered a
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: gold chaffin dish to be set with the fire in it,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: under the porch of her palace, with a box of
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: the same metal which was the present to her, out
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: of which, taking a perfume and throwing it into the fire,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: there rose a thick loud of smoke. Some moments after,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the fairy said to Prince Sameth.
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  Speaker 2: See there comes my brother.
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  Speaker 1: The Prince immediately perceived Chaibar coming gravely, with this heavy
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: bar on his shoulder, his long beard, which he held
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: up before him, and a pair of thick moustaceous which
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: he tucked behind his ears and almost covered his face.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: His eyes were very small and deep set in his
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: head which was far from being of the smallest size,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: and on his head he wore a grenadier's cap. Besides
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: all this, he was very much hump packed. If Prince
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Ahmed had not tourned that Snaebar was Paribanu's brother, he
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: would not have been able to have looked at him
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: without fear. But knowingforce who he was, he stood by
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: the fairy without least concern Schaibar, as he came forward,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: looked at Prince earnestly enough to have chilled his blood
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: in his veins, and asked Paribanou when he first accosted her,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: who that man was, to which she replied, he is
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  Speaker 1: my husband brother. His name is Hahmed, his son to
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: the Sultan of the Indies. The reason why I did
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: not invite you to my wedding was I was unwilling
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: to divert you from an expedition you were engaged in,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: and from which I heard with pleasure. He returned victorious,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and so took liberty now to call for you.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: At his word, Schaibar.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Looking on Prince Ahmed favorably, said, is there anything else,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: sister Rehenna can serve him? It is enough for me
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: that he is your husband to engage me to do
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: for him whatever he desires. The Sultan, his father replied,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Perebano as a curiosity to see you, and either there
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: he may be our guide to the Sultan's court.
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  Speaker 2: In it, but leave midway. I'll follow him.
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  Speaker 1: Brother replied Perebanon, it is too late to go to day.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Therefore stay till tomorrow morning, and in the meantime I'll
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: inform you of all that has passed between the Sultan
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: and the Indies and PRIs Hamet in our marriage. The
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: next morning, after Chaibar had been informed of the affair,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: he and PRIs Ahmed set out for the Sultan's court.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: When they arrived at the gates of the capital, the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: people no sooner sought Shaibar, but they ran and hid
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: themselves and some shut up their shops and locked themselves
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: up in their houses, while others flying communicated their fear
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: to all they met, who stayed not to look behind them,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: but ran too, insomuch that Schaibar and Prince Ahmed, as
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: they went along Fond streeted all the zolate till they
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: came to the palaces, where the porters, instead of keeping
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: the gates, ran away too, so that the Prince and
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Schaibar advanced without any obstacle to the council hall, where
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Sultan was seated on his throne and giving audience here. Likewise,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: the haushers, at the approach of Schaibar, abandoned their posts
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: and gave them free admittance. Chaibar went boldly and fishly
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: up to the throne, without waiting to be present it
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: by Prince Hahmed, and the coast to the Sultan of
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: the Indies. In these words, thou hast asked for me,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: said he see here, I am, what wouldst thou have
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: with me? Sultan, instead of answering him, clapped his hand
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: before his eyes to avoid sight of so terrible an
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: object at which uncivil and rude reception Chibar was so
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: much provoked after he had given him the trouble to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: come so far that he instantly lifted up his iron
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: bar and killed him. Before Prince Ahmed could intercede in
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: his behalf. All that he could do was to prevent
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: his killing the Grand Vizier, who said not far from him,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: representing to him that he had always given Sultan his
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: father good advice. These are they, then said Schaibar, who
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: gave him bed. And as he pronounced these words, he
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: killed all the other vizers and flattering favorites of Sultan
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: who were Prince Ahmed's enemies. Every time he struck, he
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: killed some one or other and n escaped that they
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: who were not so frightened as stand staring and gaping,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: and who saved themselves by flight. When this child execution
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: was over, Schaibar came out of the council hall into
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: the midst of the courtyard, with the iron bar upon
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: his shoulder, and looking hard at Grand Vizir, who owed
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: his life to Prince Ahmed, he said, I know here
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: is a certain magician who is the greater enemy of
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: my brother in law than all these bast favorites I
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: have chestisized. Let magicians be brought to me presently. The
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Grand Vizir immediately sent for her, and as soon as
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: she was brought Schaibar said at the time he fetched
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: a stroke at her with his rn Bar checked the
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: regard of like pernicious counsel and learned to feign sickness again.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: After this he said, this is not yet enough. I
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: will use the old town after the same manner. If
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: they do not immediately acknowledge riz Ahmed, my brother in
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: law for the Sultan and Sultan of the Indies, then
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: all that were there present made Heir.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Echo again with the reputated.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Exclamation of long life to Sultan Ahmed, And immediately after
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: he was proclaimed through the whole town, Chaibar made him
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: be clothed in royal vestments, installed him on the throne,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: and after he had caused all to swear homage and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: fidelity to him, went and fetch his sister Peribunu, whom
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: he brought with all the pompe and grandeury imaginable, and
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: made her to be owned Sultaness of the Indies. As
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: for Prince Ali and Princess Naruniar, as they had no
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: hand in conspiracy against Prince Ahmed, and knew nothing of
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: any Prince Ahmed assigned him a considerable province with its capital,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: where they spent the rest of their lives. Afterwards, he
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: sent an officer to Prince us say, to acquaint him
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: with the change and make him an offer, of which
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: province he liked best. But that Prince thought himself so
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: happy in his solitude that he bade the officer return
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: the Sultan his brother thanks for the kindness he designed him,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: assuring him of his submission, and that only favor he
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: desired of him was to give him lief to have
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: retired in the place he had made choice of for
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: his retreat. And of story priests are made and very
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Paribano